Chapter 431 Battle of Tianwang Mountain!Heading towards the first Premier League title!
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Ge Lei Sen Gu Dong
Chapter 431 Battle of Tianwang Mountain!Heading towards the first Premier League title!
Back at the club, his teammates sent condolences to Chen Xiaoliang, but Chen Xiaoliang's mental state was far better than his teammates expected.
The Sri Lankan is gone, and life is always looking forward.
上一场双杀利物浦帽子戏法且一个球比一个精彩的塞斯科荣膺全场最佳，1球1助攻的陈小亮获得了7点训练值（71→78）。
[Aristocratic mission] obtained the peak Fernando Torres confrontation shooting card, function: after making physical contact with the opponent's defender during the attack, balance +2, shooting +2
A week of recuperation is precious to the whole team. The recovering Rashford played less than 20 minutes in the last round and scored a goal. In the past few days, he has recovered further and his state has returned to the level before the injury. .
And Lindelof, Maguire, and Casemiro, who had swollen ankles and blisters on the soles of their feet due to the previous horrible schedule, all recovered within this week.
Except for Eriksson, who is definitely reimbursed for the season, the rest of the players can play in the last and most critical four games.
The next round of home games against Arsenal is the top priority in determining whether the league can win the championship. It can be called the final of the league this season, and the last round of away games against Sheffield United, which is ranked 17th, will be relatively easy to play.
Manchester City on the other side have a much lighter schedule, having been knocked out of the Cup, they have two weeks to prepare for the two games, first away to Middlesbrough and then at home to Brighton.
In the fourth group, Newcastle played away at Brentford first, and then at home against West Ham.
Arsenal is away to Manchester United first, and then Leeds United, which has a high probability of being relegated at home.
Chelsea is away to Leeds United first, and then at home to Nottingham Forest.
Newcastle win one, Chelsea out, two wins, Arsenal shattered.
So in any case, Arsenal will smash Manchester United away.
Everyone in this game will not accept the 1-point ending. For everyone, 3 points is the key to keeping the last hope.
At this stall, the Red Country traditional medical physiotherapists hired by the club also joined the physiotherapy group, responsible for cupping and acupuncture, helping to speed up the relief of muscle soreness and joint discomfort of the team members, and even scraping is optional.
A few days later, after the players took off their training uniforms after training, all their backs were covered with bruises and purple stripes. After being photographed by the media, many clubs expressed their intention to follow suit.
Although the newly bought young player Ilan Kunda has not been officially announced, the agreement with Adelaide United has been signed and sealed. The player himself has confirmed all the personal treatment terms. Training with the team during the critical period will help him integrate into the most intense competitive atmosphere in today's football.
4天训练，16点训练值（78→94），陈小亮加了1点任意球（15→16），训练值94→14。
For him now, there are not too many attributes that can be added, and there are only a few choices.
The day before the game, Teng Hahe took Chen Xiaoliang to the press conference, and Chen Xiaoliang only answered part of the reporter's concentrated questions.
Reporter: "Everyone expressed concern about what happened to you, and the fans also showed their feelings by applauding during the game. Does the death of a relative have a big impact on you?"
Chen Xiaoliang: "The impact only exists in my personal life. It has nothing to do with the next game, and it will not affect my performance in the game."
Reporter: "Does the continuous journey make you feel tired?"
Chen Xiaoliang: "When the game starts tomorrow, you will see how good my physical condition is."
Reporter: "After playing Arsenal or the FA Cup final with Liverpool, which game do you think is more difficult?"
Chen Xiaoliang: "Today is the press conference of the league. I only answer questions related to the league. My personal goal is to win as many championships as possible."
Reporter: "This season, you have the possibility of becoming the triple crown. Adding the League Cup, you will have four championships. If you really achieve it, you will also become the second person in history to win the triple crown for two consecutive years after Eto'o. Wang's players, Manchester United will also become the third club to win the treble twice, do you feel excited thinking about this?"
Chen Xiaoliang: "Excitement can't win the championship, the game has to be played game by game, and all records are meaningful only after winning the championship."
Chen Xiaoliang couldn't help complaining in his heart, it was almost the end of the season, why did the reporters ask so naive questions.
Unexpectedly, after the home team's press conference, the group of reporters began to "harass" visiting team coach Arteta again, carefully prepared silly questions one after another, especially one of the reporters, repeatedly stared at Arteta and asked about last season. If he failed to win the championship and spent so much money this season, if he didn't make it to the Champions League, would he resign and apologize?
Arteta put down the microphone and left the meeting room.
However, from the reporter's point of view, although their questions seem stupid, in fact they just want to use this kind of stupid and repeated questions to deliberately provoke the parties involved.
Arteta's reaction immediately became a good material for the media to make a fuss, such as "Ashuai's mentality has collapsed, Arsenal is out of four fears", "The atmosphere is full of tension, the prospect of the war is worrying", "Arteta who can't control the press conference Can the tower still control the locker room? " and other press releases immediately went to the front page of football newspapers.
On the contrary, Chen Xiaoliang's indifferent response made the reporters feel that there was nothing to mention.
However, Chen Xiaoliang still noticed something strange about the team.
For such a major event, the Premier League naturally has to take care of audiences all over the world, and put the game at 0 o'clock on Sunday in the Red Country. At this time, it is Saturday morning local time in North America, and local time in Brazil and other places in South America. Saturday is close to noon, and this arrangement means that major fan areas around the world can watch the game at a relatively suitable time on the weekend.
In order to expand the viewing group to the largest extent, the Premier League also set this game as a free game, so as to crack down on piracy platforms as much as possible, so that those platforms that have signed official broadcast agreements can maximize the drainage.
Everyone in the Internet economy these days knows that free is the most expensive.
Only through free methods can more fans be attracted to watch, and when the traffic increases, more advertisers are willing to come and deliver advertisements.
At the same time, the customer portraits of the fan group are relatively uniform, with similar age ranges, and the gender is mainly male, and they generally advocate passion and freedom. Therefore, advertisers can accurately send corresponding advertisements. Penguin Sports' classic marketing of "long-lasting gold and extra fun".
But the more attention, the more important the game.
Chen Xiaoliang noticed from the time the bus drove into Old Trafford that today's teammates were very quiet.
Even Anthony and Cesko, who are usually talkative, became silent.
Only the huge cheers of the fans waiting on both sides of the car entrance passed through the car windows and entered the ears.
Everyone is very serious, and behind the seriousness is uncontrollable tension.
After entering the locker room, everyone began to change clothes. It took about two hours from changing clothes, warming up, entering the field, and finally starting the game. This is something that professional players are used to.
Seeing that his teammates were still silent, Chen Xiaoliang began to speak, first to Sesco:
"You haven't scored in five league rounds, you must start tonight."
Cesco: "What? Ryoko, you ate my hat-trick against Liverpool last time."
Chen Xiaoliang: "That was the make-up match for the 30th round. Tell me yourself, did you score a goal in the 31 games from the 36st round to the 5th round?"
Cesko thought about it for a while, and it was really the same thing!
But there were two draws with Manchester City and Chelsea, and two small 1-0 victories in the devil's match, and the team did not score a few goals.
Cesko: "That... must!"
The surrounding teammates saw the conversation between the two broke the silence of the locker room, and there was a smile on their expressions.
Chen Xiaoliang aimed at Kewa again, who made him and Cesko be Chen Xiaoliang's left and right guardians.
Chen Xiaoliang: "Your stats have dropped this season."
Upon hearing what Chen Xiaoliang said, the other teammates turned their heads gloatingly, and Anthony and Dalot, who usually love to be funny, even made a sound of "ohhhhhhhhhhhhh".
Kwa is very concerned about personal data, not that he is a data addict, but that he is particularly concerned about the evaluation of him by fans on the Internet and the outside media.
Data is naturally an important basis for the evaluation of these people.
He hopes to gain a foothold in the giants and become one of the best wingers.
In addition, his personality is relatively serious. Some teammates mentioned this matter before, but he would immediately turn his face and show a look of disgust.
Hearing what Chen Xiaoliang said at this moment, Kewa was taken aback for a moment, then frowned involuntarily, but he didn't dare to get angry with Chen Xiaoliang.
Chen Xiaoliang: "In the last 4 games, try to make 1 goal per game. I will pass the ball to you more. You can't let Benjamin (Sesco) steal the limelight."
Kewa reluctantly nodded, and Sesko, who was not far away, waved at him deliberately to tease him, but what he received was "Get out!" from Kewa and other teammates laughed.
No one expected that the third object of Chen Xiaoliang's jokes would be Casemiro. You must know that besides Chen Xiaoliang, the Brazilian midfielder with the highest prestige in this team.
"Fat Tiger." Ever since Chen Xiaoliang always called him that, many people in the team also called him that, without him, because they look so much alike...
Casemiro looked at Chen Xiaoliang with a smile, he really wanted to know what Chen Xiaoliang would use to make fun of himself.
Chen Xiaoliang: "You said you have played football for so many years, but why are there only three league champions?"
Casemiro: "There are only three, but more than you."
Chen Xiaoliang: "Who said that, I have one Su Chao, two Serie A, and I also have three."
Casemiro's eyes widened: "What the hell is the Soviet Super League? It's not the top five leagues."
Chen Xiaoliang smiled and turned his head to look at Lima.
Lima hurriedly said: "If it's not the five major leagues, it doesn't count? Why don't you count it?"
"Hahahaha!"
Laughter finally erupted in the locker room.
Lima has won two Eredivisie championships and one Dutch Cup championship. According to the standard that Casemiro is not counted in the five major leagues, these championships in Lima are not counted.
Lindelof also shouted: "It must be counted!"
He won three Portuguese Super League titles with Benfica.
Chen Xiaoliang looked at Casemiro again: "Why?"
Casemiro laughed loudly: "Forget it, forget it, hahaha."
Chen Xiaoliang patted him on the shoulder: "I will help these lads win their first Premier League championship later."
Casemiro understood, and patted Chen Xiaoliang's hand.
Chen Xiaoliang raised his head: "Tsk tsk tsk, it's miserable to say, there are so many people in the locker room, there is someone who hasn't even won a league championship, but is worth 7000 million."
Fee B: "Damn it... I won't talk anymore and you insist on pointing at me."
Everyone: "Hahahaha!"
Chen Xiaoliang: "Tonight is your perfect opportunity to get rid of '0'."
Fee B: "Fuck...I'm '0', why are you '1'?"
Chen Xiaoliang pointed to the first wall of the locker: "Where is your '1'?"
Everyone said again: "Hahahaha!"
Chen Xiaoliang refers to De Gea. He is currently the only player in the team who has won the Premier League championship, and he is still in Ferguson's last year of coaching.
De Gea: "I'm frank, I'm just a Premier League champion, don't mess with me."
Chen Xiaoliang pretended to be surprised: "So the last time you won the Premier League was 11 years ago?!"
De Gea smiled wryly: "Okon is busy...you guy."
Chen Xiaoliang: "Guys, don't be nervous. In any case, we have played a phenomenal performance this season. I know it is difficult to say that we are not nervous, but you have to know that those people on the opposite side are far more nervous than us."
"Even if we fail to get 3 points tonight, we still have the Champions League and the FA Cup to fight for, but if they lose tonight, they may end up with nothing for the whole season."
"100 minutes left, get ready and fight for our first Premier League title!"
Everyone: "Fight for the championship!"
After finishing speaking, Chen Xiaoliang sat back in front of his locker, turned his gaze to Ten Hahe, and signaled that the words on his side were over, and he could enter the tactical part next.
But I didn't expect Benzema to say: "You finished? Why didn't you ask me?"
Chen Xiaoliang: "Oh yes yes yes!"
He pretended to think: "Karim has 4 La Liga titles and 4 Ligue 5 titles, wow! He even has [-] Champions League titles! It's amazing!"
Chen Xiaoliang deliberately raised his voice in the last few sounds, which seemed very surprising.
"I remember he still has the European Cup..."
B Fei quickly corrected: "It's the Champion of the UEFA Europa League, and I have it too!"
Chen Xiaoliang pretended to wake up: "Oh, yes, yes, it is the UEFA Europa League, but I remember that Karim has the World Cup!"
Benzema, who was still proud just now, was speechless for a moment, and then he was immediately made up by his compatriots.
Varane: "He didn't."
Chen Xiaoliang was "surprised" and asked: "He didn't?! Didn't France win the World Cup?"
Varane laughed: "He is not in the team, I have, I have..."
Chen Xiaoliang: "So that's how it is!"
Lima on the side coughed: "I have it too."
The locker room, which had calmed down just now, became full of laughter again.
Benzema deliberately shouted: "I want to leave the team~~~Young people bully the old man~~~"
In fact, everyone knows that in terms of team honor, Benzema looks at the entire football world as a historical level. Even Varane and Casemiro cannot compare with him in the number of championships. After all, before they came to Real Madrid , in Ligue [-], he has already swayed horizontally, won the Ligue [-] scorer, and helped Lyon achieve the great cause of seven consecutive league championships.
Chen Xiaoliang stood up again: "Then let's agree to help this poor old man who has no World Cup and no Triple Crown win a Triple Crown, okay?"
Everyone: "Good!"
Prior to this, although many outside media have been exaggerating, the club has always maintained an extremely low-key attitude, never mentioning the term triple crown.
At the last moment, the so-called champion or not is actually a matter of a game.
A heaven, a hell.
But it's impossible not to think about it in the players' hearts.
At this moment, Chen Xiaoliang finally pierced this layer of window paper, which can be regarded as announcing that the team officially challenged this great honor.
Ten Hag spoke for a while, and the starting lineup was announced.
Home team Manchester United 4-2-3-1:
Goalkeeper De Gea;
Defender Wan-Bissaka, Varane, Lima, Luke Shaw;
Double defensive midfielders Timber and Casemiro, central midfielder Chen Xiaoliang;
Left winger Kwa, center Cesco, and right winger B Fee.
Away Arsenal 4-3-3:
Goalkeeper Ramsdale;
Back four Ben White, Gabriel, Saliba, Zinchenko;
Three midfielders Erdegaard, Rice, Haverts;
The three forwards are Kaoru San, Trossard and Saka.
After seeing the list, Ten Hag immediately made a key analysis of Arsenal's possible changes, pointing out that Trossard, who was written in the center position, would definitely not play the role of a center.
After Pisa started playing, it really verified his prediction.
Manchester United kicked off first, and Chen Xiaoliang hit the mountain and shook the tiger. He directly received the ball in the frontcourt in the 9th second of the opening, and took a strong long-range shot before the defenders around him approached.
Ramsdale jumped up, but his outstretched hand reached only the lower edge of the beam.
Sure enough, as he predicted, the ball was slightly higher than the crossbar and flew directly out of the baseline.
The whole Old Trafford immediately let out a sigh of "Woo!", followed by a wave of applause.
Then Arsenal kicked off to attack, and the Manchester United players moved back as a whole for the sake of safety, and began to observe the changes in Arsenal's formation.
The left-back Zinchenko has a lot of pressure. Overall, it is more like Arnold playing the right midfielder in Liverpool. Tonight he played the left midfielder in the attack.
This is the second thing, Trossard basically does not enter the penalty area, and Haverts, who is advancing forward, frequently changes positions outside the penalty area, more like a double midfielder configuration, and Erdegaard is constantly playing the ball behind him. Only when the two wings break through to the bottom line, Trossard, Havertz and Erdegaard will insert into the penalty area.
The overall offense is a 3-3-4 without front formation.
This is also based on the fact that in the first three matches this season, whether Martinelli or Nketiah, the effect of acting as a single forward is very poor.
Despite Arsenal's aggressive attack, tonight's desperate move also allowed them to retreat faster than ever.
Since there is no front, Haverts and Trossard almost retreated to the central midfielder to defend, leaving only Kaoru Misaki and Saka in front, presenting a 4-4-2 formation as a whole.
The focus of midfield defense is Chen Xiaoliang, plus Rice and Odegaard, the four midfielders press Chen Xiaoliang back and forth. Arteta's defense against Chen Xiaoliang tonight is a crowd tactic.
In this kind of game, the fight is that whoever can't sit still first, and the side who loses the ball first will inevitably have a messy mentality.
In the 5th minute, Saka cut in from the left, and then suddenly changed to the bottom. Luke Xiao chased after him, but his speed was still half a beat behind his compatriot who was 6 years younger than him.
After hitting the bottom, Saka turned around and swept the ball to the small penalty area, but he fell off the court because he lost his balance.
In the penalty area, Haverts followed, but when the ball rolled in front of him, Lima touched it and bounced it up. Haverts immediately changed his posture and volleyed sideways, and the ball hit the second-floor stand directly.
In the 9th minute, Manchester United attacked. Today in the attack, Casemiro will move forward appropriately to fill the gap left by the midfielder after Chen Xiaoliang moved forward, while Timber will stay behind.
Chen Xiaoliang was surrounded by Erdegaard and Rice outside the penalty area and couldn't catch the ball. He was going to retreat or go forward into the penalty area.
Casemiro passed the ball back to Timber under the close pressure of Trossard. As a result, Timber made a beautiful right pass to get rid of Haverts and sent a beautiful through ball to the right. B Fernando After receiving the ball, Chen Xiaoliang rushed forward to the right side of the penalty area, held Saliba to catch the ball, and then stepped forward to the right side of the penalty area to hit the goal.
Ramsdale, who was guarding the near corner, raised his hands and blocked the ball out of the baseline.
In the subsequent corner kick, B Fei took it from the right. Sesco failed to top Saliba and was directly cleared out of the penalty area.
In this way, you come and go, and the two sides continue to go back and forth between the two halves like running back and forth. The goal is to give the opponent a lore with a sword to seal the throat while holding the position.
However, the very open rhythm of the game did not make the fans wait too long for an absolute chance to score.
In the 20th minute, Saka made a breakthrough from the right, and Luke Shaw chased after him. Saka stopped suddenly and swung his right foot back. Luke Shaw thought he was going to pass the ball, so he stretched out his leg to block it, but Saka was about to change. Xiang, tripped and fell to the ground on the penalty area line!
The referee Michael Oliver immediately whistled!But there is no decision whether it is a free kick or a penalty kick!
Luke Shaw quickly ran towards the referee with his fingers, and Chen Xiaoliang also ran over from the middle, but Arsenal's players were also rushing over. This ball was too important for both sides.
Michael Oliver kept retreating, and used his right hand to make a retreating movement towards the players. Under the assurance of the VAR referee team, he did not choose to watch the VAR, but directly pointed his finger at the penalty spot!
"yeah!!!"
The Arsenal bench on the sidelines cheered thunderously, and Arteta couldn't help raising his arms and punching.
Although he knew that the final penalty made by the referee could not be changed, Chen Xiaoliang still put pressure on Michael Oliver, repeatedly asking him to make a decision without watching VAR in such an important game. In addition to being punished by the referee committee, do you still have to be overwhelmed by the fans' saliva?
As the captain of Arsenal, Erdegaard hurried over to help the referee make a clearance, pushing Chen Xiaoliang away with his chest.
Chen Xiaoliang threw him a straight line: "I'll give you a penalty! You have the ability to kick it! If you don't score, go back to London!"
Erdegaard immediately choked back a few words, and the players from both sides quickly pulled them away.
Chen Xiaoliang patted De Gea in the past. To be honest, penalty kicks are really not the specialty of the Spanish goalkeeper, but the matter has come to this point, and he must choose to believe that his teammates will do their best.
Erdegaard stood on the penalty spot, and Chen Xiaoliang's words just now affected him more or less.
From the entrance to the first 10 minutes of the game, Arsenal's side was like a stone man. Everyone was tense and stiff, but as they gradually entered the game, their bodies slowly let go.
But at this moment, when an excellent opportunity came, Odegaard only felt tightness in his chest, as if a great burden was on his body.
That's right, as Chen Xiaoliang said, if the goal is not scored, then he really has no choice but to go back to London and hide in front of his teammates and fans.
"Beep!"
Michael Oliver blew the whistle, and Odegaard frowned and began to run up.
The laughter in the dressing room before the game, and the mention of the only Premier League title, made De Gea's thoughts seem to return to his first year at Manchester United.
That year, Ferguson and Wenger were still sitting on the bench. At that time, Rooney, Nani, Van Persie and Walcott were still running on the field.
Only he has been at Old Trafford ever since.
Where should I go?
This question that all goalkeepers will think of when they save a penalty kick, De Gea has the answer in his heart at this moment.
Let's go back to the beginning.
Ode raised his foot to shoot, and De Gea quickly fell to his right, stretched out his right palm and threw himself at the rolling ball!
Zhan Jun: "This ball...! De Gea made a contribution!"
"Wow! Veteran goalkeeper, it's the first time this season to save an opponent's penalty kick!"
"Last season was also at the end of the season, saving a penalty from Fulham player Mitrovic!"
"It's just that what I won for the team last season was the Champions League place, and this season, it is very likely to be the championship trophy!"
The ball bounced into De Gea's hand and rolled out of the baseline.
The Manchester United players all rushed to the goal, everyone hugged him, as if congratulating the striker who scored the goal!
The Manchester United coaching staff on the sidelines are also thankful that the score has not been changed, and the players even shouted De Gea's name together with the fans.
On the other side of Arsenal, the sense of loss of losing a penalty kick is accompanied by a sense of oppression, which makes everyone full of tension again. Odegaard shook his head, put his hands on both sides of his cheeks, and then went all the way to his chin, helplessly Turn around and run back.
Here is "but the Dragon City Flying General is here", but there is "black clouds overwhelm the city and want to destroy it".
Finally, Manchester United achieved the result they wanted after 7 minutes.
Cesco caught the ball with his back outside the penalty area and was tripped by Erdgau, who was double-teamed. Michael Oliver gave a free kick to the left of the top of the penalty area and less than 2 meters outside the penalty area.
Kewa, Luke Xiao, and Chen Xiaoliang were all standing near the penalty spot, and they listened to what Chen Xiaoliang was saying while covering his mouth.
Arsenal formed a five-man wall on the left side of the penalty spot, while the rest of the players stood on the right side of the penalty spot to defend Manchester United's other players.
"Beep!"
Michael Oliver whistles!
Chen Xiaoliang and Kwa stood on both sides of the ball, and there was almost no room for a run-up, but Luke Xiao, who was about 5 meters away from the ball, did not move.
I saw Chen Xiaoliang gently push the ball towards Kewa, Kewa raised his right foot to block the pushed ball, then Chen Xiaoliang took a step forward, swung his right foot, and rubbed the ball together!
A standard and very traditional inswing curveball!
Like the previous owner of this jersey, known as the Full Moon Scimitar!
The ball crossed the human wall, and did not fall rapidly, but directly spun towards the dead corner of the upper left corner of the goal!
Ramsdale made two small jumps on the spot to make full preparations and flew to the right with all his might, but even he, the goalkeeper, was not exempt from the tense atmosphere of the team.
Still dancing a quarter of a beat slower.
Zhan Jun: "This goal has been scored!!!"
"Direct free kick!!!"
"Maybe this goal is the one that decides the Premier League title!!!"
"The 34th individual goal in the Premier League this season!"
"Belongs to the captain of Manchester United!"
"Chen Xiaoliang!"
(End of this chapter)
Back at the club, his teammates sent condolences to Chen Xiaoliang, but Chen Xiaoliang's mental state was far better than his teammates expected.
The Sri Lankan is gone, and life is always looking forward.
上一场双杀利物浦帽子戏法且一个球比一个精彩的塞斯科荣膺全场最佳，1球1助攻的陈小亮获得了7点训练值（71→78）。
[Aristocratic mission] obtained the peak Fernando Torres confrontation shooting card, function: after making physical contact with the opponent's defender during the attack, balance +2, shooting +2
A week of recuperation is precious to the whole team. The recovering Rashford played less than 20 minutes in the last round and scored a goal. In the past few days, he has recovered further and his state has returned to the level before the injury. .
And Lindelof, Maguire, and Casemiro, who had swollen ankles and blisters on the soles of their feet due to the previous horrible schedule, all recovered within this week.
Except for Eriksson, who is definitely reimbursed for the season, the rest of the players can play in the last and most critical four games.
The next round of home games against Arsenal is the top priority in determining whether the league can win the championship. It can be called the final of the league this season, and the last round of away games against Sheffield United, which is ranked 17th, will be relatively easy to play.
Manchester City on the other side have a much lighter schedule, having been knocked out of the Cup, they have two weeks to prepare for the two games, first away to Middlesbrough and then at home to Brighton.
In the fourth group, Newcastle played away at Brentford first, and then at home against West Ham.
Arsenal is away to Manchester United first, and then Leeds United, which has a high probability of being relegated at home.
Chelsea is away to Leeds United first, and then at home to Nottingham Forest.
Newcastle win one, Chelsea out, two wins, Arsenal shattered.
So in any case, Arsenal will smash Manchester United away.
Everyone in this game will not accept the 1-point ending. For everyone, 3 points is the key to keeping the last hope.
At this stall, the Red Country traditional medical physiotherapists hired by the club also joined the physiotherapy group, responsible for cupping and acupuncture, helping to speed up the relief of muscle soreness and joint discomfort of the team members, and even scraping is optional.
A few days later, after the players took off their training uniforms after training, all their backs were covered with bruises and purple stripes. After being photographed by the media, many clubs expressed their intention to follow suit.
Although the newly bought young player Ilan Kunda has not been officially announced, the agreement with Adelaide United has been signed and sealed. The player himself has confirmed all the personal treatment terms. Training with the team during the critical period will help him integrate into the most intense competitive atmosphere in today's football.
4天训练，16点训练值（78→94），陈小亮加了1点任意球（15→16），训练值94→14。
For him now, there are not too many attributes that can be added, and there are only a few choices.
The day before the game, Teng Hahe took Chen Xiaoliang to the press conference, and Chen Xiaoliang only answered part of the reporter's concentrated questions.
Reporter: "Everyone expressed concern about what happened to you, and the fans also showed their feelings by applauding during the game. Does the death of a relative have a big impact on you?"
Chen Xiaoliang: "The impact only exists in my personal life. It has nothing to do with the next game, and it will not affect my performance in the game."
Reporter: "Does the continuous journey make you feel tired?"
Chen Xiaoliang: "When the game starts tomorrow, you will see how good my physical condition is."
Reporter: "After playing Arsenal or the FA Cup final with Liverpool, which game do you think is more difficult?"
Chen Xiaoliang: "Today is the press conference of the league. I only answer questions related to the league. My personal goal is to win as many championships as possible."
Reporter: "This season, you have the possibility of becoming the triple crown. Adding the League Cup, you will have four championships. If you really achieve it, you will also become the second person in history to win the triple crown for two consecutive years after Eto'o. Wang's players, Manchester United will also become the third club to win the treble twice, do you feel excited thinking about this?"
Chen Xiaoliang: "Excitement can't win the championship, the game has to be played game by game, and all records are meaningful only after winning the championship."
Chen Xiaoliang couldn't help complaining in his heart, it was almost the end of the season, why did the reporters ask so naive questions.
Unexpectedly, after the home team's press conference, the group of reporters began to "harass" visiting team coach Arteta again, carefully prepared silly questions one after another, especially one of the reporters, repeatedly stared at Arteta and asked about last season. If he failed to win the championship and spent so much money this season, if he didn't make it to the Champions League, would he resign and apologize?
Arteta put down the microphone and left the meeting room.
However, from the reporter's point of view, although their questions seem stupid, in fact they just want to use this kind of stupid and repeated questions to deliberately provoke the parties involved.
Arteta's reaction immediately became a good material for the media to make a fuss, such as "Ashuai's mentality has collapsed, Arsenal is out of four fears", "The atmosphere is full of tension, the prospect of the war is worrying", "Arteta who can't control the press conference Can the tower still control the locker room? " and other press releases immediately went to the front page of football newspapers.
On the contrary, Chen Xiaoliang's indifferent response made the reporters feel that there was nothing to mention.
However, Chen Xiaoliang still noticed something strange about the team.
For such a major event, the Premier League naturally has to take care of audiences all over the world, and put the game at 0 o'clock on Sunday in the Red Country. At this time, it is Saturday morning local time in North America, and local time in Brazil and other places in South America. Saturday is close to noon, and this arrangement means that major fan areas around the world can watch the game at a relatively suitable time on the weekend.
In order to expand the viewing group to the largest extent, the Premier League also set this game as a free game, so as to crack down on piracy platforms as much as possible, so that those platforms that have signed official broadcast agreements can maximize the drainage.
Everyone in the Internet economy these days knows that free is the most expensive.
Only through free methods can more fans be attracted to watch, and when the traffic increases, more advertisers are willing to come and deliver advertisements.
At the same time, the customer portraits of the fan group are relatively uniform, with similar age ranges, and the gender is mainly male, and they generally advocate passion and freedom. Therefore, advertisers can accurately send corresponding advertisements. Penguin Sports' classic marketing of "long-lasting gold and extra fun".
But the more attention, the more important the game.
Chen Xiaoliang noticed from the time the bus drove into Old Trafford that today's teammates were very quiet.
Even Anthony and Cesko, who are usually talkative, became silent.
Only the huge cheers of the fans waiting on both sides of the car entrance passed through the car windows and entered the ears.
Everyone is very serious, and behind the seriousness is uncontrollable tension.
After entering the locker room, everyone began to change clothes. It took about two hours from changing clothes, warming up, entering the field, and finally starting the game. This is something that professional players are used to.
Seeing that his teammates were still silent, Chen Xiaoliang began to speak, first to Sesco:
"You haven't scored in five league rounds, you must start tonight."
Cesco: "What? Ryoko, you ate my hat-trick against Liverpool last time."
Chen Xiaoliang: "That was the make-up match for the 30th round. Tell me yourself, did you score a goal in the 31 games from the 36st round to the 5th round?"
Cesko thought about it for a while, and it was really the same thing!
But there were two draws with Manchester City and Chelsea, and two small 1-0 victories in the devil's match, and the team did not score a few goals.
Cesko: "That... must!"
The surrounding teammates saw the conversation between the two broke the silence of the locker room, and there was a smile on their expressions.
Chen Xiaoliang aimed at Kewa again, who made him and Cesko be Chen Xiaoliang's left and right guardians.
Chen Xiaoliang: "Your stats have dropped this season."
Upon hearing what Chen Xiaoliang said, the other teammates turned their heads gloatingly, and Anthony and Dalot, who usually love to be funny, even made a sound of "ohhhhhhhhhhhhh".
Kwa is very concerned about personal data, not that he is a data addict, but that he is particularly concerned about the evaluation of him by fans on the Internet and the outside media.
Data is naturally an important basis for the evaluation of these people.
He hopes to gain a foothold in the giants and become one of the best wingers.
In addition, his personality is relatively serious. Some teammates mentioned this matter before, but he would immediately turn his face and show a look of disgust.
Hearing what Chen Xiaoliang said at this moment, Kewa was taken aback for a moment, then frowned involuntarily, but he didn't dare to get angry with Chen Xiaoliang.
Chen Xiaoliang: "In the last 4 games, try to make 1 goal per game. I will pass the ball to you more. You can't let Benjamin (Sesco) steal the limelight."
Kewa reluctantly nodded, and Sesko, who was not far away, waved at him deliberately to tease him, but what he received was "Get out!" from Kewa and other teammates laughed.
No one expected that the third object of Chen Xiaoliang's jokes would be Casemiro. You must know that besides Chen Xiaoliang, the Brazilian midfielder with the highest prestige in this team.
"Fat Tiger." Ever since Chen Xiaoliang always called him that, many people in the team also called him that, without him, because they look so much alike...
Casemiro looked at Chen Xiaoliang with a smile, he really wanted to know what Chen Xiaoliang would use to make fun of himself.
Chen Xiaoliang: "You said you have played football for so many years, but why are there only three league champions?"
Casemiro: "There are only three, but more than you."
Chen Xiaoliang: "Who said that, I have one Su Chao, two Serie A, and I also have three."
Casemiro's eyes widened: "What the hell is the Soviet Super League? It's not the top five leagues."
Chen Xiaoliang smiled and turned his head to look at Lima.
Lima hurriedly said: "If it's not the five major leagues, it doesn't count? Why don't you count it?"
"Hahahaha!"
Laughter finally erupted in the locker room.
Lima has won two Eredivisie championships and one Dutch Cup championship. According to the standard that Casemiro is not counted in the five major leagues, these championships in Lima are not counted.
Lindelof also shouted: "It must be counted!"
He won three Portuguese Super League titles with Benfica.
Chen Xiaoliang looked at Casemiro again: "Why?"
Casemiro laughed loudly: "Forget it, forget it, hahaha."
Chen Xiaoliang patted him on the shoulder: "I will help these lads win their first Premier League championship later."
Casemiro understood, and patted Chen Xiaoliang's hand.
Chen Xiaoliang raised his head: "Tsk tsk tsk, it's miserable to say, there are so many people in the locker room, there is someone who hasn't even won a league championship, but is worth 7000 million."
Fee B: "Damn it... I won't talk anymore and you insist on pointing at me."
Everyone: "Hahahaha!"
Chen Xiaoliang: "Tonight is your perfect opportunity to get rid of '0'."
Fee B: "Fuck...I'm '0', why are you '1'?"
Chen Xiaoliang pointed to the first wall of the locker: "Where is your '1'?"
Everyone said again: "Hahahaha!"
Chen Xiaoliang refers to De Gea. He is currently the only player in the team who has won the Premier League championship, and he is still in Ferguson's last year of coaching.
De Gea: "I'm frank, I'm just a Premier League champion, don't mess with me."
Chen Xiaoliang pretended to be surprised: "So the last time you won the Premier League was 11 years ago?!"
De Gea smiled wryly: "Okon is busy...you guy."
Chen Xiaoliang: "Guys, don't be nervous. In any case, we have played a phenomenal performance this season. I know it is difficult to say that we are not nervous, but you have to know that those people on the opposite side are far more nervous than us."
"Even if we fail to get 3 points tonight, we still have the Champions League and the FA Cup to fight for, but if they lose tonight, they may end up with nothing for the whole season."
"100 minutes left, get ready and fight for our first Premier League title!"
Everyone: "Fight for the championship!"
After finishing speaking, Chen Xiaoliang sat back in front of his locker, turned his gaze to Ten Hahe, and signaled that the words on his side were over, and he could enter the tactical part next.
But I didn't expect Benzema to say: "You finished? Why didn't you ask me?"
Chen Xiaoliang: "Oh yes yes yes!"
He pretended to think: "Karim has 4 La Liga titles and 4 Ligue 5 titles, wow! He even has [-] Champions League titles! It's amazing!"
Chen Xiaoliang deliberately raised his voice in the last few sounds, which seemed very surprising.
"I remember he still has the European Cup..."
B Fei quickly corrected: "It's the Champion of the UEFA Europa League, and I have it too!"
Chen Xiaoliang pretended to wake up: "Oh, yes, yes, it is the UEFA Europa League, but I remember that Karim has the World Cup!"
Benzema, who was still proud just now, was speechless for a moment, and then he was immediately made up by his compatriots.
Varane: "He didn't."
Chen Xiaoliang was "surprised" and asked: "He didn't?! Didn't France win the World Cup?"
Varane laughed: "He is not in the team, I have, I have..."
Chen Xiaoliang: "So that's how it is!"
Lima on the side coughed: "I have it too."
The locker room, which had calmed down just now, became full of laughter again.
Benzema deliberately shouted: "I want to leave the team~~~Young people bully the old man~~~"
In fact, everyone knows that in terms of team honor, Benzema looks at the entire football world as a historical level. Even Varane and Casemiro cannot compare with him in the number of championships. After all, before they came to Real Madrid , in Ligue [-], he has already swayed horizontally, won the Ligue [-] scorer, and helped Lyon achieve the great cause of seven consecutive league championships.
Chen Xiaoliang stood up again: "Then let's agree to help this poor old man who has no World Cup and no Triple Crown win a Triple Crown, okay?"
Everyone: "Good!"
Prior to this, although many outside media have been exaggerating, the club has always maintained an extremely low-key attitude, never mentioning the term triple crown.
At the last moment, the so-called champion or not is actually a matter of a game.
A heaven, a hell.
But it's impossible not to think about it in the players' hearts.
At this moment, Chen Xiaoliang finally pierced this layer of window paper, which can be regarded as announcing that the team officially challenged this great honor.
Ten Hag spoke for a while, and the starting lineup was announced.
Home team Manchester United 4-2-3-1:
Goalkeeper De Gea;
Defender Wan-Bissaka, Varane, Lima, Luke Shaw;
Double defensive midfielders Timber and Casemiro, central midfielder Chen Xiaoliang;
Left winger Kwa, center Cesco, and right winger B Fee.
Away Arsenal 4-3-3:
Goalkeeper Ramsdale;
Back four Ben White, Gabriel, Saliba, Zinchenko;
Three midfielders Erdegaard, Rice, Haverts;
The three forwards are Kaoru San, Trossard and Saka.
After seeing the list, Ten Hag immediately made a key analysis of Arsenal's possible changes, pointing out that Trossard, who was written in the center position, would definitely not play the role of a center.
After Pisa started playing, it really verified his prediction.
Manchester United kicked off first, and Chen Xiaoliang hit the mountain and shook the tiger. He directly received the ball in the frontcourt in the 9th second of the opening, and took a strong long-range shot before the defenders around him approached.
Ramsdale jumped up, but his outstretched hand reached only the lower edge of the beam.
Sure enough, as he predicted, the ball was slightly higher than the crossbar and flew directly out of the baseline.
The whole Old Trafford immediately let out a sigh of "Woo!", followed by a wave of applause.
Then Arsenal kicked off to attack, and the Manchester United players moved back as a whole for the sake of safety, and began to observe the changes in Arsenal's formation.
The left-back Zinchenko has a lot of pressure. Overall, it is more like Arnold playing the right midfielder in Liverpool. Tonight he played the left midfielder in the attack.
This is the second thing, Trossard basically does not enter the penalty area, and Haverts, who is advancing forward, frequently changes positions outside the penalty area, more like a double midfielder configuration, and Erdegaard is constantly playing the ball behind him. Only when the two wings break through to the bottom line, Trossard, Havertz and Erdegaard will insert into the penalty area.
The overall offense is a 3-3-4 without front formation.
This is also based on the fact that in the first three matches this season, whether Martinelli or Nketiah, the effect of acting as a single forward is very poor.
Despite Arsenal's aggressive attack, tonight's desperate move also allowed them to retreat faster than ever.
Since there is no front, Haverts and Trossard almost retreated to the central midfielder to defend, leaving only Kaoru Misaki and Saka in front, presenting a 4-4-2 formation as a whole.
The focus of midfield defense is Chen Xiaoliang, plus Rice and Odegaard, the four midfielders press Chen Xiaoliang back and forth. Arteta's defense against Chen Xiaoliang tonight is a crowd tactic.
In this kind of game, the fight is that whoever can't sit still first, and the side who loses the ball first will inevitably have a messy mentality.
In the 5th minute, Saka cut in from the left, and then suddenly changed to the bottom. Luke Xiao chased after him, but his speed was still half a beat behind his compatriot who was 6 years younger than him.
After hitting the bottom, Saka turned around and swept the ball to the small penalty area, but he fell off the court because he lost his balance.
In the penalty area, Haverts followed, but when the ball rolled in front of him, Lima touched it and bounced it up. Haverts immediately changed his posture and volleyed sideways, and the ball hit the second-floor stand directly.
In the 9th minute, Manchester United attacked. Today in the attack, Casemiro will move forward appropriately to fill the gap left by the midfielder after Chen Xiaoliang moved forward, while Timber will stay behind.
Chen Xiaoliang was surrounded by Erdegaard and Rice outside the penalty area and couldn't catch the ball. He was going to retreat or go forward into the penalty area.
Casemiro passed the ball back to Timber under the close pressure of Trossard. As a result, Timber made a beautiful right pass to get rid of Haverts and sent a beautiful through ball to the right. B Fernando After receiving the ball, Chen Xiaoliang rushed forward to the right side of the penalty area, held Saliba to catch the ball, and then stepped forward to the right side of the penalty area to hit the goal.
Ramsdale, who was guarding the near corner, raised his hands and blocked the ball out of the baseline.
In the subsequent corner kick, B Fei took it from the right. Sesco failed to top Saliba and was directly cleared out of the penalty area.
In this way, you come and go, and the two sides continue to go back and forth between the two halves like running back and forth. The goal is to give the opponent a lore with a sword to seal the throat while holding the position.
However, the very open rhythm of the game did not make the fans wait too long for an absolute chance to score.
In the 20th minute, Saka made a breakthrough from the right, and Luke Shaw chased after him. Saka stopped suddenly and swung his right foot back. Luke Shaw thought he was going to pass the ball, so he stretched out his leg to block it, but Saka was about to change. Xiang, tripped and fell to the ground on the penalty area line!
The referee Michael Oliver immediately whistled!But there is no decision whether it is a free kick or a penalty kick!
Luke Shaw quickly ran towards the referee with his fingers, and Chen Xiaoliang also ran over from the middle, but Arsenal's players were also rushing over. This ball was too important for both sides.
Michael Oliver kept retreating, and used his right hand to make a retreating movement towards the players. Under the assurance of the VAR referee team, he did not choose to watch the VAR, but directly pointed his finger at the penalty spot!
"yeah!!!"
The Arsenal bench on the sidelines cheered thunderously, and Arteta couldn't help raising his arms and punching.
Although he knew that the final penalty made by the referee could not be changed, Chen Xiaoliang still put pressure on Michael Oliver, repeatedly asking him to make a decision without watching VAR in such an important game. In addition to being punished by the referee committee, do you still have to be overwhelmed by the fans' saliva?
As the captain of Arsenal, Erdegaard hurried over to help the referee make a clearance, pushing Chen Xiaoliang away with his chest.
Chen Xiaoliang threw him a straight line: "I'll give you a penalty! You have the ability to kick it! If you don't score, go back to London!"
Erdegaard immediately choked back a few words, and the players from both sides quickly pulled them away.
Chen Xiaoliang patted De Gea in the past. To be honest, penalty kicks are really not the specialty of the Spanish goalkeeper, but the matter has come to this point, and he must choose to believe that his teammates will do their best.
Erdegaard stood on the penalty spot, and Chen Xiaoliang's words just now affected him more or less.
From the entrance to the first 10 minutes of the game, Arsenal's side was like a stone man. Everyone was tense and stiff, but as they gradually entered the game, their bodies slowly let go.
But at this moment, when an excellent opportunity came, Odegaard only felt tightness in his chest, as if a great burden was on his body.
That's right, as Chen Xiaoliang said, if the goal is not scored, then he really has no choice but to go back to London and hide in front of his teammates and fans.
"Beep!"
Michael Oliver blew the whistle, and Odegaard frowned and began to run up.
The laughter in the dressing room before the game, and the mention of the only Premier League title, made De Gea's thoughts seem to return to his first year at Manchester United.
That year, Ferguson and Wenger were still sitting on the bench. At that time, Rooney, Nani, Van Persie and Walcott were still running on the field.
Only he has been at Old Trafford ever since.
Where should I go?
This question that all goalkeepers will think of when they save a penalty kick, De Gea has the answer in his heart at this moment.
Let's go back to the beginning.
Ode raised his foot to shoot, and De Gea quickly fell to his right, stretched out his right palm and threw himself at the rolling ball!
Zhan Jun: "This ball...! De Gea made a contribution!"
"Wow! Veteran goalkeeper, it's the first time this season to save an opponent's penalty kick!"
"Last season was also at the end of the season, saving a penalty from Fulham player Mitrovic!"
"It's just that what I won for the team last season was the Champions League place, and this season, it is very likely to be the championship trophy!"
The ball bounced into De Gea's hand and rolled out of the baseline.
The Manchester United players all rushed to the goal, everyone hugged him, as if congratulating the striker who scored the goal!
The Manchester United coaching staff on the sidelines are also thankful that the score has not been changed, and the players even shouted De Gea's name together with the fans.
On the other side of Arsenal, the sense of loss of losing a penalty kick is accompanied by a sense of oppression, which makes everyone full of tension again. Odegaard shook his head, put his hands on both sides of his cheeks, and then went all the way to his chin, helplessly Turn around and run back.
Here is "but the Dragon City Flying General is here", but there is "black clouds overwhelm the city and want to destroy it".
Finally, Manchester United achieved the result they wanted after 7 minutes.
Cesco caught the ball with his back outside the penalty area and was tripped by Erdgau, who was double-teamed. Michael Oliver gave a free kick to the left of the top of the penalty area and less than 2 meters outside the penalty area.
Kewa, Luke Xiao, and Chen Xiaoliang were all standing near the penalty spot, and they listened to what Chen Xiaoliang was saying while covering his mouth.
Arsenal formed a five-man wall on the left side of the penalty spot, while the rest of the players stood on the right side of the penalty spot to defend Manchester United's other players.
"Beep!"
Michael Oliver whistles!
Chen Xiaoliang and Kwa stood on both sides of the ball, and there was almost no room for a run-up, but Luke Xiao, who was about 5 meters away from the ball, did not move.
I saw Chen Xiaoliang gently push the ball towards Kewa, Kewa raised his right foot to block the pushed ball, then Chen Xiaoliang took a step forward, swung his right foot, and rubbed the ball together!
A standard and very traditional inswing curveball!
Like the previous owner of this jersey, known as the Full Moon Scimitar!
The ball crossed the human wall, and did not fall rapidly, but directly spun towards the dead corner of the upper left corner of the goal!
Ramsdale made two small jumps on the spot to make full preparations and flew to the right with all his might, but even he, the goalkeeper, was not exempt from the tense atmosphere of the team.
Still dancing a quarter of a beat slower.
Zhan Jun: "This goal has been scored!!!"
"Direct free kick!!!"
"Maybe this goal is the one that decides the Premier League title!!!"
"The 34th individual goal in the Premier League this season!"
"Belongs to the captain of Manchester United!"
"Chen Xiaoliang!"
(End of this chapter)
