I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

At 1:30 noon on September 21, 2014, local time in the United Kingdom, Manchester United was a guest at the King Power Stadium to challenge the Blue Fox Leicester City.

The two clubs have faced each other 117 times in history. Manchester United has a clear upper hand with 59 wins, 26 draws and 32 losses, including 55 wins, 26 draws and 31 losses in the league. The last time Manchester United lost to Leicester dates back to January 1998, when the Red Devils lost 0:1 at Old Trafford. Since then, Leicester has won 10 wins and 1 tie in 11 games in all competitions and remains unbeaten. The last 10 games have maintained a complete victory; since Leicester won 3:0 at home in November 1985, Manchester United has won 6 wins and 3 draws in 9 away games and remains unbeaten, and has maintained a complete victory in the last 5 visits.

In this game, Ye Su's Manchester United finally ushered in a relatively complete defense line. The left-back Luke Shaw, who joined the team at the buzzer of the summer transfer window, started for Manchester United for the first time, forming a back line with Van Dijk, Maguire and Rafael. Kanter and De Bruyne partnered as a midfielder, Mata served as a midfielder, and faced his old club's Vardy, Rooney and Bruno Fernandez to form a three-forward.

This is Ye Su's first attempt at playing Mata and De Bruyne at the same time.

The formation of the home team Leicester is different from that of Manchester United. They have a 4141 formation. Kasper Schmeichel, the son of the famous Manchester United star Schmeichel, will start as the goalkeeper. Loya served as a single arrow.

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After the start of the game, Manchester United turned against the guest and completely suppressed Leicester City. De Bruyne frequently attacked, and in fact formed a double midfielder with Mata. And Bruno Fernandez did not stay at the right winger more, but retreated to cooperate with Mata and De Bruyne. Instead, Vardy often threatened Leicester City's goals in the penalty area with Rooney. Therefore, Manchester United's formation on the field is more inclined to 4132.

The strong control of Mata, De Bruyne and Bruno Fernandez in the midfield completely suppressed Leicester City's midfield, and Manchester United also took the absolute initiative on the field.

Under Manchester United's offensive, the game only lasted 13 minutes, and Manchester United broke through the Blue Fox's gate.

Manchester United's two forwards interacted in the penalty area. Rooney made a pass from the left side of the penalty area. Vardy headed past the goal near the back post and broke the goal of his old club. The score became 1:0.

Vardy didn't celebrate after scoring, but just walked towards the midfield with his head down. However, some Leicester City fans, as well as the 3,000 Manchester United fans who came to the away game to cheer for the team, gave Vardy applause.

For Vardy, a player who has contributed a lot to the Blue Fox's promotion to the Premier League, Blue Fox fans still like it very much. Now seeing that he expressed respect to his old club after breaking the goal, without any celebration, they gave applause without hesitation.

Three minutes after Jamie Vardy broke the deadlock with a Leicester goal, United extended the lead. Mata went straight, Rooney put in a penalty kick near the top right corner and shot into the net, 2:0!

However, Leicester City is not weak. They scored 1 win, 2 draws and 1 loss in the first 4 games of the new season, and ranked 12th in the league with 5 points, which is the best performance among the three newly promoted horses. A minute after United scored their second goal, they fought back.

In the 17th minute, Leicester quickly regained a point. Schlupp threw off Maguire's bottom line on the right side of the penalty area and made a cross. Ulloa headed past De Gea's ten fingers, and the score became 1:2!

This is Ulloa's fourth goal in the Premier League this season, but in slow motion playback, before Schroop made a pass, the ball was already out of the baseline. Manchester United once again suffered from the referee.

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Manchester United continued to attack Leicester City, but the two strikers missed consecutive scoring opportunities.

In the 25th minute, Rooney nudged a free kick, Vardy kicked a shot from 25 yards, and the ball flew out of the goal against the right post.

Three minutes later, Rooney got Vardy's ball near the penalty spot, but his shot was slightly slow, and he was blocked by Leicester City's defenders.

In the 41st minute, Rooney made the ball with his chest and Vardy shot from 18 yards from the goal. After the ball was touched by the Leicester City defender, it went wide of the right post again.

Mata took a right corner kick, and Maguire's header was slightly over the crossbar.

At the end of the first half, Manchester United led Leicester 2:1 away and entered the intermission.

After changing sides and fighting again, Manchester United once again expanded their lead in the 58th minute of the game. Rooney's shot from outside the penalty area was blocked, Manchester United reorganized the attack, Vardy returned a pass, De Bruyne made a low shot 18 yards from the goal, the ball was changed by Mata, and then rushed into the net, Manchester United led 3:1.

The ball counted on Mata.

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In the ensuing game, the scene that once happened to Manchester United did not appear, but both sides had no further achievements in this game. In the end, Manchester United defeated Leicester City 3:1 in the away game and played one more game. Under the circumstances, they led Chelsea by 3 points and climbed to the top of the standings.

This is the first time Manchester United has reached the top of the standings after more than a year.

Although in the first round of last season and the first round of this season, Manchester United briefly topped the standings, but that is of no reference at all.

The last time Manchester United really stayed at the top of the Premier League standings was the season when Ferguson retired. At that time they won the Premier League title.

More than two hours later, the Blues, who were a guest at the Etihad Stadium, lost a good game when the scene was fully dominant. They fought Blue Moon 1:1. After five rounds, they scored 13 points with 4 wins and 1 draw. , Lost the top position in the standings that had been occupied since the first round.

This draw has caused a lot of criticism of Mourinho in the UK.

In order to prepare for this strong dialogue with Manchester City, in the Champions League match in the middle of the week, Mourinho carried out a rotation in the match against Schalke 04. The striker Costa, who scored 7 goals in 4 games, and the main player on the left, A Neither Zpilicueta nor the German gunner Schurrle started. Originally, Chelsea could easily win against Schalke, but Drogba and Xiaofa were wasting great opportunities in succession. In the end, Chelsea swallowed the bitter fruit and drew with Schalke 1:1. gram.

But now, the team was tied again by Manchester City and lost the top spot in the Premier League standings.

What makes the Blues fans most unacceptable is that it was their former meritorious player Lampard who caused Chelsea to lose 2 points.

In the summer, Lampard left the Blues who had played for many years and went to New York. But only two months later, he returned to the Premier League again and joined Manchester City on loan.

Many Blues fans believe that if Mourinho can keep Lampard, he will definitely stay in the team.

But now, they can only witness the meritorious players of the past playing for their opponents and breaking their goals.

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Judging from the situation at the beginning of the league, Mourinho's tactical intentions are basically exposed. Facing the underdogs, the Blues' offensive football is like a thorny hand, while facing the strong teams, Chelsea can also use the powerful tactics in front of the goal. To embarrass the opponent, the ease of plan A and plan B allows Chelsea to easily deal with the Premier League war.

Last season, Chelsea often played well against strong teams. Statistics show that in the top 7 mutual blogs, Chelsea's record is the best, including double kills against Manchester City and Liverpool. Facing Arsenal and Manchester United, Chelsea both It has achieved 1 win and 1 draw. In the match against the top 7 teams in the league, Chelsea actually lost only one game. At that time, they lost 0:1 to Everton.

Although the strong is strong, but in the face of underdogs, Chelsea's performance is very average. Stoke City, Aston Villa, Crystal Palace and Newcastle have all scored 3 points against Chelsea. This contrast has become Chelsea's championship. A disadvantage, in the end the Blues only finished third.

In the new season, Chelsea changed the decline of the previous season. When facing the underdogs, this new blue team showed a terrifying offensive firepower. Before facing Manchester City, Chelsea defeated Burnley and Leches in the Premier League. City, Everton and Swansea have won 4 consecutive victories and scored 15 goals. The scoring efficiency is terrible.

Judging from Mourinho's strategy, Chelsea insisted on attacking football when facing weaker opponents. Even if they lost 3 goals against Everton, they could still score 6 goals with their strong attacking firepower. Swansea and Chelsea also conceded 2 goals but scored 4 goals. It can be said that Chelsea solved the problem of being weak or not strong last season. For a championship team, such a change is a strong guarantee for winning the championship .

Against Manchester City in this scene, Chelsea returned to last season's anti-counterattack style of play, but it was equally comfortable. Although Manchester City had as many as 16 shots in the game, they only scored 1 goal. On the other hand, Chelsea, although only 6 shots, but 2 shots on target, 1 goal, 1 hit the post, the efficiency is amazing.

Judging from the current two sets of tactics of Chelsea, Mourinho's disciples can implement them very well. In the first 5 rounds of the league, Chelsea scored 13 points, while Manchester City only had 8 points and Liverpool only had 6 points. It can be said that if Chelsea can continue this stable performance, they will be the biggest favorites for the Premier League championship this season.

Regarding the game itself, Mourinho commented after the game. He said: "We should have won, but even though they had one less player, they played a fantastic counterattack and tried their best to equalize the score. When the game When it gets emotional, the numbers don't matter that much. In the game, getting the tactics right is key, we scored the goal, slowly took control of the game, we hit the post, but they scored quickly .At that time, their mentality was stronger than ours, maybe a draw is a fair result. It is an important game, even if the final score is 0-0, it will be quite good."