Football career: From winning the championship to becoming a legend

It was already March 3 when Ricciardo returned to Manchester, because he stayed with Julian for an extra day, using the excuse that he was returning to Italy with the national team…

So on Friday, Sarafina, still dressed in a dashing khaki knight outfit, drove to the airport to pick up the scumbag Li, and then the former directly sent the latter to the club to report for training. After all, tomorrow night is the 32nd round of the Premier League.

Sir Alex Ferguson allowed Ricardo to report one day later because he was scheduled to take a rest in this round of the league and to prepare for the Champions League next week.

However, the day before yesterday, Sir Alex Ferguson called Ricardo to inform him that he must return to the team for training on time.

Because before the game, another Manchester United midfielder was injured. Fletcher, who was originally scheduled to start this round, was injured on the national team match day and is expected to be absent for 6 weeks, so Ricardo had to fill in and be on standby on the starting bench.

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2008年3月29日晚上17时许，老特拉福德飘起了小雨，07/08赛季英格兰足球超级联赛第32轮，红衣白裤的主队曼联与白衣蓝裤的客军阿斯顿维拉就是在春雨如油的天气下开始了比赛。

Before this game, Manchester United had won all the last 14 encounters between the two sides, and had an unbeaten record of 22 wins and 20 draws in the last 2 encounters.

阿斯顿维拉上次取胜曼联还是在1999年10月的联赛杯，联赛取胜则要追溯到1995年8月，在老特拉福德更要追溯到1983年11月。

双方英超交锋32场，曼联23胜7平2负占据上风，其中客场11胜3平2负。这是双方的第169场交锋，曼联86胜35平48负占据着绝对的心理优势。

Moreover, next week, Manchester United will travel to Rome to play the first leg of the crucial Champions League quarter-finals, so Sir Alex made rotations in multiple positions.

But it is still a very competitive parallel 4-4-2 starting lineup:

The goalkeeper is No. 29 Kuszczak;

The back line from right to left is No. 6 Wes Brown, No. 5 Ferdinand, No. 15 Vidic and No. 22 O'Shea;

The midfield quartet is No. 7 Rogers, No. 18 Anderson, No. 8 Anderson and No. 11 Giggs;

The two strikers are No. 10 Rooney and No. 32 Tevez.

Aston Villa is currently ranked eighth in the league. Although it is a bit difficult to compete for the top four and the Champions League spot, it still has a good chance of pursuing the top six and qualifying for the Europa League.

So even though Villa was playing away, Chelsea did not play conservatively at all and frequently tried to create threats through defensive counterattacks.

As for the home team Manchester United, they are not worried about your counterattack. What they are afraid of is that you will not come out of your hole. As long as you want to counterattack, there must be a chance to take advantage of the gap between offense and defense...

However, before Manchester United could seize the opportunity of the visiting team's transition from offense to defense, they first opened the opponent's goal with a set piece.

In the 17th minute of the game, Ronaldo made a strong breakthrough on the right and created a corner kick.

Giggs then took the corner kick from the left side and went straight to the middle of the small penalty area... In the melee, the ball was hastily blocked out of the small penalty area by Villa defender Bouma's hips, but the ball was not cleared far and fell right behind Ronaldo.

But this did not bother the Portuguese spirited young man who was proficient in all kinds of shooting techniques. Ronaldo turned around quickly, controlled the ball, turned his back to the goal, and shot with his heel from 10 yards in front of the goal...

The ball passed between the legs of Villa defender Laursen, who was trying to defend behind Ronaldo, and went into the near corner of the goal.

There were so many people in the small penalty area, and the ball passed through the two small gates of Ronaldo and Laursen. The distance was so close that Aston Villa goalkeeper Carson didn't figure out where the ball was from beginning to end. He turned around and saw the ball in the net behind him...

This was Ronaldo's 36th goal of the season, including 26 goals in the league. He continued to lead the scorer list and helped Manchester United lead 1-0 in this game!

After Manchester United took the lead, they played more calmly. After all, Villa, who was lagging behind, was unwilling to surrender, so they had to change from defensive counterattack to active attack. Then it was Manchester United's turn to counterattack the visiting team, and the gap between the visiting team's offense and defense would be even bigger.

Manchester United, who controlled the ball and the tempo of the game, did not make the fans wait long. After just 15 minutes, they expanded their lead. However, the person who provided the assist this time was a bit surprising to everyone.

In the 33rd minute, after Villa's long pass attack failed, Manchester United launched a counterattack. Scholes and Rooney, who retreated to receive the ball, made a series of passes in the midfield, quickly passing the ball to the front court, and then the former pretended to shoot from a distance and then passed the ball to the side.

The one lurking on the right wing was Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored the first goal. But when everyone thought that Cristiano Ronaldo would do the same as before - cutting inside and shooting at the goal, this time Cristiano Ronaldo stopped the ball, observed, and after a slight adjustment, he directly sent a cross with great power, arc and angle...

Ronaldo's cross accurately found Tevez who was unmarked at the far end of the goal! The latter easily headed the ball 8 yards in front of the goal and sent the ball steadily into the upper right corner of the goal. Manchester United led the visiting team 2-0!

Manchester United completely dominated the game in the first half, and the visiting team Villa had no chance at all. Not only did the home team enter the halftime break with a two-goal advantage, but the audience even thought that the visiting team Villa would not have another chance in this game. Manchester United was too strong and in too good a shape.

However, in the second half, Villa coach Martin O'Neill was obviously unwilling to accept defeat. He first replaced Carew, who had an adductor muscle strain, with Maloney;

Then he signaled the team to press forward and try to make one last effort: if they could score a goal early in the second half, the outcome of the game would be uncertain.

However, after Villa striker Haywood and Maloney, who had just come on as a substitute, missed two one-on-one opportunities in succession, the home team Manchester United decided not to give Villa and Martin O'Neill any more chances.

The home team Red Devils sealed the victory in the 53rd minute.

Manchester United continued to seize Villa's offensive and defensive transitions. After a quick set-piece in the backcourt, Giggs cut into the middle and made a diagonal pass to the corner of the penalty area.

This time, Ronaldo once again changed his previous style of holding the ball and attacking, and instead kicked the ball out, gently knocking the ball from the corner of the penalty area to the penalty spot in the middle of the penalty area...

Rooney, who successfully broke away from the offside trap, made a diagonal run to get a one-on-one opportunity. He passed the attacking Villa goalkeeper Carson with a sideways pass, and then easily shot the ball into the empty goal with his right foot!

This was Rooney's first goal in his last seven games. Although he had a lot of assists before, he was not lucky in scoring goals - not a single one.

However, the one who helped Rooney break his goal drought in this game was not Manchester United's passing masters Scholes, Giggs, Lizzie or Carrick, but Manchester United's number one killer Cristiano Ronaldo. This is somewhat surprising: Has Cristiano Ronaldo changed his personality? !

In fact, this is all thanks to the bragging and chattering of Ronaldo and Li Qi in the locker room before the game.

Li Qi inadvertently mentioned Ronaldo's goal record, and was worried that the opponent's defender would deliberately block Ronaldo, because everyone on earth knew that Manchester United wanted to feed the ball to Ronaldo to improve his statistics, so it would become more and more difficult for Ronaldo to score goals in the future.

After all, this situation happened at the beginning of the season when Ronaldo broke his goal drought and in the previous rounds when Ronaldo tied Best's record. The defensive players knew that Ronaldo was most likely to end Manchester United's attack, so they just stayed by his side and waited...

Li Qi said it unintentionally, but Ronaldo took it seriously: "Yes! Changes must be made!

Besides, didn’t the Roman prince who was said to have published a collection of jokes say that I don’t know how to assist?

We have already scored a goal in this game, so let’s take a look!

I can do without Li Qi!"

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[There should be an update in the second half of the night.]

But it is true that a small chapter of 2.4K is easy to make! 】