Football King Bale

Sunderland is a city located in Tyne and Wear in northeastern England. It is also a major and important port city in northeastern England.

To say that Sunderland is a city is actually to exaggerate it, because it was originally just a small town. During World War II, Sunderland was one of the places in England that was most severely bombed by the Germans. Fortunately, many old buildings with historical value were not affected and were preserved.

After 1990, both sides of the Weir River were redeveloped, and new residential, retail centers and commercial areas were built where the shipyard was originally built. During the reconstruction, the National Glass Center and the University of Sunderland were also built, and it was only upgraded to a city in 1992, but its total population is less than 200,000.

At the end of March 2013, this small English city became the focus of the world's football community.

At 12:45 noon on March 30, the Black Cats Sunderland will face the Red Devils Manchester United at the Stadium of Light.

Such a game can become the focus of this weekend's global game because it is related to whether Manchester United can defeat Sunderland and thereby set a new record of winning the championship in March.

Prior to this, the record for early wins in the Premier League and even major European leagues was also held by Manchester United. Two years ago, on April 2, 2011, Manchester United played away against West Ham United in the 31st round of the 2011-2012 Premier League season. With Bell's 2 shots and 1 pass, Manchester United reversed the away game against the Hammers and won 26-5. With 83 points, Arsenal was tied 0:0 by Blackburn Rovers at home in the same round. With only 7 rounds left in the game, Arsenal trailed Manchester United by 23 points, which made Manchester United a record 7 rounds ahead of schedule. Win the championship.

At first, this record shocked the world of football, especially when Manchester United won the championship unbeaten in the season and also became the first team in the history of the five major leagues to reach 100 points in a season. Many people believed that the record set by Manchester United was impossible. Broken.

Last season, Manchester United once again scored a record 102 points, but they still failed to break the original record of winning the championship 7 rounds in advance. This further deepened the world's understanding that this record is unbreakable.

However, just one year later, the Manchester United man is likely to break this record.

As long as they defeat Sunderland today, they can not only advance the championship to March in a record-breaking time, but also break the original record of winning the championship seven rounds in advance.

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As for whether Manchester United can beat Sunderland, almost no one has doubts. Because Sunderland is the most die-hard Manchester United team in the Premier League. Almost every time they meet Manchester United, the Black Cats will weirdly score three points. At the same time, when they meet Manchester United's championship rivals, they will explode with huge energy. Either defeat the opponent or draw with the opponent to clear the way for the big brother Manchester United to win the championship.

This situation reached its peak during the tenure of Sunderland's former manager, Steve Bruce, the legendary captain of Manchester United.

Bruce's team is even nicknamed Manchester United's second team by outsiders. In addition to his team coach being a former Manchester United player, there are also many players from Manchester United in the team.

After Bruce was fired due to poor record in the winter of 2011, the newly appointed team coach Martin O'Neill failed to change the situation. Today, Sunderland still has many players who have played for Manchester United such as Wes Brown, Bardsley and O'Shea.

Therefore, facing Manchester United now, almost no one would think that Sunderland can prevent Manchester United from winning the championship eight rounds in advance.

Especially at this moment, Sunderland is at a low point. Martin O'Neill's team has been winless in 7 consecutive Premier League games, and the team's ranking has dropped to 15th in the league, only 4 points higher than Wigan Athletic, which ranks 18th in the league.

However, Sunderland coach Martin O'Neill does not think Sunderland will surrender. He said that his team will block Manchester United at home and prevent Manchester United from lifting the championship trophy at the Stadium of Light.

Martin O'Neill did think so,

Because his team is facing huge pressure to avoid relegation. Once they lose to Manchester United at home, Sunderland will slip further into the relegation zone.

In order to survive and avoid relegation, Sunderland must fight!

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Before the game started, O'Shea, who was wearing the Sunderland captain's armband, greeted every Manchester United player. However, another Sunderland player, Bardsley, who was born in Manchester United, had no communication with the Manchester United players.

This also has a lot to do with their situation.

O'Shea, who was born in Manchester United's youth training camp, has played for Manchester United for more than ten seasons, including 252 appearances in the Premier League and more than 300 games in all competitions. He has a very deep relationship with Manchester United. Especially now that most of the players in Manchester United have fought alongside him.

Although Bardsley also played for Manchester United for several seasons, he was frequently rented out during this period and played very limited games for Manchester United. He only played in the 2005-2006 season wearing Manchester United's No. 26 jersey. After 8 league games, the relationship with Manchester United cannot be said to be that deep.

The game soon got underway.

This game was somewhat beyond Bell's expectations. Many Premier League teams will adopt the method of setting up a bus when encountering Manchester United. Their general game pattern is to start the game with a fierce attack, and then, regardless of whether they score a goal or not, they start to set up their game, defend tightly, and counterattack at the same time.

But there is something strange about Sunderland, they seem to be playing against Manchester United.

There is no doubt that Bell likes such an opponent very much. Because this means that Manchester United will have the opportunity to counterattack their opponents. Bell's speed and breakthrough ability are a very sharp weapon in counterattacks.

Soon, Bell unsheathed his sword.

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In the seventh minute of the game, Modric sent a precise long pass. Bell dribbled the ball along the left wing at high speed and directly hit the Sunderland defense.

Bell seemed to be chasing the wind, flying the ball all the way. This was his favorite rhythm.

Sunderland right-back Bardsley rushed towards Bale.

There was only one defender, and Bell didn't even make a fake move. He used his speed to cut inside and go straight to the front of the penalty area.

Soon, Sunderland's right center back Bramble also followed.

Facing two defenders, Bell became serious this time. He blocked the ball with his right foot, stopped the football, and faced two defenders head-on.

Bardsley and Bramble also quickly slowed down a few steps, preparing to encircle them.

When the two men just slowed down, Bell swayed his upper body and quickly pushed the football to the left with his right foot. At the same time, his center of gravity quickly moved to the left, making a running movement to the left.

Bardsley and Bramble immediately followed Bell and leaned to the right.

Just when their center of gravity had just moved, Bell quickly pulled the football back with his left foot, and at the same time, he twisted and quickly shifted his center of gravity back to the right.

With a seemingly simple change of rhythm and focus, Bell completely deceived Bardsley and Bramble.

Then he took a step to the right with the football, directly deflecting the two men's block.

At this time, there was a large open space in front of Bell!

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There were uniform exclamations at the Stadium of Light.

The Black Cat fans didn't expect that Bell would use such a fast-paced fake action to avoid the encirclement of his two defenders.

The two Sunderland defenders were left in place by Bell, and Bell had already brought the ball to the center and to the top of the penalty area, directly facing the goalkeeper!

Just when Bardsley and Bramble turned sharply, trying to block Bell again, Bell swung his calf.

This time, instead of stretching his thigh, he directly exerted force on his calf.

He kicked the football under the side before the defender could get back on defense.

There was a "bang" sound, and Bell's right leg jerked. At the top of the arc in the penalty area, the football drew a slightly arcing trajectory and went straight to the upper right corner of the goal like a shell.

On the goal line, Sunderland goalkeeper Mignolet quickly made a sideways save, but to no avail, Bell's shot went straight through the Sunderland goal!

When Bell faces the entire goal and no one interferes with him, with such a big goal, the goalkeeper's defense is simply useless!

1:0!

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"GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Beautiful breakthrough, genius and domineering shot!"

"Only seven minutes into the game, Bell used his personal characteristics to score the first goal for Manchester United! Manchester United got a golden start!"

"This is Manchester United's second attack, Bale's second touch of the ball."

"With his second touch of the ball, Bale gave us a magnificent personal performance. His genius performance helped Manchester United take the lead in the seventh minute!"

"Bale showed Sunderland fans his determination to lift the Premier League trophy at the Stadium of Light!"

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Amidst the exclamations of the commentators, the Stadium of Light, which can accommodate 49,000 people, fell into silence. Only the cheers from the corner where the Manchester United fans were standing were loud.

It has to be said that the relationship between Sunderland and Manchester United is indeed strong enough. For this game, they actually provided 8,000 tickets to Manchester United fans, allowing Manchester United fans to almost occupy one of the stands.

Of course, this may also have something to do with Sunderland's poor record and low attendance of home fans.

The tickets are empty anyway, so it’s better to sell them to Manchester United fans and earn some income.

After all, 8,000 tickets are also hundreds of thousands of pounds in revenue, which is not a small number for Sunderland.

But despite this, there are still many Manchester United fans who came to the away game but failed to enter the stadium to watch the game. After all, Manchester United is very likely to win the championship eight games ahead of schedule. Many Manchester United fans followed the team to Sunderland, hoping to accompany the team. Witness this great moment.

At this moment, Bell helped Manchester United score an early goal, making Manchester United fans seem to see the Premier League championship trophy waving to them!