LOS ANGELES – Popular wisdom often popularizes curses. “Second parts were never good.” But it emerged when it was most needed, where it was least expected, but always when it was most needed.
Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Heaven Red devils, At the Theater of Dreams, where he apparently left pending vigils. He scored the first two goals to tie the win: Manchester United 4-1 Newcastle. Then came the ornaments of Bruno Fernandes and Jesse Lingard.
He fell first and the entire grandstand snorted before him himself: “Síuuuuuuu!”. Two high-pitched lyrics made a serious roar from the choir and the party. This already legendary festive ofidi whistle. “He was born that way, naturally, because I felt it, because the best things are born that way, naturally,” he once explained. CR7 a DAZN.
This one, the first one, reveals to the poacher, stalker. His instinct stood on tiptoe, watching the play, placing him behind the defenses, waiting for the victim to slip. Rejection of archer Freddie Woodman, and the timely punt of Christian. 1-0.
The second is a detachment of Luke Shaw, a perfect line. The usual CR7 and the Olympic motto: “faster, taller and stronger.” Rub the ball, apenitas, to make everyone feel more comfortable, the ball, their own body, and leave a meter behind your dog. Woodman he knew he was in history. The return of the Bug he victimized him twice for a single eternity.
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There were doubts about his arrival in Manchester. On? With who? How? When? Because? Because? For whom?
Ole Gunnar Solksjaer he was the only quiet man in all of Manchester. The rest of this universe was sweating. The coach would reveal that he had slept peacefully the night before the game with Newcastle. Doubts had nightmares by his side.
Understandable in a Norwegian who saw from the cradle how the Sun suffers from insomnia. The star goes to sleep at midnight and gets up a second later. “Night was approaching again, the sun had just sunk into the sea and it rose again, red, refreshed, as if it had gone to drink,” he wrote Knut Hamsun in his work Pa.
Ever since the rumor transmuted in the news, around the arrival of the Portuguese artilleryman, Solksjaer he had already assembled the puzzle. Where others saw a riddle, he already had the answer. What I needed to know about Christian that you didn’t know already?
Go, if even the technician of the Manchester United, By one of these naughty saplings of destiny, was born in the Strait of Cristiano, a town in northwestern Norway: Kristiansund, where it was destined to be one of the then 17,000 inhabitants devoted to the marketing of the cod.
I Solksjaer put backlight on Cristiano Ronaldo in its flowering stage with the Red devils. He saw it from the bench, from the grandstand, and of course, on the court, shoulder to shoulder, for over 40 games. And of course hundreds of workouts.
They could have been more, there had to be more interactions on the court, but a bumpy race, with injuries, raged over the Norwegian, who became the player with the most goals coming from the bench, in the history of club. Solksjaer, For 11 years, scored 29 of his 126 goals coming in relief.
Therefore, not knowing that once born in the Strait of Cristiano (Kristiansund) would have the opportunity to address the Portuguese, he could observe it from all perspectives, from the outside, from all its manifestations. In the locker room, on the court, from the languor of the bench and the ostracism of the grandstand.
Therefore, the reasoning is perfectly necessary: Who can know better a Cristiano Ronaldo than the same Ole Gunnar Solksjaer?
Hence the epiphany of Christian between the Red devils, Arrived on Saturday, in front Newcastle, And so the Norwegian coach was able to sleep like he never could in the eternal days at his native Kristiansund.
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while Solksjaer snoring, Steve Bruce, A rigorous defender in his time as a player, he tried to arm a trench capable of containing a powerful attack, with a new nuclear warhead in his attacks.
And he was not alone Cristiano RonaldoBut it was, especially Cristiano Ronaldo. The artifact was armed, but these damn Manchester United they had to go for the most lethal of weapons available on the market.
He chose a double marking per zone. This required tremendous attention from his players, not just his defenses, but the entire team. Not only did they have to follow the action and action of the team, but also form spontaneous, improvised, emerging societies.
It was a contingency plan different every second for the roster of the Newcastle. It couldn’t be perfect 90 minutes. No footballer is able to withstand such a burden: to analyze the opponent, to be the dog of a player who never stood still on the court, and on top of that he had to improvise with his closest teammate to score that predator. It was like dancing tango with two left feet.
There was one more aggravating factor: the guy in question, is able to recompose. Cristiano Ronaldo read the plan orchestrated against him soon. And he left the area. In full onslaught of his team, he was driving in three-quarters of the track. The dam had jumped off the hunting line.
This generated uncertainty, distraction. Who was to follow Christian to these lands, when the restless, happy, and terrible Mason Greenwood appeared with very similar explosiveness, Bruno Fernandes, Paul Pogba and jadon Sancho?
The perfect blackboard from the technician Steve Bruce he crumbled, in the face of the improvisations of CR7, Who dragged a couple of players and opened pages to the front.
It was clear that there was still aphonia and disharmony among the players of the Manchester United. Suddenly, Cristiano Ronaldo he was no longer in the area, but beside him, inviting him to penetrate here Greenwood O Sancho O Pogba O Fernandes, Leaving as a discovered reference in Saint-Maximin.
2-1, the two with their signature “Yesuuuuuu!”, And it didn’t stop moving. And yes, the bewilderment was not only of the rival, but of his comrades. All of a sudden, the reference as the second in the area, he became another partner, who gave him the courtesy to take his place in the area, while he had already cleaned the entrance checkpoint.
Christian confirmed that he was not the only one who was wrong in Juve, but in the you they were wrong along with him. There was no need for them to play for him, but only for them to agree to play with him.
Other types of synods will come. This Tuesday the Young Boys await them in the Champions League, and then two matches against West Ham, one in the League and another in the Cup. And, yes, the confrontation you expect will be on November 6, at the Manchester Derby and the Citizens of Pep Guardiola.
At first glance, he seemed right Ole Gunnar Solksjaer. What I needed to know about Cristiano Ronaldo that you didn’t know already? The native of the Strait of Cristiano, sees a wide horizon of eternal dawns, but placid nights.