I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

Chapter 51: Europa League knockout

   After easily defeating Preston 3:1 and qualifying for the FA Cup quarterfinals, Manchester United ushered in the Europa League knockout.

   Manchester United's schedule in the FA Cup this season is a bit weird. They have encountered low-level teams in a row, but the game has been going on away. Before Yeovil was the League One team, and then Cambridge United was the League Two team. Now Preston is also just the League One team.

   Although they are all away games, because of the average opponent's strength, Ye Su was finally able to give the team's main force a break before the start of the Europa League knockout.

   In the game at Preston, Ashley Young, who played in rotation, performed very amazingly. He scored twice as the chief hero of Manchester United's promotion to the FA Cup quarterfinals.

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   The opponents Manchester United met in the Europa League are not weak. Fiorentina has driven low in Serie A this season. Prior to this, it has been outside the European theater of Serie A, but as the season progresses, Fiorentina's ranking in Serie A is getting higher and higher.

   Before the start of the first round of the Europa League knockout against Manchester United, and after the 23rd round of Serie A, Fiorentina has risen to fourth in Serie A, with only Juventus, Roma and Naples ahead of them.

   The Europa League knockout match between them and Manchester United is definitely a contest for the top teams.

   This is also the first time Ye Su has played against the five major league teams outside the Premier League in the main match after coaching Manchester United.

   Ye Su knows that Serie A teams are not easy to deal with, not to mention the opponents are teams that can be ranked in the top four in Serie A. So in the home game against Fiorentina, he played the main force. And before the game, Ye Su also repeatedly emphasized to the players that we must take this game seriously.

   After all, Manchester United has no advantage in the schedule. If you can't get a satisfactory score at home, the game will be very difficult to play if you go to the away game in that round.

   Ye Su has been coaching this team for almost a year, during which time he led the team to continuous victories, and also allowed him to establish enough prestige in the hearts of the players.

   After the game started, Manchester United played very cautiously and did not rush to attack. But first slowly test the reality of Florence.

   After 20 minutes of the game, Manchester United has basically figured out the details of the opponent. At this time, Ye Su waved his hand on the sidelines, and Manchester United began to press the offense.

   As a top team that can firmly suppress Chelsea and Manchester City for a long time, Manchester United, which ranks first in the Premier League, when he is step by step, even if Fiorentina is fourth in Serie A, it is somewhat unstoppable.

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In the 25th minute, Manchester United scored the first goal; in the counterattack, De Bruyne sent a scalpel-like through ball. Vardi ghostly bypassed the Fiorentina defending him and got the ball in front of Fiorentina’s defense. Then easily pushed the far corner to help Manchester United take the lead, 1:0. This was Vardi's first goal in the knockout stage of the Europa League.

   After taking the lead, the Manchester United players became more confident on the field, threatening Fiorentina's goal continuously. However, Fiorentina is worthy of being a strong team in Serie A. Although the scene was passive, they kept the situation and did not allow Manchester United to score again in the next game time of the first half.

   In the second half, they changed sides to fight again, and Manchester United continued to take the initiative on the court.

   In the 50th minute, Vardy broke into the penalty area from the left and kicked the goal and was blocked.

   In the 55th minute, Manchester United succeeded in a counter-attack in the frontcourt. De Bruyne took the ball and hit Gonzalo with a long shot.

   In the 56th minute, Fiorentina also launched a very threatening attack, but De Gea showed extraordinary standards and resolved Valero's shot.

   In the 62nd minute, Mata sent a precise through pass, and Vardi's shot was saved by Tartarusanu. The defensive player rushed to destroy the ball before Vardy made a supplementary shot, but the ball reached Rooney's feet. The latter's attack helped the team expand its lead. Manchester United led 2-0 at home.

   In the 81st minute, Manchester United made another victory. De Bruyne crossed, Gonzalo made a mistake and stabbed the ball into his goal. Manchester United led 3:0.

   In the end, Manchester United beat Fiorentina 3-0 at home and almost half of them entered the Europa League round of sixteen.

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   After playing the first round of the 32 Europa League knockout round, two days later, Manchester United played in the Premier League again.

   However, when Manchester United played away from Swansea, they suffered a defeat at the Liberty Stadium. Because it consumed too much energy in the game against Fiorentina, and then only took a little more than two days of rest, the physical fitness of the Manchester United players is far from recovering. Ye Su had to send a number of substitute players to play in a semi-main and semi-substitute lineup, but was defeated by Swan Hai 2:1.

   This is also the second defeat Manchester United has eaten this season.

   However, despite losing the game, Manchester United still maintained its top spot in the Premier League because they had one more goal difference than Chelsea.

   Such a result made Chelsea fans upset. They finally realized the depression of Manchester United being suppressed by Chelsea with a goal difference for many consecutive rounds in the first half of the season.

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   The Manchester United don’t have much time to experience the sadness of losing to Swansea in the away game, because they flew non-stop to Italy and played in the second round of the Europa League 32 knockout round.

   The thirty-two knockout rounds of the Europa League are very intensive. The results will be determined within a week, and then after entering March, the quarter-finals of the Europa League will continue.

   Although they won three goals at home, Manchester United did not dare to be careless at home. After all, in world football, there has never been a lack of cases of the Jedi reversal.

   However, in the away game, Manchester United unexpectedly took the lead early.

   Because they lost too many away games in the first leg, Fiorentina had to take the initiative to attack at home from the beginning of the game, which gave Manchester United a chance to fight back quickly.

   In the 6th minute, Manchester United's midfielder completed a steal. After Kanter completed the steal, he quickly divided the ball to the sides and found De Bruyne.

   De Blaunet is also not sloppy, UU reading www. uukanshu.com made a pass and found Rooney.

   Rooney continued to divide the ball quickly and found Vardy on the other side.

   After receiving the ball from the wing, Vardi walked swiftly against the wing and went straight to the goal of Florence.

   Near the goal of Fiorentina, Vardi had torn the defense of Fiorentina. However, he did not greedy power, but passed the ball to Rooney who followed up in the middle.

   Lu Xiaopang faced such a good opportunity, and naturally he would not let it go. He easily pushed the empty goal and helped Manchester United get a 1-0 lead in the away game.

   Although Fiorentina evened the score with Basanta's goal in the first half, they could no longer break Manchester United's goal. From their goal, they have seen how terrifying Manchester United's quick counterattack is.

   Fiorentina, who dare not give it a go, can hardly threaten Manchester United's goal.

   In the end, Manchester United drew 1:1 with Fiorentina in the away game. The total score of the two rounds was 4:1, and they successfully advanced to the Europa League round of 16.

In the UEFA Europa League quarter-final draw at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland the next day, Manchester United’s signing was still not very good, and another Italian team was drawn: currently ranked No. 1 in Serie A. Two Red Wolf Rome!

   The two Europa League quarter-finals with Rome were on two Thursday nights in mid-March.

   The other two Premier League teams that competed in the Europa League knockout rounds, Liverpool were eliminated, and Everton advanced to the top sixteen. Toffee’s top 16 opponent is the Ukrainian team Dynamo Kyiv.

   Manchester United defeated Liverpool's opponent Besiktas in the group stage, and both sides won 1-0 at home. After overtime, it was still a draw, and in the penalty shootout, Liverpool lost 4:5.

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