Football King Bale

Chapter 86: Evening

Touted by various media, Tottenham ushered in a match against Manchester United.

This is the first game of the 36th round of the Premier League, starting at 12:45 GMT on April 24.

In order to keep the last hope of winning the championship, Ferguson did his best in this game. Goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, the back four are Evra, Evans, Vidic and Rafael from left to right. In the midfield, Fletcher is behind, Valencia and Nani are on the two wings, Giger Si served as the attacking midfielder. Up front, Ferguson unexpectedly pushed Scholes forward to partner Berbatov.

On the bench, there are Kuzzak, Wes Brown, O'Shea, Hargreaves, Gibson, Carrick and Kiko and others.

Rooney, who injured his ankle in the second round against Bayern, is still recovering from his injury. Although Rooney wanted to play and fight for the Premier League Golden Boot and the best player, Ferguson did not include him in the squad.

For Tottenham, the goalkeeper is Gomez, the back four is a combination of Hector, Dawson, Ledley King and Huddlestone, Palacios and Modric are in the middle, Bale and Ben Terry is separated on the two wings, and the double striker is a combination of Pavlyuchenko and Defoe. On the bench, sat Allenwick, Kabul, Bassoon, Jenas, Lennon, Gudjohnsen, Crouch and others.

Bell also racked his brains about whose experience card to use in this game.

After defeating Chelsea, Bell got two chances to draw a lottery, but the results of the lottery were not satisfactory. He got a Sean Wright Phillips experience card and the other was Rooney's experience card.

It can be said that Wright Jr. can be regarded as one of the worst in the Premier League's best team of the year in the past ten years. The overall strength is only 82, and none of the attributes has reached 90.

But the little fat man's experience card is still so-so. After all, Rooney in his peak period is also known as the third person in the world after Melo, with a comprehensive strength of 93.

Now, in addition to the two goalkeeper experience cards that will not be used for the time being, Bell has 11 experience cards, including three from Ronaldo, two from Giggs, Drogba, Evra, Ferdinand , Gary Neville, Wright-Phillips and Rooney each.

In the end, Bell decided to use Giggs' experience card.

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Shortly after the opening, Scholes intercepted Palacios and passed the ball to Berbatov, but the weak Bulgarian failed to control the ball and returned the ball to Tottenham.

After a short period of panic at the beginning of the game, Tottenham quickly stabilized. Consecutive victories over Arsenal and Chelsea, two powerful enemies, greatly boosted the confidence of Tottenham players. Even at Old Trafford, they dared to fight against the bitter ones, and even took the initiative to attack.

Ledley King passed the ball to Modric, who dribbled the ball into midfield and played it to Bale on the left. After Bell received the ball, he was followed closely by Rafael and was unable to form a breakthrough, but he still passed the ball to Pavlyuchenko on the front line. Pavlyuchenko then passed to Defoe on the edge of the box, but Vidic made a timely clearance.

Soon, Tottenham made a comeback, and Defoe broke through from the left to win the first corner kick, but Bell's corner kick failed to create any threat and was directly cleared by Vidic.

In this stalemate, the time quickly came to thirty minutes.

Amidst the cheers of more than 70,000 fans of the home team in the Dream Theater, the Red Devils, who were in good form, suppressed Tottenham on the scene and continued to create threatening attacks.

but,

Tottenham's defense is also very solid. Evra's cross from the left was cleared by Bale, Berbatov's shot was also blocked by Ledley King in time, and Valencia's low shot from the edge of the penalty area on the right was also blocked. Easy to get by Gomez, Berbatov volley again from 25 yards wide, Evra's shot from the left side of the restricted area hit the plane.

When the referee Marina blew the whistle for the end of the first half, the score of the two sides remained at 0:0.

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For such a score, Tottenham are acceptable, because for them, a draw in the Theater of Dreams is also considered a victory.

However, for Manchester United, such a result is extremely bad, because once the game ends with such a score, it means that they are basically out of the championship.

During the intermission, Ferguson asked Manchester United to launch a strong attack after the start of the second half. They must win Tottenham in the Theater of Dreams, prevent their opponents from rushing to win the championship, and at the same time retain the Red Devils' hope of winning the championship.

In any case, it is difficult for Ferguson to accept that the Red Devils will experience another situation where all four players are empty this year.

However, after the start of the second half, Manchester United, who were eager to attack, almost lost the ball first. Rafael made a mistake in passing the ball after reaching the frontcourt, and was intercepted by Bell astutely.

Immediately, Tottenham launched a counterattack. Bell dribbled the ball on the left and advanced quickly. Although Raphael was desperately chasing back, he couldn't overtake Bell, and he couldn't even stop Bell from advancing.

After Bell took the ball to the frontcourt, he found that Fletcher had rushed to the left, and planned to encircle him with Rafael who was following him. Naturally, Bell would not give his opponent such a chance. Before Fletcher arrived, he went first. A 45-degree kick crossed and found Defoe in the penalty area.

Defoe was unable to form a shot because he was leaned on by Evans. He chose to stop the ball to Pavlyuchenko, but Pavlyuchenko was obviously not prepared for this and failed to catch up. Vidic stepped forward first. To rescue.

However, Tottenham's quick counterattack still dealt a big blow to Manchester United's momentum, causing Manchester United not to dare to press too hard in the next few minutes, which can be regarded as destroying the tactics arranged by Ferguson.

It wasn't until 50 minutes into the game that Manchester United's offensive gradually became stronger and almost scored.

In the 53rd minute, Evra made a breakthrough on the right side of Tottenham, and then passed the ball into Tottenham's penalty area. Berbatov flew the header, but Fletcher missed the ball in the small penalty area.

Seeing that the team was in a tight situation on the field, Lao Lei interrupted Manchester United's rhythm with substitutions. He replaced Defoe with Gudjohnsen in the 55th minute, hoping the ex-Chelsea striker could use his experience to help a young Spurs side.

However, Lao Lei's abacus failed to come true. After Gudjohnsen came on the field, the situation on the field did not change much. Amidst the cheers of more than 70,000 Red Devils fans, Manchester United continued to suppress Tottenham. Wave after wave of attacks like tides.

Under this powerful offensive, Tottenham finally failed to withstand it. In the 58th minute of the game, Tottenham's defense made a mistake.

At that time, Berbatov cut into the left heel of the penalty area to pass the ball. Hector tripped and inserted Evra who was about to shoot. The referee Marina gave Manchester United a penalty without hesitation.

Giggs took the penalty for Manchester United. He chose to shoot the penalty low to the lower left corner. Although Gomez judged it correctly, the angle Giggs chose was too tricky and the ball was too fast. Gomez couldn't stop it. The ball goes into the net.

1:0!

When the game progressed to the 58th minute, Manchester United finally took the lead in the score.

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At the moment Giggs scored the penalty kick, the Theater of Dreams erupted completely, and the cheers from more than 70,000 fans of the home team almost deafened the ears of Tottenham players, including Bale.

The Red Devils fans have no reason to be unhappy, because as long as they maintain this score until the end, Manchester United can temporarily return to the top of the standings: they and Tottenham both have 79 points, but they have a goal difference advantage.

The seasoned Ferguson made a substitution immediately after Manchester United took the lead. He replaced Valencia with Carrick and pushed Giggs to the left half to strengthen possession.

Obviously, Ferguson didn't want to give Tottenham a chance to comeback.

Sure enough, in the next few minutes, Manchester United fully grasped the situation on the field. Even if Tottenham wanted to counterattack, they could not get possession of the ball, and counterattack was completely out of the question.

Lao Lei's brows were all wrinkled. He had thoughts in his heart, but he couldn't make up his mind.

Watching the time go by, Lao Lei still decided to give it a try.

In the 66th minute of the game, Lao Lei replaced Bentley with Lennon who had just returned from injury. He hoped that with Lennon's speed and breakthrough, he could also threaten Manchester United more on the right. In this way, Tottenham's right wing can truly form a situation where both wings fly together, just like Bell on the left wing.

Compared with Bentley, Lennon's speed and breakthrough ability are obviously much stronger. After he came on the field, he quickly formed an effective breakthrough on the right. Although the final pass was blocked by Raphael, it was still given Tottenham brought a corner kick.

The corner kick from the right is still taken by Bell.

Because he is a left-footed player and Giggs' experience card is used today, Bell's left foot is obviously more threatening. His corner kick was very accurate and found Ledley King near the penalty spot. The Tottenham captain took off vigorously, overwhelmed Carrick, and shook his head to attack the goal.

Because Van der Sar chose to block the front point, when Ledley King headed the ball into the middle of the goal, he had no time to save it.

Rafael was standing on the side of the far post. When he found that Ledley King shook his head and headed the ball to the center, he also missed the clearance.

1:1, Tottenham tenaciously equalized the score.

At this moment, the Tottenham players celebrated in the Theater of Dreams, while the more than 70,000 home team fans fell into silence.

This goal has dealt too much blow to Manchester United fans and players. Just ten minutes after they scored, Tottenham equalized the score. This gives people a feeling that you score and I score too.

Contrary to the situation where more than 70,000 Manchester United fans were silent, the more than 3,000 Tottenham fans who came from afar were overjoyed. Although it only equalized the score, Tottenham took another big step forward on the way to win the first Premier League championship in team history!

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