Football King Bale

Chapter 151: Fighting the City in the Sky Again

While the outside world was reporting a lot about Bell's hat trick, Bell was caught in a happy trouble: he didn't know how to choose today's lottery lineup.

A hat-trick earned him three more draws. In this first draw, the Ball Saint system has given out the best lineup in Manchester United's history, the best lineup in the 2002 World Cup and the best lineup in the 2004-2005 UEFA season.

After many draws, Bell has basically figured out the list of players available for the draw for these three lineups.

The best midfield in Manchester United's history consists of Bobby Charlton, Cantona, Giggs, Bryan Robson, Roy Keane and George Best.

The midfield and frontcourt of the best eleven of the 2002 World Cup were composed of Ronaldo, Klose, Beckham, Ballack, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho.

The UEFA Best Team of the 2004-2005 season was also very strong, consisting of Eto'o, Shevchenko, Gerrard, Kaká, Ronaldinho and Nedved.

These three lineups each have their own merits, and Bell has a hard time choosing.

After some hesitation, Bell thought that there were three lottery opportunities today, so he might as well take one from each of the three series of lineups. This time, let’s choose the best team of the 2002 World Cup. The best team in Manchester United’s history can be saved until the end. Anyway, this option will be available in every lottery.

After the decision was made, the results of the lottery came out quickly, and Bell won Klose.

Bell is a little regretful. In terms of personal ability, Klose is still slightly worse than the other players in this lineup, especially compared with Ronaldo and Ronaldo, there is a relatively obvious gap. But the result has already come out, and Bell can't change it.

Then the second lottery continued. The three lottery lineups given by the Ball Saint system this time were the best lineup in Manchester United's history, the best lineup in the 2004 European Cup, and the best lineup in the 2009-2010 UEFA season.

The 2004 European Cup was a famous dark horse championship in history. The eventual champion Greece did not have many personnel in this lineup, especially in the midfield and frontcourt. The six people are Rooney, Baros, Cristiano Ronaldo, Zagorski, Nedved and Maniche.

The 2009-2010 UEFA best team includes Messi, Villa, Ronaldo, Xavi, Sneijder and Iniesta.

This time, Bell chose the 2009-2010 UEFA Best Team as the lottery lineup without much hesitation. In the end, Bell drew Harvey's experience card.

Then move on to the last draw of the day,

Bell selected the best lineup in Manchester United's history according to the previous plan from the best lineup in Manchester United's history, the best lineup in the 2008 European Cup and the best lineup in the 2000-2001 season given by the Ball Saint system. A Giggs experience card was drawn.

Today's three experience cards, the players themselves are not the most powerful group, but overall, Bell is quite satisfied. Klose is a top center, and his headers are definitely rare in history; Xavi's passing is also the best in ancient and modern times, and Giggs' experience card and Bell are very compatible.

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Another focus of football now is when Rooney will leave Manchester United. However, just when the media is linking the little fat man with one giant team after another and concocting a variety of transfer news, a The news shocked the reporters.

In the morning of GMT, Manchester United's official website issued a statement saying that Rooney had reached a new five-year contract with Manchester United. This lightning contract extension brought the controversial Rooney transfer deal to an end, and also made fans shout out of surprise.

Before the Champions League match against Bursa, Rooney issued a statement saying that Manchester United lacked respect for him and that he would not renew his contract.

This statement shocked all fans. For a while, Manchester United fans almost rioted. Some radical fans even displayed banners mocking Rooney in the stands during the game against Bursaspor.

Not only that, more than 40 angry activists also came to Rooney's house, pulled up a banner that read "Join Manchester City and you will die", and shouted to Rooney in the mansion through the door intercom: "If you leave Manchester United, you will die." We’ll kill you.” Rooney’s neighbors were so frightened that they called the police.

But who could have imagined that after several days of transfer farce, everything would end in a surprising ending, with both parties acting as if nothing had happened.

During the contract renewal ceremony, a "harmonious" scene appeared. Sir Alex put his arms around Rooney, and the two of them smiled together and faced the camera. It looked like nothing had happened between them.

In fact, in the past three days, there have been verbal exchanges between Ferguson and Rooney. First, Sir Alex revealed to the media that Rooney did not want to renew his contract, saying that this made him "shocked and disappointed". After that, the old man's The words became more intense, saying that Rooney should learn to "respect the Manchester United club", and his words were full of dissatisfaction with the English.

Rooney's response was also tough. Although he said in a subsequent statement that he owed Ferguson a lot and wished Sir Alex Ferguson a long-term coaching career at Manchester United, he immediately made heartbreaking words: Manchester United lacked respect for me. That's why I'm leaving.

However, as countless coaches and players have said, in football, you can never predict the future. The rumors that Rooney was leaving just came to light on Tuesday, and ended with his lightning contract extension on Friday. Everything developed so quickly that it was jaw-dropping.

Look at the two protagonists involved, laughing so happily together. Everyone knows that there are too many complicated emotions and thoughts hidden behind these two smiling faces. But at this moment, since the contract has been signed, just pretend that nothing happened. It's just like when he was in AC Milan, Gullit grabbed Capello by the collar and pressed him against the wall to hit him after saying something inappropriate. Afterwards, the Italians treated Gullit as if nothing happened. Ancelotti on the side later wrote an autobiography to recall this situation, and couldn't help but admire: This kind of "forgetfulness" is also the same thing!

Ferguson must also be "forgetful" about Rooney. Since there is no conflict of interest, I will continue to use you in the future, so why not leave the unpleasantness of the past behind? It doesn't matter to smile, it doesn't matter to put arms around each other, everyone takes what they need, and it's tacitly understood.

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However, Manchester United did not pay too much attention to the issue of Rooney's contract extension, because they will go to Stoke City on the weekend for the ninth round of the Premier League.

Compared with the Champions League game in midweek, Ferguson rotated many players, including Edwin van der Sar, Gary Neville, Ferdinand, O'Shea, Scholes, Berbatov and Hernandez.

In the history of Manchester United's Premier League, they have won all 4 games against Stoke City and scored 12 goals. The last time Stoke City beat Manchester United was in the League Cup in 1993, and the league victory dates back to 1984.

In the 91 historical encounters between the two sides, Manchester United has the upper hand. Rooney, who had just renewed his contract, was absent due to injury and missed the opportunity to celebrate his 25th birthday at the Britannia Stadium.

As the referee blew his whistle, Berbatov quickly kicked the ball to Bell.

Bell didn't stop the ball and kicked it directly back to Scholes, while he rushed forward quickly.

Scholes passed the ball back to the defense. After Ferdinand stopped the ball, he directly made a long pass, but instead of going directly to the center, he moved to the right, where Nani competed with his opponent for the placement. But Nani failed to win the point this time, and the ball flew directly out of bounds, Stoke City's foul ball.

Manchester United showed its fangs right from the start, and Stoke City obviously refused to take advantage of others.

Pulis did not adopt an overly conservative strategy, but chose to fight head-on. Therefore, after the opening, Manchester United pressed heavily and adopted a high defense. Stoke City also deployed heavy troops from the 30-meter zone to the center line.

The start of the two teams seemed risky, but they were relatively safe and did not give the other side a chance.

Until the 13th minute, the ball was still in Manchester United's half.

Vidic passed to O'Shea, and Stoke forward Jones stepped forward to press. Then it was passed to the right and Ferdinand took the ball.

When Ferdinand picked up the ball on the right side of his own 30-meter area, Nani immediately chose to retreat from the front and raised his right hand high to indicate that he could pass the ball.

Ferdinand took one look and passed a low ball without thinking.

The Stoke City defenders quickly followed Nani back to defend, but were blocked by the Portuguese winger. At this time, Scholes suddenly penetrated behind the Stoke City defense line.

Nani received the pass from Ferdinand, but could not turn around. He could only stop to the inside of himself, turned around and cut inside, and quickly passed the ball to Fletcher who ran into the middle to meet him at some point.

Facing the pass from Nani, Fletcher tried to catch the ball with his back, but suddenly made a wonderful pass with his heel.

Bell had already been pushing forward. As soon as he reached the top of the front arc of the penalty area, Fletcher's heel pass came to his feet.

With Collins on the left and Wilson on the right, Bale is right in the middle of the two Stoke defenders.

As soon as the ball arrived, Bell intercepted it with his left foot, stopped suddenly, and changed direction to cut to the left.

This sudden move allowed him to avoid Collins behind him, and at the same time cut the ball behind Wilson, eliminating the marking of two Stoke City defenders in one fell swoop.

Stoke City's right back was rushing to help defend Wilson's back, but because all this happened in an instant, the distance between him and Wilson was a bit far, which gave Bell a very narrow starting space.

Bell has dealt with this situation countless times.

As soon as he stopped, he cut to the left and bypassed Wilson. Bell didn't wait for Collins to catch up and hit a shot with his left foot!

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"Bell just hit the door with his kick!"

“The ball went in!!!!”

"goaLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!"

"This is Liverpool's first shot in this game, a volley from the top of the arc of Bell's penalty area. It was very sudden and quite smart. There was an obvious rebound. Although Sorensen reacted , but couldn’t stop the ball from hitting the net.”

"One to zero!"

"In just thirteen minutes, Bale scored the first goal for Manchester United!"

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As soon as Bell kicked off, he already knew that the ball was there!

This feeling is so strong and wonderful!

The moment he saw the ball go into the lower left corner of the goal, he clenched his fists and cheered, jumping up on the spot.