Coaching career started as a college team coach

"Jose, fortunately we don't have to play in the Europa League." Faria checked the schedule, "We will play on the 13th, and the next game will be against Wolves on the 22nd."

"What about Wolves?" Mourinho asked.

"Well... they still need to play a Europa League play-off on the 18th. But it's at home."

At home, it seems that Wolves will not spend too much time on car travel, but they only have three days to rest, while Manchester United has a full 9 days. It is certain that Manchester United will play this game at 100%.

But Wolves are not sure.

However, their play-off opponent is Hajduk, a Croatian team. This team will not pose much threat to Wolves, and Wei Le will probably choose to rotate.

But even if most of the main players do not start, there will definitely be consumption of the game state. Therefore, Manchester United has an advantage.

Thinking of this, Mourinho suddenly came to his senses-"Why do Manchester United need to consider the opponent's state when playing against a newly promoted team?"

"Have you ever seen a newly promoted team play in the Europa League directly?" Faria said with a wry smile. Mourinho thought about it and shook his head.

The two smiled at each other, "Okay, it's a crazy horse."

As expected, Wolves still won the first round of the Europa League play-offs.

Wei Le sent out a substitute lineup to play. Jovic still didn't have time to sign up due to registration reasons, so Haaland acted as a single striker. In this game, cup goalkeeper Rudy was the starting goalkeeper, and Martin took a long vacation to date his girlfriend directly.

Jota was not included in the big list either. He stayed at home playing games.

But Bowen was still selected as a substitute.

The starting lineup of Wolves is like this. The goalkeeper is Rudy, and the defenders from left to right are Alphonso Davies, Godfrey, Coady and Doherty. On the midfield line, there were Dendoncker, De Paul, and Morgan Gibbs-White, who played as a front midfielder or shadow striker.

Trossard and Almiron were on both sides, with Haaland in the middle.

The deadlock was finally broken in the 33rd minute, when Almiron's cross hit the opponent's defender and bounced in front of De Paul.

De Paul dribbled the ball to the top of the penalty area, and felt that he had entered his shooting range, so he directly drew his bow and arrow and raised his foot to shoot. The football drew a very erratic arc and went into the upper corner of the goal! ! !

1-0!

The goalkeeper didn't react at all.

After De Paul scored this goal, he was stunned! Is this a shot I can make? ? ? He didn't even celebrate, and just froze in his place until his teammates rushed up to hug him and realized that he had really scored a goal.

"Oh! Simple, calm down!" De Paul immediately changed his face and said with a smirk that this goal still depends on strength.

Others were really unconvinced. Why did this person score the first goal of the season so early, and in such a wonderful way!

However, later, the live camera captured an awkward smile on De Paul's face, and the Wolves fans watching the game couldn't hold it anymore. His awkward smile was even made into an emoticon package in the end. The emoticon package was widely circulated in the Wolves chat group, and whoever scored a fairy goal would be teased like this in the future.

The 45-minute first half was coming to an end. Overall, the game was relatively smooth, with fewer fouls, and both sides played without much anger. Mainly, after seeing the state of the Wolves in the two games, Hajduk players really had no confidence in entering the Europa League finals.

The fourth official raised the sign for 3 minutes of injury time.

And just in the first minute of injury time, Alphonso Davies finally turned on the phone successfully. He broke through from the left, leaving all the Hajduk players who were close to him behind, and he strode directly to the penalty area.

The last pass along the small penalty area line was successfully handed to Haaland in front of the goal.

How could Haaland waste such an opportunity? He shot the ball in with a cushion shot, and now the score is 2-0!

Not long after the start of the second half, the team's "iron man" Doherty also got a chance to rest, and the young player Kounde got the opportunity to debut here. As a right back, Kounde performed mediocrely, but he didn't make any big mistakes.

In the 70th minute, Davis seized the counterattack opportunity on the left side. The opponent's defense was empty and the goalkeeper stood forward. He took a long shot more than 30 meters away from the goal. However, the shot was a long pass. The football first flew to a high place and then fell down.

The goalkeeper tried his best but couldn't catch up. The road back to the goal from outside the penalty area is always so long.

Just when people thought the ball was in hand, Ah Fang had alreadyWhen the celebration began, Haaland ran over with a flying kick, kicked the ball into the goal not far from the goal!

"Huh?"

Davis was stunned. How could he steal this?

But he did it. Davis and Haaland had a good relationship, and he could just blackmail Haaland for a meal. But the assistant referee actually raised the flag!

Haaland was offside!

"So it means that as long as he doesn't touch the ball, the goal will be valid?"

"Yes." The referee couldn't hold it anymore and confirmed with Davis with a smile. Then he looked at Davis and said thank you, turned around and rushed towards Haaland, "Brother! Why do you do such a wicked thing that hurts others and does not benefit yourself?"

Haaland couldn't refute it, so he just smiled.

When he ran up to him, I don't know what he was thinking, but Alphonso Davies suddenly got on top of him and bumped into Haaland's chest.

The scene was once very joyful. The players of Hajduk who escaped the disaster could not help but be infected by the happy football of Wolves when watching this farce. This game was played like a friendly match, and Wolves finally finished the first round with a 2-goal advantage.

In the second round, they will go to Croatia to play away games, but that will be at the end of August.

Now, Wolves can finally start preparing for the game against Manchester United.

"They have a longer rest period than us, which is an advantage for them." Wolves' physical coach Sergio Perez brought Manchester United's scout report to Wei Le, "But our main players have no problems with their physical fitness and will not be affected."

"That's good." Wei Le said with satisfaction.

Now Wolves are one of the few teams in the Premier League that are not troubled by injuries, which is inseparable from Wolves' advanced physical training and medical system.

Manchester United is now missing three players, Ashley Young, Rojo and Luke Shaw, and two of these three are full-backs.

Back at the training base, at the regular meeting of the Wolves coaching staff on the evening of the Europa League match, Wei Le raised a crucial question.

"Do we really have to win against Manchester United?"