i am beckham

Chapter 226 The Day Without David

Manchester United's physical fitness is in a state of fatigue, and the lineup is not neat.

Beckham, Giggs, Cole, and Keane are all lying on the team's injury list, which leaves Ferguson with few options.

But Ferguson still wanted to show off in front of Keegan. He put central defender Johansen in the midfield and wanted to use him to match Butt in the middle to sweep Newcastle's midfield.

Johnson's running ability is not much worse than Beckham's, but his confrontation ability is excellent. He is the only player in Manchester United's squad that can theoretically intercept attacks with Bart and cover the midfield.

Ferguson used Cruyff and Poborski as wingbacks, and wanted to compete with his opponents for speed and ball control.

But just at the beginning, Manchester United was defeated by Newcastle on the scene. Johnson's explosive power was touching, and he almost lost half of all the goals, and his turning speed also made people want to cry without tears.

Ferguson was surprised to find that Johansen's role in the midfield position could basically be ignored, and Poborski's sense of position almost made him roar on the spot.

After 10 minutes of the game, Poborski followed his feeling and ran to the left from the left, leaving only Cruyff with question marks.

Even so, Manchester United still did not let the home team take advantage of the slightest.

Last season's double kill against Newcastle gave the Manchester United players a lot of confidence. Even if the scene was suppressed, the Manchester United players were still very tenacious.

But there are always uncontrollable accidents. In the 16th minute of the first half, Newcastle sent a corner kick. Shearer shook his head in front of the goal. The header bounced off the crossbar and was cleared by Irwin's goal line.

The referee did not fully see the situation at the scene of the incident, but he ruled that the goal was valid, causing Manchester United to concede a goal first.

After conceding the goal, the Manchester United team launched a counterattack, while the Newcastle players played various rough fouls at home to block their offense.

It is a pity that today's referee is a traditional British referee, and his penalty scale is obviously very open.

Newcastle United simmered for revenge, launched a fierce attack at the beginning, and played threatening attacks many times.Manchester United did not give in, and used offense to offense, constantly threatening the opponent's gate.

First, Cantona's free-kick slid past the goal, and then Poborski's shot was also a hair's breadth away from the goal.

Newcastle withstood Manchester United's consecutive attacks and launched a counterattack. Their two wing cross tactics were also very successful, with amazing attack power. Manchester United's two wing defenses seemed quite passive.

In the 29th minute, Newcastle passed consecutive crosses and transferred, finally forming a one-on-one between Ginola and Gary Neville.

When the live broadcast showed the two close-ups, Beckham slammed on the sofa anxiously: "Gary, post it!"

In the camera, Gary Neville also realized this problem. He pushed forward, but Ginola took advantage of the opportunity to shift the football to the left and kicked it with his foot.

Gary Neville hastily shoveled, but it was too late, and Ginola's shot went straight into the far corner.

0 to 2, Manchester United fell behind by 2 goals in less than half an hour, completely digging a big hole for themselves.

In addition to Newcastle leading the score, they also played very rough on the field, and all kinds of fierce fouls and tackles can be seen at any time.At the end of the first half of the game, Newcastle midfielder Barty maliciously stretched out his foot and kicked Bart's lower body while shoveling Bart, which attracted Bart's angry counterattack.

But Bart, who is still young, is not Barty's opponent at all.

Batty pushed Bart violently, and then retaliated fiercely, and directly grabbed Bart's neck with his hands, almost making Bart breathless.

Manchester United's teammates quickly came up to help, and the referee also stopped the game and intervened.The Newcastle players were so immoral and vicious that they were let off by the referee.Even though Batty retaliated against those extremely eye-catching moves in the end, the referee actually played [-] boards each, and showed a yellow card to both sides.

This penalty was obviously influenced by the fans of the home team, and Batty successfully escaped a red card penalty.

Beckham didn't even need to think about it, he knew that the old man would definitely turn on the hair dryer in the locker room.

Sure enough, Manchester United's performance in the second half of the game confirmed his conjecture, and the teammates all swooped on Newcastle's defense desperately.

But it can be seen that the organization of the team is not smooth. Although Cantona is still vigorous, Manchester United has to work hard every time the attack ends to continue to send the football to the opponent's penalty area.

Manchester United could not attack for a long time, and Newcastle gradually organized a counterattack.

You must know that there is a terrifying combination of Hillega Ferdinand on their front line.

In the 78th minute, Newcastle, who had withstood Manchester United's repeated attacks, stuffed the football straight into the frontcourt. Les Ferdinand succeeded in eating Irvine raw. He then passed the football to Ginola, and the Frenchman crossed to Shearer.

England's number one striker shot was saved by Schmeichel, and then Ferdinand hit again, Schmeichel turned around and saved the ball again, Shearer followed up and hit again, and the goal was scored.
0 to 3, when the score appeared on the electronic scoreboard, the entire St. James' Park was ecstatic. My team beat Manchester United, which is incredible!
You must know that in the Community Shield just two months ago, Manchester United beat Newcastle 5 times without much effort.

With such a victory to increase confidence, Newcastle players began to look forward to the league championship again.

In the final stage of the game, Manchester United's players were exhausted and almost reached the stage of physical exhaustion. The two sides were repeatedly broken by opponents, and there was a lot of danger in front of the goal.

If it weren't for the Newcastle players' indifference to fight at the last moment, this game may have left more damage to Manchester United.

The home fans were ecstatic and wildly celebrated this exciting victory.

On the other side, the sensitive Sky TV found that coach Keegan was very crazy when the team scored consecutive goals and celebrated wantonly, but he finally chose to restrain himself.

After the game, he did not call out to Ferguson in a demonstrative manner, but simply shook hands with Ferguson and walked to the lounge.

Ferguson also patted him on the shoulder and said, "Good job."

In this disastrous defeat, Manchester United was completely passive from the scene to the tactics, completely without the ease and freehand brushwork of the Charity Shield at the beginning of the season

After the game, many newspapers and TV media criticized Manchester United for killing themselves, and Ferguson's use of troops and rotation were also questioned.The famous commentator Lineker said: "I can't understand Ferguson's starting lineup and tactics. This is no different from dying."

The BBC commented: "Manchester United lagged behind their opponents in all aspects in this game. They were at a disadvantage in pressing and attacking. They had fewer scoring opportunities than their opponents, and their ability to control the scene was weaker than their opponents. The score was very eye-catching. There are certain accidental factors, but judging from the strengths shown by both sides, Manchester United is indeed far behind the opponent."

"Whoever goes on the horse gives up the championship!"

Ferguson swears directly at the press conference, he said: "We have gone through a difficult game, we have played very hard, my players never give up no matter how desperate the situation is, we have been fighting.

One game does not decide the league title and we have not lost hope right now.

The gap in the standings?
You can go back to last season to see how our Manchester United reversed. We were able to do it last year, and of course we can do it this year.This is not a miracle, this is where our ability and confidence lie! "

But no matter how you say it, this game has brought a haze to the club.

You must know that even if they encounter last season's Champions League champion Juventus in an away game, Manchester United can draw [-]-[-] with their opponents most of the time.

Judging from the situation at the beginning of the season, Manchester United has been sublimated to a higher level compared to other Premier League opponents. Teams like Newcastle have no parry in front of the Red Devils.

Unexpectedly, so far in the league, Manchester United lost three goals to Newcastle "without parry", which inevitably made everyone feel that there was a problem with Manchester United.

You must know that there are always some fake fans who seem to be very professional, but in fact either have no time to watch the game or don’t watch the game. All their opinions come from the media, and they don’t even know that Beckham, Keane and Giggs cannot play.

And those media people don't have so much sense of social responsibility. They just want to increase the circulation of their newspapers by taking advantage of the popularity.

Some reporters cover football every day, but they don't really understand football. They just want to report professional football as an alternative entertainment news.

And some highly professional reporters knew that Manchester United had just finished a long journey, the entire team had physical problems, and three absolute main players were injured, but they chose to ignore it.

If you analyze the tactical reasons on a losing team, of course you can say a lot.

How can a perfect team lose?

It is not difficult to deliberately create internal conflicts at Manchester United. When Manchester United conceded the second goal, Schmeichel pointed at Gary's nose and scolded him bloody.

When the team conceded the third goal, Schmeichel threw the football on Pallister and had a brief but heated altercation with Irvine.

If the media wants to find evidence for their arguments, there should not be too many ready-made materials.

Many media regarded this game as Keegan’s revenge against Ferguson. Sky Sports made two consecutive programs. Although they were unable to interview Ferguson and Manchester United in person, their comments were very sharp: “Kevin obviously learned his lesson, and made sufficient preparations for this game, and practiced very effective targeted tactics. The whole game made Manchester United extremely uncomfortable.

Although the three-goal victory was a bit unexpected, it made Keegan and his team even more attractive.Manchester United's defeat was obviously an underestimation of the enemy. Alex set off at St. James' Park with arrogance, just like accepting the surrender of a general, so he climbed high and fell hard. "

The BBC invited a number of well-known critics in the weekly Premier League special, and they also pointed their finger at Ferguson, "Alex is too confident, and his debut is incomprehensible.

Johansen is too slow to be responsible for coverage and tackles in midfield.

The guys like Nicky, Gary and Ole are too immature. They were bullied again and again, and they were pushed away again and again. The referee knew this well and knew it well, but Manchester United should respond positively. Even if it is a rough foul, it should also let the opponent know that they cannot be bullied. "

There are not many journalists who are objective and calm, and all the media can’t wait for Manchester United to have internal strife immediately. It’s better to get up the next day to receive such big news as "Ferguson dismissed get out of class".
Who made him unconventional!
Who told him not to cater to the trend!

Who made him put on a face that I am number one in the world every day!
Competitive sports are so cruel. No one will understand Ferguson's difficulties, no one will explain the serious injuries of Manchester United's lineup, no one sympathizes with Manchester United's bad luck, and no one criticizes the blind referee. Now everyone is criticizing Manchester United and laughing at this seemingly vulnerable "overlord".

Some people may say that there is no fuss about the outcome of a game, and losing three goals is nothing more than bad luck.

But competitive sports are passionate, fanatical, and even irrational!

The audience of football is usually "monsters" full of passion, and those who watch football rationally are all engaged in law.

Ferguson knew this very well, so he ended up throwing reporters out of the press conference with foul language, and then gave the players two days off.

This decision is quite tough. The team will play the League Cup in three days, and there will be a league game in six days. It is a tough person to dare to take two days off.

Three days later, Manchester United met League One side Swindon in the League Cup.

Seeing that Ferguson basically rotated the main lineup again, the interest of the audience was suddenly raised. Everyone hoped to see Swindon can bring Manchester United into trouble.

The process of the game was extremely intense, and Manchester United did not score the lore goal until the last 5 minutes before Scholes scored a difficult 2-1 victory over the opponent.

Three days later, Manchester United played an away game against Southampton. According to the media's opinion, the defending champion, who has got enough rest, should have no problem winning the opponents in the middle and lower reaches.

But something unexpected happened, and the Manchester United team fell into the hands of the Saints.

Not long after the opening, Butt flew a header from close at hand in front of the goal. The home broadcaster mercilessly called him "Bai Keer".

Manchester United failed to score, but was successfully stolen by Southampton.

Then Scholes and Cantona inexplicably wasted two must-goal chances. Ferguson stood on the touchline and scolded, but this was of no use.

Before he finished cursing, Bart was shoveled off by the defenders and carried into the ambulance on a stretcher.

Ferguson considered again and again, and could only send Keane, who had just recovered from injury, to the field.

As a result, the hot-tempered Irishman shoveled the defender twice in a row in order to stand out for Bart, and also put the opponent on a stretcher.

This retaliatory tackle earned him a yellow card followed by a red card.

This left Manchester United with only ten players left in less than half an hour.

In the ensuing time, the two teams had countless physical conflicts on the field uncontrollably. Both teams gave up defense, like two boxers who lost their minds, gave up defense, and only knew to hit their opponent's head.

As the referee's whistle sounded, the score was fixed at 4 to 6, and the media at the scene were in an uproar.

This is an unpredictable game, the score is unbelievable, the result is unbelievable, the Saints coach, players and all the fans are rejoicing, they can't even imagine that they can win the most brilliant victory since entering the Premier League on Manchester United.

The "Times" commented on Manchester United, who lost their armor and armor, "Losing and losing, the Red Devils were slaughtered like lambs. Nearly 10 goals were conceded in two rounds. This is the first time in 66 years for Manchester United!"

The "Manchester Evening News" was also unceremonious, "Alex was completely out of order, the team became a mess, the players were like sleepwalking during the game, and poor discipline became a major problem."

When Ferguson faced the dense microphones, his face also became tired: "We actually created opportunities very early, not because we played badly at the beginning. We had the opportunity to kill the game in the first 10 minutes and win.

But everything was against us, we lost the feeling of shooting, lost the core of the midfield and played one less player because of the red card.This is football, we will improve the efficiency of shooting in the future.

The outcome is set, so let's move on.We need to readjust and get back the feeling of winning.We will have new training, let go of the burden, and meet new challenges. "

These two games obviously hit the morale of the team. Manchester United players seemed impatient and eager for success during the game.

Three days later, Manchester United played against Fenerbahce at home in the Champions League group stage.

This time, Manchester United, with Keane in midfield, suppressed the Turks from the very beginning.

Seeing that the Fenerbahçe team was about to collapse, their striker Kostadinov kicked casually on the edge of the penalty area at the end of the first half, and unexpectedly kicked out a world wave.

Manchester United lost the game again with the advantage, and the two teams returned to the same starting line in the group qualifying situation.

This loss is not an ordinary defeat. It is the end of Manchester United's 40-year home unbeaten record in the European arena. Known as the "unbreakable super fortress", the Red Devils' Dream Theater was captured by their opponents.

It was difficult for Manchester United fans to accept, and there was a large-scale conflict with the opponent's fans after the game.The British police deployed a large number of manpower to avoid serious injuries or deaths.

The doubts about Manchester United fell on the Red Devils like a torrential rain. The players have begun to be at a loss, but time does not give them any breathing room at all.

Two days later, the exhausted Manchester United lost 1-2 at home to Chelsea.

With two consecutive losses at home, three consecutive league losses, and four losses in the last five games, Ferguson ushered in a defeat unique in his career.

Even the media who sprayed Manchester United before were a little heartbroken. They didn't want Manchester United to win the championship early, and they wanted to keep the Premier League competition in suspense. They didn't expect that Manchester United was about to lose to Manchester City.

Among the many comments, the "Sun" comment made everyone think.

"There are many reasons for Manchester United's losing streak, but we can see certain patterns in it, and these games have happened without David.

In the first round of the league last season, Manchester United were kicked three times by Villa in the first half.

Manchester United's lineup has undoubtedly been strengthened this season. Even though Roy was absent at the beginning of the season, David still took over his job well.

Although he does not have the confrontation ability of the Irish tough guy, he has successfully sorted out the team's passing rhythm with his own passing.

We can find that in the game without David, Manchester United's passing coordination has become a mess.

In the days without him, Manchester United lost like a mid-lower team.

"

Seeing this, Beckham immediately looked at the author's signature, and it turned out to be Fat Nick again. This guy even said such words in order to chase stars.

How can this kind of brainless powder make people feel good?
By the way, the title of the article is very sensational, called "David's Day".

(End of this chapter)