Chapter 823 The Restored Golden Globe Awards

At noon on November 2, 2020, Central European Time, UEFA's official website announced the 30-man candidate list for the 2020 European Golden Ball Award. Manchester United, which won three consecutive Champions League titles and four consecutive Premier League titles, became the biggest winner. Ten people including captain Bruno Fernandes, Harry Kane, Mbappe, Rashford, Kante, Gundogan, Luke Shaw, Maguire, Van Dijk, and De Gea were selected, setting a new record for the number of people selected from a single club.

In the past year, Manchester United's record is still extremely brilliant. It has won five championships including the Premier League, League Cup, Community Shield, Champions League, and European Super Cup, and has also reached the final of the FA Cup. It is definitely the best performing team in Europe. Even Bayern Munich, which won the Bundesliga triple crown, is inferior in comparison.

After all, in the most critical Champions League final, Bayern Munich lost to Manchester United.

Among them, Bruno is undoubtedly the biggest favorite to win the award. Although he lost to Lewandowski, who scored 15 goals, by 13 goals in the battle for the top scorer of the Champions League, he led Manchester United to win the Champions League again with a perfect record, which won him a lot of support.

Moreover, in terms of league performance, Bruno's personal performance is even better. He scored 43 goals this season, not only setting a new Premier League single-season goal record, but also winning the European Golden Boot.

In the UEFA Best Player selection at the beginning of the season, Bruno defeated Lewandowski and was elected UEFA Best Player for the third consecutive year. In the following European Golden Ball and World Footballer of the Year selection, he is likely to win again.

However, it will take more than a month to decide the award.

On the evening of December 7th, local time in Europe, "France Football" will announce the final selection results in Paris.

This year's European Golden Ball selection is different from another time and space. At the beginning, because some European leagues were cut short due to the epidemic, "France Football" announced the cancellation of the 2020 European Golden Ball selection.

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At the same time as UEFA announced the list of candidates for this year's European Golden Ball Award, the entire Manchester United team has taken a special plane to Italy, and is about to face Atlanta in the third round of the Champions League group stage.

Mourinho continued to rotate personnel in the frontcourt, with McTominay, Greenwood and Mahrez partnering up in the front line, and Bruno forming a three-man midfield with Mata and Bellingham.

Players from both sides came to the player tunnel one after another. French referee Bastien was conducting the final inspection of the players from both sides before they went on the court. When he saw Bruno, he obviously stayed a little longer and nodded slightly.

He has long admired this world's number one football player, and many people say that he has opened an era of his own.

If the ten years before 2017 belonged to the era of Ronaldo and Yosi, the peerless duo, then starting from the 2017-2018 season, world football has entered a new era, an era that belongs exclusively to Bruno!

After Ronaldo and Yosi got old, it was difficult to find a superstar who could compete with Bruno for a long time!

Whether it is the older generation of Lewandowski, Benzema and others, or Neymar, Hazard, Salah, Harry Kane and others who are barely of the same generation as Bruno, they cannot fully compete with Bruno, the king of football.

Atalanta smiled back politely.

Atalanta is a relatively mature team, with an average age of 27 or 28 years old, which is the golden age of their careers.

As for the situation of this Atalanta team, Bruno had already known it clearly from the information provided by the coaching staff before the game.

Gasperini's team's persistence in attack makes it hard to believe that this coach is an Italian. Basically, he is the new Zeman of Serie A.

Basically, Atalanta's high goal loss is because the team pursues offense and presses too much, so there are too few soldiers in the backcourt, forming a large open space.

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Less than six minutes into the game, he seized an opportunity in the frontcourt, ran out of the gap quickly, and got a chance to counterattack.

Compared with other sports, there are eleven players on each side of a football match, and there will be a total of twenty-three people on the field, including the referee. Among them, except for the two goalkeepers whose activity areas are fixed in the penalty area, the rest of the players are basically in high-speed movement, running between each other, and if you are not careful, you will miss it like a cursory glance.

For any competitive game, concentration is the most important basic quality of the players.

This is especially true for football games with many people and frequent running.

In football games, the most easily exposed problem of inattention is that you can't catch the ball.

When Manchester United intercepted the ball in the backcourt, Cancelo got the ball on the left side of the center line. When observing the front, Atlanta's left back Toloy obviously did not catch the crisis because he thought the ball was still on Manchester United's left side.

But in the next step, when Cancelo quickly made a long diagonal pass and sent the ball behind Atlanta's left back and left center back, he hurriedly realized the danger.

Just as he turned to chase the ball, Bruno had passed by him at the fastest speed, like a gust of wind, quickly caught up with the football, and easily stopped the ball with his chest.

Fortunately, not all of Atlanta's defenders were distracted like Toloy. Jimsiti reacted immediately, quickly returned to defense, and blocked Bruno.

The two were one-on-one. Bruno stopped the ball with his chest and quickly started to move away. However, Jimsiti made a decisive foul and tripped Bruno to the ground.

The referee gave a yellow card without hesitation.

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Atlanta won a chance to breathe and quickly retreated to its own penalty area to organize defense.

Bruno's cross from the right found McTominay accurately, but the Manchester United center's header slightly missed the crossbar.

Although they failed to score a goal, Manchester United gave the opponent's central defender a yellow card in just six minutes. Mourinho's opening tactics worked, and Bruno's start was very eye-catching.

Coach Gasperini was very angry on the sidelines and kept complaining to the fourth official, apparently thinking that the punishment was too severe.

As a defender, especially a central defender, if you carry a yellow card, your hands will be tied up and you will not be able to let go.

Of course, in comparison, if Bruno did not commit a foul and was passed directly by Bruno and entered the penalty area, it would be difficult for Sportiello to stop him. Then he would only be more passive if he was scored, so Jimciti's choice is also excusable. .

Mourinho stood on the sidelines and seemed relatively relaxed from the beginning of the game.

When he saw Bruno giving Jimciti a yellow card, he laughed directly.

Although the subsequent set-piece in the frontcourt failed to score a goal, the result was already considered good.

"This kid's short-range explosive power is getting better and better, especially when he breaks away." Mourinho praised.

"Yes." Faria nodded. "Atalanta's two defenders just couldn't stop him. Fortunately, Jimcitti fouled decisively, otherwise the goal would have been guaranteed."

Seeing again on the court, Bruno kept retreating and at the same time calling on his teammates to try their best to attack on the right, Faria and Mourinho smiled at each other again.

What a shrewd boy!

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Jimsiti had a yellow card and was already unable to play, but Bruno signaled his teammates to play more on the right. This was a bit of an added insult to injury and took advantage of his illness to kill him.

This is definitely a very commendable choice in a football match.

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On the court, with Bruno's greeting, Manchester United's offense quickly tilted to the right.

Mahrez and Dalot, this new pairing on the right is known for its offensive ability. Together with Bruno, this immediately made Manchester United's right offensive more frequent, putting huge pressure on Atlanta's left.

In the 21st minute, Greenwood from the left made a diagonal pass to the front of the penalty area, and McTominay made the transition to Mahrez on the right.

Mahrez had no chance and pushed the ball directly back to the midfield without stopping, giving it to Bruno.

Bruno quickly passed the ball to the right, and Dalot stepped in. After receiving the ball, he took it directly to the right side of the penalty area. After pulling Toroy out, he suddenly passed the ball into the penalty area.

At this time, Bruno had already run into the gap. After receiving Dalot's cross in the penalty area, facing Jimciti, he pulled to the left, raised his left foot and hit directly!

"Bruno!!!"

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"

"In the 21st minute, Manchester United took the lead in breaking Atlanta's goal!"

"What a crisp attack!"

"Manchester United attacked from the left, McTominay headed the ball over, Mahrez passed the ball to Bruno, and Bruno passed it to the right to Dalot. Dalot and Bruno cooperated very well and pulled out The defensive player then made a cross pass to the center.”

"Defending one-on-one and in the penalty area, Atlanta's central defender Jim Siti looked very reserved because he already had a yellow card on him. He could only watch Bruno slip out of the gap and score directly! "

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After the goal, Bruno rushed out of the field, opened his arms all the way, and rushed to the corner flag area to celebrate his goal.

The goal was an easy one, mainly because he came out of a position that embarrassed Jimsiti.

Of course, this is also due to Dalot's cross pass assist.

So, when his teammates pounced on him, Bruno excitedly surrounded Dalot and celebrated with him.

The young Portuguese right back is also very excited.

He now does morning exercises with Bruno every morning, and then they do strength training together. After the training session, he also accompanies Bruno for ball-stopping training, which allows him to quickly make up for his original deficiencies in physical confrontation and defense. Short board.

The strength has increased, the defense has improved, and Luke Shaw's injury has allowed Cancelo to switch to left back, which directly gave Dalot the main position.

And for all this, he has Bruno to thank.