Chapter 829: Four Golden Ball Awards
Kufal had been defending Rashford before, and his position was always to block his cross from the bottom, but this time Rashford ran to the left side of the top of the arc in front of the penalty area to get the ball, and stopped the ball with his right foot. This first time made him feel a little uncomfortable. When he saw him about to shoot, he was shocked and rushed out quickly.
But Rashford did not shoot directly, but took a small step to the middle with his right foot, and suddenly kicked the goal directly.
The football flew past Coufal's side and fell to the lower right corner of the goal, and there was an obvious rebound.
West Ham United goalkeeper Fabianski's attention was attracted by Rashford and Coufal's actions just now. Unexpectedly, Rashford suddenly changed his mind, cut in and took a small step, and then suddenly shot, and the angle was very tricky, directly heading to the lower right corner of the goal.
Fabianski flew to save the ball, but in the end he was still a step slower and the ball hit the goal.
1:2, the visiting team Manchester United overtook the score!
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!"
"In the 67th minute, Rashford seized a sudden opportunity and broke through West Ham United's goal with a ground ball. This was really a very, very sudden goal."
"Manchester United scored two goals in three minutes and overtook the score!"
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After scoring, Rashford rushed out of the stadium quickly, but this time he did not celebrate his goal with his iconic sliding knees as he did in the past. Instead, he stood outside the stadium, waiting for his teammates who were catching up behind him.
Manchester United players ran over one after another, shoulder to shoulder, standing in a row. Even goalkeeper De Gea was no exception, and then made a gesture of sucking a pacifier with his right hand at the same time.
This scene immediately made the hundreds of Manchester United fans who followed the team to the away game very excited.
Manchester United players took advantage of this goal opportunity to pay tribute to captain Bruno in China and celebrate his birth of a baby boy, which also showed the unity in the Manchester United locker room.
"Hahaha, Rashford and Manchester United players' celebrations were for Bruno."
"Manchester United's goal came very suddenly, just three minutes after the last goal. Everything is difficult at the beginning, and when Manchester United scored the first goal, everything went smoothly. It seems that this goal will definitely not be the last goal of this game!"
Moyes grabbed a handful of hair in frustration, turned around and walked back to the coaching seat. He felt that he had to make adjustments as soon as possible.
In the past five minutes, his team lost two goals in a row when they were leading the score, and it seemed that there were signs of a complete collapse.
Moyes knew why this happened. A very important part of the reason was that the team's physical fitness could not keep up.
Adjustments must be made!
But how to adjust needs to be considered. Whether to strengthen the offense or strengthen the defense, the results will obviously not be the same.
By taking a gamble to strengthen the offense, West Ham United may score a goal to equalize the score, or even form a reversal, but it is also possible to continue to lose the ball and suffer a disastrous defeat at home.
Strengthening the offense can certainly stabilize West Ham United's defense, but it is very difficult to score points at home.
Moreover, with Manchester United's strong offensive power, whether West Ham United can defend and not continue to lose the ball is unknown.
If it is still a draw now, Moyes may not hesitate to strengthen the defense, but now West Ham United has fallen behind, and the significance of strengthening the defense is not so great.
Moyes made a prompt decision and immediately called Benrahma and Lanzini over.
These two frontcourt players have strong offensive capabilities. Moyes sent them, naturally hoping that they can suppress Manchester United's offensive, preferably to equalize or even reverse the score.
The two players who were replaced were Fornals and Bowen in the midfield.
Taking down two midfielders and replacing two wingers, Moyes obviously wanted to take a gamble and strive to get points at home.
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Manchester United, who reversed the score, was fully in shape. Although the home team West Ham United strengthened its offensive power, they were still besieged by Manchester United, who took over as guests.
"Manchester United still has the ball."
"Mata dribbled forward and suddenly passed it diagonally to the left."
"Rashford got the ball outside the left corner of the penalty area, shook off Coufal and cut inside..."
"Beautiful, Rashford changed direction again, between Coufal and Balbuena, and brought the ball into the penalty area..."
"A very exciting forced breakthrough!"
"Rashford brought it to the small penalty area and passed it horizontally to the middle, Greenwood..."
"The ball went in!!!"
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"
" In the 78th minute, Manchester United scored the third goal of the game and secured the victory! "
"Rashford! Rashford, who had a poor performance in the first half, made one pass and one shot!"
"Rashford! This magical kid from Manchester United's youth training camp performed like two different people in the first and second half! In the first half, he was at a loss facing West Ham United's defense, but at this moment, West Ham United's two defensive players, Coufal and Balbuena, were unable to stop him, allowing Rashford to rush into the penalty area with the ball through the gap in the defense and tear apart West Ham United's entire defense alone. "
"Ogbonna kicked the ball into the goal angrily. He had every reason to be depressed because West Ham United's defense was like paper in front of Rashford. Compared with the first half, the difference was too big."
"This is a goal that sealed the victory! Manchester United scored three goals in a row to complete an amazing reversal when they were behind!"
"Fifteen minutes, it only took fifteen minutes!"
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"West Ham United is completely unable to keep up with Manchester United's pace now!"
"In the second half of the game, West Ham United suffered a great defeat. They collapsed under Manchester United's powerful offensive."
"I don't know if West Ham United can hold its ground in the remaining ten minutes!"
"Moyes made another substitution, replacing Coufal with the youth training defender Ben Johnson. The Czech defender who performed well in the first half was defeated by Rashford in the second half!"
"This is a substitution to strengthen the midfield defense. Moyes obviously realized that it was impossible to complete the reversal. He could only strengthen the defense and ensure that the team would not suffer a devastating defeat at home."
After scoring three goals in a row and completing the reversal, Manchester United did not slow down its offensive.
Afterwards, Manchester United continued to pursue West Ham United, but West Ham United's defense showed its strength at the critical moment and did not continue to lose the ball.
Manchester United finally reversed West Ham United 3:1 away and won the first game in Bruno's absence.
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Two days later, the award ceremony of the European Golden Ball was held at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris, France. Bruno won the Golden Ball by beating Bayern Munich's center forward Lewandowski and Barcelona captain Yosi.
This is the third consecutive year that Bruno has won the European Golden Ball, and it is also the fourth Golden Ball in his career. As early as 2015, when Bruno was still playing for Udinese, he had already won the FIFA Golden Ball, which was then co-organized by FIFA and France Football.
Bruno also tied Yosi and became the second player in history to win the European Golden Ball, second only to Cristiano Ronaldo who won the award five times.
Bruno arrived at the scene in his Gulfstream G550 private jet and received the Golden Ball.
However, after receiving the award, he quickly flew to the East by private jet. He is still on vacation, and Liu Yimei is still in confinement, and he hopes to accompany her more.
Bruno's biggest competitor for the award this year is not the former peerless duo. Yosi and Ronaldo still performed well in 2020. Ronaldo led Juventus to win the Serie A championship, and he won the Serie A Silver Boot and Serie A Best Player. Yosi played 44 times for Barcelona in various official competitions, scored 31 goals, and provided 25 assists. In La Liga, he won the season's top scorer and assist king with 25 goals and 21 assists. He was selected into the Champions League Season Best Team, UEFA Team of the Year, and FIFA Team of the Year.
However, compared with the top two players in the European Golden Ball this year, their performance is slightly worse.
In the 2019-20 season, Lewandowski played the best season of his career. He played 47 times for Bayern Munich, scored 55 goals and contributed 10 assists, helping Bayern win the German domestic triple crown. In the Bundesliga, Champions League and German Cup, Lewandowski became the top scorer with 34 goals, 15 goals and 6 goals respectively. Lewandowski's outstanding performance also made him the team's best player of the season, the best player of the Bundesliga season, the German Footballer of the Year, and was selected into the FIFA Team of the Year and the UEFA Team of the Year.
Bruno continued his crazy performance in the 2019-2020 season. He played 59 games for Manchester United in various competitions, scored 68 goals and made 35 assists, helping Manchester United win five championship trophies including the Premier League, Champions League, League Cup, Community Shield, and European Super Cup, as well as the FA Cup runner-up. In the Premier League, he scored 43 goals and 23 assists. He won the Premier League's top scorer and assist king, as well as the European Golden Boot and European assist king. In addition, he also won the three best players in the Premier League, the best player in the Champions League, the best midfielder in the Champions League, the best player in the UEFA, and many other awards.
170 professional journalists from all over the world participated in the final vote. According to the rules, each review journalist has 5 votes, and each vote is worth 6 points, 4 points, 3 points, 2 points and 1 point in order.
In the end, Bruno scored 818 points, far more than Lewandowski with 578 points, Yosi with 311 points, and Cristiano Ronaldo with 258 points.
According to the scores of each continent published by France Football magazine, Bruno ranked first in all continents except South America, while Lewandowski ranked second in all continents except South America. Yosi ranked first in South America, and ranked third or fourth in other continents.