long live football

Under the training of Mourinho, Deco, who has shown the greatest vitality in his career, is too cunning. To completely block him requires the cooperation of other Manchester United central defenders, but almost every player on the field is arranged by Karl. To let them devote their energy to watching Deco, if they want to take care of everything, it will often be self-defeating.

Therefore, if Porto's offense cannot be stifled from the midfield, it will come from the source.

If Porto's offense was mostly organized by Deco, then the player who completed the fatal blow in front of the goal was undoubtedly McCarthy.

McCarthy, who was born in South Africa, has a strong explosive power and physical advantages shared by African players. Since this season, he has been holding the top scorer position in the Portuguese Super League, and he can be regarded as the core of Porto's offense.

This person has a strong body and comprehensive skills. The only shortcoming may be that his speed is not very fast because his body is too strong.

During the intermission, Karl has been hesitating.

In the second half of the game, Manchester United must not only score goals, but also contain Porto's offensive momentum. It must strengthen both offense and defense. There are trade-offs.

After thinking carefully for more than ten minutes, Karl finally made a decision.

At half-time Manchester United made a substitution - Scholes replaced Kleberson.Kleberson is a "meat grinder" defensive midfielder, but Scholes is the best candidate to help Manchester United's midfield scheduling. Although he may not be as good as the former in professional defense, he is more comprehensive than the former.

Ever since Scholes came on the field, Karl has been breathing tightly. Although it is true that nothing can be seen from the outside, he is indeed worried...waiting.

Wait to see yourself succeed, or fail.

Seven minutes after the start of the second half, when McCarthy dribbled the ball into the Manchester United half like a bomber, and Scholes went up to it fearlessly, Carl's eyelids twitched heavily!

But then, he saw Scholes shovel the ball off McCarthy's feet!

This is the dawn of hope!

After Scholes took the ball, he quickly turned around and started running!And because of McCarthy's clumsy movements, when he turned around to block Scholes's way, he found that he was one step too late!

"That's it!" Carl clenched his fists excitedly outside the court.

Because of the shaking of his body, his black windbreaker drew a perfect semicircle in the air.

Scholes is extremely fast, like a bolt of lightning, inserting into Porto's half!

At the front of the penalty area, Scholes gave the ball to Van Nistelrooy!

Ruud van Nistelrooy, wearing a red No. 10 jersey, only needs to enter the penalty area, which is no different from visiting his own back garden!

The G-spot of the Manchester United fans was immediately poked, and there was a huge red wave in the stands, and countless people couldn't help shouting: "Fanny, GOAL!"

"Fanny, GOAL!"

"Fanny, GOAL!"

Accompanied by such exciting cheering sounds, Ruud van Nistelrooy raised his right foot in the small penalty area——

"GOOOOOAL! FUNY GOOOOOOOAL!!!"

……

2:2, Manchester United equalized the score!

The introverted Walter Smith couldn't help giving Carl a tight hug!

"You're right!" Smith patted Carl on the back and said loudly, "I've never felt so deeply as I do now—your substitutions are so fucking right!"

Karl was also ecstatic. He didn't expect his substitution to have such an immediate effect. In less than 10 minutes, he had already scored a goal for the team!

This gave him more encouragement and strengthened his confidence, making him more confident to turn many of his thoughts about football into reality.

In the 60th minute of the game, Manchester United launched an attack again.

Ruud van Nistelrooy was cruising in the penalty area, Giggs and Scholes flew together, constantly attacking Porto's defense line, the Porto players had to watch Ruud van Nistelrooy to prevent him from attacking, and also worried about the long pass from Giggs and others The ball, the defensive line has a hole for the first time since the start of the game.

Giggs found the opportunity to cut inside, broke through from the middle, and when Alenichev and Marcheny caught him, he pushed the back of his foot and crossed the ball to Scholes.

Scholes stopped the ball, looked up at Porto's penalty area, and shot directly!

shoot?

No!It's a pass!

Ruud van Nistelrooy kept moving his footsteps in the penalty area, and finally adjusted his body just before the football fell. He was ready to wait for the football to fall into the air and shoot directly without stopping the ball.

At this time, Porto defender Ferreira, who was in charge of guarding him, became anxious. He stretched out his arms and pressed his chest against Ruud's back, trying to squeeze him away.

But although Van Nistelrooy was not particularly strong physically, his strength was not inferior to others. His luck was sinking like a clock, and Ferreira couldn't help him at all.

Seeing that Van Nistelrooy had raised his right foot, Ferreira, who was so powerful in his shot, suddenly pushed his chest forward and knocked Van Nistelrooy down, and then shoveled towards the football!

"Drip—" "Ah!"

The referee's whistle indicating a foul sounded at the same time as Van Nistelrooy's screams!

When the whistle blew, Ferreira raised his hands to show the referee that he was honest, and said in his mouth: "My tackle is not strong, I didn't foul on purpose!"

But Fanny, who was knocked over by him, fell to the ground with his right foot in his arms, his face was in pain, and the extremely pale expression couldn't be faked at all.

"Ferreira's tackle probably caused Ruud's old injury!" Sky Sports commentator Andy Gray exclaimed.

"Damn it!" Seeing Ruud van Nistelrooy being shoveled, even Karl couldn't help swearing. Then, as if he woke up, he suddenly turned around and shouted at the coach's bench: "Team doctor! Team doctor, hurry up!"

Three Manchester United doctors hurried onto the pitch carrying a stretcher.

But the arena was already in chaos.

Players from Manchester United and Porto have already surrounded the penalty area. You push me and you push you. The Manchester United players try their best to prevent them from getting close to Ruud van Nistelrooy. The Porto players are afraid that the Manchester United players will beat Ferreira, so they want to hurry up Ferreira. pull over.

The referee acted decisively and gave Ferreira a yellow card, and because Ferreira tackled Ruud van Nistelrooy in the penalty area, Manchester United was awarded a penalty.

The referee told Van Nistelrooy to stand up and take a penalty kick if his foot was fine.

However, after the team doctor checked Van Nistelrooy's ankle in detail, he judged that the ligaments and joints tended to be damaged. Regardless of whether it was serious or not, Van Nistelrooy would definitely not be able to take the penalty kick himself.

The team doctors carried Ruud van Nistelrooy off the field.

When they were about to put Van Nistelrooy on the bench to continue the examination, Karl held the team doctor McNally's hand: "Send Van Nistelrooy to the hospital immediately and give him a detailed examination of the whole body."

"But I think his foot injury didn't hurt his bones..." McNally said puzzled, "We can treat him ourselves."

"Send him to the hospital. I want to know whether his old injuries have been triggered." Carl said firmly: "Also, tell me when he can return to the court after the examination."

McNally hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, this is safer."

Van Nistelrooy, who was lying on a stretcher, relaxed a little when he heard that the team would send him to the hospital.

Although the Premier League is one of the top five leagues in the world, it has the momentum to catch up with Serie A and La Liga in recent years, but the team's medical level is generally low. With the development of the Premier League in recent years, most of the strong and rich teams are equipped with medical equipment. The team doctor and even the medical team, but in the early years, even the wealthy teams did not even have a licensed regular doctor. If a player was injured on the field, only a few Mongolian doctors who were invited to bandage them hastily and everything would be fine. .

Most English football clubs did not care about the physical treatment of their players before the 90s. Players could only seek medical treatment in private, and then disguise themselves as if they were not injured during training, because in the British football tradition, there used to be a kind of The coaching philosophy is very popular - that football players are very strong, and the strong are not hit by disease. If a player is injured or sick, the disease will immediately spread like a plague throughout the team.So for the good of the team, everyone should avoid those with injuries.

Ferguson's greatest achievement after coaching Manchester United is generally believed to be not only that he brought countless championships to the Red Devils, but also that he single-handedly eliminated many bad habits in the English football tradition in the Manchester United locker room and completely changed Manchester United's medical treatment. environment and so on.

However, although with the development of the times, most teams in England have now improved their medical conditions, but in the general environment, the medical level of the Premier League is still not optimistic.

Karl held Ruud's hand firmly: "Don't think about the game for now, we are here. Ruud, I sincerely hope that your foot injury is not serious."

"I hope so too." Although Fanny's feet were in severe pain, he still showed a sincere smile: "Carl, thank you for your concern."

As soon as the team doctor over there carried Van Nistelrooy into the central aisle, Carl turned around and said to Ronaldo who was sitting on the bench doing nothing, "Go warm up, it's time for you to play."

……

Every professional player has a superstar dream in his heart.

Cristiano Ronaldo is no exception.

Granted, he's also aware that he's a bit of an unlikable personality—someone says he's too pompous, pushy, and sharp-edged.

But Pele and Maradona, the world champions, can't be loved by everyone?

Genius is always misunderstood by most people. Ronaldo thinks so, as long as he is good enough to leave others firmly behind, who cares about the complaints of those losers!

Not afraid of gossip, willing to accept any challenge.

This is Ronaldo's professional belief.

When he first joined the Sporting Lisbon youth team, he was also ridiculed, but in just one season, he completed the five-level jump from the club's U16, U17, U18, second team to the first team, not only refreshing Lisbon The record in the history of the competition also surprised those who looked down on him.

After achieving brilliant results in Lisbon and successfully entering the Portuguese national team, Ronaldo soon received an invitation from Manchester United.The temptation to play for a top team in the top league is undoubtedly huge, which means a higher-level opponent and faster fame. Ronaldo quickly made a choice for himself.

But at Manchester United, he encountered the biggest challenge in his life.

In Lisbon, Ronaldo has the blessing of the old coach Aurelio Pereira who clearly understands his talent, so he can quickly make headlines in the team, become the main force, become the core, and be loved by the fans.

But in Manchester United, although Ferguson also values ​​him and is optimistic about him, he does not want to give Ronaldo a chance to show himself soon. Ferguson prefers to teach the young Portuguese slowly, and wait for him to become mature and stable, and integrate into the team Later, he was reused in the game.

Most of his teammates have a bad relationship with him.

Fans had mixed reviews of him, disliked him for his style of play and thought he was "a bit gimmicky".

wait.

Every time he wanted to talk to Ferguson, he got these two words.Of course Ronaldo knows that to become a world-renowned star, patience is necessary, but when will he wait?Another year, two years?Does he have to spend some of his best and most dynamic time on the bench?

Ronaldo is eager to break out and to prove his strength to the world.

Ferguson was sick and hospitalized, and Smith, who succeeded him, still didn't like him.

wait.

Under the influence of the team's new assistant coach Auston, Ronaldo got a chance as a substitute. He successfully scored a goal for the team. At that time, he thought that he would definitely start often in the future!

However, Smith still pressed him on the bench afterwards.

Since then, he's been the team's...firefighter.

Sometimes as a substitute, sometimes as a starter.

It's like the head coach only thinks of him when he really doesn't know who to use.

Porto came to Old Trafford as a guest, and they were very strong opponents.

Sure enough, he didn't get a starting chance in this game.

So he has been obediently sitting on the bench watching the game with a relatively objective look.

Then, he saw Porto defender Ferreira viciously tackle Ruud van Nistelrooy.

Fanny was injured.

When Ronaldo felt sorry for his teammates, a shameful desire arose in his heart-he thought it was extremely shameless for this idea to appear in his heart, and his whole body was filled with shame almost instantly.However, even if he tried his best to curb it, the desire was still getting stronger and stronger, and he couldn't stop it even with all his rationality.

Ruud van Nistelrooy is gone and is likely to miss the league for some time.Who will the head coach look for as his backup?Which lucky person will get the starting chance in the future?

Just when he was suffering, Ronaldo heard a voice like the sound of heaven: "Go warm up, it's time for you to play." Carl Alston said to him.

it's me?

I'm that lucky one? !

Ronaldo felt a strong sense of happiness pounding his body, and every cell in his body roared to the sky: My chance is here!

……

Ronaldo stands in front of Porto's goal, about to take a penalty for the team.

Between him and the goal there is only air and Porto goalkeeper Baya.

Baya is a veteran with a lot of experience.

And Ronaldo is a player who has just begun to show his talents. He is just 19 years old this year.

However, Ronaldo is not afraid of Baya at all, because he believes in the football under his feet.

Taking a deep breath and starting the run-up, when the football in sight became bigger and bigger, Ronaldo suddenly raised his right foot and hit the middle and lower part of the football hard!

"boom!"

The football made a loud noise as if deflated, and then hit the Porto goal like a shell!

Baya spread his arms wide, trying to block the penalty.

But long before he stretched his arms, the football had already slammed into the net!

Baya fell in front of the goal. He lay on the turf, turned his head to look at the football in the net, and slowly covered his face with his hands.

Ronaldo clenched his fists and roared uncontrollably at the penalty spot!

The background sound is an excited shout from an unknown commentator: "3:2! Manchester United leads Porto!"

……

Danny Brook laughed loudly. He squeezed away the excited Manchester United fans, ran to the dealer, spread his palms and said quickly: "Give me the money! At odds of 50 to 350, I bet [-] pounds, give me [-] GBP!"

The dealer said to him with a stiff face: "No, the game is not over yet, and Manchester United... may not necessarily win."

"If Porto can't tie the score, the victory belongs to Manchester United!" Danny said confidently: "If you don't believe me, just wait and see!"