Chapter 126: We are not here to visit!

On the New Year's Day, Preston had a third round of the FA Cup. His opponent was Birmingham, who was also a League One team. Because it was the League Cup against Manchester United three days later, Moyes gave up the game and sent all substitutes to the bench. In the end, Preston lost to his opponent zero-to-one in this game and was eliminated in the FA Cup. The only tasks for this season are the League Cup and League One.

In fact, after the end of this game, the media basically believed that Preston's mission this season was only English League One...

No one is optimistic about Preston's ability to beat Manchester United to advance to the next round. Even Preston fans think it is unlikely. All they want is to perform better at Old Trafford and leave a better impression.

Since relegation, Preston has basically never been to the home games of those strong teams. He has basically never played against Manchester United, Liverpool, and Arsenal. On January 4th, it is destined to be a festival for Preston fans!

Moyes himself does not think that Preston has the ability to eliminate Manchester United away, and even the chances are quite slim, but this does not mean that he will surrender - he has been considering the possible starting lineup of Manchester United in this game during this period, but he has not gained much shame.

Manchester United's main lineup Moyes can almost memorize it, but will Manchester United send all the main players in this game? You should know that there are many stars on their bench, Cruyff Jr., Pobosky, Solskjaer, Steven Davis... These are all players who are enough to become the absolute main players in ordinary Premier League teams.

Although Cruyff and Pobosky are actively seeking transfers because they cannot play as the main players, and may transfer to Spain and Portugal respectively, after all, they have not transferred yet, and no one can tell whether they will play in this game - if they are the ones who play, the trouble for Preston is obviously greater - because Moyes can only make targeted defense against Beckham Giggs, but if these two people do not play, the preparation for them will become useless. You must know that Cruyff and Pobosky are not vegetarians, and what's more serious is that Cruyff and Scholes, Pobosky and Beckham, the characteristics of these two substitutes and the two main players are completely different...

Scholes has very few organizational structures, but his forward, pass ability and long shots are top-notch. Cruyff Jr.'s skills are more delicate. Pobosky is a typical winger, who can shoot well and has a very fast speed. Beckham is a relatively alternative wing forward. He has few breakthroughs, but his crossing and running are unique. It is indeed quite difficult for players of this completely different type of two positions to make targeted arrangements without knowing who is playing.

So when he was conducting targeted training, he could only use shrinking defense, strengthening defense on both wings and increasing protection at the front of the penalty area. In the offense, he could only rely on Tiger's personal performance - the only thing that is certain is that Manchester United's midfielder is definitely Nicky Bart, and this will not change anything.

The reason is very simple. Less than two months after the start of this season, Manchester United captain Keane injured his cruciate ligament when he fouled against the opponent's captain Haaland in the away game against Leeds United. He has not recovered yet, and may not even be able to recover before the end of the season. Now Manchester United is trustworthy in the midfielder position. Bart is the only one who is trustworthy in the midfielder. If he doesn't let him go, no one will go.

In terms of offense, it can only be seen by Tiger's performance. At least in this environment, it is the most trustworthy link for Preston, and it is also the only place where the players on both sides have the closest strength and can even beat the opponent!

At noon on January 3, Preston drove to Manchester.

Originally, Preston is not far from Manchester, so there is no need to come one day in advance, and it is okay to set off that day, but in order to give the players a better rest, Moyes chose to come one day in advance, which also showed his attitude to the players - we are definitely not here to visit the Dream Theater...

"We definitely didn't come to visit the Dream Theater!"

In the visiting team's locker room, Moyes told all the players very seriously that the players who were still looking around to see what the situation was in the visiting team's locker room of Old Trafford immediately became quiet.

In fact, they are not quiet anymore. The locker room in Old Trafford and the visiting locker rooms at all England courts are a virtue - the place is not big, the facilities are outdated...

This is true for all England stadiums' visiting team locker rooms - perhaps only Wembley, which represents the face of English football, is not the case - the visiting team locker rooms are always the oldest, always the hot water supply system has failed, and always the narrow...

The same is true for Preston's Pdale Stadium, so the players of Preston did not complain that Manchester United was petty and the environment was like this. They were just a little disappointed and felt that Manchester United was the same...

There is another reason for Moyes' seriousness, that is, he has won Manchester United's starting lineup before - similar to what he expected, this is a mixed lineup of half-main and half-substitutes, but these names are enough to instantly defeat most English League One teams.

Goalkeeper Schmeichel, right-back Gary Neville, left-back Phil Neville replaced veteran Dennis Irving as the main left-back. Their current captain in the center back, veteran Gary Parist did not appear in the main lineup, replacing David May and Norwegian defender Johnson, midfielder Bart and front midfielder Scholes, their golden wings Giggs and Beckham were both on the bench, and Steven Davis played on the left, Pobosky played on the right, and the forward was paired by Norwegian forward Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and England's local striker Andy Cole.

From this starting lineup, we can see that Ferguson still attaches great importance to this game. Among the replaced main players, except for Giggs and Beckham, two famous players who are basically attending, the replaced veterans like Parist, Dennis Irving and Sheringham. They are all over 30 years old and it is a bit difficult to be the main players throughout the season, so they also need to rotate. David May, Phil Neville and Solskjaer, who replaced them, are not ordinary people. Except for the fact that the strength of the two wings may have decreased a little, their overall strength has not declined much.

A Manchester United who values ​​themselves - Preston - will never encounter a good thing like Crystal Palace in this game, which is almost all substitutes...

However, Tiger felt excited about this.

Although he failed to meet the current Premier League No. 1 defensive midfielder Roy Keane, Bart is definitely a good opponent - this defensive midfielder who has been living in the shadow of Keane is actually a very excellent midfielder. When he debuted, he was considered the new Paul Ince because of his outstanding insight and tough interception. His and Keane's existence is one of the biggest factors that Ferguson lets Ince go to Inter Milan.

Even compared with Winnie Jones, who has already begun to decline, Nicky Bart is definitely an excellent opponent!

Tiger shuddered a little because of excitement. Moyes noticed this. He originally thought Tiger was a little scared by Manchester United's reputation, but soon, he saw the unconcealed desire that appeared in Tiger's eyes!

"This kid..."

If it were someone else, he might think that Tiger was a little paranoid, but Moyes believed that a player without a competitive spirit could not reach a considerable level - a player who doesn't care about victory or defeat could not achieve a brilliant career! Unless his ability reaches a level that is obviously one or two beyond other players of the same era!

Who is not a paranoid player who has been able to achieve top honors on the court throughout the ages? A player will always encounter all kinds of powerful opponents on the court. If he doesn’t even have the heart to defeat a strong opponent, how can he achieve a career?

Moyes believes that if Preston wants to do something in this game, Tiger is the focus of the focus. To what extent he can help Preston control the midfield and to what extent he can suppress Bart will be the key to the outcome of this game!

"Defense! Area defense! Keep your position! Strengthen the defense on the left and watch Pobosky! Paul, protect your front of the penalty area, and don't let Scholes easily shoot long shots in the top of the penalty area! For other defenders, defend the penalty area, don't give them too many opportunities! As for the attack, leave it to Tiger as soon as possible, and others will cooperate with him!"

Moyes finished the tactics with the simplest words. He had done what he should say and trained a few days ago. There is no need to say anything nonsense now.

"Everyone thinks that after this game, our mission this season will only be the league... There is no shame, after all, it is not embarrassing to be eliminated by Manchester United... At the same time, we are focused on playing the league, maybe our hope of advancing to the Premier League will be greater... But I never thought of going through the formalities in this game, playing easily for 90 minutes, then smiling and exchanging jerseys with the opponent's stars, then taking a photo, and listening to them say a few hypocritical words like "You are very tenacious". We have no pressure, not at all, and we should not have it. Why? Because it is natural for us to lose, it is not embarrassing to lose to a team that has won four Premier League championships in five years. Premier League teams that are somewhat higher than our level will surrender directly when they meet them, thinking that there is no need to resist, and that it is useless to resist... For such words, I want to say, bullshit!"

Moyes' face flushed because of excitement: "For me, Ferguson is my senior, the object of my pursuit and learning. But should I just need to watch him from the side, his adjustment and command in this game, and be satisfied with learning something? No! On the contrary, I want to direct you to perform better and force him to show more real skills to fight me! This will allow me to learn more! This is the thing that needs to be done the most for me! What about you? Manchester United players are also the object of your pursuit. Do you only need to observe their performance up close, or do you force them to show their real skills to show them?"

"Of course I have to force them!" Preston's players roared together, and they waved their fists and shouted loudly one by one.

"Well said! This is what men should do! As professional players, no matter how powerful the opponent they meet, we must concentrate on playing with them. As long as we do our best, even if we lose in the end, we have a clear conscience! But if we are so scared that we dare not run when we see the other party's name, then we are all cowards! Tell me loudly, do you want to be cowards?"

"Don't want it!" Preston's players continued to roar. Tiger's voice was not the biggest, but his expression was the firmest!

The players of Preston were blushing with excitement, but Tiger's expression was extremely calm, but his eyes were extremely hot!

The strongest opponent so far also ignited Tiger's strongest fighting spirit to date!

At this moment, a voice came from his mind.

"Inspire branch tasks and challenge Nicky Bart, a player ranked 23 in the midfielder list, is a punitive task. Challenge victory can obtain up to 500 training points and 500 skill proficiency points, and you can lose up to 500 training points and 500 skill proficiency points. Rewards and punishments are determined based on the degree of completion of the task. Will the challenger accept it?"

Tiger was stunned for a moment, then said firmly in his heart: "I accept it."

The first branch mission of the season! Challenging mission!

When the players of both sides were waiting to play in the player channel, the substitutes and coaches had already appeared in advance. At this time, Ferguson came over and shook hands with Moyes.

"David, you have trained the team Preston well." Ferguson spoke first as a senior.

"It's far behind Manchester United." Moyes said humbly, but there was a hint of arrogance in his words - you, Ferguson, won the first honorary FA Cup championship after coaching Manchester United for four years. I, David Moyes, will not do worse than you in the future, just give me enough time!

How could a person like Ferguson not be able to hear what Moyes meant? He laughed twice, did not answer, then let go of his hand and walked towards his position.

A king will not be easily angry. His current reputation is piled up with four league champions, three FA Cup champions, one league cup champion, one European Cup winner champion and one European Super Cup champion. Moyes wants to challenge Ferguson and has to use some trophys to prove that he has such qualifications!

Moyes looked at Ferguson's back deeply, then strode back to his position.

When Ferguson returned to his position, the players on the bench were already in place. Ferguson chose the five substitutes in this game, namely goalkeeper Van der Gogh, defender Parist, midfielder Giggs and Beckham and forward Sheringham. It is obvious that Ferguson still had a hand, and there were basically four main players on the bench. If the situation was not very good, there was still room for maneuver.

When he came to the coaching seat, Giggs and Beckham were chatting easily.

"David, I remember you seemed to have played on this team."

He is talking about the second half of the 9495 season. Beckham, who had played four times in Manchester United's first team, took turns to occupy Kancherski and Lee Sharp, so Ferguson loaned him to Preston, where he played five games and scored two goals, one was a direct free kick, and the other was a weird corner kick. Although he didn't play much, Beckham's performance was quite outstanding, which also strengthened Ferguson's idea of ​​sending away Kancherski who was not very obedient and Lee Sharp who was slutty in his private life, and completely straightening Beckham and Giggs to form the golden wings. Facts proved that Ferguson's judgment was quite accurate.

Hearing Giggs ask himself this, a smile appeared on Beckham's handsome and handsome face: "That's right, it was at that time, I was there for half a season... Most of the Preston players on the court were members of the youth team and the reserve team at that time, and now they are starting to play as the main players... That Tiger, I trained with him in the reserve team for a long time at that time."

"How is he?" Giggs asked casually.

"Excellent skills, I can't play the ball like him like a part of my body. I think his ball control ability is probably not much worse than you. However, his body was very weak at that time and almost fell down when he hit, so he couldn't play the main player in Preston. Now, this problem seems to have been solved, and it can be seen in the video given by Mr. Ferguson." Beckham gave a surprise answer to Giggs.

"Is it so outstanding?" Giggs said in disbelief that he has his own arrogance and played as the main player at a young age at Manchester United. It was his sharp breakthrough and excellent skills on the wing. Beckham is actually a player in the League One, not much worse than himself...

"Look at it, Ryan, that kid's skills are really good." Ferguson's voice came slowly from next to him.

When Beckham and Giggs looked at Ferguson in surprise, Ferguson raised his chin: "Concentrate on the game... They have already played!"

At this moment, there were huge cheers on Old Trafford. Although it was just an ordinary League Cup game, Old Trafford, which could accommodate more than 50,000 people, was still full!

This is also one of the factors that Manchester United dominates the Premier League - Old Trafford is the largest stadium in England except Wembley Stadium! This also brings them a lot of income, modern football, money is compared!

Tiger, who walked onto the court with his teammates, made an action. He bent down, stroked the lawn in front of him, then straightened his waist and took a deep breath.

Old Trafford is indeed good, and the lawns are one level higher than Pudell Stadium... But I really didn't come to visit!
Chapter completed!