Fengba Greenery

Chapter 479 State ups and downs

Chapter 59 Ups and downs

But the weakness of the giant dragon seems to be really exposed.

In the fourth round of the League Cup, Manchester United and the Championship team Middlesbrough at home became a zero-to-zero draw in 120 minutes of civil war!

Manchester United sent all the substitutes in this game.

The goalkeeper is the teenager John Stone, the right back Raphael in the defense, the central back combination Smalling partner Phil Jones, and the left back is Luke Shaw who has returned from injury.

The four players in the midfield are the left midfielder Ashley Young, the midfielder Karika partnered with the teenager Fusumensah, the right midfielder Nani, and the forward line, the teenager Rashford partnered with Hernandez.

Except for Rashford who played in the last Manchester derby, no other players have played.This is a complete bench lineup.

However, according to common sense, even such a lineup is much stronger than Middlesbrough on paper. However, Manchester United, who played at home, besieged Middlesbrough for more than 120 minutes, and failed to give the opponent a chance. Gnaw it down.

Then in the penalty shootout, Rooney, Carrick, and Ashley Young, three England internationals who came off the bench, missed penalties. Manchester United was eliminated by Middlesbrough penalty kicks [-]-[-] in the League Cup!

The state of a team always seems to have ups and downs. Manchester United ended their winning streak with a draw in the Manchester derby, and then they were eliminated by Middlesbrough in the League Cup. This seems to indicate that Manchester United's state has begun to decline. It's gone downhill.

The elimination of the League Cup actually has no impact on Manchester United.

Compared with other mainstream European leagues, the Premier League has two cup competitions, the League Cup and the FA Cup.

Compared with the FA Cup, the League Cup organized by professional leagues looks much weaker.In fact, if it weren't for England's strong traditional strength, the FA Cup would not be a trophy that was chased by strong teams.

Ancelotti also didn't think it was a pity to be eliminated from the League Cup.It can be seen from the starting lineup he arranged that he completely regards the League Cup as a training ground for substitutes and young players.

If it weren't for Manchester United's first-team players, Ancelotti could even send young players from the youth team to deal with this event.

Ancelotti accepted Manchester United hastily, after buying a few players, the first team is a bit crowded.

Ancelotti still needs to do a lot of work next season, including slimming down the first team.

The English media reported that Manchester United was eliminated by the Championship team Middlesbrough as a big upset.Except for the local media in Manchester, the English media in other places are happy to see Manchester United being unlucky.Because Manchester United is not only the club with the most fans in England, if someone counts it, it should also be the most hated club-who makes Manchester United win the most championships?

United didn't keep his haters happy for long, either.

On October 31, the No.11 round of the Premier League, Manchester United played away against Crystal Palace!
Mata's injury is good news for Rooney personally, he can finally get a chance to start to prove his ability.

Sure enough, Ancelotti confirmed at the press conference the day before the game that Rooney will start in this game.

Obviously Ancelotti hopes that Rooney can use his experience to complete Mata's work.

It is worth mentioning that Rooney has scored 180 seven goals in his Premier League career, and is tied for No.2 in the Premier League with Manchester United star Andy Cole, second only to Alan Shearer with 260 goals. With a goal, he can monopolize the second place in the Premier League's total scorer list.In terms of total goals scored, Rooney ranks third in team history with 236 goals, only 3 goal behind Dennis Law, who is second, and only 1 goals away from Bobby Charlton, who is the first.

Alan Pardew's team has been in poor form recently, but Crystal Palace, who played at home in this game, also showed their determination.

No one expects Crystal Palace to beat Manchester United. In the past battle records between the two sides, Manchester United has an absolute upper hand with 86 wins, 43 draws and 11 losses, scoring 6 goals and conceding 4 goals.Among them, in the away game against Crystal Palace, Manchester United's record was 36 wins, 27 draws and 12 losses, scoring 2 goals and conceding [-] goals.Manchester United has an unbeaten record of [-] wins and [-] draws against Crystal Palace in the league. In the history of the Premier League, Crystal Palace has never won against Manchester United.

Alan Pardew actually didn't expect his team to win Manchester United. He was very satisfied with a draw at home.

But of course he couldn't just tell the Crystal Palace players what he thought.What he said to the players before the game was to win at home.After all, only if you regard victory as a goal and work hard to achieve it, then even if the final goal is not achieved, the final result may not be too bad.

Solid defense, and then use the speed of Ponjon and Gale to hit Manchester United's counterattack.This is Alan Pardue's way of thinking. In fact, there is nothing special about it. Isn't this the way of thinking when a weak team beats a strong team?

Although the media say that Manchester City has provided other Premier League teams with ideas to deal with Manchester United, Alan Pardew knows that his team is not Manchester City, he does not have Silva, De Bruyne, Aguero, he only has Pon Joan and Gail.

Crystal Palace was also eliminated in the League Cup two days ago, but they were much worse than Manchester United-Crystal Palace was swept away by Manchester City [-]-[-].

At the pre-match press conference, Alan Pardew said: "The League Cup is over, and we focus on the league with Manchester United on the weekend. Although Cabaye and other players cannot play, we will still try our best to form the best team."

Crystal Palace did show their belief in the first half, and although their counter-attack failed to threaten the goal in the hands of De Gea, the tough defense allowed them to enter the break with a scoreless score of [-]-[-].

However, in the second half, Crystal Palace declared a conceded goal after only resisting for 6 minutes.

Li Qingshan turned around on the penalty area line and volleyed with his right foot to the upper right corner of the goal, helping Manchester United to open the victory.

Then Di Maria broke through and was brought down in the penalty area by the Crystal Palace defender. Manchester United won a penalty.

Rooney hit a penalty kick, raising his Premier League goals to 180 eight, surpassing Andy Cole to become the second highest scorer in the Premier League.

At the last moment of the game, Carrick, who replaced Fellaini who was suspended due to a red card, also scored a goal. He passed a free kick from the left side of the penalty area, and all the players were restrained near the small penalty area by Li Qingshan and others. At the time, Rooney drew the ball in an inverted triangle to near the arc of the penalty area. Carrick pushed the ball successfully and helped the team seal the victory.

After suffering two consecutive draws, Manchester United continued to take the lead in the Premier League with a [-]-[-].

(End of this chapter)