In the middle of the week after the 6th round of the Premier League, the European war rekindled. Manchester United also ushered in its first home game in the UEFA Cup this season on Thursday night local time in the UK, against the strongest opponent in the group, Besiktas.

Because the 7th round of the Premier League match against Toffee Everton will be held at noon on Sunday, Ye Su still hid some of the main players after some consideration and played in the Turkish Super League giants with a half-main and half-substitute.

Besiktas is the third pole in the Turkish Super League after Galatasaray and Fenerbahce. These three teams have almost monopolized all the championships in the Turkish Super League. The Turkish Super League has only been established for 58 seasons, but the number of times the three teams have won 19, 19 and 13 respectively.

Besiktas and Manchester United had previously encountered the UEFA Champions League in the 2009-2010 season. In the away game in the second round, Manchester United defeated the Turkish Super League giants 1:0, but in the fifth round, Manchester United, who advanced early, lost a surprise and was defeated by Besiktas 1:0, and also ended its record of 23 consecutive home games in the Champions League. It has suffered its first home defeat in the Champions League group stage in 8 years.

Now, after five years, the two sides have encountered each other again, but the stadium has been changed to the Europa League.

Because Rooney, Mata, Bruno Fernandez, Kante and De Gea rotated, Manchester United's single arrow on the court was Valdy, De Bruyne started for the first time as the front midfielder, Lingard and Januzai on the wings. Fletcher and Carrick were paired with the back midfielder, and the four players on the back were Kyle Walker, Smalling, Evans and Luke Shaw, and the goalkeeper was also played by Lindergard, and De Gea rested.

Manchester United scored in the 27th minute of the first half, De Bruyne made a wonderful pass, and Vardy scored with his left foot in the small penalty area, and Manchester United led 1:0 at home.

However, in the next nearly an hour, neither side was able to break through the opponent's goal.

At the last moment of the game, Besiktas, who was unwilling to lose, counterattacked wildly. In the 88th minute of the game, they won a penalty kick. Former Chelsea striker Dembaba broke through the Manchester United goal guarded by Lindegaard and stubbornly tied the score to 1:1.

Since Tripolis defeated Belgrade guerrillas 2-0 in another game, he ranked first in Group C after two rounds. Besiktas ranked second with one more goal, while Manchester United only ranked third.

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Ye Su was helpless when he was tied by his opponent at the last moment. However, Ye Su was not worried about qualifying in the Europa League group, so he quickly focused on the subsequent 7th round of the Premier League.

Because after this round of Premier League, international match day will come again, Ye Su sent out his strongest lineup without hesitation in this round of matches, and he was not prepared to leave the best players in the national teams.

On this international match day, there are more players in Manchester United who have been recruited by national teams. For example, Rooney, Mata, De Bruyne, Fellaini, Smalling, De Gea, Valencia, Luke Shaw, etc., the previous national teams are just fine. Bruno Fernandez, Kante, Van Dijk and Maguire, who have performed well in Manchester United recently, have also received the call order from the national team.

It doesn’t matter whether you can play in the game after you go, so you’ll get the person first.

This made Ye Su very depressed. During the national team's game day, there was almost no time for Manchester United's training base.

Even if there are three or two big cats and kittens, most of them are not the absolute main players under Ye Su.

But Ye Su had no choice. He could not stop these national teams from recruiting players, and he could not make his players refuse to play for the country.

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In this game, some injuries that Manchester United had suffered in the early stage have recovered one after another, and no new casualties were added in the last one or two games. This is undoubtedly very beneficial for Ye Su and Manchester United.

However, Ye Su was worried that on this international competition day, the international players who went to participate in the competition around the world will not only be exhausted, but also have a high probability of injury.

Because Chelsea will encounter Gunners Arsenal this afternoon, Ye Su thinks this should be an opportunity for Manchester United to widen the gap in points with Chelsea.

Although Wenger is very embarrassed in the record against Mourinho, Arsenal is a strong team after all, so maybe the Blues lost points?

Manchester United's starting lineup, De Gea is in front of the goal, in front of him is a defense line composed of Luke Shaw, Van Dijk, Maguire and Kyle Walker. Kante is once again partnering with Carrick as a midfielder. Valdy, who played in the Europa League midweek, got a chance to rest, Bruno Fernandez, Mata and De Bruyne form the forward line, and Rooney serves as the single arrow.

For Everton, Milalas was absent due to a torn tendon, but midfielder Pinal returned to the start due to injury. Jagilka welcomed his 250th Premier League game, and it was also his 200th Premier League start in the Everton jersey.

This game is the 189th main match between the two clubs. Manchester United had the advantage with 81 wins, 42 draws and 65 losses. Among them, in 44 matches in the Premier League, Everton only achieved a record of 7 wins, 7 draws and 30 losses. Among them, 22 visits to Dream Theater only had 2 wins, and only won 1 in the last five Premier League competitions.

However, Manchester United was rarely double-killed by Everton last season, which is one of the direct reasons why Moyes was dismissed in April.

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At the beginning of the first half, Manchester United, who was determined to make three-pointers and played at home, was obviously more proactive. He threatened Everton's goal three times in the first 10 minutes. However, Rooney received a pass from Luke Shaw and headed the goal and was captured by Howard's side save. Bruno Fernandez's left-footed shot also failed. Mata's back shot was also rejected by Howard, who was brave.

Immediately, Manchester United made a diagonal pass from the far end from the left. Mata was too slow to handle the ball when he could kick the ball on the right side of the penalty area. De Bruyne's left-footed shot was both high and biased.

After Manchester United's frontcourt fours took turns shooting once or twice, Manchester United finally opened the scene.

In the 26th minute, Kyle Walker made a cross from the right and was cleared by Jagilka, but the landing point was poor. Mata got the ball from the left side of the penalty area and went to the middle. De Bruyne scored a right foot on the edge of the penalty area and scored the ball into the lower right corner of the goal. This was the first league goal that Ding Ding had won after joining Manchester United.

Manchester United's morale was greatly boosted, and after just four minutes, they expanded the score on the field.

In the 30th minute of the first half, Manchester United won a free kick in the middle of the frontcourt.

This free kick is 30 meters away from the goal and is a bit far away. Although there are many free kick experts in Manchester United, no one is good at this kind of medium and long distance free kick directly attacking the goal.

Therefore, Everton judged that Manchester United would cooperate with a free kick, and they defended the Manchester United players who took the free kick and passed the ball to create a threat.

Rooney and De Bruyne stood on both sides in front of the ball. After the referee signaled that they could kick off, both of them made a run-up posture.

Rooney started running first, and De Bruyne was a little bit late.

Seeing this, Everton players thought Rooney was pretending to take the penalty, and the real free throw must be De Bruyne.

However, Rooney, who ran to the ball, did not step over the ball, but instead kicked the ball directly.

This is a direct free kick!

With the blessing of the free kick card, Rooney, who is not very good at free throws at this distance, made the penalty very beautiful, and the ball went straight to the upper right corner of the goal.

Howard, who made a mistake in judgment, flew hard to save, but because he was half a beat late, he was unable to stop the ball from flying into the goal.

2:0!

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At the end of the first half, Manchester United launched another wave of offensive.

In the 41st minute, Manchester United received a corner kick after the shot was blocked by the defensive player.

Mata took a corner kick from the right, and the ball ran directly to the goal to look for Van Dijk. The Dutch central defender headed and attacked the goal, and the ball went straight to the dead corner of the near corner. However, this time Howard was very focused and flew to the ball with one hand and poked the ball out of the baseline.

Manchester United changed the side and sent a corner kick again. De Bruyne came to take the free kick. The ball went straight to the penalty area after the whistle. In the chaotic crowd of both sides, Rooney grabbed the ball landing point, but under the interference of the defensive players, Lu Xiaopang's close shot actually shot flew away.

Everton took advantage of the opportunity when some of Manchester United's players were not focused at the last moment of the first half and launched a counterattack. Hibert dribbled the ball into the penalty area from the right side of the penalty area. Luke Shaw made a shot half a beat late, but he met the Everton player who stabbed the ball away.

The referee pointed to the twelve yards without hesitation and awarded Everton a penalty.

All Manchester United fans, including Manchester United players on the court and Manchester United coaching staff on the sidelines, were a little disappointed at this moment.

Originally, the first half was about to end with Manchester United's advantage of two goals, but at the end of the game, he gave his opponent a penalty kick, which was so depressing.

No one expects De Gea to save his opponent's penalty kick. As a world-class goalkeeper, De Gea has few weaknesses, but saving the penalty kick is a very obvious weakness of him.

All Manchester United people know this very well, and their opponents are also aware of it: De Gea is a cooked duck!

What's more, Everton took the penalty kick and Bynes, who had scored 10 consecutive penalty kicks!

However, what happened next moment shocked and cheered more than 72,000 Manchester United fans at the scene.

Bynes took the penalty kick, and he chose to push the ball with his left foot to the left. Then, people saw De Gea's quick response this time, and flew to block the ball with one hand!

The Everton cooked duck, flew!

The audience applauded thunderously and cheered, and the fans were so excited that they couldn't help themselves.

Surprises are always fascinating. If De Gea is good at saving points, it would be fine if he saves this penalty, and it would not allow fans to perform like this.

But he, who has always been not good at saving points, accidentally saved the penalty this time, which made people ecstatic.

In the end, Manchester United entered the halftime break with a 2:0 lead as expected.
Chapter completed!