No. 115 Unlucky Red Devils

Before the game, the gimmick of the Manchester Chinese derby was hyped very loudly in China, and now Sun Jihai can't play, and it has become a one-man show for Jonke.

It's not that Ferguson understands the needs of the Chinese people, Manchester United now has no striker players except for Jonk and Tevez, and Jonker's start is not too unexpected, so although this game is broadcast live in China, many fans who watch the game are not honestly staying at home, but calling friends to go to the bar to kick off.

Although the Premier League is paying more and more attention to the needs of Asian audiences, and many games are scheduled to be played at 1 p.m. in the UK, the Manchester derby still kicks off at 1:30 p.m. China time.

This time period is the prime time for the UK to watch football, and it will also help the players play, many clubs and players have reported that it is often difficult to play at the level it should play when playing close to noon, which is a problem encountered by the Premier League in the promotion of Asia, and the kick-off near noon has a certain impact on the game.

It's all supported by a few jùs, but the Premier League teams have to adapt to kick-off time and start to transform their training plans to try to get their players in the best possible condition, which seems easy, but it's actually very difficult.

Especially for the big teams, the Champions League matches are kicked off according to the habits of European fans. The Premier League arranges many big club games in the afternoon, and it is not easy for the big teams to complete both time slots. The same is true for the players, the last game has to be out of the state in the afternoon, and the next game will be in the evening, and the players are also people!

Although the Manchester derby was played at midnight in China, the fans were still very enthusiastic, and the atmosphere in the fan bars was very lively, and there was a lot of discussion about what kind of performance Jonk could have in the game.

It can be said that the love of Chinese fans. has far surpassed the Portuguese fans, because in the hearts of Chinese fans, there is only one Jonke. And Portuguese fans may also support other Portuguese players, Ronaldo is also quite popular in Portugal, but in China, another member of the golden partner. was left far behind by Jonker.

"Brother Wang. Jonker will definitely score today, Manchester United will win! ”

"Victory! It's also delivered in a hurry! To be honest, Jonk just needs to score a goal, Manchester United doesn't care, I'm a fan of Jonk, the club I support Chelsea, so I'm sorry, Manchester United still lost well! ”

"What do you say! When I came in, I didn't see the signboard. This is Manchester United fan ball, do you want to lie down and go out? ”

"Don't be noisy! Jonk scores. Will Manchester United still lose? He's just over the hook, and it's still Manchester United this year! ”

The fans were talking, but when the game started, it was a bit flat.

As Ferguson said in front of the media before the game, Eriksen, in order to deal with Manchester United, let the Manchester City players defend without any scruples, and you can see people turning their backs at any time in the city stadium, rather than a smooth attack.

The Manchester City fans at the City Stadium were very excited, and of course they were happy that Manchester United could not take advantage of the situation here.

Manchester United players are also prepared, why is the Manchester derby so valued by local fans, the two teams do not have a friendship at all when they meet, they are red-eyed and play with their lives on the field, Manchester City is fierce, and Manchester United is not vegetarian.

In the seventh minute, United began to fight back, and Mbpensa came off the bench after Bodinov, who started for the first time in the Premier League, was injured in a duel to the ground, and was taken off a stretcher. Manchester City gradually slowed down the tempo of Manchester United's attack. Brown then brought down Petrov and was given a verbal warning by referee Clattenburg.

In the seventeenth minute, Brown made a low cross from the right, Scholes knocked to the left before the defender broke it, Nani stopped the ball with his right foot 20 meters in front of the goal, and his left-footed half-volley was blocked by Schmeichel Jr.!

Brazil international Elano was violated by Hargreaves and Scholes, and his feet were a little limped.

This is what you see in the game, with players from both teams stopping their opponents and committing fouls in the most ferocious way.

In the 24th minute, Jonker made a wonderful backheel pass on the left side, Evra burst into the left side of the penalty area with a single knife, and a left-footed volley from 7 meters in front of the goal was missed, and the chasing Joelluka shoveled Evra down from behind, and Lord Ferguson jumped on the sidelines, but the referee Clattenburg was indifferent.

Thankfully, this is the home of Manchester City at the City Stadium, and if it was Old Trafford, the boos would have embarrassed the referee.

Before the Manchester United players could come to their senses, in the 31st minute, Manchester City scored with their second shot! Elano's low cross from the left flank, Giovanni volleyed with his right foot from 25 meters in front of the goal, the ball touched the central defender Vidic's hip and curled around Van der Sar's fingertips into the bottom left corner, Manchester United fell behind 0-1! It was also the second Premier League goal scored by the Barcelona veteran after scoring from the first round as a substitute.

The City Stadium is boiling, Manchester City lead Manchester United by one goal at home, and the picture that Manchester City fans want to see is finally here!

Ferguson is very dissatisfied with Manchester United's attack on the pitch now, and now the field is passive, Manchester United seems to have few ways to attack, and Manchester City to be honest, except for the shot that scored just now, there is really no good chance, and now Manchester City is leading at home, in a word, it can only be regarded as "good luck, Tevez was also seen in the TV broadcast that Tevez has warmed up behind the Manchester City goal, which also made the Chinese fans waiting in front of the TV start to get nervous, Is the old Scottish man dissatisfied with Jonck's appearance, and is about to be replaced!

The commentator of the local domestic TV station is also expressing his concern: "Tevez is warming up, Manchester United really doesn't have many ways to attack, at this time, will Ferguson replace Jonker?" Personally, I think the most likely thing is to replace a midfielder, let Tevez come on to continue to strengthen the attacking strength, and complete the task of equalizing or even overtaking with Jonker, I believe that Jonk will not be so lightly replaced! ”

Manchester City manager Christian Eriksen also took note of Tevez's warm-up. At this time, with less than 20 minutes to go until the end of the first half, a one-goal lead was not secure. So Eriksen didn't dare to be careless, and paid close attention to Ferguson's next move, so he could respond as soon as possible!

Ferguson naturally noticed that the Manchester City team was paying attention to his side, and Ferguson touched his slightly red nose thoughtfully.

In the 40th minute of the game, Tevez, who was still warming up, was called by assistant coach Ben Rhodes.

Ferguson looked at Jonker, "Tevez! You're on the field now. There's still plenty of time for your mission to attack! At the same time, it is also necessary to form an effective cooperation with Jonke. Whether it's running or passing, be sure to free Jonker! See what I mean? ”

Tevez tucked his shirt into his pants and nodded, "I know how to do it." Boss! ”

Mouth is understood. But Tevez muttered a little in his heart, saying that he wanted himself to attack, but he actually went on the court to rescue Jonker?

That kid is now being defended to death by three Manchester City players, and he definitely won't!

"Very well, go boy." Ferguson, unaware of Tevez's own thoughts, patted Tevez on the shoulder and shoved him to the sidelines.

In the 41st minute of the game, Manchester United made their first substitution of the game. Tevez came off the bench to replace Michael Carrick in midfield.

When it comes to the end of the game. Carrick looked a little frustrated, in fact, Carrick was still working the pitch today, but unfortunately, the overall state of Manchester United today has problems, Carrick is the kind of person who is very eye-catching in the game, and he was replaced before the end of the first half, which is a blow to the players anyway, if it is a poor table, it is reasonable, but if it goes on like this, Carrick is very angry.

Tevez and Carrick high-fived and before they could say a word, they kicked into the Manchester Municipal Stadium, where the home City fans erupted in shrill boos as Tevez came on.

Sure enough, after Ferguson replaced Carrick with Tevez, Eriksen immediately made adjustments, he used German veteran Hamann to defend Tevez, reducing a defender next to Jonker, which is also no way, Tevez can not defend?

After Tevez came on the field, the table was decent, in less than 2 minutes on the field, but Jonker had already had a shot, that was after receiving a pass from Giggs, Jonk dribbled the ball along the side, suddenly cut horizontally, shook the Manchester City captain Dunn who was grabbing, and directly hit a volley, the football slid past the turf and slid through the goal, startling Manchester City goalkeeper Schmeichel Jr. in a cold sweat.

In the 43rd minute, Jonker received a pass from Hargreaves and knocked the ball down, and the ball reached the feet of Giggs, and he himself ran towards the front.

Giggs knocked the ball to Scholes, who sent a direct ball over the top to find Jonker in front. As Jonker was running, he lifted his right foot to stop the ball, and then, with a lateral flick, shook off Richards, who came up to interfere, and began to dribble the ball.

"Jonk! Nice stop! It's over! Jonk passed Richards! It was the first time the two faced off in this match, and Jonk emerged victorious. 'The domestic commentators, who reacted violently to this pass, seemed to see hope of scoring, Manchester United's attack finally started to take possession in full swing and, more importantly, Joonker's play began to dominate the game.

Giovanni rushed towards Jonker, and head coach Eriksen also asked him to help defend Jonk at any time, and he didn't hesitate to rush over when he saw Jonk break through.

Giovanni stretched out his foot directly to break the ball, however, he didn't expect Jonck's movements to be much faster than him, when Giovanni stretched his foot, Jonk deftly pulled the football to the left with his right foot, and then quickly knocked the football to his left foot, and with a gentle push with his left foot, he also turned around and chased after the football, and an acceleration left Giovanni behind.

"Beautiful! It's like there's magic on his feet! Manchester United's chance! Lineker shouted loudly that the reason why Manchester United did nothing in attack in this game was because of the lack of a man in the front field who could attract Manchester City's defenders and allow Jonker to get the ball, and when Jonker had the ball, he immediately became a threat.

Now, as soon as Jonker has the opportunity, his skillful skills have made Manchester City's defenders unbearable.

When Jonker broke past Giovanni and continued to dribble the ball forward, Tevez also took the opportunity to move to the left. His movement also caught the attention of Manchester City captain Dunn, who had to run over to mark Tevez. It also drew the attention of the defense for Jonker.

Jonk made another beautiful smash, past Manchester City defender Joel Luka, and suddenly cut in laterally and dribbled horizontally to the middle, Dunn saw that Jonk was about to go single, so he had to give up Tevez and pounce on Jonker. The threat of Jonk's shot on goal. Dunn knew that it would be dangerous to let Jonk shoot with his feet easy.

Almost as soon as the shot was taken, Dunn lunged towards Jonker. Before Hamann could make up for Tevez in time, Jonker pushed the ball sideways and rolled it past Distin's feet on turf. Rolled to Tevez's side.

"Wow... Wow... Wow! "Nice pass! Manchester United's chance! ”

With the exclamation of the narrator. Hamann was shocked and a tackle on the turf was tackled towards Tevez, and Dunn had to turn around and pounce on Tevez, and City's penalty area was now completely disorganized.

But what neither they nor the narrator had ever thought of was. Tevez ran towards the football. But instead of taking the ball, he rubbed the football with his heel, and the football flew directly to the side. There, interspersed with Giggs. Didn't stop the ball at all, and hoisted the football directly into the penalty area!

Then, everyone saw that in front of the goal, a red figure, almost without interference, stopped the ball on his chest and shot directly!

The ball flew into the far corner of the goal, and although Schmeichel did his best to make a save, he couldn't touch the ball, and it flew into the net against the bottom edge of the crossbar!

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!”

After Manchester United celebrated, the first half ended with a half-time score of 1:1!

The second half started quickly and the expected Manchester United counter-attack was not seen, and it seemed that the goals in the final stages of the first half did not happen to Manchester United, and the tepid situation began again.

When the fans who did not watch the game saw the report, they found that in the end, Manchester United actually lost, not only did not overtake in the second half, but also let the opponent sneak attack to take the lead again.

At Manchester City Stadium, Red Manchester United was the real protagonist of the pitch, with 19 shots to 8 and close to 60 per cent possession (59.9 per cent to 40.1 per cent), but they just couldn't knock on the door again. Ferguson was frustrated, "I can't find fault with the players, Manchester United played beautifully, and it stands to reason that the victory should be in the pocket. ”

But today's "reason" is not in the hands of Manchester United. City scored twice from two shots and had a deflection when Giovanni's long-range shot hit Vidic's ass and turned into a super arc, the ball spinning into the corner from just outside the post, and Van der Sar tried his best to keep the only gap. Assuming Giovanni's shot misses Vidic, the Dutchman is focused and has already made a save.

United had plenty of chances to equalise until the 90th minute, when they had a chance to escape, but the Red Devils just couldn't get out of the "trap", Jonker's header in front of the goal line was deflected, Ferguson had already raised his hands to celebrate, but in an instant, the expression on the lord's face changed from excitement to disbelief, and he even forgot to lower his arms high.

With one win, one draw and one defeat in the first three rounds of the Premier League, Manchester United made the worst start to the 15 defending champions since the 92/93 season when the English top flight was renamed the Premier League.

Manchester United's first eight title defence seasons started with three wins in a row, four two wins and one draw and three one win and two draws, with five points from the worst of the previous three rounds and only four points this time. To add insult to the Reds' embarrassment is that their city rivals Manchester City have topped the table with three straight wins, while their main rivals Chelsea have won two and drawn one, and have ended their horrific trip to Anfield.

After losing to the City Stadium, Manchester United made the worst start to the defending champions in the history of the Premier League after setting the worst start in the last round in 15 years, which can be said to be a shame for the Red Devils with a brilliant record. What saddened Ferguson and his disciples the most was how close they were to victory. In the first round, Reading attacked fiercely, and Rooney failed to score 3 points, Ferguson said "Rooney is not injured and we can win", this round and Portsmouth opened the scoring and still have a clear advantage, although he got a victory, Ronaldo was dyed red, Hughes, who made Ronaldo's red card, admitted that "I was not injured by him", Ferguson accused the referee of "deliberately targeting Ronaldo", and in the third round, he pressed Manchester City all over the field, and the ball just didn't fly into the opponent's goal......

No one in Manchester United's lineup is too abnormal, and it can be seen from the three rounds of evaluation by the British media that the worst is only "quiet", with a high score of 7 points in each round, which is very contradictory to the record. Where are the Red Devils? Luck can only be blamed.

Last season, Jose Mourinho said that United "can win in any situation", and now it has become "no win in any situation". Ferguson had no other choice but to sigh "destiny cannot be violated...... Is this bad luck temporary or will it hang over for a long time? What are Manchester United's chances of turning around? Will Chelsea and Liverpool also hit such a slump? There are a series of question marks that no one can solve, but the only thing that is certain is that if they are not favored by Lady Luck again, United's prospects of defending the title will continue to be bleak.

In the 148th Manchester derby, Manchester United lost 1-2 away to Manchester City, and only one win after three rounds of the Premier League in the new season, and has fallen to 11th place in the standings, close to the relegation circle. Hargreaves made his Premier League debut for £17million in the summer, but Alex Ferguson has revealed he will miss out on Wednesday's England friendly against Germany.

Hargreaves kept United waiting for more than a year, and then missed most of the warm-up games, the Community Shield and the first two rounds of the Premier League due to injury. Playing the full 90 minutes on his debut, Hargreaves has been McClaren's hope after Gerrard could miss the Anglo-German game due to injury. It's a pity that another Manchester United man after Wayne Rooney will temporarily retire from the national team. Ferguson said: 'Hargreaves has a very painful knee and today is his first game of the new season and I don't think he will recover until Wednesday. ”

Last season, Manchester United won 1-0 at the City Stadium, Cristiano Ronaldo scored the only goal of the game from the penalty spot, but today the Portuguese is banned due to red cards, Rooney and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer are absent due to injury, and Manchester United's attack has been greatly weakened. The stubborn old gentleman did not look for an objective reason, and he insisted that Manchester United had the quality to win the game with the personnel they had now. 'Of course we lost a couple of attackers, but in terms of the number of chances we had and the percentage of possession we should have won.

With only four points from three games, the defending champions' prospects are in jeopardy. Ferguson said three days ago that "we don't have a crisis", but the latter admitted United were in trouble after losing to Manchester City. 'We've had more intense battles [than ever] and United need real wins.'

Manchester City boss Christian Eriksen also admits United have been out of luck. "I think they've been very unlucky since the start of the season, they've had a lot of chances. The season is still long before the real Red Devils will return. ”

Although Jonk scored a goal in this game, he was still questioned by many media after the game, Ronaldo can bring victory, but Jonk can't, the same opponent, but with a change of leader, the ending is different, Manchester United lost, lost to the sworn enemy in the same city, which made the media find an excuse to question Jonk again.

"Jonk is difficult to savior" The Sun newspaper published an article for the first time and began to question Jonck's current appearance at Manchester United, the wonder boy faded his magical aura and became a mediocre player, in Chelsea and Milan this young player used all his luck, today he failed to bring a victory to Manchester United, Manchester United introduced Jonk this summer, it can be said that it is far from Lady Luck, now it seems that this is completely the reason, Sir Alex Ferguson is still insisting on letting Jonk start, Manchester United's good luck will not come!

The Sun is really able to talk nonsense, saying just the right thing, saying that Jonk has no luck, but it is undeniable that even the Sun does not dare to say that Jonk has no strength, and it is obvious in the game that Jonk lacks luck, not the strength of the goal, the media can only make a fuss about this, football games often always talk about luck, and many football people are quite convinced of this.

At this time, the Sun took out the luck theory to attack Jonck, although it was shameless but also very effective, this time it was very successful, and for a time the voice of questioning Jonk occupied the sports page of all newspapers. (To be continued......)