The strongest waist king of the Red Devils

Chapter 82 Manchester Derby
On May 5, local time in England, the 5th round of the Premier League kicked off.

Manchester United, as a guest at Manchester City Stadium, played against their rivals in the same city, Manchester City.

This game is also the 147th city derby between Manchester United and Manchester City.

Before the game started, something happened on both sides, and it had a different impact on the two teams.

For Manchester United, the day before, Cristiano Ronaldo beat Drogba, as well as teammates Giggs and Scholes, to be elected as the player of the year voted by the British Journalists Association.

Coupled with the player of the year and rookie of the year voted by the Premier League players, as well as being voted the best player by British fans, Ronaldo won the unprecedented Grand Slam in the Premier League.

This greatly inspired Ronaldo and made Ronaldo's confidence burst.

On the Manchester City side, something bad happened.

During the training, Manchester City's core midfielder, the bad boy Barton who was born in the youth training, attacked his teammate Dabo with a very hot temper, and directly hit Dabo, so he was punished by the Manchester City team and banned from the team , and missed the same city derby with Manchester United.

This result is also a big blow to the Manchester City team, and it has made some subtle changes in the mentality of the Manchester City players.

In today's game, Manchester United adopted a 4-3-3 formation.

The goalkeeper position is still starting with the older and more bewitching Van der Sar.

At the back, the central defenders, Rio Ferdinand and Vidic, both recovered from injury, started together again.

The two full backs are Wes Brown and Heinze.

Evra's injury has not healed, and the defense needs to be strengthened in this game. Coach Ferguson finally chose Heinze as the starting left back and Evra as a substitute.

In the midfield position, Scholes, Carrick, and Sun Qi's midfield trio started at the same time again.

On the front line, Ronaldo and Giggs are separated on the two wings, and Rooney is the arrow.

With Sun Qi's joining and excellent performance, Rooney's recent state is quite good, and scoring goals has become easier. In the league, he is only one goal less than Ronaldo. Together, the two have posed a great threat to the top scorer Drogba, and they are both expected to compete for the top scorer of the Premier League this season.

This set of 4-3-3 lineup combination, Manchester United has been working very tacitly in training, and in actual combat, it also has a good record.

Restraining AC Milan relies on such a midfield combination.

With Sun Qi connecting in the middle and getting rid of breakthroughs, Manchester United's midfield has become more dynamic and threatening.

In addition, Sun Qi has successfully renewed his contract, which also allows Ferguson to reuse Sun Qi more confidently and boldly.

Of course, for Sun Qi, he also wants to perform better in this game.

If he wanted to avoid being restrained by those people and attract the attention of the higher-ups, he had to further prove his strength.

Manchester City was the first opponent Sun Qi wanted to deal with.

On the other side, the Manchester City team adopts a 4-1-4-1 formation and wants to compete with Manchester United in the midfield by increasing the number of midfielders.

Manchester City's goalkeeper is Swedish goalkeeper Isaacson.

On the back line, Dunn and Distin mainly play the central defender position, which is relatively stable.

The strong Onuoha, as well as the flexible and steady Ball, play both sides of the guard.

In the midfield, the German veteran Hamann is a defensive midfielder, responsible for protecting the defense, controlling the rhythm, and responsible for the serial connection tasks between the midfield and the backcourt.

Junior Michael Johnson, as well as teenager Stephen Ireland, are in charge of offensive and defensive transitions and midfield pressing.

Especially Stephen Ireland, who is more focused on offensive organization.

Vassell, and the American Beasley, who is on loan from PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie, are separated on both sides.

Vassell and Beasley are both fast, flexible, and fast-break wingers. The head coach of Manchester City, Pierce, is also counting on these two fast wingers to create a greater threat to Manchester United. , in order to reduce the pressure on Manchester City's defense.

After all, Ronaldo, Rooney, Giggs, Scholes, and Sun Qi are all good players who can shoot suddenly. Manchester City's defensive pressure in this game is not small.

If Vassell and Beasley play well, they will naturally be able to contain Manchester United's midfield and contain Manchester United's offense together.

On the front line, Pierce sent Mpenza, who is also fast and flexible.

In this way, Vassell, Beasley, and Mpenza together form the three sharp knives of Manchester City's frontcourt.

As for Huaguo player Sun Jihai, he sat on the bench.

The Huaguo Derby that domestic fans are looking forward to cannot be staged for the time being.

At the beginning of the game, both sides quickly entered the state, the rhythm of the game was relatively fast, and the fighting in the midfield was also very intense.

However, without the bad boy Button who has a lot of tricks to sweep and intercept the midfield, Manchester City's midfield, relying solely on the veteran Harman, and the young player Michael Johnson and Stephen Ireland's partner, naturally has a certain defensive strength. The decline has given Manchester United a lot of opportunities.

After Sun Qi received the pass from Carrick, he swung his toes back and then turned around, easily passing Michael Johnson who was not prepared in time.

Taking the belt forward, Sun Qi passed the ball to Ronaldo on the right.

Ronaldo took the ball, stepped forward in small steps, stepped on the bicycle twice in a row, then suddenly changed direction, passed Beasley, who was not good at defending, and continued to move forward.

However, Manchester City's German veteran Hamann and Michael Ball appeared in time, and the defense was in place. The two closed the door to defend, successfully intercepted the ball from Ronaldo, and brought Ronaldo down.

This was a relatively successful defense, but what was unexpected was that Manchester City's left back, Michael Ball, saw Ronaldo fell to the ground. After turning around, he noticed that the referee couldn't see it. He stretched out his foot and kicked Ronaldo directly in the abdomen.

Ball's force was not light, and Ronaldo kept rolling on the ground in pain.

However, the on-duty referee Styles, who didn't see the situation clearly, looked at the rolling Ronaldo, and Ball, who spread his hands to show his innocence, thought it was just an ordinary collision, and that Ronaldo was deliberately flopping and cheating the card, so he only gave Ball a verbal warning, and also gave Ronaldo a verbal warning.

Such a penalty naturally aroused strong dissatisfaction from the Manchester United team, and they complained, pressured and sought justice around referee Stiles.

Coach Ferguson, also angry, is also protesting and complaining to the referee.

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