host must win

Chapter 73 The Importance of Yin Jun

In the head-to-head confrontation between the last Triple Crown and the Sanya King team, Manchester United won a complete victory and took a 2:0 lead at halftime, which was quite beyond Ferguson's expectations.

However, the advantage of two goals gave Ferguson more choices.He decided to save his strength for the next game, because in the next week, Manchester United still faces a double-match situation in a week: an away game against Charlton in the Premier League on the weekend, and a home game in the third round of the Champions League group stage in the middle of next week. Olympiacos!
Then, people discovered that after the start of the second half, Manchester United replaced two people at once!

Van Nistelrooy was still plagued by leg injuries. Although there was no severe pain, Ferguson still expressed his confidence in the 2-0 lead and replaced Van Nistelrooy with Uruguayan Forlan.

The other one who was replaced was Yin Jun.Although the Chinese teenager is in good health and performed very well on the court, this is already the third game he has played in six days. For a young player under the age of 18, this kind of game intensity and frequency All bigger.

Although Yin Jun has no physical problems at present, after all, he has just started to play, but considering the upcoming frequent schedule and Yin Jun's role in the team, Ferguson still replaced Yin Jun when the team basically established the victory. Come down, let him get enough rest and play for the team in the following games.

Yin Jun was replaced by Argentine midfielder Veron.

The wizard's position in the Manchester United team is a bit embarrassing now. It was an excellent opportunity for him to win a position for himself when Keane, Scholes and other midfielders suffered injuries, but it is a pity that he did not Being able to seize the opportunity, the poor state made it difficult for Ferguson to build trust in him. On the contrary, the teenager Yin Jun took the opportunity to stand out and seize a main midfield position.

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Manchester United, who replaced the sharp knife and the brain of the midfielder, fell into a passive situation after the start of the second half.Amidst the cheers and cheers of more than 2 home fans, the pharmaceutical factory launched a powerful offensive towards Manchester United's goal.

Only 6 minutes into the second half, Leverkusen's Bulgarian forward Berbatov, who came off the bench, received a wonderful pass from the Turk Basturk and shot back from 10 meters in front of the goal.

Then, the brightest player on the field should be the home team's German international Schneider, who is very threatening to Manchester United's goals.This brought United back to the five-back formation they had originally started with.

However, Manchester United often maintain an absolute defensive strength of 5 people in the backcourt. Although the defense is solid, the offensive strength has become insufficient, especially the striker Forlan who came off the bench, who rarely gets support on the front line.

This made the Uruguayan striker very depressed. His chances of playing in the team were less and less. Today, he came off the bench and wanted to perform well, but he never thought that Manchester United, which was still clearly active in the first half, fell into the siege In this situation, he was alone in the frontcourt, looking very lonely, pitiful and helpless.

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Unable to attack for a long time, the head coach of Leverkusen decided to give it a go. He quickly used up the remaining two substitutions in his hand and replaced Marcik and Franca in succession in order to achieve the scene and the result. However, Leverkusen does not seem to be improving.

Leverkusen's offense did not improve significantly. On the contrary, Manchester United goalkeeper Butters almost gave his opponent a big gift.One of his clearances hit Brdaric, who threatened United with the ball, but his first shot failed, and then he tried to dribble into the box and was intercepted.

But Leverkusen still had a chance. Schneider sent a beautiful cross to Burdaric 10 yards in front of the goal accurately and comfortably. The latter's header went straight to the dead corner, but Hit the post to pop.

In the end, Leverkusen lost to Manchester United 1:2 at home, which disappointed the 22500 fans again.

After two rounds of group matches, the pharmaceutical factory lost both games and scored 0 points, and it is doubtful to qualify for the group.Manchester United ranked first in the group standings with 2 victories.

Another group match of this group in Haifa, Israel, turned out to be a shock.Maccabi Haifa, who suffered a disastrous defeat at Old Trafford in the middle of last week, even scored 3:0 at home, and won the first round of Greek giants Olympiakos who beat Bayer Leverkusen at home. !

It was Yakubu, a teenager from Nigeria, who scored for Maccabi Haifa.In other words, the Nigerian striker scored a hat-trick in the game!
这使得雅库布成为欧冠历史上第二年轻的上演帽子戏法的球员，年龄是19岁又306天，仅次于伯纳乌的王子劳尔，后者的记录是18岁又113天。1995年10月18日皇马主场6:1横扫费伦茨瓦罗斯，劳尔打进生涯欧冠首粒进球并上演帽子戏法，他也以18岁113天成为欧冠历史上上演帽子戏法最年轻的球员。

The talented striker who played in the Israeli league also shined because of this game, becoming another hot superstar in European football and being favored by many European clubs.

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Although Manchester United achieved a narrow victory in the away game, Ferguson's substitution adjustment was still criticized by most of the British media.

The Bundesliga team is regarded as the sufferer of Manchester United. Manchester United only won one victory in the contest with the Germans. That was the Champions League final with Bayern in 1999. At that time, Manchester United won 2:1 and achieved the treble.In the other 10 Champions League matches with the Germans, Manchester United recorded 6 draws and 4 losses.The average number of goals per game is 0.91, while the average number of goals scored by the German team is 1.18.Last season, Manchester United tied Leverkusen 2:2 at home and then tied 1:1 away. They were eventually eliminated due to poor goal difference.And Leverkusen walked into the Champions League final on the corpses of Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United, the top three in the Premier League.

It can be said that Ferguson came to Leverkusen with a sense of revenge in this campaign. Judging from the performance of the first half, Ferguson's strategy was correct, and he played the opponent's counterattack on the premise of a solid defense. Ni, helping Manchester United lead 2:0 at halftime.

Maybe it was too self-confidence, maybe Ferguson wanted to consider the weekend league, but after the first half, Ferguson suddenly replaced Ruud van Nistelrooy and Yin Jun, the team's offensive brain, and such a substitution proved to be a poor choice, replacing Ruud van Nistelrooy Forlan has only scored one penalty in 27 appearances for United, and having him on in such an important game shows that Ferguson did not consider the dangers of the second half.As for Yin Jun's end, he was even more surprised. He was the offensive engine of Manchester United's first two games.

Sure enough, after Yin Jun left the field, Manchester United had no offensive motivation. Leverkusen's Berbatov first helped the pharmaceutical factory regain a victory in the 51st minute, and then hit Manchester United with a header in the 82nd minute. Fortunately, the game ended immediately, otherwise Ferguson would suffer another humiliation.

(End of this chapter)