Manchester United legend

Chapter 248 Henry's Flying Fairy

In this round of the Premier League, except for Manchester United and Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, and Leeds United were all tied by different opponents with a score of 1 to 1. Manchester United still has the advantage of points.

However, the intensive schedule has already made the Red Devils tired. Now Manchester United almost plays a game every 3 days, and the home and away games are constantly changing. Players must keep running and travel long distances.

After Chelsea, Manchester United will play a Champions League game. After the Champions League group stage, the next round of the league will be held in 3 days, against Arsenal.

Is this a maddening pace?Kiev in Ukraine, Manchester, Rotterdam in the Netherlands, London... Ferguson's team flies thousands of kilometers at every turn, and the game arrangement is indeed frightening.

Such a dense schedule, strong opponents, long-distance running, and a lot of injuries... How does Ferguson decide?Are there trade-offs?

To clean up the depressed mood of being tied by Chelsea, Manchester United went to the Netherlands three days later.

This is the third game of Manchester United's Champions League group stage against PSV Eindhoven.

In the game against Eindhoven, Manchester United hid the main players such as Beckham, Giggs, Cole, and Johansen, while the continued absence of Barthez and Stam made Ferguson's rotation look "bold".

Van der Gould started, the Neville brothers, Brown and Sylvester temporarily built a defensive line, the midfield had a weird combination of Jost, Butt, Scholes and Greening, and the forwards were composed of Yorke and Solskjaer.

Even with such a starting lineup, Manchester United took the lead at the beginning. In the 3rd minute, Manchester United pressed the midfielder, and the opponent made a mistake and passed it back to Solskjaer in a panic.Solskjaer dribbled the ball straight into the penalty area and was tripped by the goalkeeper to win a penalty. Scholes made the penalty.

York also wasted a very good chance in front of goal shortly thereafter, much to Ferguson's pity.

After Manchester United's continuous offensive pressure, Eindhoven has gained a firm foothold, but Manchester United's offensive organization has become random and disorderly, and the defense is also very fragile and messy.

In the 17th minute, Bouma waded through Philip Neville after receiving a long pass from Nikiforov, and evened the score with a cold shot. In the 38th minute, Kežman passed the ball to Van Bommel, and Sylvester completely missed the opponent.

In the 64th minute, Kežman once again humiliated Sylvester, he easily passed the Frenchman, and then he scored easily with a shot - 3 to 1!

Manchester United, who almost played with the "second team", eventually lost the game.

Ferguson defended his lineup after the game, "I didn't give up the game and questioned my lineup? You have to think about what kind of schedule my players need to challenge-almost a full month and a half of double matches a week!
We need to play Arsenal on Sunday so we have a lot of main players in the snow?That's not what comes to my mind first, I think about a healthy, fighting team. "

After this battle, Manchester United ranked third in Group G, and the team's qualifying situation is not optimistic.But Ferguson said with confidence: "As long as we have 10 points, we can qualify for the group stage. We don't worry about the current ranking. We still have two home games, so we can qualify."

After returning from the Netherlands, Ferguson's team ushered in a tough battle of the season, and that was an away game against Arsenal.

Before the game, the media promoted that this is the battle to determine the top position in the Premier League, because Arsenal is only 3 points behind Manchester United, and once the Gunners win at home, they can surpass Manchester United in the standings.

Before the game, many commentators believed that Arsenal would have a certain advantage, because Manchester United had lost three consecutive games and lost an away game in the Netherlands. At the same time, many players in the team have not yet recovered from injuries.

Although Arsenal's schedule is also very tight, their last Champions League game was at home, and this game can save a lot of energy by continuing to sit at home.

Not only that, the Gunners convincingly defeated their rival Lazio 2-0 in the last game, and their morale is high.

When asked at the pre-match press conference whether there were many wounded in the arsenal and whether it would affect the game, Wenger laughed and did not explain.

Wenger is full of confidence and believes that the team can win, "We have made sufficient preparations for this game and are full of confidence to win.

Although Manchester United is very strong and has hidden many main players in the game against Eindhoven.

But what we deduce is the essence of football. We will show the highest morale and play our technical characteristics.

Our offense will be sharper than our opponents, we also have high-intensity confrontation, and we also have unparalleled rhythm and speed.We will control our opponents - that's how we win games. "

A confrontation between technology and power?A dialogue of skill and speed?Will the Gunners' art meet Manchester United's direct brutality?The eyes of fans all over the world are gathered: "The league clashes over the past years have proved that Arsenal and Manchester United are the two strongest teams in the Premier League. This game will definitely become another classic battle."

After the game started, Manchester United turned away from the guest and suppressed Arsenal's onslaught from the very beginning.

Jost made a wonderful volley from 40 yards away from the opponent's goal, and the ball was barely saved by Seaman.

Manchester United's scene advantage was maintained until more than 20 minutes later before being reversed by Arsenal.In the 29th minute, Arsenal defender Grimandi passed the ball to Henry 20 meters away in midfield.

Henry was leaning back against Irwin, who was staring at him closely, and did not turn around after receiving the ball. Instead, he turned his back and lifted the ball into the air, then stepped sideways, and then made a diagonal volley.

The ball drew a high arc as if it had spirituality, flew past Manchester United goalkeeper Barthez and then hung straight to the top corner!

This is an incredible score, this is a goal full of artistic charm, this is a shot full of imagination, this is a performance without a trace of fireworks!
The commentators on the scene were frightened and speechless for a long time, but then their praise of such a gorgeous goal made people blush.

The Highbury stadium was boiling instantly, and the passion of the fans was stimulated by this goal, like a match thrown into a powder keg!
Henry immediately became the darling of Gunners fans, even though he had gone six consecutive games without scoring.

Manchester United, who fell behind in the score, immediately launched a counterattack, but Arsenal paid attention to recovery protection and kept the score until the halftime break.

In the second half, Manchester United's offensive was further strengthened. The Red Devils suppressed Arsenal in the half-court attack, but unfortunately they did not create too many opportunities in the penalty area.

In the 67th minute, Beckham made a cross from the right to find Sheringham. Sheringham stopped the ball and gave it to Giggs. Giggs volleyed vigorously in the middle of the penalty area and was saved by Seaman.Arsenal didn't shrink as a whole, they also played a sharp counterattack. Sylvinho dribbled the ball all the way into the Manchester United penalty area after getting the ball in the frontcourt.

At the last moment, the Manchester United team pressed up, but they were unable to effectively suppress the Gunners.Arsenal counterattacked again, Ljungberg passed the Manchester United defender in the frontcourt and dribbled the ball straight to the Manchester United goal.

At the critical moment, Barthez ran out of the penalty area and flew to intercept and intercept the ball.

(End of this chapter)