0195 Copenhagen
In the first match in November, Manchester United flew to Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, the peninsula country along the Baltic Sea, ushering in the fourth round of the Champions League group stage.
After the first three rounds of Group G, Manchester United stood out in the standings, leading Copenhagen and Porto in second and third place by 5 points.
Therefore, in this case, Manchester United has the hope to qualify two rounds ahead of schedule after the end of this round of group stage.
One is that Manchester United beat Copenhagen away. No matter what the result is Porto and Bruges play, with only two rounds left in the group stage, Manchester United, with 12 points, will have at least 8 more points than Copenhagen and Bruges, directly locking in the group qualifying qualification.
Even if Manchester United cannot win Copenhagen away, as long as they do not lose, Manchester United still has the hope of locking in the group qualification in advance, such as Porto's unexpected loss to Bruges?
Of course, this depends on the opponent's expression. For Manchester United, the best way is to defeat Copenhagen away and directly lock in the group qualification.
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Manchester United's match was the second match day of the fourth round of the Champions League group stage. On the first match day of Tuesday night local time in Europe, eight matches of ABCD's four groups have been held. As a result, four teams have advanced to the knockout round ahead of schedule, namely Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain in Group A, and Copenhagen and Bayern in Group D.
Arsenal and Paris, Group A, tied 1:1 at the Princes Stadium in the first round, both won three consecutive victories and crossed the line. Arsenal has qualified in the group for 17 consecutive seasons.
In fact, Arsenal experienced a hard battle. Facing Ludogorec, they conceded two goals in the first 15 minutes, but then Zaka and Giroud helped the team equalize the score, and Goldfish Eye staged a picturesque finale.
Judging from his performance in the first four rounds of the group stage, Goldfish Eye is the biggest contributor to the team's qualifying. The German scored 4 goals and assists twice in the group stage this season, and his total number of goals in the Champions League in the past four seasons is only 4.
In four group matches, Arsenal opened fire with all his energy, scoring 12 goals and conceding 3 goals, and his overall performance was very strong.
Paris's performance is remarkable. After defeating Basel 2:1, the Ligue 1 champion also secured a spot in the top 16. This summer's new aid Munier helped Paris win a finals against Basel. However, the heroes of PSG's promotion include Cavani. The Uruguayan scored 4 goals in four group matches, second only to Messi who scored 7 goals, tied for the second place in the scorer list with Lewandowski, Goldfish Eye and others.
Although PSG has a difficult step in Ligue 1 and the start is very average, with a record of 3 wins and 1 draw, they entered the round of 16. In the next round, Paris and Arsenal will have a direct conversation, which will also determine who can win the first place in the group.
Copenhagen in Group D won 12 points after 4 consecutive victories, and the only team in the Champions League victory in the season was the only team in the second place in the group, Bayern scored 9 points, and they qualified with the Bedsan Army.
Copenhagen is the only team in the top 32. Except Manchester United in the first three rounds of group stages, and now he also won the fourth round, becoming the first team to win four consecutive wins in the group stage, thanks to Simeone's strategy.
In these four games, the Bedding Legion showed very strong aggressiveness and the high-pressure pressing style was very successful. With two goals from Griezmann, Paris defeated Rostov again in the 4th round, and advanced with 12 points.
Griezmann scored 2 goals in the group stage, and Copenhagen's number one hero was actually Carrasco. In the second round of the group stage, Carrasco completed the final victory, and in the third round of the group stage, facing Rostov was also his shot to ensure Copenhagen won.
In fact, in the first four rounds, Copenhagen only scored 5 goals, but it has become the only team with a complete victory record among the four teams that have qualified early. The control over the game is the key to their qualifying.
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Today, on the second game day, there are still many teams that have the hope of qualifying in advance, and Manchester United is one of them, and even the most likely team to advance in advance.
Manchester United wanted to defeat Danish squad at Tria Park Stadium and advance two rounds ahead of schedule, but Copenhagen did not take the initiative to surrender and give 3 points. They even wanted to compete with Manchester United with their home advantage, proving that Copenhagen is not a salted fish, but can beat Porto and rank second in Group G.
Of course, Copenhagen has such courage because in the third round they were visiting the world-famous Devil's Home Dream Theater and lost only 0:2, which made the Danes feel that they have the strength to compete with Manchester United after returning to home.
However, when the game really started, Copenhagen discovered that the Manchester United team he met today was not the same team as Manchester United two weeks ago!
Two weeks ago, because Manchester United and Copenhagen's third round of the Champions League group stage were just apart between Manchester United's Double Red Club, and the strong dialogue between home and away from Stamford Bridge and Chelsea, Ye Su sent a rotation lineup to play. Today, on the one hand, the Premier League opponents were not strong in the first two weekends, and Ye Su wanted to determine the qualification to advance to the knockout stage in a few days, so he sent all the main players to play.
Although the players in Manchester United's rotation lineup were all big stars who dominate the world football world a few years later, they are still young after all, and their combat effectiveness is still much worse than Manchester United's main lineup.
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The home team, who kicked the ball first, did not want to take advantage of the kick-off time to press the ball to attack, and they were caught off guard by Manchester United. They kept passing the ball back and were not in a hurry. Manchester United pressed it like an impatient young man, and started to grab the ball in the frontcourt.
The Copenhagen coach watched this scene on the sidelines. Instead of worrying, he smiled. As he expected, the strong Manchester United will definitely attack. This giant team that dominates Europe is indeed strong and has strong fighting spirit. His cautious attitude towards this game is right.
Although Copenhagen has the intention of wrestling with Manchester United, they also know that if they want to fight against Manchester United, they will undoubtedly seek death. Only by relying on defensive counterattacks can they draw Manchester United or even defeat Manchester United.
Faced with Manchester United's press, Copenhagen defender Johnson passed the football back to goalkeeper Olsen.
Olsen is tall and has a Swedish national goal. Later, he played for the Premier League team Everton, and his strength is still very strong.
As soon as he got the ball, Vardy forced him up. Olson knew Vardy's power and quickly drove the ball to the frontcourt with a big foot.
Manchester United's right-back Kyle Walker pushed the ball back near the center circle, Kante passed the ball forward, De Bruyne stopped the ball in his chest, turned around and leaned against Copenhagen midfielder Thomas Delaney who came to defend him. Then De Bruyne passed the ball to Kyle Walker who came to the back to pick him up, and then he turned around and threw Thomas Delaney away and ran forward, two by one!
Seeing this, Thomas Delaney did not hesitate and directly reached out to pull De Bruyne's jersey.
The referee was ready to foul the whistle, and then he saw that Kyle Walker did not pass the ball to De Bruyne, but passed the ball to Mata, and immediately moved forward with both hands to signal that the attack would be beneficial and the game continued.
Quest was ready to snatch the ball when Mata received the ball. However, Mata knew what to do when he saw the opponent's running route. He originally planned to stop the football, but he turned around again decisively and gave the football over. At the same time, he stuck Quest to snatch the route with his body.
Before the two were about to collide, Mata turned around beautifully with his left foot as the axis, just avoiding the other party, and at the same time he started to speed up and chased the football.
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"Beautiful handicap, get rid of it." Ye Su on the sidelines praised Mata's excellent performance.
Seeing Mata get rid of Quest, Copenhagen left-back Ludwig Augustinson quickly robbed, rushed up, saw the opportunity, and fell to the ground to tackle the ball directly.
When the Copenhagen defender's flying tackle arrived, Mata gently picked the ball, and then he jumped up himself, just avoiding Augustine's flying tackle.
After landing, Mata stepped forward in two steps, caught up with the football, and then passed the ball directly without stopping with his left foot.
This is a high-quality, large-scale horizontal transfer ball. The football flew high and crossed the midfield, and flew directly from the right to the left.
There seemed to be no one there... But when Mata's pass fell, people found that Manchester United left winger Vardy was in front of the high speed, the football landed in front and Vardy was behind, which gave Vardy room to sprint.
The most important thing is that Copenhagen's defense line was attracted by Mata's dribble, and the entire defense line was seriously tilted to the left. At this moment, there was no Copenhagen player within seven or eight meters in front and back.
No one expected that Mata could break through continuously and send a pass, and the pass was so sudden, so beautiful and so accurate!
Vardy, who was running, looked at the football in front of him, and saw him hooking his foot and stopping the ball directly in front of him. The football continued to roll slowly.
"Beautiful stop! Solid basic skills."
Ye Su also applauded on the sidelines and cheered for the stop.
Valdi's stopping is the most comfortable. After the football stops, it is still rolling forward slowly, which gives Valdi room to continue to accelerate. The kind of stopping the football to death at his feet is not conducive to breakthroughs. As for the kind of stopping the ball two meters away, is that a professional player's performance?
"Beautiful transfer ball, beautiful stop ball." Zhan Jun shouted, "Manchester United's offense is very sharp. They make full use of the two wings and mobilize in turn to attack the two wing defense line in Copenhagen."
"Vardy! Passed one! Pass!"
Chapter completed!