Football King Bale

After Scholes' farewell match, Manchester United rushed to London without stopping. In less than 48 hours, they will compete with Manchester City for the Community Shield at the new Wembley Stadium.

Originally, the annual Community Shield was contested between the Premier League champions and the FA Cup champions. However, last season's Premier League champions and FA Cup champions were both Manchester United, so the trophy competition fell to Manchester United. With the Premier League runner-up Manchester City.

This is already the fourth time that Manchester United has come to the new Wembley Stadium to participate in the game within six months, and it can be regarded as creating a new record. In the previous three games, Manchester United had the last laugh, defeating Arsenal, Stoke City and Barcelona respectively, and won the three major cups of the League Cup, FA Cup and Champions League.

Once upon a time, there was a curse in the Premier League, that is, the team that won the Community Shield Cup will not be able to win the Premier League in the new season. Among them, 1992-2004 was the time when the Community Shield curse was most popular. In these 13 years, only Manchester United in 1993 and 1996 broke the curse.

However, since 2005, this so-called magic spell has not been so effective. Chelsea, who won the Community Shield in 2005, won the Premier League title strongly in the new season, and then Manchester United, which won the Community Shield in 2007 and 2008, also won the Premier League in the new season consecutively, completing the second time. The great cause of three consecutive Premier League titles.

However, in the past six years, there were also three teams that won the Community Shield and could not win the Premier League in the new season. They were Liverpool in 2006, Chelsea in 2009, and Tottenham last year.

If Bell remembers correctly, in another time and space, starting from this year, the Premier League will fall into the curse of the Community Shield again. Among them: the 2016 Community Shield champion is Manchester United, but the Premier League champion is Chelsea; the 2015 Community Shield champion is Arsenal, but unfortunately the Premier League champion is Leicester City; the 2014 Community Shield champion is Arsenal, and the Premier League champion is Chelsea The 2013 Community Shield champion was Manchester United, but unfortunately the Premier League champion was Manchester City; the 2012 Community Shield champion was Manchester City, and the subsequent champion was Manchester United. The 2011 Community Shield champion was Manchester United, and the final champion was Manchester City...

If history continues to run according to the established track, the community shield curse of this time and space will extend forward to 2009!

It can even be said that since 1992, the curse of the Community Shield has enveloped the Premier League!

But Bell does not believe in this evil, he will not give up such a championship trophy because of the so-called community shield curse, even if this championship trophy does not bring him much benefit, let alone the attribute points he will get in the new season Add a star.

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This year's Community Shield has entered the 89th competition. At the same time, this game is also the 160th Manchester Derby. It is also the second time since 1956 that the two clubs have met in this event. 55 years ago, Manchester United scored 1:0. With a small victory and the trophy, Manchester United also participated in the Community Shield held at Wembley for the 10th consecutive time.

In this campaign, Manchester United's new signings this summer, De Gea and Ashley Young, both entered the starting lineup. Ferguson said before the game that Carrick, who was absent due to injury, unexpectedly started. Missed his first career start in the Community Shield, but sat on the bench; for Manchester City, high-priced new aid Aguero appeared on the bench at the beginning of the game, and Balotelli and Dzeko paired up on the front line .

The first half starts,

Manchester United controlled the tempo very well. In the 3rd minute, Ashley Young, who represented Manchester United in an official game for the first time, received a pass from Rooney and shot from the right edge of the penalty area, which was blocked by Lescott. The corner kick was taken, Rooney flew the header, and Smalling kicked Lescott from the edge of the penalty area and was confiscated by Hart.

As the game deepened, there was rain falling on the scene. In the 14th minute, Balotelli was brought down by Vidic from behind. Balotelli was quite upset and got up and glared at Vidic. The referee Dodd verbally advised both sides to calm down.

However, Manchester United, who had an advantage on the scene, was hit at the end of the first half and conceded twice in a row.

In the 38th minute, Evra sent a free kick for a foul from the side. David Silva took a free kick from the right with his left foot to the penalty area. With Vidic's top, Lescott beat Ferdinand from the edge of the penalty area. The left corner of the hammer top scored, and Manchester City led Manchester United 1:0.

In the first minute of stoppage time in the first half, Milner passed the ball from the left, and Dzeko took the ball to the middle. When Vidic blocked it slowly, he volleyed with his right foot from 30 meters away from the lower left corner of the goal. De Gea The side attack was slow, the ball bounced past the Spanish teenager and into the net, Manchester City gained a two-goal advantage.

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In the first half, when they gained momentum and did not score, Manchester United entered the lounge with a disadvantageous position of two goals behind.

The last time Manchester City led by two goals at halftime was in the Premier League in January 2006. At that time, the final result of the game was that Manchester City had the last laugh 3:1.

Will the tragedy repeat itself?

Ferguson changed four players in a row at the beginning of the second half, sending the team's top card, Gareth Bale, and three teenagers, Cleverley, Evans and Phil Jones, together on the field (each team in the Community Shield can replace six players).

Was removed from the attacking midfielder Anderson and the two main defenders Vidic, Ferdinand and Carrick, who was rumored to be injured before the game.

Obviously, Sir Alex was extremely dissatisfied with the performance of all four players in the Manchester United midfield in the first half.

Bell, who made his debut in the Community Shield for the first time, did not appear on the left side he is used to, not even on the side, but the midfielder where Anderson was before.

Of course, it is not the first time that Bell has played as a front midfielder at Manchester United. He appeared in this position several times last season.

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When Bell appeared on the sidelines of the court, people noticed that the jersey he was wearing was no longer the familiar No. 95, but the No. 7 jersey that symbolized the absolute core of the Red Devils!

Unlike most European giants, Manchester United's core number is not No. 10 most of the time, but No. 7.

Brian Robson, Cantona, Beckham and Ronaldo, almost everyone who wears the Red Devils No. 7 jersey is a big name in football!

However, since Ronaldo left the team, Irving, who took over Manchester United's legendary No. 7, has performed poorly. During his two seasons with Manchester United, he was almost a substitute or even a marginal player. Coupled with Owen's identity as a Liverpool player, many Manchester United fans believe that he is not worthy of the legendary Red Devils No. 7 jersey.

Last summer, Bale came to Old Trafford with a Manchester United transfer record. Red Devils fans thought he would take over Manchester United's No. 7 jersey.

But unexpectedly, at the beginning of the new season, Manchester United's No. 7 jersey was still worn by Owen.

When Manchester United went to the Americas for training last month, Manchester United fans thought Bell would wear No. 7. After all, Owen had terminated his contract with Manchester United at that time, but when Bell came on the field, he still wore the previous No. 95 jersey.

During the warm-up matches of the summer series, the legendary Red Devils No. 7 was vacant!

Many fans have appealed in the media to let Bell take over the No. 7 jersey as soon as possible, which also means that he has truly taken over the inheritance of the Red Devils!

However, Manchester United has not officially announced who will wear the Red Devils No. 7 in the new season.

It wasn't until today's second half when Bell walked to the sidelines that everyone realized that this jersey, which has special meaning to the Red Devils, was finally worn by Bell.

All of a sudden, more than 50,000 Red Devils fans who came to watch the game stood up and gave Bell the warmest applause.

After two years, the core of the Red Devils has really returned to its place!

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Amid continuous applause, Bell, who was wearing the No. 7 jersey for the first time, came off the bench.

In the midst of all the attention, everyone also discovered that Bell was still wearing the captain's armband of Manchester United on his arm!

Because of Vidic's departure, it is certain that the captain's armband will be replaced, but what is surprising is that the captain's armband is not worn on Evra's arm, nor on the arm of the little fat Rooney, but Bale. on the arm!

Before going to the Americas for training, although Ferguson had confirmed the team's first captain, the rest of the captain candidates were not confirmed. There has been speculation that Evra, Ferdinand, Giggs and Rooney will be captains in the absence of captain Vidic.

However, everyone discovered today that after Vidic left the field, the first pick to wear the captain's armband turned out to be Bell!

This Welshman, who only turned 22 last month and has just been in Old Trafford for a year, has thus become the youngest captain in Manchester United's history!

Fans will not think that this is a mistake that happened six years ago, because Bale's appearance time was at the beginning of the second half.

On October 18, 2005, in the UEFA Champions League group stage match between Manchester United and Lille at home, Park Ji-sung, who was a substitute in the 83rd minute, took over the captain's armband from Ryan Giggs who left the field. Because of the language barrier, Park Ji-sung did not hand over the captain's armband to Ferdinand. , Wearing it directly on his arm, he became the captain of Manchester United for 10 minutes.

Therefore, it should be the team's decision for Bell to wear the captain's armband!

Regarding Bell becoming the captain of Manchester United, someone predicted it a long time ago, especially after Bell officially became the captain of the Welsh men's football team last year.

However, because Bale's time at Manchester United is indeed too short, no one would believe that he will become the captain candidate at the top of the list, and it is likely to be the fourth or fifth captain or something.

After all, the qualifications and prestige of Nemanja Vidic, Evra, Ferdinand, Giggs and others in Manchester United are not comparable to Bell, and even the little fat Rooney has a higher position than Bell.

However, when things really happened, everyone guessed and realized that their thoughts were wrong.

Bell took over the captain's armband directly from Vidic, which means that he is the second captain of Manchester United, or the deputy of Manchester United!

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