Football King Bale

With Manchester United's 4:1 victory over Sky City at the Theater of Dreams, Manchester United also brought a successful end to the league's Christmas Devil schedule this season. Their four-game winning streak topped the entire Premier League, because apart from Manchester United, no one else No team has won four in a row.

There was originally hope for Tottenham and Manchester City, but in this round of competition, Tottenham lost on the field, and Manchester City drew with the Gunners Arsenal away from home, and they missed the four-game winning streak in the devil's schedule.

Moreover, before you know it, Manchester United has achieved 13 consecutive victories in the Premier League. Since Manchester United was unexpectedly tied 2:2 by West Brom at home in the 8th round of the league, the Red Devils have started their crazy streak of winning consecutive games. .

Winning 13 consecutive victories in the Premier League not only allowed them to further rewrite the club's Premier League winning streak record. Previously, they had won 11 consecutive victories in the Premier League twice in the 1999-2000 season and 2008-2009 season. Now they defeated Spain in their last away game. After Brown, they rewrote the club's Premier League winning streak record. Now they have further defeated Stoke City, which also allowed them to tie the Premier League single-season winning streak record held by Arsenal, but they are still far away from the cross-season winning streak record held by the Gunners. One game left.

The Premier League single-season winning streak record is held by Arsenal. In the 2001-2002 season, Arsenal recorded 13 consecutive victories under the leadership of Wenger. That team had superstars such as Henry, Pires, Bergkamp, ​​Vieira, etc. Two years later, the "Invincible Gunners" basically Finalize.

Comparing these two 13-game winning streak teams, Arsenal scored 29 goals and conceded 6 goals in 13 games that year. This season, Manchester United scored 42 goals and conceded 10 goals in 13 games. The offensive firepower is obviously much stronger, but the defense is also relatively worse. Some.

The Arsenal team in the 2001-2002 season continued their unbeaten streak until the first round of the 2002-2003 season. In the second round, they were tied 1:1 by West Ham United. The winning streak finally stopped at 14 games, which was also a span. Premier League record for the season.

As long as Manchester United wins one more game, it will not only break the single-season winning streak record, but also tie the cross-season record and break the top league's opening points record.

But this will not be easy, because in the next round they will visit White Hart Lane to challenge Tottenham. Although White Hart Lane is nicknamed Three-Point Alley by Red Devils fans, Manchester United is not sure of winning when facing Tottenham on the road.

Especially in the past three games, Manchester United's defense has been unstable. Continuous conceding of goals once put Manchester United's winning streak and unbeaten record to a huge test.

Fortunately, Bell performed superbly. He scored 4 goals and provided 4 assists in three rounds. He scored 8 goals by himself. In these three games, Manchester United only scored 9 goals. .

It can be said that Bell alone pulled Manchester United to achieve this great record.

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Before Manchester United seeks a new record, they still have a very important game to play, which is the third round of the FA Cup at home against their arch-rivals Liverpool.

Originally, the FA Cup match was not important to Manchester United this season. After all, what Manchester United is pursuing this season is to regain the Premier League title and make a breakthrough in the Champions League. However, because the opponent is Liverpool, in this game, Manchester United will not win anyway. Can not give up.

In addition, in January 2010, Manchester United met Leeds at home in the FA Cup. As a result, Ferguson rotated the lineup and was defeated by Leeds 1:0. Ferguson is still bitter about this, so he stated early that he would play with the full lineup. Liverpool.

This is not the first confrontation between Manchester United and Liverpool this season. On the last day of mid-September, Manchester United ushered in the first double red meeting of the season at Old Trafford. As a result, Manchester United defeated their archenemy 5:2 at home. .

However, this does not mean that Manchester United can easily win the game, because the Liverpool that Manchester United is about to face is a completely different team.

This is not to say that the Liverpool team's lineup has changed much. Although the winter transfer window has opened, Liverpool's lineup has not changed much. The main change is that Hodgson has dismissed get out of class and Liverpool has welcomed them back. The former King Dalgliesh.

Kenny Dalglish played for Liverpool as a player from 1977 to 1990, and also coached the team from 1985 to 1991, and achieved good results.

After the Heysel Stadium tragedy in 1985, Liverpool manager Joe Fagan resigned and Dalglish took over as manager and player. He led the team to regain the 1985-1986 League Championship and won the FA Cup that year. He also became the fourth Liverpool coach to win the championship in his first coaching job after Shankly, Paisley and Fei Gan. Undoubtedly won the coach of the year award.

But winning has been easy to defend since ancient times. Liverpool got nothing in the second season of Dalglish's coaching. What's worse is that main striker Rush also switched to Juventus. Dalglish began to rebuild the team. He bought Barnes and Beardsley. In the following 1987-1988 season, Liverpool equaled Leeds United's 29-game unbeaten record and regained the league championship.

The Healzburg tragedy occurred between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in the 1989 FA Cup semi-final. After the incident, Dalglish showed concern for the victims and their families, which won him unanimous support from Liverpool fans. He also led the team to move forward, defeating local rivals Everton in the FA Cup final that year and winning the FA Cup. But in the last round of the league in the 1988-1989 season, Liverpool faced the championship rival Arsenal at Anfield Stadium. At that time, Liverpool only needed to draw with Arsenal or even lose only 1 goal to win the league championship. During the game, Liverpool maintained the 0:1 score until injury time, but Arsenal forward Thomas expanded the score to 2:0 at the last moment of the game. Liverpool lost the entire season with a goal difference disadvantage.

The heavy pressure finally wore down Dalglish's health. In February 1991, Dalglish resigned as head coach, a move that shocked the Liverpool club and even British football.

It can be said that as a player, Dalglish created the most glorious era in Liverpool's history. At the same time, as the team coach, he witnessed Liverpool's final glory.

Since his departure, Liverpool has been in decline and has not won a top league title for twenty years.

Now, he has been appointed at the critical moment, and he definitely wants to do something big again, especially since the first game after taking office is to face his arch-rival Manchester United, Dalglish will definitely try his best.

In addition, there has always been a saying in football that changing coaches is like changing swords. Liverpool players will definitely perform desperately when facing a new coach.

Therefore, Manchester United is bound to face a fierce battle at home. If Ferguson doesn't want to lose to his archrival at home, he must field his best lineup.

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Before the game, Liverpool seemed very low-key, and they even canceled the pre-match press conference. Because the team coach was replaced, the team was in great turmoil, and no one was in the mood to start a war of words with Manchester United.

At this moment, Liverpool is experiencing internal and external troubles. The Guardian reported that Liverpool's two Spanish internationals, Torres and Reina, are ready to make a move. It is said that the two of them no longer have much hope for the future of the team and have begun to seek to leave in January or the summer this year, especially Torres and Jin. Tong has been passive in many games, and he has lost the motivation to fight for Liverpool.

However, Manchester United, on its part, is in a good enough mood to tease Liverpool. Giggs, a veteran of Manchester United, publicly mocked Liverpool [UU Reading 00ks]. The 37-year-old Welsh legend proudly stated that Manchester United will never collapse like Liverpool because Sir Alex Ferguson has laid a solid foundation for the Red Devils' continued success. Against the background of Liverpool's internal and external troubles, Giggs's remarks undoubtedly added a pinch of salt to Liverpool's wounds.

Hedong in thirty years, Hexi in thirty years. Manchester United waited 26 years before winning England's top flight again in 1993, the newly opened Premier League. Under Ferguson's wise leadership, Manchester United won 10 more Premier League trophies after that. Giggs believes that the breadth and depth of the successful foundation that Ferguson established for the team will make it impossible for Manchester United to "fall into the world" like Liverpool.

"Liverpool is a big club, but they obviously have big troubles off the pitch. They have a new manager, new players and a new owner this season, and things haven't gone the way they wanted from the start. Our coach never looks at just one season, he buys players to prepare for Manchester United's future, and he has done more and more of this over the past few years. First cycle The representatives are Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Anderson and Nani. These young players have the potential to become top stars, and now they have basically achieved this goal. Now Manchester United has entered the next cycle, Gareth Bale, who joined this season, is already one of the top three superstars in the world. In addition, Javier Hernandez, Rafael da Silva, Fabio da Silva, Ober Young talents such as Tan and Smalling are expected to gradually enter the ranks of first-line stars in the next few years." Giggs elaborated.

Ferguson adopted a sustainable development strategy in terms of team building concept, with meritorious veterans led by Giggs and Scholes, Mesozoic pillars led by Vidic and Rooney, as well as Bale, Hernandez and Smalling. The potential new stars represented by Manchester United have formed a virtuous cycle of gradual replacement and continuous success among the three generations of Manchester United's old, middle and young people. This is not difficult to explain why Manchester United will never have ups and downs and can always become one of the most powerful contenders for the Premier League championship and the Champions League championship. .

"Ferguson has enough coaching experience, and he clearly realizes that we have the ability to win the Premier League championship this season. Manchester United will still be the most powerful contender for the Premier League championship in the future, because Manchester United's mainstay is still there, and we still have New blood will continue to be added," Giggs concluded.