Pirated Ronaldo

Chapter 381
A great crisis has emerged. Manchester United is behind at home. Once they lose in the end, will this season's Champions League trip really stop at the group stage?

Manchester United in the Premier League stopped in the group stage in the Champions League. The last time was the 1994-95 season. It has been more than 10 years since then. After that, Manchester United's worst performance in this competition was to enter the 1/8 finals. The record also ensures that Manchester United is qualified to say proudly: We have always been a strong European team!

However, this season, when everyone thought that Manchester United was coming out of the club's difficulties and the league results were normalizing, they encountered big trouble in the Champions League.

The draw with Villarreal in the first game allowed Manchester United to only get one point. If they lost to Benfica today and Villarreal beat Werder Bremen in the other game, then the group D will be the best. The situation will be extremely serious, Benfica 6 points, Villarreal 4 points, Manchester United 1 point... Manchester United must recover 3 points behind in the next four games, while waiting for the other two teams to make mistakes .

passive!Still passive!It's not that Manchester United didn't play well today, but that all the bad luck fell on the team!
"Asshole! Asshole!"

Roy Keane, the Manchester United hero, smashed his fists to the ground angrily!
Such a conceded goal is too shocking, it is simply a bolt from the blue. The most unlucky thing in Roy Keane's life was when he hit Alan Shearer with the ball on the field in 2001 and was sent off with a red card, which led to Manchester United. The team lost in an away game, but if you think about it carefully, the red card that time was not particularly wronged, because after all, that incident also made Roy Keane more affirmed by the die-hard fans of the Red Devils, thinking that he is a straightforward man. hero.

This frustrating incident encountered today is even more unlucky than the one in 2001!

Ronando also couldn't comfort his big brother. After all, Roy Keane is still the boss of the team.
"Boss! The ball just now is my responsibility... If I can be faster, the Italian will definitely not be able to kick the goal!" Gerard Pique ran to Roy Keane and said aggrievedly.

In the first team, everyone now knows that Roy Keane has a tacit relationship with several veteran players such as Gary Neville. Among the new players, the best relationship is Ronando, Gerard Pique As Ronando's best friend, he naturally took the initiative to regard Roy Keane as his boss.

"It's okay! The Red Devils and Manchester United won't be knocked down by a single ball! Everyone cheer up and give them back a ball!" Roy Keane shouted viciously with red eyes.

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The Red Devils and Manchester United have lost their temper. Portuguese teams such as Benfica are really hard to stop!
Benfica's 4-2-3-1 formation is operating proficiently. With a slight retreat, it becomes a half-court defense. Only the team captain Nuno Gomez is left on the front line, and it is transformed into a 4-5-1 formation. However, the Portuguese Super League players are generally short in stature and much thinner, so they suffer too much in terms of physical confrontation.

Fortunately, this game is the Champions League, not a Premier League penalty standard that encourages physical collisions, otherwise, Benfica will have to stop immediately!
"Benfica #6 Armando Pettit fell!... Referee Stephane Ranoy blows the whistle... Man Utd #8 Wayne Rooney fouled!..."

"A free kick from the backcourt of the visiting team Benfica! Manchester United winger No. 11 Ryan Giggs moved too much, and he couldn't stop kicking Benfica right back No. 22 Nelson Marcus..."

"Yellow card! The referee, Stephane Ranoi, showed a yellow card to Manchester United number 22 Cristiano Ronaldo! In slow motion, Ronaldo is seen in Benfica left-back Fabrizio Mi There was a push behind Kohli, who lost his balance and fell to the ground..."

Who said that players born in the Portuguese Super League will be able to adapt to the Portuguese Super League style of play?
On the pitch, not only Manchester United players were often whistled for fouls by the referee because of their impatience, but even Ronaldo, who was wearing a Benfica jersey a few months ago, also "suffered" in physical confrontation!
Of course, it's not that Ronando can't beat the Benfica players in physical confrontation, but that his strength is too strong and his movements are too big, which makes the opponent players unable to hold Ronando's strength at all when they make physical contact with him. On the surface, it seems that Ronando's playing style is too aggressive, and he fouled!

Take this time as an example, Benfica's left midfielder, Italian Fabrizio Miccoli, is 168cm tall and weighs 64KG. This physique is very different from that of Ronando.

If Ronan played a few times in the Champions League and became familiar with the referee's whistle-blowing standards in the Champions League, he might not suffer. However, he has been working hard in the Premier League during this period of time, and he has unconsciously become infected with the fierceness of Premier League players. As soon as he met Fabrizio Miccoli, he not only moved his hands, but also did not pay attention to restraining his body strength. As a result, the thin Fabrizio Miccoli fell down immediately. landed!
Did Fabrizio Miccoli intentionally cheat for a foul?
This is not the case, the key is that Ronando's movements are too aggressive. In football terms, it is "to the person and not to the ball", and this is the biggest difference between the penalty scales of the Premier League and other European leagues.

In the Premier League, any defensive player's robbing action is more or less "to the person and not to the ball". That is because the Premier League encourages collisions and physical contact. When intercepting an opponent, no matter whether you can get in the right position or not, the first step must be to use your body to give the opponent a hard blow in order to disrupt the opponent's dribbling rhythm, and then take the second step depending on the situation.

This kind of defensive action appears in the Premier League, which is a very common defensive action. If a defensive player does not do this, he is a fool, because "against people" is always much easier than "against the ball".

However, according to the rules of the game formulated by the International Football Association Council (FIFA), the phenomenon of "against the person and not the ball" is absolutely not allowed. "Touching an opponent before touching the ball while gaining control of the ball" is a foul and can be awarded a free kick!
Although it is said that in modern football games, similar regulations are not strictly enforced even by referees from continental European countries, but in general, European referees are at most dispensable physical contact and turn a blind eye. Close your eyes.

For the typical physical collision of Premier League players, most European referees will call fouls immediately!
Ronaldo is a player with relatively rough skills. After coming to the Premier League, he easily adapted to the penalty scale of the Premier League. Now, he cannot adapt to the usual penalty scale in Europe.

What is even more unfortunate is that the Italian player Fabrizio Miccoli is a thin player. He was pushed behind by Ronando, his feet slipped, and he fell on the lawn in an exaggerated way. In the eyes of the referee, this kind of tragedy is because the "maliciousness" of Ronando's foul is very obvious: pushing people behind, unscrupulous! ... It is not negotiable to give you a yellow card!

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"Mr. Referee, I didn't mean to push him... I just accidentally..."

"Ronando! Come back! Shut up! Stop arguing...Be careful next time! How did I tell you before the game? Throw it all into the Atlantic Ocean?"

Seeing that Ronando was given a yellow card by the French referee Stephane Lanoy, he was unconvinced and wanted to ask the referee to argue. Captain Roy Keane hurried up and took Ronando to the ground. stalled.

In other words, before the Premier League team participates in the European League, the veteran players in the team, or the old fritters, have a responsibility to pass on their experience and lessons to the rookies in the team to avoid these The rookies can't hold back when they are on the court, and they suffer from fouls.

This is also due to Ronando's bad luck. He was not a Premier League player before, but came from the Portuguese Super League with a softer style of play. Therefore, no one, including Ferguson and Queiroz, focused on him.

Players such as Wayne Rooney, Darren Fletcher, and even John O'Shea are the guys who are most likely to make mistakes on this issue. As for Ronaldo, he has been playing in the Portuguese Super League, and it is only a short period of time in the Premier League. For more than two months, where is the time to worry about whether he can adapt to the style of the European League?
Ronaldo's last Champions League game was against Villarreal, but he came off the bench in that game. The physical confrontation ability of La Liga players is also significantly stronger than that of the Portuguese Super League, only weaker than the Premier League.

Therefore, Ronando was not obviously troubled by foul problems in the last game, which prompted everyone to ignore this serious problem. Letcher is better, and his style of play is relatively "wild". Once he lets go, he is easy to be called for a foul by referees from continental European countries!
Now, Manchester United is behind, and Ronaldo is being taken care of by the Benfica players. Young and energetic, he will inevitably become more irritable, his movements will lose the rules, and he will become bigger and bigger, and finally get a bad card. deserved yellow card.

"Uh...Brother Roy. I was too anxious, I will be more careful!"

After being reminded by Roy Keane, Ronando's brain instantly calmed down, and he became much more awake immediately.

Before the game, although Ronando was not the key target to be guarded against, he was reminded by his old teammates, especially the big brother Roy Keane, who also told him a few words, telling him not to fall into the Benfica player's aggressive method , thinking of showing off in front of old friends... In the end, the plan was not as fast as changing. The Benfica players did not intentionally stimulate Ronando.

At this time, Ronando is completely awake. If he doesn't learn his lesson, if he receives another yellow card in the following game, he will become the team's key player like Roy Keane four years ago. "sinner"……

(End of this chapter)