I'm the Red Devil's savior

Chapter 358 Toffee

A day later, good news came from London.At Selhurst Park, Crystal Palace drew tenaciously against Manchester City. After 90 minutes of fierce fighting, the two sides drew a goalless draw. This is the second draw of the Blue Moon this season, and it is also their sixth and seventh losses this season integral.

As a result, Manchester City leads Manchester United by 5 points and leads the Premier League standings after two more rounds.

2017年的最后1场英超比赛，是阿森纳和西布朗在山楂球场的比赛。结果双方战成1:1平，为英超在不平凡的2017年画上了一个平凡的句号。

Although 2017 has ended, the Premier League is still in the high-frequency Christmas devil schedule.

On January 2018, 1, at 1:12 noon, the first game of the Premier League in 30 was played at the American Express Community Stadium in Brighton-Hove.As a result, the Seagulls and the Cherry Legion scored 2018:2. The two teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League and facing a lot of pressure to relegation each scored one point, which is considered to be what they deserve.

Manchester United also have a game task on the first day of the new year. They are a guest at Goodison Park to challenge the Toffees Everton.

This is a game where Manchester United hit history!
As long as Manchester United remains unbeaten in this game, they will have the honor of being the longest unbeaten record in the five major leagues with their unbeaten record of 59 Premier League games!

But it was such a game that attracted worldwide attention, but Ye Su came up with a starting lineup that surprised the world: goalkeeper Dean Henderson, back line consisting of Ashley Young, Phil Jones, Small Lin and the teenager Wan Bissaka, the three midfielders are a combination of Kanter, McTominay and Bruno Fernandez, and the striker trident is led by Rashford, Mbappe and Lingard.

This is basically a full bench for Manchester United this season!

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Originally, Ye Su's formation of such a lineup had no other meaning, but a forced choice.

从12月2日开始，这已经是曼联在30天时间里的第10场比赛，平均3天曼联就要踢一场比赛！
During this period, Manchester United also flew thousands of kilometers to the Middle East to play two Club World Cup games!

The players are really tired!

This can be seen from Manchester United's 2:2 draw with their opponents in three consecutive games in the Christmas Devil schedule.

And the game against Everton, and Manchester United's last game against Southampton, the whistle time was only 48 hours apart!
It's whistle time!
The kick-off time of the two games is 05:30 pm local time in the UK, exactly 48 hours apart.Excluding the time of the game, there is also the travel to the away game, and the rest time left for the players is actually about 40 hours.

Such a short period of time is not enough to restore the energy of the players who played in the previous game.

However, some provocative media do not think so. The "Liverpool Echo" thought that Manchester United was contemptuous of Everton, and called on Everton to block Manchester United severely and teach the arrogant Manchester United people a lesson.

This newspaper, from its name, knows why they wrote such a report.Even though Everton is also a team in the city of Liverpool, the "Liverpool Echo" is not a media that supports Toffee.

As the official mouthpiece of Liverpool, the "Liverpool Echo" naturally hopes that Everton, the city rival, and Manchester United, the rival, will kill each other.

Although just after halfway through the Premier League, Liverpool is 14 points behind Manchester United, still in the case of Manchester United two rounds less, but the "Liverpool Echo" does not believe that the Red Army has been out of the league championship.As long as every team stands up and smashes Manchester United, maybe Liverpool will have a chance?

This season's Liverpool, under the leadership of Klopp, has not performed badly.The first 21 rounds achieved 11 wins, 7 draws and 3 losses, and currently ranks fourth in the Premier League.

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It's a pity that the "Liverpool Echo" responded to very few ideas that wanted to pick things up.Among other things, Liverpool coach Klopp has actually given up the Premier League competition and set his sights on the Champions League.

As for Manchester United's opponent in this game, Everton, a team that has always had a good relationship with Manchester United, has no intention of fighting Manchester United.

In fact, Everton is also a traditional strong team in the Premier League.This team, which has never been relegated in the Premier League era, is still very strong.

You know, none of the 20 Premier League teams are relegated today. Except for Everton, they are Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham. They are all well-known giants in European football.

However, Everton's performance in the Premier League this season is not very good, and even fell into the relegation zone at one point.

Last season, the Dutchman Koeman led Everton to the seventh place in the Premier League and reached the Europa League.This summer, Everton sold top scorer Lukaku to Chelsea at a high price.In order to cope with the two-line battle, the Toffees then invested 7 million pounds to strengthen the lineup, including the introduction of "Icelandic Sniper" Sigurdsson for 1.5 million pounds, the signing of former Manchester United defender Michael Keane for 4500 million pounds, and the introduction of 3000 million pounds. The young Three Lions goalkeeper Pickford, and the introduction of Dutch international Klaassen for 3000 million pounds.

With such a large investment, Everton's goal must be relatively high.However, in the first 17 official games of this season, Koeman only led the Toffees to 6 wins, 4 draws and 7 losses. The record is terrible.

Especially in the Premier League, Everton only achieved 9 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses in the first 5 rounds, ranking 8th in the Premier League with 18 points and falling into the relegation zone.

Under such circumstances, the Everton management naturally fired Koeman without hesitation, and the Dutchman's Everton career was fixed at 496 days.

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埃弗顿在毫无准备的情况下解雇科曼，让预备队主教练大卫·昂斯沃斯代理，后者也仅仅是在埃弗顿的临时主帅位置上待了一个月，因为战绩太过糟糕（联赛4场1胜1平2负，各项赛事8战1胜2平5负）。

In desperation, Everton invited the famous Premier League relegation master Sam Allardyce.

Allardyce is worthy of being a veteran of the Premier League. After taking office, Everton's performance has finally improved significantly. 8 league games with 4 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss brought Everton out of the relegation zone and rose to the ninth place in the middle.

But it is precisely because he has been hanging out in the Premier League for a long time that Allardyce is very clear about himself and Everton's position.

As a friend of Ferguson, Allardyce knows how powerful the former Red Devils were.But even Manchester United in the Ferguson era is far less dazzling than the current Manchester United.Then one can imagine how terrifying this Manchester United team is.

Of course, in the past few seasons, Allardyce has also served as the head coach of many Premier League teams. He has played against Ye Su's Manchester United.

Therefore, when Allardyce faced the media's question "Can Everton break Manchester United's undefeated golden stature", he waved his hands in panic, saying that we do not discuss this topic. Manchester City, Chelsea, Tottenham, Teams like Liverpool and Arsenal can't beat Manchester United, let alone us, this is not something Everton should be involved in, we just want to play well.

However, Allardyce's behavior was very dissatisfied with Everton fans and management. After all, Everton, which invested 1.5 million pounds in signings in the summer, has a heart to become a strong Premier League team.And now that Everton has re-entered the top half of the Premier League standings, the team should have higher goals: such as getting a European seat, or even a Champions League seat?How can you be so cowardly, kneeling down and surrendering before confronting your opponent?

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Yesu didn't care what Allardyce said.In fact, the old man's attitude is so low-key, which is suspicious.Because as far as Ye Su knew, this Uncle Sam had a big mouth.Allardyce, who has spent most of his life in English football, has reached the pinnacle of his life with a big mouth that is not covered. The coach of the England team also suffered a big somersault because he couldn't control this big mouth.During his tenure as England coach, Allardyce slammed his predecessor Hodgson as "no personality, a completely indecisive person", criticized his assistant coach Gary Neville for being incompetent, and ridiculed the FA executives as "brain problems". He even made disrespectful remarks about members of the British royal family... and in the end he also lost the coach of the England team because of his big mouth.

Now the head coach with a big mouth is unusually low-key, which is interesting.

Moreover, don't look at Manchester United's 58 unbeaten games, but when facing the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, they really can't take it lightly.

曼联本赛季已经进行的19场英超联赛中，面对big6的其它球队全都取得了胜利。可面对积分榜中下游的球队，却拿到了3场2:2的平局。

In the 9th round of the Premier League, Manchester United faced Huddersfield, which was ranked 12th in the Premier League at the time. After a hard fight, they barely got a draw.

In the 19th round of the Premier League, Manchester United was a guest at the King Power Stadium and faced Leicester City, which was ranked 8th in the Premier League at the time, but was tied by the opponent at the buzzer.

In the 20th round of the Premier League, Manchester United sat at Old Trafford and faced Burnley, the seventh-ranked Clarets in the Premier League. As a result, Ye Su's unbeaten record at home was almost ended by his opponent.If it weren't for Lingard's perfect goal in stoppage time, Manchester United's undefeated golden body would have been broken.

Coincidentally, the last time Manchester United lost in the league was in the 2015th round of the 2016-35 season, a 2:3 loss to the Hammers to help West Ham United.

At that time, the Hammers ranked 9th in the Premier League!

It can be said that Manchester United have suffered a few times in the Premier League in the past, thanks to these middle and lower reaches of the Premier League.

Therefore, before the match against Everton, Ye Su repeatedly told the players not to be confused by Everton's "bow knees", and to be careful of the opponent's "sugar-coated bullets"!
(End of this chapter)