Football: The strongest center in history

Chapter 504 League contenders who have dropped the chain

Manchester United’s top position is now quite solid, with 10 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat after 12 rounds to get 39 points.

The team’s results are good, and the only thing that bothers Moyes is the team’s injury problems.

After returning from a national team break, United have three more on their injury list.

Carrick returned to Manchester after playing for the England national team and took on the flu. To avoid contagion, Carrick doesn’t even come to the training base these days to report.

In addition to Michael Carrick, Fellaini also strained his thigh and leg during training with the Belgian national team, and Manchester United’s medical team is expected to miss at least four weeks of league games after initial examinations.

In addition to this, Ashley Young was also injured during the England game.

Add to that Nemanja Vidic, who is still recovering from injury, and there are as many as four injuries to Manchester United’s main players.

Injuries are the deadliest situation against a team. Fortunately, now Moyes is repairing and can put together a starting lineup that can put him at ease.

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On 21 November 2013, the thirteenth round of the Premier League season began with Manchester United’s away challenge to Watford.

Watford currently have sixteen points, seven points above the relegation zone, and with their current point efficiency, Watford will have basically no problem relegation this season, and Watford is not under much pressure to relegate.

At home, Watford played quite conservatively, with five defenders and four defensive midfielders in a defensive line, leaving only one striker Ighalo up front to harass the counter-attack.

For Watford, they are not counting on a victory over Manchester United, and a draw at home with Manchester United is a great victory.

You know, drawing with Manchester United, only Manchester City have done it in the first twelve rounds.

With United’s frantic performances this season, their opponents have become more direct, piling up defenders at the back and putting a bus in front of the goal. For other teams, it is already worth celebrating to be able to draw Manchester United, which is also the instinctive reaction of other teams when facing strong opponents.

Watford almost did just that, and they were united defensively until the end of regular time, with the score still 0-0.

However, in the 89th minute, Ronaldo’s goal undone Watford’s efforts.

Di Maria’s corner kick was passed to the middle of the box, Ronaldo snatched the point under the defense of two defenders, and then he flicked his head to the goal, the football was pushed by him to the far corner of the goal, and the goalkeeper had no way at all.

The final score of this match was also 1-0.

Ronaldo scored a goal, disappointing the English media who expected Ronaldo to fall into a “goal drought”.

However, at the end of the game, Moyes’ expression was not very good.

“Now that the league is entering the middle of the season, Manchester United, who have just experienced the wear of the national team matchday, are also tired of this game. They were almost drawn by Watford, and with less than a month to go, they will enter the most intensive Christmas Express stage of the Premier League schedule, and Manchester United’s injury list is now starting to increase. ”

“Maybe this game gave Manchester United a warning that their hot form at the beginning of the season can last, maybe Moyes has no bottom in his heart, maybe Manchester United’s first defeat of the season is coming soon.”

Sky Sports commentators said the above words after the game.

Although Manchester United won the game, the difficulty of the process still made many people feel that Manchester United’s crazy state from the beginning of the season to the present is about to start to decline, which is in line with people’s expectations of the Premier League.

The competition was fierce and the winner was not determined until the final round.

If Manchester United are allowed to go on like this, maybe by the middle of the season, the suspense of the championship will be gone, so what’s the point.

As a result, seeing that Manchester United’s form seems to be declining, many media outlets in England have begun to take the opportunity to become prophets about where United’s first defeat of the season will occur.

Of course, in order to make the Premier League title seem more suspenseful, in addition to Manchester United to fall from the altar, other competitors must also appear more powerful.

It now seems that Manchester City is the closest to Manchester United, but this round of Manchester City has disappointed the media.

After being held to a draw by Aston Villa in the previous round, Manchester City faced Liverpool at home this round, and as a result, Manchester City, who had performed well at the beginning of the season, was shocked at home in this game, and they actually lost 0-4 cleanly at their home!

In this way, the difference between Manchester City and Manchester United has reached nine points.

Of course, nine points is not a point difference that cannot be chased, but judging by Manchester City’s performance against Liverpool in this game, it is really hard to believe that they can fight back when they are nine points behind!

After the big loss to Liverpool, Manchester City even lost their second place, but the team that replaced them in second place in the table did not always bite Manchester City’s third-placed Arsenal, who also lost this round, losing 2-1 away to Sibron Alwich.

Both teams have dropped the chain, and in addition to Manchester United, who have taken the opportunity to further widen the points gap, it is Chelsea who have benefited.

Chelsea’s 3-0 win over Newcastle in this round has 28 points after a four-game winning streak and has pushed Manchester City out of second place in the table on goal difference.

Can Chelsea threaten Manchester United?

Jose Mourinho’s second move to Chelsea seems to have put Chelsea back where it should be.