I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

Carrington Base, Tuesday 29 April.

The Manchester United players, who had rested for two days, returned to the base in high spirits and began to resume training.

During the warm-up exercise, the players were excitedly talking about the game two days ago, especially Gerrard's weird slip, which was the focus of everyone's discussion. .

Looking at the players who were not concentrating, Ye Su frowned, and shouted from the side: "Cheer up and start warming up!"

Because of the big victory three days ago, the players still had a good impression of Ye Su. Hearing this, they paid more attention, stopped whispering, and continued to do warm-up exercises under the leadership of Giggs.

Seeing that the players returned to normal, Ye Su didn't say anything more. We are all adults, talking too much will affect the relationship between each other.

The training in the next few days was also relatively normal, because the subsequent schedule was relatively intensive, and the players' physical fitness was more or less problematic, so Ye Su and Manchester United's coaching staff did not dare to conduct high-intensity training, mainly to conduct some meetings. Restorative training, as well as training some tactics.

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The time soon came to May 3, and the 37th round of the Premier League started at noon on this day.

The first was a London derby as Tottenham challenged the Hammers to help West Ham United.

Ye Su paid close attention to the game. Before the team left the hotel, they watched half of the game in the room.

Ye Su was very satisfied with the results of this half. The Hammers played well at home. Kahn's penalty kick and Tang Ning's goal gave the Hammers a two-goal lead in the first half.

During the intermission, Manchester United also took the team bus and set off for Old Trafford to prepare for the game against Sunderland.

When Manchester United arrived at Old Trafford, Ye Su learned the result of the game through his smartphone. Both sides failed to achieve anything in the second half. West Ham United kept the score of 2:0 until the end of the game.

This is the result Ye Su hopes to see very much, which means that Manchester United has the initiative to compete for the sixth place in the league. As long as Manchester United wins the next three league games, no matter what the result of Tottenham's last game, Manchester United will be sixth in the league.

His position at Manchester United will also be guaranteed.

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After the team had a brief training to get used to the field and returned to the locker room to prepare for the game, Ye Su once again emphasized to the players the importance of the game and the difficulties they might encounter.

Manchester United wants to win the game and compete for a place in the Europa League, while Sunderland hopes to score three points to increase insurance for their relegation.

At the same time as Manchester United and Sunderland, the two teams in the bottom three of the standings will also play at the same time. Fulham will challenge Sky City as a guest, Cardiff City will challenge Newcastle as a guest, and Norwich, the deputy squad leader, will challenge Chelsea at Stamford Bridge tomorrow afternoon.

Several relegation opponents are playing away games this round, and the opponents are all teams in the middle and upper reaches of the standings. Everyone's chances are fair. Manchester United at Ford Stadium.

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Although Ye Su has repeatedly emphasized the importance of this game, some Manchester United players did not care too much, mainly because they did not think that Sunderland could pose any threat to Manchester United.

This game is the 139th main match between the two clubs. Prior to this, Manchester United had an advantage with 62 wins, 36 draws and 40 losses. It seems that Sunderland's disadvantage is not big, but this is because, as one of the early overlords of England's top league, Sunderland was not at a disadvantage in the old League One era and the Red Devils. But in the Premier League era, the black cat is completely Manchester United's younger brother. What's more, today's game venue is still Old Trafford,

This is a sad place for Sunderland. Sunderland has only 11 wins in 68 visits to Dream Theater, and it has 2 draws and 10 losses in the Premier League.

Facing such an opponent, Manchester United players have absolute confidence to win.

Ye Su didn't know what the Manchester United players were thinking, otherwise, he might be more cautious about this game.

Yesu did not make too many adjustments to Manchester United's starting lineup, but replaced Phil Jones with Cleverley, and partnered with Carrick as a midfielder.

Compared with Phil Jones, Cleverley's organizational skills are better.

In the other ten positions, Ye Su did not make any changes.

However, United were even stronger off the bench as Van Persie returned from injury. However, considering that he had just recovered from his injury, and Rooney was in such a good state last game, Ye Su let Van Persie sit on the bench temporarily.

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At the beginning of the first half, Manchester United played mainly on the right, but Ashley Young's cross was of mediocre quality.

In the 6th minute, Nani's cross from the left was blocked and bounced, and Ashley Young volleyed from the restricted area without much threat. Two minutes later, Fletcher knocked horizontally, and Mata missed the goal from 26 meters away.

In the 12th minute, Ashley Young received a pass from Cleverley and headed the goal without much threat. Immediately, Adam Johnson shot wide of the bottom line with his left foot from the outside.

In the 18th minute, Carrick made a cross from the right, and the former Manchester United player O'Shea made a poor clearance and almost gave him an own goal. Subsequently, Nani's cold shot went over the bar.

In the 20th minute, Evra took advantage of the opportunity of a left corner kick to head the goal, but the ball was confiscated by Mannone when it was not in the right position.

In the 26th minute, Carrick shoveled Borini and was warned by the referee Weber with a yellow card.

In the 30th minute, Wickham took advantage of Cleverley's pressure and suddenly sent a cross near the corner flag on the right. Larsson volleyed with his right foot from 10 meters on the right side of the penalty area and scored from the lower left corner of the goal to help Sunderland. The team led 1:0. This was the first goal conceded by Manchester United after Ye Su became the acting coach, and it was also Larson's first Premier League goal this season.

When this goal happened, Ye Su's face on the sidelines was very ugly. He has already seen that there is something wrong with the players' minds, and they don't take Sunderland seriously.

But at this time, he has no way to affect the field too much, and if he wants to make adjustments, he can only do so during the intermission.

In the 31st minute, Marcos Alonso brought down Ashley Young on the wing and was given a yellow card.

After that, Manchester United still had the upper hand, but the quality of the pass was too poor.

In the 45th minute, Mata received Nihui from the front of the penalty area to make a volley with a slight angle and was confiscated by Mannone.

At the end of the half, Manchester United fell behind Sunderland 0:1 and entered the half-time break.

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During the intermission, all the major media commented on the first half of the game, and the evaluations were similar. Manchester United's scene is indeed dominant, but the ball has not been able to hit the hinterland of the Sunderland team. In the first half, the Red Devils made 22 crosses but only 2 were in place. How is this different from the Moyes era? Although the Black Cats seemed passive, they seized a rare offensive opportunity and scored by former Arsenal player Larsson.

Prior to this, Manchester United had only 4 out of 17 games in which their opponents scored first. The magic of the Ferguson era was hardly seen this season.

Waddle, a former Sunderland player and now a guest commentator, commented after the game: You have to admit that according to Sunderland's defense, they deserved the lead. They played really poorly, despite seemingly having the upper hand in possession and the situation, they didn't create any chances at all. They kept playing according to a rhythm, which was simply too easy for Sunderland. Of course, Poyet's ability to lead the team to score 10 points in four games against Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United also proved his excellence.

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In the locker room of the home team, Ye Su was also talking with the players about the first half of the game. He showed little anger because he knew it wasn't going to solve the problem. He is not Ferguson, turning on the hair dryer can deter these players and change their game attitude.

He said: "The pass, we had problems with the pass, too many turnovers, the team failed to show enough concentration. Whether we passed the ball through or crossed, we couldn't pierce their defense, even The crosses were difficult to find our own players to respond to. Sunderland retreated to their own half defense after the goal and looked for counter-attack opportunities. We had enough possession time but failed to use this advantage to create more. Lots of chances to score goals."

"For the first half, I'm very disappointed, we didn't play like last week, especially in front of the opponent's box, when you play like this, in the Premier League you lose."

"The good news for us is that we have 45 minutes to change this, and I hope everyone can do that. Old Trafford is our place of glory, we were invincible here, we Indestructible is the nightmare of all visiting teams. However, in this season, we lost this glory because we lost too many goals and conceded too many points here!"

"I know that this is not the result that everyone wants, nor is it a result that everyone can accept. In the second half, I will not make changes to the team's tactics, because we used such tactics to win a game last week. Big victory. In the past, we used the same tactics to win more games, championship trophies, and endless glory!"

"Today's game is the penultimate home game of this season. I hope everyone can do their best to defend our final glory and win this game!"

After finishing speaking, Ye Su left the team locker room, but at the same time, he quietly made a change on the team card of the ball saint system, replacing the previous three cards with a card showing "Chicken Blood Art". "Creating Offside Tactical Card" in the team card.

This chicken blood technique card was newly given by the Ball Saint system after Ye Su won the last game.