host must win

Chapter 87

After successfully winning the Magpies Newcastle, Manchester United continued to attack with remnants and flew to Basel, the third largest city in Switzerland.At 11:27 a.m. on November 3th, Beijing time, Manchester United will challenge Basel, the first opponent in the second group stage of the Champions League, at St. Jacobs Park.

Manchester United face an injury crisis and centre-back Blanco joined Beckham, Keane, Gary Neville, Butt and Rio Ferdinand against Newcastle.Phil Neville replaced his brother as a right back, Wes Brown and O'Shea formed a young center back partner, Solskjaer still played right avant-garde, and Yin Jun served as a midfielder.

As the first Swiss team to reach the second stage of the Champions League, Basel has not lost at home this season.

Basel took advantage of the kick-off and suddenly slammed into Manchester United's goal and won a corner kick

Only 31 seconds into the game, Basel midfielder Yakin took a corner kick from the left, Argentine forward Rossi headed the goal, Yin Jun made a header on the goal line to clear the siege, Australian international Chipperfield made a supplementary shot from the left side of the penalty area, Rossi's Compatriot Ximenez stretched his leg in front of the goal to block the ball, ranking sixth in the Champions League's fastest goal rankings.

Losing the ball at the speed of light made Manchester United a little flustered, and Basel took this opportunity to attack Manchester United's goals continuously.

In the 8th minute, Rossi's shot from 22 meters fell on the net.In the 17th minute, Cantalupi took a free kick from outside the penalty area, and Yakin shot angrily and was shot out of the crossbar by Barterstow. After 1 minute, Zwiig uprooted Van Nistelrooy and was warned by a yellow card. Ferguson ran out of the coaching area excitedly to protest.

Manchester United almost equalized in the 24th minute. Veron picked the ball into the penalty area. Ruud van Nistelrooy scored the ball at the back post, but was ruled offside.

In the 42nd minute, Chipperfield faced Barthez 3 meters in front of the goal. Under Brown's pressure, he failed to score and missed an excellent opportunity to expand the score.

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After the start of the second half, the Swiss still had a good chance to seal the victory, but Rossi's close-range shot and Ergic's shot were both resolved by Butters.

After defending several waves of Basel's offensive in a row, Manchester United began to take over the initiative on the field, and soon scored a goal to equalize the score.

In the 62nd minute, Solskjaer made a pass from the right. Ruud van Nistelrooy, under the marking of two defenders, scored his 10th goal in the UEFA Champions League this season, surpassing Yin Jun. Become Manchester United's player with the most goals in the Champions League this season.

One minute later, Ruud van Nistelrooy took the ball from the left and shot from a small angle. The ball hit the far post and bounced into the goal.

Basel, which was behind, was forced to step up its offensive, but conceded another goal in the 68th minute. Solskjaer received a pass from Ruud van Nistelrooy 30 meters in front of the goal, dribbled the ball into the penalty area and shot. The crotch passes through the net.

In the end, Manchester United reversed Basel 3:1 away.Because in another game in this group, Deportivo scored 2:2 with Juventus at home, and the winning Manchester United undoubtedly became the first in this group.

In this game, Yin Jun, who played as a midfielder, did not have many opportunities to perform on the offensive end.However, Yin Jun still did a good job in his job on the field—defense. He completed a goal line clearance at the beginning of the game. Unfortunately, there were loopholes in the defense of other positions of the team, which caused the team to lose the ball in a flash.

In the subsequent games, Yin Jun's performance got better and better, which is also the key reason why Manchester United did not continue to concede a second goal.

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Manchester United, who flew back to Manchester overnight from Switzerland, also ended all 11 games of the team in November.

In these 7 games, Manchester United achieved an excellent record of 6 wins and 1 draw. Not only did they close the gap with Arsenal and Liverpool in the Premier League standings, they also successfully broke into the top 16 in the Champions League and the League Cup. Into the round of 16.

However, just after the devil's schedule in November, Manchester United immediately ushered in an enhanced version of the devil's schedule.In December, Manchester United will usher in 11 games in the Premier League, Champions League and League Cup!
With 31 games in 9 days, Manchester United's rhythm of double matches a week will continue until the end of 2002.

And these 9 games include 1 UEFA Champions League second stage group stage, 2 League Cup knockout games, and 6 Premier League games!
In the first ten days of December, Manchester United will usher in a super difficult schedule: they will face Liverpool and Arsenal, the top two in the Premier League standings, within a week!

At 12:1 p.m. on December [-]st, Beijing time, Manchester United was a guest at Anfield Stadium, ushering in the first round of this season's Double Red Club.

Six days later, at 12:7pm on December [-]th, Manchester United returned to Old Trafford to face the Gunners Arsenal!
In the meantime, Manchester United will also be a guest at Turf Moor Stadium at 12:4 am on December 3, Beijing time, to challenge the Clarets Burnley. This is the fifth round of the League Cup.

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In recent years, with the rise of Arsenal, the strongest matchup in the Premier League is the match between the Red Devils and the Gunners, but when it comes to influence, it is still the Premier League double red club between Manchester United and Liverpool.

Every time the two teams confront each other, there are endless stories to write. There is no dispute about the name of the England National Derby.The two clubs are incompatible in terms of competition and cultural history, so what is the reason for the two teams to have such a big connection?

In fact, from a geographical point of view, the distance between the two cities is only 60 kilometers, and they can even be said to be out-and-out brother cities.Liverpool has always been an out-and-out port city by virtue of its location on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, and the development of the Industrial Revolution has also brought vigorous vitality to the city, and even built the first dock in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

And Manchester is the center of the entire British manufacturing industry. Cotton textiles and industrial products are their main products. During the industrial revolution, they also rose rapidly and became an absolute metropolis. Manchester's manufacturing and Liverpool's exports have remained unchanged for a long time. Law, in other words the two cities that have long been brothers in the same trenches, are absolute representatives of the industrial class.

The opening of a new canal brought these two cities that were originally in harmony with each other to opposites. At that time, Liverpool became the largest city in the UK except London with the help of maritime business, and slowly the people of Manchester began to Dissatisfied with Liverpool's high taxes and fees, a plan to dig a canal was born, and they could directly bypass the Merseyside River and sell their products overseas.Liverpool, which lacked the most important ocean-going trade business in the UK, was slowly overtaken by Manchester and gradually began to decline.

In this way, the two cities began to have a estrangement, which developed into mutual ridicule and abuse, and the escalation of contradictions turned into hatred.The Liverpool people mocked the Manchester people as blue-collar old-fashioned people who only knew how to work, and Manchester said that the Liverpool people were full of rough and barbaric temperament.

Football has also become an important tool for the two cities to compare and ridicule each other, and it has intensified.

(End of this chapter)