Since Zurich's return with honor, Ye Su and Manchester United have ushered in the first leg of the League Cup semi-finals against Hull City.

Because the weekend is the second leg of the Double Red Club of this season in the Premier League, Ye Su just sent a rotation lineup to play in this semi-final of the League Cup against Hull City.

As a result, the two sides exchanged blank sheets in the first half, but after Manchester United strengthened their offensive in the second half, they quickly achieved results.

In the 56th minute, Martial passed the ball from the left, Bruno Fernandez was transferred to the right from the middle, Valencia made a cross, Harry Kane jumped and headed the ball to the back point, Mata shot into the net in front of the goal, 1:0, Manchester United took the lead at home.

In the 73rd minute, Manchester United's frontcourt set-piece opportunity, Bruno Fernandez took the penalty and shot directly. The ball passed by the wall and hit the inside of the left post and bounced out. Manchester United missed a good opportunity to expand the score.

In the 87th minute, on the left side of the frontcourt, Martial fell to the ground to pass the ball, Ashley raised the ball and passed it to the back point, Fellaini headed in front of the goal and shot an arc, Yakupovich had no choice but to enter, 2:0, Manchester United expanded the lead at home.

In the end, the game ended, Manchester United defeated Hull City 2-0 at home, gaining the lead in the two-round match system and also ushered in 9 consecutive victories in various competitions.

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At 23:00 on January 14, 2017, Beijing time, at 15:00 local time in the UK, the 21st round of the Premier League ushered in a focus battle. The Red Devils Manchester United sit at the Old Trafford Stadium and face the deadly rivals Liverpool.

This is a world-renowned strong battle, because in addition to Manchester United's performance as strong as ever, Klopp's Liverpool has also performed very well this season and has been in the Champions League for a long time.

In the first 20 rounds of the Premier League, Klopp's team scored 13 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses, with 43 points, beating Manchester City, Arsenal and Tottenham, ranking third in the Premier League.

However, Liverpool's record is still much worse than Manchester United. In the current Premier League standings, Manchester United, who played one round less, has won 18 wins and 1 draw, ranking first with 55 points, 9 points higher than Chelsea, which ranked second.

Therefore, in this round of the game, Liverpool's task is not only to block Manchester United, but also to continue its hope of winning the championship. Because once Liverpool loses at Old Trafford, it means that they will be 15 points behind Manchester United with one more round!

If Manchester United beat Crystal Palace in the 16th round of the Premier League next week, they will be 18 points behind Manchester United.

With only 17 rounds left in the league, if Liverpool wants to reverse Manchester United, there is really only theoretical possibility left.

Both teams currently have a relatively complete lineup. Liverpool has three casualties, but they are all insignificant marginal players; Manchester United's first team is healthy and no one has suffered injuries.

However, for Klopp, the big headache is that the core of the field Coutinho is making a transfer recently, and the Brazilian hopes to leave Anfield in the winter window.

Of course, the Reds don't want to lose their leading star. After Suarez transferred to Barcelona, ​​Gerard retired, the Brazilian has become the well-deserved number one star in Liverpool's team and an absolute thigh figure.

However, Coutinho's determination to leave Anfield is very firm because his relationship with the club is very stale. In order to punish Coutinho, Klopp has already taken the Brazilian from the starting lineup and hopes to suppress Coutinho.

However, at such a critical moment, Klopp was in a dilemma. Should he let Coutinho start, or continue to let him sit on the bench and go to Old Trafford with the remaining lineup?

After repeated thinking, Klopp decided to let Coutinho continue to sit on the bench. The atmosphere of making trouble should not be long. Even if he loses the game against Manchester United, he must suppress Coutinho and set an example for others. Otherwise, if he wants to leave the team one by one, he will cause trouble, and the team will not be able to lead.

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The title of the Double Red Club, coupled with Manchester United and Liverpool's performance this season, is definitely a strong dialogue, and the game has attracted considerable attention. At least more than 100 countries and regions around the world choose to broadcast the game live.

At Old Trafford, Manchester United, who had won Liverpool 3-0 in the first leg of the season, played very hard at Anfield, and they were hit hard by Liverpool.

Because of losing the midfield organization and offensive core, and being away games, Klopp put his posture in this game very low, and he was willing to use fouls and lethal tactics to limit Manchester United.

On Manchester United, the double midfielder composed of Kanter and Fellaini was also very tough. Throughout the game, there were frequent situations of people falling behind.

The game scene was very hot, with whistle sounds frequently and the smoothness of the game was repeatedly broken. It can be said that after watching this game, you will know why the hand-to-hand combat in the Premier League is so famous all over the world.

Both sides focused more on limiting their opponents and preventing them from scoring goals, but they were quite restrained on the offensive end.

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It was not until the first half that the deadlock was broken until the thirty-seven minutes.

Firmino broke into the penalty area after stealing in the frontcourt. Kyle Walker made a quick turnaround and kicked the ball out of the penalty area. After the corner kick was taken, the referee Oliver determined that Maguire had a handball foul and awarded a penalty, but Maguire did not argue. From the replay, Maguire's open arm did hit the ball.

Milner took the penalty and tricked De Gea into the lower right corner, and Liverpool took the lead at Old Trafford.

Liverpool people celebrated wildly at the Dream Theater, especially Liverpool captain Henderson, who also looked at Ye Su a few times in protest.

Ye Su clenched his fists in dissatisfaction. He didn't expect Manchester United to give his opponent a penalty kick. However, he couldn't blame Maguire for giving some, after all, no one wanted to happen like this.

He began to consider how to deal with the next game with a 0:1 situation. However, Ye Su soon discovered that the tactics and strategies he had just thought had become useless because Manchester United quickly scored a goal to equalize the score.

Maybe it was finally scored, so Liverpool's players were a little relaxed. So, when Manchester United organized this offensive, when Luke Shaw dribbled the ball from the wing to the middle, Liverpool's defensive players did not actively defend. The slack defense allowed Rooney to calmly stop the ball at the top of the penalty area after receiving Luke Shaw's pass, and then he could turn around and shoot more easily. The football drew an arc and slapped straight into the dead corner of the goal.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The commentator of MUTV roared.

Ye Su was stunned for a moment, then applauded excitedly to celebrate.

"Beautiful job, Van!" He expressed satisfaction with the team captain standing up at a critical moment.

"Liverpool lost the ball quickly and they only led by three minutes!"

"This goal lost exposed Liverpool's shortcomings. After scoring the goal, they relaxed. In addition, Lovren's defensive awareness was too absurd." The commentator said mercilessly, "Lovren is like an 80-year-old man, watching Rooney turn around and shoot. Perhaps he was frightened by the World Footballer?"

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The first half was 1:1.

Logically speaking, two goals in the half game and a score of 1:1 gave people the impression that this first half game should not be so dull, and it can even be said to be relatively exciting.

However, the audience who watched this game definitely did not think so. In the whole first half, both sides seemed to have devoted all their energy to fierce fighting and defense. The people on the court were overturned. On the sidelines, Manchester United coach Ye Su and Liverpool coach Klopp also yelled, and the atmosphere was manic.

"To be honest, I don't have much hope that the second half will be exciting." Leinker said to his partner.

"Objectively speaking, a 1:1 draw is acceptable for Liverpool," said the partner, "I just don't know if Ye Su is willing to accept the result of getting a point at home. After all, since the 23rd round of the Premier League on January 23 last year, Manchester United was tied 1:1 by Southampton at Old Trafford Stadium, the Red Devils have won 18 consecutive Premier League games in the Dream Theater, and the winning streak in various events has continued to a terrifying 29 games! I think, neither Ye Su nor Manchester United players want their home winning streak to end in the hands of their arch-rival Liverpool!"

In the opinion of the commentator, Manchester United is a strong team and should have more ambitions and pursuits at the home court.

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The two sides continued to entangle in the midfield, and as the game progressed, Manchester United coach Ye Su took the lead in making adjustments, and he replaced Fellaini with Mata.

De Bruyne retreated and formed a double midfielder with Kante, while Mata appeared in the middle.

"Sure enough, Ye Su doesn't seem satisfied with only getting 1 point at Old Trafford. It depends on how Klopp will deal with it."

The camera gave Liverpool coach Klopp a close-up, and then gave the camera to Coutinho on the bench. Obviously, if Liverpool coach Klopp was also unwilling to give up the draw and wanted to make adjustments on the offensive end, the biggest possibility was to replace Coutinho.

Coutinho looked a little anxious, staring at the field, and he was eager to play.

Although he was in a stalemate with the club because he wanted to escape from Anfield, Liverpool was the team he played for four years and his relationship was still somewhat. Coutinho didn't want the team to lose at Old Trafford again.

Since Ye Su became Manchester United's head coach, Liverpool has lost six consecutive times against Manchester United. During this period, he was the main player in Liverpool's team, even a core player. Coutinho does not think this is a glorious record. He does not want the team to lose for the seventh consecutive time.
Chapter completed!