Chapter 61 Goal Drought

A big home win over CSKA Moscow made the pressure on United a little less in the Champions League.

At this point in the league, the fixtures are starting to get tighter, followed by a midweek Premier League match at home to West Bromwich Albion.

West Bromwich Albion currently have 14 points from 12 Premier League games and are 13th in the league. It stands to reason that this position is also in line with West Bromwich Albion's status in the Premier League, which is a team in the lower middle and lower levels with little investment.

West Bromwich Albion, however, always seem to be in good form at Old Trafford, with United losing at home to them for the second season in a row.

In the 2012-2014 season, West Bromwich Albion beat Manchester United 2-1 at Old Trafford thanks to goals from Amalfitano and Bellahino.

Last season, in 2014-2015, West Bromwich Albion beat Louis van Gaal's Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford.

If West Bromwich Albion can continue their strong momentum against Manchester United at Old Trafford, a win will see them become only the second team to beat United on the road three times in a row in the Premier League.

Until then, only Manchester United's local rivals Manchester City had done this.

England manager Jose Pulis, who took over at West Bromwich Albion at the start of the year, was very low-key ahead of the game.

Asked about West Bromwich Albion's potential to become only the second team to beat Manchester United three times in a row on the road, Pulis simply skimmed the question: "I'll mention it to the players, but that's not what we're focusing on. We have a lot of respect for Manchester United as a club, Sir Alex Ferguson has been with him for a long time, and I have a lot of admiration for Mr. Alex Ferguson, but unfortunately neither David Moyes nor Louis van Gaal have been given enough time to put their plans to fruition. Ancelotti has done a fantastic job, though, and just look at Manchester United's standings in the table to see how strong this team is. But we're not going to be intimidated and my team will give it their all at Old Trafford. ”

The game also got Manchester United fans on their radar as Evans and Fletcher returned to the Theatre of Dreams. The pair are back at Old Trafford, with Evans moving this summer, his first time playing against his former club since leaving Manchester United. In addition to these two, West Bromwich Albion's main goalkeeper Ben Foster is also from Manchester United, although he is out due to injury.

Fletcher moved to West Bromwich Albion in January and was immediately appointed by Pulis as captain.

Clearly, Pulis is very serious about the former Manchester United midfielder. In fact, if it weren't for the strange illness that Fletcher suffered, he could have been a top midfielder at Manchester United.

For Pulis, United have suffered a Champions League depletion in midweek and may have a physical advantage for West Bromwich Albion.

As for Carlo Ancelotti, in addition to Mata continuing to be sidelined due to injury, Fellaini, who was sent off after accumulating two yellow cards in the Manchester derby, ended his suspension and could get a chance to play, and as for other positions, Ancelotti does not plan to make any changes.

With almost two weeks of international break coming after this game, Carlo Ancelotti will not have to worry about the fitness of the players for the time being.

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West Bromwich Albion seem to be a real helper at Old Trafford.

They scored in the eighth minute and thanks to a quick counter-attack, West Bromwich Albion once again took the lead at Old Trafford with a quick counter-attack from the Venezuelan striker midwinter who slotted home into the far corner of the net against David De Gea.

Before that, Manchester United had already had two shots on goal within the range of the goal frame, and a header by Li Qingshan even smashed on the crossbar and bounced off the bottom line. But the team that scored first now was West Bromwich Albion.

Manchester United, on the other hand, were in complete control of the game, but it looked like their goal luck was a little bit off.

Especially Li Qingshan.

In the 31st minute of the game, Li Qingshan's right-footed volley directly on the arc of the penalty area hit the defender and refracted, goalkeeper Hill had given up the defense, but the football failed to roll into the net - the football hit the post again and popped off the bottom line.

Li Qingshan hugged his head and regretted, I don't know how many times it was, his shot was either blocked by the goalkeeper or by the crossbar.

"Li Qingshan's shooting boots seem to have forgotten to bring today. He was really unlucky today, and if his almost must-have shots had been scored, United would have taken the lead by now. ”

Manchester United went into the break at half-time with a score of 0-1 down.

After the fifteen-minute half-time break, there were no substitutions for either side, and although Li Qingshan was not very lucky to score today, Manchester United, who controlled the rhythm of the game, still scored.

The goal was scored by Marouane Fellaini, who returned from suspension.

Through a corner, Li Qingshan nodded the ball to the middle, and Fellaini flicked the ball with a header into the goal. Manchester United equalised.

After the equaliser, Manchester United continued to lay siege.

It wasn't until the 80th minute that United finally scored again.

Li Qingshan grabbed the point in the middle and shook his head to attack the goal, the football was flicked by the goalkeeper, and hit the crossbar again, but this time the football did not pop up the bottom line, but bounced back into the penalty area, and Di Maria in the penalty area directly poked the ball to help Manchester United overtake the score.

This is also the score after full-time. Manchester United beat West Bromwich Albion 2-1 at home.

Ancelotti shook his head in an interview after the game and said: "We were so unlucky in this game, in fact we had a lot of chances to score, and if half of those chances could have been converted into goals, we would have killed the game in the first half." But that's football. ”

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Manchester United's home win over West Bromwich Albion was no surprise, the scoreline was normal. After the game, the media paid attention to Li Qingshan's state.

According to the media, Li Qingshan has not scored in two consecutive games, in the Champions League in midweek, Li Qingshan did not score, and in this Premier League game, Li Qingshan still did not score, which also means that Li Qingshan's eleven consecutive rounds of Premier League goals came to an abrupt end.

Not scoring in two games in a row is a goal drought?

Maybe this is really for Li Qingshan.

Now some media are predicting Li Qingshan's next goal trend. The form of the players is a very mysterious thing, just like in the game of West Bromwich Albion, Li Qingshan's performance is not outstanding, but he just failed to score. For example, Fellaini, he just had one chance in the whole game and scored, which cannot be explained by statistics.

However, the next is the international break, and Li Qingshan's goal drought will continue for a few rounds, and he will not know until he returns on the national team break.