I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

Chapter 11: The price of underestimating the enemy

   Tuesday, April 29th, Carrington Base.

   The Manchester United players who had rested for two days returned to the base with great energy and began to resume training.

When doing warm-up exercises, the players were all talking excitedly about the game two days ago, especially Gerrard’s weird slip, which was the focus of everyone’s discussion. There was a sense of schadenfreude. .

   Looking at the players who were inattentive, Ye Su frowned, and shouted from the side: "Give me a lot of energy and make preparations seriously!"

   Because of the big victory three days ago, the players have a good impression of Ye Su. After hearing this, they took a little bit of attention and stopped whispering, and continued to warm up under the leadership of Giggs.

   Seeing the players return to normal, Ye Su didn't say much. Everyone is an adult, and talking too much will affect the relationship with each other.

The training in the next few days was also relatively normal, because the following schedule was more intensive, and the players’ physical fitness was more or less problematic, so Ye Su and the Manchester United coaching staff did not dare to conduct high-intensity training, mainly for some meetings. Recovery training, as well as training some tactics.

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   The time soon arrived on May 3, and the 37th round of the Premier League started at noon on this day.

   The first one was a London Derby, where Tottenham challenged the Hammers to help West Ham United.

   Ye Su paid great attention to this game. Before the team left the hotel, he watched the half game in the guest room.

   The results of this half of the game made Ye Su very satisfied. The Hammers performed well at home. Kahn's penalty kick and Tangning's goal gave the Hammers a two-goal lead in the first half.

   During the intermission, Manchester United also took the team bus and set off for Old Trafford to prepare for the game with Sunderland.

   When Manchester United arrived at Old Trafford, Ye Su learned about the result of the game through a smartphone. Both sides did nothing in the second half. West Ham United kept the score of 2:0 until the end of the game.

   This is the result Ye Su very much hopes to see, which means that Manchester United has the initiative to compete for sixth place in the league. As long as Manchester United wins the next three league games, no matter what the result of Tottenham’s last game is, Manchester United will be sixth in the league.

   His position in Manchester United will also be guaranteed.

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   After the team had a brief training to adapt to the venue and returned to the locker room to prepare for the game, Ye Su once again emphasized the importance of the game and the difficulties that it may encounter to the players.

   Manchester United want to win the game and compete for a seat in the Europa League, while Sunderland hopes to score three points to increase insurance for their relegation career.

   At the same time that Manchester United and Sunderland are playing, the two teams in the bottom three of the standings will also play at the same time. Fulham will be a guest to challenge Sky City, Cardiff City will be a guest to challenge Newcastle, and Deputy Squad Leader Norwich will be a guest at Stamford Bridge tomorrow afternoon to challenge the Blues Chelsea.

Several relegation opponents are fighting away this round, and their opponents are teams in the upper and middle of the standings. Everyone's chances are fair. If Sunderland wants to relegation, he must fight for the initiative himself, that is, in Old Terra Ford Stadium slammed Manchester United.

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   Although Ye Su has repeatedly emphasized the importance of this game, some Manchester United players did not care too much, mainly because they did not think Sunderland could pose any threat to Manchester United.

   This game is the 139th main match between the two clubs. Prior to this, Manchester United had 62 wins, 36 draws and 40 losses. It seems that Sunderland's disadvantages are not great, but this is because as one of the early hegemons of England's top league, Sunderland was not at a disadvantage in the old League One against the Red Devils. But in the Premier League era, the black cats are completely Manchester United's younger brother. What's more, the venue for today’s game is Old Trafford. This is Sunderland’s heartbreaking place. Sunderland has only 11 wins in 68 guest dreams, and there are 2 draws and 10 losses in the Premier League. Victory.

   Facing such an opponent, Manchester United players have absolute confidence to win.

   Ye Su doesn’t know what Manchester United players think, otherwise, he might be more cautious about this game.

   Ye Su did not make too many adjustments to Manchester United's starting lineup, but replaced Phil Jones with Cleverly and partnered with Carrick as a midfielder.

   Compared to Phil Jones, Cleverly’s organizational skills are better.

   In the other ten positions, Ye Su did not make any changes.

   However, Manchester United is even stronger on the bench because Van Persie returns from injury. But considering that he just recovered from injury, and Rooney's state was too good in the previous game, Ye Su let Van Persie sit on the bench temporarily.

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   At the beginning of the first half, Manchester United played the right wing, but Ashley Young's cross was of average quality.

   In the 6th minute, Nani made a cross from the left and was bounced. Ashley Young volleyed in the penalty area with little threat. After 2 minutes, Fletcher knocked horizontally and Mata missed the goal 26 meters away.

   In the 12th minute, Ashley Young received a pass from Cleverly and headed the goal without a threat. Immediately, Adam Johnson's left foot shot from the periphery missed the bottom line.

   In the 18th minute, Carrick made a cross from the right. The former Manchester United player O'Shea had poor footwork and almost gave an own gift. Subsequently, Nani's cold shot was higher than the beam.

   In the 20th minute, Evra took advantage of the left corner kick to make a header, but the ball was confiscated by Mannone.

   In the 26th minute, Carrick tackled Borini and was warned by the referee Weber's yellow card.

In the 30th minute, Wickham suddenly sent a pass near the right corner flag while Cleverley was not tight. Larsson volleyed the goal with his right foot 10 meters from the right side of the penalty area and scored in the lower left corner of the goal to help Sunderland. The team led 1-0. This was the first goal scored by Manchester United since Ye Su became the acting coach and Larsson's first Premier League goal this season.

   When this goal happened, Ye Su's face on the sidelines was ugly. He has already seen that there are some problems in the players' minds, they have not put Sunderland in their eyes.

   But at this time, he has no way to influence the court too much. If he wants to make adjustments, he can only do it during the intermission.

   In the 31st minute, Marcos Alonso knocked down Ashley Young on the wing and was warned by a yellow card.

After   , Manchester United still dominated the scene, but the quality of the pass was too poor.

   In the 45th minute, Mata's frontier in the penalty area accepted the ball and the angle of the volley was slightly confiscated by Mannone.

   At the end of halftime, Manchester United fell behind Sunderland 0:1 and entered the halftime break.

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   During the intermission, the major media commented on the first half of the game, and the evaluations were similar. Manchester United did have an advantage, but the ball could not reach the hinterland of Sunderland. In the first half, the Red Devils made 22 crosses but only 2 of them were in place. How is this different from the Moyes era? Although the black cat seemed passive, he seized a rare offensive opportunity and scored by former Arsenal player Larsson.

   Prior to this, Manchester United had only 4 of the 17 matches where the opponents scored first and finally reversed and won. The magic of not admitting defeat in the Ferguson era is almost invisible this season.

Former Sunderland player, now serving as the commentator, Wade’s comment after the game: You have to admit that according to Sunderland’s defense, they have a well-deserved lead. Each of their players played very hard, while Manchester United played. It was really bad. Although it seemed that possession and the scene had the upper hand, it didn't create any opportunities. They have been playing at the same rhythm, which is simply too easy for the Sunderland team. Of course, Poyet's ability to lead his team in successive encounters with Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United and scored 10 points in four games also proved his excellence.

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   In the home team's locker room, Ye Su was also talking to the players about the first half of the game. He did not show any anger, because he knew that this would not solve the problem. He is not Ferguson, and he can shock these players and change their attitude towards the game by turning on the hair dryer.

He said: "Passing, we had problems passing the ball, too many mistakes, the team failed to show sufficient concentration. Whether we pass the ball or pass, UU can't read www.uukanshu.com. To pierce their defense, or even to pass the ball, it is difficult to find our own players. After Sunderland scored a goal, he returned to his half-court defense and sought a counterattack opportunity. We had enough possession time but failed. Use this advantage to create more scoring opportunities."

   "For the first half of the game, I was very disappointed. We did not have the same performance as last week, especially before the opponent's penalty zone. When you show this performance, you will lose in the Premier League."

"The good news for us is that we still have forty-five minutes to change all of this, and I hope everyone can do that. Old Trafford is our place of glory, where we were invincible. Indestructible is a nightmare for all visiting teams. However, in this season, we have lost this glory because we have lost too many goals and too many points here!"

"I know that this is not the result that everyone wants, nor is it acceptable to everyone. In the second half, I will not change the team's tactics because we used this tactic to win a game in the last week. Big wins. In the past, we used the same tactics to win more games, one by one championship trophies, and endless glory!"

   "Today's game is the penultimate home game of the season. I hope everyone can do their best to defend our final glory and win this game!"

After speaking, Ye Su left the team's locker room, but at the same time, he quietly made a change on the team card of the ball sacred system, replacing the previous three cards with a card showing "chicken blood" The "offside tactical card" in the team card.

   This chicken blood technique card was newly given by the ball saint system after Ye Su won the previous game.

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