Chapter 279: Manchester United's real points rush! (Continuous updates, please support)

英国当地时间2007年12月3日晚上20时，07/08赛季英格兰足球超级联赛第15轮一场焦点战在老特拉福德球场展开争夺，红衣白裤的曼联主场迎战白衣黑裤的农场主富勒姆。

曼联在双方近8次交锋中取得5胜3平保持不败，近4个主场对阵富勒姆取得全胜。双方英超交锋12场，曼联8胜3平1负占据上风，唯一的失利是2003年10月在主场1比3告负，日本球员稻本润一还曾打入锁定胜局一球。双方历史交锋63场，曼联37胜15平11负，占据绝对心理优势。

But in the last league match against Bolton, Manchester United also had an absolute psychological advantage, but they still capsized in the gutter? So Sir Alex Ferguson arranged the strongest lineup for this game!

Rooney returned from injury and was on the bench, while Van der Sar, Wes Brown, Hargreaves, Giggs, Lizzie and Tevez all returned to the starting lineup.

Just like in the Champions League in midweek, Sir Alex Ferguson continued to use the offensive 4-3-3 formation.

The goalkeeper is No. 1 Van der Sar;

The back line from right to left is No. 6 Wes Brown, No. 15 Vidic, No. 5 Ferdinand and No. 3 Evra;

The iron triangle in the midfield is No. 4 Hargreaves, No. 8 Anderson and No. 17 Li Qi;

The forward trident is No. 7 Cristiano Ronaldo, No. 11 Giggs and No. 32 Tevez;

Rooney, Carrick, O'Shea, Saha and Kuszczak were waiting on the bench.

Li Qi, who had more than a week of rest and regained his form in the Champions League group match in midweek, felt that he was in very good shape today!

So at the beginning, Li Qi frequently ran in the middle, took the ball and organized the dispatch, and the visiting team was unable to disrupt his pass, let alone steal the ball from his feet. Therefore, Manchester United was able to suppress the visiting team at the beginning of the game.

Manchester United had a chance to score in the 4th minute of the game. Li Qi cooperated with the retreating Ronaldo in the middle, and passed the ball to the side after breaking through Dempsey and Steven Davis. Li Qi's pass was just right in terms of strength and angle, allowing Anderson to get rid of the defense and easily control the ball after passing behind Ronaldo who was attracting the defense.

Anderson then calmly observed and adjusted on the right and sent a cross to Fulham's penalty area. Tevez, who was unguarded, headed the ball 5 yards in front of the far post! Unfortunately, the ball hit the left post and went out of the bottom line... It turns out that small guys are not good at heading.

One minute later, Manchester United made a comeback. Li Qi almost repeated the same trick, but this time after cooperating with Ronaldo, he created a chance for Wes Brown who came in from behind to cross the ball from the right. This time Tevez changed his shooting posture, but his powerful shot from 1 yards in front of the goal was saved by the visiting goalkeeper Niemi.

Looking at it this way, Tevez's shot today seemed very average.

However, Manchester United still broke the deadlock in the 10th minute and took the lead. Li Qi kept dribbling forward from the middle, trying to find a chance to break through from the left, but Aaron Hughes and Murphy double-teamed him and knocked the ball out of the baseline. Then Li Qi took a corner kick from the left, and the ball fell straight into the middle of the penalty area with a strong arc.

Fulham midfielder Steven Davis, who was defending the corner kick, missed the ball when clearing it in the penalty area, and Vidic, who was waiting beside him, seized the opportunity and jumped up and headed the ball to the far end of the goal. Ronaldo, who was lying in wait at the far post, secretly said that it was a good time, turned around and jumped up, shook his head like a lion, and relayed the ball in the air 8 yards in front of the goal, and headed the ball into the upper left corner of the visiting team's goal!

1-0, the Red Devils Manchester United lead over the farmers Fulham.

Before other teammates came up to make trouble, Li Qi pulled Ronaldo and Tevez together to quickly finish the celebration action of playing the guitar. Then Li Qi put his arm around Ronaldo's shoulders and returned to his own half. He couldn't help thinking: "It seems that the little mule has been practicing heading recently. The judgment point, twisting waist, shaking head, hovering in the air and heading angle of this ball are all very clear..."

After all, Li Qi also had the same experience of training headers, and he could discover the difference of Ronaldo from some subtle changes. After all, at the beginning of the season, the little mule's heading and header skills were only average. He had excellent explosive power and bounce, but his header skills were very clumsy.

In the following game, Fulham wanted to attack, but Manchester United disagreed and continued to rub the Farmers in the opponent's half. However, in about half an hour of the game, Tevez missed the good chicken in front of the goal at least three times, and was very stubborn and refused to eat the pie fed by Li Qi, while Ronaldo was surrounded by Fulham's defensive players and did not dare to let the latter enter the danger zone, which made Li Qi a little helpless...

Manchester United's attack was fruitless, and Fulham missed a chance to equalize before the end of the first half. Simon Davis dodged Giggs's sharp eyes and crossed from the right at a 45-degree angle.

Manchester United's defense, which had been ineffective, was careless this time and missed Kuchi, who was almost invisible in the first half. Fortunately, Kuchi headed the ball directly from 8 yards. Perhaps because he had been invisible for too long, the first shot of the game came a little suddenly, and he was a little excited.

During the halftime break, Li Qi learned that Evra had injured his groin, so he was unable to intercept Simon Davis' cross in the first place. Before the second half, Sir Alex replaced the injured Evra with O'Shea, hoping that the latter would not be too seriously injured and could catch up with the Reds' derby against Liverpool in the middle of the month.

Before O'Shea came on the court, Li Qi also pulled O'Shea aside and whispered for a while, discussing a small tactic.

The tactic that Li Qi secretly discussed came into effect in the 10th minute of the second half. Manchester United expanded their victory in the 55th minute.

Just like the first half, Li Qi played a pass and cut with Ronaldo in the middle to attract Fulham's defensive attention, and then suddenly passed the ball to the wing that was left open. This time Ronaldo switched to the left and cut inside, so O'Shea, who came on as a substitute in the second half, made a forward run to meet the opponent.

After O'Shea stopped the ball on the left, he adjusted and observed for a while before making a cross from the wing.

However, this time, O'Shea's cross was aimed at a different spot. He did not aim for Tevez, who was lurking in the penalty area. After all, there were many tall players around him. Even if he managed to get the ball, he would probably be disturbed and unable to shoot. Therefore, O'Shea's cross was aimed at the empty space at the edge of Fulham's penalty area.

Fulham's central defender was firmly attracted by Tevez in the penalty area, while the defensive midfielder and central midfielder were pressed outside the top of the gourd by the pass from Hiro and Li Qi just in the middle. At this time, the edge of the middle of the penalty area line was a vacuum zone. However, this vacuum state existed before O'Shea kicked the ball.

When the ball was about to fall onto the grass in an arc, a figure in red clothes and white pants came in and stopped the ball steadily with his chest. Then, before the visiting team's defenders could rush over to block it, he volleyed the ball with his left foot!

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Although the final exams were coming up, Sarafina still chose to come to Manchester to prepare for them. However, Sara did not go to the competition because Emma also had to study for the final exams and did not come with her. Therefore, it would be unsafe and boring for Sara to go alone.

So Sarah chose to watch the live broadcast of the game in Ricardo's apartment. On the coffee table in front of the sofa were lemon soda and various fruits, and accounting exercise books were placed next to them. Sarah, wearing a beige nightgown, listened to the commentary of the live broadcast on TV while turning her pen to do exercises.

Only when the commentators started to scream in shock would Sarah look up to see what was happening on the broadcast screen.

At the beginning of the second half, the commentator rested his throat for a while, then suddenly started to roar again:

"Hargreaves passed the ball forward, and Li Qi... Li Qi was very threatening when receiving the ball in this position. In the first half, he repeatedly launched attacks from this position, and Fulham couldn't catch up with him or get the ball away from him."

"Oh! Ronaldo, who just switched to the left, cuts in again... a beautiful pass. Ronaldo passes to Anderson and then returns to Li Qi's feet. This position is very threatening. Fulham is ready for it."

"Oh! Beautiful! Li Qi's wonderful outside-foot pass to the side, it was the gap left by Ronaldo's cut-in! O'Shea, who came on as a substitute in the second half, got in!"

"O'Shea received the ball and adjusted it. Aaron Hughes was a little slow to get close. O'Shea made a cross!"

"Oh! The ball went off target. It didn't fly into the penalty area, but went to the no-man's land in front of the penalty area!"

"Oh! No! It's not off! No. 17 Li Qi made a timely advance, outflanked the ball, and stopped O'Shea's cross with his chest!"

"Li Qi volleyed with his left foot! No! The ball went to his right foot..."

"Ditch oooooh! Ditch oooooh! Ditch!"

"Beautiful! Li Qi received O'Shea's cross and shot calmly, changing the score again! Manchester United leads 2-0!"

"After Li Qi stopped the ball with his chest, he pretended to volley it with his left foot. This fake move was so realistic that it immediately shook off two Fulham defenders who came to defend. Then he faked a shot and dribbled the ball with his left toe, and moved it to the right side of his body where he had a clear shooting range."

"Then Li Qi calmly connected with a right-foot shot and accurately sent the ball into the lower left corner of Fulham's goal!"

"Fulham goalkeeper Niemi, who had performed very well before, had his sight blocked by the player in front of him, and he did not react to Li Qi's push immediately; of course, Li Qi's push hit a blind spot, and Niemi could not stop the ball even though he flew to the extreme..."

After watching the replay of Li Lang's goal, Sarafina took a sip of lemon soda with satisfaction, then continued to look down at her accounting exercises.

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Fulham, trailing by two goals, had not completely given up the game. Around the 65th minute, they replaced Dempsey and Bouazza, who had little presence in this game, with former Manchester United striker Healy and South Korean star Seol Qixuan, and switched to a three-forward lineup.

Yes, in the first round of this season, Xue Qixuan was still in Reading and played against Manchester United. Unexpectedly, before the trading deadline, Xue Qixuan was exchanged by his former club to Fulham. So after 3 months and 14 rounds, the Korean striker played against Manchester United again.

Later, Sir Alex Ferguson also replaced Giggs with Rooney and Ferdinand with Carrick. The first substitution was quite normal, but the latter substitution was a bit of a test formation. Although Ferdinand sprained his ankle in defense, there was still young player Pique on the bench.

In fact, Ricardo had reported to Sir Alex Ferguson before the game that Pique had come out of his psychological trauma, but it seemed that Sir Alex Ferguson was not completely reassured about Pique: Oh, poor Pique, there's nothing I can do to help him.

However, Fulham was relatively weak in this game and their offense was very poor. After playing for an hour, they only had a few shots. So Sir Alex Ferguson brought on Carrick, obviously to better control the ball and the tempo of the game, and also to cultivate Carrick's multi-position attributes in actual combat.

Of course, if necessary, Sir Alex Ferguson only needs to wave his hand and let Li Qi and Carrick, who are in hot form in this game, switch positions to support the back line. After all, Li Qi has also played as a central defender.

After the substitution, Rooney, who had just come on the field, and his good friends performed a cooperation of the Four Little Swans, oh no, it was a Magic Quartet attack!

In the 69th minute, Li Qi and the retreating Rooney made a wall-like cooperation and passed the ball directly to the corner of the penalty area. Tevez made a diagonal pass near the right bottom line of the penalty area. Ronaldo, who had advanced into the penalty area, attracted the defense and made a pass with his back at the first time. Rooney, who followed up in the back row, met the ball and shot it!

Unfortunately, Lu Xiaopang, who had just come on the field, had obviously not put on his shooting boots yet, and he actually hit the ball wide one step outside the penalty area.