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

Chapter 408 Double Red Reunion
After the first leg of the League Cup semi-final against Hull City, the match against Liverpool was imminent, and the Manchester United team entered the preparation stage for the final sprint.

Nearly three months have passed in the blink of an eye since they first played Liverpool, and the situation of the two teams has also undergone some changes.

Before the first leg of the Double Reds three months ago, although Manchester United had won seven consecutive league victories and ten consecutive victories in all competitions, they only defeated a strong team in Manchester City due to the average opponent strength. This made the Red Devils and their coach Mourinho Rinho has suffered a lot of doubts.

But now, Mourinho has become a hero at Old Trafford, and even the team's top star Bruno is not as famous as him.

When he was criticized and criticized outside, everyone from club owner Jassim and general manager Giarretta to ordinary fans and players fully supported Mourinho.

This kind of treatment has never been enjoyed by the previous Manchester United head coaches. Manchester United is like going back to the Ferguson era.

Mourinho has completely conquered Old Trafford from top to bottom, inside and out. The entire Manchester United only followed Mourinho's lead.

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Mourinho's popularity does make sense. Look at Manchester United under his leadership!

Halfway through the 2016-2017 season, Manchester United played a total of 32 games in all competitions, and Mourinho led the team to win 31 of them. They only lost to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the 9th round of the league. .

They won 20 games in the first 19 rounds of the Premier League. After completing a wave of eight consecutive victories, they once again won a wave of 60 consecutive victories in the Premier League, scoring an astonishing 17 goals, but only conceded on the defensive end. Scored goals, performed extremely well on both ends of the offense and defense, and can be called a strong shield.

At the same time, they are also the only team in Europe to maintain a complete victory in official home games. In the 17 games played at Old Trafford, whether it was the powerful local rivals Manchester City or the Premier League giants such as Arsenal and Tottenham, they all obeyed and allowed Manchester United to slaughter them.

In these 17 games, Manchester United scored 48 goals, almost three goals per game, and its offensive power ranks first in Europe.

Not only at home, Manchester United performed equally well on the road, achieving a record of 15 wins and 14 loss in 1 games, scoring 45 goals, and their firepower was especially better than at home!

Sharp offense and excellent defense, this is the impression Mourinho's Manchester United leaves on people.

Twenty rounds into the season, with nineteen wins and one loss, Mourinho's Manchester United became the team with the best start in the history of the Premier League, setting a new record for points scored in the first twenty rounds of the season, surpassing the Premier League record he set when he was at Chelsea. Best start in history.

Today's Manchester United is no longer the "pseudo giant" that everyone bullied in the past three years.

Chelsea are also in excellent form this season, but they are so outstanding that they are firmly suppressed by Manchester United in the Premier League standings, being left behind by as many as eight points. Many Chelsea fans believe that the Blues have lost the fight for the league championship. hope.

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Manchester United was excellent overall and the performance of the players was also outstanding.

Take the team's top star and absolute core Bruno Fernandez. Bruno scored 25 goals in 20 league games, and his scoring efficiency dominated Europe.

Not only can he score by himself, but he can also create opportunities for his teammates. He is currently the assist leader in the Premier League with fifteen assists. This kind of data is even enough to become the assist leader in most seasons, but this is only his data in twenty rounds of the league.

Almost everyone believes that his performance at Manchester United has surpassed the four legends in the history of the Manchester United club. He is left behind by Bobby Charlton, Denis Law, George Best and Cristia. Ronaldo.

In addition to Bruno's outstanding performance, other players also performed well. They are also the reason why Manchester United can be so strong.

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This United is tougher than the one they met for the first time in October.

The British media generally believe that Liverpool's hope of winning against Manchester United is very slim.

Although Liverpool's performance this season under the leadership of Klopp is not bad: the Red Army has a record of 20 wins, 13 draws and 4 losses in the first 3 rounds, and is currently ranked third in the Premier League standings. Scored 48 goals on the offensive end, the team with the most goals except Manchester United.

However, the gap between second place and first place is a bit big, a full 12 goals less!
What makes Liverpool fans even more desperate is the huge gap between the two sides in their lineups. Mourinho's Manchester United can be said to have strong troops and can easily form two strong eleven-man lineups. This is why Manchester United has been able to maintain its performance in various competitions despite a dense schedule and extremely intense competition. The key reason for the rapid progress. As for Liverpool, Klopp can't even put together a starting lineup with certain strength.

Despite this, the entire Liverpool team must still maintain the belief that they must win, because Liverpool really can't afford to lose now!
Before the second leg of this double-header match, Liverpool had been winless in three games in all competitions. And if they lose at Old Trafford again, they will not only suffer four games without a win in all competitions, but they will also be widened to 17 points by Manchester United in the Premier League standings.

With only 17 rounds left in the league, Liverpool will bid farewell to the Premier League championship this season ahead of schedule!
Even if the strength is not good, maybe we can get a draw. But if they go for a draw right from the start, then they will definitely lose in the end.

…………Klopp is a very smart man, he is a pragmatist. He knows that the recent El Clasico with Manchester United is the top priority, so he hid the core midfielder Coutinho in the League Cup semifinals with Southampton.

And Liverpool's players will also know this very well. The interest in the League Cup is obviously not as great as the El Clasico.

For Liverpool players, the most important thing is not reaching the League Cup final, but the El Clasico with Manchester United.

In addition, they must also be afraid of getting hurt. After all, Liverpool's lineup is far less thick than Manchester United. If an injury occurs during the game, Klopp can't even find a suitable substitute.

Therefore, Mourinho's tactical strategy for Manchester United is to make bigger and more fierce defensive moves to make Liverpool players think that they may be injured at any time during the game, so that they will have scruples during the game. Can't let go of performance.

As long as the players don't perform normally, it won't matter how good Klopp is.

This is Mourinho's wishful thinking.

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The match between Manchester United and Liverpool was the last match of the 21st round of the Premier League. In the previous games involving strong teams, almost all of them had big wins.

Tottenham swept West Brom 4:0 at home, Arsenal also bloodbathed Swansea 4:0 away from home, Chelsea defeated Leicester City 3:0 away from home, and Conte transferred his newly awarded FIFA The Italian fellow who is the best head coach has pushed towards the edge of the abyss again.

How can a fellow countryman shed tears when he meets a fellow countryman without stabbing him in the back?

Of course, Conte also has his reasons for having to win the game. After all, his Chelsea still want to compete for the Premier League championship this season.

In a focus game of this round of the league on Sunday afternoon, Guardiola was severely taught by his fellow Barcelona senior Ronald Koeman at Goodison Park. He led Manchester City 0:4 Failed miserably.

After this defeat, Manchester City was already 18 points behind Manchester United at the top of the list with one more game, and was completely eliminated from the Premier League title race.

In the eyes of the British media, this was also the battle where Guardiola completely fell from the altar.

Guardiola and the Manchester City led by him have long lost the high spirits of their three-game winning streak at the beginning of the season. British media have said that the current goal of Manchester City should not be to compete with Manchester United for the championship, but to ensure qualifications for next season's Champions League; and Guardiola, on the other hand, wants to keep his job as much as possible instead of competing with Murry Neo competes for who is the number one coach in world football today.

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For this double red meeting, both Manchester United and Liverpool have given maximum attention to it. Although Klopp's Liverpool is full of injured soldiers, Klopp still brought all the main players who could play to Manchester.

On Manchester United's side, Mourinho also attaches great importance to this game.

There is no need to say how much he attaches importance to it.

In the pre-match tactical meeting, he focused on analyzing Liverpool's recent rounds and asked everyone to pay special attention to the following people-Coutinho, Henderson and Mane.

These two are Liverpool's best players at the moment. Mane performed very well when he was at Southampton, but after meeting Liverpool, Klopp made him make great progress, and now his performance has a vague general style.

"We can't look at people with the same old eyes. Mane is more threatening and more agile now than when he was at Southampton. So we must keep a close eye on him during the game!"

Not to mention the threat of Coutinho. He is shining brightly now and is Liverpool's well-deserved core midfielder. According to reports in the British media, he is also one of Bruno's competitors for the best player this season.

The attention to Henderson is because Liverpool’s real commander is Henderson. Just like Bruno is to Manchester United, Henderson’s status in Liverpool is equally important. It's just that he is not as dazzling as Bruno at Manchester United, because there are many people who are more talented than him in Liverpool. But if you ignore him because of this, you will suffer a big loss.

Henderson handed it over to Kanter.

Emre Can is a tackling midfielder who can be ignored. His offensive contribution is very small.

"We don't care about Liverpool's style or football. Just stick to our football!"

(End of this chapter)