Lingard is a talented young player with a bright future and great ideals.

Well, at least that's the case now.

Under Mourinho, Lingard, who was produced by the Carrington Youth Training Base, can fully display his talents on the offensive end.

His current style of playing is very confident. Although his body is not an advantage and his skills are certainly not as sophisticated as those of players like Pogba, it is enough for a player with tactical characteristics like Lingard.

After Lingard came on the court, he quickly adapted to the rapidly changing rhythm on the court and became an important explosive point in the offensive organization.

And along with Lingard, there was Mourinho's new order.

The order was very simple - surround De Paul.

Surround De Paul? Why surround De Paul?

Wei Le looked at the court, and De Paul's performance seemed to be no longer so easy, leaving him less and less space to handle the ball, and he couldn't help but curse inwardly.

Due to Jota's inward-moving nature, he often appears as a "second striker" in the offense, or as a center forward standing behind Haaland. In fact, there is no real winger in the left space of the Wolves.

Manchester United's solution to this is to let the full-back come up.

But the Wolves have a second solution, which is De Paul.

Fans who are familiar with tactics will not be unfamiliar with De Paul's duties in this game, that is, "pseudo winger".

The pseudo winger stands in the midfield and is essentially an aggressive midfielder. He also undertakes part of the midfield's drainage function, but in the offensive organization stage, when Jota is seen inward as a second striker, De Paul is the left winger.

De Paul can take on this job. His left and right feet are balanced and there is no obvious shortcoming. Moreover, in the previous debut stage, De Paul was a winger.

But football games are 11 vs. 11 games.

The football field is very large, and the space for each person to stand is not large. Therefore, having a number advantage in this place will inevitably mean a number disadvantage in other places.

The risk of a pseudo winger is that, although in the offensive stage, after De Paul becomes a winger, it is easy for Manchester United to form a local numerical advantage.

But if De Paul loses the ball, or loses the ball near De Paul, then Manchester United players will have the opportunity to face the Wolves' back line directly.

Then, it is Manchester United that has formed a local advantage of more players against fewer players.

Mourinho is worthy of being Mourinho, as he can see the usefulness of De Paul from the ever-changing game process and make use of it.

Readers who have watched football games in the stands closest to the stadium or standing next to the coach's seat may feel that as a head coach, the field of vision of watching the game is also very limited.

In such a limited field of vision, the head coach's brain has to process various information of the entire game, extract the opponent's tactical play from the limited visual information, and find ways to use it. This is very difficult, very difficult.

Everyone can watch the game, but not everyone has the ability to unravel the game.

De Paul lost the ball in the confrontation with Fellaini, and the central defender Smalling took the lead to control the ball and passed it horizontally to the left back Rojo. Rojo's long pass found Pogba who was waiting to receive the ball in the frontcourt.

Pogba dribbled past a Wolves defender and passed it to Lingard on the right. The young player Lingard glanced at the position of the Wolves' back line and started to cut inside!

Then he was knocked away by Ruben Dias.

The attack was disintegrated when it reached Lingard, but De Paul did not relax at all, because this was the third time he was besieged in the frontcourt after Lingard came on the court.

Before, only when he was on the wing would someone besiege him, but now it was different. It seemed that no matter where he was, Manchester United wanted to isolate him from his teammates as much as possible.

De Paul looked in the direction of the coaching bench with a look of help, and he subconsciously felt that Wei Le must have some way. Then he saw Wei Le looking at him.

Wei Le made a "come here" gesture to him.

"They found out how you use it, but it's not a big problem." Wei Le hugged De Paul and whispered in his ear, "Next you need to stay a little further back and try to avoid losing the ball."

"That way..."

Wei Le smiled and pointed to the sidelines, "We have a left winger, don't we?"

Almiron was stretching his arms and kicking his legs, and behind him, the team leader was handing Almiron's competition materials. Taking advantage of this dead ball opportunity, Almiron is going to play!

No. 23 Miguel Almiron comes on, No. 14 Erling Haaland goes off.

Haaland walked down a little tired, the high-intensityThe game was still a bit strenuous for the 16-year-old boy. Seeing the fourth official holding up the substitution number plate with his back number, Haaland slowly walked off the field.

Perhaps because Haaland was walking slowly and was suspected of delaying time, boos were heard at Old Trafford. In contrast to the boos, the Wolves fans were clapping and cheering as much as they could.

Amid the boos and applause, Haaland raised his head. While he was still on the field, he looked around.

It was beautiful.

Haaland smiled.

I was also booed by Manchester United fans at Old Trafford.

He waved to the yellow area in the corner of the field, and at the urging of the assistant referee, he quickened his pace off the field.

"The 16-year-old Haaland walked off the field, and the camera was on...his father, Alf-Inge Haaland, who showed no sign of hiding his pride, and he certainly had reason to be proud, because his son had done such an excellent job!"

"We will never forget the youngster's violent volley in front of De Gea and the goal that was just a hair's breadth away. The 16-year-old gave us so many surprises."

"Haaland's future must be bright, no one doubts that. But now, it's time for the young man to go off the field and rest."

Amid applause, Haaland walked in front of Almiron. Almiron smiled at the player who was seven years younger than him. Despite the seven-year age gap, they were both still classified as "young players."

"Well done, Erling."

Almiron and Haaland hugged and celebrated.

"Come on, Micky."

Haaland said breathlessly.

Almiron rushed onto the field, and Haaland turned his head and bumped into Wei Le. Wei Le hugged Haaland, who was more than ten centimeters taller than him, in his arms.

"Awesome!"

Wei Le spoke in Chinese. Haaland was stunned for a moment, then smiled and responded, "Awesome!"

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