Football: The butcher in the midfield at the start, the magic bird stunned

Chapter 360 The three-game winning streak of chopping melons and vegetables, the next game will be against another three-game winning streak!

一场完胜，3分到手，按照新的联赛任务，在英超首秀就凭借1进球1助攻获得全场最佳的陈小亮获得了14点训练值（30→44），全场零封也给了陈小亮获得突破点数的机会（15→17）。

With another Ten Hag's former Ajax minister Timber joining the team and entering the substitute list for the previous game, Manchester United's summer window transfer is really over here.

The vast majority of players have not changed their numbers, and several newcomers have passed through previously vacant numbers.

Needless to say, Chen Xiaoliang's No. 7, Kwa continued to wear his favorite No. 77, Cesco took over the No. 9 jersey, the predecessor of this jersey was Martial.

Livakovic wore No. 31, and Timber put on the No. 4 jersey worn by Phil Jones, who left the team on a free basis.

Due to the sufficient personnel in the team, the club rented out Erlanga and Peristry to practice leveling. The former went to Middlesbrough, which had just lost, and the latter went to Sunderland in the British Championship, and another foreigner. The rented small player Diallo will reconcile.

Manchester United's opponents in the first three rounds were not strong. The next round will be against Nottingham Forest, which barely relegated last season. In the third round, it will be Burnley led by Kompany. Manchester City bought Perrone and rented him to Burnley. Lee, and the fourth round will start the BIG3 civil war against Chelsea, which has no European missions this season.

In addition, the UEFA Champions League has not yet drawn lots, so the team has sufficient training and rest time for a while, and one game a week also gives players the opportunity to continue to adjust their status and reserve physical fitness from the holiday.

Regarding the candidate for the captain for the new season, Ten Hag still remained silent. He wanted to sell Maguire, but no one was willing to take over.

Coupled with the arrival of Timber and Lindelof's brave performance at the end of last season, Manchester United's current captain has embarrassingly ranked fifth among the central defenders, only higher than the youth promoted by the youth training team. General Menji.

However, the 21-year-old Menji's main game task is still in the reserve league, while Maguire has a weekly salary of 22 pounds and sits on the bench every week.

It's not that no team wants him. The middle and lower teams want to buy this England central defender who is absolutely capable of fighting at a low price, but the middle and lower teams can only give a weekly salary of about 8 pounds at most. This is Maguire. I can't accept it myself.

His contract will not expire until June 2025, 6, when he will be 30 years old, so the contract in front of him is obviously the last big contract of his career, so he chooses to stay and try again in order to get a chance to play. Make an effort.

Ten Hag is not that kind of dead-headed. Maguire was frequently placed on the bench in the middle of last season, but the Englishman is very professional and has never complained to the coaching staff and players about his situation. Do your best to fulfill the duties of the captain.

It's just that everyone, including himself, knows that this situation will not last until this season, and his captaincy will definitely be handed over. As for B Fei or Chen Xiaoliang, it depends on who the players support.

Why not see who the coaching staff supports?Because any fool can see that the coaching staff obviously wants to help Chen Xiaoliang to the top. Not only do they want to, but the boss Hamad Al Thani who appears at the Carrington training base almost every day wants to chat with Chen Xiaoliang with a smile on his face every day. chat.

No wonder, they have special skills. In the entire Carrington base, apart from the compatriots of the boss on the board of directors, there are only three people who can speak Arabic, Hamad Al Thani
personal translator, Chen Xiaoliang, and the teenager Zidane Iqbal from Iraq...

Others just want to get close, but they can't get it...

Ten Hag also doesn't want to waste Maguire's weekly salary of 22 pounds. He and the coaching staff are studying the tactics of the three central defenders.

For this reason, he also specifically consulted the opinions of several midfielders in the team, such as De Gea, Lima, Varane, Casemiro, Chen Xiaoliang, B Fei, and Dalot, Luke Shaw and other sides. defender.

Maguire's strong frontal defensive ability, especially his physical confrontation and high-altitude ball ability, is in stark contrast to his weak turning flexibility and speed. There are two other central defenders on the left and right sides of the penalty area and double defensive midfielders to protect him, so his weaknesses can be largely covered up.

But then there are new problems. Under the three central defenders system, with the addition of double defensive midfielders and wingbacks/full midfielders on both sides, seven positions are removed, leaving only three positions in the frontcourt. In this way, Ma Kui I played, and the others had to sit on the bench.

For this reason, after training every day, Ten Hag held a meeting with the coaching staff in the conference room to study. They almost studied the tactics of all well-known coaches who use three central defenders at this stage, analyzed them one by one, and assumed that they were used in Manchester United's current lineup. what effect will be achieved.

Therefore, a strange scene appeared at the Carrington base. After the training, Chen Xiaoliang took a group of players to stay for extra training, and Ten Hag took a group of coaches to stay for research. They met in the restaurant, so within a few days, Ten Hag simply invited these people who had been practicing to discuss together.

After all, this is not just a matter for the coach. For example, Kwa, who is used to playing the left winger of 4-2-3-1, can he be the left midfielder under the three-center back system, adding a lot of return defense and one-on-one defense tasks , The coaching staff also needs to listen to the opinions of the players.

All in all, Chen Xiaoliang, Kwa, Sesco and other newcomers to the team can see that Ten Hag is a workaholic and has very strict requirements for details.

This is very different from Mourinho. The Portuguese madman does not pay attention to details. He is also very detailed in defense, but he will formulate an overall tactic in offense. Under this tactic, players have considerable space for personal development.

The second is to pay great attention to the mental outlook of the team. He will repeatedly instill a sense of mission in the players, and consciously call them brothers and sisters—even though the age difference between each other is three or 40 years old, so that the players who believe in him feel that they are for him. War is a matter full of idealism and lofty mission.

At this point, among the famous coaches in European football, no one may be able to match him.

Compared with the slender Italy lying on the northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, England can only be regarded as a palm-sized place, but the density of football here makes Chen Xiaoliang amazed.

On the bus from Manchester to Nottingham, 112 kilometers, 1.5 hours away, along the way you can see large and small stadiums, adults or children wearing uniforms playing football.

McLaren, who has rich experience and once served as the coach of the England team, told Chen Xiaoliang that football is actually very popular in England. There are more than 7000 clubs in England, and they regularly participate in leagues of various levels.

Although most of them enjoy the happiness brought by football in their spare time, some of them also pay special attention to their achievements in amateur leagues, which gave birth to the profession of "professional field players" in amateur games.

Many high-level professional players who retired or did not earn a lot of money will go to represent the amateur team to win a cup championship in the town, or help get tickets to the FA Cup, or simply help small teams Sponsors win a game locally to expand their influence.

Chen Xiaoliang told McLaren that this is also available in the Red Country, but a large number of them are concentrated in basketball. The main reason is that the number of players in the Red Country is too small, resulting in fewer games, which in turn leads to fewer players.

Soon the players came to Nottingham's home stadium, City Stadium, but what is interesting is that this stadium is located on the south bank of the Troon River. According to the legal boundaries, it is actually outside the boundaries of Nottingham City.

After 6 days of training, I have accumulated 24 training points (44→68), and put them all into the system and save them safely.

After a night's rest, the game was still at noon. Chen Xiaoliang started again. In this game, Ten Hag chose to let Eriksson and Wan Bissaka start, and let the two Portuguese B Fei and Dalot alternate as substitutes.

In addition, Sancho got the chance to start, and Anthony also sat on the bench.

Nottingham Forest played a 3-4-1-2 formation, the most famous of which is undoubtedly the Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas.

Navas, nicknamed the "Nadu Wall", has been bought by Real Madrid since the 2014 World Cup became popular and became the main goalkeeper. He also helped the team win 3 Champions League trophies. Watt's arrival, after a year of fighting, he went to Paris.

Unexpectedly, after arriving in Paris, he performed well and was robbed of the main force by Donnarumma. In order to play in the starting lineup, he simply chose to rent out Nottingham Forest in the winter window last year. After the team successfully relegation , he chose to be bought out to stay permanently.

At 36 years old, although he is no longer young, he is still a very good goalkeeper. This has been realized by Manchester United's attacking players since the start of the game.

As if he had accumulated enough energy after resting for a summer, Navas in this game was particularly exaggerated.

In the 6th minute, Kewa broke through two people from the left and passed to Sancho in an inverted triangle in the penalty area. The latter's push to the ball was blocked by Navas.

In the 11th minute, Manchester United took a corner kick, Eriksson took a corner kick from the left, Varane flew the header, and Kwa's stab shot in front of the goal was blocked by Navas with his feet.

In the 27th minute, Manchester United made a comeback. In the counterattack, Rashford received a long pass from Chen Xiaoliang and formed a single-handed shot. He rushed into the penalty area and shot into the far corner after deceiving the center of gravity of Navas, but was blocked by Navas with his toe. With one click, the ball rubbed against the post and rolled out of the bottom line.

These three saves are just a supernatural save in the face of an excellent opportunity, and the rest of the ordinary shots are commonplace. In just 30 minutes, Navas has made 7 saves. If it weren't for his efforts, the situation in this game was completely behind. Nottingham Forest has long been sieved by Manchester United.

Even in the 39th minute, Chen Xiaoliang found a chance to try a 28-meter long-range shot in the positional battle, but Navas threw it out beside the goal post.

The more they couldn't score, the more they attacked. The score didn't change. Instead, Nottingham Forest passed a corner kick and hit the ball on the post, almost changing the score first.

Seeing that the tactics were all implemented in place, but because of the superb performance of the opponent's goalkeeper, Ten Hag replaced Sancho and Cesco in midfield, and adjusted the offensive tactical route .

To put it simply, it is to reduce the number of direct attacks and instead focus on indirect attacks.

After all, Navas is 36. While his reaction and saving ability are still at a high level, his physical function will inevitably decline with age.

In the 51st minute of the second half, Chen Xiaoliang forcibly overtook the Brazilian Lodi, who was acting as a left wing-back, on the right side and passed the ball at a 45-degree angle. Pei, the header flew to the middle, and Rashford, who followed, caught the ball and shot forward. Navas, who was blocked at the back point, had no time to move over, but the ball was kicked by Rashford under the interference of the opponent's defender.

But it doesn't matter, obviously Manchester United has found a way to deal with Navas, and once they start using this offensive method, Navas will involuntarily hesitate when choosing a position:

"Is the opponent going to hit the goal directly this time, or cooperate in the penalty area?"

If he is 10 years younger, he can leave enough margin to deal with the first choice, and then use his explosive power and goal line speed to cover the second choice, but at the age of 36, he obviously can't do both.

In the 67th minute, Kwa counterattacked from the left and then crossed the arc of the penalty area. Eriksson, who was on the top, aimed at the right side of the goal and rubbed a kick with his arch. Navas flew again to pass The ball was saved, but both Rashford and Chen Xiaoliang, who had already inserted into the penalty area, rushed towards the thrown ball immediately.

Chen Xiaoliang saw that Rashford on his left was about to collide with him, so he stretched out his left hand and pushed Rashford to the front left!
This time, not only Manchester United's own players, but even the Nottingham Forest fans in the stands exclaimed!
At this time, Navas, who got up in an emergency, had already pounced on him. Chen Xiaoliang shook his head and gave the ball lightly.

Rashford, who was still annoyed by being pushed just now, immediately understood, rushed up and leaned over, and headed the ball into the empty goal!
0 to 1, Manchester United in the away game leads by one goal!
After getting up, he looked at Chen Xiaoliang who was smiling at him, and he also showed a smile that turned anger into joy and came from the heart.

Not only him before, everyone in the field thought that Chen Xiaoliang was afraid that Rashford would interfere with him when he scored a goal, so he pushed him away and then shot, so not only Rashford became angry, but even Nottingham Forest Fans feel that this behavior is too shameless.

Unexpectedly, after just a few seconds, everything was completely reversed. Not only did Chen Xiaoliang not want to take the credit for the goal, but to give Rashford an assist. Even the push was to let him go to a higher position to catch Ferry to his own header.

On Nottingham Forest's side, once the goal was broken, the held breath was naturally let go.

Ten Hag also started to rotate shortly after scoring, with Timber, McTominay and Ganacjo replacing Varane, Eriksson and Kvar.

Manchester United, which killed Nottingham Forest four times in the League and League Cup last season, still maintained an overall advantage after the substitution.

In the end, in the 82nd minute, Rashford reciprocated. He received Casemiro's through ball from the right and broke into the penalty area to form a single goal. Facing the attacking Navas in the right corner of the small penalty area, he crossed the ball to the other side. On the side, Chen Xiaoliang, who followed, shot an empty goal, and the score became 0 to 2!

After scoring the goal, Ten Hag replaced them with Anthony and the teenager Zidane Iqbal. When the two were off the field, they walked side by side, talking and laughing. When they sat on the bench, their teammates imitated Remember Chen Xiaoliang pushing Rashford just now.

最终全场结束，比分没有再改变，曼联迎来了2连胜，陈小亮凭借那销魂反转的一推、以及1进球1、助攻、2次争顶、2次抢断连续第二场获得全场最佳，14点训练值（68→82）与2点突破点数（17→19）入账。

The focus of this round of the league is that Manchester City defeated Liverpool 3-1 at home. Contrary to Manchester United, Manchester City’s opponents in the first two rounds were strong teams, but the results of the away game against Newcastle and the home win over Liverpool made them temporarily accumulate 4 points. Ranked 5th in the standings, but still ranked 1st in the league championship odds list.

Tottenham, Arsenal, and Chelsea all won, especially Chelsea, who beat Bournemouth 4-0 at home, scoring 6 goals and conceding 0 goals in two rounds, topping the list.

Newcastle was tied by Villa led by Emery in the away game, and they ranked 12th in the first two consecutive draws.

He won two rounds without conceding a goal. Chen Xiaoliang contributed 2 goals and 2 assists. He made 5 of the 4 goals in total, which made the English media blow him up for a while. Harland for the ball, and many media even directly said that the competition between the two this season has already been decided.

When seeing such reports, Chen Xiaoliang himself was happy.

But these reporters did not expect that the bragging was too conservative.

Seven days later, the away game came to Burnley, Lancashire, which is adjacent to Greater Manchester. The away game was dubbed by the fans as the Manchester City second team and led by the former Manchester City captain Kompany. Chen Xiaoliang chopped melons and vegetables. Played far beyond the performance of the first two games.

In this game, Ten Hag finally set up a three-midfield formation after careful study, but he did not let Maguire start for the time being, but let Lima and Timber, the old partners, Linde, who defended the center from the left and the right. Love formed a three central defender.

For the forward position on both sides, Luke Shaw was still chosen on the left, while Anthony was sent on the right.

B Fee and Casemiro acted as double midfielders on the left and right, Chen Xiaoliang was in front of them, Cesco and Rashford were at the forefront.

As the absolute leading champion of the British Championship last season, he recruited a lot of cost-effective players this season, and also rented 3 young players from Manchester City. Before the game, the media predicted that Kompany's team would cause big trouble for Manchester United. .

However, no one expected that Ten Hag taught the Belgians a lesson with his pragmatism.

Kompany, who was deeply influenced by Guardiola's coaching ideas, also likes to control the ball and create opportunities by running and passing through.

In the British Championship last season, their average possession rate of 66% was the highest among all teams. Even when facing Queens Park Rangers, their possession rate reached an astonishing 81%.

However, the basis of all this is based on the fact that their lineup at the time was absolutely ahead of other teams in the English Championship. It will not be possible to play like this when they come to the Premier League.

Obviously, the previous two-game losing streak did not make Kompany wake up. He still asked the players to play like this at home in this game, which provided a natural stage for Chen Xiaoliang who came out of Mourinho.

In the 4th minute, under the control of Burnley's midfield pass, Cesco retreated and forced Burnley's old captain Jack Coke to lose the ball. cowardly.

He is not a player with Enzo's personality. He is technically inclined, and he played football with Chen Xiaoliang in Rome for half a year. In his eyes, Messi is a god far away in the sky, while Chen Xiaoliang is A god who lives by.

Seeing Chen Xiaoliang rushing towards him like a tank, even if it was a 50-50 fight, he had no choice but to take the initiative to withdraw his legs to avoid being overthrown by Chen Xiaoliang himself.

After receiving the ball, Chen Xiaoliang passed it straight to Rashford in front, and then immediately started to move forward at full speed.

After receiving the ball, Rashford walked along the right side of the midfield, Chen Xiaoliang was going left, and Sesco followed the two at full speed in the middle to launch a fast break together.

On the edge of the penalty area line, Rashford made a cross pass, and the ball rolled across the penalty area line to Chen Xiaoliang on the left.

The angle was too small, Chen Xiaoliang did not choose to hit the goal, but pulled the ball to stop and passed it to Sesco who was following him.

As soon as Sesco received the ball, Burnley's Kosovo goalkeeper Muric rushed to save it.

Sesco stepped on the ball and kicked his heel back, not only fooling the goalkeeper who was attacking, but also the defender who was chasing him.

At this time, Chen Xiaoliang, who passed the ball to him, had turned back and ran behind him, and shot the ball immediately!

The ball bypassed Sesco and flew to the right side of the goal, 0 to 1!

Not only this goal, but the subsequent development of the situation caused Zhang Lu in the live broadcast room to keep saying, "Kompany is still too young, and he is a bit weak."

Manchester United, with the top three central defenders, continued to give up the midfield and the ball, allowing Burnley to pass the ball, and then pass the ball from the sides and ribs, but they just didn't give them the opportunity to pass through the ribs and hit behind the penalty area.

In the 33rd and 65th minutes, Manchester United once again took advantage of two counterattack opportunities. Chen Xiaoliang first assisted B Fei to score in an inverted triangle, and then sent a long pass to Sancho, who came off the bench, to send a cross to Anthony, who shot from the left side of the penalty area. Scored from the far corner.

Manchester United's 3 goals gave the newly promoted three consecutive defeats and at the same time won three consecutive victories.

After the game, the English media found that they were indeed conservative before. This time, they not only bragged about Chen Xiaoliang, but also bragged about everything from Ten Hag to Rashford in the Manchester United team.

If the media likes to follow the wind, then the media in England is one of the leaders.

However, the coaching staff kept emphasizing during the training that the opponents in the first three rounds were either newly promoted or teams that were almost relegated last season, and six days later they will usher in the first civil war of BIG7.

After bidding farewell to Lampard, who was called the worst coach in history by Blues fans, Pochettino rebuilt Chelsea. They beat Wolves by 2 goals in the third round away game. The first three rounds were the same as Manchester United. All wins scored 8 goals without conceding a goal. Because the initial letter is C, it surpasses Manchester United, whose initial letter is M, and is temporarily ranked first.

Enzo, who was scolded so badly by the fans in the second half of last season, finally took the initiative to send a text message to Chen Xiaoliang: "I won't let you win again this time, see you at Stamford Bridge!"

As a bad friend, Chen Xiaoliang replied: "Promise me, don't cry."

But before that, there is another big event to participate in, which is the draw for the UEFA Champions League group stage!
　It’s really too late to rush out, the list of thanks will continue to be released tomorrow, thank you directors for your support!
　　The holiday time is indeed unstable, and the end of the holiday will be longer tomorrow, so try to explode!

　　
　
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