Football career: From winning the championship to becoming a legend

Manchester United was defeated twice by Arsenal last season, but this season the Gunners have the upper hand with one win and one draw in the two games, including a 1-1 victory at home in the FA Cup.

曼联近7个主场对阵阿森纳仅1次落败。双方英超历史交锋31场，曼联12胜10平9负占据上风，其中主场8胜4平3负。这是双方第203场交锋，此前曼联81胜45平76负稍占上风。

The Manchester United 3R of Li Qi, Rooney and Ronaldo, who were rested in the Champions League in the middle of the week, returned to the starting lineup. Evra and Scholes, who were not included in the squad last time, also replaced Silvester and Anderson in the starting lineup respectively.

Pique continued to start in place of the injured Vidic, while Giggs and Tevez, who scored in the Champions League match in midweek, sat on the bench.

Sir Alex continued to use the 4-2-3-1 formation in the two rounds against Roma, but after changing the starting lineup, this formation looked much sharper than in the middle of the week.

The goalkeeper is No. 1 Van der Sar;

The back four is No. 6 Wes Brown, No. 19 Pique, No. 5 Ferdinand and No. 3 Evra;

The double defensive midfielders are No. 16 Carrick and No. 4 Hargreaves;

The three forwards are No.7 Cristiano Ronaldo, No.18 Scholes and No.17 Li Qi;

The single arrow is No. 10 Rooney.

As for Arsenal, the professor has a headache because what Sir Alex Ferguson said was true. Three consecutive battles with Liverpool have left the team exhausted and battered.

Although Wenger had one more day to rest and adjust than Manchester United, facing the home team Manchester United who made a big rotation in the Champions League in the middle of the week, he had to rotate in the Premier League life-and-death battle with Manchester United:

Lehmann replaced the injured Almunia in the starting lineup, Song, Van Persie and Gilberto Silva replaced Senderos, Diaby and the injured Flamini respectively.

Arsenal still used their usual parallel 4-4-2 starting lineup:

The goalkeeper is No. 1 Jens Lehmann;

The back four is No. 5 Kolo Toure, No. 10 Gallas, No. 17 Song and No. 22 Clichy;

The midfield is composed of No. 27 Eboue, No. 19 Gilberto Silva, No. 4 Fabregas and No. 13 Hleb;

The two forwards are No. 11 Van Persie and No. 25 Adebayor.

As soon as the referee blew the whistle, the Red Devils Manchester United in red shirts and white pants launched a fierce charge towards the Arsenal position in white shirts and purple pants!

After all, Arsenal was eliminated from the Champions League after three hard-fought games against Liverpool, while Manchester United was well rested and in high spirits at home. The latter naturally felt that they should give the visiting Nana a good beating and then take the victory...

But as the saying goes, the army that mourns will win, and those who get carried away by success will lose the battle.

Manchester United rushed forward and attacked hard after the opening, but accidentally let the ball go. The tactics used to get the ball into the goal were also very simple, which was a defensive counterattack and a cross from the bottom.

In the 6th minute, Ronaldo's long shot from 30 yards away was too straight and was caught by Lehmann, who quickly threw the ball to Adebayor who retreated to the center circle to receive it.

The 1-meter-tall Togolese striker used his strong body to hold off the young Pi, who seemed to want to foul him by bumping into him from behind, but his strength was not enough and he almost stumbled and was bounced away.

Adebayor controlled the ball steadily and passed it back to Fabregas who came in from behind to organize the play. But before the latter received the ball, he saw Li Qi approaching him quickly and wanted to attack him, so he didn't make any more adjustments and directly kicked the ball high behind Wes Brown...

Wes Brown quickly retreated to fill the position, but he made the most wrong decision. He did not turn around to chase the ball, but wanted to head the ball directly back to the midfield.

But obviously, Wes Brown overestimated his own bounce or height, so Fabregas's overhead ball was headed straight up and down by Wes Brown. The latter also jumped too hard in the process of retreating, and his footing was unstable, so he fell flat on his butt.

So Van Persie, who was next to Wes Brown, accepted the gift with a smile, picked up the ball and started shooting; and before Hargreaves caught up and interfered, he sent a cross from the left wing...

Ferdinand, Carrick and Van der Sar, who were returning to defense, missed the ball and failed to intercept it in time. Adebayor, who followed up at the back post, easily shot into the goal from 6 yards in front of the goal!

This was the Togolese striker's 26th goal of the season and his 20th in the league, tying Li Qi's league goal tally. The two tied for third on the scorer list, only one goal behind Torres, who was second on the scorer list.

Arsenal, who were in a passive situation, shot the ball into Manchester United's goal with the first shot after the start of the game. They got off to a dream start and took a 1-0 lead over the high-spirited Manchester United team away from home.

The Manchester United players who were temporarily behind looked calm and were not discouraged. After all, apart from the mistakes made by Manchester United's midfield and backcourt, this ball also had a lot of luck involved. And the most important thing was that there was still plenty of time. This season, the Red Devils had enough confidence to overtake the score at the Theatre of Dreams!

However, the rest of the first half was a slap in the face to the Red Devils players. They acted too hastily and were too arrogant. Everyone wanted to do it themselves, or everyone wanted to kill Nana with one hammer. This allowed Arsenal, who had a more balanced mentality, to organize their defense and launch counterattacks more calmly.

In the 11th minute, Rooney's strong attack was intercepted and Gallas launched a counterattack directly from the penalty area.

After Adebayor received Van Persie's header, his strong attack in the middle was blocked by Ferdinand's tackle, but Wes Brown made another mistake in clearing the ball and gave the ball to Fabregas who was following up.

Fortunately, the latter's powerful shot from 18 yards on the right side of the penalty area hit the crossbar and went over the bottom line.

In the 17th minute, Hargreaves' cross was too close to the goal and was punched out by Lehmann. The ball just went over the head of Li Qi who was following up. The latter was unable to intercept the ball even if he triggered the flash point.

However, Fabregas, who had just been left behind by Li Qi, took advantage of another opportunity behind him. He calmly protected the ball, turned around and passed the ball to the side, forcing Li Qi, who immediately turned around and wanted to shoot him, to continue chasing the ball in frustration.

Eboue then made a 45-degree cross from the right, Pique headed the ball in front of the goal, but failed to intercept it, allowing Adebayor to shoot from 12 yards in the middle. Fortunately, Ferdinand, who was accurate in judging the shot, sacrificed himself to block the ball and the ball went out of the bottom line.

Then Fabregas took a corner kick from the left and sent it into the penalty area. Van der Sar barely blocked the ball with both fists under the interference of the crowd. But the ball did not go far, Gilberto Silva grabbed the landing point and volleyed into the empty goal from 14 yards in front of the goal!

Fortunately, the ball was blocked by Ferdinand in the small penalty area again, and was cleared in time by Li Qi beside him. Manchester United escaped again.

Manchester United didn't get their first chance to score until the 23rd minute.

Li Qi finally intercepted Fabregas' ball in the middle, but the latter's body could not withstand the impact of the Italian spirited young man and was forcibly passed by the former after the former broke the ball.

Then Li Qi and Scholes made a wall-like cooperation and passed the ball directly behind Kolo Toure who was at a loss as to what to do.

Evra, who came in from behind, didn't stop the ball and passed it straight behind Arsenal's defense line.

Arsenal defender Song also made a misjudgment. He failed to reach the ball when he made a tackle, allowing Ronaldo behind him to successfully lead the ball into the right side of Arsenal's penalty area.

Then Ronaldo faked two bicycle kicks, created space and then made a big twist of his waist and made a cross from the bottom!

Rooney, who was flanking the middle, had an open goal opportunity at 6 yards, but he managed to hit the ball into goalkeeper Lehmann with a difficult shot, and the ball went out of bounds right in front of Ronaldo...

In the first half of the game, Arsenal's counterattacks were either missed by Adebayor at the edge of the penalty area or by Rooney who fired the ball into the hands of Lehmann.

Both sides kept squandering scoring opportunities until halftime...

Overall, Arsenal surprisingly had the upper hand in the first half: 51.7% ball possession, 86.3% pass success rate, 10 of 5 shots, and a score of 1-0, all leading Manchester United, who were playing at home and looked in better shape.

Sir Alex had already walked into the locker room with a sullen face, ready to turn on the hair dryer at maximum power to wake these bastards up!

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[Do you want to see how the Sir Stuart curses?

Should we let Li Qi sacrifice himself at the beginning of the next chapter and perform a show of swallowing a spit in the face?

In addition, the rating of this book finally reached 6.5!

It’s not easy!

The author has written more than 160 million words to get this score. It's like a scorpion shitting on a tomato, right?

Wouldn’t normal people have given up farming long ago?

It’s all true love…】