host must win

Chapter 458

由于切尔西在英超第22轮以2:0的比分击败了米德尔斯堡，在积分榜上追平了曼联。并且两队的净胜球都是35个，曼联仅仅以多5个进球的优势排名榜首。

At this time, Chelsea's goal ratio was 43 to 8, and Manchester United's was 48 to 13!

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On the afternoon of January 1, the third round of the FA Cup started. The opponent was Exeter City. Ferguson sent a rotation lineup to play.

Originally, people thought that there was no doubt that Manchester United won this game, because the strength gap between the opponent and Manchester United was too great.Manchester United is the top team in the Premier League, while Exeter City is the third in the English League.

The English League is the fifth-tier league in the UK, after the Premier League, Championship, League One, and League Two.As the third place in the English League, it is 87 places behind Manchester United, including the top two in the English League, the 22 teams in the League Two, the 22 teams in the League One, and the 22 teams in the Championship. team, and the 19 teams behind Manchester United in the Premier League!
With such a big gap, even if Manchester United played with a substitute lineup, their strength is obviously stronger than their opponents.

However, the sluggish Manchester United rotation lineup was forced by the opponent with a score of 6:0 in front of more than 0 fans at home!

As a result, Manchester United had to choose another day to go to an away game with their opponents.

This is definitely the worst result for Manchester United.Because of Manchester United's multi-line combat, the schedule is already dense enough.But now there is still a rematch, which is really worse for Manchester United, which already has a heavy game burden.

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1月12日晚上8点，英超联赛杯半决赛，曼联客场挑战切尔西。双方苦战了九10分钟后，利物浦客场0:0战平切尔西。

Yin Jun started the game and played for 90 minutes, but still failed to score a goal, not even an assist.

Not only Yin Jun is in a sluggish state, but the entire Manchester United team is in a very bad state.The team has been unable to score in three consecutive games. Fortunately, the defense is not bad, and no goals have been conceded.

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Two days later, Manchester United ushered in the 23rd round of the Premier League as a guest at Anfield Stadium.This is the second round of the Double Red Club this season.

In the first-leg match in late September, Manchester United had already defeated their opponents 9:3 at home.If this game can defeat the opponent again, Manchester United will double kill the enemy this season.

For the purpose of protection, Ferguson arranged Yin Jun as a substitute.

Wayne Rooney scored the only goal of the game in the 21st minute. Although Brown was sent off after accumulating two yellow cards in the 65th minute, Manchester United still took all 3 points in the away game.

Yin Jun came off the bench for 10 minutes and was still very active and hardworking, but he still failed to score a goal.

As Chelsea defeated Tottenham 2-0 at White Hart Lane in this round of the league, they surpassed Manchester United on goal difference and thus won the top spot in the Premier League standings, with Manchester United second.

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At 1:19 p.m. on January 7th, Manchester United defeated Exeter City 45-2 away in the FA Cup replay to advance to the fourth round of the FA Cup. Dellsburg!

The Red Devils fans lamented, the team is probably cursed, right?

In fact, the results of the draw for the fourth round of the FA Cup have already been released.As long as Manchester United beat Exeter City away, Middlesbrough will face Middlesbrough in the next round.

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At 1 pm on January 22, in the 3th round of the Premier League, Manchester United played against Aston Villa at home.

Manchester United opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Yin Jun made a direct pass from the middle, and Ronaldo slanted into the top of the penalty area and pushed his right foot to score.

But Aston Villa leveled the score in the 53rd minute. Barry and Solano cleverly cooperated with each other. Barry got rid of Gary Neville 20 yards from the left and scored with a left-footed shot from the far corner.

However, Manchester United played a small climax in about 70 minutes of the second half, scoring two goals in 2 minutes to seal the victory of the game.

In the 69th minute, Rooney made a cross from the right side of the penalty area. Yin Jun pushed with his left foot from 10 yards in front of the goal. The ball hit Ridgwell's right foot and then deflected into the near corner.However, this goal was not recorded in Yin Jun's name, but was regarded as Ridgewell's own goal, and Yin Jun still missed the scoring drought.

In the 70th minute, Manchester United scored another goal to expand the score. Ronaldo's right-footed shot from the edge of the penalty area on the right was saved by Sorensen. Scholes inserted in the middle to get rid of Villa's defense. He easily headed the ball from 6 yards in front of the goal. A supplementary shot into the net.

最终曼联主场3:1击败阿斯顿维拉全取3分，但因为切尔西在本轮比赛在主场3:0大胜朴茨茅斯，曼联继续以净胜球的劣势排名第二。

Yin Jun contributed an assist and also created an own goal for the opponent, but still failed to score.His scoring drought in all competitions has continued to 7 games, including 6 games in the Premier League.

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In the 18th round of the Premier League, Yin Jun's league goals reached 16 goals, but after the 24th round, this number still stayed at 16 goals.

For Yin Jun, this has never happened before.

Fortunately, during the same period, Yin Jun's main competitor in the Premier League scorer list, Arsenal's leading shooter's performance was also very average, and Yin Jun was able to continue to lead the Premier League scorer list.

Although the fans of Manchester United were anxious, they still shouted Yin Jun's name after the game, cheered him on, and hoped that he could get back to his state as soon as possible.

It is human nature to experience a trough after the peak, and everyone will do it.

But the problem now is that when Manchester United fell into a downturn in Yin Jun's state, the offense was also affected.Although they remained unbeaten in these 7 league games, and their record of 5 wins and 2 draws looked pretty good, but they lost the top spot in the standings.

And it is precisely because the team's offense is not as good as Chelsea, so the Blues took away the top position with the advantage of goal difference.

At the same time, Yin Jun also began to repay the debt of the previous media support.How did the British media support Yin Jun to grab the World Footballer at the beginning, and now they are hyping up his scoring shortage.

The British media is like that. When they praise you, they can praise you to the sky, but when they step on you, they can't wait to step on you in the mud, and then stomp you hard.

Everything is not beyond Yin Jun's expectation, and he also feels very strange about his current situation.He still trains as before every day, still without any discount, never lazy, and in the game, he still works so hard, and the distance he runs is also a little bit less.

Even when it was time to hang up, he was relentless and did not skimp on the use of props.

But no matter what, he always felt a little bit worse.

This was something he had never had before.From traveling to the World Cup in the summer of 2002, in two and a half years, he has never encountered such a situation.

It is said that when people are unlucky, drinking cold water will also clog their teeth.Just like in the game against Villa, Yin Jun had hoped to break the scoring drought, but after his shot was blocked by Ridgwell, it became an own goal for the opponent inexplicably.

(End of this chapter)