Football career: From winning the championship to becoming a legend

Ricardo stood by and watched Ronaldo's set-piece penalty shootout process:

The first step is to concentrate and bend down to place the ball. You must place it yourself, and the most important thing is the direction of the pattern on the ball. There must be no deviation, because Ronaldo wants to kick the position of the valve core of the ball.

The second step is to stand up and step on the grass near the penalty spot. Step back and forth several times to check whether the supporting foot will slip and whether the grass near the ball is flat. Also, check whether the pattern of the hitting position is correct and whether the valve core can be accurately kicked. If there is any deviation, return to step one.

The third step is to aim at the goal and start walking backwards from the position of the supporting foot next to the penalty spot. The distance of this retreat is about four steps. Li Qi helped Ronaldo count them during training.

Step 9: Spread your legs, straighten your chest and draw in your stomach, and stand in the famous compass-like posture, then stare fiercely at the ten-point corner of the goal you are going to take the penalty kick... If it were Li Qi, he would only aim at the nine-point corner, aiming at the ten-point corner is too confident; in addition, the eyes must be sharp and fierce, and Ronaldo usually practices this when defending! It's hard to say whether it can scare the goalkeeper, but the momentum must be enough;

The fifth step is to wait for the referee to blow the whistle, then Ronaldo will take a deep breath and start his three and a half steps run-up. The first step is a small step with the right foot - counted as half a step, followed by three steps of acceleration;

The sixth step is to tense all the muscles in your body, twist your waist to exert force, use your thighs to move your tense calves, and use the instep of your foot to kick the valve core of the football hard, causing the ball to create a strange arc, bypass the human wall, and go straight to the tenth corner of the goal!

The seventh step is to raise your arms high and be ready to celebrate...

Well, although every time Li Qi watched Ronaldo take a free kick, he felt that his formulaic process was too long-winded... But! It was full of momentum and a great weapon to show off in front of others! Regardless of whether the free kick went in or not, I was domineering and majestic anyway!

However... Wow! The ball really went in! The ball went over the man and into the upper right corner of the goal! A world wave! Manchester United once again expanded the lead in the injury time of the first half. Ronaldo scored his 25th league goal of the season with a 12-yard free kick, helping Manchester United lead Sunderland 3-0!

Then, Ronaldo stopped sliding and kneeling, and just crossed his arms over his chest, raised his neck slightly, and looked at everyone with a proud look, like a big brother who was about to help his little brother succeed...

Li Qi and Rooney hugged Ronaldo on the left and right to celebrate. They both secretly spat in their hearts: Damn! I really want to pick up Lu Xiaopang/Li Xiaoqi to pull the pants of this guy who pretends to be a pen rice, it's too cheap!

Besides... Li Qi was also a little confused: Is this considered helping me? What's the benefit for me? The assists are gone, the goals are yours, and even the chance to show off in front of others is yours...

Even Sir Alex Ferguson off the pitch probably couldn't stand Ronaldo's arrogance and self-display, especially his shameless boasting during the halftime break, asking everyone to name three details of his set-piece penalty...

Shit, Li Qi took the lead in a sneak attack, throwing the sweaty jersey he had just changed from behind over Ronaldo's head, and then he made a gesture and everyone rushed forward to beat him up! Of course, the jersey Li Qi threw over Rooney's head was Rooney's jersey; but the one who got the most hit was also Rooney... Ha, anyway, Li Qi is a well-known man!

As expected, Sir Alex Ferguson replaced Ronaldo with Park Ji-sung who had just finished warming up just ten minutes into the second half. One reason was to allow Park Sam-fei, who had just recovered from a long injury, to find his feeling in this relatively relaxed game environment, and the other was to keep Ronaldo, who was in explosive form, to continue to start in the league three days later.

As for Leeds and Rooney, Sir Alex Ferguson probably plans to rest them both in the next game, so let them play the whole game.

Shortly after Park Ji-sung came on the pitch, he created an attack and helped Manchester United change the score again.

In the 61st minute, Park Ji-sung received Carrick's pass and sent a shingled pass to Wes Brown, who made a high-speed run forward and made a powerful cross near the right baseline. The ball drew an arc and passed Rooney and Saha who were flanking in the middle of the penalty area and a group of defensive players, and went straight to the back of the goal!

Li Qi, who was lying in ambush at the far end, clearly judged the landing point of the ball without being marked, and headed the ball at a small angle not far from the corner of the small penalty area, 10 yards away from the goal! Although the angle was not large, Sunderland goalkeeper Gordon did not have time to turn around from the front point to intercept this powerful header, and the ball hit the net in the upper right corner of the goal!

Manchester United leads Sunderland 4-0! Li Qi is now only one goal behind Ronaldo...

The home team's fans couldn't bear to see their beloved team being slaughtered on Boxing Day, and many of them left the stadium early after Li Qi's goal.

As for Li Qi, after struggling with Rooney over the celebratory moves for a while, he just waved at the away fans. After all, the Magic Quartet was missing two players, and the Legend of Aru III was missing CR. He couldn't come up with another combination, right? The Charming Combination? Oh! Not bad! Let's try it for the next goal...

However, Sir Alex Ferguson, seeing that the situation was settled, began to replace young players so that the main players could relax and have a rest. He first replaced Vidic with Pique. After all, the Black Cats did not have much offensive power in this game.

In the last half hour of the game, Li Qi began to continuously feed the ball to Rooney, his good mate in the new Chini combination. After all, both he and Ronaldo had scored double digits, while Rooney, the team's main center forward, had only scored 5 goals in the league. It was a bit unworthy of the reputation of the 3 Alu combination. Even the newly formed Chini combination was not loud enough if it was mentioned!

After all, Li Qi has always been committed to the principle of developing slowly and trying to win the championship, so he hopes that the media will not expose him, pay attention to him, and that his opponents will not study him or crack him...

As for Tevez, another of the Four Little Swans? Firstly, he doesn't speak English yet, so he has some communication problems with the small group. Of course, he has little communication problems with Li Qi, who knows Italian and Spanish, and Ronaldo, who knows Portuguese. But after all, they play in the Premier League, and the official language is English. Secondly, Tevez didn't reach any dirty undercover PY deal with Li Qi, so the benefits of feeding him cakes can't be maximized. The third and most important reason is that Tevez was rested in this game!

Oh! And Saha... The French striker has become a glass body. It's not that I don't want to play with him, but when I want to play with him, he is not on the court most of the time...

In the 73rd minute, Li Qi passed the ball straight through the middle, Rooney received the ball and rushed into the edge of the penalty area from the right and shot hard. Unfortunately, the ball was shot too straight and was caught by goalkeeper Gordon who was guarding the middle...

In the 76th minute, Li Qi made a comeback, but this time he switched to the right and sent a cross to Rooney who was outflanking in the middle. Rooney also successfully deceived Higginbotham who was closely guarding him by moving in a serpentine manner, and shot from 6 yards in front! But he shot the ball high...

Another performance of shooting the ball in the small penalty area. Both players of the Xinqi Ni group couldn't help but cover their faces at the same time. How embarrassing... It seems that Rooney, who scored the first goal today, has no luck in scoring anymore.

Sir Alex Ferguson off the field probably thought the same thing. After Rooney missed two big goals in a row, he played the third card and replaced Rooney for a rest. Anyway, the overall situation was already decided, so he sent in new signing Anderson to play, changing to a 4-4-1-1 formation, with Anderson playing as a central midfielder to support the only striker Saha.

There were only ten minutes left in the game, and everyone thought that the game should end like this. After all, Sunderland could not attack, and Manchester United had already replaced the main players. They should give the home team some face on Boxing Day, right? After all, the home team's head coach was still Manchester United's famous Roy Keane, so there should be some incense, right?

But I didn't expect that the substitutes who rarely started today, as well as the young guys who just came on, had no idea about the ways of the world and had no sense of the big picture at all. They just took advantage of the home team Sunderland, whose morale was low, and continued to beat up!

When the regular time of the game was about to end, Manchester United, who continued to put pressure on the Black Cats' defense, changed the score again, and this time it was the home team's defense that made mistakes.

In fact, the effect of Manchester United's substitutes' fierce attack was mediocre. They played too directly, which was a bit like thunder with little rain. They had a lot of shots, but not many attacks that were really threatening, mainly because they played too hastily.

Li Qi also saw it, but Li Qi was also tired. Anyway, they were leading by 4 points, so Li Qi didn't think too much and didn't control the rhythm. He just gave the ball to Anderson or Park Ji-sung and was happy to be a transitional player and watch the show from the back.

However, when the game came to the 88th minute, Manchester United continued to attack Sunderland's penalty area for nearly 5 minutes, and took 3 consecutive corner kicks. When Li Qi met Anderson who was eager to rush into the penalty area but couldn't find a way, Sunderland defender Danny Collins recklessly kicked Li Qi...

Originally, Li Qi wanted to receive the ball, turn around, protect the ball with his back to the goalkeeper, and then pass it back to the wing to look for another chance; but Danny Collins thought Li Qi was going to cut inside and shoot, so after fighting the entire game, Collins, whose brain had short-circuited due to lack of oxygen and pressure, actually chose to make a tackle to intercept, and that happened to be when Li Qi was protecting the ball with his back to the goalkeeper...

Therefore, it was undisputed that Collins was sentenced to a penalty kick for knocking down Li Qi from behind in the penalty area, and the referee did not give another card because he showed mercy in consideration of the score.

As for who will take the penalty? Oh no! Manchester United's first, second, third and fourth penalty takers are all not on the field. They either did not sign up or have been replaced, so the only forward shooter Saha will take the penalty!

It seems that the French striker has done something good recently! In the Christmas game, he rarely starts and has the opportunity to score twice!

Saha did not let the opportunity slip away, and steadily scored the penalty kick into the lower right corner of Sunderland's goal, helping Manchester United lock the result of the game with a score of 5-0! Another -goal victory, Manchester United has been playing too bloody recently, worthy of being the bloodthirsty Red Devils!

Manchester United easily won five consecutive league games, while Sunderland suffered consecutive defeats.

After losing this game, Sunderland ranked 19th, and the good performance at the beginning of the season has disappeared.

In the post-match press conference, Keane not only admitted defeat, but also emphasized, just like Sir Alex Ferguson, that he and his team would not give up or be relegated: "We know where we are. The best team wins the championship, and the worst three teams are relegated. I believe we are not among these three teams."

Sir Alex Ferguson, who won a big victory despite replacing half of his main players, was in a good mood as if he had enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner. He spoke eloquently at the press conference, first praising Rooney for breaking the deadlock. In addition to emphasizing that everyone played well, Sir Alex Ferguson also pointed out that it was Rooney's first goal that determined the outcome: "This was an excellent game. I think we did a good job in passing and moving. The first goal calmed us down. The movement between the players was so wonderful. We knew Sunderland had entered a painful zone."

Then Sir Alex praised the players who played well in this game one by one, including Saha who broke his goal drought and scored twice, Park Ji-sung who returned from injury after 9 months and performed actively, and Cristiano Ronaldo who scored a world wave direct free kick...

Naturally, when mentioning Ricardo Richie, Sir Alex showed a meaningful smile: "Ricardo is a good guy, he works hard in training and is also very active off the court, but he is a low-key and humble person. I know what he can do, but it's best not to disturb him..."

Sir Alex and Li Qi have a tacit understanding on letting Li Qi continue to develop and sneak attack other Premier League teams; as far as Li Qi knows, after November, 11 media including but not limited to England and Italy have submitted applications to Manchester United for exclusive interviews with Li Qi, but all of them were rejected by Sir Alex. Even though Liverpool coach Benitez praised him for a while, Sir Alex still plans to stay as long as he can, and will talk about it when he can't stand it anymore, and it would be best if he can stay until the big orange is determined!

Then Sir Alex made a sudden turn and skipped all topics about Li Qi and started talking about the situation of the Premier League half-time champion and the championship race. As we all know, according to the history of the Premier League, the probability of winning the half-time champion is not particularly high, just above 50%, but after all, there is nearly a % chance of touching the final trophy, right?

Sir Alex Ferguson concluded: "We are only halfway through the season, let's wait and see what will happen at the end of the season..."

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And just as the topic Sir Alex Ferguson introduced at the end, Manchester United's winning streak or Sunderland's losing streak are not the hot spots that fans are paying attention to, because this round is the last game of the first half of the Premier League, so the Premier League half-time champion will be decided after this round of games, on Boxing Day of the Christmas battle, this is what the Red Devils fans really care about!

However, before the half-time championship results came out, as the last round of the first half, it happened to be Christmas. In addition to Manchester United's 5- victory over Sunderland, there were many other games in this round of the Premier League that were like a collision of Mars and the Earth, which attracted the attention of countless fans!

Tottenham Hotspur also scored 5 goals in this round, just like Manchester United! Tottenham Hotspur will have a London derby with Fulham at home - yes, there are a total of 5 teams in London competing in the Premier League this season, so there will be many London derbies.

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In the 27th minute of the game, Irish striker Robbie Keane scored a clever follow-up shot from the left side of the penalty area to help Tottenham open the scoring. Then in the first half stoppage time, Huddlestone received a pass from Berbatov and shot low from outside the penalty area to help Tottenham score the second goal.

The visiting team Fulham equalized in the 60th minute with Dempsey scoring a rebound goal.

But then in the 62nd minute of the game, Berbatov passed the ball to Robbie Keane, who scored his 40th goal in nearly 30 games with his knee from close range.

Then in the 71st minute, Lennon made a cross from the right, and Huddlestone scored his second goal with a low shot from the edge of the penalty area into the lower left corner.

In the 87th minute, Fulham, who were already trailing by a large margin, suffered further setbacks when former Arsenal German defender Waltz, who came on as a substitute, was sent off with two yellow cards and had to play with ten men. Fortunately, there was not much time left in the game.

But I didn't expect that Tottenham was as unkind and unscrupulous as Manchester United, taking advantage of someone's illness to kill him. In the last minute of the regular time of the game, the 90th minute, Huddlestone made a straight pass and Defoe shot into the net in the penalty area, helping Tottenham Hotspur to secure a 5-1 victory at home!

This is Tottenham's third victory in the last four games, while Fulham has not won in the last seven rounds.

However, Tottenham's 5-1 victory, in which the two teams scored a total of 6 goals, was not the game with the most goals in this round. The game with the most goals also took place in London, but not in the north where Tottenham is located, but at Stamford Bridge in Fulham, west London - yes, it is the same district as Fulham, the farmer.

Chelsea faces the challenge of Aston Villa, commonly known as Chelsea, at home!

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