0358 Toffee
A day later, good news came from London. At Selhurst Park Stadium, Crystal Palace stubbornly tied Manchester City. The two sides fought each other for 90 minutes. This was the second draw for the Blue Moon this season, and they also lost the 6th and 7th points this season.
In this way, Manchester City led Manchester United by 5 points and led the Premier League standings with two rounds of games.
The last Premier League game in 2017 was the match between Arsenal and West Brom at the Hawthorn Stadium. As a result, the two sides tied 1:1, bringing an ordinary end to the Premier League in the extraordinary 2017.
Although 2017 has ended, the Premier League is still in the high-frequency Christmas Devil schedule.
On January 1, 2018, at 12:30 noon, the Premier League's first game in 2018 started at the American Express Community Stadium in Brighton Hove. As a result, the Seagulls and the Cherry Legion played 2:2. The two teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League and facing considerable pressure to relegate each scored one point, which was considered a good match.
Manchester United also has a game mission on the first day of the New Year, where they are visiting Goodison Park Stadium to challenge Toffee Everton.
This is a game where Manchester United hits history!
As long as Manchester United remain unbeaten in this game, they will have the honor of the longest unbeaten record in the five major leagues with a record of 59 Premier League unbeaten games!
But in such a world-renowned game, Ye Su lined up a starting lineup that surprised the whole world: goalkeeper Dean Henderson, the back line consisted of Ashley Young, Phil Jones, Smalling and young player Wan Bisaka, the three midfielders were Kanter, McTominay and Bruno Fernandez, and the forward trident was led by Rashford, Mbappe and Lingard.
This is basically a full substitute for Manchester United this season!
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Originally, Ye Su had no other intention to line up such a lineup, but a forced choice.
Starting from December 2, this is the 10th game for Manchester United in 30 days. Manchester United will play one game in 3 days on average!
During this period, Manchester United flew thousands of kilometers to the Middle East to play two Club World Cup games!
The players are really tired!
This can be seen from Manchester United's three consecutive draws with their opponents in a 2:2 draw in the Christmas Devils schedule.
In the game against Everton, the last game against Manchester United against Southampton, the whistle opening time was only 48 hours apart!
It's the opening time!
The opening hours of the two games were both at 5:30 pm local time in the UK, which was exactly 48 hours apart. In addition to the game time, there were also traveling to the away game, which left the players with rest time, which was actually about 40 hours.
Such a short time is not enough to restore the energy of the players who played in the last game.
However, some media that are provoking trouble do not think so. The Liverpool Echo believes that Manchester United is a contempt for Everton, and calls on Everton to block Manchester United hard and teach a lesson to the arrogant Manchester United.
This newspaper, from its name, knows why they wrote such reports. Although Everton is also the team of the city of Liverpool, the Liverpool Echo is not a media that supports the Toffees.
As Liverpool's official mouthpiece, Liverpool Echo naturally hopes that Everton, the mortal enemy in the city and Manchester United, will kill you to the death.
Although Liverpool has already 14 points behind Manchester United just after the Premier League half, and it is still two rounds of Manchester United's game, the Liverpool Echo does not believe that the Reds have been eliminated in the league championship. As long as every team stands up and fights Manchester United to the death, maybe Liverpool will have a chance?
Liverpool's performance this season is not bad under the leadership of Klopp. He has achieved 11 wins, 7 draws and 3 losses in the first 21 rounds, and is currently ranked fourth in the Premier League.
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Unfortunately, Liverpool Echo has few ideas to challenge trouble. Not to mention anything else, Liverpool coach Klopp has actually given up the Premier League and has turned his attention to the Champions League.
As for Manchester United's opponent Everton in this game, this team that has always had a good relationship with Manchester United has no intention of fighting with Manchester United.
In fact, Everton is also a traditional strong team in the Premier League. This team that has never been relegated in the Premier League era is still very strong.
You should know that the 20 Premier League teams today have not been relegated, except Everton, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham, are all famous giant teams in European football.
However, Everton's performance in the Premier League this season was not very good, and even fell into the relegation zone for a while.
Last season, Dutchman Koeman led Everton to win the seventh in the Premier League and entered the Europa League. This summer, Everton sold the top scorer Lukaku to Chelsea at a high price. In order to cope with the two-front battle, the Toffees then invested 150 million pounds to strengthen the lineup, including 45 million pounds to introduce the "Icelandic Sniper" Sigoodson, 30 million pounds to sign former Manchester United centreback Michael Keane, 30 million pounds to introduce young Three Lions national goalkeeper Pickford, and 23.6 million pounds to introduce Dutch international Klasson.
With such a large investment, Everton's goal is definitely relatively high. However, in the first 17 official games of this season, Koeman only led the Toffees to 6 wins, 4 draws and 7 losses, and his record was awful.
Especially in the Premier League, Everton only achieved 2 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses in the first nine rounds of the game, ranking 18th in the Premier League with 8 points, falling into the relegation zone.
Under such circumstances, Everton's management naturally fired Koeman without hesitation, and the Dutch Everton career was frozen in 496 days.
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Everton fired Koeman without any preparation, allowing reserve coach David Onsworth to act as agent, who only stayed in Everton's interim coach for a month because his record was too bad (1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses in four league games, 1 win, 2 draw and 5 losses in 8 games in all competitions).
In desperation, Everton invited the famous Premier League relegation master Sam Alledes.
Allardyce deserves to be an old Premier League player. After taking office, Everton's performance finally improved significantly. He won 4 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss in 8 league games, leading Everton out of the relegation zone and rose to 9th place in the middle.
But it is precisely because of the long time we were together in the Premier League that Allardyce was very clear about himself and Everton's positioning.
As a friend of Ferguson, Allardyce knew very well how powerful the Red Devils were. But even Manchester United in the Ferguson era was far less dazzling than the Manchester United scores today. It is conceivable how terrifying this Manchester United is.
Of course, in the past few seasons, Allardyce has also been the head coach of many Premier League teams, and has played against Ye Su's Manchester United. The record is very bleak and it is simply being pressed to the ground to rub.
Therefore, when Allardyce asked the media about "Can Everton break Manchester United's unbeaten golden body?", he waved his hands in panic, saying that we would not discuss this topic. No strong teams like Manchester City, Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool and Arsenal could defeat Manchester United, let alone us. This is not something Everton should get involved, we just want to play well.
However, Allardyce's behavior is not very dissatisfied by Everton fans and management. After all, Everton, who invested 150 million pounds in the summer, has the heart to become a strong Premier League team. And now Everton has re-entered the upper half of the Premier League standings, so the team should have higher goals: such as getting a European seat or even a Champions League seat? How could he be so cowardly? Before he could confront his opponent, he kneels down and surrender first?
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Ye Su didn't care what Allardyce said. In fact, the old attitude towards life is so low-key, which is suspicious. Because as far as Ye Su knows, this Uncle Sam is a big mouth. Allardyce, who has been in the English football world for most of his life, reached the peak of his life with a big mouth that was unrestrained. The coach of the England team also fell into a big fall because he couldn't control the big mouth. During his tenure as the head coach of the England team, Allardyce angrily criticized his ex Hodgson for "no personality, but a completely indecisive person", criticized his assistant coach Gary Neville for being incompetent, mocked the senior executives of the English Football League for "brain problems", and even had disrespectful words to the British royal family... In the end, he also lost the coach of the England team because of his big mouth.
Now this big mouth head coach is becoming less and less low-key now. That's interesting.
Moreover, although Manchester United has been unbeaten for 58 games, they can't really take it lightly when facing mid- and lower-level Premier League teams.
In the 19 Premier League games that Manchester United has played this season, all other teams facing big6 have won. However, facing teams in the middle and lower levels of the standings, they have won 3 2-2 draws.
In the 9th round of the Premier League, Manchester United faced Huddersfield, who was ranked 12th in the Premier League at the time. After a hard battle, he barely got a draw.
In the 19th round of the Premier League, Manchester United was away from the Royal Stadium and faced Leicester City, which ranked 8th in the Premier League at the time, but was tied by the opponent.
In the 20th round of the Premier League, Manchester United sits at Old Trafford Stadium and faces Burnley, the 7th wine army in the Premier League. As a result, Ye Su's unbeaten record was almost ended by his opponent. If Lingard had not tied the ball in injury time, Manchester United's unbeaten golden body would have been broken.
Coincidentally, the last time Manchester United lost in the league was the 35th round of the 2015-2016 season, losing 2:3 to the Hammers Gang West Ham United.
And the Iron Hammer Gang ranked 9th in the Premier League at that time!
It can be said that Manchester United suffered hardships in the Premier League in the past few times, thanks to these mid- and lower-level Premier League teams.
Therefore, before the game against Everton, Ye Su repeatedly reminded the players not to be confused by Everton's "custody", be careful of the opponent's "sweet mouth and absent sword" and be careful of the opponent's "sugar-coated cannonballs"!
Chapter completed!