Chapter 101: Back to the starter
With the permission of the team doctor, Dong Fangzhuo began recovery training, and he was full of urgency after not training for a week, with jackals in front and chasing soldiers in front of him, and he could not tolerate any relaxation at Manchester United.
After a tough climb into the main team in the previous two games, he missed two games with an injury, while Ruud van Nistelrooy returned to quickly find the goal and once again won back Ferguson's trust.
That's the way it is at Manchester United, you can't sit back and eat your old stuff, there's always the next team-mate who comes up and takes your place quickly.
At present, in Manchester United, Rooney's position is the most stable, this guy is not injured, and the second is heavy by Ferguson, basically locking up a starting position, and another starting position, you need to choose among other strikers, who is in good shape, even big names such as Vanney have to face such competition.
Dong Fangzhuo is not afraid of such competition, at present, he is only a little behind Vanney, on an equal footing with Saha, Smith was almost given up by the lord, and Solskjaer is not involved.
So as long as he trains hard and keeps in good shape, he doesn't have to worry about running out of playing time at all.
The game against Arsenal has not yet arrived, and the media has begun to exaggerate the importance of this game. The grudges of the past games have also been turned over and fried.
The Times chose to side with Arsenal, after all, they are the London media, and when the game started three days before it started, they published an article - "Playing against Manchester United away again, what Arsenal has to do is to keep a calm mentality, in a peaceful mentality, Manchester United can't beat Arsenal, don't affect the direction of the game again because of mentality problems in the game." ”
"Also, Thierry Henry should play a bigger role in the game and not disappear in the most important game. Pire, Reyes and Ljungberg should play more passionately, if they are suppressed by Manchester United's Ryan Giggs and Cristiano Ronaldo on the flank, then Arsenal's attack will definitely be blocked, Vieira should move forward to give more support up front, and don't let United's forward line take the ball too easily in front of the penalty area......"
Thierry Henry has been criticised and almost disappeared for the entire game against Manchester United in the first leg of the league campaign, and if the Kings of Highbury have lost their shooting boots, then Arsenal's chances of winning will naturally be reduced.
Reyes, Pire and Ljungberg all play on the wings, and they do have to compete with Ryan Giggs and Cristiano Ronaldo, while Arsenal and Manchester United are world-class on the wings, and the side that loses the duel loses the midfield.
These ideas are actually valid for Manchester United.
However, the Manchester Evening News expressed a different view: "Playing this kind of heavyweight game, often technique and tactics are not the most important, judging from the last few games between the two teams, often the team with stronger fighting spirit has become the final winner, so the players sent by Ferguson should be the most combative, and the combat effectiveness is off the charts." Players like Keane, China Dong, Fletcher, Rooney have to be in the starting lineup. ”
Dong Fangzhuo's name was mentioned in the article, and a comment was specially written, "Chinese Dong always plays exceptionally at the most important time, although Fanny is in very good shape, but Chinese Dong should be more suitable for starting, because when he is on the field, he will always be a fighter." ”
For the first time, the media cheered for Dong Fangzhuo's debut.
It's just that there is not much time left for Dong Fangzhuo, that is, on the day of the news announcement, Dong Fangzhuo joined the team's confrontation training.
The team doctor also specially explained that he must pay attention to protecting himself in the confrontation.
But after Dong Fangzhuo came on the field, he completely left the team doctor's explanation behind, and he couldn't play well if he was timid, so what kind of state did he talk about?
If you want to start, you have to fight!
Bang –
Pique, who represented the reserve team and the first team, was knocked to the ground by Dong Fangzhuo.
Shibei should be impressed for three days.
Pique couldn't have imagined that Dong Fangzhuo, who had just returned from injury, was so vigorous in combat effectiveness, and it didn't look like he had been injured in the shoulder at all.
He was bigger than Dong Fangzhuo, but he was actually overturned by Dong Fangzhuo.
He looked at Dong Fangzhuo in disbelief, and said in his heart, did this guy eat expired Chunyao?
Recently, he found that he was less and less of Dong Fangzhuo's opponent, Dong Fangzhuo was always able to use some fairly simple actions to kill him, not at all like Rosie and the others, who needed to use a lot of dazzling feints to confuse him before passing him.
Dong Fangzhuo made two moves, when facing him head-on, he quickly changed direction to smash the ball, and when he took the ball with his back to face him, he quickly shook a shot and forcibly turned around to eat it raw, especially the second one, Dong Fangzhuo is now playing a thief.
If even Dong Fangzhuo can't watch it, will other people still have a show?; Sometimes, Pique always doubts himself so much, although he is in awe of Dong Fangzhuo, he always thinks that Dong Fangzhuo's foot skills are still much worse than other forwards.
But this matter is contradictory, since this is the case, then why is he always being passed by? It's not scientific.
"Dong! I'm not going to let you get through it again. Pique gritted his teeth with hatred, playing against the first team was a great opportunity to show Ferguson his ability, but being played by Dong Fangzhuo like this, he had a fart performance.
"No, you won't succeed, you'll lose me."
Dong Fangzhuo smiled proudly.
This made Pique even more angry.
Of course, this is a good thing for both sides, stimulating Pique to play better, and also making Dong Fangzhuo work harder to find a way to face Pique.
In the end, Pique was still depressed by Dong Fangzhuo.
Although he had just returned from injury, Dong Fangzhuo still got three shots on goal on Pique's body in the confrontation and scored two goals.
It's a state like this, and it's impossible for Ferguson to ignore.
I don't know if he read the Manchester Evening News article, anyway, when the starting list was announced, Vanney's eyes were eclipsed.
Because he was pressed on the bench by Ferguson, it was Dong Fangzhuo who started.
For Vanney, of course, this is unfair, he returned from injury, scored three goals in two games, no matter how you look at it, it will not be Dong Fangzhuo's turn, it should be his starter.
If you have to find a reason to console yourself, then it can only be said that it is the reason for the League Cup, or that Ferguson wants Ruud van Nistelrooy to rest, otherwise what reason is there?
"Dong, I don't understand, why can you always get past me in the easiest way?"
This question......
Dong Fangzhuo's thoughts drifted far, far away, as if he had returned to some unbearable time in his previous life......
"Because ......"