Chapter Seventy-Three: Castle Peak Dependence

Manchester United suffered from Li Qingshan's dependence!

After the defeat to Swansea, the English media began to discuss the issue.

Indeed, with the exception of Manchester City's win in the Carabao Cup, which was not much importance to either side, the next three games were two draws and one defeat, without a win.

In the four games since Li Qingshan's injury, Manchester United have only won one of them! And facing a team that is not yet at the top of the league table, especially losing to Swansea, who are at the bottom of the table, is extremely disappointing for Manchester United fans.

'It was a disappointing performance for Manchester United today. Although Li Qingshan is no longer on the field, the team's performance is really disappointing. When Li Qingshan was lost, the team's offense and defense felt down a notch, and all the players didn't know how to play correctly on the field, especially when they lost Li Qingshan, the fulcrum of the frontcourt, Rashford, who replaced this position, struggled quite hard in the center forward position, he had no way to hold the ball in the muscle jungle, and there was no way to dedicate a super forward impact to the team like Li Qingshan. But take a look at today's starting lineup, except for Li Qingshan, the other positions are the regular main force of the team! After the defeat to Swansea, Manchester's local pro-Manchester newspaper The Manchester Candidist criticised in a report.

Sky Sports also commented in a newspaper column: "The 0-1 defeat to Swansea City shows how heavily Manchester United rely on Li Qingshan in attack. There was an element of luck to Swansea's goal, but that luck was also based on the fact that United had been unable to score for a long time. Last season, Manchester United actually relied on Li Qingshan's offensive play, Manchester United's more than seventy percent of the goals were either Li Qingshan's direct goals, or Li Qingshan's participation in the goal, and this season Manchester United introduced Pogba, Ancelotti obviously hoped that Li Qingshan and Pogba dual-core drive to lead Manchester United forward, but such a scene did not happen, Manchester United's dependence on Li Qingshan was more serious! Li Qingshan has continued his crazy form this season, and so far, he has played thirteen games for Manchester United, scoring a crazy 23 goals!! More than 60% of all Manchester United's goals! This statistic currently tops the European scorer charts! And behind him is Messi, who has scored 18 goals in 16 games!! In the distribution of the ball, Manchester United has also relied more and more on Li Qingshan, which is largely due to Pogba's inconsistent performance, Pogba is always in good and bad form, making it difficult for Manchester United to put more trust in the French midfielder. In terms of the stability of the ball in the front court and the maturity of the handling, Pogba also needs to learn Li Qingshan's concise and clear style of play in handling the ball. However, Li Qingshan's injury also reminded Ancelotti - he must have Plan B when Li Qingshan is not on the field! ”

Syllable!!!!

Ancelotti slammed the newspaper in his hand on the table.

If Plan B was useful, Lao Tzu would have used it a long time ago, and I still need you to remind him?

Now this Manchester United wants to say that compared with super teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona, if there is any gap, it is that in the team as a whole, Manchester United is currently enough to be a "world-class superstar", in fact, there are only two and a half players, one is the center Li Qingshan, and the other is goalkeeper De Gea, and the remaining half is naturally Pogba, who performs well and badly.

Fortunately, the goalkeeper and the center forward, one attack and one defense, these two key positions, Manchester United can be said to have two of the best players in the world, especially in the offensive end of the dependence on Li Qingshan, which is obvious.

Having such a center forward and not relying on it is the brain.

Carlo Ancelotti was dismissive of media criticism. In Carlo Ancelotti's opinion, when you have a good player, you have to make the most of his abilities. And Li Qingshan is not the kind of vitreous physique that is often injured, and he is definitely a player worthy of the team's dependence.

As for Manchester United suffering from Li Qingshan dependence?

Ancelotti has no pressure on this, dependence is dependence, as long as Li Qingshan returns from injury and the team's results improve, all criticism will disappear.

The world of football is like that, when you win, there are no problems, but when you start losing, all the problems come.

Anyway, what is relieved for Ancelotti now is that Li Qingshan will soon be able to return after the international break against Arsenal.

This is more important than anything else!

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In fact, compared with Manchester United, the Chinese team is more dependent on Li Qingshan - the Chinese team with Li Qingshan is the top team in Asia, and the Chinese team without Li Qingshan will immediately become the second-rate in Asia, of course, some people think that it is the third-rate in Asia.

This time it was the case, and the international break was immediately followed by the match against Swansea.

On November 15, the Chinese team will face the challenge of Qatar at home.

Although Qatar look the weakest opponent in this group, they are currently at the bottom of the table, but in the absence of Li Qingshan, fans are still a little lacking in confidence.

Before the game, Lippi emphasized the importance of Li Qingshan to the team: "The absence of Li Qingshan is a major blow to our team, but we will still try to win the opponent at home and occupy the initiative to qualify!" ”

The Chinese team playing at home did play actively, but as soon as the Qatari dense defense line playing away from home came out, the Chinese team that lacked Li Qingshan, the offensive core, was immediately blinded.

For a long time, the most criticized thing about the Chinese team is the lack of offensive strength and lack of scoring skills. And the appearance of Li Qingshan just solved the stubborn problem of the national football team. However, Li Qingshan's injury immediately caused the team to fall into the rhythm of the past.

After 90 minutes of hard work at home, the national football team still had no way to score, but fortunately, the counterattack strength of Qatar, which was fighting away, was also insufficient, and the Chinese team drew 0-0 with the opponent at home.

However, Iran drew 0-0 with Syria away, and the Chinese team was lucky not to be opened up by Iran.

Behind them is the South Korean team, because Uzbekistan lost to the South Korean team in this round, their points are still six points, and the South Korean team's points are by virtue of this victory, after winning three points, the points come to seven, overtaking Uzbekistan in third place.

Despite being four points ahead of third-place South Korea, it was still difficult for the fans to relax.

Now for Chinese fans, their biggest hope is that Li Qingshan will return to the field as soon as possible, so that the Chinese team can be more confident in the next round of 12 qualifiers.

Compared with the English media's criticism of Manchester United suffering from "Li Qingshan dependence", no one in the domestic media said that the national football team suffered from "Li Qingshan dependence" - if you don't rely on Li Qingshan, what can you rely on.

Compared with other players in the national football team, Li Qingshan is the only hope for the Chinese team in the World Cup.