Pirated Ronaldo

Chapter 418 Was kicked into the stinky ditch

In the first 10 rounds of the Premier League, Chelsea outshone the others, with an astonishing record of 9 wins and 1 draw, which can be called brilliant.

The reason why Chelsea's winning streak was ended was that in the 10th round on October 23, the away game was tied 10:1 by Everton, ending the magic of nine consecutive victories since the start of the season. The brigade also ended the Premier League club's winning streak at the number "1" this season.

Chelsea, which had won nine consecutive victories, finally stopped taking all 3 points. In that round, Manchester United narrowly beat Tottenham 3:2 because of Ronaldo's hat-trick, which slightly narrowed the gap between the two teams.

切尔西9胜1平，积28分，曼联缺赛一场7胜2平，积23分紧随其后。

From the perspective of league points alone, Manchester United is still far behind, with a difference of 5 points. However, if Manchester United wins the make-up match against Wigan Athletic in mid-December, the point gap with Chelsea will actually be only 12 points. Only 2 points, that is less than a game gap, not out of reach, right?

Although it was said that Ronando was injured in the last game, the English media began to call: Give the Player of the Month Award in October to Manchester United players!
As for which player is awarded to Manchester United, it must be one of Rooney or Ronaldo!

It is conceivable that the 40-man roster for the European Golden Boy Award has just been released, and the voting by the invited media has ended before the end of November. So, who can win the honor of the league's best player of the month in early November? Players will get a big bonus in the selection of the Golden Boy Award.

Now, the question that many people are pondering is, if the Player of the Month Award in October falls on the Manchester United Club, then who is it more appropriate to award it to?
The performance of the Manchester United twin stars in October was very dazzling. Just from the statistics, Ronando scored 4 goals, especially in the battle with Tottenham, which prevented the team from drawing or losing to their opponents , that hat-trick can be described as an outstanding feat, all of which are key goals that are not exchanged for gold. With this hat-trick alone, Ronando is eligible to win the Premier League Player of the Month honor for the first time in his career!
However, Rooney's performance was also unambiguous!
In at least four of the five games in October, Rooney was Manchester United's most threatening player in the frontcourt. Without this attacker, Manchester United would never be able to withstand the pressure and win five games in a row.

Wayne Rooney scored 3 goals in October, one more than Ronan, and one of them was a League Cup goal. However, the number of goals is not all the data of a striker. Looking at all the games of Manchester United , Rooney's contribution to the team, at least cannot be said to be smaller than that of Ronaldo.

In this way, the most critical "October Premier League Player of the Month Award", after all, is the public saying that the public is right, and the mother is right!
Speaking carefully, whoever the FA will wear this award in the end means that they will work hard to support which player in the selection of the European Golden Boy Award!
In other words, although there is a place for the honor of the best player in the Premier League every month, it is undoubtedly very difficult to really get this award. First of all, the performance of the player's team must be good. If the league's monthly total score falls out of the top three in the league, it must be a dead end. Secondly, the player's performance in this month must be perfect, without any flaws, and it must be the best performance in the team. Otherwise, you will not be able to grab this honor.

In this season's Premier League, in August and September, one player of the year was selected. Among them, Charlton striker Darren Bent won the award in August, and Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard won the award in September. .

Charlton is the only team in the league other than Chelsea to have a complete victory record in August, and striker Darren Bent scored two goals in the first game of the league, and in the subsequent games in August This player was born in February 1984. At that time, he was hailed by the media as "the England striker second only to Rooney". It is not surprising that he won this honor.

As for Lampard winning the player of the month in September, that is what everyone expects. Chelsea has won consecutive games, and it is unreasonable not to give any honor. Lampard, as the midfield commander, won this award.

Now, as long as Manchester United does not lose in the closing game in October, it is basically guaranteed that they will be allocated the third best player of the season, because from the perspective of record, only Chelsea may overwhelm Manchester United, and Chelsea has won the best player once in September, that is to say, it is Manchester United's turn to line up!

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October 10, Saturday evening at 29:17, Middlesbrough Riverside Stadium.

Middlesbrough, nicknamed the "Borough Army", their home jersey is all red, except for a rectangular white advertising logo on the chest, it looks like another Liverpool, because their tops, shorts, The socks are all red, exactly the same as the Red Army Liverpool.

The visiting team Manchester United was forced to put on a white away jersey, which was called "the beginning of bad luck" by the media after the game.

The Middlesbrough team is almost the role of an ugly duckling in England. The straight-line distance between them and Newcastle United, the powerhouse in the northeast of England, is only 12 miles, which leads to fierce competition and great contradictions between the two sides. The results in various competitions cannot be compared with Newcastle United at all, and they have been suppressed so hard that they cannot stand up.

There is one statistic that can reflect the embarrassment of Middlesbrough. In the 130-year history, until 2004, the only trophy that the club could win was a League One (the second level in England) championship trophy, and Three Bundesliga (third tier) championship trophies!
In the first half of 2004, Middlesbrough finally rose to prominence once. They defeated Bolton 2:1 in the final and won the 2003-04 English League Cup trophy. This is also the first time in Middlesbrough history. It is also the only "top" honor, but when the media commented on the League Cup that season, they couldn't forget to mention a sentence: the strong teams gave up the League Cup one after another due to various reasons, which made the final very boring...

This season, Middlesbrough's performance in the league is in the middle, but they also played two good games, including a 0:0 draw with Liverpool and a 2:1 victory over Arsenal. Le's best matches of the season all took place at Middlesbrough's home stadium, the Riverside Stadium.

This fact may show that Middlesbrough has some kind of "magic power" in its home court.

But what about the real facts?After studying all the games in the first ten rounds of Middlesbrough, someone with a heart came to a conclusion: a group of half-red stars in the Burroughs seem to have an unusual interest in fighting for a strong team at home!
In fact, this wasn't news at all. Among those half-red stars who played for underdogs, which one didn't work hard and try to show their strongest form when facing strong teams?
It's just that a group of guys from Middlesbrough behaved a little bit recklessly.

Spanish midfielder Gaizca Mendieta, 31 years old, used to be the best midfielder in Europe in the 1999-2000 season and 2000-01 season, and the Spanish Footballer of the season in 1999-2000. He was also the elegant captain of the Spanish national team The midfield commander, when he moved to Serie A Lazio in 2001, the transfer fee was an astonishing 4800 million euros, which even surpassed the 3900 million euros of the World Footballer Ronaldo who transferred a year later.

But Mendieta, who appeared in Middlesbrough, has been nicknamed "Sorrowful Mendieta".

Due to getting older and troubled by injuries, Mendieta's physical condition is not good at this time. He only played 7 times for Middlesbrough last season, which shows that he is bad. Playing for Middlesbrough In the past two seasons, he has only scored two goals for the team, which is pitifully small.

Dutch center Jimmy Hasselbaink, this is an older guy. He was born in March 1972 and is now 3 and a half years old. This Dutch legend once won the Premier League Golden Boot five years ago , but now Hasselbaink's performance is up and down, and he can only choose to burst out in stages.

In addition to the above two outdated veteran stars, Middlesbrough also has a striker who belongs to the cutting-edge star, that is Nigerian striker Ayegbeni? Yakubu.

Speaking of the black player Yakubu, he is a typical example of a black striker with amazing physical fitness. He once scored three goals in the Champions League group stage to complete a hat-trick at the age of 19, and was then coached by Premier League newly promoted Ports Redknapp Sr., England's famous coach from Mouth, was brought to England.

Yakubu scored 29 goals in Portsmouth in the first two seasons. Such an efficient shooter was sold because of the Nigerian's bad personality and bad temper.

In general, several big-name stars in Middlesbrough have one thing in common. They don't have a strong sense of belonging to the team. Due to various reasons, they can't guarantee a long-term stable performance, so these guys I chose the way that is most beneficial to me, that is, whenever the team encounters the top four teams in the Premier League, it will die, but for other games, I don't take it so seriously.

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

With the earth-shattering cheers of the commentator at the Riverside Stadium, the Manchester United players were almost dumbfounded.

The thousand-year-old tree Gazca Mendieta finally bloomed, and this flower bloomed very strangely. Less than 2 minutes into the game, the home team Middlesbrough opened the scoring and scored the goal!
Who said that Spanish midfielder Mendieta is too old to score goals?

This is Mendieta's third goal since he came to the Middlesbrough team for two years and three months. This goal has been more than a full year since Mendieta's last league goal!
This can really be called the blossoming of the iron tree. Mendieta, who is mainly a defensive midfielder, scored goals at the peak of his career. The number of goals is not amazing, but today is evil. He played for Middlesbrough in the opening game. Scored a goal, which made Manchester United feel miserable in the away game.

Today's Manchester United team was really unlucky. When Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy scored a header in the penalty area in the 20th minute of the first half, the referee even whistled him for a foul by charging the goalkeeper. A yellow card was whistled!
Sir Alex was angry on the sidelines!He quietly raised his middle finger towards the court!

However, Ferguson's middle finger did not change the team's luck. Just five minutes later, Middlesbrough scored again, this time it was Dutch striker Hasselbaink, who also scored a header.

This time, Hasselbaink's header was effective and Middlesbrough led by two goals!
I'm dizzy!Looking back at all the matches of Manchester United this season, such two goals behind the opponent only appeared when Manchester United played against Tottenham a week ago. In that game, Ronaldo and Rooney became the saviors of Manchester United. After working hard, Ronando finally completed the team's first hat-trick of the season, helping the team turn defeat into victory.

Today, Ronando just returned to England from Milan, Italy. Because he injured his internal organs in the game three days ago, he was unable to do strenuous exercise. Naturally, he was not included in the squad for the away game. He obediently stayed at the club for rehabilitation training. As a result, Rooney on the court lacked a "companion", and he was no longer brave.

The first half was coming to an end. In the 45th minute, Alan Smith returned to the penalty area and accidentally pulled down Ayeghbeni Yakub. This time, Manchester United suffered another tragedy.

Yellow card + penalty!

Nigerian striker Yakubu ran into the penalty area without hesitation to take the penalty kick. As a result, he showed a different and exquisite footwork than usual, tricked the Dutch goalkeeper Van der Sai, and scored with a strong shot to tie the score. It became 3:0!

Faced with the unexpected three-goal "slaughter" of Manchester United in the half, the Middlesbrough fans at home were already going crazy with joy!

This season, no team has been able to take a 3-0 lead against Manchester United, but Middlesbrough did it. First, two veterans each scored a goal, followed by the under-23-year-old The young striker Yakubu is also the icing on the cake. In such a situation, if any crazy Middlesbrough fan dared to speak out before the game, everyone would think he was crazy!
Three goals lead!Manchester United is the team that won five consecutive victories in October. Any team that meets Manchester United will be slaughtered, including Tottenham, Bundesliga Werder Bremen and other powerful teams are no exception, but Middles Fort this small team has done it.

Could it be that the Riverside Stadium will accomplish a miracle this year and become an "unpopular stadium" dedicated to restraining the Premier League teams?
Just imagine, a 0:0 draw with Liverpool, a 2:1 victory over Arsenal, plus today's victory over Manchester United, among the 20 Premier League stadiums in the league, there is another stadium that can do it except the Riverside Stadium, maybe Chelsea's Stamford Bridge may not be able to accomplish such a feat!
In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. Manchester United's luck did not seem to improve. After more than 20 minutes of fierce fighting, Manchester United still failed to score. Midfielder Darren Fletcher got a yellow card instead.

At this point, even the most optimistic Manchester United fans can only look up to the sky and sigh. The home team Middlesbrough scored three goals, while Manchester United still scored "0" apart from three yellow cards.

However, no one would have thought that 3:0 was not the final score. In the 78th minute of the game, Middlesbrough got a free kick in the frontcourt. Veteran Mendieta took the penalty and sent the ball into Manchester United again. The team's goal, this time, is tantamount to complete. Middlesbrough's four goals are a mid-range shot in the penalty area, a header, a penalty kick, and a free kick. After rehearsing everything, it's as easy as completing team training!
By this time, the Manchester United players on the field didn't know how to play football, but the old captain Roy Keane also missed the game due to physical reasons, and the captain's armband was put on the arm of defender Rio Ferdinand , This makes Manchester United's midfield look like a group of dragons without a leader, close to collapse!

In the 90th minute of the game, John O'Shea rushed to the frontcourt to fight for the top. Instead of scoring a goal, he received a yellow card.

Tens of seconds later, the Middlesbrough player, who was already overjoyed, made a pass error in his penalty area. Ruud van Nistelrooy accidentally grabbed the ball and took the opportunity to shoot and break the net.

At the end of the game, the scoreboard on the stadium showed bloody: "Middlesbrough 4: 1 Manchester United"!If Van Nistelrooy's goal at the last moment of the game can be regarded as saving a little bit of face, then the Middlesbrough players and fans at home have been ignored, and the Riverside Stadium has become a sea of ​​celebration, and the Burroughs began to celebrate them" Greatest win in decades!"
In fact, this is indeed the case. Even if Middlesbrough defeated Bolton to win the League Cup more than a year ago, its significance seems to be incomparable with today's game, because Bolton is at best a team in the upper reaches of the Premier League, more than Middlesbrough. Fort is not too strong, and the win or loss between the two teams is in between.

However, today Middlesbrough beat Manchester United with a huge score of 4:1, which is a classic victory!
The majestic Red Devils Manchester United, once the overlord of England, have remained unbeaten in 15 games of all kinds since the start of this season. In October, they even won the honor of five consecutive victories. Being able to end the "Glorious October" with a complete victory record, in this context, Middlesbrough beat Manchester United with a rare 4:1 score, which is tantamount to kicking Manchester United into the stinky ditch!
The glory of the Red Devils Manchester United in October was wiped out in an instant, leaving only indescribable painful memories.

What happened to Sir Alex Ferguson's team?Is the strength of this team up front just an illusion, are they really just a weak team?
(End of this chapter)