Chapter 745 Nemesis Fulham

After Manchester United and Rooney renewed their contract, the second round of the Premier League came as scheduled.

The focus of this round is Manchester City VS Liverpool at home. Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal, and Tottenham are not strong opponents. In comparison, Manchester United's opponent Fulham is more difficult to deal with.

Fulham only ranked 12th in the league last season, which is far behind the 7th place the previous season. However, Fulham fought on two fronts. In the Europa League, they reached the end and won the runner-up. Their combat effectiveness Not to be underestimated.

The biggest feature of Fulham is the huge gap between home and away records. Last season, Fulham scored 36 points at home, beating Liverpool and Manchester United 3-1 and 3-0. In the Europa League, Fulham won 8 and 1 at home. After defeating European giants such as Juventus, Wolfsburg and Hamburg, the Craven Farm Stadium, which can only accommodate more than 25,000 people, is a well-deserved "devil's home stadium".

Looking at Fulham's home game, they are definitely a championship team, but looking at Fulham's poor away game, I feel that they have problems even relegation.

1 win, 7 draws, 11 losses, and only 10 points. This is Fulham's away record. If it weren't for their excellent home game, Fulham might not even be able to stay in the relegation.

In the second round of the Premier League, Manchester United will challenge the Devil's home stadium of Craven Farm.

During the summer transfer, Fulham basically maintained its main lineup from last season, and its strength has not changed. For Manchester United, the biggest benefit is that Fulham head coach Hodgson went to Liverpool. The new coach is Mark Hughes, who was dismissed from Manchester City last season.

Fulham has been able to gradually advance from a relegation team to a mid-tier Premier League team in recent years, relying on the high stability of the team and the good training of head coach Hodgson.

Now that they have lost the meritorious coach Hodgson who has been in charge of the team for several years, Mark Hughes's Fulham drew again against Bolton in the first round of the league, still maintaining the character of an away team. As for the quality of the Devils' home court, how much quality is left? It’s up to the Red Devils and Manchester United to test it.

Before Manchester United went to Fulham, the Premier League played eight games. Championship opponents Chelsea and Arsenal both won wildly with a score of 6:0.

This puts great pressure on Manchester United. Last season, Manchester United lost the league championship by one point. If they cannot score points in this game at the home court of their nemesis Fulham, they will be at least two or three points ahead of Chelsea. point.

However, what makes Manchester United even worse is that recently, because Coleen returned to her parents' home, Rooney suffered from gastroenteritis due to irregular diet and was unable to play in this game against Fulham.

Ferguson had no choice but to use teenager Hernandez to replace Rooney in the game against Fulham.

Of course, in terms of ability and experience, the veteran Irving will be better, but Berbatov plays like a walk, and Irving is so old. If they are sent to play together, Manchester United will not have the ability to press in the frontcourt.

Hernandez is flexible, fast and diligent, and he can just make up for Berbatov's lack of running.

In the midfield, Ferguson continued his start from the previous game, with Scholes and Gao Xiaodong partnering as central midfielders, and Valencia and Nani partnering as wide midfielders. The defense is Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra and Rafael, with goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar.

Fulham has mysterious confidence when playing Manchester United at home. Mark Hughes, who was once scolded by Sir Alex Ferguson, also arranged a 433 offensive lineup to compete with Manchester United.

Goalkeeper No. 12 Stockdale, four defenders: No. 4 Painthill, No. 18 Hughes, No. 5 Hangeland, No. 3 Koncheski; 3 midfielders: No. 20 Etuhu, No. 29 Simon . Davis, No. 13 Murphy/Three forwards: No. 25 Zamora, No. 16 Duff, No. 23 Dempsey

Having not lost to Manchester United at home for many years in a row, Fulham played very confidently after the start. In the first minute of the game, Duff received a long pass from Konchesky, passed through the crotch of Manchester United boss Evra, and kicked the ball horizontally. Passed to the penalty area.

Fulham's forward Zamora, winger Dempsey and midfielder Murphy shot into the penalty area like arrows to grab points.

Fortunately, because Manchester United came to the home court of their nemesis, they were very focused before the game started.

Ferdinand shoveled the ball out of the baseline before grabbing Zamora. If the ball missed, Fulham winger Dempsey would have a chance to shoot from a small angle.

Gao Xiaodong had heard that Fulham was Manchester United's nemesis before the game, but Gao Xiaodong didn't pay much attention to it. He felt that the game relied on strength, so there was no such thing as a nemesis. However, after the start, Gao Xiaodong believed it. Because Gao Xiaodong saw confidence in the actions and mental state of Fulham's players.

Generally speaking, underdogs or even mid-range teams will actively defend when they encounter a Premier League hegemon like Manchester United. They will certainly not dare to invest too many troops when attacking in case they are counterattacked by Manchester United.

But not Fulham. They didn't seem to be afraid of Manchester United's counterattack. When Duff passed the ball, there were three players outflanking him in the middle. Undoubtedly, with such courage and confidence, scoring a goal would be a matter of time.

Although Manchester United is missing Lu Xiaopang, they still have the more powerful Gao Xiaopang. In the last game, they defeated the Magpies with 25 goals. They also played proactively in this game.

In the third minute of the game, Manchester United retaliated. Scholes passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong, who was advancing into the penalty area. Gao Xiaodong quickly beat Davis, but Davis stretched his foot to knock him down. Manchester United got a free pass at the edge of the penalty area. ball.

Although Gao Xiaodong is Manchester United's top player and is relied upon by Ferguson, he does not yet have the absolute right to take free kicks and penalty kicks. He needs to compete with Scholes, Giggs, Rooney and Berbatov.

Of course Gao Xiaodong would not give in to the free kick that Gao Xiaodong received. No matter how modest he was about giving in on such a ball, how many chances would there be for other balls.

Gao Xiaodong picked up the ball and said to Scholes: "Paul, me?"

Gao Xiaodong spoke English, but he was afraid of being suspected by others and did not dare to speak too fluently. He used simple vocabulary to communicate with his teammates.

Giggs is not present, and Scholes is the well-deserved number one taker of set pieces. However, Scholes is a 35-year-old veteran after all. He is loyal to Manchester United and does not consider his status selfishly. He had already begun to consider training a midfield commander for Manchester United, so when Gao Xiaodong was about to take a set kick, Scholes said generously: "You take the penalty, Gao."

Gao Xiaodong placed the ball, and when the referee's whistle blew, Gao Xiaodong ran up to the ball and suddenly made a passing motion, but his foot passed over the ball without touching it.

The players who were grabbing points and defending began to scramble for position when Gao Xiaodong started to take off, but when they saw that Gao Xiaodong was actually making a fake move, they quickly returned to their positions.

At this time, Gao Xiaodong suddenly passed the ball into the penalty area, looking for Hernandez, who was not being marked.

Hernandez did not expect that the ball would be passed to him, a newcomer. In a hurry, Hernandez headed the ball and the ball turned to the right side of the goal.

Fulham goalkeeper Stockdale reacted quickly. He jumped and touched the flying ball with his fingers.

Hernandez failed to hit the ball. After the goalkeeper touched it, the ball changed direction and hit the goal post.

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