Thursday, December 23, 2021

Ruud Van Nistelrooy The Premier League Days


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After winning the Eredivisie Golden Boot for two years running, Ruud van Nistelrooy seemed set to move to Manchester ahead of the 2000-01 season. His prolific goalscoring capturing the attention of Sir Alex Ferguson, who was attempting to rebuild his Premier League champions due to their inability to add to 1999’s Champions League triumph. However, knee problems in April of that year eventually caused the proposed move to collapse. The player suffered a serious knee ligament injury in training, seemingly putting his dreams of playing in the Premier League in serious doubt. Ferguson and United were still keen despite this setback and signed him a year later, for a then-record British transfer fee of £18.5 million. United’s top scorer in 2000-01, the veteran Teddy Sheringham, was offloaded to Spurs, and it looked like van Nistelrooy was set to become the main man for United rather than United relying upon their famous quartet of strikers in rotation.


It didn’t take long for van Nistelrooy to endear himself to the Stretford End faithful. Against newly promoted Fulham, he became the first Manchester United player to score twice on debut in the Premier League. James Wilson and Marcus Rashford are the only others to have done this for the club since. The Dutch striker hit the ground running in his debut season, scoring 23 times in 32 appearances. Only three players in Premier League history – ironically one of them being the man who he effectively replaced, Andrew Cole – have had a better debut season in the Premier League than that. Incredibly, given the club’s dominance of the 1990s, van Nistelrooy was the first United player to score more than 20 goals in a Premier League season, as well becoming the club’s first player to score 10 European goals in a single campaign, and the PFA Players’ Player of the Year followed.


The peak of his first season at United came during the winter as he became the first Premier League player to score in eight consecutive matches. Not content with this, van Nistelrooy bettered this record the following season, scoring in 10 successive games to help United on their way to the league title. No other player would score in eight consecutive appearances in the competition until Daniel Sturridge did so in 2013-14, before Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy broke the Dutchman’s record in 2015, famously and cruelly scoring against Manchester United in the 11th match of the run. The second of van Nistelrooy’s great scoring runs in the Premier League was kickstarted by a hat trick against Fulham in March 2003, where he scored arguably his most memorable goal in his English top-flight career by running the entire half against the Cottagers before neatly finishing past Maik Taylor. For a player renowned for tap-ins from close range, he demonstrated here that movement, even over a long distance, was a key aspect of his play.


With Andrew Cole and Dwight Yorke both offloaded to Blackburn Rovers in 2002, van Nistelrooy was the out-and-out leading man for United, and as such the tactic was to feed him to score. Twenty-four different players created league goals for him over the five seasons he was at the club, with Ryan Giggs the key contributor with 13 assists and David Beckham next on five. Giggs assisted only one player more often in his Premier League career: Andrew Cole the recipient of 14 of the Welshman’s assists. In his second campaign in England, van Nistelrooy claimed the Golden Boot with 25 goals to become the second United player to win the award after Dwight Yorke in 1998-99. He scored 44 times in all competitions that season, with 14 goals in European competition, four in the FA Cup and one more in the League Cup adding to his 25 league goals. This is still a record by a player for a Premier League club within a single season, one that he now shares with Mohamed Salah following his 44 goals for Liverpool in 2017-18. This was, though, the only season in which the Manchester United striker would outscore Arsenal’s star man Thierry Henry, as United secured the Premier League title. Van Nistelrooy scored 13 times in the final eight matches to swing the pendulum in United’s direction.


In his five years in the Premier League, van Nistelrooy scored 95 times at a rate of 128 minutes per goal, but this was 35 goals fewer than Henry (at 116 minutes per goal), largely due to an injury-hit 2004-05 where the Dutchman scored six goals in 17 games. As seen from the goal tallies over the period, the duo were undoubtedly the two best strikers in the league at the time, with Alan Shearer finishing his career with a respectable 79 goals in his final five seasons. Yet van Nistelrooy did provide moments towards the tail end of his United career where he proved he was still vital, with two runs in 2005 of five consecutive Premier League appearances with a goal, as well as a four-goal Champions League game against Sparta Prague. He also signed off with winning goals against West Ham and Bolton.Overall, van Nistelrooy’s tenure in the Premier League is remembered fondly by Manchester United supporters, the man who when bearing down on goal would often bury the chance. He managed five hat tricks in his first 73 Premier League games, with only one Premier League player having as many in his first 100. He will be remembered as one of the deadliest marksmen in Premier League history. Van Nistelrooy came alive in the box – only one of his 95 goals in the competition came from outside the penalty area, in November 2005 vs. Charlton Athletic. Sergio Agüero’s upcoming departure from Manchester City has reignited the debate about who the Premier League’s greatest striker is. Ruud van Nistelrooy is rarely considered because he simply didn’t play in the division for long enough but as five-season cameos go, it’s hard to look past the galloping Dutchman in his pomp. 



Pays-Bas, Angleterre, Espagne. Trois pays, trois championnats dans lesquels Rutgerus Johannes Martinus van Nistelrooij, dit "Ruud van Nistelrooy" a été sacré meilleur buteur. Une performance qui impose le respect, surtout pour un milieu de terrain de formation. Retour sur la trajectoire d'un chien fou devenu renard des surfaces. C’est dans sa ville natale d'Oss que le jeune Ruud débute, dans les équipes juniors. 


Réputé pour son abnégation et sa vitesse - malgré sa grande taille (1,88 m) - le Néerlandais décroche un contrat professionnel au FC Den Bosch qui le mène en 1997 au SC Heerenveen. Il ne faut ensuite qu'une saison au rugueux milieu de terrain pour taper dans l'oeil du PSV Eindhoven. Car van Nistelrooy n'a pas toujours été attaquant. Il doit son repositionnement à son entraîneur à Heerenveen, Foppe de Haan. Surles conseils de son coach, "RVN" décortique des séquences de la référence néerlandaise de l'époque, Dennis Bergkamp. Résultat, treize buts et un transfert au PSV, où ses performances se révèlent encore meilleures.


Pour sa première saison à Eindhoven, Ruud plante 31 banderilles en 34 rencontres ! Meilleur buteur du championnat au terme de l'exercice, il renouvelle sa performance la saison suivante, avec 29 réalisations cette fois. La machine à buts est lancée et les gros d'Europe sont déjà sur les rangs. Manchester United est alors à deux doigts de conclure le deal, ou plutôt à un genou, avant la tuile. an Nistelrooy ne peut éviter l'étape "rupture des ligaments croisés", hantise de tout footballeur professionnel. Mais Sir Alex Ferguson n'en démord pas, il veut son attaquant et attend l'année suivante pour enfin le signer, en 2001, contre 19 millions d'euros. L'Angleterre découvre un véritable renard des surfaces, jamais rassasié. En cinq ans, Ruud dispute près de 220 rencontres, inscrit 150 buts et rafle tout sur le plan national.


Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, Community Shield, la besace du striker se remplit à vitesse grand V sauf sur la scène européenne en dépit d'un titre de meilleur buteur de la Ligue des Champions en 2002. Pour réaliser ses rêves autant que pour fuir quelques problèmes à MU, il s'engage avec le Real Madrid en 2006. Référence mondiale à son poste, il arrive sur le toit du monde. Les Merengue mettent 15 M€ sur la table pour attirer leur grand attaquant. Ils ne vont pas être déçus. Comme il en a pris l'habitude, van Nistelrooy est couronné meilleur buteur du championnat au terme de sa première saison. En quatre ans, il franchit la barre des 60 buts en tutoyant celle des 100 matchs avec le Real. Mais en 2009, Florentino Pérez frappe un grand coup sur le marché des transferts : Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaká, et Karim Benzema s'ajoutent au déjà talentueux Gonzalo Higuaín. Trop de concurrence pour l'Oranje qui file à Hambourg. Douze mois seulement. Après une dernière pige à Málaga, il met un terme à une carrière bien remplie en 2012. En vingt ans, le grand Ruud aura marqué l'histoire de son poste et en aura rempli pleinement les critères. Utile pour l'équipe, efficace, attaquant.
















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