Star Card System

August has passed, the Premier League has started, the Champions League group has been settled, and the battle in European football has reached a small climax.

The first week of September is the national team match day, and the national team members of each club have left the team and reported to the national team.

The fans' attention is all on the national team competition.

Fans from all countries are watching the game with great interest, while the coaches of the giants are worried and frightened.

Once the players are injured in the national team, it will be troublesome...

For Manchester United, the result is not bad, and the players are basically not injured.

It's just that their physical fitness is somewhat affected.

It doesn't matter, as long as no one is injured.

On September 10, Manchester United will visit the Britannia Stadium to challenge Stoke City.

This is the fourth round of the Premier League, and Mourinho attaches great importance to it.

Because three days later, Manchester United will usher in the first round of the Champions League group stage, in which they will challenge Dortmund away.

This should be the most difficult game in the group stage for Manchester United.

Before that, we must stabilize the league so that we can go all out to deal with the Champions League opponents.

Manchester United sent out a rotation lineup for this game. Basically, the players who played in the national team last week did not play today.

For example, Lukaku, Mkhitaryan, Pogba, Matic, Lingard and other players.

The starting lineup was mainly veterans.

Rooney, Carrick, Ibrahimovic and other players.

These veterans have retired from the national team and have no national team competitions, so they are in good physical condition and are suitable to start this game.

Among them, Xia Xing is the youngest one.

After all, he has no national team competitions.

Agent Mendes told him that the England national team invited him and promised him a lot of money.

There is even the captain status.

But Xia Xing still refused.

The reason is simple, he is not interested in playing in national team-level competitions.

France, Germany, Argentina, Brazil and other countries also contacted Mendes to try to dig Xia Xing to see if there is a chance.

Xia Xing doesn't care.

Not interested, just want to play club competitions now.

So after a week of recuperation, he also got the opportunity to continue to start.

Manchester United must win this game against Stoke City.

Last season, this opponent barely managed to stay in the league, but this season is still in poor form. After three rounds of games, they drew two and lost one, and are struggling in the relegation zone again.

In this game against Manchester United, they still lined up a strong defense.

Coach Mark Hughes is very self-aware.

Playing against Manchester United, it is good to get one point, don't dream of a miracle.

So even though they have a strong striker Choupo-Moting, a center forward Crouch, and Shaqiri with excellent personal ability, they still retreated across the board in this game.

5-4-1 formation, the tactics are very clear.

Manchester United will naturally attack with all their strength in this game.

Ibrahimovic rushed forward, with Xia Xing, Rooney and Martial behind him, and Herrera and Mata in the back midfielder position, which is very forward.

Although it is still 4-2-3-1, it becomes 4-2-4 when playing.

But even so, they still encountered a lot of trouble in this game.

The captain of the opposing team in this game is Scottish player Fletcher.

He is a native of Manchester United youth training. He has been in Manchester United for more than ten years and left in 2015.

He transferred to Stoke City on a free transfer this summer and soon became the core of the midfield with his stable performance.

In this game, he was responsible for the team's midfield organization and the team's defense was well organized.

There is also a midfielder, Hesse, who is a wing attacker for Stoke City.

He was once a talented player of Real Madrid's youth training, but he never got a chance to play in Real Madrid. He chose to transfer to Paris last season.

But in Paris, he also didn't have many opportunities to perform.

This season, he was loaned to Stoke City again.

As an offensive player, his task in Stoke City is to counterattack quickly.

The only draw this season was his quick counterattack, assisting Choupo-Moting to score a goal.

He is an important tactical link for Stoke City.

From the first minute of this game, Stoke City decisively retreated.

Manchester United attacked all the way, but it was difficult to score.

Until the end of the first half, Manchester United failed to score.

On the contrary, Stoke City almost scored a goal with Hesse's wonderful counterattack.

This made Mourinho frown on the sidelines.

During the halftime break, he made a decisive substitution adjustment.

Directly used up two substitutions!

Central defender Phil Jones went off the field and Fellaini came on the field.

Martial went off the field and McTominay came on the field.

After these two substitutions, Manchester United's formation changed to 3-3-4.

On the front line, in addition to the two veterans Ibrahimovic and Rooney, the new Fellaini and McTominay also headed into the penalty area.

Both of them are over 1.9 meters tall, and Mourinho wants them to start bombing mode!

And Xia Xing, Mata and Herrera in the midfield, as well as Luke Shaw and Valencia on the two wings, their goal is to cross the ball!

Decisive cross!

Such a straightforward and decisive change of formation made Stoke City a little difficult to resist.

In the 67th minute of the game, Manchester United finally broke the deadlock.

Stoke City has been trying hard to defend against the continuous crosses from the bottom.

Even Xia Xing had a hard time finding a particularly good cross opportunity.

This time, he fought his way through the crowd and rushed to the baseline!

Pressing on the baseline, he kicked the ball directly to the middle!

The ball accurately found the young McTominay!

The young Manchester United player jumped high and headed the ball!

The ball hit the net!

1-0!

Manchester United finally scored a goal!

McTominay was very happy after scoring the goal!

He strode towards Xia Xing and hugged Xia Xing tightly!

"Xia! Thank you for your pass!"

"Xia, your header is great! Congratulations on your first Premier League goal!"

Mourinho on the sidelines was also full of smiles.

Yes, the first Premier League goal, it's great.

When he came to Manchester United last summer, he went to the youth team as soon as possible.

He took a fancy to the tall McTominay at first sight.

However, there was no place and opportunity for him in the first team, so Mourinho did not rush to promote him to the first team last season.

And this season, the team has more pressure to fight on multiple fronts, and Xiaomai finally became a member of Manchester United's first team.

Now, he has proved his efforts with his outstanding performance!

He is not a player with extraordinary talent, but a player with strong will and hard work!

This is Mourinho's favorite feature!

Manchester United finally stabilized after scoring a goal!

This is not over yet.

Six minutes later, Xia Xing made another cross from the left!

This time he found Fellaini accurately!

The Belgian midfielder had already moved forward, squeezed the defense, jumped high, and headed the ball!

The ball hit the upper right corner of the net!

The goalkeeper had no time to react!

2-0!

Manchester United scored another goal!

They stabilized this game!

The magic bird changed the formation magically, allowing Manchester United to break the deadlock!

Three points are about to be obtained! (End of this chapter)