He has the height, the confrontation and the skills.

Berbatov's dribbling, breakthroughs, passing and shooting are all very entertaining and artistic, as elegant as a feast of art. When watching Berbatov play football, you rarely see rough confrontations, and the entire screen is filled with the elegance of a classical vampire duke.

The legendary first generation vampire, Duke Dracula, was from the area around Romania and Bulgaria.

Therefore, Berbatov, who has a handsome appearance and elegant movements, is also known as the Vampire Duke.

Berbatov likes to watch "The Godfather" very much. His hairstyle and behavior are also deliberately imitated from the Godfather, with a big backcombed hair.

Berbatov has a natural athletic gene.

Berbatov's whole family are national-level athletes. His grandfather Dimitar Berbatov Sr. played for the national team when he was young. His father Ivan Berbatov is also a left back in a professional club and has played for the Sofia Army Team. Berbatov's mother Margarita is a female handball player.

Possessing such good athletic genes also gives the Vampire Duke Berbatov the foundation to be able to be cool on the court.

Influenced by his family, Berbatov has loved playing football since he was a child.

When Berbatov was a teenager, Bulgaria's economy was in a period of collapse. A large family of national-level athletes faced the problem of not having enough food. Berbatov had to line up early after school to receive relief bread.

The first thing Berbatov did after eating the bread was to practice playing football.

At that time, their family was so poor that they couldn't even afford a football, let alone go to a regular training ground to play football.

Berbatov used the peeling basketball he picked up as a football and the abandoned cradle at home as a hoop to practice.

The family soon discovered Berbatov's talent for playing football, so the whole family would rather tighten their belts to support the young Berbatov in playing football.

Playing football is also the only ideal of Dimitar Berbatov.

Berbatov's idol at the time was Van Basten during his AC Milan period. AC Milan was at its peak at the time. Berbatov didn't have a TV at home, and all he knew about AC Milan and Van Basten was through newspapers.

Later, Berbatov became a professional player and saw Alan Shearer's wonderful performance on the court. He began to admire Alan Shearer. At that time, Alan Shearer was already playing for Newcastle United. Berbatov would watch every game of Alan Shearer. This also deepened Berbatov's idea of ​​playing in the Premier League.

Like his father, Berbatov's football career also started with Pirin. It was not until 1998 that he was discovered by the legendary Bulgarian coach and scout Mittal Penev, who invited Berbatov to join the Sofia Army Football Club, where his father also played.

When playing for Sofia Army, Berbatov showed his strong offensive ability.

Although Berbatov admired Van Basten and Alan Shearer very much, he did not blindly imitate their playing styles, but was able to develop his own style very early on.

In the tactical atmosphere of continental European football system that requires the entire field to run synchronously, Berbatov is able to stand out. He rarely makes unnecessary runs, but suddenly starts at the critical moment, like a vampire suddenly appearing after locking onto a target, breaking into the penalty area, and then completing a difficult shot.

Berbatov's movements are elegant and his shooting skills are gorgeous.

There are things like overhead kicks, lob shots, super long shots and so on.

Berbatov's personality trait is that if the goal is not cool and beautiful enough, he will never celebrate.

After a game, other players are often sweaty and dirty, but Berbatov always has a neat hairstyle and not a drop of sweat.

Because he rarely ran on the field, Manchester United fans disliked him very much when Berbatov first joined Manchester United.

After all, Manchester United's style is to fight hard, but Berbatov looks lazy.

However, after a season, Berbatov won the Golden Boot Award in the Premier League scorer list with his extremely high efficiency, which really surprised the Red Devils fans.

Only then did the fans realize that football could be played this way.

In the previous FA Cup match between Manchester United and Southampton, Ferguson did not let Berbatov play, but in today's revenge match of Manchester United, Berbatov directly appeared in the starting lineup and partnered with Lukaku.

There is no need to say much about Rooney. Ever since losing the FA Cup last time, Rooney has been holding his breath. In today's game, he must go all out to stop Gu Ran and deliver ammunition to Berbatov.

Manchester United's starting four midfielders were: Giggs, Carrick, Park Ji-sung and Nani.

Manchester United's soul, ginger-headed Scholes, has retired.

Fletcher and Valencia sat on the bench.

Ferguson also wanted to use the defensive midfielder combination of Carrick and Park Ji-sung to limit Gu Ran's forward runs.

The two flanks are still played by Giggs and Nani.

Manchester United's starting four defenders were: Evra, Rio Ferdinand, Vidic, and Hargreaves.

What is different from the last match is that the right back was replaced by the experienced Owen Hargreaves instead of the young Fabio, which also demonstrated Ferguson's determination to win the Community Shield.

The goalkeeper is still the goalkeeper-type goalkeeper Van der Sar.

This lineup is also the lineup that Manchester United will use in the Champions League final against Barcelona, ​​which shows how much importance Manchester United attaches to this game.

On the Southampton side, the changes in the starting lineup are greater than those of Manchester United.

In today's game, Southampton's formation is still the 4231 formation that they were familiar with last season.

New player Salah joined as the lone striker and made his debut.

The three forwards are Chamberlain, Lallana and Henderson.

Mane, Sturridge and Schneiderlin sat on the bench.

The two defensive midfielders continued to be Gu Ran and Mikel.

The four defenders are young Luke Shaw, Jaidi, Rudiger and Van Dijk.

The goalkeeper is still Davis, a solid player from Old City.

Judging from this starting lineup, the biggest change is in the back line.

Of the four defenders, except Jaidi, the other three were replaced by new players.

Luke Shaw plays as left back, Van Dijk plays as right back, and Rudiger and Jaidi play as central defenders.

When Southampton fans saw these unfamiliar and young faces, they couldn't help but feel a little worried.

Manchester United coach Ferguson also looked confused.

He had just analyzed and deployed the old players of the Southampton team, and as a result, the Southampton team underwent a major change.

Beep! With the whistle of the head coach on duty, the Community Shield officially begins! (End of this chapter)