Green Journey

The next day, in the afternoon local time, the last game of the 33rd round of the Premier League and the game that attracted the most attention from fans and media was about to kick off at the Theater of Dreams.

This is the third time Manchester United have met Chelsea this season.

In the first round of the Premier League and the sixth round of the FA Cup, Manchester United lost in the dialogue with Chelsea.

In the battle between the coaches of the two sides, Mourinho is also no match for Conte.

In those two games, Mourinho, who returned to Stamford Bridge as an opponent, not only suffered two defeats, but the voice that greeted him changed from singing to boos and the vicious taunt of "Judas".

There are even Blues fans who said that it was a very correct choice for Chelsea executives to drive away Mourinho, saying that he has not kept up with the times and is out of date.

For a Mourinho who is full of pride and used to holding his head high, outsiders have no way of knowing what kind of blow it was.

The attendance rate of Stamford Bridge was 100% in this game, and many Chelsea fans also came.

The outcome of this game is crucial to both sides, and may even affect the final score of this game.

For Manchester United, they must win this game, otherwise unless they win the Europa League, they will not even have to play in the Europa League next season.

Now in the Premier League standings, Manchester United, who has one game less, ranks sixth with 58 points.

Ahead of them are Arsenal with 62 points and Liverpool with 64 points.

Everton, with 57 points behind, is also chasing closely.

Once they draw or lose the game today, the gap between them and Arsenal and Liverpool will be widened, and their hopes of winning four and five will almost be shattered.

For Chelsea, this game is also not to be missed.

Manchester City and Tottenham, who have now played the 33rd round, have 77 and 73 points respectively.

Once they lose this game, Manchester City will immediately be able to widen the gap by 3 points. Not only that, Tottenham will also seriously threaten their status.

As for Manchester City, the result of this game is equally important, because Manchester City is likely to be the biggest beneficiary.

Therefore, Manchester City fans dream that their neighbor Manchester United can help them get rid of Chelsea today.

In the huge living room of Chu Zheng's home, Chu Zheng and De Bruyne were sitting cross-legged on the sofa, waiting for the game to start.

"Chu, I hate this feeling of pinning my hopes on others!" De Bruyne frowned as he watched the players on both sides waiting for the kick-off on TV.

On the sofa on the right, Chu Zheng, who used Laifu as a pillow, stroked the orange cat flesh in his arms, and said with a smile: "If Manchester United can beat Chelsea, it will be a good thing for us, but if they can't, it's okay, as long as we continue If we win every opponent, the championship will naturally be ours."

De Bruyne nodded, seeing that Chu Zheng's dog meat pillow seemed quite comfortable, just as Chang Wei ran past the sofa wagging his tail, he also wanted to catch Chang Wei as a dog meat pillow.

As a result, Chang Wei immediately lifted the plane and bared his teeth, which scared De Bruyne immediately.

Although Chang Wei is less than one year old, under the meticulous care of Zhao Dudu, he is now 75 at the shoulders and weighs about 80 catties. His physique looks a bit scary.

Ever since Chang Wei grew up, Lai Fu was often beaten to the brim.

"Chang Wei!!" Chu Zheng yelled, and Chang Wei immediately returned to his cute look, and immediately ran to lie down on the sofa where Chu Zheng was lying, wagging his tail.

"Damn!" De Bruyne patted his chest, "I was scared to death, Chu, I swear I will never come to your house again!"

Chu Zheng rolled his eyes and reminded, "Kevin, I don't know how many times I've heard you say this!"

De Bruyne sneered and remained silent.

After a while, the whistle sounded and the game officially started.

Chu Zheng lay down and watched for a few minutes before sitting up, and suddenly said with a smile: "Kevin, maybe Manchester United can really help us!"

De Bruyne also sat up, and he also saw something.

Today's Manchester United is a bit unusual. Mourinho is using practical actions to respond to the outside world's doubts about his exhaustion.

Sure enough, in the 7th minute of the game, Herrera quickly sent a Rui Costa-style through pass after a successful interception in the midfield.

Rashford successfully turned offside on Chelsea's defense in the middle.

The ball came around from the right side of Louis who was chasing back from the outside.

But Louis failed to intercept it, so he had to take advantage of the trend to close in, preparing to drive Rashford to the outside.

But Rashford didn't let Louis succeed. He took the ball to the front of the upper corner of the small penalty area and immediately pushed the far corner to help Manchester United score first.

"HO!" De Bruyne screamed, with an expression of sudden realization, pointing to Mourinho who was celebrating enthusiastically on TV, "Mourinho is too cunning, he successfully deceived everyone."

Chu Zheng's brows and eyes were also full of joy.

De Bruyne's words are good, Mourinho is too chicken thief, he successfully deceived everyone before the game, including Chelsea's Conte.

Before the game, as soon as they saw Manchester United's starting lineup for this game and found that Mourinho had hidden Ibrahimovic and Mkhitaryan, two thigh-level players who have been in excellent form recently, countless media and fans exclaimed that Mourinho Neo is going to give up the league and stay focused on competing for the Europa League championship.

This conjecture actually makes sense.

Because as long as Manchester United can win the Europa League, then they can directly participate in the UEFA Champions League group stage next season as the Europa League champion.

A few days ago, in the quarter-finals of the Europa League, although the away game Manchester United was tied 8-1 by the home team Anderlecht, the situation of Manchester United's promotion is still very clear.

Although football is round, the strength of the two sides is too great.

Therefore, returning to Old Trafford in the second round, Anderlecht has almost no chance of a comeback.

Therefore, Manchester United is very likely to reach the Europa League final.

But judging from the opening seven or eight minutes of the game, Mourinho didn't give up the game, he was holding back.

In the eyes of Chu Zheng and De Bruyne, Mourinho's offensive intentions today are actually very clear.

He was using Ashley Young, Rashford and Lingard to attack Chelsea's slower defense with the sprinting and running without hesitation.

Therefore, Chu Zheng believes that this is the reason why Mourinho won the relatively slow fulcrum Ibrahimovic and Mkhitaryan who needs the ball at his feet.

In this way, Manchester United's entire offensive system will become very simple and rude.

Just like the goal just now, Rashford used his own speed to attack Chelsea's defense alone, which made David Luiz extremely embarrassed.

"Hahaha!"

At this moment, De Bruyne looked at it and suddenly laughed. He turned to look at Chu Zheng, "Chu, I suddenly remembered what Conte said at the pre-match press conference just now."

After being reminded by De Bruyne, Chu Zheng also burst out laughing.

Before the game, Conte kept emphasizing the importance of limiting Ibrahimovic to Chelsea with a straight face.

But now it seems that Conte, who was put together by Mourinho, has become a joke. At least in terms of pre-match planning, Conte has lost a lot.

In the 17th minute of the game, Manchester United's second goal came.

After Pogba got rid of Pedro's entanglement in the middle circle, he accurately and quickly sent the ball along the right rib to Lingard in the right rib area at the top of the arc.

Lingard was even more coquettish today. Facing the ball bouncing in front of him, he rubbed the ball horizontally to Rashford in the middle with the outside of his right foot.

Then Rashford accurately sent the ball to the left rib of the penalty area before being surrounded by Kanter and others in the top area of ​​the arc.

Two seconds later, Ashley Young crossed the ball into the small penalty area in a way that seemed like a pass and a shot, despite the difficult situation of the double defense in front of him.

At the previous point, Rashford, who was located between Cahill and Luiz, hit a sliding tackle, and the ball hit the net again.

2-0!

"Woohoo!!!" Seeing Manchester United score again, De Bruyne jumped up from the sofa, looking extremely excited.

Chu Zheng also felt his heart beating faster in his chest.

If Manchester United can win Chelsea, it will undoubtedly be a great thing for Manchester City.

To be honest, Mourinho's 352 formation today surprised Chu Zheng.

In addition to playing simple, rough and efficient offensively, Manchester United's meat grinder battle with Chelsea in the midfield was also very successful.

From the beginning of the game to the present, Manchester United can almost be said to have perfectly restricted and killed several of Chelsea's offensive advancement points.

Mourinho's basketball-style midfielder's one-on-one close marking successfully destroyed the offensive advancement system created by Conte.

In order to completely kill Chelsea's two core attackers, Hazard and Costa, Mourinho also used Hazard's fellow Fellaini today.

So under Herrera's shadowy presence and the multi-person defense of Fellaini and others, Hazard, who is worthy of the name of the Premier League, has not successfully broken through once in the opening game. Costa, a beast forward, is also doing nothing. Can't catch the ball.

Under the expectant mood of Chu Zheng and De Bruyne, the first half ended soon.

In the second half, Conte obviously realized that the midfielder was completely marked today, so he directly replaced Cesc Fabregas at halftime, hoping to improve the team's ability to advance.

But in front of Manchester United, which has established self-confidence and implemented tactics resolutely and efficiently, Conte's substitution adjustments not only had no effect, but made the situation on the field worse.

In the 55th minute of the second half, Kanter made a mistake in stopping the ball outside the penalty area on the right side of his side, allowing Ashley Young behind him to take the ball directly, and then cut into the penalty area and passed back to Herrera on the penalty area line of the ribs.

Herrera, who was in excellent form today, kicked the ball.

As a result, the ball hit Zouma and Luiz continuously and deflected continuously, and finally plunged into Chelsea's goal from the middle of the goal.

Immediately, Chu Zheng's and De Bruyne's extremely excited cheers came from the living room of Chu Zheng's house.

In the end, Manchester United completely defeated the away Blues with a score of 4-0 in the Theater of Dreams, giving Conte and the entire Blues a nightmare defeat.

When the final whistle sounded, Dream Theater fell into a long-lost carnival, and everyone was welcoming the big victory in a hysterical way.

On the sidelines, after Mourinho, who was wearing a black down jacket, celebrated with the players, he walked slowly along the sidelines with a slight smile, pointing to the Manchester United team logo on the down jacket with his right index finger.

I point to my heart, my heart goes to Manchester United, this is for Manchester United fans.

But after thanking the Manchester United fans, Mourinho suddenly raised four fingers, which was obviously for the Chelsea fans who mocked him as Judah.

Chu Zheng and De Bruyne were all happy after seeing Mourinho's move on TV.

This is Mourinho, this is his way of revenge.

If you embarrass him, then you wait, sooner or later he will return in a strong way.

Even if Manchester United is not as good as Chelsea this season and can no longer compete for the championship, he can embarrass you with a complete victory.

At the same time, the Manchester City fans were also overjoyed. Some fans even temporarily put aside their enmity and congratulated Manchester United for winning this strong dialogue.

The Manchester United fans were a little upset, why they won the game, and the biggest beneficiary was the noisy neighbor next door, which is really annoying.

After the game, the major media also began to tout Mourinho and Manchester United.

"Chelsea secrets of Mourinho's abuse of Conte!" "

"Chelsea's championship trick is lost!The champion is unstable! "

"Mourinho has not kept up with the times?Wrong, he is still a master tactician! "

"Successful revenge, Mourinho's strong counterattack! "

"Mourinho woke up Chelsea, who was in the dream of winning the championship, with a stick! "

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The reason why the media praised Mourinho so much is because Manchester United did defeat Chelsea completely under his tactical arrangement today.

From the perspective of the tactical confrontation between the coaches of the two sides, Mourinho also completely defeated Conte.

Ferdinand praised Mourinho in the BBC studio after the game, and said that Manchester United's performance in the front, middle and back three lines today was perfect.

No matter which area it is in today, Manchester United did not give Chelsea a little space, and did not let Chelsea enter its own rhythm.

Starting from the front line, Rashford and Lingard never stopped harassing Chelsea's defense for 90 minutes.

In midfield, Pogba, Fellaini and Herrera won every important midfield confrontation.

The defense, when Chelsea struggled to send the ball to forwards Costa and Hazard every time, waiting for them fell to the ground again and again.

So the performance of Manchester United's defense is also perfect.

As for the players, Manchester United also had many players scored high today.

In particular, Herrera, the best player in the game, has won unanimous praise from the outside world.

The media even called his defense against Hazard in the game today as the most glorious case of full-time man-to-man defense in football in recent years, which can be used in tactical teaching.

Even Manchester United fans discussed after the game whether to hand over the captain's armband to Herrera.

As for Chelsea, this big defeat cast a shadow over everyone.

This not only opened up Manchester City by 3 points, but also allowed Tottenham behind them to catch up to only 1 point.

As long as they are a little careless in the next 5 rounds, they will have to be stepped on by Tottenham, who has become more and more crazy recently.

But what's worse is that if Manchester City is unbeaten in the next four rounds, even if they beat Manchester City in the last round of the Premier League, they will not win the championship with the same points as Manchester City.

After this round, Manchester City's goal difference has reached 56, but they only have 35, which is a huge disadvantage.

So if Chelsea want to win the title, they can only hope that Manchester City will be defeated in the next five league games.

Only by tying the score first can they win the Premier League title.

But is it possible?

Chelsea fans think it is very possible.

Because Manchester City still has the heavy burden of the Champions League, and they can focus on the league and wait for work.