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

Chapter 406 Invincible
As the 20th round of the Premier League comes to an end, the Christmas Devil schedule in the narrow sense has temporarily come to an end, and the Premier League teams usher in the first FA Cup weekend of the new season.

Manchester United will face their first FA Cup opponent Reading this season.

Reading was also a frequent visitor to the Premier League, but after being relegated to the Championship again in the summer of 2013, Reading has played in the Championship for four seasons.

This season, Reading has performed well, ranking third in the standings after 25 league rounds.

Obviously, Reading’s goal this season must be to qualify for promotion.

However, the gap between the third-placed team in the Championship and the top team in the Premier League is not just reflected by the 21 places between them.

Although Mourinho only sent a pure substitute lineup to play, and all the main players, including Bruno, took turns, Manchester United still achieved a hearty victory at home.

4: 0!

The home team's score is in front and the away team's score is in the back.

Manchester United beat Reading at home!

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In the forty-five minutes of the first half, the audience could not see Reading shooting or attacking at all. They were suppressed by Manchester United and could not even make it through the half. And every time Manchester United attacks, it can threaten Dow Reading's goal.

Rooney scored first in the seventh minute, and Rashford scored his tenth goal in all competitions this season in the 13th minute.

In the second half of last season, Rashford, who suddenly emerged as a new player, scored 8 goals for Manchester United in all competitions, stunning the entire world of football.

After the start of the new season, Rashford did not encounter a second-year bottleneck. Just over halfway through the season, he scored ten goals in all competitions on behalf of Manchester United.

Many people said that last year's European Golden Boy Award was announced at the end of October. Otherwise, based on Sanches' performance in the next few months, Rashford would definitely win the European Golden Boy Award.

Rashford scored twice and scored another goal in the 3th minute, locking the score at 0:.

Reading woke up from a dream in the second half and their performance improved slightly.

Mourinho naturally asked the team to play a defensive counterattack.

This is completely normal. The team has already led by three goals and has secured the victory in advance. How long will it take before the team retreats?

Manchester United also performed well on defensive counterattack. They struggled with Reading for forty-five minutes, trading offense and defense. Not only did they successfully defend the three-goal advantage, they also used counterattacks to score a goal for Reading.

This goal was scored by Rooney.

After Rashford scored twice in the game, Rooney also scored twice in the game.

Although Rooney has been reduced to a substitute for Manchester United recently, his performance in the limited playing time is still very good.

This is Rooney's 253rd goal on behalf of Manchester United. He continues to set a record for goals in Manchester United's history.

On the other hand, Reading, within the 45 minutes of the second half, they attacked the goal many times, but none of them hit the goal frame.

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When they defeated Reading, they once again surprised many people.

Because although Manchester United has performed well recently, everyone feels that the gap between Reading and Manchester United should not be as big as four goals. After all, Manchester United played with a full substitute lineup.

After the game, many British media praised Manchester United's victory, and even touted it in disgusting ways.

Although the score of 4:0 does not seem as big as 6:0, and the opponent is only Reading, who is third in the English Championship.

However, the 11 players played by Manchester United in this game are all from Manchester United's recent substitute lineup, although there are also big-name stars on this list, such as Manchester United captain Rooney, such as Mata, such as Carrick...

But in any case, these people are not the main lineup of this outstanding Manchester United. Even the genius Rashford is only an important rotation player for this Manchester United.

Such a team can beat Reading, who is third in the British Championship, which shows the strength of Manchester United and the unfathomable thickness of the bench.

After all, strictly speaking, Reading's strength is not much weaker than Hull City, Swansea and Sunderland among the Premier League relegation teams.

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"The Sun" reported this game under the title "Manchester United Flying High": "... Reading's defense was unable to stop the home team's crazy attack. They fell behind by three goals in the first half. Despite Reading's performance in the second half There has been a slight improvement, but there is no way back.”

The title of The Times after the game was "Manchester United advanced to the fourth round of the FA Cup". The article wrote: "After a suffocating and crazy attack, Manchester United tore the opponent's defense to pieces. The Premier League hegemon made England Reading, who finished third, was dwarfed by us."

It can be seen from these media reports that they were impressed by Manchester United's performance.

Reading have performed very well in the Championship recently, winning four consecutive league games. But in this game, Manchester United, who played with an all-substitute lineup, dominated everything. They defeated their opponents in just half the game. Facing Manchester United's crazy pressing, Reading's team's pass error rate was as high as 25%, almost twice that of Manchester United.

There is a statistic that reflects the gap between the two teams in the game: Manchester United had 23 shots in the game, far ahead of Reading's 13 shots. In terms of shooting efficiency, in addition to four goals, Manchester United also hit the goal post once, and seven other shots were bravely saved by Reading's goalkeeper. ………………

No matter what the media says, Reading is just a British Championship team, and Manchester United has only advanced to the fourth round of the FA Cup. This is nothing to Manchester United.

After defeating Reading, the team continued to prepare for the game.

Manchester United has a very intensive schedule in January. In the next twenty days, they will play five more games. The schedule is very intensive.

Three days later, on the evening of January 1, in the first leg of this season's League Cup semi-finals, Manchester United defeated Hull City 10:4 at home.

Hull City scored a goal less than two minutes into the game, but this goal attracted crazy revenge from Manchester United.

From the beginning of the second half, Manchester United scored three goals with lightning speed in five minutes, rewriting the score to 3:1.

At the last minute, Manchester United scored another goal to lock the score at 4:1.

But at this time Hull City was unable to resist.

Hull City, which once showed dark horse qualities at the beginning of this season, has been brought back to its original shape as the season progresses. After half the season, he has become the deputy squad leader of the Premier League. He has only scored 20 points in 13 league rounds and firmly occupies the last place.

Former Manchester United assistant coach Mike Phelan, who once won the Premier League's Best Coach of the Month in August this season, was also fired after the first game after the New Year.

In this game, Hull City, which has just changed coaches, is no match for Manchester United. Even judging from the scene, Hull City and Manchester United are not teams of the same level. They lost without any temper.

Marco Silva, the new head coach who just took over Hull City, told reporters after the game: "We did make some mistakes, but Manchester United made perfect use of our mistakes. This is amazing. They deserve to win..."

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Eighteen consecutive wins!

Winning the Hull City game was Manchester United's 18th consecutive victory in all competitions!

Since losing to the Blues Chelsea in the away game in the ninth round of the Premier League, Manchester United has made rapid progress in all competitions, winning 9 consecutive victories in the Premier League, three consecutive victories in the Europa League, three consecutive victories in the League Cup, and one FA Cup victory. victory.

When Bruno said in an interview with reporters that they would win the next games one by one, some people thought he was talking big.

Now these people have all been slapped loudly, and they still have to praise the team that slapped them.

"Manchester United is definitely a 'phenomenal' team!"

"Who is better in Europe at the moment, Manchester United or Juventus?"

"Terrible Bruno!"

"Ibrahimovic! Football Jesus!"

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Manchester United has achieved something that others thought was impossible before. After 20 rounds of the new Premier League season, they have scored 60 goals, ranking first in the Premier League's scoring list and the team with the strongest offensive power in the Premier League. .

Even looking at the entire Europe, the attacking firepower averaging 3 goals per game is unmatched.

This performance puts them at the top of the league, and no one dares to question it.

Not only is it unbeatable in the Premier League, but also in other arenas, Manchester United also shows unparalleled dominance. So far, Manchester United has maintained a four-pronged momentum.

All the voices that expressed doubts about Manchester United before have now disappeared.

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Many Manchester United fans have begun to imagine that in May, this team will win four championships including the Premier League, Europa League, League Cup and FA Cup in one fell swoop, becoming a double Grand Slam team.

In the history of European football, there have been three major cup competitions: the Champions League, the UEFA Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup, and fans will call the team that wins all three championships a Grand Slam team.

Historically, Manchester United has won the Champions League and the Cup Winners' Cup among the three major European cups. If they win the Europa League, they will become the second-largest team in the history of European football after Juventus, Ajax and Bayern. After Munich and Chelsea, the fifth team to win Grand Slam honors.

In the British domestic arena, since there are two cup competitions, the League Cup and the FA Cup, plus the Premier League, there are three championships up for grabs.

Although there are many teams among the Premier League giants that have won these three championships, such as Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, and Manchester City, they are all teams that have won three championships without exception.

But in history, no team has been able to win all three championships in one season.

If Manchester United achieves this great feat this season, it will be considered a first in the history of British football.

Of course, we have just entered 2017, and there are still more than five months until the end of the season, so it is still too early.

(End of this chapter)