Pirated Ronaldo

Chapter 373 The Twin Stars Are Depressed

"GOAL! GOAL! G————O—————A————L——————————L————————————————— ——L!!"

"Rud van Nistelrooy! Manchester United's number one striker! King of the wicket! A kick for Blackburn!"

"Manchester United took the lead! It was a hard-won goal. In the 40th minute of the game, teenager Cristiano Ronaldo broke through Blackburn's midfield defensive circle and took the ball to the upper left corner of the penalty area. In the double-teaming of the Blackburn players, a through ball was passed to the feet of Van Nistelrooy. Van Nistelrooy, who is good at seizing opportunities, raised his foot and shot! The ball escaped the fingers of goalkeeper Brad Friedel and went straight into the net !"

"There was a wave of cheers! Thank you Ruud van Nistelrooy! Thank you Cristiano Ronaldo!  …"

Even Ronando himself did not expect that, unlike when he appeared as a super shooter in Benfica, in the Manchester United team, due to his personal technical progress, with the help of "Three Seconds God", He has become a frontcourt organizer who is good at the last pass!
Three passes in two consecutive games, just this data, has established his status in the Manchester United team!
Generally speaking, completing an assist and completing a goal, the important thing is of course the latter. The scorer will always be the bright star on the court.

However, if a player completes high-quality direct assists in a row, especially like Ronaldo who made three passes in two consecutive games, resulting in three goals for his teammates, and these three A goal is the total number of goals scored by the team during this period, so the meaning is completely different.

Such a player is called the core of the frontcourt attack!And it is the absolute core!
Don't look at the number of times that Ronando catches the ball in the frontcourt and initiates attacks far less than Wayne Rooney, but after Ronando initiates an attack, the success rate is frighteningly high.

Rooney is the most important engine of the Manchester United team in the frontcourt. Whenever the ball reaches the frontcourt, as long as Rooney runs out of position, most of his teammates will choose to hand the ball to Rooney. Impact, looking for scoring opportunities for the team.

However, Rooney, who claims to be good at passing and shooting, played beautifully in the game, but his efficiency was pitifully low. Not only did he score few goals, but he also seldom assisted.

This is a very painful fact. Manchester United cannot do without Rooney. If he is missing, the offensive power in the frontcourt will drop sharply, but at the same time, his offensive efficiency is far lower than that of Ronando. The success rate of the attack is simply not worth a small corner of Ronando!
This fact is too speechless, Rooney has become a green leaf, and Ronando has become a red flower.

"Thank you! My good brother! Listen! All the Red Devils fans are cheering for you!"

Dutch big man Ruud van Nistelrooy has started four consecutive league games since the end of August, and scored goals in every game. This statistic is frighteningly high. If this state continues, let alone squeeze out Arsenal Thierry Henry, who has become the Premier League Golden Boot again, won the honor of the best scorer in Europe, so why not?

However, Van Nistelrooy is obviously also very aware of his situation. Among his four goals, three of them came from direct assists from Ronando!
In this sense, Fanny should not call Ronando "my good brother", but call him "big brother". I think he can call him "big brother"!
Ruud van Nistelrooy is a more traditional striker. He is different from Rooney and Ronaldo. If there is no pass from his teammates, he is really a display. However, unfortunately, the Manchester United team in the last two seasons has There is really no decent passer in the frontcourt, which makes Van Nistelrooy's situation very embarrassing.

On the one hand, the whole world knows that Van Nistelrooy is an excellent center forward, but on the other hand, Van Nistelrooy's goals in Manchester United have dropped sharply, and his existence value cannot be seen.

Well now, with Ronando this weird explosive front passer, Ruud immediately started killing.

A Van Nistelrooy who can score goals will not only allow him to win honors in the Manchester United team, but also, for him whose player contract is about to expire, whether he stays in the team or transfers to other teams, his future is bright.

In other words, Van Nistelrooy is not too old this year. He is only 29 years old. For a center forward who does not need to actively run, this age should be his peak period. It will definitely be looted by countless giants, because although such a super center is not available for every team, it is definitely useful for most teams.

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"Another assist! Unlucky, the bastard Mokoina pressed too hard. If it wasn't for that South African bald guy, he could have tried a long shot!"

After Ronando hugged Ruud van Nistelrooy warmly, he turned his head and began to curse at the lawn under his feet!
Assists, even if they are direct assists that everyone envies, are not Ronando's favorite!
Coming to Manchester United, Ronaldo's ambition is to become the team's top scorer and realize his ambition of being "the Spear of Manchester United". The most sought-after striker, how cool is that!That is the refreshing football life!
However, contrary to expectations, since Ronaldo scored a goal in an away game against Newcastle United on August 8, it has been almost a month since he failed to score. Although he scored a magical four direct assists during this period, But the total number of goals in the season stayed at "28". Today, after Ruud van Nistelrooy scored again, Ronando was no longer the only top scorer in the Manchester United team, but tied with Ruud van Nistelrooy. It was 4 goals.

As a young player who has slowly developed a little eccentricity, Ronaldo has not had the opportunity to raise his arms on the court for a long time and make the "Manchester United Spear" celebration.

How does this make Ronando happy?
Ronaldo is upset, but there are still many unhappy players in the Manchester United team!
Rooney is in a very bad mood at the moment!He once again lags behind his main competitor Ruud van Nistelrooy in the main indicator of the number of goals scored!

At this time in European football in 2005, traditional centers such as Ruud van Nistelrooy had begun to decline, and major clubs were eyeing Thierry Henry, a "modern center" who could be both inside and outside. , Such a center is more suitable for modern football and can adapt to changing football tactics.

In the Manchester United team, there are not no players who can be called "modern center forwards", and there are more than one.

Wayne Rooney and Luis Saha, they all have the characteristics of a modern center forward, that is, they no longer rely on their height advantage and wait for their teammates to pass the ball near the penalty area, but can retreat to the area close to the midfield and direct the offense The starting point is extended backwards, and through dribbling in the attack, it impacts the opponent's defense line.

The so-called modern center forward originated from the Premier League. The typical representative is Thierry Henry. After Arsenal's success, more and more teams began to follow suit.

Why did Ferguson like Rooney, and mentioned many times on different occasions that "Rooney can be a center forward"?
This is not only because Rooney is an English player, but also because Rooney fits the characteristics of a modern center forward in addition to his lack of height. He is strong, explosive, strong in ball protection, dribbling and good in passing. In the penalty area, he can also compete head-on with the opponent's strong central defender.

In other words, once Rooney successfully transforms into a center forward, Manchester United's striker tactics will become richer and more effective.

Of course, any major improvement in football tactics will be accompanied by pain. Ruud van Nistelrooy has served as Manchester United's chief center forward for the fifth season, and the team has long been accustomed to this tactic. Once it changes, it needs an adaptation. Expect.

In fact, Ferguson abandoned Ruud van Nistelrooy and important Rooney to a certain extent last season in order to improve towards modern center forward tactics. However, due to various reasons, Ferguson's experiment was not successful, or in other words, this heavy burden for Rooney, who was only 19 years old at the time, was too heavy, and he failed to replace Ruud van Nistelrooy's important role in the team.

This season, Ferguson reused Ruud Van Nistelrooy, which is going back. The main reason is that the reality of the club requires him to lead the team to achieve decent results. Otherwise, Glazer’s dominance in Manchester United will be unstable. will also be at risk.

Now, more than a month has passed, regardless of whether Manchester United has benefited from Ronaldo's dazzling performance, in fact, the team's results are not bad!

Ruud van Nistelrooy can score goals, and Rooney can also score goals. Coupled with the somewhat eccentric Ronaldo, Manchester United's offensive power has improved significantly compared to last season, and their results are relatively stable.

However, this is by no means a long-term solution!
Judging from the current situation, Van Nistelrooy and his agent have been resisting to renew their contract with the club, and their determination to leave the team is already clear. Under such circumstances, Ferguson has nothing more than two options, the first The choice is to find a suitable traditional center forward to replace Ruud van Nistelrooy, allowing the team to continue the existing tactics. The second choice, of course, is to seize the time, let Rooney succeed in the position, and have the ability to become the team's authentic first striker.

Does Ferguson have enough money in his hands to get a big fish equivalent to Ruud van Nistelrooy's heavyweight center in the transfer market next summer?

The answer can be given right now: Impossible!

An excellent center forward of Ruud van Nistelrooy's level, even if he has begun to fail to adapt to the needs of modern football tactics, is definitely in short supply. It is almost impossible to buy it for less than 2000 million pounds, and Ferguson will definitely not be able to afford it. A lot of money.

Therefore, training Rooney has become a top priority. The worst plan is that in the first half of next year, Rooney must be able to provoke the team's first striker. Otherwise, in the next season, there will be big troubles for Manchester United without Ruud van Nistelrooy. !
This situation is not a secret in the Manchester United team, Rooney himself is very clear.

In other words, Ferguson's arrangement of Rooney as a hidden forward is also out of the intention of vigorously cultivating Rooney, because, from a technical perspective, the playing style of a modern center forward has similarities with that of a hidden forward. It's close, but Yinfeng pays more attention to the cooperation with the center, and the modern center needs to have the ability to attack the big penalty area.

Why is Rooney depressed?Because in this temporary offensive system arranged by Ferguson, he did not play the intended effect, mainly because the efficiency of shooting and passing is too low...

(End of this chapter)