Star Card System

Being able to become an idol of a player three years younger than himself, perhaps only Xia Xing can do it.

In this team, although Xia Xing is young, his reputation in the team is definitely not low.

In addition to the support of veterans such as Rooney, Carrick, Valencia, etc., young people also respect him very much.

For example, Lingard, Rashford, McTominay, etc.

After all, Xia Xing is Sir Alex Ferguson's last transfer masterpiece, so he is also regarded by young people as a companion with the blood of the Red Devils.

But some people don't think so.

Since the start of the second half, Pogba has not made a single forward assist.

Every time he intercepted the ball in defense, he made a short pass to Xia Xing and then retreated.

He hardly participated in the offense.

He was very passive.

Let me defend, I will retreat to defend, and see if you can score without me?

Pogba's passive sabotage made Manchester United's offense very passive.

When Xia Xing played as a defensive midfielder, he would definitely press forward as long as there was a chance.

Manchester United obviously didn't have enough players in the frontcourt, and it was even more troublesome to face the iron bucket formation.

Mourinho on the side of the court was so angry that he threw his level on the ground!

The opponent has set up an iron bucket formation, what the hell are you still doing in the back?

Use you to defend?

He simply didn't bother to pay attention to Pogba, and directly arranged Matic to assist.

You can stay in the backcourt if you like!

SB!

Mourinho is now extremely disgusted with Pogba!

And this time Matic's forward pressure did work.

Xia Xing took the ball in the middle and advanced, and the opponent's defense was very dense.

He simply knocked the ball to Matic diagonally behind, and then quickly moved forward!

This is obviously a two-on-one!

Brighton's defense immediately tilted towards Xia Xing!

But unexpectedly, Matic didn't pass the ball!

He suddenly moved forward with the ball!

This tall body moved forward, which caught Brighton's defense off guard and immediately fell into crisis!

When the defense was in place, Matic did not take the credit and quickly passed the ball!

The ball was passed to the right side!

Lingard received the ball!

The ball was knocked sideways without stopping!

The ball came to Xia Xing's feet again!

This inverted triangle pass outside the penalty area helped Xia Xing get rid of the defense!

At this time, Xia Xing slightly controlled the rhythm under his feet, attracted the defensive players again, and then suddenly pushed the ball to the left front!

Rashford successfully countered the offside and quickly received the ball!

Without stopping the ball, he shot at a small angle!

The ball hit the far upper corner of the goal!

The ball went in!

1 to 3!

Manchester United scored a goal back!

This goal was scored beautifully!

With Xia Xing's excellent organization and passing, Manchester United tore through Brighton's dense defense!

With a ball in hand, they were more confident next!

In the 79th minute of the game, Xia Xing got the ball again outside the penalty area.

This time he changed direction and accelerated, breaking through along the left side!

Quickly shaken past the opponent, suddenly crossed the ball from the bottom!

This made the Brighton players unexpected!

After all, after Lukaku left the field, there was no high point in Manchester United's penalty area!

But they forgot, how could Manchester United have no high point?

Matic quickly moved forward, jumped high and headed the ball!

Although the angle of the ball was not tricky, it was very powerful!

It hit the net hard!

2 to 3!

Manchester United scored another goal!

They were only one step away from equalizing the score!

But in the end, they still failed to score another goal.

In the second minute of injury time, Xia Xing's free kick hit the crossbar and bounced out of the bottom line, and Manchester United missed the last chance.

Alan Shearer in the live broadcast room shook his head and sighed.

"Manchester United can't expect Xia to create miracles every time, what a pity..."

In the end, Manchester United lost 2 to 3 in this game.

Lost an important game away from home.

Last season, Manchester United was overwhelming in the league, but unexpectedly, this season started with one draw and one loss, and was in poor form.

And this is just the beginning of the bad performance.

Seven days later, in the third round of the Premier League, Manchester United played against Tottenham at home.

Facing the aggressive Tottenham, Manchester United was ready at home, looking forward to regaining the feeling of victory.

But unfortunately, they ran into trouble again.

The midfielder combination in this game was Matic and Fred. Fred, who was rested in the last game, started today.

Mourinho was still ready to give Pogba a chance.

But unfortunately, he still didn't catch it.

Not only did he not catch it, but he also caused big trouble.

Eight minutes into the game, Pogba kicked his opponent in a midfield fight and received a yellow card.

Three minutes later, there was another fight in the penalty area, and Pogba directly pushed the opponent's midfielder Eriksson to the ground!

This is a retaliatory move!

Just now, Eriksson passed Pogba and rushed into the penalty area. Pogba was angry and pushed him from behind!

How could the referee let him go?

Yellow card plus penalty kick!

Two yellows turned into one red, and he was off the court!

Pogba was still chattering after leaving the field, expressing his dissatisfaction with the penalty just now.

But Mourinho didn't even say hello to him after leaving the field.

What are you still nagging about?

It's an obvious foul, I'm so embarrassed for you!

In the end, Harry Kane's penalty kick was successful and Tottenham led 1-0.

Not only was the score behind, but they were one man short at the beginning of the game.

Manchester United was in trouble.

However, what Mourinho did not expect was that Tottenham did not rush to attack, but chose to control the midfield.

Pochettino, this cunning fox!

Mourinho knew what he wanted to do. Didn't he want to consume the physical strength of Manchester United players and then make the final decision in the second half?

But even if they knew what the other side wanted to do, Manchester United could do nothing.

After all, they were one man short, and it was just after the start of the game.

This had a huge impact on the physical fitness of the whole team.

With Matic and Fred in the defensive midfielder position, Xia Xing was very relieved, so he attacked very actively next.

This gave Manchester United an advantage on the field for a time.

Mourinho on the sidelines kept praising: "Xia is great!"

Carrick on the side whispered: "We sent one man off, but the attack was smoother."

Perrin pouted: "Haha."

Yes, it is more effective to fight alone than to have a teammate who is dragging his feet.

In the 40th minute of the game, Xia Xing got the ball in the frontcourt and suddenly shot a long shot!

38 meters away from the goal, the shot was very sudden!

World champion goalkeeper Lori had no time to react!

The ball hit the upper right corner of the goal!

1 to 1!

Manchester United equalized the score!

"The key goal!

"Another wonderful performance by Xia!

"He is simply amazing!

"Just now both sides were in midfield control, who would have thought that Xia would suddenly shoot?

"And this position is too difficult,

"But even so, Xia's shot is still extremely accurate and powerful!

"His shot is really invincible!

"Even Lori, who just shined on the World Cup stage,

"can't do anything about this shot!

"Both sides are back to the same starting line!

"This game is still suspenseful!" (End of this chapter)