120 watersheds

After the win over Boston, the new Manchester United continued to go on a winning steam in the next few league games.

First, on February 8, he won 2-0 at home against Southport, with Kic and Crouch scoring one goal each; Then, on 12 February, they sat at the City Stadium to welcome the Doncaster team, and after 90 minutes of hard fighting, the new Manchester United beat their opponents 1-0 with a direct free-kick from Juninho Jr. in the second half, and continued to maintain the top position in the league.

However, like the new Manchester United who have won back-to-back games, Morecambe, who climbed to the top of the table for the first time this season, has also shown tenacity, especially when other rivals are generally lacking in stamina.

On February 16, the new Manchester United visited Kettering Town near Birmingham, and under the attention of less than 1,000 players at Rockingham Road Stadium, New Manchester United won 0:3 with two goals from Keatring and Kitson, and took three points from Kettering Town.

By the way, De Rossi started for the new Manchester United in this game and performed well, especially in the midfielder, he had a tacit understanding with the young player Essien's partner, and his passing ability was good.

With a back-to-back league win, the new Manchester United rushed to Northwich Town, located not far southwest of Manchester, and defeated Northwich 2-4 at the Victoria Stadium to successfully enter the semi-finals of the FA Cup Winner's Cup.

However, as Scarlett said, although the overall strength of the new Manchester United team is very strong and the bench players are not weak, the long-term two-line operation does bring a lot of trouble to the team's physical fitness, especially when traveling long distances to the away side.

After Northwich's victory, the new Manchester United suffered an unexpected upset in the next round of the national league away to Altrincham, facing the home team's tenacious bucket defense and almost unable to find any solution, but in the 78th minute of the second half, due to the negligence of Gary Turner, resulting in an unexpected goal, the away 1-0 defeat.

With Morecambe continuing their winning streak, the defeat to Fulham cut United's lead over Morecambe to four points, which seemed to give Morecambe and the likes of Kidderminster and Boston back hope in the league on 26 February.

On the other hand, the new Manchester United, almost the whole of February is a double game, and the players' fitness has reached the limit, especially after a bloody bayonet battle at Autrincham, they have obviously not been able to get out of the physical predicament when they return to Manchester City Stadium, and they have not shown the fighting power of the top team in the face of the visiting Stevenage team.

1:2, still the old rules, the home team in front, the away team behind, the new Manchester United once again tasted defeat!

The two-game losing streak left the new United just one point ahead of Morecambe and the race for the top spot in the national league has come to a fever pitch, especially with Kidderminster and Boston, who also have the capital to covet the title.

You know, according to the rules of the national league promotion to the English C League, only the champion can be directly promoted, and the second to fifth place will be play-offs, so only if you win the championship, you can guarantee promotion, and the second to fifth place is still very risky, after all, the strength of the teams in this region is very close, and it is difficult to say who wins and who loses.

It is precisely because of this that Morecambe and other teams are chasing the championship, but after two consecutive defeats of the new Manchester United, the outside world is not so optimistic about their championship prospects, you know, many teams are very strong in the early and middle stages of the league, but in the most critical late stage of the championship, a little weak, and eventually lead to the championship side.

And the current new Manchester United clearly fit that prediction.

Fortunately, after two consecutive defeats, the new Manchester United ushered in a rare respite, from February 27 to March 11, the national league was suspended for two weeks, which seemed to be a rain from heaven, giving the new Manchester United a chance to breathe and adjust.

During the past two weeks, the new Manchester United coaching staff and laboratory have done their best to bring out as much form as possible and at the same time do their best to help the players recover, and even the team's training is at the service of fitness.

As the new Manchester United reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup Winner's Cup, they were drawn against Hereford, who are currently 10th in the league.

The team are currently 10 points behind fifth-placed Duver and their hopes of qualifying for the play-offs are slim, so they are focusing on the FA Cup Winner, which they hope to lift for the first time in the club's history.

In order to make way for the first leg of the FA Cup Winner's Cup, the 36th round of the league was rescheduled to 14 March, with the new United visiting Hereford on 11 March.

The away and home schedule is undoubtedly very favourable, but if you can win away from home, then the rest of the home game will be much easier.

Bruce was clearly in this sense.

At Edgar Street in Hereford, Bruce deployed his strongest attacking firepower, with Kicic and Crouch up front, Novik and Hleb on the wings, Juninho Jr. and Paulsen in the middle of the midfield, Patrice Evra, Abidal, Distin and Stansson in the back line from left to right, and Schmeichel in goal.

The full squad and the pre-match preparations of the new Manchester United were attacking despite playing away from home, especially during the two-week break, when the new Manchester United players recovered their fitness and behaved like tigers in this game.

The score of 0:2 may be difficult to show the advantage on the field, but the number of shots on goal between the two sides in this game can better reflect this, 3:27, the number of shots of the new Manchester United is 9 times that of the opponent, including 11 shots on target, but only two goals, can only blame the opponent's goalkeeper for the performance is too good.

However, an away win, combined with two away goals, has almost completely condemned Hereford to death, considering that since the move to the City Stadium, the new United have been unbeaten at home so far, even against a strong Arsenal side.

It is precisely because of this that after losing at home to the new Manchester United, Hereford has not had much hope for the game at the City Stadium, and even the outside media have unanimously agreed that the new Manchester United will reach the final.

After a victory in the FA Cup Winner's Cup, the new Manchester United returned to the home stadium to wait for Woking, the unbeaten home advantage made the players psychologically strong enough, so at home, although the new Manchester United used some substitutes, but still relied on the goals of Olic and Kitson, 2:1, difficult to get three points.

On the 18th, in the second leg of the FA Cup Winner's Cup, the new Manchester United hosted Hereford, and Bruce rotated again in this game, including many main players such as Kicic did not play in this game, but Olic continued to get the chance to start, and the midfielder was De Rossi partnered with Essien and Matkinson, and the two full-backs were Rich Willens and Darren Lyons, who was gradually squeezed into the bench by Hleb.

In this game, the new Manchester United is based on defense, and Hereford wants to play the offense as the main player, but they obviously didn't expect that the new Manchester United, who has always liked to play offensive football, will be so sharp once they play defensive counterattacks.

Only in the first half, Olic used his amazing speed to tear through the opponent's defense twice, got two goals, and then assisted De Rossi, who was inserted in the back row, to score a goal from a distance in the second half, 3:0!

With an aggregate score of 5:0, the new Manchester United defeated Hereford to enter the FA Cup Winner's Cup final.

On the other side, the Newedon team reversed Hayes 3:2 away with a 0:1 defeat at home in the first leg, with an aggregate score of 3:3, but defeated Hayes on penalties and successfully entered the final.

The FA Cup Winner's Cup final will be scheduled for 6 May, when the regular fixtures of the National League have been completed and the promotion play-offs are underway.

But that doesn't mean the new Manchester United have an easy schedule, on the contrary, Scarlett is right to say that the watershed in determining whether the new United can win the title this season is in March, because on March 21 and 25, the new United will face the two biggest obstacles to promotion, Morecambe and Duver.

The game against Morecambe is an away game, and Dufer, although they are at home, are squeezed into the same week as Morecambe's, meaning the new United will have to win two big rivals in quick succession to secure their current top spot.

This is undoubtedly a big test for the new Manchester United, even if after entering the City Stadium, the new Manchester United can guarantee that they are unbeaten at home, but who can guarantee that if they lose to Morecambe away, the team will not lose the top position and lose morale, and then lose to the Duver team after returning home?

Morecambe have been in great form at home this season, losing just once at home this season, but that was in the distant early stages of the season, and since then, Morecambe have been getting better and more consistent, and they have even won 10 in a row at home.

Christie Park is arguably one of the most famous devil's stadiums in the national league this season, and the city stadium is equally scary for the new Manchester United, but Morecambe, who have won back-to-back games recently, will undoubtedly have a better morale advantage than the new Manchester United, who have just come out of two consecutive defeats but are still distracted by the FA Cup Winners' Cup.

In fact, Morecambe did make good use of all their advantages, completely overpowering the new United in momentum from the first minute of the game, especially in the first 10 minutes of the game, the momentum of the new United was obviously completely suppressed.

To the cheers of nearly 4,000 home fans, Morecambe penetrated twice in 10 minutes at the back of the new Manchester United's backline, which was not easily breached by any of the national league teams.

2:0, the big red scoreboard on the Christie Park stadium looks so shocking!

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