Chapter 926: 4 consecutive European Golden Ball titles
Chapter 926: European Golden Ball Award for the Fourth Consecutive Year
Not only the players have such thoughts, but head coach Santos also thinks so.
After five years as Portugal coach, Santos has won all the honours in various competitions. Although Cristiano Ronaldo has always been the captain of Portugal during this period, Santos knows very well that Bruno is the key to his current success, so he is very happy to help Bruno.
Santos quickly replaced Ronaldo with Leo and moved Andre Silva to the center position. Because Milan's wingers are young, have better physical fitness and stronger impact, they can better help Bruno find scoring opportunities at the last minute of the game.
And this time the substitution really quickly yielded miraculous results.
Ten minutes after Leo came on the field, he suddenly pulled to the right to receive the ball again, turned from the front of the penalty area, rushed into the penalty area with the ball, and passed it across to the front of the goal.
Bruno, who had penetrated into the penalty area, understood the hint and rushed to the front of the goal. He easily pushed the ball into the lower left corner from the center and scored his 2021th goal for the Portugal national team in 20. It was also his 90th goal for the Portugal national team!
After scoring the goal, Bruno was so excited that he rushed towards Leo and jumped directly on him.
Overtaken!
He finally surpassed Dahari and took the third place in the national team's historical scorer list!
In addition, he once again completed the feat of scoring 20 goals in a single natural year for the national team!
Bruno is so excited!
After he got off Leo, he hugged his teammates one by one, and then ran to the sidelines to hug Santos and others, as well as all his teammates on the bench.
Finally, he bowed to the thousands of Portuguese fans who came from afar in the stands and thanked them for their support!
This brought him rounds of applause and cheers!
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Thanks to Bruno's two shots and one assist, Portugal finally defeated Ireland 2-1 away from home, achieved seven consecutive victories in the Qatar World Cup European qualifiers, secured the first place in Group A one round in advance, and won a ticket to the Qatar World Cup finals.
This victory also makes the last round of the group stage, Portugal's home game against Serbia no longer important. Unless Portugal wants to win all the group matches or remain unbeaten, Santos and Portugal can start training mode in advance in the last round of the group stage.
Obviously, Santos did not have the idea of winning all the group matches. In the last round of the group stage, he gave Bruno and Ronaldo, two core players, a holiday in advance so that they could return to England first and prepare for the next club game.
In order to help Portugal, Mourinho had Bruno on the bench in key matches such as the Manchester derby. Santos reciprocated the favor and gave Bruno an early holiday after Portugal advanced to the next round, giving him more rest time.
Portugal, without its two big players, Cristiano Ronaldo and Bruno, did not disappoint the countrymen at home. After a goal-scoring battle, they defeated Serbia 3:2 and won all the World Cup qualifiers.
This shows that this Portugal team is strong in all aspects. Even if the two core players are absent, they still have the strength to beat the top teams.
Portugal thus became the only team to win all the games in the European qualifiers for the Qatar World Cup. The best performing teams, Germany and Denmark, only had 9 wins and 1 loss.
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在本次国际比赛日开始前，国际足联在11月9日官方宣布了2021年世界足球先生奖项的颁奖时间。2021国际足联世界足球先生奖项将于11月22日开始投票，12月10日投票截止，2022年1月17日颁奖。此次颁奖典礼将在苏黎世国际足联总部以线上形式举行。
It can be said that with the end of this international match day, the voting for this year's World Footballer of the Year has begun, and it is time for the players to sprint towards the highest honor.
Although Bruno has an almost overwhelming advantage in both personal data and team honors in 2021, he does not want any surprises in the final result.
On the afternoon of November 11, in Manchester United's last game before the FIFA World Player of the Year voting began, Bruno unexpectedly broke out again.
"Manchester United's attack was passed to the front court and handed over to Harry Kane."
"Harry Kane retreated to get the ball with his back, turned around and passed it to Bruno..."
"Bruno quickly follows up..."
"He was very quick and the Watford players came forward to defend..."
"Beautiful! Bruno dribbled the ball sideways past the defender and shot directly with his left foot!"
"The ball went in!!!"
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLL!!!!!"
"Bruno! Goal from Bruno!"
"Just nine minutes into the game, Bruno scored the first goal against Watford!"
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Bruno seemed extremely excited. He was so excited that he rushed out of the field, all the way to the corner flagpole, and knelt down in front of everyone.
He was simply intoxicated by the feeling of leaving the home fans speechless.
He leaned back and could clearly see the furious yet helpless looks of the Watford fans in the stands.
They have no way to deal with Bruno!
Manchester United players also rushed towards Bruno, and everyone looked extremely excited.
After celebrating with his teammates in the corner area, Bruno ran to the visiting team's coaching bench and high-fived head coach Mourinho and assistant coaches Faria and Carrick to celebrate.
Mourinho said to him: "Keep playing like this, come on!"
Facts have also proved that Bruno's condition is indeed at its best.
When the game reached the 26th minute, Manchester United midfielder passed the ball, Gundogan made a straight pass, trying to pass it behind the Watford defense line, allowing Bruno to sprint.
Watford's central defender seized the most advantageous position and firmly blocked Bruno behind him, but because he focused all his attention on Bruno, he made a mistake when stopping the ball.
The ball stopped wide!
This sudden change caused all the fans in the stadium to exclaim in surprise, but Bruno reacted the fastest and chased after the ball at the first moment. With just a flash, he caught up with the ball.
Watford goalkeeper Foster decisively left the goal to attack, but Bruno was one step faster than him. He used his left foot to dribble the ball past Foster.
At this moment, Bruno was facing the empty goal!
He couldn't miss such an opportunity!
"Oh my God, Watford made a mistake that shouldn't have happened!"
"Bruno seized the opportunity and rushed into the penalty area to get a one-on-one chance!"
"It was definitely a stupid mistake, but Bruno's reaction was really quick. His speed was amazing. It felt like he knew the mistake was going to happen."
"Two goals!"
"Bruno scores his sixteenth Premier League goal of the season!"
"This is also the fifth time he has scored at least two goals in a single game in the Premier League this season!"
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After Bruno scored twice, Manchester United took a two-goal lead and Watford was completely stunned.
In the 40th minute, another through ball came from Gundogan. Bruno pulled to the left side of the penalty area to receive the ball, forming a one-on-one breakthrough, and then passed the ball to the back of the goal. Harry Kane calmly pushed the ball into the empty goal.
3: 0!
Two minutes later, Dalot made a cross from the left, and Harry Kane poked the ball in front of the goal and scored again.
4: 0!
Big win!
Another big win for Manchester United this season!
Manchester United finally defeated the newly promoted Watford 4:0 away from home thanks to Bruno's two shots and one assist.
However, Manchester United was not the only strong team to win big in this round. Several other teams ranked high also won big. Chelsea beat Leicester City 3-0 away, Liverpool beat Arsenal 4-0 at home, and Manchester City swept Everton 3-0 at home.
The dark horses that had performed well previously suffered defeats in this round. West Ham United lost 0:1 to Wolves away and fell out of the Champions League zone in the standings; Brighton lost 0:2 to Aston Villa and dropped to ninth in the standings!
As time enters late November and the season progresses, the strong teams return and the dark horses begin to fade.
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On the evening of November 11, Manchester United faced off against the 24th round of the Champions League group stage at home.
Although they have advanced to the knockout stage two rounds in advance and secured first place in the group, Manchester United has not given up on this game, even though they will be away to challenge Chelsea next weekend.
In a dialogue between two strong teams, you must never give up before the battle. That would be a major blow to both the team and the players.
In the 73rd minute of the game, Bruno was substituted. But before he left the field, he scored twice and helped Manchester United score two goals.
In the end, the home team defeated Paris Saint-Germain 2:1.
Four days later, on the afternoon of November 11, Manchester United challenged Chelsea away.
The two sides were engaged in a bitter battle.
Chelsea's tenacious defense at home caused great trouble to Manchester United's offense, but the more fatal problem was the problem of the back line, which led to the team being seized by the opponent to score a goal in the 25th minute.
After the second half, Bruno assisted Harry Kane to score in the 81st minute to equalize the score.
One day later, the 2021 Ballon d'Or awards ceremony will be held at the Chatelet Theater in Paris. Bruno finally won his fifth Ballon d'Or, Lewandowski won second, Ronaldo third, Jorginho fourth, and Yosi sixth!
So far, Bruno has won the European Golden Ball Award for four consecutive years, recreating the miracle created by Yosi from 2009 to 2012.
At the same time, French football officially announced that Lewandowski was named the best forward of the year.
The Best Forward of the Year is an award added by France Football this year.
In addition, Pedri won the Copa Award, De Gea won the Yashin Award, Manchester United won the 2021 Football Club of the Year, and Barcelona women's football midfielder and Spanish women's national team captain Putlas won the 2021 Women's Football Golden Ball Award.
