Chapter 22
In the locker room.
Everyone was in a good mood.
Although the opponent scored a goal, Ajax U21 had a greater advantage.
With three players from the opponent already selected for the Manchester United first team, Ajax U21 still led by one goal in the first half, which was naturally a happy thing.
You know, it is 2014 now, Ferguson has just retired for a year, and Manchester United is still the strongest club in the Premier League.
In the 22 years since the establishment of the Premier League, Manchester United has won 13 Premier League titles, and all other English clubs have won 9 titles in total.
In these 22 years, Manchester United has won 2 three consecutive championships and 2 two consecutive championships. Other clubs have won championships by taking advantage of opportunities, and no opponent has ever won the league championship for three consecutive seasons.
If there had not been the emergence of the gold-dollar football of Manchester City, Manchester United would have turned the Premier League into the Bundesliga.
If Sir Alex Ferguson was ten years younger, Manchester United could have pressed the heads of other clubs for another ten years.
Even though Manchester United "bravely" won the seventh place in the Premier League in the first season after Ferguson, it is still the most influential team in the Premier League and the club with the highest annual commercial profit in the world.
Professor Wenger is considered to be a famous coach who can be compared with Ferguson in the history of the Premier League, but in the end, the number of league championships is still less than a quarter of Sir Alex Ferguson.
Manchester United in the Ferguson era is not only simply strong, but also created one metaphysical miracle after another.
If a defending champion lacks an absolute core + spiritual leader in the first half of the season, it will sell three important players before the start of the season.
Then, when being blackmailed everywhere, eight players are promoted from U21 to fill the vacancies, and then suddenly one of the opponents starts to use money to hit people with the same energy as Manchester City did many years later, and a team with superior strength is formed in an instant.
When the season ends, what will be the fate of this team?
In the 2011-2012 season, Arsenal was forced to sell Fabregas, Nasri, Clichy and Eboue, and almost collapsed at the beginning of the season.
The professor could only buy players urgently before the transfer window closed to keep the Champions League qualification at the end of the season.
In a similar situation, in the first round of the 1995-1996 season, seven players from the same youth team appeared in Manchester United's starting lineup.
But what is incredible is that the season ended with Manchester United defeating Newcastle in the championship battle, leaving the opponent overtaken in despair.
Bayern led Manchester United for 90 minutes in the Champions League final, but suddenly collapsed within three minutes without any signs.
These are legendary stories written into the history of the Champions League and the Premier League. Similar things have happened to this Manchester United countless times.
The current Manchester United is still a fascinating red empire. Even if they can win a Manchester United U21, the young players of Ajax U21 will be very happy.
Among all the people present, only two people had no respect for this Manchester United U21.
Stam asked the players to continue to press high in the second half, to continue to fight against Manchester United U21, either to break them or to be broken by their defense and counterattack.
Sun Yu did not say much, but his words and deeds revealed one thing:
Is Januzaj like this?
Is Michael Keane like this?
Is Jesse Lingard like this?
Is Manchester United U21 like this?
If the "Class of 92" were at this level, let alone the Premier League championship, they would probably be relegated two levels without signings.
The great year of youth training is not blown up by the media, nor written by scout reports, but played out by real swords and guns.
If Manchester United did not win the Premier League championship that season, the "Class of 92" would be a class of youth training with average talent but good combat effectiveness.
And Ferguson would be called a fool by everyone because he let go of the absolute main force and did not introduce a capable replacement, and even the club executives might not have the patience to let him continue.
In this way, the summary of that season would be "money wins everything".
After the first half, Sun Yu could clearly feel that this Manchester United U21 had neither cohesion nor spiritual leaders.
Even with three first-team players, Sun Yu didn't think he would lose to the opponent.
Benefiting from the previous high-intensity training, Ajax U21 still showed the intensity of the first half after the start of the second half.
Manchester United U21 players looked good individually, but they played very unsmoothly together.
Lingard was eager to equalize the score, playing more and more alone, and began to frequently play the drama of rushing from the midfield to the opponent's goal.
In just ten minutes in the second half, Lingard was intercepted twice and fired three high-altitude cannons.
Including Januzaj's teammates were watching him play alone, and everyone didn't want to play with him anymore.
AndJanuzai is not a leader. It is difficult for him to inspire and connect the team in the game.
In the 58th minute, Sun Yu got the ball in the frontcourt. He played a two-on-one with his teammate who assisted him and kicked the ball into the penalty area at the edge of the penalty area.
Under the interference of Zivkovic, the central defender McNair rushed to clear the ball in front of the goal, but the ball hit his own goal.
3:1!
After the score gap was widened to two goals, the mentality of other players of Manchester United U21 had not collapsed, but Lingard's mentality collapsed unexpectedly.
In the next game, Lingard started to spread his hands as soon as he was a little uncomfortable.
Once the team started to play blindly, the German team still couldn't do well in the World Cup.
In the 67th minute, Van der Beck made a long shot outside the penalty area.
This shot was very powerful, causing the goalkeeper to lose his hand.
Zivkovic rushed to the small penalty area to make up for the shot and scored. When the ball rolled into the goal, the two central defenders had not yet completed the turn.
4:1!
Seeing that the outcome was already decided, both coaches started to make substitutions.
Only Joyce was cursing, while Stam had already crossed his legs.
There were seven substitutions in the friendly match, and Stam did not replace Sun Yu and Van de Beek until the 80th minute.
Lin Huang finally didn't want to play anymore, so Joyce replaced him just after the 70th minute.
At the last moment, Manchester United U21 scored a goal for the team with Januzaj.
4:2!
The game ended at 4:2. After Ajax U21 won this game, they successfully advanced to the final two days later.
In the stands, there was a tall and thin old man sitting in the audience, writing and drawing on a notebook.
Professor Wenger took Sun Yu's scout report and said to assistant coach Bould beside him: "That kid simplified his passing technique and covered up his technical weaknesses very well."
Bould smiled and said: "Do you think he looks like Giggs?"
Wenger nodded: "He has completed the contract renewal, we can only wait and see."
He thought for a while and said: "We can observe these two children for a long time, plus Riedewald."
"Tomorrow at the Kearney training base, we can find an opportunity to communicate with them alone."
After the match between Manchester United U21 and Ajax U21, Sun Yu and his teammates sat in the stands, ready to watch the next game.
Stam settled Sun Yu and turned to attend the post-match press conference.
There were not many spectators in the invitational tournament, so there was no need to cater to the live broadcast time.
So half an hour after the first game, the match between Arsenal U21 and Dortmund U21 started immediately.
Sun Yu entered Arsenal's mobile official website and looked at the starting list of Arsenal U21.
Compared with the other three teams, Arsenal U21's list has many names that will be familiar to Arsenal fans in the future.
Iwobi, Bellerin, Niles, Afobi, Anek, Gadolin who was poached from Barcelona's youth training, and former Dortmund youth training captain Bansfield...
These players are all future stars that Arsenal fans once talked about in the Wenger era.
But there is no familiar name in Dortmund U21.
After the game started, Dortmund U21 played very fiercely. Their tactics were somewhat similar to Dortmund's first team, and they also pressed high.
The style of Arsenal U21 is exactly the same as that of the first team, both of which are very entertaining passing and controlling.
Less than ten minutes into the game, Arsenal's right winger Iwobi suddenly broke out after getting the ball.
Dortmund U21's left back came up with a tough physical confrontation, but was directly bounced away by Iwobi.
Iwobi dribbled the ball diagonally for nearly 30 meters and ended the attack with a shot.
The moment he scored, everyone, including Sun Yu, exclaimed.
Where did this monster come from? !