Football King Bale

When the Football Association announced its somewhat bizarre decision to punish Ferguson, and all media outlets reported enthusiastically about it, the weekend came and the second round of the Premier League began.

In the first game of the second round, which started at noon on Saturday, Arsenal, who suffered an upset defeat at home last weekend, finally washed away the decline of a week ago and defeated the farmer Fulham in a London derby at Craven Cottage. This victory gave the professors who were in the whirlpool of public opinion some breathing space.

Then, in the remaining games on Saturday, draws were the norm, and the remaining games were also small wins. Everton had a goalless draw with West Brom at home, Newcastle had no goals against the Hammers at home, and Southampton and Sunderland drew 1:1. In the other three games, Hull City defeated Norwich 1:0 at home, and Liverpool defeated Villa 1:0 away from home. With one more game, they temporarily topped the table with 2 wins, 1 draw and 7 points. At the top of the Premier League standings, Stoke City defeated Crystal Palace 2:1 at home.

In the two games played on Sunday, Tottenham's 1:0 victory over Swansea at home was considered uneventful, but another Welsh team suffered a huge upset at home. As the newly promoted Cardiff City, They had a head-to-head battle with Blue Moon Manchester City at home, and finally defeated the powerful Manchester City in an upset 3:2, shocking the whole British Isles.

Finally, it’s time for the focus of this round on Monday night. The Premier League hegemon, Manchester United, faces Chelsea, the blue team led by Mourinho, at Old Trafford.

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In this game, Manchester United's number one star Bell, as well as Rafael and Hernandez were all absent due to injuries. Rooney entered the starting lineup for the first time in the new season; for Chelsea, David Luiz suffered a hamstring injury. Yu continued to be absent, and Mourinho put Torres and Lukaku on the bench at the beginning, setting up a starting lineup without a registered forward. Schürrle ushered in his first start in the Premier League.

The league has just reached the second round and there has been a focus battle between Manchester United and Chelsea. What is even more interesting is that this summer the two clubs have been in a tug-of-war in the transfer market because of Rooney.

Before the game, Mourinho once again played psychological warfare. He told reporters: "Ferguson should be responsible for the Rooney incident. I am not deliberately looking for trouble. In any giant, there will definitely be a division between absolute main players and secondary options. Those so-called The secondary options must also be excellent players, but the key to the problem is that those so-called secondary players must accept their positioning. We made an offer and they rejected it again. What did we lose? It was just an email."

Manchester United senior assistant coach Mike Phelan admitted in an interview with the BBC that he never thought Rooney would leave the club. He said: "I think Rooney will still be a Manchester United player when the transfer market closes. If something happens, then It’s long overdue.”

Former Manchester United goalkeeper Schmeichel also supported Xiaopang. He said: "I know Rooney will play today and play well. He has to play and prove to the fans that he wants to play here. I know Rooney knows this and will do his best to play, which is a big statement and I think 98% of Manchester United fans want to see him start."

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However, the British media, which likes to stir up trouble, discovered that during the pre-match warm-up, Rooney and his teammates were "unusual" in wearing long sweatshirts. Just such a subtle difference was regarded as the current relationship between Xiaopang and his teammates. A good piece of evidence.

In fact, this game is really difficult for Rooney to play. He was at odds with Ferguson but had to work hard for him. Mourinho has been pursuing him, but today he has to confront him on the court. The complicated relationship is really frustrating in a short time. Difficult to digest.

Some fans commented: "Rooney's game is not pleasing in any way. If he plays well, people will say he is showing his strength to Mourinho. If he plays poorly, people will not say anything about Rooney." Now I am basically in Cao's camp and my heart is in Han."

Some even put forward a bold hypothesis: "If Rooney scores a goal today,

Will he kiss the Chelsea crest? "

In fact, Mourinho started with a strikerless formation today, which seemed to be playing psychological warfare with Manchester United. What the Portuguese madman did was to tell Rooney that this position belongs to you!

Of course, regardless of the media or fans, these are all nonsense. In the end, it still depends on how Rooney sees the real story on the court.

In the Dream Theater, Xiaopang has contributed 24 goals for Manchester United in his last 27 Premier League starts, and his efficiency is evident.

It is worth mentioning that Manchester City coach Pellegrini, who lost in Wales just two days ago, came to watch the game in person. In the fifth round of this season, Manchester City will meet the challenge of Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium.

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Before the game started, players from both teams held a silent memorial ceremony for former Manchester United players Greenhoff, Ron Davies and Jack Compton who passed away this summer.

After the start of the first half, Manchester United played more proactively and had the advantage in possession, but it was Chelsea who took the lead to complete the shot. Ferdinand, who was wearing a Manchester United jersey and playing in the Premier League for the 300th time, had a bad pass from the wing. Oscar's shot from 17 meters on the right rib without adjusting was directly confiscated by De Gea.

This game is destined to be another controversial game.

In the 15th minute, Ashley Cole, who had previously blocked Phil Jones' pass with a handball, committed a tactical foul and knocked down Robin van Persie from behind. As a result, he escaped a yellow card penalty. This caused strong dissatisfaction among Manchester United players. Old Trafford More than 70,000 home team fans even booed the referee.

The bigger controversy came in the 62nd minute. Cleverley's powerful shot from the front of the penalty area bounced off Lampard's right hand in the penalty area. Atkinson still refused to make any penalty.

This made Ferguson on the coaching bench unable to sit still any longer and rushed to the sidelines to protest strongly to the fourth official. However, because he was punished by the FA just three days ago, Sir Alex did not have any extreme words this time.

The fans in the Old Trafford stands were even more excited. At this moment, countless Manchester United fans were greeting referee Atkinson's three generations of direct female relatives.

Of course, everyone at Chelsea would not think that the referee was biased in their favor, especially what happened in the 71st minute of the game. Ashley Cole fell in the penalty area after being slightly pulled by Jones. Atkinson refused to make a penalty and made Mourinho dance on the sidelines.

In the end, Manchester United and Chelsea ended in a goalless draw 0:0.

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After the game, Sir Alex looked very serious.

There were two draws in the first three games of the season. This is Manchester United's worst start since the 2007-2008 season!

At the beginning, Manchester United only had 2 draws and 1 loss in the first three rounds, ranking 17th in the league, and almost fell into the relegation zone. It was Manchester United's worst start in the Premier League era.

But after that, in several seasons in the Premier League, Manchester United's worst result in the first three rounds was 2 wins and 1 loss.

Today, Manchester United is only ranked fourth with one more game. Once other teams finish their games next weekend, Manchester United's ranking will definitely drop significantly, which is not good news.

In particular, the referee ignored three no-doubt penalty kicks in two consecutive games, which made Ferguson feel more crisis. Because under normal circumstances, there is no doubt about these three penalty kicks, but now Manchester United does not get the penalty kicks they deserve.

The result is obvious. Manchester United, which was supposed to win three consecutive victories and get 9 points, now only gets 5 points!

Chelsea relied on this draw to surpass Liverpool with a goal difference and rush to the top of the Premier League standings.

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Led Chelsea to an away draw with Manchester United, Mourinho's league winning record ended after his second appointment, but the Portuguese coach believed that the result was reasonable. He said: "I think this is the kind of game that neither side deserves to win, but No one deserves to lose. You always want to win in a game, but both teams are too focused on defending first. For the sake of the fans and all TV viewers, it might be better to have one more goal, but from now on Tactically it was a good game and no one will cry about the result."

"I think this point is very important for us. I'm a little frustrated because we didn't do a good job in some simple aspects. Every time we want to counterattack and be more creative, we always Lost the ball. I felt like we missed too many simple passes and it made it hard to flow the game, the ball just wasn’t moving.”

"Of course it's the same for them, they're definitely not satisfied with the way the game went. We did a good enough job, controlled the game most of the time and didn't have any real trouble. Of course there were some simple mistakes that we shouldn't have made. Offensively, we did not perform as expected. We wanted to win, and if we couldn't do it, we had to ensure we didn't lose. I think the players fully understood this, and the whole team did their best, and finally returned to the defensive position to ensure No points lost.”

Regarding the Rooney transfer that has been rumored recently, Mourinho did not forget to add trouble to Ferguson. He said: "We now have 24-48 hours to make a decision, whether to complete this transfer." , or give up. We are trying to bring in a player that the club does not want to sell. He is very good, can score by himself, and lead the team to victory. In fact, he has given wonderful performances in difficult circumstances, and many players have It is difficult to perform at your best when you have conflicts with the club, but Rooney has not been affected at all. He is very professional. However, now is the time to make a final decision. If Rooney wants to stay at Manchester United, he must speak out. , we will respect his decision, we will say thank you and leave."