Chapter Ninety-Six: December Rush Season

After the match with West Bromwich Albion, the draw for the Champions League round of 16 also came out, and Manchester United, who won the group, was drawn.... Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain! Manchester United's group stage luck seems to be running out in the knockout rounds, and PSG are not an easy team to play against. However, for the defending champions, if they want to continue to achieve in the Champions League this season, they will have to overcome these strong opponents.

For Manchester United, the Champions League round of 16 will not start until two months away, and now Manchester United need to focus more on the league....

And although Manchester United drew the Ligue 1 giants Paris, the English media paid more attention to Arsenal..... Because Arsenal, who finally won the first place in the group, drew Bayern Munich again....

Either playing Barcelona or Bayern Munich, no wonder Chinese fans will jokingly say that this Champions League theme song was created for Arsenal....

After playing West Bromwich Albion and having been nibbled on two tough away games in December, United will be back in action to prepare for the 18th round of the Premier League at home to Sunderland.

Having failed to see their team on the road for the second time in a row, Manchester United fans can finally cheer on their team at home in this home game.

In two away games, Li Qingshan scored three goals and directly helped the team get six points.

Scored three goals in two away games, this result is placed on other players in the Premier League, the media has long turned the sky, hype is inevitable, if this player happens to be an Englishman, he will not stop if he is not blown into the king of the ball.

Therefore, people often criticize the inflated value of England's homegrown players - in addition to the factor of the household register, the credit of this developed media in England is also not small.

However, if this efficiency is put on Li Qingshan, the media will have no interest in hype.

Is scoring three goals in two games a lot for Li Qingshan?

Judging from his past record, there are really not many, just normal operation, if the media carnival once every time he scores one or two goals, then do the other players in the Premier League want the media page?

In fact, even if he scored three goals away from home, some media said that Li Qingshan's recent form has declined.

It had to do with the fact that he didn't score a goal at Tottenham. If you count this game, it is three goals in three games, and the efficiency of one goal per game is already considered a super-level performance on other strikers, but on Li Qingshan, isn't it ironclad proof of the decline in form....

But soon Li Qingshan hit these media in the face with a hat-trick - they beat Sunderland 4-0 at home, and Li Qingshan scored a hat-trick in the game.

Sunderland, the black cat, just hit the muzzle of Manchester United's gun, and for Sunderland fans, it is really a bit of a cry to meet a team like Manchester United in this situation.

There is another meaning for Manchester United, and that is the return of former Manchester United manager David Moyes to Old Trafford.

Even before the game began, David Moyes was crying out for his sacking at Manchester United.

'The fact that I was obviously treated unfairly and look at Louis van Gaal, he had a tough time as well. Whoever takes over from Sir Alex Ferguson will be the same. ”

'Carlo Ancelotti is very lucky, I envy him, Manchester United are willing to spend a lot of money for a manager like him, they have spent almost 300 million pounds for two seasons in a row, and stars like Li Qingshan and Paul Pogba have been brought to Old Trafford. I had to wait until the start of the new season to buy Fellaini, and then I brought Juan Mata, but that was the winter transfer window. ”

Moyes said in front of the media.

"But Li Qingshan was sold through your hands!"

There are reporters who did not give Moyes face.

Moyes's face turned cold, he was clearly upset by the question.

Does Moyes have any regrets? Of course, his intestines were all remorseful.

If Li Qingshan is in his hands, his cross tactics are not the boring and backward tactics in the mouth of the English media, if there is a Li Qingshan in the front, how can it be impossible to have a situation where one goal is not scored in eighty-one crosses!

If Li Qingshan had not been sold, Manchester United would not have fallen to the seventh position at the end of the season, and as long as he could lead the team to the Champions League places, the United hierarchy would not have lost their trust in him - after all, he is a handpicked successor of Alex Ferguson.

If he doesn't sell Li Qingshan and keeps him in Manchester United's first team, then can David Moyes slowly integrate his own tactical philosophy into Manchester United, making him another Manchester United godfather-level manager after Alex Ferguson?

In the dead of night, David Moyes often thinks about his days at Manchester United. He spent many years at Everton and he was also the best young coach in England. But at Manchester United, it was clearly the Waterloo of his managerial career!

Maybe it all started with selling Li Qingshan.

But in this case, Moyes could not have admitted his mistake.

"Yes, I sold Li Qingshan, but Li Qingshan at that time was not the same as Li Qingshan now, Li Qingshan was just a young player at that time, he was not yet at the level of playing in the Premier League...."Moyes said, "and he doesn't have a labor certificate yet!! ”

Moyes defended himself.

But no matter how he answers, Moyes is also considered by Manchester United fans to be the culprit of Manchester United's turbulent results in the first two seasons, if Li Qingshan had not been sold, Manchester United would not have to spend 100 million to buy it back....

But then again, Pogba seems to be doing the same... First sold it cheaply, and then bought it back at a high price.

This leveling fee is really expensive.

David Moyes's side lost at Old Trafford without temper.

Li Qingshan scored a brace in the first half.

He opened the scoring with a penalty spot in the box and then stabbed home a successful pass in the box towards the end of the first half to give his side a 2-0 lead.

Juan Mata doubled the lead in the second half, and as the game drew to a close, Li Qingshan found the Sunderland goal again with a long-range free-kick.

Manchester United won the game 4-0.

Three days later, on 28 December, United hosted Middlesbrough.

This is the last Premier League game of December, and a win would see United on a sixth consecutive league win in December's Devil's Season!

Manchester United, who played at home, did not give Middlesbrough a chance, Ancelotti did not rotate, and the team as a whole was still relatively tired.

But Middlesbrough isn't much better, and in December, the fixtures are fair to all Premier League teams – all of them are set to have an uneasy December.

With both teams exhausted, it was Manchester United who were more willpower in the end, and Middlesbrough's resistance continued until the 80th minute of the game, when Li Qingshan seized a cross and sent the ball into the net!

After the fall of the city, Middlesbrough looked like they had lost the will to continue fighting.

In the eighty-ninth minute of the game, Pogba helped Manchester United expand the score!

In the end, Manchester United won 2-0 at home to Middlesbrough.

In the Premier League in December, Manchester United won all of them, scoring 18 points, and the efficiency of grabbing points is quite high!