Surprise about Vietnam's ambition at King's Cup; Interesting things when Ronaldo tore Ajax's net

Surprise about Vietnam National Team's ambition at King's Cup 2019

This is a tournament that is scored by FIFA, coach Park Hang-seo has made preparations by continuously inspecting matches in V.League to look for new factors.

However, according to Thai media, "The Vietnam national team will participate in the 47th King's Cup. They will bring to Thailand the strongest force available, because the King's Cup falls on FIFA Day. The results of the matches will affect Vietnam's ranking on the FIFA rankings. However, they do not set a goal of winning, and are not even interested in winning the King's Cup. Because the 'Golden Dragons' only consider the King's Cup as a place to test tactics and squads before the World Cup qualifiers," Siam Sport wrote.

In a recent development, FAT confirmed that Curacao has agreed to participate in the King's Cup 2019. Thus, they will most likely be the opponent in the first semi-final match of Vietnam. Curacao is currently ranked 82nd in the FIFA rankings. Although it is a relatively young team, Curacao has also risen to 68th in the FIFA rankings in July 2017.

Ronaldo makes Arsenal, PSG, and Man City sad

With a header that scored against Ajax to help Juventus hold the Dutch representative to a 1-1 draw away from home in the first leg of the 2018/19 Champions League quarter-finals, striker Cristiano Ronaldo made a series of famous clubs such as Arsenal, Man City and Paris Saint Germain sad.

According to statistics, the recent goal is CR7's 125th in Europe's most prestigious club tournament. He currently has more than the second person in the list of greatest scorers in the Champions League.lBarcelona striker Lionel Messi has 17 goals.

Ronaldo scored 63 goals in the Champions League knockout round alone. This is an extremely impressive achievement when you consider that the number of goals scored by Arsenal, PSG, Man City and Tottenham after the Champions League group stage only reached 50, 34, 30 and 18 respectively.

The latest goal against Ajax also helped the Portuguese superstar surpass Messi to become the player who has scored the most goals against the Dutch capital representative (8 times).

Despite being "torn apart" by Ronaldo so many times, Ajax is only the third favorite "prey" of the former MU star. Interestingly, leading the list of Ronaldo's most pitiful victims is Juventus, the team he is playing for (CR7 punctured the net 10 times). Right after Juve and 1 place above Ajax is Bayern Munich (Ronaldo scored 9 goals against the Gray Tigers).

Messi almost broke his nose after Smalling's dangerous hit

Lionel Messi had a bloody nose after Chris Smalling's tricky arm swing when the two were fighting for the ball at the end of the first half of the MU vs Barca match.

Taking on the task of "deadly marking" Messi, Smalling continuously had situations where he approached and prevented the Argentine star from attacking.

In the 30th minute, in a very quick fight, the English midfielder rushed forward to make an accurate block. However, Smalling's arm swung into Messi's face, forcing the Barcelona striker to the ground.

The match was interrupted for a few minutes when medical staff had to enter the field to take care of Messi. Although his nose was bleeding heavily, he was still able to continue playing.

Although he did not play as well as expected, striker number 10 still left his mark with a delicate pass for Suarez to head the ball, the ball lightly touched Shaw and went into the net.

Man Utd have scored the second most own goals in the Champions League era

Luke Shaw's own goal yesterday was the 8th time Man Utd "shot themselves in the foot" in Europe's number one playground.

The two players with the most own goals in Man Utd's Champions League history are Wes Brown and Phil Jones - two each.

In the same situation as them are Barca and Real. Ivan Helguera, Sergio Ramos (Real) and Gerard Pique (Barca) all scored two own goals. Sporting Lisbon, with 9 times, is the team with the most own goals in the Champions League.

The ball hit Shaw's shoulder (number 23) after Suarez's header and was counted as an own goal by the English defender. Photo:Reuters.

In the 2018-2019 season alone, Man Utd scored the most own goals. Phil Jones scored an own goal in the group stage, in a 1-2 loss to Valencia. In the first leg of the quarter-finals against Barca at Old Trafford yesterday, Luke Shaw was the second.

The teams that benefited the most from own goals, including the Champions League stage, were Barca, Chelsea and Real. Each team had 14 goals thanks to opponents' own goals. The Nou Camp team alone holds the record for the most (five) in a single season (2017-2018).

MU asked to buy Kalidou Koulibaly for a record price of 105 million euros

Corriere dello Sport reported that Manchester United offered to buy Kalidou Koulibaly for a record price: 105 million euros (equivalent to 90 million pounds).

MU is reportedly ready to break the record to buy Koulibaly, and has offered Napoli 105 million euros.

According to the above source, the offer was made by MU to Napoli last month and is still on the negotiating table. This is not the first time the Red Devils have asked to buy Koulibaly.

Earlier this season, Napoli President Aurelio de Laurentiis said he had turned down an attractive offer for Koulibaly in the summer of 2019.

If the information is correct, MU will break the world transfer record for a defender, currently held by Liverpool with the Van Dijk deal for 75 million pounds.

Paul Pogba negotiated to sign for Real Madrid

Expert Eduardo Inda claims on El Chiringuito de Jugones, Paul Pogba is in direct negotiations with Real Madrid.

Pogba has told Solskjaer he wants to go to Real Madrid

The reason was revealed: because the agent - big broker Mino Raiola has a bad relationship with Real Madrid President, Florentino Perez. Therefore, the MU midfielder directly negotiated a contract to play at Bernabeu next season.

"Paul Pogba is working with Real Madrid. He is negotiating on his own because he knows that Real Madrid's board has a "feud" with his agent, Mino Raiola".

This expert affirmed: "Pogba has let Solskjaer (MU head coach) know that he wants to leave Old Trafford. MU has offered to raise Pogba's salary by 500,000 pounds/week but the midfielder still wants to leave and the signing with Real Madrid is almost complete. The exact transfer fee Real paid to MU is 150 million euros".

Pogba is a player that Solskjaer really wants to keep and in his latest statement, the former Norwegian player still believes the world champion will stay with MU.