0113 The first defeat of the season
At 7:45 pm local time on December 9, Manchester United ushered in a new game. In the 6th round of the Champions League group stage, Manchester United sits at the Old Trafford Stadium and faces Porto.
Ye Su continued to rotate the starting lineup according to the original plan.
However, in this game, Ye Su did not arrange for Kane to start the game, because Rooney had a strong desire to fight, and the fat guy wanted to compete for the Golden Boot of the Champions League this season.
Although Rooney has scored 6 goals in the Champions League group stage this season, he was suspended due to injury in the last round, which led to him being overtaken by Ronaldo in the Champions League scorer list.
In the last round of the Champions League group stage, Real Madrid was away as Donetsk miners. Ronaldo scored twice to help Real Madrid defeat the host 4:3 away, and Ronaldo scored 7 goals.
In the last round of the Champions League group stage, Real Madrid defeated the bottom team Malmo 8-0 at home, and Ronaldo made a total of 4 goals.
In other words, before the start of Manchester United's game, Rooney had gone from being one goal ahead of Ronaldo to being five goals behind now!
This situation made Rooney very worried. If he missed another game, he really had no hope of catching up with Ronaldo.
Since Lu Xiaopang had a strong desire to play, and Ye Su saw that Rooney was in good condition through the savior system, he agreed to his request and continued to start and play as a single arrow in the game.
However, in other positions, Ye Su did not send too many main players. The goalkeeper was Romero, and the four players on the back were Ashley Young, Kulibaly, Phil Jones, Smalling, Fellaini and Carrick partnered with the midfielder, Lingard, De Bruyne and Bruno Fernandez partnered with the frontline.
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Rooney seemed very active in this game, but he tried his best to score only 2 goals, helping Manchester United beat Porto 2-0. The two assists were contributed by De Bruyne and Bruno Fernandez respectively.
After the group stage, Manchester United won six consecutive victories, the only team among the 32 teams in eight groups to achieve a complete victory. In addition, Rooney played five games and scored eight goals during the group stage, which also set a record for Champions League goals in his career. Then there was third place Lewandowski, and the Polish scorer scored 6 goals.
Manchester United's triple champion last season, coupled with his outstanding performance in the Champions League group stage and the Premier League this season, has greatly improved Rooney, Manchester United's number one star,'s fame and influence worldwide. In the final three-person list of FIFA Golden Ball Awards released last week, Rooney finally occupied a place.
In other words, Rooney's worst ranking will be third in next year's FIFA Golden Ball Awards.
This is the best selection result in Rooney's career. He has not been on the 23-man roster for many times before, let alone the top three.
Before this year, Rooney ranked fifth in the Golden Balls for leading Manchester United to the Champions League final in 2011, which was his best ranking before.
This is undoubtedly a very embarrassing thing for Rooney, who once surpassed Ronaldo and Messi in fame.
Now that he is over, he finally has the opportunity to compete for the award with Messi and Ronaldo. Rooney finally breathes a sigh of relief.
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In another game in the same group, Dynamo Kiev defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 1-0, grabbed the second place in the group and entered the knockout stage. As for the Portuguese superstar Porto, he had to play in the Europa League.
At this point, the Champions League group stage this season has also ended in full swing.
Although the Premier League teams did not perform well in the initial stage of the group stage, the Premier League teams that started low and ended high have achieved excellent results in all four teams advancing to the knockout stage.
What is particularly surprising is that Blue Moon Manchester City beat last season's Champions League runner-up, Serie A super giant Juventus, and strongly seized the top spot in the group.
Arsenal, who is in the same group as Bayern Munich, ranked second in the group, but also advanced.
However, the Blues Chelsea, who was extremely struggling in the Premier League, performed well in the Champions League and advanced to the Champions League knockout stage as the first in the group.
All four teams advanced, and all three teams advanced as the first in the group. The Premier League is undoubtedly the best performance in the Champions League by the top five league teams.
In addition, the 12 teams that advanced, La Liga accounted for at most 3 teams, Serie A, Bundesliga 2 teams, and Ligue 1 only Paris Saint-Germain is the only seedling left.
The last four promotion places were each grabbed by the Portuguese Super League, the Ukrainian Super League, the Russian Super League and the Belgian League One.
The draw for the Champions League knockout round will be held at UEFA headquarters in Nignon on December 14, Beijing time, at 7 pm next Monday. At that time, the 16 teams that advance to the knockout round will determine the situation of the quarterfinals in accordance with the corresponding rules.
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What Ye Su was worried about finally came.
At 1:30 on December 13th, Beijing time, at 5:30 pm on December 12th, UK time, in the 16th round of the Premier League, Manchester United visits Dean Court Stadium.
Bournemouth is a newly promoted team and is currently in poor rankings. Norwich has only scored 13 points with Newcastle United. He only relied on his goal difference to beat Newcastle United and ranked 17th in the Premier League and did not fall into the relegation zone.
In his state of magnitude, Manchester United, which has scored many records this season, will not feel that Manchester United cannot score three points as long as they are in a normal state.
However, after a 90-minute fierce battle, the result was a shocking eye: With the goal of Manchester United's former player Joshua King, Bournemouth defeated Manchester United 2:1 at home!
In this game, Bournemouth scored a goal early. Although Harry Kane scored the equalizer in the first half, Norwegian star Joshua King, who was born in Manchester United's youth training camp, counterattacked Manchester United in the second half, and won the key 3 points for Bournemouth, and also gave his old club his first defeat this season.
This defeat not only ended Manchester United's 20th consecutive victory in the Premier League, but also ended Manchester United's terrifying 35 consecutive victory in various competitions!
In addition, another record that Manchester United was ended was that they won 15 consecutive games in various away games!
Since losing at Goodison Park in the 34th round of the Premier League last season, Manchester United has no mistakes in the subsequent 15 away games and won a terrifying 15 consecutive wins. This record not only far behind Manchester United's original away winning streak, but also Chelsea's record of 11 consecutive away wins in the English team's away game was not visible.
With Manchester United's defeat, they also missed the historical record of 40 unbeaten games in all major competitions maintained by Nottingham Forest, and even missed the record of unbeaten in the season.
But despite this, the height that Manchester United has reached is also unattainable.
After all, the record of 20 consecutive Premier League wins and 35 consecutive wins in various competitions is really too terrifying.
Chapter completed!