From the man behind the football king to the football king

On the evening of February 2, England's winter transfer window was officially closed.

In this transfer window, Manchester United loaned Lingard, who basically couldn't play in the team, to West Ham United, and loaned out several youth team players, and no other moves.

Manchester United's first game after entering February was at home against Southampton on the evening of February 2.

At the beginning of this season, the performance of the Saints once gave people a bright feeling, but as the season progressed, Southampton quickly slipped down the standings due to overall strength. After 21 rounds, Southampton had 8 wins, 5 draws and 7 losses, and ranked 11th with 29 points.

Facing such an average opponent, and the team had just fought a fierce battle with Arsenal three days ago, Mourinho made some rotations in Manchester United's lineup. De Gea guards the goal, Cancelo, Lindelof, Maguire and Luke Shaw sit in the back line, Fred, Bruno and Bellingham form three midfielders, Rashford, McTominay and Greenwood form the front trident.

This is just a very ordinary league game, and the epidemic still shows no signs of improvement. The Millennium Stadium is still in a restricted situation, so only two thousand fans are allowed to enter to watch the game.

Although playing with a semi-main lineup, Mourinho's requirement for Manchester United is still to take all three points at home.

Manchester United's advantage in the standings is indeed great, but facing the teams in the middle and lower reaches of the standings, Manchester United cannot be careless and lose Jingzhou.

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No one can imagine how smooth the game is for Manchester United.

At the beginning of the game, Manchester United pressed on the attack.

With McTominay's advantage as a high center forward and the team's overall pressure in the front and middle fields, Southampton was soon overwhelmed.

In the first minute, McTominay intercepted the ball in the backcourt, and Yankewicz stepped on McTominay. The referee directly showed a red card and sent him off.

Such a result means that the Saints will face a situation of ten people throughout the game!

At this time, almost everyone realized that Manchester United will usher in another big victory.

This is indeed the case. Southampton is far less powerful than Manchester United, and now they are one man short early, which leads to the visiting team being completely crushed by Manchester United.

In the 17th minute, Rashford got the ball back from the left, Luke Shaw followed up with a cross, and Cancelo inserted a cross shot from the back point. The ball hit the post and bounced into the net. Manchester United took the lead, 1:0!

When the referee blew the whistle to end the first half of the game, there was a warm cheer from the Millennium Stadium.

The scoreboard showed the final score of the two sides in the first half: 4:0!

According to international practice, the home team is in front and the visiting team is behind.

Shortly after the opening, after Luke Shaw assisted Cancelo to score, Manchester United chased Southampton all the way.

In the 24th minute, Maguire launched an attack with a long pass, Luke Shaw took the ball into the penalty area, Greenwood knocked back, and Rashford easily pushed the ball into the goal, 2:0!

In the 33rd minute, Bruno launched an attack at the top of the penalty area, Rashford made a cross from the right, and Bednarek stretched his legs in front of the goal and accidentally scored an own goal, Manchester United 3:0!

In the 39th minute, Bruno passed the ball to the left, Luke Shaw made a cross, McTominay was unguarded at the front of the small penalty area, and headed the ball into the goal on the spot, Manchester United 4:0!

Bruno got several chances in the first half, but they were not very good, and he was always a little bit away from scoring. This made him look helpless when he walked off the court and saw Cancelo, Rashford and McTominay, the three people who scored.

He really tried his best, but he was still a little bit away from scoring.

He was quite helpless about this.

Can you blame Southampton's players for not cooperating with him?

"It's okay, take your time, there's still the second half." Rashford comforted Bruno.

"Yes, sometimes the more anxious you are, the harder it is to score." Cancelo also helped persuade.

After scoring another goal in the game against Arsenal, Bruno's Premier League goals have reached 185, and he is close to tying Manchester United legend Andy Cole's 187 goals.

In this case, his teammates also hope to help him score goals, to tie or even break Andy Cole's goal record as soon as possible, but Southampton's defense against him is indeed too tight.

Bruno patted the shoulders of his two teammates on the left and right, shook his head, and walked off the field with a wry smile.

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Although Bruno was a little unhappy about not scoring a goal, Manchester United's supporters were very satisfied with Manchester United's performance in the first half.

"Manchester United completely destroyed Southampton with a devastating attack!" said He Wei, the commentator of the CCTV live broadcast of the game.

During the halftime break, Mourinho returned to the locker room in a good mood. He was very satisfied with the result and progress of the first half.

"Keep playing like this in the second half." Mourinho shouted, "Don't think 4:0 is enough. Remember, goal difference is also crucial."

In the long league, not only every point is important, but every goal is equally important. When it comes to comparing goal difference to determine the ranking, sometimes a goal determines whether it is heaven or hell.

In recent seasons, the competition in the Premier League has been very fierce. Although Manchester United did not win the championship by virtue of goal difference in the end, Mourinho did not dare to be careless when Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea repeatedly scored 90+ points.

He did not want his team to lose the league championship to Manchester City by virtue of goal difference as in the 2011-2012 season.

"After the start of the second half, continue to increase the pressure." Mourinho said, "completely destroy Southampton's fighting spirit."

Although Southampton is currently ranked only in the middle of the standings, at the beginning of the season, Southampton drew 3:3 with Chelsea away, drew 1:1 with Arsenal away, defeated Liverpool 1:0, and defeated Everton and Aston Villa, who performed strongly this season, and once topped the standings. It is a Premier League powerhouse that cannot be underestimated in everyone's mind.

And their head coach Hasenhuttl also demonstrated his coaching ability in the Premier League. Under the leadership of Hasenhuttl, Southampton's changes are obvious to all. There has been great progress in the team's spirit and the fans have seen it. Therefore, after they lost 0:9 to Leicester City last season, the fans who witnessed the defeat not only did not scold the team, but expressed their support in person.

They believe that this Southampton team has a tenacious fighting spirit. A defeat cannot represent the team's performance for the entire season, and they cannot give up their love for many years.

Finally, with the help of the fans, Southampton ranked 11th in the standings last season, achieving the best result in the past three years.

Therefore, although Manchester United was ahead by four goals in the first half, it cannot be considered that Manchester United has secured the victory.

You know, in the past few seasons, it was not easy for Manchester United to win against Southampton.

In the 2016-2017 season, Manchester United won 2:0 at home in two league games against Southampton, but was tied 0:0 away. In addition, in the League Cup final, they defeated Southampton 4:2.

In the following 2017-2018 season, Manchester United defeated the Saints 2:0 at home and away.

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In the 2018-2019 season, Manchester United won the two games against Southampton with great difficulty, winning 3:2 away and 3:1 at home.

Last season, although Manchester United beat Southampton 4:1 away, they were tied 2:2 at home.

In the first round of the two sides this season, Manchester United won 3:2 away again.

These games let Mourinho know that Southampton is a very tenacious opponent.

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After the second half, Manchester United continued to launch a fierce attack on Southampton. The high-pressure tactics are becoming more and more sophisticated, and the effect is getting better and better.

Bruno still kept running since the start, patiently looking for opportunities.

Facing a player like him, it is difficult for Southampton to completely restrict him with such a style of play.

In the 56th minute, when Cancelo dribbled the ball to the 30-meter area in the front court, he faced the tight defense of two Southampton defenders, which made it difficult for Cancelo to advance.

Bruno quickly ran to the gap and raised his hand for the ball.

Cancelo's ball came to Bruno's feet. Knowing that there was no defensive player beside him, Bruno stopped and turned.

Turning around, Bruno started quickly and dribbled the ball all the way to the penalty area.

McTominay chose to run diagonally from the front of the penalty area to the right side of the penalty area, just pulling away the defensive players in the middle for Bruno.

But Southampton was obviously more concerned about Bruno, and two defensive players blocked the front of the penalty area.

With interceptions in front and pursuers behind, Bruno chose to send the ball to the right side of the penalty area in an instant.

McTominay rushed over and stopped the ball. Southampton's defensive players didn't care about Bruno at all, and all rushed to McTominay.

With the Scotsman's position, anyone who received the ball could turn around and shoot directly.

The distance was not far, but it was still very threatening.

McTominay was obviously very clear about the intentions of the Southampton defenders. After blocking the defenders with his body, he protected the ball and passed it diagonally back to the top of the arc.

At this time, Bruno had run out of the gap again. With no one defending, he stopped the ball and chased into the penalty area.

Southampton's goalkeeper McCarthy decisively abandoned the goal, but when he chased halfway, Bruno had already pushed the ball into the empty goal, 5:0!

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!"

"Bruno finally scored a goal!"

"In the 57th minute, Bruno and center forward McTominay made a very clever frontcourt cooperation, and calmly pushed the ball into the empty goal before the goalkeeper came out!"

"This is Manchester United's fifth goal in this game, and Bruno's 25th league goal this season! It is also Bruno's 186th Premier League goal in his career, only one goal away from Andy Cole, who is third in the Premier League's historical scorer list!"