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Chapter 521 The strongest man is already in the team! First defeat of the season? !
The 2018 winter transfer window has been very hot since its opening day!
Southampton captain and Dutch international Virgil van Dijk joined Liverpool from Southampton for a record-breaking defender transfer fee of £7500 million!

Liverpool, who had been in a long-term dispute with Southampton in the summer window, finally got the backcourt commander they wanted!

However, there are gains and losses.

A few days later, after half a season of persuasion and retention, Klopp and Liverpool still failed to retain the team's midfield core Coutinho.

Coutinho joined Barcelona as he wished, with a staggering transfer fee of 1.6 million euros.

The frontcourt lost a core and the backcourt gained a father.

No one knows which of the two transactions is higher or lower.

However, he scored a header against Everton in the FA Cup derby on his debut, helping the team advance to the next round. This most expensive defender in the history of the Premier League showed the fans what value for money is.

Perhaps only Ling Feng knows how much impact Van Dijk's joining and Coutinho's departure have on Liverpool's rise.
Of course, in addition to Coutinho, this winter, Liverpool also lost the striker Sturridge on the offensive line who once brought them many good memories.

However, Sturridge, who has long been reduced to a glass man, no longer has a place at Anfield.
After two big signings in a row, many Premier League teams have changed their past small-scale moves and started to attack everywhere this winter!
In the following half month, the major Premier League giants launched a wave of winter window reinforcements!

Today, Tottenham Hotspur is interested in Paris' Brazilian international Lucas Jr., aiming to strengthen the squad;

Tomorrow, Arsenal's Giroud intends to leave the Emirates Stadium and pursue the championship;

The rich Manchester City has set its sights on Athletic Bilbao's central defender Laporte and plans to continue to strengthen its central defense line!
While other giants are looking for suitable prey in the transfer market, Manchester United, as the league leader, is sitting still.

It’s not that Mourinho has no money to buy players. On the contrary, the management gave him a winter transfer fund of 50 million pounds to strengthen the team.

The main reason is that Mourinho believes that the team's lineup is sufficient to face the next four fronts (Premier League, Champions League, League Cup, FA Cup) and there is no need to recruit any more players.

Moreover, the players he has his eyes on are all the favorites of each team and are not available in the market at all.

What's more, it is easy to recruit players, but if their playing time is not met, it will also cause problems in the locker room.

Therefore, when he mentioned the winter transfer window recruitment plan in the media many times, he said that the team had no plans to recruit players in the winter window.

Unless there is a large-scale injury wave, or the target of interest appears in the transfer market.

However, life will always give you a heavy blow when you least expect it!
In the 22nd round of the league home game against Stoke City, the team's main right-back Valencia suffered a knee injury.

Although the injury is not too serious, he will be absent for at least two months.

In addition to Valencia, the team's fourth central defender Phil Jones was injured again during training.

In addition to Kante, who suffered a mild muscle strain during the international match day, and Bailly, who is still recovering from injury, the team suddenly has several more players in the hospital beds.

Moreover, all three are the absolute main players of the team.

Kante's injury is not serious and he only needs to rest for two weeks before returning.

Fellaini and Neves can both temporarily replace him.

Although Rojo gave people a feeling of being too brave, he still completed his task on the defensive line very well.

Valencia, who has been unable to play for two months, once again put Mourinho in a difficult position:
Who will play right back?!
There are three candidates in the team who can temporarily replace Valencia.

One is Italian defender Damian, one is Ashley Young who can play as a right-back, and the other is young player Tuanzebe.

Damian is the second choice at right back and has been substituted and rotated many times this season.

In the limited starts, his performance was also very solid.

The most important thing is that he has a very positive professional attitude and is very diligent.

Even if he has relatively little screen time, he won't lose his temper.

Ashley Young has been Luke Shaw's substitute for most of the season and is the team's regular substitute at left-back.

However, he also has experience playing as a right back and his defensive skills are acceptable.

As for the young player Tuanzebe, he is not yet able to gain a foothold in the Premier League, and the team plans to loan him out for some experience.

Considering that Valencia and Ashley Young are already 32 years old, they are also at the end of their careers.

In addition, Damian's ability was relatively not outstanding, so a new plan was proposed:
Should we take this opportunity to buy a right-back as Valencia's successor?

After much consideration, Mourinho decided to make preparations for both scenarios.

On the one hand, we are looking for a suitable right-back target in the transfer market, and on the other hand, we are giving Damian a chance to replace Valencia!

If Damian can perform well during Valencia's absence, it will save a lot of trouble.

If Damian really cannot take on the defensive responsibility on the right, it’s not too late to buy someone else!
Against this background, the league away challenge to Burnley on January 1th became a very crucial battle in Damian's career!
Faced with the opportunity to become a main player for Manchester United, Damian, who has always been diligent and down-to-earth, seized this opportunity firmly!

As the starting right back, he played the whole game and received a high score of 8.0 after the game!
In addition to being impeccable on the defensive end and freezing Burnley's attack on the left, he also completed an assist on the offensive end:
That was an opportunity for a positional battle. Damian came up from the right, then received a direct pass from Lukaku, went down the bottom and completed an inverted triangle, helping Ling Feng to push the ball into the goal.

In the end, Manchester United took away a victory at Turf Moor, allowing the team's winning streak to continue.

Damian's excellent plug-and-play performance also won Mourinho's praise after the game:
"Matteo (Damian) is a very professional player. He is very diligent and always trains very seriously. When the team needs him, he stands up resolutely!"

“He’s a very good player!”

Damian's performance also made many fans who were worried about the team's right-wing defense problems exclaim:

The strongest person is already in the formation!
In fact, Damian's outstanding performance did not surprise his teammates.

Ling Feng, in particular, thought it was perfectly normal.

After all, Damian faced his attacks almost every day in training, how could he not improve? !

Yes!

This is also one of the major impacts Ling Feng has brought to Manchester United besides the visible victories and championships!

Since joining the team in the summer window of 16, not only Rashford, Lingard and other front players have received his hands-on guidance and improved significantly. Even Luke Shaw, Maguire, Damian, Bailly and other defenders have made significant progress in their repeated matches with Ling Feng.

Perhaps it is because Italian players have defensive talent in their blood, and under the ruthless destruction of Ling Feng, the ceiling offensive player in football, Damian's defensive awareness and experience are even better than when he first joined.

Coupled with the fact that he has won one championship after another with Manchester United in the past season and a half, his entire mental outlook has also undergone tremendous changes.

Even if he is not the absolute main force, he can also be called a six-time champion defender!

Moreover, he is the only Italian in today's football world to have won six championships with his team!
After seeing Damian's general style on the field, coupled with his always diligent attitude, Mourinho immediately decided that during Valencia's injury, Damian would be the absolute main force on the right!
And Damian also repaid the coach's trust with his outstanding performance.

In the following League Cup semi-final second leg, and FA Cup fourth round match against Orwell, he started and played the full game.

Among them, in the second round of the league semi-final against Chelsea, he gave Lukaku an assist and contributed the most steals in the game with four, and was named the best player of the game!
This game not only belongs to "Little Beast" Lukaku who killed his former club, but also to Damian!

Damian also uses his own experience to tell everyone that when you are in a low point or depressed, never lose heart!

As long as you keep persisting, gold will always shine!
. . .

Just as Damian was reaching a turning point in his career, the winter window, which the media later called the craziest in the history of the Premier League, also entered a white-hot stage!

Especially on the transfer window deadline, several major Premier League giants seemed to have agreed upon it and completed major last-minute deals in unison!

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First of all, Arsenal sent Giroud, the "king of the world" who scored more than 100 goals for the team, to Chelsea, which is also in London, and then spent a new record transfer fee of 63 million euros in team history to buy Dortmund's top scorer Aubameyang!

Then, Manchester City signed Athletic Bilbao's center back Aymeric Laporte for 6500 million euros, strengthening the center back position.
Tottenham, who are fighting on two fronts, also bought Brazilian international Lucas Moura from Paris Saint-Germain, whose playing time was sharply reduced due to the joining of Neymar and Mbappe!

Everton, which was seriously bleeding, also introduced Turkish striker Tosun
While all the major clubs are strengthening their teams, Manchester United, the Red Devils at the top of the league, has remained resigned and has not made any transfer moves.

The only news is that the contract with Damian has been renewed, keeping the 27-year-old Italian defender at Old Trafford!
Of course, Manchester United fans are not surprised at this situation at all. Instead, they think it is very normal.

With the current lineup, they are invincible in the Premier League.

Since the lineup is already strong enough, why spend money to buy players to destroy the balance of the lineup and the good atmosphere in the locker room? !

And on the 25th round of the Premier League on the deadline day of the winter transfer window, a highlight was held.

That is Tottenham Hotspur facing the league leader Manchester United at home at White Hart Lane!
Currently, Tottenham has only 45 points and ranks fifth.

The gap between them and Manchester United, which is ranked first with 72 points, is an astonishing 27 points!
As Manchester United achieved an unprecedented 24 consecutive victories and was far ahead of the rest, all the media and fans were asking one question:
Who can stop Manchester United?!
Pochettino and his young army certainly hope to be the answer to this question!

Although they withdrew from the championship race early, their opponents are coming on strong.

However, Tottenham, aiming to fight for the top four, still plans to take on the invincible Red Devils at White Hart Lane!
“Welcome to watch the 25th round of the Premier League brought by Sky Sports on time.”

"Tottenham Hotspurs host Manchester United, the team at the top of the table, who are coming on strong."

In this game, Tottenham Hotspur fielded their strongest lineup.

Manchester United was missing three main midfielders and defenders, including Bailly, Kante and Valencia.

Even so, pre-match media predictions still tended to favor Manchester United to win narrowly.

But the direction of the game was beyond everyone's expectations!

Just eleven seconds into the game, Tottenham scored a lightning goal!
Due to Kane's interference, Rojo's header missed the target and the ball slipped through.

Ali, who came in at high speed, knocked the ball back before Maguire could block it.

Eriksen, who followed closely behind, was like a ghost, and shot the ball into the goal before Herrera!

This lightning strike was not only the fastest goal in the Premier League this season, but also caught Manchester United off guard.

After taking the lead, Tottenham, playing at home, became even more aggressive and started to attack Manchester United!

Due to Kante's absence, the defensive coverage area of ​​the defensive midfielder combination of Neves and Herrera is still slightly inferior.

However, Neves' passing and active running in the middle can still effectively help the team's offense move forward and reduce the number of times Ling Feng retreats to receive the ball.

However, just as Manchester United was slowly suppressing the home team through attack and repeatedly creating opportunities in front of the goal, an accident happened again.

A corner kick opportunity, Ling Feng's pass found

Maguire's header hit the crossbar hard, bounced out and landed right at Dale's feet.

The latter made a long pass and found the Asian No. 1 who was running forward at high speed on the left.

For a moment, the Tottenham players in white jerseys rushed forward like a swarm of bees.

The Manchester United players, wearing black away jerseys, were also trying their best to defend.

Especially Ling Feng, who returned to his own half at high speed like a black lightning.

However, Son Heung-min failed to get past Damian directly, so he had to slow down and pass the ball to Ali who was coming from behind.

Ali directly passed the ball to the relatively weak right side, and the ball came to Trippier's feet.

The right-back, who was very good at crossing, took a glance and sent a low ball directly towards the goal.

However, perhaps because Luke Shaw's position on the left blocked his view, or perhaps because the ball was too fast, when the ball flew directly to Maguire, he happened to turn his head to observe Ali who was running in the middle.

The next second, the oncoming ball hit his thigh, refracted, and instantly turned into a black shadow, going straight into the near corner of the goal.

Everything happened so quickly that De Gea didn't even have time to react.

After conceding two goals in a short period of time, Manchester United players looked at each other in bewilderment.

Especially the noise from the fans echoing in my ears seems particularly harsh.

You know, this is the first time this season that they have fallen behind in the first half!
This was also the first time this season that their opponents scored two goals in a single game!
Looking at the Tottenham players celebrating wildly, the visiting fans who traveled with the team couldn't help but show a hint of helplessness:
Could it be that their team is about to suffer its first defeat of the season? !

(End of this chapter)