Football King Bale

Over the weekend, the 13th round of the Premier League began. Manchester United, sitting at Old Trafford, faced this season's dark horse Newcastle at home.

Before the game, no one thought that this round's focus battle would be so full of drama.

It is no exaggeration to say that this game is the focus of the 13th round of the Premier League. Manchester United is the leader of the Premier League, and Newcastle has performed well this season. After 12 rounds of games, it is only because of the disadvantage of the number of goals that they ranked behind Tottenham. Fourth, three points more than fifth-placed Chelsea and sixth-placed Arsenal.

Such a strong dialogue, even another game between England's traditional giants Liverpool and the upstart Blue Moon Manchester City, will not receive as much attention as this game.

This game will be the 153rd meeting between the two clubs. Previously, Manchester United had a clear advantage with a record of 77 wins, 36 draws and 39 losses. Among them, Newcastle only had a poor record of 3 wins in 34 encounters in the Premier League era. In fact, the "Magpies" "In the last 28 visits to the Dream Theater, there have been 7 draws and 21 losses without a win, and in the last 5 visits to Old Trafford, there have been 4 clean sheets but only 1 goal scored.

In this campaign, Rooney, who has recovered from his hip injury, returned to the starting lineup and partnered with Hernandez on the front line. The midfielder was a combination of Nani, Sneijder, Carrick and Bale, and Fabio, Vidic, Ferdinand and E Fora is in the defense, and the goalkeeper is De Gea; for Newcastle United, Obotan, who just transferred to Newcastle in the summer, started against his old club, while Stephen Taylor made his 150th league start with Newcastle United.

After the game started at the buzzer, Manchester United, playing at home, dominated the ball and took the initiative. However, as the game progressed, Newcastle gradually reversed the disadvantage and took the lead in ball possession ratio.

However, both sides failed to achieve anything in the first thirty minutes, but the atmosphere on the court was very heated. In the 26th minute, Rooney kicked the fallen Coloccini hard during the scramble. When referee Mike Jones gave Rooney a verbal warning, Ben Arfa got emotional and angrily scolded Rooney, resulting in a needless yellow card.

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The dreary weather in Manchester started to rain and the conditions took a turn for the worse. However, in such a bad environment, Manchester United, playing at home, was the first to break the deadlock.

In the storm, under the command of Bell, Manchester United began to fight in a more concise way. To put it bluntly, it was to strengthen long-range shots and crosses from the bottom, or to restore the traditional British style of play.

In the 30th minute, Nani cooperated with Fabio on the right, and then Fabio made a pass. Due to the slippery ground, Hernandez and Newcastle players who had taken the lead missed the ball. This made Bellcat, who was plugged in at the back point, had an opportunity. Facing the incoming ball, Bell easily pushed the ball with his left foot and the ball went straight to the left post.

Newcastle goalkeeper Krul has played brilliantly this season, and he is also one of the contributors to Newcastle's current position in the Champions League. Facing Bell's sudden push, the Dutch goalkeeper reacted extremely quickly and dived sideways to save the ball.

However, Krul's save was a bit reluctant. He failed to save the ball far and landed not far in front of him.

For a moment, Krul, who was lying on the ground, quickly got up, and the nearby players from both sides also rushed to where the ball landed as quickly as possible. The Manchester United players wanted to make a supplementary shot, while the Newcastle players wanted to make a clearance.

Among the chaos, Bell's speed advantage was fully demonstrated. He took the lead to seize the landing point and used his body to block the collision of the Newcastle players behind him. At the same time, he lightly picked the ball with his right foot and passed the ball past the man who had just stood up in embarrassment and prepared for his second save. Krul, flying into Newcastle's goal.

1:0, Manchester United took the lead at home.

In the wind and rain, Bell, who ran towards the corner flag area with open arms, was like a swift, breaking through the rain curtain and fog in the sky, allowing the fans to see the hope of victory.

The 75,000 fans at Old Trafford let out deafening cheers to celebrate that the king of the Theater of Dreams once again defeated the city and destroyed the country.

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Newcastle, who conceded a goal first, immediately launched a counterattack. In the wind and rain, the technical advantages of Manchester United players could not be brought into full play, and Alan Pardew's team was also good at the traditional British style of play, so they did not show any concern on the scene. Being at a disadvantage, the game entered into a high-tempo back-and-forth attack.

In the 35th minute, Newcastle passed the ball to the frontcourt. Former Manchester United player Obertan shot from a position 25 meters away from the goal on the left front of the penalty area. However, he was too anxious to show off himself in front of his old club and failed to do so. Suppressing the ball, this shot was both high and deflected, posing no threat to the goal guarded by De Gea.

Two minutes later, Manchester United players also showed their ability to jerk off to Newcastle players. Bell picked up the ball on the left side of the penalty area, but faced with the frontal defense of two Newcastle players, he could not take off. However, he saw that Nani was in a good position in front of the penalty area and there were no players around him to mark him. Knocked the ball across.

After more than a year of cooperation, Bell and Nani have a good understanding of each other. The moment Bell passed the ball, he had already started running. When Bell's ball rolled along the ground to the front of the penalty area, Nani just arrived.

Facing the ball that was still rolling on the turf, Nani fired a shot with great momentum.

Then, people saw the ball rising into the sky, breaking through the rain and fog, and flying straight to the third-level stands.

Perhaps because he felt that his shot was a bit unbearable to witness, Nani covered his face with his hands after finishing the shot.

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After a few more attacks, the first half was over, and Manchester United entered the halftime break with a 1:0 score.

This was a relatively normal first half, except for the rain battle in the second half. But for Premier League teams, are there too many rainy games in a year?

However, the second half of the game really showed what drama is.

Shortly after the start of the second half, Hernandez was kicked by Stephen Taylor at the edge of the penalty area, and Manchester United won a very good free kick opportunity. This free kick is only 20 meters away from the goal and is located very close to the center.

Under normal circumstances, opponents rarely give Manchester United a free kick in such a good position, because they all know that Bell's free kick is too threatening. It's just that it rained today and the field was slippery. Players from both sides sometimes couldn't control their movements.

Newcastle defended this free kick very carefully. Krul directed his players to form a five-man wall and asked Steve Taylor to help guard the right post.

Close to the goal, Bell chose the banana ball method. The ball drew a perfect arc in the rain, bypassed Newcastle's wide and tall wall, and went straight to the right post.

Equivalent to the center guarded by Krul and the left wing ready to fly to save at any time, Bell felt that the right post guarded by Steve Taylor was a bigger flaw. After all, Steve Taylor is not a goalkeeper and cannot save with his hands.

Sure enough, Steve Taylor was a little overwhelmed by the oncoming ball. He could only instinctively jump up and try to clear the ball with a header.

However, Bell also made some miscalculations. He miscalculated the impact of the rain curtain on the path of the ball. The ball did not fly to the blind spot at the junction of the right post and the crossbar, but was a little low.

Steve Taylor took off in a hurry. Although he hit the ball, he failed to control the force. As a result, the ball was not pushed out of the baseline, but was pushed onto the crossbar. After a muffled bang, it bounced back. Back in the restricted area.

What was even more surprising was that the ball bounced back into the penalty area from the crossbar and hit Hernandez's back, and then people saw the ball fly into the goal.

2:0, Manchester United unexpectedly expanded their lead with a lucky ball from Hernandez!

Moreover, the goal Newcastle conceded was also their 500th goal in the Premier League!

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The entire Manchester United team and the fans in the stands were very happy with Manchester United's unexpected goal. Old Trafford simply became a sea of ​​joy.

See, this is destiny!

Hernandez, who scored the goal, became the lucky one in the eyes of the fans and received the warmest cheers from the audience.

Hernandez also seemed a little confused at the moment he scored. At that time, he saw Bell's free kick shot blocked and was about to run back, but he did not expect that the rebounded ball hit his back and flew into the goal. , this is really unexpected.

Then, after reacting, he rushed to the corner flag area to celebrate the lucky goal.

Bell was also a little dumbfounded. The moment he saw the ball flying around Newcastle's wall and towards the goal, he thought the ball was there. Then he saw a series of strange changes that followed.

But no matter what, the team still scored a goal. Although he was not the one who scored the goal, he was still very happy.

With Manchester United's stability at Old Trafford, two goals almost sealed the victory. After all, United have rarely been overturned when leading by two goals at Old Trafford.

Not only Bell thinks so, but Manchester United players and fans also think so, so this celebration is very happy.

However, after the game continued for more than ten minutes, they were not so happy.

In the 62nd minute, Ben Arfa broke through the right rib and entered the penalty area. Ferdinand's shovel caused the French midfielder to fall. The referee Mike Jones immediately indicated that the ball was a Newcastle corner kick, but the linesman in this half insisted Thinking it was a penalty, Ferdinand made a foul tackle and brought down Ben Arfa.

Under normal circumstances, the penalty is determined by the referee, but this time the linesman was very insistent. In addition, Newcastle players also gathered around Mike Jones to appeal. After Mike Jones communicated with the linesman, the penalty point was changed. Demba Ba deceived De Gea and hit the lower right corner of the goal with a low shot, helping Newcastle regain a point.