I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

Winning the Best Team Award at the Lawrence World Sports Awards in 2017 can be regarded as the most successful end to Manchester United's 2016 year.

From this day on, Manchester United has to concentrate all its energy on the game again, because the Champions League knockout round has already begun. This means that Manchester United will face the cruelest schedule: Premier League, Champions League knockout, FA Cup and League Cup four-line battle!

Ye Su hurriedly flew back to Manchester from Monaco, summoning the players who had rested for three days to resume training and prepare for the next game.

Over the weekend, Manchester United is a guest at Ewood Park, challenging Blackburn, which is the knockout round of the FA Cup.

This is the 113th match between the two clubs. Manchester United had an advantage with 51 wins, 29 draws and 32 losses. However, the last time the two sides faced each other was almost five years ago, when Blackburn was still a Premier League club. Team. In the confrontation at Ewood Park, Manchester United ended with a 2-0 win. Valencia and Ashley Young, who scored goals at the time, are still in the team. In the past 13 matches between the two sides, Manchester United has only 1 loss.

But it is worth mentioning that in the previous 8 times in the FA Cup, Manchester United was at a disadvantage with 2 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses, and the previous 56 away games against Blackburn were also slightly at a disadvantage.

Today's Blackburn is no longer the former Premier League champion team, but a British Championship relegation team. Before the start of the game against Manchester United, Blackburn only ranked 20th in the British Championship after 32 rounds of the British Championship and has fallen into the relegation zone.

However, although Blackburn's biggest task at present is to relegation in the British Championship, when facing Manchester United, they did not surrender without a fight, but played quite tenaciously.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with Manchester United's formation. Because he will fly to Spain in the middle of next week to challenge his opponent Sevilla in the first round of the Champions League knockout round, Ye Su sent a full substitute team to play. Both Akpan and Bennett of Blackburn were absent due to suspension.

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In the first half of the game, Blackburn's formation retreated, while Manchester United, who had possession of the ball, did not play fast. In the first 15 minutes, Blackburn had a cross from both wings, both of which were confiscated by Romero. As for Manchester United, except for Lingard's breakthrough on the right side, which is considered a bright spot, the offense was relatively flat.

In the 15th minute, Emnes suddenly made a strong shot from 30 meters away, and Romero shot the ball.

In the 17th minute, Emnes cleverly got rid of the back pass in the middle, and Danny Graham moved forward to shake off Smalling, and from the left side of the penalty area 7 meters away from the goal, he shot diagonally with his left foot to the upper right corner of the goal. Manchester United conceded a goal for the first time in the last five games, and the last time Graham scored in the FA Cup was against Arsenal in January 2013.

After scoring a goal, Blackburn became more determined to play the iron barrel.

Then, in the rest of the first half, although Manchester United formed a siege against Blackburn, but under Blackburn's united defense, Manchester United failed to break through the opponent's city.

After the start of the second half, neither side made personnel adjustments. And Blackburn, who continued to make big iron barrel formations, still managed to maintain the stability of the city.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Ye Su quickly made a substitution. Mata replaced Lingard and partnered with Bruno Fernandez as a double attacking midfielder to strengthen the team's offensive strength.

After Rooney came on the field, Manchester United's offense did not improve in the face of the tightly defended Blackburn.

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Seventy-five minutes passed and Manchester United still failed to score.

Ye Su was very helpless. In this game, the Manchester United players were actually in good condition, but the fence was too tight for Blackburn who was dedicated to defending. In addition, their goalkeeper was born in the Middlesbrough youth training camp. Jason Steele showed extraordinary form and repeatedly denied Manchester United's scoring opportunities.

Ye Su knew that Manchester United could not afford a loss, but his team could not lose to a relegation team in the English Championship.

In the ranking of England's professional teams, Blackburn, who is ranked 20th in the British Championship, is 39 places behind Manchester United, who is the top of the Premier League. Ye Su can't afford to lose that person.

If he really loses, he will be blamed by all fans and the media, and the team will also miss a championship trophy this season.

So, in the 78th minute, Ye Su made the second substitution of the game. The teenager Mbappe, who had an amazing performance before, came off the bench again, and was replaced by left winger Martial.

After playing, Mbappe still played right winger, Rashford switched to left winger, Harry Kane continued to occupy the center, Fellaini dragged back in the midfield, Mata and Bruno Fernandez moved forward.

And the first time he touched the ball after playing, Mbappe took the ball directly to face Danny Guthrie.

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Danny Guthrie was a failure of the Manchester United youth academy competition. He was released by Manchester United at the age of 16 and was subsequently hired by Liverpool. He has only had 3 first-team appearances in Liverpool, and all of them came off the bench.

Danny Guthrie is a diligent midfielder who is willing to do all kinds of dirty work on the field and is willing to run and intersperse constantly. His technical ability is relatively average, but he has a positive attitude and is not afraid of confrontation. He has a good grasp of passing footwork, which also made him one of the main choices for Newcastle United's few set-kick penalty shooters. But as a typical British midfielder, his physical and technical defects make it difficult for him to make a bigger breakthrough, which is why he is only playing for the British Championship team now.

Because of being abandoned by Manchester United during the youth training period, Danny Guthrie buried his grievances against Manchester United in his heart. Therefore, his performance in this game was particularly vigorous, and it was also one of the key reasons why Manchester United failed to score an equalizer.

Danny Guthrie is also extremely dissatisfied with the young Manchester United player who has risen very fast recently and participated in scoring goals in three appearances.

Especially when he saw Mbappe directly facing himself with the ball, his heart became even more unknown.

He wanted to teach the kid in front of him a hard lesson, in front of Ye Su, in the stands at Ewood Park and in front of all the fans in front of the TV.

But when he moved, Mbappe, who was close at hand, suddenly moved too.

Mbappe is like a rabbit, moving very fast, with very confusing continuous fake moves, he successfully made Danny Guthrie think that he was going to pass from the bottom, but unexpectedly, his figure flickered, and the ball at his feet flicked Buckle, change to cut in, shake open a gap, and then rush ahead of Danny Guthrie, push the ball with his left foot and send the ball into the penalty area.

Harry Kane had understood it for a long time. After leaning against the defender with his body, he was tall and had long legs. He stopped the ball to the right, turned around and directly shot with his right foot. The ball crashed into the goal guarded by Jason Steele with thunderous force.

1:1!

After scoring the goal, Harry Kane was so excited that he jumped up, rushed to Mbappe, and hugged him by the waist.

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After equalizing the score, Manchester United launched a crazy offensive. The head coach of Blackburn made two consecutive substitutions and adjustments in just four minutes, further strengthening the team's midfield defense.

Mbappe was very active on the right. After coming off the bench, he was very physically fit, had a wide range of activities, and was quite threatening with a frontal impact with the ball.

In the 83rd minute, he dribbled directly into the defense and was fouled by Blackburn central defender Gordon Greer, winning a free kick on the right for Manchester United. It's a pity that Mata took a free kick and hit the wall directly, failing to create a threat.

Thousands of Manchester United fans who came to the Ewood Park stadium cheered constantly, encouraging the players to continue to strengthen their attacks.

This is a single-match knockout match, and a draw does not guarantee Manchester United will advance.

As for the rematch, for Manchester United, that is a more undesirable result than being eliminated.

Time passed slowly, Manchester United was still strengthening the offensive, but Blackburn also stubbornly resisted. Although the current results, they are unable to advance, but they can fight for the chance of a rematch. Maybe some miracle will happen then?

When Mbappe dropped back to respond, Bruno Fernandez quickly passed the ball to his teammate on the right.

Mbappe received the ball and turned around without defense, and took the ball forward. Danny Guthrie quickly ran over to intercept, but Mbappe took the first step and passed the ball across to Mata, who was responding in the middle, and he quickly went to the goal. Forward.

Mata really understood. After receiving the ball, he directly kicked the ball low and straight, and sent the ball accurately to Mbappe's sprinting line, and there was an obvious deceleration after landing, allowing Mbappe to catch up with the ball. Very comfortable to carry the ball forward.

This pass fully demonstrates Mata's passing skills. The young Bruno Fernandez, who is partnering with him, is currently unable to achieve such a reasonable pass as Mata.

Blackburn's defender, Jason Lowe, quickly pulled to the right to defend, but Mbappe's speed had already picked up. As soon as the two came into contact on the right side of the penalty area, Mbappe made an emergency stop and then suddenly accelerated. After cutting out a space from Jason Lowe, who was defending from the side, he quickly made a cross with his right foot.

The ball crossed an arc, confused the goalkeeper and defenders in the penalty area, and then suddenly fell to the back point.

Rashford slanted into the penalty area from the left rib and headed the goal from close range without defense, leading the score to 2:1!

In less than ten minutes, Manchester United successfully reversed their opponents.

Ye Su on the sidelines was also excited. He didn't expect that Mbappe would play such a wonderful role after coming off the bench. He came off the bench three times and rewrote the result of the game three times.

As the head coach, he himself felt unbelievable. He smiled and said to Carrick next to him: "This kid is amazing!"

Carrick also nodded again and again. As a very successful professional player in the past, he can naturally see the role played by Mbappe after his debut.

But what Carrick admires even more is Ye Su's precise vision of people. You know, Mbappé was an addition when Ye Su introduced Martial. Who would have thought that this kid turned out to be a talent better than Martial? Want an outstanding talent?