I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

Chapter 120 The Champions League knockout round is about to begin

"I'm really the Red Devils savior ()"

After playing the Double Red Club game, Manchester United finally got a week's rest. It was not until January 23 that Manchester United ushered in the next game. The 23rd round of the Premier League sat at Old Trafford and faced Southampton Saints.

Although Manchester United will usher in the second round of the League Cup semi-final against Manchester City in the middle of next week, because Manchester United gained too much advantage in the first round, Ye Su decided to send a substitute team to play in the League Cup semi-final against Manchester City. The round of the game, and the main lineup played in the league.

However, Southampton, as the nerve knife team in the Premier League this season, their results against the giants are still good. Previously against the traditional semi-finals plus Manchester City and the rising Leicester City this season, they played a total of 6 games and achieved 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. Especially during the Christmas Devils schedule, they swept Arsenal 4:0, giving the Gunners their worst defeat of the season.

In this game, Manchester United encountered a bitter battle at Old Trafford.

The two sides drew 0:0 in the first half, and even Manchester United almost fell behind. At that time, Mane returned a pass, and Tadic sent an overhead ball. Mane broke into the penalty area and stopped the ball. After the shot was missed, Manchester United escaped.

Soon after the start of the second half, Manchester United suffered losses. In the 58th minute, Kyle Walker was injured by Southampton striker Shane Long, and the team doctor gestured to Yesu for a substitution. Ye Su cursed secretly, but had no choice but to get Valencia ready to play immediately.

The game continued, but the score remained unchanged. Until the 85th minute, the field still maintained a 0:0 draw.

Just when the fans thought that Manchester United would usher in the first 0:0 game of the season, the visiting team broke Manchester United's goal in the 87th minute.

Ward Prowse took a free kick from the right, unguarded Austin header from 7 yards, the ball flew into the bottom right corner, Manchester United trailed 0:1. Austin scored on his debut for Southampton.

Unwilling to fail, Manchester United immediately launched a full counterattack, but until the end of 90 minutes of regular time, Manchester United still failed to equalize the score.

Because of Kyle Walker's injury treatment, and there were more substitutions in the second half, there was 5 minutes of stoppage time in this game.

But until the 94th minute, Manchester United was still 0:1 behind.

At the last moment of the game, Manchester United, who was attacking with all their strength, won a free kick in the frontcourt.

De Bruyne came to take the free kick. He chose to take a high ball into the penalty area. Rooney headed the ball. After the point, Vardy took a shot from 14 yards from the goal and blocked the ball into the empty goal.

In the end, Vardy's countdown tied the goal, which finally made Manchester United lucky to grab 1 point.

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Four days later, Manchester United was a guest at the Etihad Stadium. Although they lost 1:3, they still advanced to the League Cup final with an aggregate score of 6:4. Harry Kane scored the only goal for Manchester United.

Manchester United's opponents in the Carabao Cup final have also been decided. Liverpool and Stoke City both won 1-0 in the away game, and tied again in stoppage time. Finally, in the penalty shootout, Liverpool won 6:5.

Therefore, this season's League Cup final will be a double red meeting.

47 hours later, Manchester United was a guest at Derby County and ushered in the fourth round of the FA Cup. As a result, they defeated their opponents 3:1 and advanced to the fifth round of the FA Cup. Wayne Rooney, Kanter and Mata, who came off the bench, each contributed to Manchester United.

Entering the first game in February, Manchester United ushered in the 24th round of the Premier League against Stoke City. Over the years, it has been difficult for Stoke City to take advantage of Manchester United at Old Trafford, and they have lost all of their last 12 visits to Old Trafford.

In this battle of Old Trafford, Sky City also suffered a defeat, and it was a miserable defeat.

In the 14th minute, Mata passed the ball, Luke Shaw made a cross from the left, and then Lingard, who was unguarded, leaned over and scored 5 yards. Manchester United 1:0 Stoke City.

Nine minutes later, Manchester United expanded the score.

Manchester United counterattacked, Rooney transferred a long pass from the right, and after the unguarded Martial stopped the ball, he shot with his right foot from 14 yards from the left rib of the penalty area. The ball flew into the upper right corner, Manchester United 2:0 Stoke City.

In the 53rd minute, Mata scored the ball, Martial made a pass from the left side of the penalty area, and the unguarded Rooney scored with his right foot from 6 yards. Manchester United 3:0 Stoke City.

In the 83rd minute, Lingard passed the ball, and Vardy took a shot from 8 yards from the left rib, and the ball flew into Stoke City's goal for the fourth time.

In the end, Manchester United won 4:0, and the points reached 64 points, continuing to lead the Premier League standings with 15 points.

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At 0:00 on February 8th, Beijing time, at 0:00 on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, when thousands of families are celebrating the Spring Festival, the Premier League ushered in a focus game: the 25th round of the league, the Red Devils Manchester United visited Stamford Bridge to challenge the Blues Chelsea.

The Blues' record has improved since Jose Mourinho was sacked from Chelsea in December. In the past 8 Premier League games, Hiddink led the Blues to 3 wins, 5 draws and remained unbeaten. The league ranking has also steadily risen to 13th in the Premier League, far away from the relegation zone.

In the first focus match of this round, Blue Moon Manchester City was not inferior to Blue Fox Leicester City at the Etihad Stadium 1:3. After 25 rounds and many Premier League games, Manchester City fell behind Manchester United by 18. There is basically no hope of catching up with the rival in the same city.

In the case of one more game, Leicester City narrowed the point difference with Manchester United to 12 points, and continued to retain a glimmer of hope of winning the championship.

Of course, once Manchester United beat Chelsea away, the point difference between Leicester City and Manchester United will remain at 15 points.

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Because it is the Lunar New Year, the Stamford Bridge Stadium is also full of New Year's atmosphere. Slogans about Spring Festival blessings are everywhere on the sidelines.

As China's economy has developed faster and stronger in recent years, its economic strength has become stronger, and its voice in the international arena has also increased, and there are more and more Chinese elements in the Premier League.

Of course, the existence of Ye Su was also a factor.

However, Ye Su also knows that as China grows stronger, for example, if it touches the interests of the old western capitalist empires headed by the United States, the trend of the West targeting China will become more and more obvious and fierce.

After all, there are no permanent friends in this world, only permanent interests. When the Chinese touch the core interests of these people, the Westerners will eventually show their wolfishness and fangs.

Of course, Ye Su didn't want to pay attention to these things. On the one hand, he is just a football coach, not an expert on international issues. He only needs to actively show the objective and true side of China to those Westerners who really love peace and want to understand the Chinese while coaching Manchester United well.

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In the game at Stamford Bridge, because Chelsea adopted defensive counterattack tactics, the opening stage of the game seemed a bit dull.

The first threatening shot of the two teams did not come until the 17th minute of the game. Martial shot from the left side of the frontcourt with his right foot, and Courtois jumped up with his right hand to hold the ball out of the baseline.

When the game progressed to the 25th minute, there was a scene of controversy on the court. William took a left corner kick and Diego Costa missed the far corner. Costa angrily complained to the referee that Manchester United's defense fouled him, but the referee Oliver ignored it.

The slow motion shows that although Maguire, who is defending Costa, has physical contact with him, it is difficult to judge Maguire for a foul, especially a foul in the penalty area. If Maguire is really sentenced to a foul, based on the scale of the actions of both sides in the penalty area in the Premier League game, then penalties will definitely fly all over the sky.

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Chelsea almost took the lead in the 32nd minute of the first half. Chelsea played a wonderful match, Oscar sent a direct pass, Diego Costa shot diagonally with his right foot from the right rib of the penalty area 13 meters, and the ball went slightly wide of the far post.

In the 33rd minute, Matic and Azpilicueta cooperated, and Oscar's left foot shot from the left side of the penalty area went over the crossbar.

Chelsea continued to make threats. William knocked down Valencia from the right and then made a low pass with his right foot. Oscar and Azpilicueta tried to tackle the ball successively but failed to touch the ball.

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again, and Manchester United took the lead in launching the offensive.

In the 50th minute, Rooney received a pass from De Bruyne and shot with his right foot 25 meters from the goal. The ball went straight to the dead corner of the goal. Courtois showed the true quality of a world-class goalkeeper, flying to save the ball. Then Martial dribbled past Ivanovic from the left, and shot with his right foot from 15 meters away from the far corner.

Four minutes later, Lingard hit a long shot with arc, speed and power 20 meters from the goal, but the ball was once again rejected by Courtois.

However, Chelsea soon suffered a blow. In the 55th minute, Zouma landed unstable when he took off with a header and sprained his right knee and ankle. A stretcher came in to carry away the French central defender.

In the 61st minute, Manchester United broke the deadlock. Ashley Young made a low pass from the left to Rooney. After Lingard stopped the ball, he turned around and shot with his right foot when his body lost his balance. Rao is powerless against Lingard's sudden shot this time because of Courtois's brave performance in this game.

Manchester United lead Chelsea 1:0!

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There is a reason why Chelsea has not lost a game in the league after Hiddink took over. Although the performance of the old coach's team is still unstable, the players' fighting spirit is very strong. After falling behind, they quickly launched a fierce counterattack to Manchester United's goal.

In the 69th minute, Ivan volleyed with his left foot from 10 meters away. De Gea also showed his outstanding strength as a world-class goalkeeper, flying the ball with his right hand.

In the 72nd minute, Hazard passed the ball, and Fabregas shot with his right foot 6 meters from the right rib of the penalty area. De Gea reacted very quickly and blocked the ball with both hands again.

Chelsea's counterattack became more and more violent, and Manchester United, under the command of Ye Su, held firmly in the backcourt, without giving Chelsea any real chance to score.

As the referee Oliver blew the whistle for the end of the game after 3 minutes of stoppage time, the result of the game was also settled: Manchester United defeated the Blues Chelsea 1-0 at Stamford Bridge.

This is not only Manchester United's double play against Chelsea this season, but also the end of Hiddink's 10 unbeaten games in all competitions after taking over Chelsea. Manchester United ushered in a three-game winning streak in all competitions.

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A week later, the Premier League reopened.

Although there was a one-week break in the middle, Ye Su still only sent a substitute lineup to play in this game. Because just next Tuesday night, Manchester United will be a guest in Turin, Italy, ushering in the first round knockout round of the Champions League with the old lady Juventus.

And Manchester United's opponent, the black cat Sunderland, is still deep in the relegation zone this season.

In the last round of the Premier League, they tied Liverpool tenaciously 2:2. In the last 4 rounds of the league, they have 2 draws and 2 losses without a win. In the Premier League standings, Sunderland is temporarily second to last with only 20 points, and the relegation situation is very serious.

The strong relegation pressure has allowed the Black Cats to bloom a strong combat effectiveness at home.

The game started. In the 3rd minute, Kyle Walker, who had just returned from injury, brought down Van Aanholt. Sunderland got a set kick from the left side of the front court. Hazri passed a free kick to the penalty area. The ball was refracted and directly Going into the lower right corner of Manchester United's goal, De Gea couldn't make a save, and Sunderland led Manchester United 1-0 at home!

Manchester United's offense was also quite threatening. In the 5th minute of the game, they almost equalized the score. Lingard made a straight pass from the left, Mata made a straight pass, and Harry Kane made a shot, but by mistake, he missed an excellent opportunity to equalize the score.

Two minutes later, Mata made a diagonal pass behind the opponent, and Kony fell to the ground to tackle the ball and almost caused an own goal, which frightened the black cat at the Stadium of Light.

In the 10th minute, Cattermole intercepted the ball on the edge of the penalty area. Defoe broke away from the opponent's defender in front of the goal and missed the goal.

In the 14th minute, Kirchhoff was injured and Sunderland was forced to make a substitution adjustment and replaced Rodwell.

The pace of the game in the first half was very fast. Amidst the cheers of the home fans, the Black Cat played against Manchester United with vigor and vitality, threatening Manchester United's goal many times. Fortunately, De Gea played steadily and did not miss the second goal.

Moreover, at the end of the first half, Manchester United evened the score. In the 39th minute, Martial dribbled the ball in from the left and crossed into the penalty area. Rooney made it back. Mata hit the goal and was pounced by Mannone. Martial quickly followed up with a small angle shot and scored an empty goal!

Manchester United 1:1 Sunderland, equalized the score.

Changed sides to fight again, in the 47th minute, Hazri's cross was cleared by Carrick's header, Catmull picked the penalty area again, Maguire's header returned and almost sent an own goal assist, but fortunately De Gea attacked Forfeit the ball.

In the 49th minute, Sunderland took a free kick from the right and the ball went into the penalty area. O'Shea headed the goal and Rooney subconsciously blocked the ball out of the baseline. Hazri then sent a corner kick. O'Shea's header missed the goal.

Because things happened too fast, everyone didn't notice Rooney's problem in this defense, only the slow-motion playback was clear.

In the 60th minute of the game, Sunderland made a steal in the middle of the game, Mwila sent a through ball, and Ndoye made a single-handed opportunity. After breaking through, he hit the far corner and De Gea stretched his right foot to block the ball out of the bottom line.

In the 82nd minute, Hazri sent a corner kick to the back point. Kony suddenly went out and headed the ball to the top without anyone watching. De Gea made a save, but when he fell to the ground, he slammed the ball into his own gate with his back!

Sunderland regained the lead 2:1.

In the end, Sunderland maintained the score of 2:1 until the end and scored a valuable 3 points. Manchester United suffered their second defeat in the league this season.

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