Chapter 372 A belated birthday gift

Chapter 372 A belated birthday gift

"The fourth official gave 4 minutes of stoppage time, which caused dissatisfaction between the coaches of both sides. Obviously, Manchester United coach Mourinho thought that the stoppage time was too much, while the Manchester City coach thought that the stoppage time was too much. It’s too little.”

"It is normal for the two head coaches to have such reactions. For Mourinho, Manchester United is completely passive in the situation, and they are still fighting with ten men. Now that the team has finally taken the lead, he naturally can't wait for a minute. There is no injury time. Guardiola hopes that the referee team will give more injury time so that Manchester City has enough time to equalize the score or even reverse the game. Otherwise, the game will end with the current score. He and Manchester City will be cursed to death."

"However, the 4-minute stoppage time is still fair. After all, the two sides made a total of 5 substitutions in the second half and scored 3 goals. Each goal and each substitution was given 30 seconds of stoppage time. At the time, it was obvious that the referee team determined the time based on this standard.”

However, neither Mourinho nor Guardiola could change the decision made by the referee team, and the game entered injury time.

Guardiola encouraged the Manchester City players on the sidelines: "Their physical strength has been exhausted. We have to firmly control the football at our feet, mobilize them back and forth, make them exhausted, and then wait for their defense to show flaws..."

On the other side, Mourinho is also encouraging his players: "Is Manchester City very powerful? Very powerful! But we can also make them so embarrassed! We can lead them with one less player, so we are even more powerful. ! I know you are all tired, so no matter how Manchester City tries to attack us, ignore them, we shrink our defense, and if we hold on for these four minutes, we will win!"

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During stoppage time, Manchester United completely retreated to the 30-meter area and almost did not counterattack. The counterattack only kicked the football forward, and then Lingard controlled the football, and Bruno rushed forward to support. If the timing is bad, Bruno will ignore Lingard and not go up at all, allowing Lingard to lose the ball.

Facing Manchester United's iron barrel formation, Manchester City actually had nothing to do. Many fans of Guardiola and Mourinho are reminded of the scene in the 2010 Champions League semi-finals when Guardiola's Barcelona faced Mourinho's Inter Milan at home.

Fast forward six years, the competition between the two has shifted to the Premier League, but Guardiola is still the same Guardiola, and Mourinho is still the same Mourinho.

"Manchester United is so passive and conservative! This is simply a step backwards for football!" the commentator supporting Manchester City said angrily, "What's the point of winning like this?! Fans come to watch the game, not because they want to see the turtle shrinking. of!"

Of course he was going to say something, because whoever presses out to attack Manchester City in this situation is the biggest fool in the world.

As a supporter of Manchester City, he always hopes that Manchester City's opponents are all oversized fools, so that Manchester City can win championships one after another without any blood and create a new blue dynasty.

This game could have been the starting point of it all, but the dream was shattered in the 88th minute of the game.

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When Manchester United cowered on defense, Manchester City fans booed in the stands, but their boos did not sound impressive at all, because this is the Old Trafford Stadium, and only more than 2,000 Manchester City fans can enter. Watch the game.

The boos from more than two thousand people were quickly drowned out by the singing of more than 70,000 Manchester United fans.

All Manchester United fans stood up from their seats, waved their arms and sang: "Glory belongs to Manchester United, glory belongs to Manchester United, glory belongs to Manchester United, the Red Devils move forward bravely. Just like those Busby children, we must let the Red Devils win." Flags flying high, you will see them everywhere, you will hear people proudly singing: Manchester United! Manchester United!"

The Red Devil's roar shook the entire audience and resounded through the sky.

After hearing such singing, a commentator sighed: "No wonder Old Trafford is called the Devil's home stadium by many people... With such a group of fans, Manchester United can really defeat all powerful enemies at their home stadium... "

Facing Manchester United, which was unable to defend, Manchester City had no good solution. The 4 minutes of injury time passed in a flash. When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, the score was still 3:2.

In a passive situation, Manchester United fought with ten men in the last 20 minutes or so, and finally defeated Manchester City unexpectedly with Bruno's goal in the 88th minute of the game.

Bruno also gave himself a 22nd birthday gift, although the gift was two days late.

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This is Manchester United's third victory against Manchester City at home in the Premier League since the beginning of the 2010s.

For Manchester United, this home result is not a good result, especially in the seven games, they also lost three games, including a humiliating record of a 1:6 defeat at home.

But today, with one less player at home, Manchester United not only avoided a crushing defeat, but even won a victory, which made the Manchester United people let out a big sigh of relief.

Facing their rivals in the same city who are getting stronger and better, although Manchester United fans still regard the opponent as a noisy neighbor verbally, the worries in their hearts are getting stronger and stronger. Almost all Manchester United fans are I am worried that as the Abu Dhabi consortium invests more and more, Manchester City's advantage over Manchester United will become more and more obvious, and the record of the two sides will become increasingly unfavorable to Manchester United.

It is precisely because of this that Manchester United fans are increasingly dissatisfied with the attitude of the Glazer family, the owners who are leaning on Manchester United to suck blood, because the Glazer family is consuming Manchester United's heritage and even shaking the foundation of Manchester United's wealthy family.

<divclass="contentadv">Fortunately, it's dawn now, Old Trafford has a new owner, and the vampire-like Glazer family has left this football palace.

And as he said before taking over Old Trafford, the new boss spent huge sums of money on large-scale signings, which brought vitality to the gradually desolate giants, and the fans also saw the team's potential. Change.

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Especially this summer, the Qatari consortium introduced new FIFA Ballon d'Or winner Bruno Fernandez from Serie A team Udinese with a transfer record of 200 million euros in football history. His performance in the team is even more impressive. A surprise for all Manchester United fans.

After joining the team in August, the Portuguese integrated into the team at an unimaginable speed. He contributed 8 assists and 4 assists in 4 games, helping Manchester United win four consecutive victories in the Premier League.

This is Manchester United's first four consecutive wins in the Premier League after five years!

This is undoubtedly an extremely exciting thing for Manchester United, which has been in a downturn for the past three seasons.

The last time Manchester United won four consecutive league games was in the 2011-2012 season. Although Manchester United ended up finishing second in the Premier League with a goal difference that season, it was also Manchester United's highest points in a single season in the past five seasons.

In the subsequent 2012-2013 season, Ferguson's last season coaching Manchester United, although Manchester United won the championship, they only had 89 points.

Since Ferguson retired, Manchester United has fallen into a three-year slump. Neither Moyes, Ferguson's chosen successor, nor Van Gaal later could bring Manchester United back to the top.

Now, the "most special one" in world football has taken over Old Trafford, and coupled with the new owner's investment almost regardless of cost, Manchester United has finally shown its strong combat effectiveness and also revealed a trend of revival.

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This game, which can be called the "most expensive" game in football history, is undoubtedly the most watched game in world football this weekend.

After the game, almost all media around the world reported on the game.

In this dramatic game, Bruno is undoubtedly the player that everyone pays most attention to, because he has excellent performance on both offense and defense.

On the offensive end, Bruno, who shot and passed, was undoubtedly the number one contributor to Manchester United's eventual victory with one less player. On the defensive end, he is also a mainstay. He led Manchester United's defense to withstand Manchester City's tidal wave of attacks.

During the game, what Bruno said to De Gea when he was defending a penalty kick also became a hot topic of great concern to countless media.

Everyone is very curious about what Bruno said to make De Gea, who has never been good at saving penalty kicks, actually save De Bruyne's good-quality spoon penalty kick.

Although it looked like De Bruyne himself had sent the penalty kick into De Gea's arms, everyone knew that if De Gea hadn't made the right judgment and guarded the center, the penalty kick would have definitely been scored. .

However, both De Gea and Bruno remained silent when asked by reporters.

The person involved did not respond to this, and reporters were unable to dig into the mystery.

Of course, some people tried to interpret Bruno's language through lip reading, but after carefully studying the video, they found that when Bruno was talking to De Gea, he covered his mouth in a very stupid way. They couldn't see Bruno's face at all. Lip movements.

It was not until many years later that De Gea, now retired, deciphered Bruno's words to the world: "Don't move!"

Yes, Bruno only said two simple words to De Gea: Don't move!

De Gea also stood very obediently in the middle of the goal without moving, and then he indeed defended De Bruyne's penalty kick.

However, De Gea himself didn't notice at the time that Bruno had a vague gesture on his hand when he was talking to him. It was that direction that confused De Bruyne who took the penalty kick, causing him to temporarily change his penalty kick habits, and finally allowed De Gea to defend this extremely critical penalty kick.

Compared with Bruno and Manchester United players and coaches who have been widely praised, Guardiola and his Manchester City have been criticized by the media around the world.

After all, with one more player in the last twenty minutes and a complete dominance on the field, Manchester City actually lost the game.

In competitive sports, losing is the original sin!