Vol 7 Chapter 26: Tied again by the relegation team

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The next day, the British "Sky Sports" featured an exclusive interview about Zhou Tiancheng in a special program for the first round of the Premier League in the new season.
"Manchester United in the new season did show a good state in the first round. It seems that Van Gaal and the team are still in the honeymoon period. The status of Manchester United stars is also particularly good. Since Van Gaal and Zhou Tiancheng joined, the Red Devils’ It looks completely new, whose credit should it be?"
"Manchester United’s confidence looks really strong. Zhou once again reiterated his thoughts. He wants to restore Manchester United’s former dynasty glory. It seems that he is not just trying to attract attention and talking in front of fans when he joins, but Manchester United Can he support his ambition? Even he himself said that Van Gaal is grumpy, what will such a person bring to Manchester United? I still can’t see it, I have to wait for the honeymoon period between him and the team to end. Maybe when Manchester United begins If you don’t win, it’s time to see their real fighting power."
"But as long as you keep this state, there are weeks in it, and it's really not an easy thing to want to lose!" The commentators are also honest.
"Then when he doesn't play, England's games are more intensive than the Bundesliga. Van Gaal should pay more attention to the League and the FA Cup, but there is the League Cup, so he should not be allowed to play? Should be given to other young People have some opportunities."
Among the Premier League clubs, there is such an unexplained tacit understanding: the league and the FA Cup are generally more valued, and the League Cup is used to train the young people of the team. Even if the Premier League clubs use the main force to play, Usually have to wait until the semi-finals, there is no low-level league team, it is related to the ultimate attribution of the champion, these luxuriously equipped Premier League teams will slowly pay attention.
After Manchester United has played in the next round of the league, it will usher in the first round of the League Cup this season.
However, their opponent in the second round of the league is Sunderland, not strong. Last season ranked 14th in the Premier League. Not in the relegation zone, but the biggest task every season is to relegate.
If you can give the Premier League a "life hard index", it is estimated that no one dares to compete with Sunderland first. Successful relegation for seven consecutive seasons, two escapes in the final round of death. They are the hardest team, but they can't go down.
This is the characteristic of the Premier League. If there is no big money player to fight for the championship, the remaining teams are fighting for relegation. There is basically no argument for the championship team, because the current Premier League pattern has "BIG4" expanded to "BIG6", the championship team has six teams, almost occupying the top half of the entire standings.
Of course Manchester United are still here. This is because of their historical heritage and influence in the Premier League. The media at least think they are capable of influencing the championship.
According to last season's rankings, Manchester United's failure to be kicked out is an old recipe, but this season, at least the first round of the state, let people see that they want to do big things.
So this time when he came to Sunderland's away game, Van Gaal naturally came with a winning streak. He had a big goal early in the season: at least until he ran into Chelsea, a really threatening strong team, he hoped the team would maintain the momentum of the first game in the league.
Encountered Chelsea, that is the ninth round of the league. Van Gaal's ambition is not small, if he can really realize his idea, eight consecutive victories are enough for the team to lay a decisive advantage.
But this goal is still just an idea of ​​Van Gaal. It's really not that easy to become reality.
At least in this second game, Manchester United was in trouble on the road.
In the Sunderland Bright Stadium, met the opponent's 3-6-1 iron bucket array.
The opponents are intensively defending in the middle, almost shrinking in the backcourt and compressing space. Manchester United can easily turn the game into a half-court offensive and defensive drill, but entering the core area, Zhou Tiancheng has to face a moving wall.
The three lower backs were blocked in front of Zhou Tiancheng, forming a dense wall of people. Three large steps outside the arc of the restricted area. The area over 35 meters was already such that no chance was given.
Zhou Tiancheng tried to dribble the ball quickly through the middle of the man's seam, but he was greeted by the other party's unassuming leg.
After being kicked twice, Zhou Tiancheng knew that he couldn't be tough. Can only seek a direct pass to find the side, seeking opportunities to enter from the ribs.
Van Gaal was very anxious on the sidelines and stood on the sidelines, waving his hands constantly to signal the formation to continue to press upwards. After a long time, he didn't even want to open up the situation. He even wanted all three of the team's central defenders to push up.
Fortunately, Zhou Tiancheng is still awesome. He doesn't need to say much, and he knows how to break the intensive defense. Constantly accelerating the passing rhythm, and Ashley Young and Di Maria have formed many consecutive one-pass passes, and the right wing Valencia behind is fully activated.
In the 43rd minute of the game, he received Zhou Tiancheng's header in the middle of the ferry, followed by a low flat pass to the middle on the right, assisting Mata with a low shot to break the deadlock.
Van Gaal breathed a sigh of relief. In this scene, as long as the first goal can appear, there should be no problem.
Sunderland, who thought he was behind, would change his tactics and attack at full force in the second half. As a result, they maintained their tactics in the first half. Obviously this is clever, and the attack must die even worse.
Van Gaal continued to signal the team's pressure. As a theoretical Dutch coach who believes in full attack and defense, he will not allow the team to meet a one-ball advantage and play a half-time master ball on the field. This is also not in line with the mental outlook of aspiring to win the championship ~ EbookFREE.me ~ but Manchester United never seized the opportunity in the second half. Rooney and Van Persie, who scored the last goal, completely lost the state of the last game against each other's brutal muscle flow. Even if they reluctantly turned around to get the chance to face the goalkeeper, the two each played a plane.
The consequences of missed opportunities are sometimes serious. In particular, Manchester United's three central defenders have done nothing for the whole game, and suddenly something has happened, and it hasn't responded for a while, which is about to kill.
Sunderland seized the opportunity of Manchester United's high oppression, a long pass sneaked into the back, and three Manchester United central defenders gritted their teeth to chase back, but the opponent's American forward Altidore was significantly faster. Evans was the one with the quickest response, so he finally caught up, and when he saw that the other party was about to kick, he was a little flustered and unconsciously let go of the shovel.
But this step has already entered the penalty zone ahead of time...
"Evens is really not calm this time, De Gea has been attacking with all his strength, but he gave his opponent a penalty and equalized the big gift package." Bob Clem said directly.
Altidore personally took the penalty and deceived De Gea to equalize the score.
There is still ten minutes left for Manchester United. According to today’s offensive, this time is actually enough, but the key is that no one on the front can stand up.
Zhou Tiancheng couldn't get close to the opponent's penalty zone at all. As long as he had the intention to lift his foot, at least three players fell to the ground to block, and another player aimed at his leg.
While other players have never been able to complete the goal, Rooney and Van Persie are completely stateless. Van Gaal replaced Welbeck at the last moment, but after this sturdy black man went up, he put most of his energy to fight against the opponent. He didn't suffer a loss of physical fitness, but he didn't improve the shooting sight.
The 1:1 score remained on the scoreboard until the referee blew the final whistle.