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0234 FA Cup Out

After winning the League Cup, Manchester United ushered in a week's rest time. However, Ye Su did not give the whole team a holiday, but arranged restorative training.

This is likely to be the last easy schedule for Manchester United's one-week match this season. Once Manchester United keeps three fronts moving in unison, they will maintain a intensive schedule of double matches in a week until the end of the season.

The 27th round of the Premier League began in the first weekend of March.

At noon on Saturday, Manchester United took the lead in playing at Old Trafford Stadium and faced Bournemouth. This is just an ordinary Premier League game, but it has attracted worldwide attention: Once Manchester United defeats their opponents, they will break the record of five major league winning streaks with 20 consecutive victories that were only created last season!

This season, since Manchester United was tied by Watford in the fifth round, it has entered a winning streak mode. After defeating Watford in the 25th round, the Red Devils have tied the record of 20 consecutive wins set last season.

Originally, the Manchester City derby last weekend should be Manchester United's 21-game winning streak in the Premier League, but because of the League Cup final, the Manchester City derby was forced to be postponed, so the 27th round of Manchester United's match against Bournemouth became a game where Manchester United set a new record of winning streak in the five major leagues!

Ye Su doesn't care much about the so-called records now, because after redeeming the two props he most urgently obtained, he does not have such an urgent need for other props. Moreover, he has accumulated a lot of salvation points, but has not used them.

What Ye Su cares about is victory and the final champion.

Although Manchester United performed well this season, they have not yet been able to secure the league championship. The Blues have also had a very good record, with 19 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses in the first 26 rounds, ranking second in the Premier League standings with 60 points, 13 points from Manchester United, who played one round less.

The advantage of 13 points looks great, but it is not that safe. Because Chelsea doesn't have to be distracted from the Champions League this season, they just need to concentrate on the league. Once Manchester United performs poorly in the future, it is not impossible for the Blues to catch up with these points in the remaining 12 rounds of the league.

Of course, Ye Su would not refuse to break the record and obtain a massive amount of salvation values.

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In Old Trafford, Ye Su sent his main force to fight.

After a week of restoring their strength, Manchester United players have a strong fighting spirit and the players are in very good shape. Although Bournemouth has been ready to set up a barrel formation at Old Trafford Stadium, their defense line collapsed after only twenty minutes in the face of Manchester United.

In the 23rd minute, Manchester United took a corner kick. After receiving a pass from Mata, Kyle Walker shot with his right foot outside the penalty area. The ball fell out of the left post after hitting the Bournemouth defensive player.

Manchester United continued to serve a corner kick, Mata drove the ball into the penalty area. In the melee, Ibrahimovic completed the header. Rooney shot with his left foot in the center of the penalty area, and the ball rushed into the lower left corner of the opponent's goal. Manchester United 1:0 Bournemouth.

At the last moment of the first half, Bournemouth suffered another heavy blow. Their midfielder Surman received a yellow card for a foul.

This is the second yellow card in the South African international game. Twelve minutes ago, he received a yellow card for a malicious foul.

At that time, Manchester United were very dissatisfied with the referee's penalty because Surman's foul was enough to have a direct red card.

Bournemouth had to face the situation where he had to face the match with ten people throughout the second half.

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After the second half began, Bournemouth completed the substitution immediately, replacing the attacking midfielder Pew with defensive player Gosling.

The Bournemouth coach has foreseen that a defeat is inevitable, and now he can only lose less and win. If he loses too badly at Dream Theater, it will definitely be a major blow to Bournemouth and may even affect their subsequent schedule.

After the first 26 rounds of the league, Bournemouth scored 26 points and ranked 14th in the standings, but only 4 points higher than the relegation zone, there is still some pressure to relegate.

In the second half, Bournemouth retreated, and ten people fought against them, and they strengthened their determination to set up the iron barrel formation.

However, after all, his strength is at a disadvantage and he beats one less person. Bournemouth's iron barrel formation lasted for less than half an hour before being pierced by Manchester United again.

In the 71st minute, Manchester United played a wonderful cross-control cooperation in the frontcourt, Valdy dribbled into the penalty area, and Goslin accidentally kicked the Manchester United winger in defense. The referee showed Goslin a yellow card and awarded Manchester United a penalty.

Rooney came to take the penalty and easily scored the ball.

2:0, Manchester United basically secured the victory.

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Despite falling behind two goals, Bournemouth still played very resolutely on the court. Faced with Manchester United's tide of attacks, they almost built a wall of men in front of the goal, blocking Manchester United's attacks one after another.

When the game was approaching 80 minutes, Manchester United took the initiative to stop. Ye Su replaced three offensive core members including Ibrahimovic, Rooney and De Bruyne, Lingard, Harry Kane and Mbappe made the bench.

Mbappe once again let the whole world witness his magic.

In the 82nd minute, the French young player who had just made his debut for three minutes used his sharp breakthrough on the right to tear open Bournemouth's defense line and pass the ball to the front of the goal.

Harry Kane appeared on the ball running route, easily pushed and shot, locking the score on the field at 3:0.

In the end, Manchester United beat Bournemouth 3-0 at Dream Theater, winning 21 consecutive league wins, breaking the record of five major league wins that they only set last season, and also won the 76th Premier League points this season.

Chelsea are also very tenacious. Two days later, on Monday night, the last game of the round started. In a London derby, the Blues defeated the Hammers West Ham United 2-1 away, and their points rose to 63 points.

Although Chelsea continues to win, everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before Manchester United wins the third Premier League three consecutive championships. Chelsea's pursuit is just a futile one. The suspense now is just how many rounds Manchester United can win the Premier League championship in advance.

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On Wednesday, March 7, local time in the UK, at 8 pm, the 28th round of the Premier League was the first match. The Red Devils and Manchester United visited Southampton on the South Coast and ushered in the second match with the Saints in ten days.

Originally, the game was this weekend, but because Manchester United were heading to Stamford Bridge over the weekend, we were heading to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup with Chelsea.

According to convention, this game will be postponed, but Manchester United's subsequent schedule is too intensive and it is very likely that it cannot be arranged. After discussions with Southampton by Manchester United club and the Premier League were reported to the Premier League for approval, the game was advanced to mid-week.

Also arranged is Manchester City's match against Stoke City in this round. Blue Moon is currently facing the third-line battle between the Premier League, Europa League and the FA Cup, and this round of matches was also advanced to Thursday night.

At St. Mary's Stadium, Ye Su sent a half-main and half-substitute lineup.

This game was only three days apart from Manchester United's last game, and some Manchester United players who played against Bournemouth seemed a little tired.

In addition, the Saints played very tenaciously at home, Southampton players obviously remembered the loss to Manchester United in the League Cup final at the end of last month. Now it is clear that they want to avenge Manchester United's original revenge.

The game at St. Mary's Stadium was more intense and more exciting. After 90 minutes of fierce battle, the two sides exchanged blank sheets.

This draw means that Manchester United's terrifying 21-game winning streak will be over.

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Returning to Manchester from Southampton, Manchester United soon rushed to London without stopping to usher in the FA Cup semi-finals with the Blues.

During this period, Manchester United's schedule has been unprecedentedly dense and fierce battles have been repeated, and the players are a little tired. In addition, they will face the life-and-death battle with Sevilla at Old Trafford Stadium in the middle of next week, which has forced Ye Su to make careful choices in the competition.

At Pisjuan Stadium, although Manchester United finally tied their opponents and seemed to have the lead in two rounds of games, their advantage was very limited. Once Manchester United missed the home game, they would still be eliminated.

In the FA Cup and the Champions League, Ye Su chose the Champions League without hesitation.

Therefore, the lineup he led to London was a complete substitute lineup. He did not bring any absolute main players like Rooney, Ibrahimovic, De Bruyne, Kante, and De Gea to London at all.

If it is another head coach, especially the British head coach, he will do his best in this game and send one or two main players. After all, it is the oldest event in the history of football in the FA Cup, and his opponent is a league championship rival like Chelsea.

But Ye Su is not a British man, and he doesn't care much about the so-called feelings of the British. Although he also likes the FA Cup championship trophy, his choice is not guilty compared to the Champions League trophy.

Of course, if this game is the FA Cup semi-final or even the FA Cup final, Ye Su may have a main lineup and compete with Chelsea.

But now it is just the quarterfinals of the FA Cup. Ye Su will not bet on the gamble after three games to the final championship trophy.

At Stamford Bridge Stadium, Manchester United's eleven starters were Romero, Ashley Young, Smalling, Phil Jones, Valencia, Fellaini, Lingard, McTominay, Mbappe, Rashford and Martial. He did not even send important rotation players such as Bruno Fernandez and Harry Kane to play.

Such a team is composed of substitutes and even marginal roles. It faces a full main force and plays the Blues after a week of rest. The result can be imagined.

0:1, there is no suspense about Manchester United losing. Even if Manchester United only lost one goal, it is surprising that the strong fighting spirit and combat effectiveness of this Manchester United youth team.
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