I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

Chapter 38: Lead the standings

   At 1:30 noon on September 21, 2014, local time in the UK, Manchester United was a guest at the King Power Stadium to challenge the Blue Foxes to Leicester City.

   In the history of the two clubs, there were a total of 117 clashes. Manchester United had 59 wins, 26 draws and 32 losses. The league had 55 wins, 26 draws and 31 losses. The last time Manchester United lost to Leicester dates back to January 1998, when the Red Devils lost 0:1 at Old Trafford. Since then, Leicester has won 10 wins and 1 draw in 11 games and remains unbeaten. The last 10 games have maintained a full victory; since Leicester won 3-0 at home in November 1985, Manchester United has won 6 wins and 3 draws away in 9 matches to remain unbeaten, and the last 5 visits have maintained a full victory.

   In this game, Ye Su's Manchester United finally ushered in a relatively complete defense line. The left back Luke Shaw, who joined the team at the summer transfer window at the buzzer, started for the first time on behalf of Manchester United, forming a back line with Van Dijk, Maguire and Raphael. Kanter and De Bruyne partnered with the midfielder, and Mata served as the front midfielder, facing the old club's Valdy, Rooney and Bruno Fernandez to form a three forward.

   This is Ye Su's first attempt to make Mata and De Bruyne appear at the same time.

   The formation of the home team Leicester is not the same as that of Manchester United. They have a 4141 formation. Caspar Schmeichel, the son of Manchester United star Schmeichel, started as goalkeeper. Delight and Delinkovert face the old owners. The former Inter Milan midfielder Cambiasso serves as the single midfielder. This summer, he is the champion. Loya served as a single arrow.

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   After the start of the game, Manchester United turned away and suppressed Leicester City. De Blaunet frequently intervened in the offense, and in fact formed a double midfielder with Mata. And Bruno Fernandez did not stay more at the right wing position, but retreated and formed a cooperation with Mata and De Bruyne. But Vardy often threatened Leicester City's goal in the penalty area with Rooney. Therefore, Manchester United's formation on the field is more inclined to 4132.

  Mata, De Bruyne and Bruno Fernandez's powerful control in the midfield completely suppressed the Leicester City midfield, and Manchester United also took the initiative on the field.

   Under Manchester United's offensive, the game only lasted for 13 minutes, and Manchester United broke through the Blue Foxes.

   The two Manchester United forwards interacted in the penalty area. Rooney made a pass from the left side of the penalty area. Vardy headed through the goal of the old club near the back post, and the score on the field became 1:0.

   After Valdy scored, he didn't celebrate, but walked towards the midfield with his head down. But some of Leicester City fans, as well as the three thousand Manchester United fans who came to cheer for the team, gave Vardy applause.

   For Vardy, a player who has contributed a lot in the process of upgrading the Premier League, the Blue Fox fans still like it very much. Now that he showed respect to his old club after breaking the door, without any celebration, they did not hesitate to applaud.

   Three minutes after Vardy broke the Leicester City goal and broke the deadlock, Manchester United expanded the score. Mata went straight, Rooney inserted the penalty point and shot the top right corner into the net, 2:0!

   However, Leicester City are not underdogs. They scored 1 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in the first 4 games of the new season. They ranked 12th in the league with 5 points, the best performance of the three newly promoted horses. One minute after Manchester United scored their second goal, they returned to the game.

   In the 17th minute, Leicester quickly pulled back a point. Schrup threw off Maguire’s right bottom line and made a pass. Uroya headed through De Gea’s ten fingers, and the score became 1:2!

   This is Uroa’s fourth goal in the Premier League this season, but in slow motion playback, before Schrup’s pass, the ball has already crossed the bottom line. Manchester United suffered once again from the referee.

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   Manchester United continued to attack Leicester City, but the two strikers missed consecutive scoring opportunities.

   In the 25th minute, Rooney nudged a free kick. Vardy took a shot from 25 yards and the ball flew out of the goal against the right post.

   Three minutes later, Wayne Rooney got Vardy's shot near the penalty spot, but his shot was slightly slow and was blocked by Leicester City defenders.

   In the 41st minute, Rooney chested the ball. Vardy shot 18 yards from the goal. After being touched by a Leicester City defender, the ball went wide to the right post again.

   Mata took a right corner kick, and Maguire's header went slightly above the crossbar.

   At the end of the first half, Manchester United led Leicester 2:1 away and entered the intermission.

   After the change of sides, Manchester United once again expanded the score lead in the 58th minute of the game. Rooney's shot outside the penalty area was blocked, Manchester United reorganized the attack, Vardy returned, De Bruyne shot a low 18 yards from the goal, the ball was changed by Mata, and then into the net, Manchester United led 3-1.

   The ball is counted on Mata.

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In the subsequent game, the scene that happened to Manchester United did not appear, but both sides did nothing in this game. In the end, Manchester United defeated Leicester City 3:1 away and played more than one game. Under the circumstances, 3 points ahead of Chelsea, ascended to the top of the standings.

   This is Manchester United's top spot again after a lapse of more than a year.

   Although in the first round of last season and the first round of this season, Manchester United briefly ascended to the top of the standings, but that has no reference at all.

   The last time Manchester United really stayed at the top of the Premier League standings was the season in which Ferguson retired. At that time they won the Premier League title.

More than two hours later, the Blues who were a guest at the Etihad Stadium lost a good game when the scene was fully dominant. They battled with Blue Moon 1:1. After five rounds, they scored 13 points with 4 wins and 1 draw. , Lost the leading position in the standings since the first round.

   This draw has caused a lot of criticism of Mourinho in the UK.

In order to prepare for this strong dialogue with Manchester City, in the UEFA Champions League match in the middle of the week, Mourinho performed a rotation in the match against Schalke 04. The forward 7-goal striker Costa and the main player on the left were played in 4 games. Zpilicueta and German gunner Xuerle did not start. Originally, Chelsea could easily win Schalke, but helpless Drogba and Xiaofa kept wasting great opportunities. In the end, Chelsea swallowed the bitter fruit and drew 1:1 with Schalke. Grams.

   But now, the team has been tied by Manchester City and lost the top spot in the Premier League. It really lost his wife and broke the army.

   The most unacceptable thing for the Blues fans is that it was their former meritorious player Frank Lampard that caused Chelsea to lose 2 points.

   In the summer, Lampard left the Blues, where he played for many years, and went to New York. But only two months later, he returned to the Premier League again and joined Manchester City on loan.

   Many Blues fans believe that if Mourinho can keep Lampard, he will definitely stay.

   But now, they can only witness the old meritorious players playing for their opponents and breaking their goals.

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Judging from the start of the league, Mourinho’s tactical intentions are basically exposed. In the face of the underdogs, the offensive football of the Blues is like a cruel blow, and in the face of the strong teams, Chelsea can also use the powerful bus tactics in front of the goal. Embarrassing opponents, the ease of plan A and plan B allows Chelsea to easily deal with the Premier League war.

Last season, Chelsea often played well against strong teams. Statistics show that Chelsea's record is the best among the top 7 games, including double play Manchester City and Liverpool, while facing Arsenal and Manchester United, Chelsea are both It was a record of 1 win and 1 tie. Chelsea actually lost only one game against the top 7 teams in the league. At that time, they lost to Everton 0:1.

Although strong is strong, Chelsea's performance is very average when facing underdogs. Stoke City, Villa, Crystal Palace and Newcastle have all scored 3 points on Chelsea. This contrast has become Chelsea's championship A disadvantage, the Blues only won third place in the end.

In the new season, Chelsea has changed from the previous season's decline. In the face of the underdogs, this new blue team showed terrifying attack firepower. Before facing Manchester City, Chelsea defeated Burnley and Lechs in the Premier League. Special City, Everton and Swansea, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com won 4 consecutive victories and scored 15 goals. The goal efficiency is very terrible.

From the perspective of Mourinho’s strategy, Chelsea insists on offensive football when facing weaker opponents. Even if they lose 3 goals against Everton, they can still score 6 goals with strong attacking firepower. Swansea, Chelsea also lost 2 goals, but scored 4 goals. It can be said that Chelsea solved the problem of weakness in the last season. For a championship team, such a change is a strong guarantee for winning the championship. .

In this scene against Manchester City, Chelsea have returned to the counter-attack style of last season, but they are equally comfortable. Although Manchester City has as many as 16 shots, they only scored 1 goal. On the other hand, Chelsea, although only 6 shots, but 2 shots on target, one goal, one hit the post, the efficiency is amazing.

   Judging from the current two sets of Chelsea tactics, Mourinho’s disciples can perform very well. In the first 5 rounds of the league, Chelsea scored 13 points, while Manchester City only had 8 points and Liverpool had only 6 points. It can be said that if Chelsea can continue this kind of stable performance, they will be the biggest favorite of the Premier League champions this season.

Regarding the match itself, Mourinho commented after the match. He said: "We should have won, but even if they missed the match, they had a fantastic counterattack and tried their best to equalize the score. When it becomes emotional, the number of people is not so important. In the game, it is important to develop the right tactics. We scored the goal and slowly controlled the game. We also hit the goal post, but they quickly scored the goal. During that time, their mentality was stronger than ours, and maybe a draw was a fair result. This is an important game, even if the final score is 0:0, it will be quite exciting."

  

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