Football King Bale

Chapter 159 Manchester United lost in Villa Park

Manchester United's one-goal victory over Manchester City at the Manchester City Stadium allowed Manchester United to continue to lead the Premier League standings with a 2-point advantage over Chelsea, which had a one-goal victory over Fulham at home this round, ranking first in the standings. Bell also continues to lead the Premier League scorer list with 11 goals.

Three days later, Manchester United traveled to Birmingham to challenge Aston Villa.

This is Manchester United's third Premier League game within a week, and according to the end time of the last game against Manchester City, it was only 63 hours apart!

Continuous battles have made the entire Manchester United team very tired, and the team's injuries are also very serious. There are already many players on the injury list. In the last game at Manchester City Stadium, Rafael was added. In addition, Scholes also accumulated yellow cards and was suspended. However, Evra continued to start without any serious problems.

However, their opponent Villa is also full of injuries. In this campaign, Villa has as many as 9 players absent due to injuries, including strong players such as Carew, Sidwell and Heskey.

At the beginning of the first half, Manchester United took advantage of the ball to take the initiative. This was Sir Alex Ferguson's tactical arrangement. He asked Manchester United to start the game away from home.

However, the condition of Manchester United's players was really poor. Although they took the initiative to get the start, they did not create any good shooting opportunities in the first ten minutes. The only good thing is that they controlled the ball, so that the home team Villa also failed to create a shooting opportunity.

Ten minutes later, the condition of Manchester United players improved slightly and they also created some opportunities. However, Bell, who was the biggest threat from Manchester United, encountered Villa's tightest defense and it was difficult to gain possession of the ball near Villa's penalty area.

However, Villa spent a lot of defensive power on Bell, and the defense in other positions was naturally a little weak, which created opportunities for other players in Manchester United's frontcourt.

In the 13th minute, Nani broke through the right rib and shot hard with his left foot. The ball was slightly higher than the lintel. Three minutes later, Manchester United counterattacked after stealing the ball in the midfield. After receiving a pass from Hernandez on the left, Berbatov shot with his left foot and missed the near post after being interfered by Luke Young.

Manchester United's two consecutive threatening attacks forced Villa to increase their defensive scale, but this also made Villa pay the price. Their midfielder Bannan suffered a penalty for brutally knocking down Hernandez. The first yellow card of the game.

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Bell finally won a chance to shoot. When the game entered 20 minutes, Villa fouled on the left side of the penalty area and gave Manchester United a free kick about 30 yards from the goal.

Bell stood in front of the ball without hesitation, and he wanted to take the free kick.

Vera's troops were prepared as if they were facing a formidable enemy. Old goalkeeper Friedel directed Villa to form a five-man wall, blocking all angles of the near post, while he himself stood in the middle of the goal.

Bell's penalty curve ball went around the wall, and Friedel was a little slow to make a flying save. The Manchester United fans who came to Villa Park cheered, thinking that Manchester United had taken the lead, but then they found that the referee did not He made a gesture that was valid for a goal, but instead signaled Villa to kick the ball. Only then did he realize that Bell's free kick did not go into the goal, but hit the side netting.

The slow motion showed that Bell's shot was very threatening, almost grazing the goal post and hitting the side net. Manchester United fans were a little far away from the goal and the location was a little remote, so they thought it was Bell who scored the goal.

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In the first 25 minutes of the game,

Manchester United controlled the center of the midfield, but Villa threatened Manchester United's goal with crosses from the wing. However, although Villa made a lot of crosses, their placement was basically controlled by Ferdinand and Vidic, so they were never able to find a shooting opportunity.

It wasn't until the 30th minute of the game that Villa got its first shot. Agbonlahor received a free kick from the backcourt and sailed over with a header. Ashley Young turned and volleyed from the edge of the penalty area but was suppressed by Edwin van der Sar.

On United's next attack, they nearly broke through Villa's goal. Manchester United got a long-distance free kick on the right side of the midfield. Nani's free kick found Evra on the left. After receiving the ball, Evra passed the ball low on the left to the goal. Unfortunately, all Manchester United players responded in the middle. Missed, Manchester United missed a good opportunity to take the lead.

Subsequently, both sides exchanged offense and defense, but neither was able to change the score. In the final first half of the game, Villa and Manchester United maintained a 0:0 tie heading into the halftime break.

At the beginning of the second half, Villa suddenly increased the pace, especially the two wingers, and Villa's offensive suddenly became fierce. In the 50th minute, Albrighton's shot from the right side of the penalty area missed slightly. In the 54th minute, Downing passed the ball from the left to the far point. Albrighton's header from a small angle was incredible and went into the far corner. In the 61st minute, Hernandez tackled Albrighton directly after losing the ball and was given a yellow card. During the previous fight, Fletcher was so embarrassed that he had to go to the sidelines to change into a new jersey without a number on the back.

Villa are getting better and better, but their forward players lack some goalscoring luck.

In the 67th minute, Downing made a pass from the left, and Collins jumped up from the center with a powerful header and hit the lintel. Subsequently, Albrighton's shot was confiscated by Van der Sar.

In the 68th minute, Agbonlahor and Ashley Young passed and cooperated. Vidic made a clearance and made the ball. Agbonlahor's shot from 10 meters hit the left post and popped out.

The pace of the game was fast, and 70 minutes had passed before he knew it. Seeing that Manchester United was becoming more and more passive on the court, Bell activated the possession time of the experience card without hesitation.

However, before Bell could show off his power, Manchester United suffered a blackout for five minutes, conceding two goals in a row and falling behind 0:2 in the blink of an eye.

In the 71st minute, Agbonlahor shoveled a pass from the right side of the penalty area. Brown knocked down Ashley Young while defending. The referee Dean whistled a yellow card to warn Brown and awarded a penalty kick. Ashley Young deceived Fan. Desa scored with a powerful shot.

In the 76th minute, Villa stole the ball in the backcourt and another counterattack penetrated Manchester United again. Ashley Young passed through from the left, Downing made a diagonal pass and passed in front of the goal. Albrighton outflanked and pushed the ball in the small penalty area. The goal rewritten the score to 2:0.

In this ten-minute game, Manchester United's right wing guarded by Wes Brown simply became Villa's racecourse.

Brown had escaped a yellow card for knocking down Ashley Young in the 64th minute, but unfortunately he still did not repent. In the 71st minute, he pushed down the Villa wing while defending Ashley Young in the middle of the penalty area and was given a yellow card. And sent a penalty kick, which directly caused the team to fall behind in the score.

In fact, Villa's two previous shots hit the goalpost, both of which came from the right wing guarded by Brown. Once, Tangning made a successful breakthrough and then passed the ball, and once, Agbonlahor made a strong breakthrough.

According to the British media, if the referee Dean had not been merciful, perhaps Brown should have left the game early after the foul.

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