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

Chapter 665 Tang Monk Meat

After losing the ball again, Lyon seemed a little impatient and began to try to counterattack. After all, they had created many dangerous situations in front of Manchester United's goal and were only one step away from scoring.

Manchester United began to stabilize their defense and focus on counterattacks.

Less than six minutes after the second goal, when Lyon attacked the frontcourt, the pass was intercepted by Herrera, and Bruno made a long pass to find McTominay in the frontcourt.

The Scotsman dribbled the ball forward and Manchester United's trident started at the same time, quickly forming a three-on-three situation in the frontcourt, especially Mahrez on the right. After Mendy stepped forward to participate in the attack, his side was basically empty.

McTominay knew that he was slow in dribbling, so he immediately sent the ball to the right. Mahrez quickly dribbled the ball to the right side of Lyon's penalty area, attracted the defensive players, and suddenly passed the ball back to McTominay who was unguarded in the penalty area. The latter stopped, made a slight adjustment, and then made a low shot with his right foot and sent the ball into the lower left corner of the goal.

3: 0!

The entire Olympic Park Stadium was in deathly silence.

"Lyon's overall strength is indeed inferior to Manchester United. The players of the Premier League giants are slightly better in terms of experience and strength. The most terrifying thing is that today's Manchester United is actually just Manchester United's second team. It can be seen that their ability to break Arsenal's 49-game unbeaten record in the Premier League, end Real Madrid's three consecutive Champions League titles, and even remain unbeaten in all competitions last season are not flukes."

"For two consecutive seasons, Manchester United's young players have shown amazing strength in the Champions League. For a long time to come, European football will probably tremble in fear of this Manchester United team."

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As Manchester United's unbeaten record gets longer and longer, Manchester United fans do not want their record to be broken, while their opponents all hope to end Manchester United's unbeaten record and write their team's name into history.

Manchester United has almost become a piece of cake in the eyes of its opponents!

Under such circumstances, every team will have no lack of fighting spirit when facing Manchester United, just like Manchester United's next opponent, Southampton Saints.

Moreover, Southampton, who are currently in a bad situation, also urgently need points to escape the relegation zone.

After the first 13 rounds of the league, Southampton only got 1 win, 5 draws and 7 losses, ranking 8th in the Premier League standings with 19 points. This is in stark contrast to last season when the Saints got 16 points in the same period and ranked tenth in the standings.

Therefore, Southampton can no longer afford to lose today's game.

After the game started, Southampton got into the game very quickly.

They took the lead in the 13th minute. Obafemi passed the ball and the unguarded Armstrong shot into the far corner from 12 yards on the right side of the penalty area, helping Southampton take the lead.

Southampton extended the lead in the 20th minute, with Cedric's free kick from 20 yards directly into the top left corner, changing the score to 2:0.

This also completely woke up Manchester United. The Red Devils realized that if they didn't improve, their unbeaten record might end at St. Mary's Stadium.

The awakened Manchester United is obviously not something that the weak Southampton can resist.

Manchester United equalized in the 33rd minute. Bruno made a straight pass, Rashford broke through and passed the ball, and Harry Kane followed up and shot the ball into the net from 11 yards, changing the score to 2:1.

Manchester United's morale was boosted after they scored a goal. They continued to suppress Southampton on the field and scored the second goal in just 6 minutes.

In the 39th minute, Bruno passed the ball to Rashford from the bottom right of the penalty area. Gundogan made a close-range back-heel shot at the front point, but it was blocked and went into the net. The score on the field was rewritten to 2:2. ………………

After equalizing the score, Manchester United continued to strengthen their offensive, hoping to overtake the score in the first half. However, until the end of the first half, the score between the two sides was still 2:2.

Southampton conceded two goals in just six minutes, which made them realize that it was not an easy task to end Manchester United's unbeaten record, so they began to become conservative, hoping to maintain the score of 6:2 until the end of the first half or even the end of the game.

Manchester United had the upper hand, but they were unable to launch threatening attacks, let alone score. The two flanks were severely restricted by the opponent, and it was difficult for Bruno in the midfield to do anything alone.

Double defensive midfielders is a safe tactic and Mourinho will not use it unless it is absolutely necessary. So during the half-time break, it depends on how Mourinho adjusts the team's offense on both flanks.

After the second half, Manchester United made appropriate adjustments.

The left-back Luke Shaw was released to attack and was more active on the left, but Southampton quickly made defensive arrangements against Manchester United's left and adjusted the focus of defense to their right.

In addition, although Harry Kane had an advantage in the first point, he failed to follow up in the second point, which made Manchester United's offense fail to improve.

Fortunately, the double defensive midfielders ensured the stability of Manchester United's defense, and Southampton's counterattacks could hardly create threats.

As a result, the situation on the field seemed to be rather stalemate, and the score of 2:2 had not been changed.

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Southampton can accept a draw, but Manchester United cannot.

Earlier, Manchester City had defeated Bournemouth 3-1 at home, thus surpassing Manchester United with 36 points, which was 35 points. If Manchester United cannot win this game, they will drop to second place in the standings.

Although temporarily dropping to second place in the rankings is not an unacceptable result, it would not be a good thing for Manchester United if they lost points against a weak team like Southampton.

The previous plan didn't work. As the captain and midfield commander of the team, Bruno had to change his mind and run patiently, looking for opportunities.

Soon, he received the pass from Gundogan on the right rib, dribbled past the defender, and sent the ball to Harry Kane with his left foot.

Harry Kane received the ball at the top of the arc in front of the penalty area, but he failed to stop the ball with his first kick, which resulted in him being unable to turn and shoot, and even losing the ball.

After all, he is not Ibrahimovic and does not have such good ball control skills.

Bruno raised his right hand towards Harry Kane apologetically and took the responsibility for the mistake.

Soon, Bruno got another chance. After retreating to receive the pass from Kante, he shook off Southampton defender Valeri and made a left-footed curve pass behind Southampton's defense.

But Mbappe failed to understand Bruno's intention and did not get in in time, causing the ball to go directly out of the baseline.

(End of this chapter)