From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 405: Expanding Advantages
英国当地时间2017年1月2日17点15分，曼联客场挑战西汉姆联。

In the last round of the game, Manchester United defeated Middlesbrough 3:1, which not only gave Manchester United a perfect ending in 2016, but also allowed the team to create a half-time points record in the Premier League era. This made Mourinho's goal The team's morale is high. Now that we are entering the first game of 2017, Manchester United naturally hopes to use a victory to ensure that the team gets off to a good start in 2017.

Since being promoted from the English Championship in the 2011-2012 season, West Ham United has remained in the Premier League, ranking in the middle of the league every season. It is a typical mid-table team in the Premier League: no worries about relegation and no hope of winning the championship. , even participating in European competitions is difficult.

Last season, West Ham United achieved its final result after returning to the Premier League, seventh in the league, thus qualifying for the Europa League qualifying rounds, but was eliminated in the play-offs.

Before this season, West Ham United was considered a dark horse team in the new season, with ambitions to compete in the Champions League. Because they recruited a lot of players, excluding the buyout of Lanzini, they introduced a total of 11 new players, which was a great expansion. The strength of the team.

But after the start of the new season, West Ham United's performance was unexpectedly poor. In the first 6 games, West Ham United had 1 win and 5 losses, and was once deep in the relegation zone.

It is true that injuries to key players such as Payet and Carroll have an impact on the team's strength, but the influx of a large number of new players requires Bilic to spend time adjusting to the match. Coupled with the fact that the team moved out of Upton Park and moved to the London Bowl, the team also has adaptation problems. The league has only had 4 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses at home so far. At the beginning of the season, there was even disagreement among fans about the new stadium.

However, as the season progresses, West Ham United's record has improved somewhat. After half-time, they have risen to 12th in the standings.

West Ham United still has a chance to hit the top half of the league and even the European Cup in the second half of the season, but the premise is that Bilic can retain the team's core lineup in the winter transfer window.

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Mourinho continues to make extensive rotations in the team's starting lineup. Most of the players who played in the game against Middlesbrough two days ago did not get a starting position today.

Manchester United continued to use the 433 tactic in this game. It is obvious that in Mourinho's eyes, West Ham United is not a team that can threaten Manchester United.

Mourinho's instructions to the team in this game were simple - attack.

At the beginning of the game, Manchester United launched a fierce attack on West Ham United's goal. It was impossible to tell that they were the visiting team.

The commentator also said that Manchester United's football this season is like this, attacking from the beginning of the game and attacking until the end of the game. At the end, count how many goals they scored in total.

But this time they didn't score quickly.

West Ham United is not a soft persimmon that can be pinched casually.

在12月的6场联赛中，铁锤帮取得了3胜1平2负的不俗战绩，他们在主场以两个1:0击败了伯恩利和赫尔城，在客场4:1大胜斯旺西，还在安菲尔德球场2:2逼平了强大的利物浦。

This time against Manchester United at home, West Ham United has ideas. They hope to get a draw or even beat Manchester United at home.

They also had some attacks in the first half that could threaten Manchester United's penalty area. However, what no one expected was that West Ham United's offense ruined their hopes.

In the 14th minute of the game, during an attack by West Ham United, their winger Feguli stepped on Phil Jones and was directly shown a red card by the referee.

West Ham United had to face the situation of ten men in the next nearly eighty minutes of the game.

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If West Ham United can still compete with Manchester United when the number of players on both sides is the same, then with one less player, they are no match for Manchester United.

In the 1th minute, Ibrahimovic received Bruno's pass at the front of the penalty area and distributed the football to the right, and then he pushed forward. The right back Damian who came in behind received the ball and passed it immediately. Ibrahimovic received Damian's pass at the edge of the small penalty area. He directly pushed the ball with his right foot and the football went into the lower right corner of the goal. 0:!

In the first half, Manchester United temporarily led with a score of 1:0.

This score has not yet caused West Ham to collapse, because they can make adjustments through the halftime break. Being only one goal behind is not the end of the world for West Ham United at home.

In the second half, Croatian rock coach Bilic, the head coach of West Ham United, replaced midfielder Payet with forward Carroll. Payet's performance was average in the first half, and Bilic obviously wanted to continue to strengthen the offense. Being only one goal behind gave him hope of equalizing or even reversing.

However, the Manchester United man quickly dashed West Ham's hopes.

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In the 60th minute of the game, Manchester United received a free kick.

This free kick was far away from the goal and was taken by Mata.

Before the penalty kick, Bruno approached the Spaniard and said: "Give me the football in a moment. I want to take a long shot."

Mata raised no objection. Anyway, he had no intention of hitting the goal directly. His original plan was to hoist the ball into West Ham United's penalty area, allowing Ibrahimovic and Maguire to attack West Ham United's goal. Now Bruno expressed that he wanted to take a long shot, and he had no objection.

When the referee blew the whistle, Mata tried to hit the goal, but he pushed the football sideways. Bruno took a long shot in the middle of the penalty area, and the football flew towards the West Ham United goal like a cannonball!

West Ham United goalkeeper Randolph misjudged the power of Bruno's shot. Although the ball was about 278 meters away from the goal, Bruno's shot was so powerful that the ball came to him almost in the blink of an eye. Randolph's center of gravity couldn't sink as fast as the ball was moving forward, so he threw the ball away.

Even though the football was out of his hands, he was thankful that his basic skills were solid and his legs were very standard when he knelt down. Otherwise, the football might have penetrated his crotch and rolled into the goal behind him.

Now the football just hits his knee and pops out.

Ibrahimovic, who followed, picked up the miss and scored his second goal of the game. Manchester United rewritten the score to 2:0!

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Then Mourinho replaced Rashford, replacing Lingard who performed poorly.

Two minutes later, Bruno quickly dribbled the ball from the center and passed it to Rashford, who had just come on. The latter shot low with his left foot from 16 meters on the left, and the football hit the far corner!

3: 0!

The game lasted just over an hour, and West Ham United fell behind by 3 goals. They didn't react for a while.

Also unresponsive was the commentator, who briefly lost his voice in the face of Manchester United's offensive.

Although they are unable to accept this reality, Manchester United still has no intention of letting go of their opponents. They continued their attack led by Bruno.

In the 80th minute, Bruno made a pass from the left. Rashford made a diagonal pass and shot. The football passed between Randolph's legs and into the goal.

He still did not escape the fate of being shot through both the main and small doors!

Manchester United, which was already leading 4:0, had no intention of stopping. After another three minutes, Bruno distributed the ball to the left inside the arc of the penalty area. Ibrahimovic shot directly into the far corner with his right foot from 3 meters away. He scored He scored his third goal in the game, bringing his total season goals to 18, rising to second place on the scorer list.

With Ibrahimovic's hat trick, Manchester United leads West Ham United 5:0 in the away game!
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If the Hammers still thought they could win the game at halftime, now they just hope the game ends quickly because they don't know how many goals Manchester United will score in the next game. Will give up.

Some Hammers players were angry because of this humiliating score.

In the 85th minute, the Hammers' No. 10 player Lanzini tackled Bruno from behind and was sent off with a red card. West Ham United could only fight with nine men.

They lost games and people, and they lost completely.

It’s not over yet. In stoppage time, Manchester United was still organizing an attack. Bruno returned the football to Mata. Mata took a seemingly careless long shot from outside the penalty area, but it passed the Hammers goalkeeper’s fingers. , fell into the empty door.

6: 0!

It was a crazy game, from the score to the process.

The West Ham United fans who were still shouting loudly before were all silent at this moment.

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In the end, Manchester United defeated West Ham United 6-0 in the away game.

In the first game of the New Year, Bruno did not score a goal, but this did not hinder his outstanding performance. He participated in every goal of Manchester United and provided 4 assists. Manchester United's first goal came from Damian's bottom pass after he split the ball in the middle, and the second goal came from his long-distance pass. The shot caused West Ham United goalkeeper Randolph to release Ibrahimovic's follow-up shot.

What makes Manchester United people even more happy is that their competitors in the league this round have failed. Arsenal, previously ranked fourth in the standings, was tied 3:3 by Bournemouth in an away game. Liverpool, ranked third in the standings, was tied 2:2 by Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. Manchester United's biggest competitor Chelsea was defeated 2-0 by Tottenham, who ranked fifth in the standings, in a London derby!

After the 20th round of the league, the situation of the Premier League standings is as follows:
Manchester United has 19 wins and 1 loss, ranking first with 57 points;

Chelsea has 16 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses, ranking second with 49 points;
Liverpool has 13 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses, ranking third with 43 points;
Tottenham has 12 wins, 6 draws and 2 losses, ranking fourth with 42 points;
Arsenal has 12 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses, ranking fifth with 40 points;
Manchester City has 12 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses, ranking sixth with 39 points.

Manchester United has gained an 8-point advantage in the Premier League standings!

(End of this chapter)