From the man behind the football king to the football king

After the league match with Southampton, Manchester United split into two teams. One team, led by Mourinho, flew to Qatar in the Middle East on a special team plane to participate in the upcoming Club World Cup semi-finals. The other team, led by assistant coach Carrick, stayed in the UK to continue participating in domestic competitions.

This is the second consecutive year that Manchester United has split into two teams to participate in the Club World Cup and domestic competitions. Manchester United's schedule is too tight, and it is impossible to adjust and stagger them.

According to the schedule, Manchester United will have four games in the next five days.

At 8 pm on February 6, in the 23rd round of the Premier League, Manchester United will face Everton at home; at 6 pm on February 8, the Club World Cup semi-final will start at the Ahmed Bin Ali Stadium in Doha, the capital of Qatar; at 7:30 pm on February 9, in the fifth round of the FA Cup, Manchester United will play at home against West Ham United; at 6 pm on February 11, the Club World Cup final will be held at the Education City Stadium in Doha.

Manchester United also thought about adjusting the schedule, but the team has been in a super-intensive schedule of two games a week since the international match day in late November last year. Even in the next period of time, until the end of this season, Manchester United may have a rhythm of two games a week, so in the end, the team can only split into two groups and fight on three fronts at the same time, just like last season.

Bruno is the most special one. He first stayed in the country and participated in the 23rd round of the league with Everton. Then he rushed to Doha overnight to join the team's main players and participate in two games of the Club World Cup. Then he returned to the UK with the team to continue to participate in the next game.

In this way, he will only miss the fifth round of the FA Cup and the match against West Ham United.

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At 8 o'clock in the evening on February 6, the Millennium Stadium, the 23rd round of the Premier League Manchester United home game against Everton will start.

Since Mourinho has led the team's main players to Qatar in the Middle East, most of the Manchester United players who stayed in the country are substitutes and rotation players.

The starting lineup of this game is Romero as the goalkeeper, Dalot, Tuanzebe, Lindelof and Brandon Williams as the four defenders. In the midfield, Bruno is paired with Mata and Fred, and the forward trident is Greenwood and McTominay with the Ivorian teenager Amad Diallo who just joined Manchester United in the winter transfer window.

The 18-year-old was signed by Manchester United from Serie A team Atalanta at a high price of 21.3 million pounds in the winter transfer window. The performance of the Ivorian genius in Serie A and the Champions League conquered Mourinho, especially in the fourth round of the Champions League group stage, when Atalanta defeated Manchester United at the Millennium Stadium. Diallo's performance on the wing amazed Mourinho, and then he sent transfer personnel to the Apennines to discuss Diallo's transfer. Finally, shortly after the opening of the winter transfer window, he wrote a check of more than 20 million and brought him to Carrington.

The Toffees are currently ranked seventh in the league. The team has only lost one of the last five games. They are currently only four points away from the top four in the league. In order to compete for a place in the Champions League next season, Everton needs to fight hard for victory in this game. Manchester United's two-front battle gave Everton hope of getting three points at the Millennium Stadium.

Manchester United, who was playing with a depleted team, had a perfect first half in the game.

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At the beginning of the first half, today is the 63rd anniversary of the Munich air crash. The captains of both teams led the team into the stadium with wreaths.

In the 2nd minute, Manchester United had an offensive opportunity. Everton headed the ball in the penalty area and passed it continuously. Bruno took the ball and shot it from the edge of the penalty area, but it was blocked out of the bottom line.

In the 21st minute, Manchester United still had an offensive opportunity, but after Greenwood passed the ball continuously on the right, his low shot in the penalty area was powerless and missed the goal.

In the 24th minute, the ball went in! Diallo, who made his debut for Manchester United, took the ball on the right, rubbed a curved ball with his right foot and passed it to the goal. McTominay headed the ball in the penalty area. Manchester United 1:0 Everton

In the 45th minute, Manchester United scored another goal! Still attacking from the right, Bruno passed the ball to Diallo, Diallo passed the ball back, Bruno shot directly from the front of the penalty area, and the ball went into the goal. Manchester United 2:0 Everton.

In the first half of the game, with two assists, the 18-year-old Ivorian boy conquered Manchester United fans.

However, after the start of the second half, the situation on the field suddenly changed.

Since Bruno had to take a flight to Qatar overnight after the game, and the team performed very well in the first half and gained a two-goal advantage, Carrick, who was acting as the head coach in this game, thought that the overall situation of the game was decided, and replaced Bruno with Phil Jones in the midfield, and Manchester United changed to 343.

The new formation made Manchester United players a little uncomfortable, and Bruno was not on the field, which made Manchester United lose control of the situation, causing Everton to take the lead at the Millennium Stadium after the start of the second half.

In the 48th minute, Everton scored a goal! In an attack from the left front court, Lewin's cross near the baseline was blocked by the goalkeeper, and Doucoure followed up with a shot in front of the goal. Manchester United 2:1 Everton.

In the 52nd minute, Everton scored another goal! Doucoure took the ball from the right and made a triangle pass to the penalty area, and James followed up with a low shot! Manchester United 2:2 Everton.

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In just four minutes, Manchester United lost two goals in a row. The two wingbacks Dalot and Williams were completely unaccustomed to their new positions and were somewhat lost on the field.

But fortunately, Carrick responded in time. He quickly ordered Dalot and Williams to withdraw the full-backs, and Manchester United changed to 541 and defended their own half.

With the whole team retreating, Manchester United finally stabilized and did not continue to lose the ball.

Moreover, with a solid defense, Manchester United gradually took control of the situation and began to play some threatening attacks.

In the 62nd minute, Manchester United missed an opportunity. In a frontcourt attack, McTominay passed the ball to Greenwood on the left from the edge of the penalty area. The latter formed a single shot at a small angle facing the goalkeeper, but the shot was saved.

In the 70th minute, Manchester United scored another goal! Mata made a cross, and McTominay followed up in the penalty area and jumped high to head the ball. Manchester United 3:2 Everton.

Subsequently, Manchester United's offensive on the field was very fierce, but the offensive players missed scoring opportunities in succession and failed to expand their lead.

Just when everyone thought that Manchester United could win 3 points at home without any danger, an accident happened.

There were 4 minutes of injury time in the second half, but just when the time was about to run out, Everton got a free kick in the frontcourt. Although Manchester United players protested against this, after all, the 4 minutes of injury time had passed, but the referee insisted on letting Everton take this free kick.

The ball was kicked to the front of the penalty area, and Keane, a central defender from Manchester United's youth training camp, headed the ball to the middle of the penalty area, and Lewin seized the opportunity to shoot!

3:3, Everton equalized the score again!

After this ball was scored, the referee immediately blew three whistles to end the game, and no more opportunities were given to Manchester United to kick off in the center circle. It seemed that he was just waiting for Everton to score this last goal.

In the end, Manchester United was equalized by Everton in stoppage time at home.

According to technical statistics after the game, Everton only had three shots in the goal frame in this game, and all three shots were converted into goals.

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After the game, Bruno attended the post-match press conference with Carrick and expressed dissatisfaction with some situations in the game.

"There are a lot of disappointing things. We made a lot of mistakes in the game. We can't lose the ball like this again. We must be more focused. We must have the same desire to score and defend our own goal."

"We must score in every game, and this also applies to not letting the opponent score. I think we must learn from it."

"This has happened many times, so this result is more than a little disappointing. You are talking about everything that is happening, but I want to emphasize that it is about learning from it and getting better."

Especially for Everton's final buzzer goal, Bruno was even more critical: "It's really bad. You can't lose such a ball because the position where they took the set-piece is 50 yards away from our goal. You can't lose such a ball in this situation. We must be more focused, prepared, and stronger. We must use everything to defend our goal."

This goal, Tuanzebe's defensive choice and Manchester United's defense at the last moment have problems. Before Tuanzebe made a shovel foul, there was no Everton player in an offensive advantage in front of him, and Manchester United's defense line had enough troops, and even if he was passed, he could achieve man-to-man restrictions.

Therefore, it is an established fact that Tuanzebe committed a reckless foul this time; in the defensive header, Manchester United was ferried by the opponent when they had a numerical advantage at the front point. In addition, in the subsequent free kick defense, Tuanzebe's early retreat caused the opponent's offensive player to advance without offside, Romero was not prepared before Lewin shot, and he did not even "open his body" to intercept, which allowed Lewin to score the equalizer.

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For Manchester United, from leading 2:0 to being scored by Everton at the last moment, it was an obvious "loss of points". Moreover, when the team's offensive performance was sufficient, the continuous mistakes on the defense line dealt a heavy blow to the team.

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In addition, this season's Premier League has shown an obvious "turbulent" pattern, and every loss of points may have a greater impact on the final ranking at the end of the season. Although Manchester United's current advantage seems to be relatively obvious, Manchester City has performed very well recently and has quickly caught up.

Since being tied 1:1 by West Bromwich Albion at home in the 13th round of the Premier League on December 15 last year, Manchester City has won nine consecutive league games.

One day later, Manchester City defeated Liverpool 4:1 at Anfield, and while completely kicking the Reds out of the league championship, they also closed the gap with Manchester United by two points again.

With one game less, Manchester City is only 11 points behind. Once they win Everton in the make-up game two weeks later, they will only be 8 points behind Manchester United.

Although the 8-point advantage seems not small, it is actually an advantage of three games. Once Manchester United has problems in a certain game, Manchester City can really see the hope of catching up with Manchester United.

This is not good news for Manchester United.

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After attending the new Wen press conference after the game, Bruno went straight to the airport and took his Gulfstream G550 business jet to Doha, the capital of Qatar, overnight.

For Bruno, rest and jet lag will be completed on the plane. Once he arrives in Qatar, he will have to immediately prepare for the Club World Cup semi-final without any extra rest time.

However, this is not impossible for Bruno, who has a system that allows him to sleep deeply during the flight.

Manchester United's opponent in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup is the African champion Cairo National last season. They defeated the host Al Duhaani to advance to the semi-finals.

Affected by the schedule, Manchester United is nominally the main lineup in this game, but in fact the lineup is still incomplete.

In the 77th minute of the game, Manchester United got a corner kick opportunity.

Left-back Luke Shaw stood at the corner kick point, raised his arm, and signaled that he was going to kick off.

Cairo National's goal was crowded. In the absence of opening the situation in the movement, they needed to be particularly wary of Manchester United using set-piece opportunities to score.

Bruno also ran into the penalty area of ​​Cairo National. Two players immediately defended him closely. Although Bruno was not tall, he had amazing jumping ability and often had good headers.

Manchester United's center forward Harry Kane and two central defenders Maguire and Van Dijk were also competing for position with the opponent's defenders. The two sides were pulling and tugging, and the chaos was unbearable.

The referee blew the whistle, and Luke Shaw kicked the ball into the penalty area.

Bruno jumped at the front point, and the two players defending him also jumped. None of the three hit the ball, and the ball flew through the air.

Maguire headed the ball in the middle, and he slightly touched the ball, changing the flight path of the ball. The goalkeeper of Cairo National subconsciously jumped, and the ball was not hit out of the danger zone. There was chaos in the penalty area. All you can see is the offensive and defensive players entangled together, all wanting to kick the ball.

Mourinho widened his eyes, and then he saw the shaking of the net. He raised his arms and saw Harry Kane running out with his arms raised. He roared and rushed to the corner flag, and behind him were the Manchester United players who were also running excitedly.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLL!" Lineker's voice rang, "Harry Kane! The Manchester United shooter finally scored a goal, and he scored in front of the goal! 1:0! Manchester United leads Cairo National!"

Mourinho swung his fist vigorously and smashed it into the air.

He finally waited for the goal. In this tough game, at this time point, this is a goal of great value.

Ten minutes later, the referee blew the whistle to end the game. With Harry Kane's goal, Manchester United beat Cairo National 1:0 and entered the Club World Cup final for three consecutive years.

There was a huge cheer above the stadium.

Because Manchester United's owner Jassim is a prince of Qatar, they are naturally treated as the home team here.

Bruno also raised his arms high. Beside him were the excitedly running Manchester United players, and in the stands were countless pairs of excitedly waving arms!