Red Rebels

Some people ridiculed that when arranging the schedule, the Football Association had already foreseen the strength of the Red Rebels this season, so they deliberately arranged for the Red Rebels to win the championship and immediately welcomed Manchester City in the league to give Louis van Gaal's team a chance. A chance for revenge.

Coincidentally, this game was scheduled between the two Red Devils derbies in the Champions League quarter-finals.

But unfortunately, this is also the case. Sandwiched between the two Champions League knockout rounds, Manchester City is also worried about dealing with Liverpool. In the first round away game: they tied with Liverpool. Manchester City will have to go all out when they return to their home court.

In this case, it is impossible for Van Gaal to give his best in the league.

Sure enough, both teams chose the substitute lineup to play, but judging from the score, the Red Rebels' substitute lineup is more outstanding than Manchester City, at least Walcott, Ozil, Aaron La. The performance of players such as Mzy was much higher than that of his peers, especially Walcott. The England winger scored two goals and passed one ball in this game, ensuring that the Red Rebels achieved a winning streak in the league and continued this season. winning streak.

Judging from the intense media exaggeration before the game, after the game, although Manchester City lost this game, the media gloated as usual and praised Van Gaal's wisdom.

Rather than clinging to the already hopeless Premier League rankings, rather than clinging to the battle of morale, it would be better to recharge and wait for the second round of the knockout rounds, defeat Liverpool and reach the semi-finals. This is actually a great opportunity for Manchester City. Good compensation.

If they can win the Champions League, even if they lose the Premier League championship, this season will be a fruitful season for Manchester City. After all, they have become the king of Europe.

Three days later, Manchester City welcomed Liverpool at the City Stadium. Van Gaal sent out all his main players to play. Compared with Liverpool, which was struggling to qualify for the Champions League, Manchester City, which was recharging its energy, was superior in both physical fitness and technical tactics. Although Liverpool tenaciously regained the score twice after falling behind twice, Manchester City finally eliminated Liverpool with Sneijder's winning goal.

With his outstanding performance in the Champions League, the Dutchman has become the most popular and powerful attacking midfielder in Europe. At the same time, many experts have praised him as the core of Manchester City's frontcourt offense.

On the day after Manchester City beat Liverpool, the Red Rebels also struggled in the away game with Messi's goal, beating Manchester United 0-0 and sending the Red Devils out of the Champions League with a total score of 4-4.

As a result, all four teams in the Champions League semi-finals have been announced. The Red Rebels in the top half will face Droylsden, and Manchester City in the bottom half will face Chelsea. It is still the Premier League team that monopolizes the Champions League. The top four.

For this situation,

The football fans can be said to be both familiar and helpless. They have all witnessed the strength of the Premier League teams, but they also wish for more teams to rise and break the Premier League's monopoly, but in the end they are unable to do anything.

UEFA intends to abandon the principle of avoiding the same country when drawing lots, starting from the top six knockout rounds. The purpose is to limit the strength of Premier League teams. However, this proposal is still on the agenda. Even if it is finally passed, it will not be implemented until It's next season.

This season's European League has to worry about the World Cup in South Africa in the summer, so all events must end before May 5. The only exceptions are the Champions League final and the UEFA Cup final.

Therefore, in the latter part of the season, the schedule becomes extremely intensive.

After playing in the Champions League, the Red Rebels immediately ushered in the fourth round of the league and challenged Hull City away. As a result, the Red Rebels, who came on the bench, slaughtered their opponents 0:4 in the away game and achieved 4 consecutive wins in the Premier League.

Queen, the team visited Stamford Bridge for the FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea.

Although it is a home game, Chelsea's season is equally intensive, and the physical condition of the Blues players is not at all better than that of the Red Rebels, especially in terms of player rotation. Rijkaard is both in terms of the team lineup and the thickness of the bench. Unable to obtain Mourinho's generous conditions, his rotation effect is very limited.

They almost fell at the hands of Bolton a few days ago. Fortunately, Anelka's last-minute goal saved the Blues. Now that the Red Rebels are ushering in, Chelsea players appear to be in poor physical and mental condition.

On the contrary, it was the Red Rebels. Although Mourinho played away from home, he boldly promoted young players to serve as the main players, including Walcott, Ozil, Wilshere, Rodwell and other young players. He started the game and performed well, eventually helping the team defeat Chelsea 0:0 away.

Walcott continued his red-hot form, passing and shooting in the game, helping the Red Rebels successfully advance to the FA Cup final.

In addition, players such as Wilshere, Rodwell and Nymar all performed well in the game. Many people even believe that this has something to do with the group of head coaches in the Stamford Bridge stands.

Both Beckham and Dunga watched the FA Cup semi-finals live, and the players they focused on were undoubtedly the fringe internationals of England and Brazil.

Walcott is a weapon under Beckham, and it is natural to be selected for the England national team. However, whether Wilshere and Rodwell can be selected depends on their state, and what they showed in this game The strength that came out was indeed up to Beckham's requirements.

Whether these two young players can go to South Africa with the team, another very important key is Beckham's dependence on the Red Rebels system. After all, these two young players are players who grew up under the Red Rebels tactical system. For this A system is very familiar, which is where they have an advantage over other players.

In addition, Wilshere can play as a winger, midfielder, midfielder, and even as an organizational midfielder. Such a versatile player is indeed something that every head coach cannot give up; as for Rodwell, he can play as a midfielder. Both positions of midfielder and defender have shown outstanding performance, and Beckham also admires him very much.

Whether Nymar can enter the Brazilian national team is unknown, but given Dunga's high regard for him, it would not be a surprise even if he is selected. After all, his performance in the Red Rebels is indeed amazing.

Of course, no matter in terms of age, strength or experience, these three young players are destined not to be the protagonists during their trip to South Africa. Even though they are all talented, their age and experience have limited their performance. The World Cup in South Africa will not It is their stage. If Beckham and Dunga bring them to South Africa, there will be only one purpose, the 2004 World Cup in Brazil.

As for the other players in the Red Rebels, Ozil has already proven that he is a well-deserved core player of the German national team. David Thornton should not be able to enter the Italian national team. The same goes for Fabio and La The Phil brothers are still young and have great futures. 2004 will be their stage.

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There is still a long time before the World Cup squad is finalized, but the Red Rebels' schedule is so dense that it makes people breathless.

After the FA Cup, the team immediately ushered in the fifth round of the Premier League and challenged Black Cat Sunderland, coached by Roy Keane, away from home.

Mourinho continued to use the starting lineup in the FA Cup, with only slight adjustments and modifications, and this group of young players did not live up to Mourinho's high expectations, despite encountering Roy Keane's tenacity in the away game. Defensive tactics, but they still withstood the pressure, 0: defeated their opponents.

Wilshere's outstanding performance in this game, scoring twice, was elected as the best player of the game, which also added some confidence to his selection for the England national team.

A few days later, the Red Rebels visited the Butcher's Knife Stadium again for the first leg of their Champions League semi-final against Droylsden.

Mourinho attaches great importance to this game, but he is very aware of the knockout rules of the Champions League. In the away game, he has to be more active and proactive than in the home game. He took the lead in launching a fierce attack at the beginning of the game.

This is also related to the away goals rule in the knockout rounds of the Champions League, which allows teams playing away games to be more willing to let go, while teams playing at home are always worried about the number of away goals, so it is difficult to let go, especially in The team playing at home in the first round is even more cautious.

This is why the schedule of home and then away is very unfavorable

However, Pellegrini obviously also guessed that Mourinho would use the tactics of heavy pressure in the first round, so he based on defense after the opening. Mascherano, the defensive core, performed very well in this game. Brilliantly, Captain Blood and Gago built a defensive wall very well.

The Red Rebels' offense encountered huge problems in front of Droisden's defense. Pellegrini's team was well organized defensively and did not give the Red Rebels a good chance at all.

The game passed minute by minute, but Mourinho's team was unable to find a way to defeat Droylsden.

During the break, Mourinho made certain adjustments to his tactics, but after the start of the second half, the Red Rebels' offense still seemed louder than rain.

Seeing that the team's offense failed again and again, and seeing that the team's offense failed to open up the situation, Mourinho finally made substitution adjustments. This time he replaced Messi with performance. Bad Di Maria.

Messi was slightly injured before. Mourinho did not let him start the game out of the idea of ​​protection. He just sat on the bench and switched to Di Maria. However, the Angels were on the right side in this game. Lu was heavily marked by Leighton Barnes and failed to show his best condition.

As soon as Messi came on the field, his cooperation with Alves on the right wing immediately showed its power. After he touched the ball for the first time, he performed a clever one-two with Alves on the right wing and cut across to the penalty area. After the front line, he passed the ball behind him, and Kaka, who was offside, stopped the ball and stabbed him. However, Joe Hart reacted quickly and blocked the shot angle in time.

Although he failed to score, Messi's performance on the right after coming on was really eye-catching, especially his skillful cooperation and excellent understanding with Alves, which was even more amazing.

Minutes later, Messi dribbled the ball from the right and forced a breakthrough. When Leighton Barnes failed to stop him, he pulled him down at the front of the penalty area and was shown a yellow card by the referee. Unfortunately, Michael ?Johnson's direct free kick hit the wall and missed a chance to score.

After that, Messi continued to show a high level of performance on the right. His condition looked very exciting, but Droysden's defense looked impregnable, and the Red Rebels failed to find a good opportunity to score for a while.

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"Alves used his speed to force a breakthrough on the right. Leighton Barnes had a yellow card and did not dare to defend fiercely. He could only force him to the baseline. Alves cleverly used his speed to kill Go to the baseline and lob the ball into the penalty area.”

"At the front point, Alves' pass reached the front point. Messi, who was just at the front of the penalty area, had already entered the penalty area. He got ahead of the defensive players and dived with a header... and it missed."

"Messi's header is not a shooting action that he is good at, but his performance since he came on as a substitute really makes people marvel at the changes he has brought to the Red Rebels. He has revitalized the Red Rebels. Jun's frontcourt attack, one shot with each left foot, and now he can even do the header, which he is least good at."

"Messi's desire to score goals is really strong, and it can be seen from his performance after coming on the field."

The fans at the scene also felt Messi's desire to score, especially the changes he brought to the Red Rebels after coming off the bench, which are absolutely world-class.

The only regret is that the Red Rebels still failed to form a breakthrough

Messi is anxious, and so are the players of the Red Rebels. Every player is anxious.

It’s already been 80 minutes, time is really running out

Someone is right, winning by scoring at the last minute is indeed exciting, but you must understand that one and a half is a classic. If it always happens like this, then there must be something wrong with the team's offense.

The performance of the Red Rebels in this game cannot be said to be bad, but Droysden's defense was absolutely superb, and every player was unswervingly executing the tactical arrangements of coach Pellegrini.

Kaka, Ronaldinho, Aguero and others also tried their best, all of them were panting. They all hoped to help the team win. They all hoped to score at the last moment, but the key is that Germany Royceden is so tenacious

In the 86th minute, the Red Rebels once again launched a Bō offensive, and it was still a Bō attack launched by Messi on the right. After Alves entered the Droylsden half, he suddenly chose to cut inside and hit the front of the penalty area. Suddenly he passed the ball to the back.

Otamendi quickly found his position. After several years of experience in the European League, he has become a world-renowned right back, especially in the blocking position. His former defender resume allows him to play in the blocking position. He must perform better than other right backs.

But his height has become his biggest limitation, making it difficult for him to adapt to the requirements of European defenders. After transforming into a right back, he also has a weakness in high balls.

Ronaldinho arrived first, relying on his height and excellent jumping ability to hit the goal with a heavy swing of his head before Otamendi, blasting Alves' pass towards Joe Hart. Guarded goal.

Someone once calculated that Ronaldinho's jumping ability is actually not strong. His real strength lies in his excellent ability to stay in the air, which allows him to stay in the air longer than his opponents and can do things more calmly. Perform a variety of technical moves.

The same was true this time. His header went directly to the near post of the goal, very close.

Although Joe Hart was on guard for a long time, he was also shocked, especially the header from such a close distance. He could only fly over desperately, hoping to block the ball.

In fact, he did, touching the football with his hand and blocking it out of the goal with his fist.

At this moment, the hearts of Red Rebels players all over the world were raised to their throats, and then fell heavily, sighing deeply, thinking that an attack would be carried out by Joe Hart's world-class performance. Returned in vain.

But at this moment, a red figure appeared in the penalty area of ​​Droisden. He quickly judged the path of the ball saved by Joe Hart, and stood in the most advantageous position in advance, waiting for the ball to come out. At that time, he just stopped with his foot and sent the ball directly into the empty goal.

Joe Hart fell to the ground. He wanted to stand up and make another save, but he was powerless. He could only watch the supplementary shot pass through Droysden's goal.

"The goal in the 87th minute helped the Red Rebels open the door to victory"

"This is a priceless goal. Messi scored the winning goal at the most critical moment."

The live broadcast screen showed the figure of Messi turning around and running wildly. He ran excitedly, pulled up his jersey, and a white T-shirt was revealed from inside, with the words: Dedicated to you, Big Red Rebel. ,keep going

This gift from Messi appeared on all the TVs broadcasting the live game around the world. He rushed to the bottom of the rostrum. He knew that Xiao Yu and the club's senior officials were somewhere above. In a box, he stood solemnly below, looking up with a pious expression.

The players rushed to Messi's side, and they all pressed closely against the Argentine.

At this moment, the whole world knows why Messi is so excited after playing, works so hard, and has such a strong desire to score, because he hopes to make this T-shirt on him recognized by the world. All the players saw it, and he hoped that Xiao Yu in the box could see his blessing.

"Boss, go all the way. No matter what happens, as long as we are here, the Red Rebels will continue to move forward and continue to achieve more outstanding and brilliant achievements. This is our last promise to you. We believe that this is also your greatest promise. wish”

Although they didn't say it, all the Red Rebel players stood on the sidelines of the court, their expressions showing determination. They all swore in their hearts to Xiao Yu in the box above.

At this moment, not only Xiao Yu felt it strongly, but also all the players in the stands and all the viewers in front of the TV clearly felt the strong determination of the Red Rebel players.

Perhaps, only at this moment can those opponents truly understand why the Red Rebels are invincible.