【Chapter 0496】Chinese Spring Festival

In the first half of the 2006-07 season, Manchester United achieved an excellent record of 18 wins and 1 draw, and its 55 league points also created the best record in England and even among the five major European leagues.

There has never been a team that has been as invincible and invincible as Manchester United this year. If Arsenal hadn't performed well at Old Trafford, Manchester United's home ground, and forced a draw with Manchester United, which was not yet in its best form, I'm afraid Manchester United would have lost.

will achieve the best start in history with 19 consecutive wins.

Even so, Manchester United's 15-game winning streak since the fifth round of the league is also the longest winning streak in Premier League history.

When Manchester United successfully defeated Aston Villa and created the best record ever, the media in England and even Europe were excited!

The media who have not watched England are not very friendly to Manchester United, but when this historic record is in front of them, the media reporters who are extremely dissatisfied with Manchester United also praise Ferguson and Gu Fei, thinking that they are the history of Manchester United and even European football.

One of the greatest combinations on earth.

Many Manchester United players have performed extremely well this season, and the media has spent a lot of space praising the performance of these players in the 19th round of the league, the Champions League group stage, and two domestic cup competitions.

The team's main goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar performed well. The 36-year-old goalkeeper set a new record of 20 clean sheets this season and 15 clean sheets in the league.

When Sir Alex Ferguson bought Van der Sar, the media and fans believed that Van der Sar was just a transitional goalkeeper for Manchester United.

Who knew that Van der Sar would become more and more talented as a goalkeeper as he got older, and his performance this season was no less than when he was young.

Manchester United only conceded 7 goals in 19 rounds. Van der Sar's outstanding performance was indispensable, and Manchester United's neat and orderly defense also made great contributions.

Gary Neville, Rio Ferdinand, Evra and Vidic formed a defensive line that has become a nightmare for forwards of all teams in the Premier League and even Europe. This time the defense has become more uniform, with Ferdinand's strong frontal defense.

, and Vidic's clever attack on the wall, and the offensive and defensive balance of Gary Neville and Evra on the left and right wings allowed the team to gain an advantage in the transition between offense and defense.

Manchester United has only conceded 15 goals in 30 official games this season, and this defense has become famous.

Of course, the reason why Manchester United's defense can perform so well has a huge relationship with the tremendous pressure exerted by Manchester United's midfield and frontcourt teams on their opponents.

Manchester United's midfield and frontcourt configuration this season has made all European football coaches drool, because this midfielder and frontcourt require speed, strength, and height. It can also be called the most perfect midfield and frontcourt combination in history.

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The arrival of Carrick perfectly filled the vacancy after Roy Keane left the team. This 12 million pound deal was considered by the media to be Manchester United's most successful transfer in recent years!

In the previous life, Carrick's joining had factors of the times in 2006. In the ten years from 2006 to 2016, without Carrick, Manchester United would not have been able to make a difference in Europe or even domestically. It can be said that it was Carrick's existence that

It straightened up the backbone of Manchester United's originally barren midfield.

Carrick's technical characteristics are his outstanding left-right dispatching ability and outstanding awareness of separation. At least he can be ranked among the top players in the same position in the Premier League. However, what is really criticized by the fans is that Carrick's forward passing ability is too poor.

That is to say, he can transition the ball smoothly but cannot use the pass to split the opponent's defense vertically. In fact, if he had this ability, Rooney would not have bothered to retreat to get the ball, and Manchester United would not have faced the opponent in the previous life.

Players at the midfielder and midfielder positions are in desperate need of talent.

However, with Gu Fei as Manchester United's attacking midfielder, Carrick's shortcomings were perfectly covered up, and opponents could not attack Carrick's weaknesses at all.

On the court, Carrick only needs to pass the ball to Ronaldinho, Wong Lo Kat or Gu Fei and it's done.

Under the pressure of Manchester United's strong frontcourt attack group, the opponent's attacking midfielder or forward had no spare power to press Carrick, which made Carrick, who would have been Manchester United's weakness, become Manchester United's strength.

Carrick is one of the players who has the strongest influence on the mainland in England's midfield after Gascoigne and before Wilshere. He has a good sense of position regardless of offense and defense, and his state has always been relatively stable.

However, in his previous life, these characteristics of his have not been fully explored. He was nicknamed 'Premier League Pirlo' by some netizens on the Internet. Although the ridicule was mostly ridiculed, it is not unreasonable. The British Isles have requirements for midfielders and midfielders.

You have to be ruthless and tenacious, and you have to be able to go up and down. Iron men like Lampard and Gerrard are more popular.

So Carrick has been doing things that he is not very good at for so many years, and he is good at keeping the ball at his feet and organizing the offense with scheduling and passing. In the eyes of the coach, it is a dispensable characteristic, but when the coaches

When he recovered and began to pay attention to this skill in the midfield, his training time had passed. In his previous life, Manchester United had always had a pure midfield command.

Officials are always thirsty for talent. From Sneijder to Fabregas to Gundogan, Rooney was almost forced to transform into a central midfielder in the end. I feel that they are actually paying for players who did not pay attention to this position before. To dig deeper

If Veron could have played for Manchester United as well as he did for Lazio, I think the subsequent shaping of Manchester United's tactical system would have been completely different.

Gu Fei's joining not only alleviated the huge pressure on Carrick, but also brought Carrick's technical characteristics to full play.

This season Carrick has performed outstandingly on both ends of the offense and defense, especially at the moment when Manchester United's counterattack turns from defense to offense. Carrick's ball has become Manchester United's first choice to launch an attack.

Although Carrick has 0 assists and goals this season, he is the metronome of Manchester United's offensive and defensive transitions, and his importance to the team is self-evident.

Before the end of the first half of the Premier League, Carrick's valuation in the transfer market had exceeded 20 million pounds, which was inseparable from his outstanding performance at Manchester United.

However, Manchester United will not be so short-sighted and sell Carrick during the winter break. Carrick is a low-key person with a humble personality. He is the mediator that eases the atmosphere in the Manchester United locker room. Its role is not only reflected on the playing field, but also

This is reflected in the maintenance of team morale.

Compared to Carrick's stunning performance, Manchester United veteran Wang Laoji's performance was as good as ever.

Since joining Manchester United, Giggs has become the best choice for Manchester United's left midfielder. He has turned the walking corridor into his own back garden.

Giggs is good at dribbling and can play multiple positions in the team's frontcourt. He made his debut in the Cardiff Dean Youth Football Team and later joined Manchester United. He is a representative of Manchester United's "92 Golden Generation".

In his previous life, Giggs helped Manchester United win 36 trophies including 13 Premier League titles and 2 Champions League titles in his career, and helped the team achieve the Triple Crown in 1999.

In the 1999 English FA Cup semi-final match between Manchester United and Arsenal, Giggs scored a solo goal that equalized the score and laid the foundation for Manchester United's subsequent reversal!

Due to the excitement of this goal and the importance of this game, after Manchester United won the treble in 1999, this goal became the masterpiece of Giggs' career.

Although Wong Lao Kat's character was not very good, and he was later exposed in many scandals, but one thing is for sure, he is indeed the best in the world in the position of left midfielder.

Even if Gu Fei doesn't like Wong Lo Kat, but unable to find a suitable successor and considering the feelings of Manchester United fans towards Wong Lao Kat, Gu Fei really has no way to drive this guy out of Manchester United! This season, because of Luffy Cary

With the addition of strong players such as Ibrahimović and Ibrahimovic, the defensive intensity faced by Giggs in the frontcourt has plummeted. This has also made Wong Lo Kat, who has become more experienced, more comfortable in the game.

So far this season, Wong Lo Kat has scored 8 goals and provided 12 assists. This data is even higher than his peak period. Some media commented that Wong Lao Kat, like Van Desai, has rejuvenated his sports career for the first time this season.

Second spring, but in fact both of them knew in their hearts that it was thanks to the team's extremely strong strength that they got more opportunities to perform.

Wong Lao Ji, who was originally not too fond of Gu Fei as his boss, immediately changed his attitude 180 degrees after Gu Fei participated in a few games.

For a typical European and American like Wong Lao Kat, surrendering to the stronger has almost become his instinct. After all, in Europe and America, the concept of the weak eating the strong has long been an instinct engraved in their genes.

If Wong Lao Kat's performance exceeded people's expectations for him, Ronaldinho's outstanding form this season has made everyone shine.

In the summer of 2003, having already fallen out with Sir Alex Ferguson, David Beckham left for Madrid and has since become the shining star of Galacticos.

At this time, Manchester United, which had just lost the league championship, was trapped in internal and external troubles.

In that summer of suffering and anxiety for Manchester United fans, Ronaldinho signed for Manchester United with a hair spray full of hairspray!

At that time, he was still called Ronaldinho, not the Cristiano Ronaldo who would become famous all over the world in the future.

The 18-year-old Ronaldinho is worth 12 million pounds, and his performance in the youth team cannot be used as a reference. At that time, the English media and Manchester United fans were full of doubts about Ronaldinho.

Ronaldinho entered the attention of media and fans around the world because of a friendly match against Manchester United.

Under the attention of many clubs, Sporting Lisbon played a famous friendly match with Manchester United. Ronaldo relied on his outstanding performance in that game and finally successfully transferred to Old Trafford.

After Ronaldinho joined Manchester United, The Sun even questioned who he is and why he wears the No. 7 jersey!

In the eyes of the English, Manchester United's No. 7 can only be Cantona and Beckham. Ronaldinho, a young boy, put on the No. 7 jersey that symbolizes the legend in Manchester United.

, many Beckham fans felt betrayed.

In the past three years, Ferguson has given Ronaldinho enough opportunities. Sir Alex Ferguson even used the team's record as a bet to let Ronaldinho improve.

Facts have proved that in the turbulent Manchester United team, although Ronaldinho has made considerable progress, he is still a long way from becoming a superstar. Because of the team's poor record, both Sir Alex Ferguson and Ronaldinho have endured huge losses.

The pressure from the media, fans and the club even made them waver about the future.

Fortunately, when they got through this difficult period, the happiness they gained came one after another.

In history, Manchester United defeated defending champion Chelsea this season and regained the league title that had been lost for three years.

In the Champions League, Manchester United's performance was not bad. They made it all the way to the semi-finals. But that year, Manchester United encountered a cheating Kaka. At Old Trafford, everyone witnessed Kaka.

Card, like a god descending from heaven, single-handedly defeated Manchester United and brought AC Milan into the final.

Even though he failed to win the Champions League, Ronaldinho's performance this season was still outstanding. He was awarded the honor of the best player in the Premier League and truly transformed from an ordinary little player into a superstar.

In his previous life, in the 2006-07 season, Ronaldo represented Manchester United in 34 appearances in the Premier League and scored 17 goals; 11 appearances in the Champions League and scoring 3 goals; 7 appearances in the English FA Cup and scoring 3 goals; and 1 appearance in the English Football League Cup.

Cristiano Ronaldo personally obtains professional football staff

PFA Player of the Year, Best Rookie, Premier League Player of the Year, Football Writers Association (FWA) Player of the Year, and was selected into the UEFA Team of the Year (right midfielder), FIFA Player of the Year

Best team (midfielder).

It can be said that the 2006-07 season was the year when Cristiano Ronaldo broke out in full force. Although the entire international football world focused on the "unparalleled son" Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo also began to make his own voice to the world.

This season, due to the joining of Gu Fei and Ibrahimovic, Manchester United's strength has changed dramatically compared to before, and the pressure on Ronaldinho has become much less than in his previous life.

Especially Gu Fei's perfect performance in the attacking midfielder allowed Ronaldo to focus on breakthroughs from the wing, passing and shooting, and performed better than in his previous life.

Now that the schedule is halfway through, Ronaldinho has already scored a double-double of 15 goals and 12 assists. According to this development trend, he may even create a brilliant record of 30+20.

Such data and performance on the field are undoubtedly huge achievements for a young man who has just turned 21 years old.

Now the media in England are praising Sir Alex Ferguson for his far-sightedness and foresight. He sacrificed Manchester United's achievements for three years, but cultivated a superstar who can make Manchester United prosper for 10 years.

At this time, the media's cynicism and insulting attitude have long since dissipated, and the group that has the least position can be seen.

As Ronaldinho's performance on the court became more and more outstanding, and his fame spread throughout the world, some things that made Sir Alex Ferguson extremely angry were quietly happening.

Halfway through the Premier League schedule and before the Premier League winter transfer window opened, Manchester United received a tentative offer of 25 million pounds from Real Madrid!

For those teams struggling in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, 25 million pounds is enough for them to give away their star players to Real Madrid.

But in Sir Alex Ferguson's view, such an offer is simply an insult to himself.
To be continued...