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Chapter 361 Someone Helped You Defend, You Should Participate in the Attack More!

Cut, the football game is not only defense.

Seeing that Xia Xing was praised by his teammates as a defensive genius, Pogba was a little upset again.

And he did show his strength with actions.

In the confrontation match, Pogba showed his world-class passing ability with several consecutive long passes.

Relying on a sudden forward shot with a strong impact, he also scored two wonderful bursts.

The team's second goal Romero is powerless.

This is the strength of the French genius midfielder!

Compared with Pogba, Xia Xing passed a lot less.

He is still more organizational control, focusing on defense.

This makes Pogba even more complacent.

But his pride didn't last long...

Time came to early August, and Manchester United arranged four friendly matches.

The opponents are Wigan Athletic, Borussia Dortmund, Galatasaray and Everton.

Several teams have different strengths, and Mourinho intends to test several new tactical arrangements of his own.

In the team's training match, Mourinho has identified some starting personnel options.

Mourinho initially set a 4-3-3 formation.

On the front line, the center is naturally Da Fengxian, and Ibrahimovic's current strength is still at the top level in the world.

Behind the shadow striker Wayne Rooney, the Manchester United captain sits in the frontcourt in series.

Behind him is the combination of Xia Xing, Pogba and Carrick, alternating between old and new, with excellent offense and defense.

Goalkeeper De Gea is one of the best goalkeepers in the world today.

Only these few players are the absolute main players, and others need to try to adjust.

Such as wingers, such as full-backs.

Also, the veterans Rooney, Carrick, and Ibrahimovic are unlikely to last all games throughout the season, and they must be rotated from time to time.

Important rotation players also need to be adjusted and must be functionally divided.

And the current Manchester United players do not have a big gap in strength, so the choice is not easy, and it needs to be determined by training and games.

In the first game, Mourinho sent a lineup dominated by veterans.

Ibrahimovic is on the front line, and Rooney and Mata are beside him.

Behind are Xia Xing, Pogba and Carrick.

Back four Ashley Young, Smalling, Blind, Valencia.

Goalkeeper De Gea.

Facing Wigan Athletic, Manchester United has a huge strength advantage.

In the 2012-2013 season, Wigan Athletic was finally relegated from the Premier League.

In the 2014-2015 season, they were relegated from the British Championship.

However, last season they returned to the British Championship with the first place in the League One.

They have invested a lot this season and look forward to returning to the Premier League.

For Manchester United, this warm-up match is just a small test, and trial and error are allowed.

Throughout the game, Manchester United naturally had an absolute advantage.

In the end, they also won with a score of 2-0 and got a good start to the friendly match.

However, Mourinho was not very satisfied with this game.

The team's offensive frequency is not small, but the efficiency is not high.

Especially the cooperation between the midfield and the frontcourt needs to continue to run in.

In this game, Xia Xing retreated appropriately, escorted Carrick and Pogba, and played a pure midfielder.

Carrick is more of a metronome of the team and a long pass organization.

In this way, Pogba took over the heavy responsibility of midfield attack.

A few shots are very threatening, passing and running also seem to have a big picture.

However, his short pass level is average, and his ability to run with the ball is not top-notch.

Even against an opponent like Wigan Athletic, he still couldn't create scoring opportunities through his personal ability.

But he also likes to press forward with the ball.

There is Kaka's momentum, but there is no Kaka's dribbling technique.

And there were two conceded goals, which almost caused a catastrophe.

Fortunately, there was Xia Xing behind him to defend, the ball was broken, and there was no problem.

In the end, relying on Rooney's long shot and Ibrahimovic's header, Manchester United took the opponent lightly.

Playing a team that played League One last season was so difficult, Mourinho was a little unhappy in the locker room after the game.

But he didn't get angry. After all, he just came to the team and he just had a private talk with a few players.

In the second game, he replaced most of the players, especially the midfielder.

The center put Rooney on top, and Rashford and Martial were on the wing.

Midfielder Xia Xing, Pogba and Mkhitaryan.

This attack combination is much younger.

Facing Dortmund, Manchester United went all out to attack.

In this game, Mourinho intends to test his offensive ability.

Unfortunately, the team played poorly in the first half.

1 to 3, this is the score at halftime.

Manchester United fell behind.

Mourinho looked bad.

Manchester United's offensive players are very active, but the speed of returning to defense is not enough.

And the control of the midfield is also very poor.

The three players in the frontcourt pressed very high, and Pogba and Mkhitaryan in the midfield were also actively attacking.

In this case, they often fail to defend well enough.

Although Xia Xing has a large defensive coverage area, he is still unable to support himself.

Dortmund's quick attack was very effective. Three passes and two passes tore through Manchester United's defense and finally scored.

During the intermission, Mourinho adjusted a large area.

He directly replaced Rooney, Shamar, Pogba, and replaced Fellaini, Lingard and Herrera.

At this time, the striker became Rashford in the center, Lingard and Mkhitaryan played wingers.

Xia Xing's midfield partners also became Fellaini and Herrera.

In the player tunnel, Mourinho found Xia Xing alone to talk.

"Xia, I think you made too little contribution in the offense before."

"Well, it does."

"why?"

"The teammates have a lot of offensive range, and the team has to be defended."

"Um……"

"Ah."

"Someone helped you defend in the second half, you should participate in the offense more! I want to see how your offensive ability is in this Manchester United team."

"it is good!"

What Xia Xing said was very clear, and Mourinho also understood it in his heart.

But he doesn't want to easily dampen Pogba's offensive enthusiasm yet.

In the summer signings, Pogba is the only player not proposed by Mourinho.

The club has long been paying attention to Pogba and has been in contact with his agent Mino Raiola.

After Mourinho joined the team, the management did not make any other requirements, but to satisfy him as much as possible.

The only suggestion was to introduce Pogba, and Mourinho was also asked for his opinion.

Mourinho had no objection.

Pogba is indeed a good player and has been very helpful to Manchester United's commercial brand.

And the club has been talking about it for a long time, because of his own coaching, let this work fall short?
Inappropriate and impossible.

So Mourinho readily agreed.

And Pogba doesn't like the feature of returning to defense, and Mourinho has always disliked it.

But there is no way, the team needs talents like Pogba, and he must maximize his strengths and avoid weaknesses as much as possible.

In training, he asked Pogba to participate in defense more, and Pogba agreed.

But on the pitch, sometimes Pogba has a hard time controlling his aggression and performance.

Now, he simply replaced Pogba.

This is normal in friendly matches.

In the second half, Xia Xing was responsible for organizing the team's offense!

(End of this chapter)