From the man behind the football king to the football king

Manchester United defeated Wolves and kept close to Liverpool in the standings, which undoubtedly brought great confidence to the entire Manchester United team.

A week later, Manchester United went to London to challenge Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

The team arrived at Stamford Bridge two hours in advance, and Chelsea arrived almost at the same time.

The two teams that are very familiar with each other are about to usher in a peak showdown. This battle not only attracted the attention of all fans in the UK, but also attracted the attention of fans all over the world.

This season, Manchester United won 4:0 at home against Chelsea and performed well in the league, but these are of no use to tonight's game.

Before the game, everyone felt that neither side could come up with any unexpected tricks in this game. Whether it is Lampard or Mourinho, it is impossible to give the opponent too many opportunities. The key is to see who has a better ability to seize opportunities and who makes fewer mistakes.

Chelsea still arranged a 4-3-3 formation in this game. The goalkeeper is Caballero, the back line is Azpilicueta, Christensen, Rudiger and Reece James, the midfield is Jorginho, Matic and Kovacic, and the front court is Willian, Pedro and Batshuayi.

On the Manchester United side, Mourinho also arranged a 4-3-3 formation. The goalkeeper is De Gea, the four defenders are Cancelo, Maguire, Van Dijk and Luke Shaw, Bruno and Gundogan and Kante partner in the midfield, and the front trident is a combination of Rashford, Harry Kane and Mbappe.

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After the opening, Manchester United's left side played very fiercely, and Luke Shaw and Rashford put great pressure on Chelsea's right side on this side, so Lampard made adjustments, and Matic moved more to the right to assist Reece James.

Reece James looks mediocre and seems to have no advantages, but in fact he has no flaws either. He is also conscientious on the court. He did not make any big mistakes when facing Rashford. In addition, with the assistance of Matic, Chelsea's right defense barely blocked Manchester United's left attack.

Mourinho's tactics in this game mainly emphasize two points. One is to maintain the integrity of the tactics. There is no need to say more. Facing a team like Chelsea, looseness is impossible to win.

And Manchester United's biggest advantage is the overall. Bruno can play well precisely because he has shown his advantages on the basis of the overall.

As for the second point, it is also a targeted point, which is to control the second landing point.

Batshuayi is the offensive pillar of Chelsea's frontcourt. When defending, it is very difficult for Manchester United to compete with him for the first landing point, so Mourinho's defensive strategy is to grab the second landing point.

By the same token, Harry Kane's tactical role in the frontcourt is also very obvious. He can get the ball and grab the ball, so the most important thing for Manchester United's offense is to grab the second landing point.

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What Mourinho could think of, Lampard, who is Mourinho's favorite disciple and knows Mourinho very well, could also think of, so Chelsea deployed heavy troops near the penalty area and did not give Manchester United any chance easily.

Both teams are teams that pay great attention to defense, and they know each other well. The coaches of both teams also tried their best to show their best defensive formations, so the game was very intense, but not exciting at all.

It can even be said that neither side created any decent opportunities.

As the first half of the game was about to end, Manchester United center back Van Dijk intercepted the ball in the penalty area, rushed forward with the ball, instigated a counterattack on the spot, and quickly passed the ball to the right side of the front court with a long pass.

After Harry Kane pulled to the right side to get the ball, he drove straight into the penalty area with the ball, and used a sudden stop and then a sudden acceleration to get rid of Christensen and pass the ball into the penalty area.

Bruno got ahead of Reece James, calmly stood seven meters in front of the goal, and scored with his left foot!

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLL!!!!!!"

Accompanied by the commentator's long sound of goal, Bruno turned and rushed out of the stadium, and the Chelsea fans in Stamford Bridge, after a brief silence, booed violently as revenge for Bruno, the opponent.

"In the 45th minute, the visiting team Manchester United launched a quick counterattack. Harry Kane made a cross from the right, and Bruno calmly seized the opportunity to score the first goal for Manchester United and broke the deadlock on the field!"

"This is the second time Harry Kane has created a threat on the right during a counterattack in this game."

"The last time was in the 16th minute of the opening, which was also a counterattack by Manchester United. Harry Kane, who was pulled to the wing, made a cross and also went to Bruno, but that time Caballero attacked and got it, and failed to create a threat."

"But this time, Manchester United finally seized the opportunity and broke through Chelsea's goal!"

"1:0! Manchester United, playing away, took the lead!"

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When the ball was lost in the frontcourt, Chelsea quickly returned to defense, and the Chelsea forwards including Batshuayi also chased back all the way, but in the end Manchester United still scored!

Manchester United caught a more obvious loophole in Chelsea, that is, the hidden danger of Azpilicueta's forward insertion on the left.

This is a weakness that all offensive full-backs have, and Chelsea has made a plan for it. But Mourinho's move this time was a bit strange, because he asked Harry Kane to go to the side and let Rashford occupy the middle, but Harry Kane passed the ball to Bruno who came in from behind, not Rashford.

It is often this kind of subtle details that play an important role at critical moments.

In fact, when Manchester United played like this for the first time, Chelsea was already on guard, but they didn't expect Manchester United to seize the opportunity and break Manchester United's goal first.

For this situation, Lampard also made a plan before the game, so Chelsea was not panicked.

Looking at the first 45 minutes of the game, the two sides were evenly matched, and no one had a good chance to score, and Chelsea, who played at home, had the advantage for most of the game.

But Manchester United seized the only opportunity and scored a goal. Mourinho is really an expert in defensive counterattacks!

Lampard still admired his mentor Mourinho, but he was also very unconvinced in his heart. He quickly made adjustments and signaled Chelsea to start pressing forward again, which was a signal for active attack.

After Manchester United scored a goal first, Chelsea pressed forward further, but because there was little time left in the first half, they still failed to create a threat and finally fell behind temporarily with 0:1 in the first half.

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During the halftime break, Mourinho affirmed the team's performance in the first half.

After the two sides changed sides in the second half, they still failed to create good opportunities for each other.

Although Chelsea fell behind 0:1 at home, they still played steadily. Manchester United attacked for a while at the beginning, but they didn't have too many good opportunities.

Both Rashford on the left and Mbappe on the right were a bit silent.

It's no joke that facing Reece James and Azpilicueta, who are very persistent and focused defensive players, and Matic, a top defensive midfielder, it would be strange if Rashford and Mbappe could perform well.

In this case, Bruno did not get a good performance and opportunity.

Lampard obviously also specially formulated a defensive strategy to restrain Bruno, and naturally would not give him another chance.

The game was intense and dull, and even both sides played more restrained. After 70 minutes, there was not even a yellow card in the whole game, but the atmosphere of the game was very tense.

Everyone knew that both sides were tense, and it depended on who made a mistake first.

Manchester United wanted to score another goal and establish an advantage, because a one-goal advantage was not safe, and Chelsea could equalize the score or even overtake the score at any time.

Chelsea wanted to equalize the score or even reverse the opponent.

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The lagging side took the lead in making substitutions. Lampard replaced Batshuayi with Giroud in the 70th minute.

During this period, Chelsea steadily suppressed Manchester United with the cheers of more than 40,000 fans at Stamford Bridge, and the ball flew around in Manchester United's penalty area most of the time.

In this case, Giroud, who is extremely good at heading, is obviously more suitable than Batshuayi.

Mourinho still did not choose to make adjustments. He still used defensive counterattacks to deal with Lampard and Chelsea.

The game time was passing bit by bit.

The Blues encountered Manchester United's tenacious sniping at Stamford Bridge. There was really no decent chance in the whole game. Manchester United trained by Mourinho was really very strong, especially on the defensive end, which could really be said to be watertight.

The time went from 70 minutes to 80 minutes, and then to 83 minutes.

Lampard made the second substitution, Mount replaced Matic.

Others did not know, but Chelsea knew it well. This was to let the team grab the last few minutes. Regardless of whether they could score at the last moment, at least they had to suppress Manchester United's spirit.

Mount came on the field to form a double defensive midfielder with Kovacic, just to free up Reece James and Azpilicueta.

Mourinho was obviously very clear about Lampard's intention, so he followed Chelsea and made a substitution, Fred replaced Gundogan.

Mourinho's intention was also very clear: Aren't you Chelsea going to attack? Okay, I'll defend steadily and wait for an opportunity to counterattack you.

If you are not afraid of death, come on!

The battle between Mourinho and Lampard, the master and apprentice, can be said to be very targeted. They are clamping each other's weaknesses, and every substitution is very targeted.

After Mount came on the field, his range of activities was very large. He actively moved in and out of the middle and the penalty area, patiently looking for opportunities. Jorginho pressed forward and put pressure on Kante.

Manchester United continued to shrink its defense, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.