Chapter 0180 Lessons
Between the last international match day and the next international match day, Manchester United will usher in a devil schedule. The Red Devils, who play in the third line of the Premier League, Champions League and League Cup, will play 7 games in 22 days, and the whole weekly double game. The Manchester City derby against Manchester City is exactly the first one.
After defeating the powerful city enemy, good news came from Wales a day later, Swansea tied Chelsea 2:2 at home.
In this way, after three rounds of entanglement, Manchester City and Chelsea finally failed to bite Manchester United, and Manchester United got the opportunity to lead the standings alone.
However, the next schedule will be a huge test for Manchester United, because they will usher in three consecutive away games. On the evening of the 14th local time, they will visit Belgium and challenge the Belgian giants Bruges.
For Manchester United, this team, second only to Anderlecht in its historical record compared to the A-level, is very unfamiliar, because the two sides have no record of playing against the main game.
However, for the strong Manchester United, this is nothing, because other factors are not decisive in the face of absolute strength advantages.
Because he only fought with Manchester City for 90 minutes last weekend, this led to the physical condition of Manchester United's main lineup. Ye Su made a comprehensive adjustment to Manchester United's starting lineup. In the game against Manchester City, the 11 players who started either stayed at the Carrington base to recover or sat on the bench. The 11 players who started all did not start in the Manchester City derby.
Goalkeeper Romero, defense line Ashley Young, Culibaly, Smalling and Valencia, Fellaini and Phil Jones partnered with the midfielder, Bruno Fernandez served as the midfielder, Martial, Harry Kane and Rashford formed the forward line trident.
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This game was the first appearance of the Champions League by the magical boy Rashford and it was the starter. Ye Su couldn't understand his intention to push him to become this year's Golden Boy Award.
Rashford is indeed very powerful, helping Manchester United break through the home team Bruges goal in the 5th minute.
Manchester United throws the ball into the penalty area, and Bruges goalkeeper Butler and the defender fail to clear the ball. Rashford sweeps the ball into the empty goal, 0:1!
Rashford scored a goal shortly after his debut in the Champions League, and Rashford made a good start for his Champions League experience.
Manchester United, who had a fantastic start, did not give Bruges a chance and scored consecutive goals.
In the 27th minute, Simmons knocked down Martial in the backcourt, and the referee showed the first yellow card in the game, and at the same time awarded Manchester United a free kick with an excellent position.
Because free kick masters including Rooney, Mata, and De Bruyne are not present, Bruno Fernandez is Manchester United's first penalty kick in this game. He directly attacked the free kick from 24 yards, the ball flew into the upper left corner of the goal, and the score on the field became 0:2!
At the end of the first half, the Red Devils and Manchester United led by two goals away.
After the change of sides, the lagging home team took the lead in launching the offensive, hoping to score. However, facing the extremely fast Manchester United midfielder, Bruges, who had full attack, quickly tasted the bitter fruit.
In the 61st minute, Manchester United stole the ball in the backcourt and then launched a high-quality quick counterattack. Martial broke into Bruges' penalty area alone, and Bruges goalkeeper Butler threw down Martial with an attack. The referee was sentenced to death. While giving Butler a yellow card, he also awarded Manchester United a penalty.
Bruno Fernandez scored a penalty kick, and the score on the field was rewritten to 0:3 again!
This is the first time that the Portuguese midfielder has scored twice in the Champions League! He has previously scored twice in the UEFA Cup, which was the third round of the UEFA Cup group stage two years ago, when Manchester United played against Tripolis at home.
At the end of the game, Manchester United finally defeated Bruges 3-0 away, leading the Group G standings.
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Back in the Premier League, Manchester United is away from Watford. Manchester United's main lineup, which was resting in the Champions League in the middle of the week, played against the Premier League Hornets. A simple game originally planned by Ye Su turned into a tough battle.
Watford performed well last season. As a newly promoted team, they finally ranked 13th in the Premier League and easily relegated. In the first 4 rounds of this season, they ranked 10th in the Premier League with 1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses.
However, with the strength of such a mid- and lower-level Premier League team, it is difficult to compare with Manchester United, which is the main players. However, football games are always full of mystery. The Hornets stung Manchester United, almost allowing Ye Su to taste the taste of the first defeat in the new season early.
At the Vicarag Road Stadium, everything initially looked like Ye Su's expected situation developed.
In the 10th minute of the game, Valdy's cooperation with Mata on the left caused Watford's foul, and even gave Watford players a yellow card, while Manchester United got a chance to set the ball in the frontcourt.
Mata took the penalty of this set ball and hung the ball into the penalty area. Watford defender Proldo, who was originally targeting Rooney, actually missed a person. Rooney quickly stepped in and grabbed the landing point, headed the ball from close range, opening the first record for Manchester United.
15 minutes later, Manchester United scored another goal, and this time Ibrahimovic scored. He jumped the ball almost like a juggling ball in the small penalty area, and then easily scored the ball.
In less than half an hour of the game, Manchester United had already led two goals, and Manchester United players seemed to see the five consecutive wins in the Premier League season opening, waving to them.
The goal-scoring hero Ibrahimovic quickly rushed to the sidelines, celebrating constantly, cheering for his goal.
Manchester United players rushed to Ibrahimovic, celebrating unscrupulously at the fans and cameras.
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Just when Manchester United were excited, the situation suddenly changed.
In the 34th minute, Watford passed the free kick in the penalty area, and was cleared by Manchester United players at the first point. Vardy took the ball from the left, Britos robbed and collided with Vardy and both fell to the ground. Janmat got the ball, and made a strong breakthrough into the triangle and returned to the middle. Capué inserted it, and the shot near the penalty point scored, and Watford scored a goal!
Manchester United were very angry about Watford's goal, because Bristol made an obvious foul on the snatch, and the referee should stop the game, and then it was impossible for this goal to happen.
When the Watford team celebrated the goal, Ye Su was complaining to the fourth official. However, this was destined to have no result. In the era without VAR, such a goal could not be regained.
What made Ye Su even more angry was that Vardy soon could not hold on to the game due to injury and made a substitution gesture. Ye Su secretly greeted the eighteen generations of ancestors who were on duty at home, and had no choice but to replace Vardy with Rashford.
At the end of the first half, Manchester United took the lead 2:1.
After the second half began, Manchester United quickly expanded their lead to two goals again.
In the 62nd minute, Manchester United midfielder intercepted and passed by Ibrahimovic on the left. Ibrahimovic made a strong breakthrough in front of the goal. The ball hit Britos' shoulder. Rashford shot from close range.
Manchester United 3:1 Watford!
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If the two goals leading in the first half of the first half has not completely relaxed, then the goal at this time will completely relieve the Manchester United players on the field.
With less than half an hour left in the whole game, Watford cannot be a big deal!
But what happened next made the proud Manchester United players taste what bitterness is.
In the 83rd minute, Amrabat took the ball from the right and cut in, passing it diagonally to Pereira who was inserted. Pereira made a backward triangle from the bottom and passed back in the middle. Suniga followed up and shot and scored the ball. Watford completely tied the score to 2:3.
Seeing the equalizing hope, the Watford people immediately launched a crazy attack. The Premier League Hornets were already playing football wildly. At this moment, they were like they were red-eyed and snatching Manchester United players. From time to time, people on the court were overturned, and the referee's whistle sounded frequently.
Seeing that the situation was wrong, Ye Su began to adjust personnel, replaced Mata with Fellaini, strengthened defense, and replaced Rooney, whose physical fitness was about to be exhausted, hoping to maintain the lead until the end of the game.
However, Ye Su's idea failed in the end because Manchester United made a stupid mistake at the last moment.
In the 93rd minute, Fellaini made a foul in the penalty area, Suniga won a penalty, Dini scored a shot in one go, Watford 3:3 Manchester United!
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Rooney sat on the bench, covered his mouth, and looked at the stadium in disbelief. He saw with his own eyes how his teammates who had just become very confident were beaten to the ground by these grassroots from Watford in just over a dozen minutes.
For Watford players who are completely unreasonable with Manchester United players, they really look like a group of madmen. They keep hitting Manchester United players with their bodies, knocking these valuable gentlemen to the muddy ground that has been trampled, and then snatching the ball and launching an attack on Manchester United's goal.
Ye Su stood in the coaching command area and looked at the stadium in a daze.
He could clearly feel that the Manchester United player who was just overwhelmed with confidence had been completely defeated in the last ten minutes.
Ye Su thought of a sentence when he beat the master to death by random punches.
He should have realized this danger early. He should have decisively changed his tactics after Vardy was injured in the first half, and at the same time, he should be mentally prepared to fight with this group of bandits.
But he didn't.
But now it is obviously not the time to denounce the opponent's lack of moral integrity and hold him accountable. The most important thing now is how to stop the decline, not just this battle tonight, but also the next game.
Because Ye Su could imagine that after seeing Watford's way to deal with Manchester United, other teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League will definitely follow suit and use this unreasonable tough confrontation to deal with Manchester United.
This Manchester United team has been going well in the past two years, and the players have been too comfortable, and they even forgot that they are in the Premier League, which pays great attention to physical confrontation.
However, it is also good to let these proud Manchester United players have a long memory and always remember it in their hearts. This is a fierce Premier League, a muscle jungle-like Premier League. Manchester United can stand at the top of the Premier League, which is never just a technical and tactical advantage or a care of the referee, but a bloody nature of daring to face all challenges and daring to confront any harsh game environment.
The season has just begun, and the next schedule is still very long. The lost 2 points is not a big deal, not to mention that they are still in the lead now.
In this round of the game, Chelsea, the Blues who were at Stamford Bridge Stadium, lost the game. They were defeated 2-1 by Uncle Slag's Liverpool, and Conte suffered his first defeat since he entered the Premier League.
In this way, they were still 3 points behind Manchester United, who was tied.
However, Guardiola quickly adjusted after losing to Ye Su and led the team to sweep Bournemouth 4-0 at the Etihad Stadium, and bit Manchester United tightly with one point difference.
For Watford players who are completely unreasonable with Manchester United players, they really look like a group of madmen. They keep hitting Manchester United players with their bodies, knocking these valuable gentlemen to the muddy ground that has been trampled, and then snatching the ball and launching an attack on Manchester United's goal.
Ye Su stood in the coaching command area and looked at the stadium in a daze.
He could clearly feel that the Manchester United player who was just overwhelmed with confidence had been completely defeated in the last ten minutes.
Ye Su thought of a sentence when he beat the master to death by random punches.
He should have realized this danger early. He should have decisively changed his tactics after Vardy was injured in the first half, and at the same time, he should be mentally prepared to fight with this group of bandits.
But he didn't.
But now it is obviously not the time to denounce the opponent's lack of moral integrity and hold him accountable. The most important thing now is how to stop the decline, not just this battle tonight, but also the next game.
Because Ye Su could imagine that after seeing Watford's way to deal with Manchester United, other teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League will definitely follow suit and use this unreasonable tough confrontation to deal with Manchester United.
This Manchester United team has been going well in the past two years, and the players have been too comfortable, and they even forgot that they are in the Premier League, which pays great attention to physical confrontation.
However, it is also good to let these proud Manchester United players have a long memory and always remember it in their hearts. This is a fierce Premier League, a muscle jungle-like Premier League. Manchester United can stand at the top of the Premier League, which is never just a technical and tactical advantage or a care of the referee, but a bloody nature of daring to face all challenges and daring to confront any harsh game environment.
The season has just begun, and the next schedule is still very long. The lost 2 points is not a big deal, not to mention that they are still in the lead now.
In this round of the game, Chelsea, the Blues who were at Stamford Bridge Stadium, lost the game. They were defeated 2-1 by Uncle Slag's Liverpool, and Conte suffered his first defeat since he entered the Premier League.
In this way, they were still 3 points behind Manchester United, who was tied.
However, Guardiola quickly adjusted after losing to Ye Su and led the team to sweep Bournemouth 4-0 at the Etihad Stadium, and bit Manchester United tightly with one point difference.
Chapter completed!