Chapter 541: Fantasy is a broken bowel
But even on such a big day, there are opposition voices, such as former Sky Sports commentator Andy Gray, who published an article in his personal column titled "Don't have illusions about Manchester United, fantasy is a broken heart".
Here's what it reads:
Manchester United is actually just a "super second-rate" team in the Champions League, like a DVD piracy of a "mosaic" of the glory days of the past, maybe we should wake up from Manchester United's nine-game winning streak and be careful to say a "defeat of pseudo-Manchester United".
In 1968, George Best, wearing the number 7 shirt, scored a goal for Benfica at the age of 21 and began to rise to the top of the list of "greatness" in English football history. 38 years later, Cristiano Ronaldo, who is also wearing the No. 7 jersey and is also 21 years old, swept Dong Fangzhuo with a shake of his right ankle to complete Manchester United's revenge for last season's 1-4 loss to Barcelona.
You can even find Paul Scholes, like Charlton, who played in the crucial revenge game at the age of 31, but don't make a sensational analogy, this United is no longer the Manchester United of 1968, it is not even as good as the United of 1998-1999 - in that era, Ferguson's "Golden Generation of '92" created a strategic style of play, a style of play that squeezed opponents in a parallel position in midfield and had to make mistakes, and at that time, Manchester United had the best Beckham, the best Keane, the best Scholes, The best of Giggs.
But now no, apart from Scholes, this game can still be vaguely a clue in the form of memory, Manchester United is really just a "super second-rate" team in the Champions League - like a DVD pirate of a "mosaic" of the glory days of the past. Even if it has Dong Fangzhuo, who is more popular than York and Cole, you can tell from the anxious expression on the face of the old man when he beat Reading that the great Manchester United has shrunk.
Old Fernandes said after the game: We have taken down a strong team. It's a wonderful irony that in the 98-99 season, the world's biggest names were shouting "Down with Manchester United", but now it's time for United to shout "Down with Manchester United" – because the opponent is last season's Champions League winners, Barcelona, known as Dream II.
Maybe we should wake up from United's nine-game winning streak and be cautious about saying "down with Pseudo-United"?
Of course, you have to be happy for Manchester United's 4-1, of course, you can put Dong Fangzhuo's barb shot with her right foot at least rank the "first brother" of the Champions League goal in the round, and even the second goal.
Of course, a thumbs up to Dong Fangzhuo's growth, who is now becoming more and more of a leader at Manchester United, and when he stands in the opposition penalty area, the opponent's goal is always in the wind. There have always been many good no.9s in the history of Manchester United, but no striker has always been able to stand alone in the opposition defence like him.
Also cheer for Cristiano Ronaldo, when he runs wild with the ball, the whole stadium will be swept away by his speed, the last game he scored a goal against Reading was Giggs-style, this game against Dong Fangzhuo Saha's assist is Beckham-style, and his dazzling dribble on the right side is much more than Beckham's, so that veteran fans must be reminded of Best in the same position.
They have all matured, and 10 months later, United have gone through the lowest point in the history of the Champions League, and they have passed the most impetuous season of puberty. When a boy knows how to outsmart his opponent with a smile without using his middle finger, he becomes a man. Throughout the game, they made Rijkaard furious but helpless.
Dong's biggest improvement is not a steady stream of goals, but always being able to score goals at crucial moments, and when the team needs him, he will step up.
And Ronaldo's biggest improvement is not to show off his skills like a bicycle boy, the English say that his current superiority is "strategic", the word is lofty, no longer a trick, but a personal change in the game. It seems that only Maradona, Cruyff, Zidane and other dribbling masters in history can use such words, and his dribbling is like piercing the hammer array with a red tassel gun.
But I don't think Manchester United are "recovering", Manchester United haven't relived the nightmare of 10 months ago, not having a Premier League slump of being held to a draw by Reading or being forced to tear off a piece of meat by Chelsea, but that doesn't mean much more, it's just waking up from a nightmare, but it's still far from the dream of a revival dynasty.
In the past, the perfect midfield made Manchester United dominate, and the Manchester United dynasty at any time was like this, but now Manchester United is weak in the waist and abdomen, and it is only under the calculation of the still wise old Fergus that 442 was changed to 433, so that Rooney became a fake left winger to attack the opponent, no way, because Giggs is old, it is a good match to let Carrick, Scholes and Modric organize, and it is also a rational choice to let Fletcher, Park Ji-sung and Smith do some of Keane's dirty work back then.
But this is a typical practice of working backwards from the result, if Ronaldo's kick is intercepted, if Dong Fangzhuo's step point is not adjusted well, there are too many ifs on the football field, as long as there is a if, Manchester United, which is at a disadvantage in the whole field, even if it is not beaten back to the damn 10 months ago, at most it can only get back a point under the best efforts of the back line.
This is a fact, it's not that Manchester United played badly, Manchester United played too well in this game, but it can only play to this extent, Manchester United can mobilize the fighting spirit of the past, and the old man can mobilize all his talents, but Manchester United faded out of the 92 generation, its talent and imagination are the scores of this morning, and it is impossible to be high, and it is impossible to have endless talents like Arsenal.
A terrible question is: if Wayne Rooney is suspended due to a bad temper, or if Dong Fangzhuo is injured, who else will be the striker for Manchester United?
You can continue to love Manchester United this season, but you can't continue to be full of illusions about Manchester United this season, and the old man has been sharpening his sword for ten years to cultivate the golden generation of the year, and now things are different, and the next batch of crops will grow luxuriantly - it will take time, maybe a year, maybe two years, or longer.
Watching Dong Fangzhuo's momentum, watching Rooney and Ronaldo running wildly, watching Manchester United united, very excited, but the excitement is the red spot on Lao Fuye's face, and it is a redemption of the glory of the past, with the surging trend of the Premier League this season, and the momentum of the Champions League group after qualifying, you must know:
If you fantasize about Manchester United, the fantasy will be "gut-breaking".
What kind of bullshit article is this? Dong Fangzhuo saw the end from the beginning, and finally found out that the signature would actually be the damn Andy Gray.
This old immortal still hasn't admitted that Manchester United has become really strong? It seems that only by gagging his mouth with one win after another will he admit the truth at the end of the season......
But is this guy trying to clear his name now? He suddenly felt that Andy Miscellaneous was a little pitiful, and since he left Sky Sports, he had been getting worse and worse......