I am the king of football

Chapter 422 Staying alive
The next day, the news that Manchester United eliminated their opponent with a last-minute goal at 94 minutes and 49 seconds made the front pages of major news outlets. After all, compared to several other matches, the match between Manchester United and Malaga was far more thrilling than people expected.

In addition, the news that Qin Hu scored 13 goals in the Champions League this season, surpassing Barcelona's king Messi, also occupied a lot of space. The player scored key goals in both rounds of the battle against Malaga and was directly called Manchester United's superhero by the media.

The whole world is discussing this young man who has become a pillar of a top club in his first season. In the eyes of many people, there is no controversy about this year's Golden Boy Award.

In fact, it's not just the Golden Boy Award. In this non-World Cup year, Qin Hu's various data and performances have been boldly reported by some media as one of the contenders for the Ballon d'Or.

He has scored 42 goals and provided 12 assists in Premier League games. This terrifying data has already broken the Premier League single-season goal record and there is still the possibility of further improvement.

Adding to that 13 goals and 2 assists in the Champions League, 9 goals and 3 assists in the League Cup and 4 goals in the FA Cup so far, this player has scored 68 goals and provided 17 assists in all competitions. These are terrifying statistics. Today, Qin Hu is not only the top scorer in all the competitions he has participated in, but also the top scorer in the whole of Europe.

In a small season with only the Champions League but no World Cup, his Manchester United has now successfully reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, which is enough for him to use as support for his candidacy for the Ballon d'Or. At least now he and another Ballon d'Or candidate Messi are on the same starting line in terms of progress in the Champions League.

Nowadays, no one uses the word "rising star" to describe Qin Hu. Regardless of whether Qin Hu's performance will decline or have problems in the next season, judging from this season alone, he has been enough to rewrite the duel between the two greatest players in football into a three-way confrontation.

As for dominating the market, that is not a matter of one season. He must show overwhelming performance over a long period of time in many seasons to achieve this.

"At the beginning of the season, many people were asking why Manchester United would spend more than 40 million pounds to buy a Chinese player who had not yet proven himself in the top league. I think the answer is now clear. Ferguson has once again selected a superstar for Manchester United with his great insight."

The Manchester Evening News published an article that was forwarded tens of thousands of times. The reporter of the Evening News used follow-up reports for a whole season to prove Qin Hu's greatness. According to his statistics, Qin Hu helped the team out of adversity by scoring the winning goal or the equalizer at least ten times, not to mention some games in which he directly overwhelmed his opponents with goals thanks to his terrifying dominance.

"According to Qin Hu's characteristics, such a player with a distinctive personality, a strong body and an inclusive spirit has the qualities to become a leader of a generation, even more than Ronaldo, who Manchester United once had. The nickname "Overlord" given to him by the fans is well deserved."

A person's name may be wrong, but his nickname will definitely not be wrong, because it is given by everyone based on his characteristics and performance. Qin Hu has conquered quite a number of fans with his powerful goals on the court and his domineering temperament of standing up from time to time to confront opponents head-on.

When people were talking about Qin, the Manchester United players were lying at home like salted fish, and no one appeared in the media interviews.

There is no way. Yesterday's game was too tiring. The team as a whole was extremely exhausted, especially mentally. The feeling of having one's will hit rock bottom and being pulled back to heaven just one centimeter away from the ground was enough to make one's heart stop.

On the field, everyone was so excited about advancing that they didn't feel the huge consumption for a while, but it did exist. From the night the game ended until the next night, people kept sending messages in the Manchester United players' chat group.

"Brothers, I think yesterday's game was really awesome..."

"Brothers, we actually won the game in the last ten seconds."

"Oh my God, I can't calm down at all." "Qin, I love you!"

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From waking up in the morning to washing up and getting ready for bed at night, Qin Hu couldn't stop watching the messages in the group, but he didn't participate until Rooney suddenly poked him in the group, then he replied with a classic panda with a crooked smile emoticon.

When the new day came and the team gathered on the training ground again, Ferguson obviously found that the entire team's starting players were not in good shape. It was not that everyone was distracted, but that no one could concentrate no matter what.

This situation only shows that the game was indeed too exhausting for the team. In the coming new week, the team will have a league home game against Chelsea, and also go to Wembley Stadium to compete with Wigan Athletic for the FA Cup final. Both games are of great importance.

Ferguson did not want to give up any front at the beginning. Although the team had successfully won the Premier League championship, the team's points have now reached 97 points. As long as they win one more game, they can achieve the feat of winning the Premier League %. Being able to achieve all this at home will be a great achievement.

Therefore, Manchester United's training intensity began to return to normal levels from the second day of resuming training, but unfortunately, human strength is limited after all. The team's training effect was not good and some players even became worse the more they trained.

This forced Ferguson to stop the team's training two days before the league started. At this time, he finally realized that he had to make a choice.

The decision was not complicated, it was even very simple. In the training match of the new day, most of the main players who had previously worn red jerseys put on blue training suits, which meant that their status changed from main players to substitutes.

Then, the day before the game, when Ferguson announced the starting lineup in his own conference room, as expected, a large number of substitute players appeared in the starting lineup.

The two forwards are Hernandez and Welbeck, the four midfielders are Valencia, Fletcher, Giggs and Anderson, the four defenders are Butner, Evans, Maguire and Phil Jones, and the goalkeeper is Lindegaard.

From beginning to end, the team's lineup was completely replaced. After announcing such a starting lineup, Ferguson immediately announced the tactics for tomorrow's game - defensive counterattack.

This is not surprising. Chelsea has been completely defeated by Manchester United this season. Now this league game is their last chance for revenge. At the same time, it is also a crucial battle for them to catch up with Manchester City, the second-placed team in the league, which is only two points ahead of them. They are bound to launch a massive attack at Old Trafford.

Therefore, what Ferguson asked his disciples to do was to stay alive and wait for an opportunity to counterattack.

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