Chapter 424 Frustration
When Manchester United won the League Cup, the 26th round of the Premier League was also unfolding normally. Except for Manchester United and Southampton, who participated in the League Cup final, and their respective opponents, the remaining 8 games had results one after another. .
The one that attracts the most attention is Chelsea's game against Swansea at Stamford Bridge. If the Blues can defeat their opponents at home, they can temporarily reduce the point difference with Manchester United to 7 points in one more game. point.
Manchester United's opponent in this round is city rival Manchester City, but this game was postponed because of the League Cup final.
With the strength of Manchester City, it is not easy for Manchester United to win their opponents away from home.
In the end, Chelsea defeated Swansea 3:1 at home without any surprises, chasing the point difference to 7 points with one more game.
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曼联人还没有从夺得联赛杯冠军的激动中恢复，接下来在3月4日中卫的英超第27轮比赛中，他们被伯恩茅斯1:1逼平。
Manchester United was playing at home in this game, so they put on a strong offensive stance at the beginning of the game, while Bournemouth defended and counterattacked.
This is also a situation that Manchester United will often encounter in future games. Their offense has already made everyone see how powerful it is. The smart way is to avoid their sharp edges and not confront them head-on. Defensive counterattacks are the most effective way to break offensive football. arms.
On the other hand, Manchester United must master how to break the opponent's defensive counterattack, otherwise they can only become a qualified spoiler at best and cannot become a champion.
Before this game, Manchester United's Rooney, Rashford and Luke Shaw were selected into the new England national team roster. Luke Shaw was selected again after a year.
Since breaking his leg in a match against Udinese in 2015, Luke Shaw has suffered multiple injuries over the past year, which has also resulted in his failure to be selected for the England national team in recent periods. He has only been re-selected now. It is also his first selection after Southgate took over the England national team.
In this game, England national team coach Southgate also came to the scene to inspect the recent performance of Manchester United's international players.
Perhaps because he was eager to express himself in front of the national team coach, Luke Shaw was very active in the offense in this game. There were even many times when he attacked and did not come back to defend.
He thought it was a waste of time and energy. What if he ran back to participate in defense but missed a beautiful counterattack by the team?
But his approach caused hidden dangers to the team's defense.
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In the first half, Manchester United besieged Bournemouth but could not score. Bruno tried several long-range shots. Unfortunately, Bournemouth's Polish goalkeeper Boruc was in great form today. He blocked many threatening shots from Manchester United with high passes. Attack the goal.
The commentators all said that the best player in the first half was the 37-year-old goalkeeper.
If we cannot attack for a long time, there will inevitably be loopholes in the back line of defense.
In the 44th minute, Bournemouth seized an opportunity to counterattack, and it was Luke Shaw who sent the football in front.
Sulman made a direct pass from the backcourt, and the football passed from the corridor guarded by Luke Shaw to the front. Pugh entered the penalty area on the offside, and Phil Jones kicked Pugh in a hurry. The referee did not hesitate. A penalty kick is awarded.
Former Manchester United player Joshua King took the penalty kick. He chose to hit the upper left corner. Although De Gea judged the right direction, the angle of Joshua King's penalty kick was too tricky and he still could not prevent the ball from entering the net.
Joshua King joined the Manchester United youth academy at the age of sixteen, but failed to gain a foothold. He eventually left Manchester United in the 2013 winter transfer window and joined Blackburn Rovers.
In the violent club, Joshua King still didn't get much opportunity, and then joined Bournemouth for free in the 2015 summer transfer window. This time he finally settled down and performed well.
Facing his old club today, Joshua King scored a goal.
If his goal can really help the team defeat Manchester United at home, it will be a severe stab to his old club.
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Bournemouth, who had been passively beaten throughout the first half, scored on a counterattack before the end of the first half. This was only their third shot!
"Manchester United are in big trouble during the game!"
"As the league leaders, they may stumble at home and suffer their first defeat at Old Trafford this season!"
the narrator yells.
When they came off the field, Manchester United's players looked a little downcast, while Bournemouth's players ran back quickly, and they seemed to be in high spirits.
At halftime, Mourinho severely criticized Luke Shaw's poor performance in the first half: "Forget about the damn national team, Luke Shaw! If you perform in this game If it's bad, Southgate won't give you a chance to play for a minute!"
After the start of the second half, Luke Shaw paid attention, but the team's performance did not improve. The leading Bournemouth became more and more confident as they played.
Bruno was surrounded by two or three opponents in the midfield. He could only play the ball quickly. If the speed was too fast, the number of mistakes would naturally increase.
Bournemouth committed a lot of fouls in this game. Bruno was repeatedly violated by the opponent. At first, he insisted on not falling to the ground. Despite the pushing and kicking of three consecutive people, he still controlled the football and passed the ball to the forward. teammates.
Later, Bournemouth increased the intensity of the foul, and this time Bruno was finally pushed down, so they were awarded a free kick.
Bruno's direct free kick went over the crossbar.
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Mourinho then replaced Rooney with Rashford. The Manchester United captain's performance this season has become worse and worse, and he has received fewer and fewer playing opportunities under Mourinho.
Rashford had a thigh muscle strain before and had just returned from injury. He came on as a substitute in the League Cup final and played some time. In today's game, for the purpose of protecting the players, Mourinho still did not let him start.
After Rashford came on the field, he cooperated with the midfielder more tacitly than Rooney, and the team's offense finally became organized and improved.
Bruno made a direct pass to Rashford in the 67th minute. Rashford was tripped when he broke into the penalty area. However, the referee judged Rashford for diving and gave him a yellow card. This caused the Manchester United people to worry. There was great dissatisfaction, and the Old Trafford stadium was booed.
Seeing that Manchester United's offensive is getting stronger and stronger, Bournemouth's head coach replaced the goal hero Joshua King, and his replacement was defender Cargill.
The purpose of this substitution is obvious - to strengthen defense.
For Bournemouth, being able to defeat Manchester United 1:0 at Old Trafford is the biggest victory. They are not Real Madrid. They always hope to see a big victory with many goals, 10:0 and 1:0. It's the same for them all, three points. Points are more important than anything else on the road to relegation.
When the opponent defended, Mourinho sent forwards to strengthen the attack.
Mourinho replaced Luke Shaw with Lingard, and the formation became 334, with four forwards frantically attacking Bournemouth's defense.
In the end, in the 89th minute, Manchester United's unremitting efforts paid off. Mata took a free kick, Bruno headed the goal, the football hit the goal post and bounced back, and then Rojo followed up and knocked the football into the goal!
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"Oh oh oh oh!! The ball is in! The ball is in! Manchester United equalized the score! They tied the score to 1:1 in the th minute! A defeat was avoided!"
"Looking at their excited hugs, you can see how hard it was for this tie to come true!"
"This is the first goal Rojo has scored in 54 Premier League games since joining Manchester United!"
Yes, it's quite difficult.
As the 14th place in the bottom half of the league, it is not easy for Bournemouth to force the league's number one Manchester United into this situation. In the end, I didn't win the game, which was also due to bad luck.
People are always used to sympathizing with the weak and supporting the weak.
In the first half of the season, Manchester United was such a weak player when facing teams like Manchester City. But now they have quietly become a strong player, and their opponents have received more support.
Manchester United equalized the score with Rojo's goal, avoiding their second league defeat of the season and maintaining their 25-game unbeaten record at home this season. However, their winning streak at home also stopped at 24 games.
Of course, if we count across seasons, one more game will be added to this number. In the 1th round of the Premier League last season, Manchester United defeated Bournemouth 38:3 at home.
It's such a coincidence that Manchester United's 25-game winning streak at home in all competitions started with Bournemouth and has now been ended by Bournemouth.
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Bournemouth's draw with Manchester United was an upset. This gave those media a treasure trove, thinking they had seen a precursor to Manchester United's collapse in the second half of the season.
They have been thoroughly studied. Even a team like Bournemouth can let Manchester United besieged for 89 minutes before conceding a goal. If it is replaced by a stronger team, such as Chelsea, such as Manchester City, such as... Heat What about thorns?
In fact, the media always have this idea: If you play very awkwardly against a weak team, then you will definitely be even worse when playing against a strong team.
This idea is very popular, but it never takes into account the players' mentality and the team's fighting spirit.
It is easy to have problems when playing against a weak team because most players will think that a weak team is easy to deal with, and they will underestimate the enemy if they relax psychologically. Once they find out that this is not the case, they will no longer be able to tighten up even if they think about it, so the game will become even more embarrassing. .
And when they face a strong team, because they have attached great importance to it from the beginning and have a different mentality, their performance will naturally be different, and the scene and even the results will be even more different.
Therefore, Manchester United and Bournemouth played very ugly and embarrassingly, and it does not prove that they will perform worse when facing Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal and Tottenham.
Of course, even if they played well in the last game, it doesn't mean they can play well in the next one, even if they are facing the last place in the league.
