Football King Bale

Manchester United defeated Dortmund 4:1 away from home. This two-leg Champions League knockout round has almost laid the foundation for promotion. Bell's two goals also brought his Champions League goals to double digits this season. This is also the third consecutive season that his Champions League goals have exceeded double digits.

Bale, who has scored 43 goals in the Champions League, also surpassed Juventus legend Del Piero, who scored 42 goals in the Champions League, and officially entered the top ten in the Champions League's historical goal list, ranking tenth. In front of Bell, only nine people including Raul, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Messi, Henry, Di Stefano, Shevchenko, Cristiano Ronaldo, Eusebio and Inzaghi were left.

Among active players, Bell ranks third in goals scored after Messi and Ronaldo. Bale, who has only played in the Premier League for three seasons, has already surpassed many superstars such as Ibrahimovic and Drogba.

The most frightening thing is Bell's terrifying goal rate, because so far, Bell's number of appearances in the Champions League has only reached 30, including 13 games in the 2010-2011 season, 11 games in the 2011-2012 season, and 6 games this season. , which brings Bell's average goals per game in the Champions League to 1.43. He is also the only player in the Champions League's historical scorer list to average more than 1 goal per game, and is far ahead of other super shooters.

Among these super shooters, Di Stefano, who scored 49 goals in 58 games, can barely compete with Bale. However, the former Real Madrid superstar’s Champions League scoring efficiency is only 0.85 goals per game, which is significantly different from Bale. difference.

Yes, in terms of average goal rate per game, Bell is the only one in the history of the Champions League!

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Returning to China from Germany, Manchester United ushered in a Premier League game. In the 35th round of the Premier League, they challenged the Gunners Arsenal away from home.

However, Bell was not included in Manchester United's 18-man roster for this game at all, and Ferguson arranged for him to rest.

In this focus game at the Emirates Stadium, Theo Walcott scored a suspected offside goal in the first 2 minutes. Sagna's serious mistake before half-time led to Van Persie's penalty kick to equalize. Neither side made any achievements in the second half, and the score was tied 1:1 in the end. Arsenal ended their five-game winning streak and are still ranked fourth in the league, only 2 points ahead of their city rivals Tottenham with one more game in hand. Manchester United suffered their first draw of the season, but their season points have also reached 97 points. They only need to score 6 more points in the remaining 4 league games to break the record of 102 points they set last season.

In this game, the focus is Walcott. Since completing his contract extension with Arsenal in January this year, he previously only scored one goal against Liverpool, and later experienced a goal drought of 11 games. Many British media said that after the contract extension, Tiger lost motivation. .

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As Jin scored his 19th goal of the season, and at the same time set a career single-season scoring record to a new high, at least for a long time in the future, Walcott will not have to worry about the Fleet Street boss. Let’s talk about his “renewal of contract = lack of ambition”.

However, Walcott is bound to feel extremely disappointed that his goal failed to help Arsenal get the key 3 points in the fourth quarter. Former best partner Robin van Persie made a mistake in the 44th minute of the game. The Knife took the penalty kick, and with this score, the Dutchman created an alternative record of scoring goals in the past four "Arsenal VS Manchester United" games.

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Walcott's goal came only 103 seconds after the opening, but Robin van Persie's goal stole his limelight, and a similar situation has occurred once before this season.

At the end of November last year, Walcott scored just 51 seconds after the start of Arsenal's match against Everton. At that time, his score not only gave Arsenal a dream start, but also created the fastest progress in the Premier League this season. ball record. But less than 15 minutes after he set this record, Manchester United, which started 15 minutes later than Arsenal's game against Everton, took the lead against West Ham United. Van Persie succeeded in a surprise attack only 31 seconds after the start.

What made Walcott even more frustrated later was that his goal failed to help Arsenal beat Everton. Fellaini equalized for Everton and the two teams ended up drawing 1:1, while Manchester United relied on Robin van Persie. The score was 1:0 against West Ham United.

Walcott is destined to be depressed by more than just these things. Today he has indeed achieved another success against Manchester United. This is the first time he has scored against Manchester United after 609 years. What was the game before 609? On August 28, 2011, Manchester United defeated Arsenal 10:2 at home.

After this shocking score was recorded in history, many British media and football professionals said that Ferguson's slap in the face should wake up Wenger, and that Professor Arsenal must realize its shame and then be brave.

But what happened to the arsenal in 609 in the past? A lot of new players have been bought, but none of them can be regarded as the best in the world. Wenger's reconstruction can be regarded as a complete failure as 8 years without a championship has become a reality.

It can even be like this. Arsenal may be worse today than they were two years ago.

Taking this game as a reference, many fans thought after watching the game that Manchester United, which had already won the championship, did not try their best. Ferguson may want to give Wenger a favor, that is, the two teams played a tacit match and let Arsenal Na scored 3 points as he wished. After all, Sir Alex arranged for many players, including the team's core Bell, to take turns.

But even under this situation where Manchester United obviously failed to exert any force, Arsenal has never been able to turn its advantage into a victory. Arsenal, who failed to get the key 3 points, have become very pessimistic about the prospect of competing for the top four. Arsenal, currently in fourth place, has 64 points and only has 3 rounds left. It is ahead of Chelsea with 65 points and Tottenham with 62 points. With one more game, what does this ranking mean? Wenger certainly knows better than anyone else.

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Even though he has won the league title this season ahead of schedule, Manchester United coach Ferguson still has strict requirements for his disciples. After a 1:1 draw with old rival Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, the Scottish coach criticized his team for squandering opportunities in the post-match interview. was quite dissatisfied with his performance. In addition, Ferguson also talked about the contract extension of veteran Scholes.

Ferguson said: "This is a tough battle that has been expected. Arsenal are fighting for a Champions League spot. The game has twists and turns. In the first 20 minutes, we were really caught off guard by Arsenal's aggressive tactics. However, we did have a chance. To win the game, we squandered at least 4 good header opportunities. If we could be a little calmer and seize one or two of the opportunities, I'm afraid we would have won the game."

Later, Ferguson also praised Arsenal's performance. He said: "We played really well, but Arsenal's players worked so hard that their socks almost ran away. Their attack speed is quite fast, and Made a lot of tough tackles on defense.”

But at the same time, Ferguson also questioned the referee's penalty: "I think the referee's penalty scale is not consistent. When a Manchester United player commits a foul, the referee will immediately take out the card. A total of 5 of our players received yellow cards. You must know that Manchester United However, in one of the most disciplined teams in the league, it is not normal to receive 5 yellow cards. Moreover, Walcott's goal was an offside kick, and the referee has also apologized to Ferdinand, but Actually it was the linesman’s mistake.”

There is no doubt that the biggest focus of this game is Robin van Persie, who returned to the Emirates Stadium for the first time after leaving the team. Regarding Van Persie, Ferguson said this: "It is not easy to take a penalty kick when the fans are booing everywhere. When our old players who left the team come back Everyone would applaud. But to be honest with you, I had expected the boos today."

Before the start of the game between Arsenal and Manchester United, Ferguson also talked about Scholes' retirement in an interview with Manchester United's official website: "Whether next year or this year, there will always be a time when he has to retire. He has not made up his mind yet. , but whether as a player or coach, he will stay at Manchester United. These veterans who have made great contributions to the team are an important part of the team."

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Three days later, in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals, Manchester United faced Dortmund at home.

This is a game that is regarded by Dortmund people as a decisive battle, but it is nothing more than that. In the eyes of Manchester United people and even third-party fans, the 4:1 victory in the first round has already determined the victory of this two-leg series. burden.

The two teams from the same city played fiercely.

Although they lost 1:4 at home in the first round, the Dortmund people still showed a strong fighting spirit in the game at Old Trafford, and they were still tied with Manchester United after the first 80 minutes.

In the 85th minute, Bell, Van Persie and Rooney cooperated continuously at the front of the penalty area. Rooney assisted Bell and succeeded in pushing the shot from ten meters in front of the goal, scoring the only goal of the game.

Manchester United defeated Dortmund at home!

The total score of the two rounds was 5:1, but this score was enough to satisfy Dortmund, because in another Champions League semi-final a few days later, Barcelona, ​​the former Cosmos team, actually lost 0:3 at home. , thus being double eliminated by Bayern Munich with a terrible score of 0:7 in two rounds.

Being eliminated by a strong opponent with a huge disparity in two rounds has already made the Cosmos fans heartbroken, but Bell's words in a subsequent interview with reporters made the Cosmos fans even more depressed.

Bell: I passed it two years ago and Barcelona should thank me. Today, I still want to do this.

Bell's words are reminiscent of what Manchester United said after they eliminated Schalke 04 7-0 in two rounds in the Champions League semi-finals two years ago.

In this sense, Barcelona should indeed thank Bell. After all, because of that game, Barcelona was not the first team to lose 0:7 in the Champions League semifinals.

However, this sounds unpleasant.

This season's Champions League decisive battle also turned into a duel between two red teams after Bayern slaughtered Barcelona 7:0 in two rounds.

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