I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

In the middle of the week, Manchester United continued to play away games, which was also the third consecutive away game. The opponent is Northampton, a mid-range team in the League One. This is the third round of the League Cup this season.

Although Northampton has a history of more than 100 years, the club has been in the lower leagues of England. Since October 1994, it moved to the current Heathfields Stadium as its home stadium. It was promoted to League One in the 2005-2006 season, but was relegated to the Second Division after two seasons. In the 2015-2016 season, he was promoted to League One as the champion of the Second Division. He is currently ranked 11th among 24 teams after 8 rounds of the League One.

Northampton Football Club was founded in 1897 by a group of teachers, nicknamed the Shoemakers due to the city's long history of shoemaking. The team uses burgundy and white as the home jersey colors, and has established an irreconcilable relationship with the local rival Pittburgh United Football Club since the 1960s.

Northampton once spent a season in the top league in the 1965-1966 season. That was the only top league experience in their club history of more than 100 years.

The shoemaker has historically had an intersection with Manchester United. In 1970, they played against Manchester United in the fifth round of the FA Cup. As a result, they were defeated by a score of 2:8. George Best, one of the three saints of Manchester United, scored 6 goals After the game, the players of Northampton Football Club signed the game ball as a commemoration.

Because the opponent's strength is not strong, and next weekend Manchester United will usher in a battle with the blue fox Leicester City, so Ye Su once again fully rotated the weekend's lineup.

Although it is a substitute rotation lineup, it is also a team that can beat the Brugge giants, so this Manchester United still won a victory at Searsfields Stadium, relying on Bruno Fernandez, Lingard and Rashford Germany's goal, the Red Devils defeated the shoemaker 3:1 away and easily advanced to the fourth round of the League Cup.

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At 7:30 p.m. on September 24th, Beijing time, the Premier League will play the first game. Last season's Premier League champion will face last season's Premier League runner-up Blue Fox Leicester City at Old Trafford.

Since the start of this season, the Blue Fox led by Tinker has performed very averagely. Currently, they only rank 11th in the Premier League with 2 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses and 7 points. Ranieri is under great pressure.

Ye Su knew that Ranieri, the biggest contributor to the Blue Fox's runner-up in the Premier League last season, would be unexpectedly dismissed in the middle of this season.

However, Ye Su had no intention of sending warmth to the other party. Anyway, he won the championship last season, so he didn't care about stabbing the opponent again at this time.

Last round of the league,

Manchester United, who played with all the main players, was tied by the opponent at the buzzer with a two-goal lead and lost two points. After the game, Ye Su turned on the hair dryer at full power in the locker room and trained the whole team hard.

In this game, Manchester United's main lineup, which returned to the game, took its anger out on the Blue Fox. The explosive Manchester United scored four goals in a row in the first half, completely killing the game.

In the 22nd minute, Manchester United took a corner kick from the right, Mata drove the ball into the penalty area, Van Dijk scored with a header from the center, and Manchester United led Leicester City 1-0!

In the 37th minute, Mata got the ball from the right and gave it to De Bruyne, De Bruyne gave it to Vardy, and Vardy returned it to Mata who cut inside. Mata kicked the goal near the penalty spot and scored. , Manchester United led Leicester City 2:0.

In the 40th minute, Mata took a tactical corner kick to the penalty area, De Bruyne stepped in to stop the ball and swept across the goal, and Rooney stepped in and scored. Manchester United lead Leicester City 3:0!

In the 42nd minute, Manchester United took a corner kick from the left and De Bruyne scored with a header from the center. Manchester United led Leicester City 4-0.

With a four-goal advantage at halftime, and next Wednesday night, Manchester United will face the challenge of Porto, the strongest opponent in the group stage. Ye Su made substitutions and adjustments at the beginning of the second half. Rooney and Ibrahimovic were both replaced. Linga De and Harry Kane come on stage.

Leicester City regained a victory in the second half. In the 59th minute, Gray took the ball from the left and cut in. He passed Lingard and took a long shot. The ball went directly into the net. The Blue Foxes scored a face-saving goal. goal.

In the 70th minute of the game, Ye Su played the last card in his hand, and Rashford replaced Vardy.

Wonder Boy soon became a team meritorious service.

In 73 minutes, Lingard took the ball from the right, cut inside and crossed to Harry Kane in the middle. Kane kicked and shot from the penalty area. Ziller fell to the ground and saved it, but the ball landed exactly on Rashford In front of Germany. Facing this sudden gift, Rashford smiled unceremoniously and easily pushed the empty goal.

At the end of the game, Manchester United beat Leicester City 5:1.

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After 6 rounds of the Premier League, the situation in the standings is somewhat unexpected, but it is also expected.

At the top of the list is naturally Manchester United with 5 wins and 1 tie. They lead with 16 points.

In second place is Guardiola's Manchester City. After losing to Manchester United, Guardiola's team quickly recovered and is currently chasing the rivals in the same city with 5 wins and 1 loss with 15 points.

Ranked third is not Conte's Chelsea, nor Wenger's Arsenal, or even Uncle Scum's Liverpool, but Pochettino's Tottenham.

In the third season of taking over Bai Lily, Pochettino's team has become more and more stable. With a record of 4 wins and 2 draws in the first 6 rounds of the league, it is the only unbeaten team in the Premier League except Manchester United.

Under the unfavorable opening conditions, Arsene Wenger's Arsenal and Uncle Slag's Liverpool made timely adjustments. At present, both teams have 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. With the same points as Everton, the three teams Ranked 4th, 5th, and 6th in the Premier League!

That's right, for Fourth Master Wen, his team has returned to the position most familiar to gun fans all over the world: fourth place!

And Chelsea, which started well, suffered three rounds of winless after three consecutive victories. After six rounds, they only scored 10 points and dropped to eighth in the standings.

It seems that Kong Er is going to follow in the footsteps of Mourinho last season, and he will be dismissed in the middle of the season?

Of course, the most tragic thing is the tinkerer. After losing to Manchester United, the Blue Foxes have dropped to 13th in the Premier League. The record is not good. In the Blue Foxes, who just renewed their contract with Ranieri in the summer, there have been rumors of discord between the tinker and the players. Of course, there is also the sound of the tinker dismissing get out of class.

After achieving a big victory in the league and maintaining the lead in the Premier League standings, Manchester United can finally devote itself to preparing for the strongest opponent Porto in the Champions League group stage.

This is the second consecutive season for Manchester United to meet the Portuguese giants in the UEFA Champions League group stage. Last season, Manchester United, which had won six consecutive victories in the group, completed a double play against Porto. The away game was narrowly won 3:2, and the home game was 2:0. win.

A year later, when the two sides meet again, what will be the result?

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Because last weekend's game was at noon on Saturday local time in the UK, while the Champions League game was on Wednesday night, there were more than four days of rest between the two games, and in addition to the game against Leicester City, Manchester United's main lineup did not meet. There is so much resistance, so the consumption is not large, which makes the physical condition of Manchester United's main lineup very good, so Ye Su continues to let the main lineup play against Porto to ensure the victory of this strong dialogue.

Because it has been less than a month since "French Football" announced the shortlist of candidates for the European Golden Globe Awards, and it is only two and a half months before the final selection of the European Golden Globe Awards. The critical time for the final sprint.

The performance in the Champions League has a huge impact on the selection of the European Ballon d'Or. In the last round of the group stage, he was unable to play because of the team rotation. For this second round of the Champions League group stage, Rooney cherishes the opportunity to play very much.

For Manchester United, first place in the group is the only group stage result they can accept, so a victory against Porto at home is also a must. Therefore, at the beginning of the game, Manchester United aggressively pressed the offense.

The team's game strategy is exactly the same as when they played against Bruges before, that is, they just press up and start playing regardless of the odds.

Relying on Ibrahimovic's high center forward advantage and the team's overall midfield pressure, Manchester United quickly overwhelmed Porto.

In the twelfth minute of the game, after receiving a pass from Kyle Walker on the right, Rooney suddenly threw off the defender, cut all the way to the front of the penalty area, and passed a cross to Mata.

This time, the Manchester United midfielder stepped in and directly pushed the right-footed curve ball, sending the ball into Porto's goal.

After the goal, Mata was so excited that he hugged Rooney. Because this is the first time he has scored in the Champions League after more than four years.

Mata's last Champions League goal was in the round of 16 knockout round in the distant 2011-2012 season. In the game away to Naples on the night of February 21, 2012, Mata opened the scoring for Chelsea.

But it is a pity that the Blues lost three goals in a row after Mata scored in that game, and finally lost 1:3 in the away game. But Mata's away goal was very crucial, because after returning to Stamford Bridge, the Blues played Naples 3:1 in 90 minutes of regular time, with a total score of 4:4.

Mata's away goal gave Chelsea a chance for extra time. In the end, they scored another goal in overtime, thus eliminating Naples with a score of 5:4 in two rounds and breaking into the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

Without Mata's away goal, Chelsea would have been eliminated in the round of 16, and there would be no miraculous victory in the future.

In the four and a half years since then, although Mata has played in the Champions League, he has not scored any Champions League goals.

To score again now is a great feeling.

And Rooney was very happy in his heart, celebrating with him, and he was also very happy to see Mata score.

Mata is a standard warm guy, he is very popular in the team, and has a good relationship with Rooney, the captain.

But Rooney is more eager to score goals than to see his teammates score goals.