Football King Bale

Bell watched Tottenham's match against Newcastle at home, along with Liu Xian'er and Modric.

Modric and his wife came to visit Manchester United after the afternoon training session, which was regarded as a return visit.

And today happens to be Liu Xian'er's 25th birthday. Bell specially hired a chef from a Chinese restaurant in Manchester to come to his home to prepare authentic Chinese food for Liu Xian'er.

Originally, Bell wanted to cook by himself, but he had to give up because he had to train.

Tottenham made a coaching change in the summer. The meritorious coach Redknapp left. Villas-Boas, who was dismissed from Chelsea in the middle of last season, took over the coach of Tottenham. The arrival of a new coach, coupled with the departure of core midfielder Modric, led to Tottenham not playing well in this game, and ultimately lost the game with regret.

Because Manchester United's game is at noon tomorrow, and it is still away from home. According to Manchester United's tradition during the Ferguson era, the players must check into the hotel together this evening. Therefore, after watching the game and having dinner, Bell first saw off Modric and his wife, then stayed with Liu Xianer for a while, and at about ten o'clock in the evening, he drove to the hotel where Manchester United was staying.

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At 13:30 GMT on August 19, 2012, the first round of the 2012-2013 English Premier League season started. Toffees Everton sat at Goodison Park and faced the Premier League hegemon Red Devils Manchester United.

This game is the 185th main-season meeting between the two clubs. Previously, Manchester United had a slight advantage with 80 wins, 42 draws and 62 losses. Before the Premier League era, Everton only had 3 wins in 40 games, including the last 14 times. There is no win against Everton and they have lost eight of their last 14 season openers.

In addition, this game happens to be the 500th league away game led by Ferguson.

The strength of the two teams facing off in this game is quite different. It is not difficult to win Everton, but everyone is still worried. The main reason is that Manchester United's recent state is not good enough and stable enough. They lost to Manchester City in the Community Shield last week and lost their first championship trophy of the season.

The first round of the new season is not easy to play, as both sides have not yet entered the rhythm of the season, so upsets are not uncommon.

For example, Arsenal was held to a brutal draw by Sunderland at home, and Wenger's team dropped points in the first round of the new season after losing their captain. Liverpool even suffered a 0:3 defeat at the feet of West Brom in an away game, causing the biggest upset in the first round.

Will Manchester United go the way of Arsenal and Liverpool?

Even Bell was a little worried,

Because he remembers the first game of the season, when United seemed to lose at Goodison Park.

However, Manchester United's lineup has changed a lot now, and its strength has also improved a lot. I wonder if the results will change?

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In this game, Everton’s newly signed last season’s Greek League Golden Boot Miralas did not enter the squad, but Fellaini and former Manchester United player Gibson both passed the health examination and entered the starting lineup; Manchester United’s defender Smalling, Phil Jones and Rio Ferdinand were all absent due to injuries. Carrick once again played as a central defender to partner with Vidic. Modric, the new player signed this summer, made his Premier League debut. Robin van Persie sat out at the start. On the bench.

Ferguson arranged a four-three-three lineup. The goalkeeper is De Gea, and the defense is a combination of Valencia, Carrick, Vidic and Evra.

The midfielder is a combination of Kanter, Modric and Sneijder. Kanter and Modric serve as double defensive midfielders, and Sneijder serves as the attacking midfielder.

The striker is led by Bell. Rooney and Welbeck partnered. Bale is on the left, Welbeck is on the right, and Rooney is in the center position.

Judging from this formation arrangement and the tactical arrangements before the game, Ferguson is determined to win the Toffees and get a good start to the new season.

As a senior coach who has coached Everton for nearly ten years, Moyes is also very aware of the importance of the first round of the league and knows Manchester United's calculations, so he also arranges it very carefully, facing the battle with a 4-5-1 lineup, determined to defend Fight back.

Manchester United, on the other hand, turned against the visitors and pressed forward heavily, using Rooney as an arrow to suppress Everton's defense. Bale and Welbeck are on the wings, while Kante, Modric and Sneijder are pressing forward in the midfield.

From the beginning, Manchester United played a very determined high-pressure press in order to win Everton from the beginning. However, Everton, as the backbone of the Premier League, is not a fuel-saving lamp, and its defense was still very tight at the beginning.

Bell is obviously in good condition and plays very actively on the court. Although he played in the European Cup and London Olympics this summer, he is not actually tired.

Mainly because after the European Cup, he basically rested throughout July, that is, he played three Olympic games after entering August, which was compared to pre-season warm-up games.

Although he did not train with the team in the summer, Bell has played for Manchester United for two years and everyone is very familiar with it. There is no problem of adapting.

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Eight minutes into the game, Bell forced a breakthrough pass from the left, but Everton center back veteran Distin in the penalty area made a big-footed clearance. The ball went out of bounds, winning Manchester United a frontcourt byline on the left side of the penalty area. Ball opportunity.

"I'll do it!" Evra quickly ran up from behind and signaled that he would take the throw-in.

Bell, who originally wanted to serve the throw-in quickly, saw that Everton had organized a defense line, but he no longer insisted, handed the ball to Evra, and turned back to the stadium.

Everton's defensive players were facing a formidable enemy, blocking all Evra's throwing angles. They didn't even dare to be careless even in the penalty area, for fear that Evra would throw the ball directly into the penalty area.

In the entire left side of the penalty area, there are five Everton defensive players, but including Evra, there are only three offensive players.

Bell was blocked by the defensive player and did not struggle. Instead, he kept changing his direction and disturbing the opponent, but at the same time he was also gesturing towards Evra.

The two have worked together on the left side of Manchester United for two years and have a good understanding of each other, so Evra immediately understood what Bell meant.

When it was time to throw the ball, Bell suddenly stopped and turned around, going from the left side of the defensive player to the front. At this time, Evra's hand-thrown ball came to his feet.

The person responsible for marking Bell in this game is Everton right back Tony Hibbert, a 31-year-old veteran guard who came from the Everton youth training camp. He has played for Everton for 13 seasons and has rich experience. .

Hibbert and even Bell were so scary that they always stayed close to Bell cautiously, for fear of accidentally missing someone. However, unexpectedly, Bell quickly stepped aside.

In the eyes of Tony Hibbert, this Welsh boy is like a monkey, too flexible and too fast.

But this old English defender is not stupid. With more than 230 Premier League games in his career, he still has some strength. He quickly chose to resist Bell from behind. Even if he couldn't stop him from catching the ball, he still had to make it impossible for him to turn around. As long as he can't turn around, Bell can't pose a threat.

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Bell also knew the opponent's thoughts very well. He blocked Hibbert with his body, stopped the ball back to Evra, turned around and ran away.

Hibbert had no choice but to rush towards Evra immediately. If he didn't guard Evra at this time, the French left back would definitely make a cross.

There is a center like Rooney in the penalty area. Who dares to let him pass? At least because he had been teammates with Rooney, Hibbert, who knew Rooney's header ability, didn't dare!

Hibbert stepped forward to defend Evra, and a player behind him had to come to pick up his team to defend Bell. There was a gap between the two defensive players.

After Bell bypassed Hibbert, he quickly rushed to the baseline. Evra also knows how to pass the baseline, and the ball reaches the player.

When Bell stopped the ball, he rushed into the penalty area and blocked Everton's central defender with his body.

Everton's right center back Jagielka wanted to squeeze him, but he was unmoved at all. Instead, he suddenly accelerated, threw Jagielka away and rushed into the penalty area.

At this time, Everton's other central defender Distin rushed over from the center, but such a 34-year-old veteran was really slow and could not keep up with the rhythm of the game.

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Bell dribbled the ball from the baseline into the penalty area. He kept observing the situation around him, especially paying attention to his opponent's every move through God's perspective.

Everton's American goalkeeper Howard is only 1.88 meters tall, and his figure can only be considered average among goalkeepers. At this time, he was almost leaning against the right column, squatting and bending, and his hands were almost hanging to the ground. , blocking every shooting angle of Bell and being able to make flying saves at any time.

In fact, when dribbling the ball from the baseline, the shooting angle is very small. Bell's best option is to pass the ball to his teammates.

Everyone on the court thought the same thing, but Bell noticed a very obvious gap at that moment, which was the top of Howard's head. In order to block all shooting angles of his lower body, he lowered his hands too low and bent his waist, which exposed the gap above his head.

Bell realized this. He almost didn't think about it. He didn't even prepare to dribble the ball into the small penalty area, and shot directly from the outside of the small penalty area.

The killing blow is triggered instantly!

In this position, Bell had a certain degree of certainty about everything, but in order to pursue insurance, he still chose to activate the killing blow skill without hesitation.

Before everyone at the scene could react, even Howard himself was surprised. The ball had already passed over his head at extremely fast speed and hit the side netting of the left post behind him!

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