Chapter 458 Goal Downturn

As Chelsea beat Middlesbrough 2-0 in the 22nd round of the Premier League, tied Manchester United in the standings. And both teams had 35 goals, Manchester United ranked first with only 5 more goals.

At this time, Chelsea's winning and losing goals ratio was 43 to 8, while Manchester United was 48 to 13!

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On the afternoon of January 8, the third round of the FA Cup started, with the opponent Exeter City, and Ferguson sent a rotation lineup to play.

Originally, people thought that there was no doubt about Manchester United winning this game, because the gap between their opponents and Manchester United was too big. Manchester United is the top team in the Premier League, while Exeter City is the third in the British League.

The British League is the fifth-level league in the UK, ranking behind the Premier League, the English Championship, the English League One and the English League Two. As the third in the British League Three, it is 87 places behind Manchester United, including the top two in the British League Two, the 22 teams in the English League One, the 22 teams in the English League One, the 22 teams in the English Championship, and the 19 teams behind Manchester United in the Premier League!

With such a big gap, even if Manchester United plays as a substitute, their strength is obviously stronger than their opponents.

However, the Manchester United rotation lineup, which was in a sluggish state, was forced by the opponent with a score of 0:0 in front of more than 60,000 fans at home!

In this way, Manchester United has to choose another day to go away with their opponents to decide the winner.

This is definitely the worst result for Manchester United. Because Manchester United, which is fighting on multiple fronts, has a intensive schedule. But now it has to be a rematch, which is really a worse result for Manchester United, which has already had a heavy burden on the game.

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At 8 pm on January 12, Manchester United challenged Chelsea away in the semi-finals of the Premier League Cup. After 90 minutes of hard fighting, Liverpool drew 0:0 away with Chelsea.

Yin Jun started the game and played for 90 minutes, but still failed to score, not even assists.

Not only Yin Jun is in a sluggish state, but Manchester United's whole team is in a very bad state. The team has been unable to score goals in three consecutive games, but fortunately, it is pretty good in defense and has not conceded the ball.

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Two days later, Manchester United ushered in the 23rd round of the Premier League, visiting Anfield Stadium. This is the second leg of the Double Red Club this season.

In the first leg of the match in late September, Manchester United has defeated their opponent 3:1 at home. If they can defeat their opponent again in this game, Manchester United will kill the enemy twice this season.

For the purpose of protection, Ferguson arranged for Yin Jun to be substitute.

Rooney scored the only goal in the game in the 21st minute. Although Brown was sent off with two yellow cards in the 65th minute, Manchester United still scored 3 points away.

Yin Jun played for 30 minutes on the bench and was still very active and worked very hard, but he never made a goal.

As Chelsea defeated Tottenham 2-0 in this round of the league, surpassing Manchester United in goal difference, thus winning the top spot in the Premier League standings, Manchester United ranked second.

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At 7:45 pm on January 19, Manchester United beat Exeter City 2:0 away in the FA Cup rematch and advanced to the fourth round of the FA Cup, and their opponent was Middlesbrough, the sixth-ranked Premier League!

The Red Devils fans lamented, is the team probably cursed?

In fact, the draw results of the FA Cup fourth round have been released long ago. As long as Manchester United beat Exeter City away, the opponent in the next round will be Middlesbrough.

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At 3 pm on January 22, in the 24th round of the Premier League, Manchester United played against Aston Villa at home.

Manchester United's first record in the 8th minute, Yin Jun made a straight pass from the middle, and Ronaldo inserted into the top of the penalty area and pushed the ball with his right foot.

But Aston Villa tied the score in the 53rd minute, and Barry and Solano cleverly cooperated with one pass. Barry got rid of Gary Neville from 20 yards from the left and scored a goal from the far corner.

However, Manchester United scored a small climax in about 70 minutes in the second half, scoring two goals in two minutes to secure the victory of the game.

In the 69th minute, Rooney made a cross from the right side of the penalty area, Yin Jun pushed the ball with his left foot for 10 yards in front of the goal, and the ball hit Ritchville's right foot and deflected into the near corner. However, this goal was not recorded in Yin Jun's name, but was regarded as Ritchville's own goal, and Yin Jun still missed the goal drought.

In the 70th minute, Manchester United scored another goal to expand the score. Ronaldo's right-footed shot from the edge of the penalty area was saved by Sorensen. Scholes inserted into the middle and broke away from Villa's defense line. He easily headed the ball in front of the goal for 6 yards and entered the net.

In the end, Manchester United beat Aston Villa 3-1 at home and scored 3 points, but because Chelsea beat Portsmouth 3-0 at home in this round, Manchester United continued to rank second with a goal difference disadvantage.

Yin Jun contributed an assist and created an own goal from his opponent, but he still failed to score. His goal drought in various competitions has continued to 7 games, including 6 in the Premier League.

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In the 18th round of the Premier League, Yin Jun scored 16 goals in the league, but after the 24th round, this number still stayed above 16 goals.

This has never happened to Yin Jun.

Fortunately, during the same period, Yin Jun's main competitor in the Premier League Scorer List and Arsenal's leading scorer performance was also very average, and Yin Jun was able to continue to lead the Premier League Scorer List.

Although Manchester United fans were anxious, after the game, they still shouted Yin Jun's name and cheered him up, hoping that he could get back his form as soon as possible.

It is normal for everyone to usher in a trough after the peak, and everyone can do it.

But the problem now is that when Manchester United fell into a downturn in Yin Jun's form, their offense was also affected. Although they remained unbeaten in these 7 league games and their 5 wins and 2 draws looked pretty good, they lost the top spot in the standings.

And it was precisely because the team's offense was not as good as Chelsea, that the Blues took the top spot with a goal difference.

At the same time, Yin Jun also began to pay off his debts for the support of the previous media. How did the British media support Yin Jun to grab the World Footballer? Now how did he hype his goal drought?

The British media is like that. When you praise you, you can hold you to heaven. When you step on you, you can't wait to step on you into the mud and then stomp your feet hard.

Everything was not beyond Yin Jun's expectations. He was also very surprised by his current situation. He still trained the same as before every day, still without any discounts, never laziness, and in the competition, he still worked so hard, and his running distance was a little bit too.

Even when it is time to cheat, he is not ruthless and does not stingy with the use of props.

But no matter what, he always feels a little bit worse.

This is something he has never encountered before. From traveling to the World Cup in the summer of 2002, he has never encountered this situation in two and a half years.

It is said that when people get unlucky, they can also get stuck in their teeth when drinking cold water. Just like in this game with Villa, Yin Jun had hope of breaking the goal drought, but after his shot was blocked by Ritchville, he inexplicably turned into an opponent's own goal.
Chapter completed!