Red Rebels

On September 8, the new Manchester United challenged the Peterborough team away.

After a week of rest, Mourinho's team reached the best state in terms of physical fitness and psychological adjustment. Although it was an away game, they suppressed the Petersburg team and hardly gave them a decent chance. Easily defeated this weak opponent 0:2.

The league started a 7-game winning streak, which undoubtedly made the new Manchester United's limelight for a while, but Brentford's performance was better than the new Manchester United, the same 7-game winning streak, but they scored 23 in 7 games. This goal is definitely the most powerful opponent in the English League Two.

Brentford's offense is also full of England's iconic elements, 442, the forward is a fast combination, the two full-backs can attack and defend well, a central midfielder moves forward frequently, drags a midfielder behind, and then The two full-backs on the defensive line are also players with good assist ability. They are very fast and interspersed back and forth.

It is precisely because of the aggressive tactics of the Brentford team, coupled with the weak opponents they encountered at the beginning of the season, including the current deputy squad leader Cambridge United, ranked 23rd Wrexham. , Berry, Northampton, etc., Bristol City, the strongest they have encountered, is currently ranked 8th in the league.

Of course, the strength of the enemies encountered by the new Manchester United is not very strong. Most of them are mid-level teams, and the strongest is Cardiff. However, in the second half of September, they have to challenge strong enemies one after another.

After the victory over Peterborough, the new Manchester United returned to the home court to welcome Knots County. This team has been hovering in the League 3 and League 2 in recent years, and its strength is always the same. It is currently ranked 17th in the league this season. Compared with the previous two seasons, the ranking has dropped again.

The new Manchester United have eliminated Drogba, Wright Phillips and Hleb's front three in this game. Since Wright Phillips joined the new Manchester United, he has performed very well, especially this season, he is even more with Ma. Luda and Hleb form a fierce rivalry.

In Jose Mourinho's team, fierce competition is a good thing, and there is no need to worry that they will hurt the unity and harmony of the team because of competition, because they all know that there is only one person in this team who has the most say. Heavy!

That's the head coach!

In terms of midfield, Juninho Jr., Senna and Essien are still partners in midfield. Abidal, Terry, Curtis and Toure are still on the defensive line. The goalkeeper is still Almunia. The Spaniard has performed very well this season. Stable, Mourinho gave him enough confidence.

Of course, the fewer goals conceded has a lot to do with the improvement of the new Manchester United’s defensive line this season. The new Manchester United have been the best defensive team in the league since the past two seasons. Last season, they scored the most goals in the League Three. , the team that conceded the fewest goals.

In this season's League Two, the new Manchester United lost the number of goals to Brentford, who were in unexpected form, but the number of goals conceded was the least among the 24 teams, but this does not mean that the new Manchester United played very well. Conservative, on the contrary, even the most critical football commentator would not consider the new Manchester United conservative.

Martin Taylor has commented on the new Manchester United many times in the column, believing that the team's tactics in the past two years are very consistent, and it is constantly improving, especially the players' strength is improving rapidly, and the team's performance is becoming more and more mature.

He believes that the offense of the new Manchester United is mainly based on running without the ball. The scene is very smooth and open and close, but in local areas, there is no lack of details. For example, Hleb, Junior Juninho and others often play The unexpected local small cooperation is very surprising.

The new Manchester United is best at using the width of the pitch, through the frequent movement of players, mobilizing the opponent's defense line, finding a gap, and then swarming towards the gap to play desperately, without leaving any chance for the opponent to breathe, so in terms of momentum. Suppress the opponent, control the rhythm of the game, and then achieve the goal of controlling the game.

This is a very English team. Aggressiveness, scramble, tenacity, directness and conciseness are all in line with the English football environment.

But this is just an appearance. At the core is that this team plays very delicately, the passing and receiving coordination is very smooth and reasonable, and the movement between players is very frequent, making it impossible to defend.

Martin Taylor commented in the column that he felt that it was hard to believe that there would be such a team in the English Second Division. He also believed that the new Manchester United still has some drawbacks, such as their lack of depth in the middle of the attack. , When the two wingers couldn't cut inwards to cooperate with the center, the back row of the middle was not inserted in time.

Simply put, the new Manchester United lacks a character like Scholes.

Junior Juninho is very good at rhythm control and passing the ball, and also has a deep understanding of the coach's tactical intentions, but he is not a player who can play deep in the middle, he is more like a scheduling midfielder .

Looking at the new Manchester United lineup, Essien and Arau Diarra are defensive players. Senna has both offense and defense, but he is also stronger on offense. De Rossi's offense is good, but his speed and technique make it difficult for him Be the new Manchester United's Scholes.

Martin Taylor believes that if the new Manchester United can make up for this last shortcoming, I believe their strength will be improved by leaps and bounds, and maybe they will be able to upgrade year after year and enter the Premier League in one fell swoop!

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Although Martin Taylor wrote about the shortcomings of the new Manchester United in the column, in fact, the opponent failed to find this shortcoming from the game, because Mourinho's tactics were very clever to hide this. .

He knows very well that his attack in the middle is not good, so he makes Drogba retreat frequently, Senna and Juninho take turns to move forward, and the central defender Curtis even often goes to the midfield position. In order to make up for this short board in the front midfield position in the upper middle, completely suppress the opponent.

Knowles County didn't know if they read Martin Taylor's column. They paid great attention to the defense of the two wings, restricted the attacking space of the two wingers, and left a large gap in the middle. It is clear that they are bullying the new Manchester United. The attack in the middle of the midfield is weak.

However, Mourinho used iron facts to fight back against his opponents, and the midfield attack may not necessarily depend on the central midfielder.

At the end of the first half, Curtis smashed into the opponent's penalty area in the process of a sudden forward move, made a wall-to-wall cooperation with Drogba, and opened the scoring for the team, 1:0!

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. New Manchester United scored two goals in the 63rd minute and 80th minute respectively by Senna and Essien who suddenly inserted in the back row, and finally won the opponent 3-0 at the City Stadium.

Three days later, also at the City Stadium, in order to cope with the third round of the League Cup on the 18th, Mourinho adopted a rotation system and replaced some substitute players. After falling behind twice, he equalized the score twice. And in the end, Palacio, who came off the bench, helped the team score a go-ahead goal and beat Huddersfield 3:2 with difficulty.

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The third round of the League Cup, the new Manchester United vs. Sheffield United!

As the only two remaining League Two teams that have entered the third round of the League Cup so far, the luck of the new Manchester United is undoubtedly better. The other team that has entered the third round of the League Cup is Stoke City. The opponent is the Birmingham team coached by Steve Bruce.

In an interview before the game, Mourinho jokingly expressed his envy to the Stoke City team. He was even willing to switch opponents with the Stoke City team, because many people had questioned Mourinho's coaching team before. The new Manchester United, who thinks his team is inferior to Steve Bruce, wants to prove his ability, although he has a lot of respect for Bruce's contribution to the new Manchester United.

In an interview with the media before the game, Bruce said that Mourinho is an excellent head coach. The Red Rebels he coached are very aggressive and defensive. More importantly, they have been promoted from The Premier League has won the championship and he hopes to hear the news of the promotion of the new Manchester United this year.

The two managers cheering each other up before the game almost seemed to ignore their opponents, and the Sheffield United and Stoke City managers were annoyed by the comparison because these two guys made them air.

This fire manifests directly on the pitch.

But Mourinho is notoriously authoritarian and a fire-fighting expert. He fearlessly played offensive tactics with Sheffield United at home. From the very beginning, he played Sheffield United a little bit out of sight. , After taking a two-goal lead, he let the team back down on defense.

Although Sheffield United reacted and launched a fierce counterattack against the new Manchester United, and did score a goal, they eventually lost to the City Stadium with a score of 2:1.

On the other hand, in another battlefield, Birmingham, coached by Bruce, seemed to be strutting, and easily won the Stoke City team 2:0 away, so that the outside media generally believed that this was another contest between Bruce and Mourinho. victory.

For this reason, Mourinho criticized the players in the training session the day after the game, believing that their negligence caused the team to concede the goal. Otherwise, the new Manchester United could also 2: 0 wins against the opponent.

The players are very familiar with the coach's temper. They know that he is in a fit of rage right now. If they refute him, they will only find more tragic disasters. So they all smile in their hearts and choose to let you be the wind and rain. I will not move.

As a result, after scolding them, Mourinho did not punish them, and in the away game against Tranmere on the 22nd, he continued to reuse the starters and successfully took 3 points from the London Park in Birkenhead. .

The 10-game winning streak of the new Manchester United is full of momentum, and the fans are also full of confidence in the upcoming away game against Reading. They all believe that with the current state of the team, they can fully harvest at Biscuit Man's stadium. to a victory and widen the points gap with Reading.

But who would have thought that the day before the game, the new Manchester United received one after another of unfavorable news. First, the main defender Curtis Davies would be suspended for accumulating yellow cards in the game against Reading, and then the main force in the game. Avant-garde Junior Juninho was injured in pre-match training. Although the injury was not serious, it was a foregone conclusion that he would miss the game.

However, to make matters worse, it came from the competition!

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