I'm the Red Devil's savior

Chapter 40 Cooked Duck

In the middle of the week after the 6th round of the Premier League, the European war reignited. Manchester United also ushered in the first home game of the season in the Europa League on Thursday night in the UK local time, against Besiktas, the strongest opponent in the group .

Because the match against Toffee Everton in the seventh round of the Premier League will be ushered in at noon on Sunday, after some consideration, Ye Su still hid some of his main players and played in the Turkish Super League with a half-main and half-substitute lineup. wealthy.

Besiktas is the third pole of the Turkish Super League after Galatasaray and Fenerbahce. These three teams have almost monopolized all the championships of the Turkish Super League.The Turkish Super League has only been established for 58 seasons, but these three teams have won 19, 19 and 13 championships respectively.

Besiktas and Manchester United had previously met in the UEFA Champions League in the 2009-2010 season.In the second round of the away game, Manchester United beat the local giants 1-0, but in the fifth round at home, Manchester United, who had qualified ahead of schedule, lost the game and was defeated by Besiktas 1-0. It has a record of 23 consecutive home games in the UEFA Champions League. It is the first defeat at home in the UEFA Champions League group stage in 8 years.

Now after five years, the two sides met again, but the game was changed to the Europa League.

Because of the rotation of Rooney, Mata, Bruno Fernandez, Kanter and De Gea and other players, Manchester United's single arrow on the field is Vardy, De Bruyne's first starting midfielder, Lingard and Janu on the two wings Zai.The defensive midfielder is partnered by Fletcher and Carrick. The four on the back line are Kyle Walker, Smalling, Evans and Luke Shaw. Lindegaard is also the goalkeeper, and De Gea takes turns.

Manchester United scored in the 27th minute of the first half. De Bruyne sent a wonderful pass. Vardy volleyed with his left foot in the small penalty area outside the perimeter. Manchester United led 1-0 at home.

However, in the next nearly an hour, neither side was able to break through the opponent's goal.

At the last moment of the game, Besiktas, who were unwilling to lose, fought back wildly. In the 88th minute of the game, they won a penalty. Former Chelsea striker Demba Ba broke through the Manchester United goal guarded by Lindegaard. to tie the score to 1:1.

As Tripolis defeated Partizan Belgrade 2-0 in another game, after two rounds, they ranked first in Group C. Besiktas ranked second with one more goal, and Manchester United only ranked third. .

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Ye Su was a little helpless when he was equalized by his opponent at the last moment.However, Ye Su was not worried about qualifying for the Europa League group, so he quickly turned his attention to the subsequent seventh round of the Premier League.

Because after the end of this round of the Premier League, the international match day will come again, so this round of competition, Ye Su did not hesitate to send his strongest lineup, he did not plan to keep the best players for each national team.

On this international match day, Manchester United has more players recruited by various national teams.Like Wayne Rooney, Mata, De Bruyne, Fellaini, Smalling, De Gea, Valencia, Luke Shaw, these previous national team members are nothing more than those who have performed well at Manchester United recently. Bruno Fernandez, Kante, Van Dijk and Maguire have also received call-ups to the national team.

It doesn't matter whether you can play in the game or not, first get the people in your hands and then talk.

This made Ye Su very depressed. During the national team match day, Manchester United's training base was almost empty.

Even if there are three or two big cats and kittens left, most of them are not the absolute main players under Ye Su.

But Ye Su has nothing to do, he can't prevent these national teams from recruiting players, and he can't make his players refuse to play for the country.

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In this game, some of Manchester United's injuries in the early stage have gradually recovered, and no new injuries have been added in the last one or two games. This is undoubtedly very beneficial to Ye Su and Manchester United.

However, Ye Su was worried that on this international competition day, the international players who went to participate in competitions around the world would not only lose their energy, but also have a high probability of getting injured.

Because Chelsea will face Gunners Arsenal this afternoon, Ye Su felt that this should be an opportunity for Manchester United to widen the points gap with Chelsea.

Although Wenger's record against Mourinho is very embarrassing, Arsenal is a strong team after all, maybe the Blues will lose points?

Manchester United's starting lineup, De Gea sits in front of the goal, in front of him is a defense line composed of Luke Shaw, Van Dijk, Maguire and Kyle Walker, Kanter once again partnered with Carrick as a midfielder, Vardy, who played in the Europa League in the middle of the week, got a chance to rest. Bruno Fernandez, Mata and De Bruyne formed the forward line, and Rooney served as the single arrow.

For Everton, Miralas was absent due to a torn tendon, but midfielder Pienaar returned to the starting lineup after returning from injury.Jagielka ushered in his 250th Premier League game, and it was also his 200th start in the Premier League wearing the Everton shirt.

本场比赛是两家球会的第189次正赛交锋，此前曼联队以81胜42平65负占据优势，其中在英超赛场的44次对战，埃弗顿队更是只取得7胜7平30负的战绩，其中22次作客梦剧场只得可怜2胜，而最近5次英超比拼也仅得1胜而已。

However, Manchester United was rarely double-killed by Everton last season, which is one of the direct reasons why Moyes dismissed get out of class in April.

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At the beginning of the first half, Manchester United, aiming for a three-pointer and playing at home, obviously played more proactively. They threatened Everton's goal three times in the first 10 minutes, but Rooney received a pass from Luke Shaw. Howard made a side throw and Bruno Fernandez's left-footed shot also failed to make a contribution. Mata's back shot was also rejected by the brave Howard.

Immediately, Manchester United made a diagonal pass from the left to the far end. Mata handled the ball too slowly and could only return it when he could kick the ball on the right side of the penalty area. De Bruyne's left foot shot from 30 meters away was high and wide.

After United's front four all took turns taking a shot or two, United finally opened up.

In the 26th minute, Kyle Walker crossed from the right and was cleared by Jagielka, but the placement was not good. Mata got the ball from the left side of the penalty area and made it to the center. De Bruyne hit a right foot from the edge of the penalty area and scored. Sending the ball into the lower right corner of the goal, this is Ding Ding's first league goal after joining Manchester United.

Manchester United, who broke the deadlock, boosted their morale, and after only 4 minutes, they expanded the score on the field.

In the 30th minute of the first half, Manchester United won a free kick in the middle of the frontcourt.

This free kick is 30 meters away from the goal, which is a bit far from the goal.Although Manchester United has a lot of free kick masters, but no one is good at this kind of medium and long-distance free kicks to directly attack the goal.

Therefore, Everton judged that Manchester United will cooperate with free kicks, and they are also defending against the threat of passes from Manchester United players who take free kicks.

Rooney and De Bruyne stood on both sides in front of the ball. After the referee signaled that the ball could be kicked off, both of them made a run-up posture.

Rooney started the run-up first, and De Bruyne was a little late.

Seeing this, the Everton players thought that Rooney was pretending to take the penalty, and De Bruyne must have made the real penalty.

However, Rooney, who ran to the ball, did not step over the ball, but directly slammed at the football.

This is a direct free kick!
With the blessing of the free kick card, Rooney, who is not very good at free throws from this distance, made this kick very beautifully, and the ball went straight to the upper right corner of the goal.

Howard, who made a misjudgment, tried his best to fly to save, but because he was half a beat late, he was finally unable to stop the ball from flying into the goal.

2: 0!

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At the end of the first half, Manchester United once again set off a wave of offensive.

In the 41st minute, Manchester United won a corner kick after the shot was blocked by the defender.

Mata sent a corner kick on the right, the ball went straight to the goal to find Van Dijk, the Dutch central defender shook his head and hit the goal, the ball went straight to the dead corner of the near corner.But this time Howard was highly focused, flying and poking the ball out of the baseline with one hand.

Manchester United switched sides and took a corner kick. De Bruyne came to take the free kick. The ball went straight to the penalty area after the whistle sounded. In the chaotic crowd of both sides, Rooney grabbed the ball, but under the interference of the defensive players , Lu Xiaopang's shot from close at hand actually went flying.

Everton took advantage of Manchester United's lack of concentration at the last minute of the first half and launched a wave of counterattacks.Hibbert dribbled the ball into the penalty area on the right side of the penalty area. Luke Shaw was half a beat late, and he ran into the Everton player who poked the ball away.

The referee pointed to the twelve yard point without hesitation and awarded Everton a penalty.

All the Manchester United fans, including the Manchester United players on the field and the Manchester United coaching staff on the sidelines, were a little disappointed at this moment.

Originally, seeing that the first half of the game was about to end with Manchester United taking a two-goal advantage, it ended up giving the opponent a penalty at the last minute, which was simply too depressing.

No one expects De Gea to save the opponent's penalty. As a world-class goalkeeper, De Gea has few weaknesses, but saving penalties is a very obvious shortcoming of his.

All Manchester United people know this well, and the opponents are also clear: De Gea is a cooked duck!

What's more, it was Baines who scored 10 penalties in a row before Everton took the penalty!
However, what happened the next moment shocked and cheered more than 7 Manchester United fans at the scene.

Baines took the penalty kick. He chose to shoot with his left foot to the left side of the goal. Then, people saw that De Gea reacted quickly to the point and blocked the ball with one hand!
The Evertonians cooked the duck and flew!

The audience applauded and cheered loudly, and the fans couldn't control their excitement.

Surprises always fascinate people. If De Gea is good at saving points, it will be fine to save this penalty, and the fans will not behave like this.

But he, who has never been good at hitting points, unexpectedly saved a penalty this time, which made people ecstatic.

In the end, Manchester United entered the intermission with a 2:0 lead as they wished.

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