Chapter 748

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. The opponents of Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham are not strong. Compared with Fulham, Manchester United are more difficult to deal with.

Fulham only ranked 12th in the League last season, which is not a small gap from the seventh place in the previous season. However, Fulham are fighting on both sides. In the Europa League, they came to the end and won the second place. Their combat effectiveness can not be underestimated.

Fulham's biggest characteristic is the huge gap between home and away performances. Last season, Fulham won 36 points at home, defeated Liverpool and Manchester United 3-1 and 3-0. In the Europa League, Fulham won 8-1 at home and drew 1 at home. They defeated strong European teams such as Juve, Wolfsburg and Hamburg. They can only hold more than 25000 people at Craven farm. They are worthy of the "devil host" "Field".

Looking at Fulham's home court, they are definitely the team competing for the title, but looking at Fulham's bad away game, I think they even have problems with relegation.

1-7-11, only 10 points, this is Fulham's away record, if not excellent at home, Fulham may not even be able to maintain the level.

In the second round of the Premier League, Manchester United will challenge the devil's home of Craven farm.

Summer transfer, Fulham basically maintained last season's main team, strength has not changed, for Manchester United, the biggest good is that Fulham coach Hodgson went to Liverpool. The new coach is Mark Hughes, who left Manchester City last season.

Fulham can be promoted from a relegation team to the middle of the Premier League in recent years, relying on the high stability of the team and the good coaching of coach Hodgson.

Today, after losing the meritorious service in charge of the team for several years, manager Hodgson and Mark Hughes' Fulham drew again against Bolton in the first round of the league, still maintaining the nature of the away fans. As for the quality of the devil's home court, it depends on the Red Devils united to test.

Before Manchester United went to Fulham, the Premier League had played eight games first, with champions Chelsea and Arsenal winning 6-0.

If Manchester United can't get three points from Fulham, it will be a big pressure for them.

However, what makes Manchester United even worse is that recently, Rooney's irregular diet caused gastroenteritis due to Colleen's return to his mother's home, which made him unable to play against Fulham.

Ferguson has no choice but to replace Rooney with young player Hernandez in Fulham.

Of course, from the perspective of ability and experience, the veteran Owen will be better, but Berbatov's playing is like walking. Owen is so old that if they are sent to play together, Manchester United will not have the ability to press forward.

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

In midfield, Ferguson continued his first start in the previous game, with Scholes and Gao Xiaodong in the middle and Valencia and Nani in the side. The defensive line is Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra and Rafael, goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar.

Fulham's confidence in playing Manchester United at home is enigmatic. Mark Hughes, who was once scolded by Ferguson, has also drawn up a 433 attack team to compete with Manchester United.

Goalkeeper No.12 Stockdale, four guards: No.4 panthill, No.18 Hughes, No.5 hangrand, No.3 Konchesky; three midfielders: No.20 etuhu, No.29 Simon. Davies, Murphy No.13: Samora No.25, Duff No.16 and Dempsey No.23 have not lost to Manchester United at home for many years in a row. Fulham played confidently after the opening. In the first minute of the game, Duff received Konchesky's long pass, crossed the crotch of Manchester United boss Evra and crossed the ball to the forbidden area.

Fulham's forward Zamora, winger Dempsey and midfield Murphy were able to jump into the penalty area.

Fortunately, because Manchester United came to their nemesis's home, they were very focused before the opening. Ferdinand shoved the ball out of the bottom line before seizing Zamora. If the ball missed, Fulham winger Dempsey would have a chance to shoot from a small angle.

Gao Xiaodong heard that Fulham are Manchester United's nemesis before the game, but he didn't care too much. He felt that the game depended on strength. There was no nemesis, but after the opening, Gao Xiaodong believed. Because Gao Xiaodong saw self-confidence from the action and mental state of Fulham players.

The average weak team, even the middle team, when they meet a Premier League overlord like Manchester United, they usually defend actively and dare not put in too many troops when attacking in case they are attacked by Manchester United.

But Fulham are not. It seems that they are not afraid of United's counterattack. When Duff crosses, there are three players in the middle. No doubt, with such courage and confidence, it will be sooner or later for them to score.

Although United have lost Lu xiaopang, they still have more powerful Gao xiaopang. In the last game, they beat the Magpies by 25 goals. This game is also a positive one.

In the third minute of the game, Manchester United also played with color. Scholes passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong, who was in front of the penalty area. Gao Xiaodong beat Davis fast and was hooked by Davis. Manchester United got a free kick at the front of the penalty area.Although Gao Xiaodong is Manchester United's top scorer and is highly trusted by Ferguson, he does not have the absolute right of free kick and penalty. He needs to compete with Scholes, Giggs, Rooney and Berbatov.

Gao Xiaodong's own free kick, Gao Xiaodong of course does not return to humility, such a ball again humility, that other ball how many opportunities.

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

Gao Xiaodong speaks English, but he is afraid of being doubted by others. He dare not speak too fluently. He uses simple words to communicate with his teammates.

In the absence of Giggs, Scholes is well deserved as the first free kicker of set pieces. However, Scholes is 35 years old after all. He is loyal to Manchester United and does not selfishly consider his position. He has begun to consider training midfield commanders for Manchester United. So when Gao Xiaodong wants to take a set piece, Scholes is very generous: "you take a penalty , high. "

Gao Xiaodong put the ball well. As soon as the referee whistled, Gao Xiaodong ran to the front of the ball with a little help and suddenly made a pass, but his foot crossed the ball without touching it.

Grabbing and defending players started to scramble for positions when Gao Xiaodong started, but when they saw that Gao Xiaodong was a fake, they all rushed back to their positions.

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

Hernandez didn't expect that the ball was passed to the rookie. In a hurry, Hernandez head the ball and the ball turned to the right side of the goal.

Fulham goalkeeper Stockdale was quick to react. He jumped and touched the ball with his finger.

Hernandez didn't give the ball any power. After the goalkeeper touched it, the ball changed its direction and bounced out on the post.