"Riding on the win - Manchester United won away from home, 3-1 win Charlton Athletic", the Manchester Evening News reported the match between Charlton and Manchester United for the first time.

'The youngsters were once again victorious, beating Charlton Athletic 3-1 thanks to goals from Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo and Smith, and although the new United captain didn't find the back of the net, he smashed Charlton's defence to pieces in the game and created opportunities for his team-mates to score, while his own league goal tally stood at 10 for the time being, and Thierry Henry was three goals ahead of him in the league scorers' charts.

"But 10 goals is pretty good for the United captain, and even Thierry Henry has to look the other way for him, but he struggled to catch up for a long time before he overtook the United captain. But there is one statistic that he still can't compare to the captain of Manchester United, and that is the number of assists. The Manchester United captain has completed seven attacking ...... so far"

"But for the Manchester United captain, good things have not stopped, and he has been shortlisted for this year's Asian Footballer of the Year award with Manchester United team-mate South Korea Park, and it is no surprise that he will win the award strongly."

The Asian Footballer of the Year has been awarded to the best Asian footballer of the year since 1984 and is one of the key awards at the AFC's annual awards ceremony.

Since 1984, the award has been won by players from South Korea, Japan, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and it was not until 2001 that Chinese player Fan Zhiyi won the Asian Footballer of the Year.

This year's three finalists are South Korea's Park Ji-sung, Saudi Arabia's Hamad Al Montasari and China's Dong Fangzhuo.

After understanding several important scoring criteria for the "Asian Footballer of the Year", you can know that there is no suspense in this award.

1. MVP points. Won the number of player of the match on the spot.

2. Team results. National team and club results.

3. Fair play. Points will be deducted for receiving red and yellow cards.

4. Number of goals. It is limited to PK between frontcourt players, and if the candidate is a goalkeeper and a defender, this item may be ignored.

Often as the double captain of the national youth team and the club, and also won the top scorer of the World Youth Championships and the European Golden Boy Award, Dong Fangzhuo has so many advantages, naturally there is no suspense.

Needless to say, Montasari is eliminated, Saudi Arabia has been eliminated, he will not have any hope at all, in fact, the Asian Footballer of the Year in 2005 is just Park Ji-sung and Dong Fangzhuo, and Park Ji-sung also belongs to the role of playing, no matter from which point of view, Park Ji-sung is not comparable with Dong Fangzhuo at all.

However, the Manchester Evening News pointed out that this year, the AFC has introduced a rule - no awards if you don't show up.

"It's kind of funny, if a player is playing a big game that day, should the AFC do the same? Did they come up with it with a pat on the head? ”

"It's no coincidence that on the day of the AFC awards, Manchester United happened to have a game, but fortunately it was the League Cup against West Bromwich Albion, and the Manchester United captain should not need to play, otherwise he would have missed the Asian Footballer of the Year, as for Park, he couldn't get it, unless Dong decided not to accept the award. Of course, they must lead Manchester United to a home win over Villarreal before that! ”

Four days later, the Champions League home game against Villarreal will determine whether Manchester United can qualify from the Champions League group, the first four rounds of the Champions League group stage, Manchester United is two wins, one draw and one loss, 7 points are temporarily second, 7 points is not enough for Manchester United to break through from the group stage, the first Villarreal and the third Lille three teams have a chance to win the group, Manchester United can not tolerate a little miss.

If United win, they will at least secure qualification from the group, and if they lose, then we will need to see the result of the final round away to Lille.

In order to hold the initiative in their hands, United were left to beat Villarreal at home.

But will Villarreal, who are provisionally top of the group, be that easy to beat? In the first leg, Manchester United drew 2:2 with difficulty, and there was no Riquelme on the field at that time, although the second leg was at home, Riquelme returned from injury, and Villarreal, who had Riquelme, seemed to be a strong European team.

The Manchester Evening News then went on to say the other extreme case: "If both Chinese Dong and South Korean Park are going to participate in that League Cup, it means that neither of them can win the Asian Footballer of the Year award, and in the end it is the Saudis who will win the ......."

Regarding the matter of receiving the award, Dong Fangzhuo doesn't care, but the Chinese Football Association is not stupid, Dong Fangzhuo is going to receive this award anyway. Not surprisingly, this is the second time that a Chinese player has won the Asian Footballer of the Year award, and Dong Fangzhuo can become the second Chinese in history to win this award.

Therefore, the Chinese Football Association has informed Manchester United Club in advance that it is necessary for Manchester United to release it when the time comes......

In fact, Chinese football is too nervous, and if the Champions League is played and then the League Cup, Ferguson himself does not plan to send Dong Fangzhuo to the main lineup......

Chinese fans are also on the side of the Football Association in this matter.

If Dong Fangzhuo doesn't win this award, it will be intolerable......

Coincidentally, the Argentine Football Federation also presented the Argentine Footballer of the Year award at this time.

Messi, who lost to Dong Fangzhuo in the Golden Boy Award, successfully entered the final candidate, he defeated Riquelme and Saviola, and successfully won the 2005 Argentine World Footballer of the Year.

In order to win this award, Messi did not participate in the full team training of the Barcelona team, but flew back to Argentina in advance.

An Argentine footballer may be able to comfort his injured heart a little, after all, the feeling of not winning the Golden Boy Award is quite bad, watching Dong Fangzhuo snatch the Golden Boy Award from his own hands, Messi has not slowed down until now.

Messi then made headlines in the European media, and photos of him smiling and kissing trophies were reprinted on major news websites and newspapers.

The Spanish newspaper "Marca" said meaningfully: "If you can't get the golden boy, it's not bad to get the Argentine Footballer." Messi is still young, and he has at least two more chances to win the award, as the Golden Boy rules stipulate that all players under the age of 21 are eligible to win. But next year, which genius will emerge from the water? Perhaps, Cesc Fabregas, who was once out of La Masia's academy? ”

"He's like a kid who finally got his own candy."

"Mr. Blatter should probably be laughing too, but Riquelme is probably going to cry......"