host must win

Chapter 675

On May 2006, 5, at 13:45 pm local time in the UK, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.

There are only 15 minutes left before this season's FA Cup final whistles.The two teams that completed the pre-match warm-up returned to their respective locker rooms to make final preparations for the final.

This is the sixth FA Cup final held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, and it is also the last FA Cup final held at this stadium.Because starting next year, the FA Cup final will return to Wembley Stadium. To be precise, it is going to the brand new Wembley Stadium!

Originally, since the Champions League final will be held at the Stade de France in Paris, France, four days later, Manchester United had applied to the FA to postpone the FA Cup final in order to have more time to prepare for the Champions League final.But the proud FA rejected Manchester United's application. In their view, the FA Cup final is the most important game in the world.

Although Manchester United is very dissatisfied with this, they have to accept the result of playing the Champions League final four days after the FA Cup final.

In fact, Yin Jun also doesn't understand why the bureaucrats of the FA are always so confident and make some incomprehensible decisions.Do they really think they are the center of the world?

Take Manchester United's opponents in the Champions League final, West Ham United. The Spanish Football Association, in order to allow the Red and Blues to have more time to prepare for the Champions League final, specially allowed West Ham United to be held on the evening of May 5, local time. 13 rounds, postponed to the evening of May 38.

In this way, West Ham United will have a full 11 days to prepare for the Champions League final, which is a full week more preparation time than Manchester United!

Such a schedule will give West Ham an absolute advantage in terms of physical fitness!

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The starting lineups of both sides have been played on the big screen of the stadium.

西汉姆联出场阵容(442）：门将34号希斯洛普；后防线2号斯卡洛尼，5号安东·费迪南德，4号加比登，3号孔切斯基；中场15号贝纳永，6号卡尔·弗莱彻，20号雷奥·科克, 11号埃瑟林顿，前锋线9号迪恩·阿什顿, 10号马龙·海伍德。

曼联出场阵容（433）：门将19号范德萨；后防线2号加里·内维尔, 5号费迪南德, 15号维迪奇，3号埃弗拉；中场16号奥谢，24号弗莱彻，8号殷俊；锋线7号克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多，9号维恩·鲁尼，11号瑞恩·吉格斯。

For West Ham United, there is no contempt from Manchester United.This newly promoted Premier League team was able to rank ninth in the standings in the first season of the Premier League. In the FA Cup, it also eliminated Blackburn, Bolton, Manchester City, Middlesbrough and other Premier League powerhouses all the way. Cup final, it can be seen that they did not get to this point because of luck.

The head coach of West Ham United, Alan Pardew, also relied on his outstanding performance leading West Ham United to enter the PFA season's best head coach candidate list this season.

As the referee Willy blew the whistle to start the game, this world-renowned FA Cup final officially began.

In the relief of coin guessing, Manchester United's captain Yin Jun defeated West Ham United captain Leo Coke, and Manchester United won the right to pick a side, so West Ham United kicked off first.

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Amid huge boos, West Ham striker Ashton kicks off.

Although the game was played on a neutral stadium, judging from the clothes of the fans in the stands, the number of fans wearing Manchester United's red jerseys is obviously more than the number of fans wearing West Ham United jerseys. The difference in the number of fans between the two sides is at least 1 people.

Haywood passed Ashton's kick back to Etherington, and the two ran forward.

Etherington looked very excited. He made a gesture to pass back to Cork, but he dunked the football and dribbled the ball forward.This led to even greater boos from the stands, and it was clear that Etherington's move was interpreted as a contempt for Manchester United.

When Etherington was still a young player, he had been trained in Manchester United's youth academy. That was in 1998. The players in the same period included O'Shea, who has now gained a firm foothold in Manchester United.But in the end he failed to impress Ferguson like O'Shea, stayed at Manchester United and went to the low-level team Peterborough United.

Facing his old club at this moment, Etherington was naturally extremely excited.

Etherington used the change in speed to pass Ronaldo, and then continued to move forward. Then, in the next second, Etherington was shoveled to the ground by O'Shea.

The referee's whistle sounded, Manchester United fouled!
Etherington looked at his former Carrington teammate and ran back without looking at him. Etherington, who was going to say hello to O'Shea, got up resentfully.

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Free kick for West Ham United.

Benayoun hoisted the ball forward and Vidic pushed Haywood out of the way and pushed it out.

Leo Cork hooked the ball back before Gary Neville, and then he pulled the ball and turned, looking for his team-mate, Fletcher rushed straight up and knocked Cork away.

Leo Coke was a natural leader, captaining the team at Wimbledon when he was under 20 years old. In January 2004, he joined West Ham and became the youngest captain in West Ham history, leading the team to return to the Premier League through the upgrade play-offs.

The England midfielder, who is about to celebrate his 22nd birthday tomorrow, is indeed very delicate with his feet. While being bumped and staggered, he stretched out his legs and pulled the football back. With a pull of his feet, he avoided Fry Toh's next step is to press.

The West Ham United fans applauded in the stands, cheering for their captain's beautiful skills.

Not enough, Kirk continued to play tricks. He jumped up the football and made a gesture to turn around at the same time, but he used a movement similar to a scorpion wagging its tail, and passed the football... to Yin Jun!

It is not the first time that Yin Jun has played against Cork. He has some understanding of the opponent's characteristics. He suddenly rushed up and completed the steal on the passing route!

"Beautiful! Yin Jun successfully steals!"

Yin Jun directly put the football on the pad, and then dribbled the ball forward.

Carl Fletcher came up to interfere with Yin Jun, who passed the football before getting close to Carl Fletcher.

Ryan Giggs received the ball, and the Manchester United veteran gave the football a beautiful meal, then pulled the ball and turned around, sending the football to the left.There, Evra has plugged in at high speed.

West Ham United's right-back, the Argentine Scaloni, did not go up blindly. He signaled Benayoun to interfere with Evra, while he himself stared at Ryan Giggs who was plugging in at high speed after passing the ball.

(End of this chapter)