host must win

Chapter 421
On September 9, the seventh round of the Premier League kicked off.Manchester United are visiting White Hart Lane to challenge Tottenham.

Because the second game against Galatasaray in the Champions League group stage will be ushered in at home next Tuesday night, Ferguson has carried out a certain rotation on Manchester United's starting lineup, Yin Jun and Scholes have been rested.

Tottenham is Manchester United's favorite opponent. White Hart Lane is even nicknamed Three Points Lane by Manchester United fans. In this game, Manchester United still played very strongly in the away game.

Tottenham were lucky to escape a penalty in the first 3 minutes. This is of course thanks to the honesty of Manchester United defender Heinze. The Argentine broke into the penalty area from the left. Ce immediately stood up and passed to the center. If he could lie on the ground, Walton, the referee on duty, would probably award a penalty kick.

However, Tottenham did not escape the fate of a penalty after all.In the 41st minute of the first half, Manchester United made a pass from the left to the far point. Edman pulled O'Shea down in the penalty area. The referee Walton awarded a penalty kick. Ruud van Nistelrooy made it happen overnight.

This penalty was also the only goal of the game, and after winning the game, Manchester United also won 6 consecutive victories in the Premier League.

At the same time, Arsenal and Chelsea also won Manchester City and Middlesbrough respectively with the same score in the away game.

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On the evening of September 9, British local time, Manchester United sat at Old Trafford to face the second group stage opponent of the Champions League, the Turkish team Galatasaray.

In this game, Yin Jun started the game as the team's midfielder and played well.But the most dazzling thing in this game is the new aid Wayne Rooney, who Manchester United won at the buzzer in the summer transfer window.

Today's game is the first show of the little fat man on behalf of Manchester United. He also seemed extra excited in the game. He scored a hat-trick with his head kick and helped Manchester United sweep Galatasaray 6:2 at home.In addition, he sent 1 assist.

However, Yin Jun's performance is not much inferior to Rooney's. He has achieved 2 passes and 1 shot.

Rooney's performance was so good that the European media, especially the British, simply blew up the little fat man.After Beckham left Manchester United last summer and went to Real Madrid, although Yin Jun immediately took over the banner of Manchester United and led Manchester United to unprecedented success.But in the eyes of the British, Yin Jun is an outsider after all, and he is still different from his own family like Beckham.

Today, Rooney joined Manchester United and performed a hat-trick like a godsend in his debut, which almost made the British almost excited.

And the result is the skyrocketing popularity of Rooney.Although Fatty is not as handsome as Beckham, he has become the number one balloon star in the British Isles, and his attention in the UK has surpassed that of Beckham at the same time.

Although Manchester United has achieved a big victory in the Champions League, for all the Premier League teams participating in the Champions League, the performance can only be said to be mixed.Mourinho's Chelsea defeated their old club Porto 3:1 at home, but Arsenal was tied 1:1 by Rosenborg in Sweden, and Liverpool lost to the underdog Olympiacos in Greece.

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Manchester United's first game in October is the eighth round of the Premier League against Middlesbrough at home.

In the Champions League match in midweek, although Manchester United won a big victory, the consumption of the players was not small.So in this game, Ferguson made changes to the midfield, and captain Roy Keane, O'Shea and Ronaldo returned to the starting lineup.Yin Jun and Scholes sat on the bench.

Middlesbrough is not an easy opponent to deal with. At Old Trafford last season, Middlesbrough once pushed Manchester United into desperation.In the end, it was Yin Jun who turned the tide, with 1 shot, 1 pass and a key penalty kick, helping Manchester United narrowly win 4:3 at home.

The two teams met again after half a year, and the lineups of both sides have changed a lot, especially for Middlesbrough. Juninho, who scored twice in the game, has now switched to the Celtics of the Scottish Super League. The main players such as Viduka, Hasselbaink and Esiogu are all absent due to injuries.

Manchester United attacked from the beginning of the game with the advantage of home court, but their tide-like offensive did not bring goals. Instead, in the 33rd minute of the game, Middlesbrough made a quick counterattack and broke Manchester United. goal.

In this defense, Heinze, who played on rotation in this game, made a big mistake. He failed to hold his position and allowed Morrison to get the ball near the touchline. The ball avoided all the Manchester United defenders. The 20-year-old Middlesbrough midfielder Downing scored the ball from a distance and scored with his left foot from a small angle.

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After the start of the second half of the game, Manchester United set off a crazy attack, but Manchester United's attack group is not in a good state today, and they have been unable to score goals for a long time.

In the 69th minute, Ferguson, who saw the situation was not good, made a substitution adjustment, and Yin Jun replaced O'Shea to strengthen the attack.

Yin Jun created an excellent scoring opportunity shortly after his debut. His 45-degree pass was thrown into the penalty area and accurately found Ruud van Nistelrooy in front of the goal. However, the Dutch forward's shot from close at hand hit the crossbar and bounced bottom line.

This is already Manchester United's 22nd shot in this game, and it is also the closest shot to the goal.

Seeing that his teammates lacked sights today, Yin Jun simply decided to come by himself.And he did help the team equalize the score in the 80th minute of the game.

This time it was a pass from Ronaldo on the right. Yin Jun headed the ball into the top corner.Schwarzer, who had performed bravely before and rejected Manchester United's goals many times, was powerless this time and could only look at the ball and sigh.

Until the moment before the end of the game, Manchester United was still insisting on attacking, but Middlesbrough's defense today was indeed very good, and it did not give Yin Jun and Manchester United a chance to score a second goal.

最终，曼联只是取得了一场1:1的平局。跟4:0大胜查尔顿的阿森纳的分差拉大到了3分，同时也被本轮1:0小胜利物浦的切尔西反超，掉到了积分榜第三的位置。

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After this round of competition, the European league was suspended again. The players ushered in the second international match day of this season. Yin Jun also joined Sun Jihai and others, boarded the flight back home, and prepared to visit Kuwait for the German World Cup in 9 days. The life and death battle of the top 32 Asian qualifiers.

Zheng Zhi did not return to China this time, on the one hand because he has just joined the team and is in the adaptation period, on the other hand he received a red card in the game against Malaysia and will be suspended for one game.

科威特是中国队晋级八强赛的最大对手。在已经进行的4轮比赛中，中国队4连胜12分领跑，科威特则是取得3胜1负，以3分之差紧追中国队。

If the Chinese team loses away, they will be tied by their opponents.Although the goal difference advantage is relatively obvious, once there is a tie, there will be many variables in the final round of the group stage.

Therefore, in this away game, the minimum goal of the Chinese team is to get a draw, and it is best to score 1 points, then they can advance to the quarter-finals one round in advance.

(End of this chapter)