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

Chapter 660 The Terrible Manchester United
On October 2018, 10, as a new week began, the global sports media was dominated by information related to Manchester United.

"50!": The headline of The Times is very concise and powerful, and the newspaper praises Manchester United for creating a great record.

“50场不败！曼联做到了！”：《卫报》回顾了从2017年5月17日的英超第28轮补赛开始，到本赛季的联赛第10轮，曼联是如何一步步的创造这个伟大的记录的。

French newspaper L'Equipe praised Bruno highly, saying that Manchester United had created an incredible record in the most competitive league and praised Bruno as the man who ended the era of the two great duos.

L'Equipe's report is also believed to be their official announcement that Bruno will be the winner of the 2018 European Golden Ball.

After the FIFA awards ceremony, the most watched event in world football in 2018 was naturally the European Golden Ball Award selected by L'Equipe.

In early October, L'Equipe announced the 10-man list for the 2018 European Ballon d'Or. Manchester United, which has won six championship trophies in 30, is undoubtedly the biggest winner. Eight players, including Bruno, Harry Kane, Mbappe, Rashford, Kante, Maguire, Luke Shaw and De Gea, were selected in the 2018-man list, making it the club with the most players selected.

Currently, although the voting for the European Golden Ball Award is in the process of being voted for, judging from the odds offered by major European bookmakers, Bruno is in a clear lead.

Now, after Bruno led Manchester United to create a great record of 50 unbeaten games in the Premier League, L'Equipe's statement will naturally be interpreted by the whole world.

Italy's Gazzetta dello Sport reported the major events that took place in the British Isles with the title "Milan should be careful of this record-breaking Manchester United".

Mundo Deportivo is very interesting. After praising Manchester United's unbeaten record, the newspaper changed the topic and asked whether the level of the Premier League has declined, allowing Manchester United to create a record of 50 unbeaten games?

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At noon on November 2018, 11, at the Dean Court Stadium in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, a focus match of the 3th round of the Premier League was underway, with the Premier League giants Manchester United challenging the home team Bournemouth.

This is the first game of this round of the Premier League and a game that has attracted global attention.

The whole world is watching to see if Manchester United can continue their unbeaten legend.

Although Manchester United still has a Champions League group match next Wednesday night, Manchester United still attaches great importance to this game and Mourinho continues to send out the full main lineup.

Of course, Mourinho can do this because Manchester United is in a very good situation in the Champions League group stage. They have already gained a 7-point advantage in the first three rounds of the group stage. As long as they get 4 point in the fourth round of the group stage at home against Shakhtar Donetsk, they can advance to the knockout stage two rounds in advance.

Even if the two draw experts, Lyon and Hoffenheim, draw again in this round, Manchester United can secure the first place in the group two rounds in advance through a draw.

Under such circumstances, Mourinho naturally has enough confidence to play this game with a full main lineup.

Bournemouth is the dark horse of this season. They have achieved 10 wins, 6 draws and 2 losses in the first 2 rounds, ranking sixth in the Premier League standings.

However, there is still a big gap between their strength and Manchester United. Although they performed very tenaciously at home and Stanislas assisted Wilson to score in the 11th minute, they still could not stop Manchester United's progress.

Manchester United equalized in the 35th minute. Cancelo passed the ball, Mbappe made a cross from the right side of the penalty area, and Bruno, who came in from behind, pushed the ball into the net from 12 yards, scoring his 12th league goal of the new season and changing the score to 1:1.

The game then came to a stalemate.

Just as the game entered injury time and everyone thought Manchester United would extend their unbeaten streak to 51 games with a draw, Manchester United scored a goal.

In the 92nd minute of the game, Bruno made a cross from the left, Ake headed the ball, and Rashford chested the ball and shot into the net from the edge of the small penalty area, changing the score to 2:1.

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This seemingly lucky victory allowed the whole world to see how terrible this Manchester United team is.

Yes, terrible!
This is Manchester United's fourth comeback victory in the last five Premier League rounds!
In the 7th round of the league, Manchester United played away against West Ham United. Arnautovic's goal gave the home team the lead, but Manchester United scored two goals in the second half to reverse the score.

In the 8th round of the league, Manchester United, who suffered a nightmare start, conceded two goals in the first 10 minutes and was in a desperate situation. However, Bruno's two goals in the second half and Rashford's goal helped Manchester United to reverse the situation again.

Then came the thrilling comeback against Everton in the 10th round of the league.

If we include Manchester United's reversal against Hoffenheim in the Champions League away game, Manchester United has actually won the reversal in the last five games.

In fact, the ninth round of the league match against Chelsea was also the match in which Manchester United tied Arsenal's 9-game unbeaten record, and the game between the two sides was also very tense.

However, even in such difficult circumstances, Manchester United won consecutive games and even won by reversing the situation, which proved the strong resilience of Manchester United in the face of difficulties.

There has never been a truly undefeated team in world football. All those teams that have created miracles have a spirit of perseverance in the face of adversity.

And the current Manchester United clearly possesses this spirit.

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Manchester United, who once again reversed the game and created a 51-game unbeaten record in the Premier League, ushered in a Champions League match, which was also the fourth round of the Champions League group stage, and played against Shakhtar Donetsk at home.

Because Manchester United has established a huge advantage in the first three rounds of the Champions League group stage, and Manchester United will face the second Manchester derby of the season next weekend, Mourinho did not hesitate to carry out a comprehensive rotation in this Champions League group stage.

Although Manchester United has created a 51-game unbeaten streak in the Premier League and has also remained unbeaten in 11 Premier League games this season, they have not widened the gap with their opponents in the standings.

After 11 league games, Manchester United, with 10 wins and 1 draw, ranked first with 31 points. Behind them are Manchester City and Liverpool, who also remain unbeaten.

After two years of development by Guardiola, the Blue Moon has shown to be very strong in the Premier League in the new season. It is currently closely following Manchester United with a record of 9 wins and 2 draws, scoring 33 goals and conceding 4 goals. It is not only the team with the most goals in the Premier League, but also the team with the fewest goals conceded.

The Reds continued to recruit players in the summer transfer window and performed very well in the new season. They are currently ranked third with 8 wins and 3 draws, scoring 21 goals and conceding 5 goals, and are also excellent on both offense and defense.

In contrast, Manchester United, which is ranked first, seems a bit unstable on the defensive end. They have conceded 11 goals in 15 league games, which is only 6 goals less than the number of goals conceded in the whole of last season. They have conceded the most goals among the top 7 teams in the standings!

In this situation, when Manchester United met Manchester City, both Mourinho and the entire Manchester United team were a little nervous.

In order to achieve the best possible results, Mourinho naturally gave his main players as much rest time as possible.

However, Bruno, who was in very good physical condition, still played in this Champions League group match as captain.

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Although Shakhtar Donetsk scored first at home in the first leg and was eventually defeated by Manchester United, it made them feel that they had the confidence to compete with Manchester United.

Especially in this game, Manchester United rotated 11 of the 10 main players, which gave Shakhtar Donetsk hope of ending Manchester United's 16-game unbeaten streak in the Champions League, but Shakhtar Donetsk encountered a nightmare night at Old Trafford.

In the first minute of the game, Manchester United got a penalty kick. In one of Manchester United's attacks, Greenwood, who made his Champions League debut, rushed at high speed on the right. He changed direction at high speed to pass Shakhtar Donetsk's left back and then continued to cut inside.

Shakhtar Donetsk left center back Rakitsky couldn't stop Greenwood at all, and subconsciously reached out and pulled Greenwood to the ground. The referee blew the whistle and pointed directly to the penalty spot. Then he walked towards Rakitsky and showed the 29-year-old Shakhtar defender a card - a red card!

Greenwood had just cut into the penalty area and fell inside the penalty area.

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"Penalty! Penalty plus red card! The game has only been going on for one minute and Shakhtar Donetsk has suffered a heavy blow!" He Wei shouted.

"Red card! Penalty!" Andy Gray shouted. "Rakitsky's foul was very stupid. It was a perfect start for Manchester United."

"The referee made the right decision," said Martin Taylor. "Rakitsky was the last defender to linger, and the foul was committed in the penalty area. Both the penalty and the red card were correct decisions."

Inside the stadium, Shakhtar Donetsk players were surrounding the referee to protest. They were very dissatisfied with the decision.

From the perspective of Shakhtar Donetsk, it should be a penalty kick, because the foul did happen, and the red card was too harsh.

Manchester United players were cheering and celebrating.

Just one minute into the game, the opponent encountered a red dot set.

If Manchester United scored the penalty and led 1:0, they would have one more man playing the entire game and the game would have gone much more smoothly than expected.

Bruno takes Manchester United's penalty.

The referee blew the whistle, Bruno took a run and shot.

Shakhtar Donetsk goalkeeper Piatov misjudged the direction and Bruno calmly scored the penalty.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLL!!!!!!"

"1:0! Bruno scored the penalty kick and Manchester United leads Shakhtar Donetsk 1:0."

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Surprisingly, after left center back Rakitskiy was sent off, Shakhtar Donetsk did not make any personnel adjustments.

"Are they going to play with three at the back?" Faria said.

"Very likely." Mourinho nodded.

The three-back tactic is not uncommon. When Conte coached Chelsea, he achieved good results with the three-back tactic. If it weren't for Bruno, Conte would have led Chelsea to win the Premier League championship with the three-back tactic.

As for Mourinho, he has also used the three-back tactics in the game, of course, only at a special stage of the game.

Although the three-back tactic can increase the offensive power of the midfield, it will also lead to insufficient defense. This is not a good choice for Mourinho, whose coaching style tends to be conservative, so he rarely uses this tactic.

However, if he wants to achieve greater success, Mourinho also knows that he must further improve his tactics, among which the three-back tactics must be understood and even tried.

On the field, Herrera and the opposing player Mekon fought for the ball and he knocked Mekon to the ground. The referee only gave Herrera a verbal warning and did not play a card, which caused protests from Shakhtar Donetsk players and also made Mourinho come back to his senses.

He shook his head. Shakhtar Donetsk's back three was an incomplete back three. This was a helpless move after a central defender was sent off.

There are still four people in the midfield, but there is one less person on the defense line, which makes it even more dangerous.

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Manchester United firmly controlled the situation on the field.

"We noticed that Mourinho had a calm expression and seemed not very satisfied with the team's performance." The camera gave a close-up of the coach on the sidelines. Looking at Mourinho who was staring at the situation on the field and lost in thought, He Wei exclaimed, "This is why Mourinho's coaching is successful. The team took the initiative and led the score, but he was still not satisfied. This is a truly strict requirement, which shows how high the standards he sets for his team are!"

"It seems like the coach is not very happy," Greenwood said.

"We had one more player and had played for more than 20 minutes, but we hadn't expanded the score. Of course the coach was unhappy," said Herrera.

This statement is recognized by everyone.

Soon, the whole team knew: the team had not been able to score any more goals and the coach was unhappy.

After 25 minutes, generally speaking, after the fierce battle at the beginning, the game will enter a period of calm. However, Manchester United did not show any signs of attacking more fiercely than ever before, and Shakhtar Donetsk's defense was finally breached again.

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In the 31st minute of the game, Herrera intercepted the ball in the middle, Mahrez dribbled along the sidelines, attracted the attention of the defender and then passed the ball to Greenwood.

Greenwood cuts in laterally.

Shakhtar Donetsk defender Krivestov subconsciously wanted to pull, and immediately thought of what happened to his partner Rakitskiy. It was this moment of hesitation that allowed Greenwood to break into the penalty area.

"Mason Greenwood! Jump out!"

Greenwood made a curved shot and Piatov saved the ball.

Bruno got the ball outside the penalty area and he kicked it into the penalty area.

McTominay stopped the ball and half-turned to shoot, but the ball was blocked by Shakhtar Donetsk defender Ismaili.

Bruno reacted quickly and kicked the ball with his left foot before the defender could clear it.

The unguarded Mahrez stopped the ball with his left foot, dribbled with his right foot, passed goalkeeper Piatov and shot the ball into the goal.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLL!!!!!"

"Manchester United leads 2-0, goal comes from Riyad Mahrez!"

(End of this chapter)