Chapter 784 The aftermath

Chapter 784 Surviving the Disaster

On June 2020, 6, the Premier League finally resumed after a break of more than three months.

At 6 pm, the first match of the restart kicked off at Carrow Road, with Norwich playing against Southampton Saints at home.

This is also the first game of the 30th round of the Premier League.

In the first half, neither Armstrong nor Ings seized the chance, and the two sides drew 0:0. In the second half, Ings and Armstrong scored two goals in 6 minutes, and Norwich fell. Redmond scored another goal at the last moment.

In the end, Norwich lost 0:3 to Southampton and suffered a double defeat by their opponent.

Less than half an hour after the game ended, the second game of this round was launched at the new White Hart Lane Stadium in London, with Manchester United away to challenge Tottenham.

This game is the first official match of the Premier League resumption for both teams. All players on both sides have recovered from their injuries. After resting during the epidemic, the second half of the Premier League season will definitely be a fierce battle.

Every team is now fully staffed. As the first league, it is impossible for you to defeat any team directly in the Premier League, so the second half of the season will be a super strong showdown in the Premier League. Every team will use all its reserves to grab the qualification for the European war next season.

Especially Manchester United, who are currently 3 points behind Liverpool in the standings, cannot afford to lose this game. So even if they are playing away, Manchester United still plays very actively.

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At the beginning of the game, the home team showed an aggressive posture. Winks and Moussa Sissoko fell back, Lo Celso and Bergwijn were on the two wings, Lamela rushed forward, and the five midfielders caused a lot of trouble for Manchester United.

In the 26th minute of the first half, Tottenham took advantage of a counterattack opportunity. Bergwijn dribbled the ball through the middle and broke through Manchester United's 8000 million pound man Maguire to score. In the end, De Gea was unable to stop the attack.

This goal aroused the anger of Manchester United. Afterwards, the Red Devils launched a crazy counterattack, and Mbappe frequently created killing opportunities on the right.

However, Manchester United failed to equalize the score in the first half, and the home team Tottenham went into halftime with a 1:0 advantage.

After the second half, Manchester United continued to launch continuous attacks, but Rashford, Mbappe and Harry Kane missed great opportunities one after another.

In the 80th minute, Manchester United got a penalty kick. Bruno stood on the penalty spot and used his standard penalty kick method to deceive Lori and scored the ball directly into the goal, helping Manchester United equalize the score.

In injury time, Manchester United had a chance to reverse the situation, but VAR cancelled Manchester United's second penalty.

In the end, Manchester United drew 1:1 with Tottenham away from home.

This draw is obviously not good news for Manchester United, because it means that they are likely to fall behind Liverpool by 5 points after this round!

With only eight games left in the league and Manchester United trailing Liverpool by five points, it will be difficult for them to reverse the situation.

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However, accidents always happen one after another.

Two days later, good news came from Liverpool. In the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park, Everton tied the powerful Liverpool 0:0 at home!

What made Liverpool fans even more worried was that they lost two key players in the game: veteran Milner and main central defender Matip were injured and retired from the game.

However, Liverpool fans also have something to be happy about, because in the game, Everton missed many excellent scoring opportunities and failed to seize them, which allowed Liverpool to take away 1 point from Goodison Park and continue to maintain a 3-point advantage over Manchester United.

After learning the result, everyone in Manchester United felt like they had survived a disaster.

They can still catch up if they are 3 points behind, but if they fall behind by 5 points, they will probably withdraw from the race for the league title this season.

Not only Manchester United players and coaching staff think so, but Manchester United fans do too.

Many Manchester United fans flocked to Everton's official website and left messages to thank their old brother Everton for their help.

This can't help but remind people of the 4th round of the Premier League four months ago, also at Goodison Park. When Manchester United was tied 28:1 by Everton, some Liverpool fans left a message on Everton's official website to thank Everton for helping to stop Manchester United.

Although there was only one round of competition, the time spanned four months, giving people a feeling of the passage of time.

Of course, there were also Manchester United fans who went to Liverpool’s official website to leave provocative messages: I gave you a chance, but you didn’t make it!

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Since this season must end before the end of July, it means that 7 rounds of league games will be played in about 5 weeks, and there will be FA Cup quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals in between, as well as European competitions later, so the schedule is very tight.

Five days later, on the afternoon of June 5, Manchester United faced Sheffield United at home in the 6st round of the Premier League.

In this game, Rashford became the brightest player on the field. In the first half, Rashford scored twice with assists from Bruno and Cancelo. In the second half, Bruno made another wonderful pass, and Rashford scored with a wonderful lob, completing a hat trick.

In the end, Manchester United defeated Sheffield United 3-0 at home without any bloodshed. With one game ahead, they tied Liverpool in points and rose to the top of the standings with a goal difference advantage.

However, they only stayed at the top of the standings for two hours, as Liverpool immediately swept Crystal Palace 4-0 at home, once again pushing Manchester United off the top spot.

In another focus match of this round, Chelsea beat Manchester City 2:1 at home.

So, with only seven rounds left in the Premier League, the standings look like this:

Liverpool has 28 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, ranking first with 85 points;

Manchester United has 26 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss, ranking second with 82 points;

Manchester City has 20 wins, 3 draws and 8 losses, ranking third with 63 points;

Leicester City has 16 wins, 7 draws and 8 losses, ranking fourth with 55 points;

Chelsea has 16 wins, 6 draws and 9 losses, ranking fifth with 54 points;

Wolves have 12 wins, 11 draws and 8 losses, ranking sixth with 47 points;

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Manchester City is already 22 points behind Liverpool, the team at the top of the table. They have theoretically lost the possibility of overtaking Liverpool and winning the championship, and have completely withdrawn from the race for the league title this season.

So far, the competition for the Premier League title this season has completely turned into a battle between the two red teams. The three blue teams can only compete for two Champions League qualifications.

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On the afternoon of June 6, in the FA Cup quarter-finals, Manchester United challenged Norwich away.

The two sides fought hard in the first half and the score ended in a 0:0 draw, but at the beginning of the second half, Bruno assisted Greenwood to score in just four minutes, opening the scoring for Manchester United.

Later, under the leadership of Bruno, Manchester United, playing with a substitute lineup, suppressed Norwich on the field and did not give the opponent many opportunities to threaten Manchester United's goal.

In the 54th minute of the game, Mata passed the ball back from the left side of the penalty area, and Bruno took a long shot from the left corner of the penalty area. The ball drew a perfect arc, bypassed Krul's fingers, and flew into Norwich's goal again.

Norwich scored a goal in the 88th minute.

In the end, Manchester United defeated Norwich 2:1 away and advanced to the semi-finals of this season's FA Cup.

This is the fifth consecutive year that Manchester United has reached the FA Cup semi-finals. The last time they failed to advance was in the 2014-2015 season, when they were eliminated by Arsenal 2:1 in the quarter-finals.

The other three teams that advanced are Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City, all of which are from the Premier League BIG6.

It can be said that this year's FA Cup semi-finals are the strongest in recent years!

In the subsequent draw, Manchester United faced Chelsea and Manchester City faced Arsenal.

Two matches between Manchester City teams and London teams!

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Manchester United's last game in June will be against Brighton away at 6:30 pm on the th.

Because the team had just fought Norwich for 90 minutes in the FA Cup two days ago, Mourinho did not arrange Bruno to start in this game.

Manchester United, without Bruno, could not find a way to break Brighton's goal in the game, and Mata, who replaced him as attacking midfielder, did not play well.

Mourinho finally couldn't help but replaced Bruno in the 70th minute, and then replaced Rashford with Mahrez, forming an offensive combination of Bruno, Mbappe, Mahrez and Harry Kane in the frontcourt. As a result, in the last fifteen minutes, Manchester United launched a wave of offensive.

In the 78th minute, Mbappe, who switched to the left, dribbled into the penalty area and passed the ball back to Luke Shaw. The England left-back sent the low ball accurately to the right side of the penalty spot.

Bruno quickly cut into the penalty area from the right rib, stopped the ball and shot it accurately into Brighton's goal.

1: 0!

After breaking the deadlock, Manchester United quickly took control of the tempo on the field.

In the 85th minute, Cancelo passed the ball to Mahrez who made a run into the penalty area and scored, helping Manchester United extend their lead to two goals.

In the 90th minute of the game, Greenwood, who replaced Mbappe, made a long pass to Bruno who was running at high speed at the back post. The Manchester United captain volleyed the ball into the goal, helping Manchester United secure the victory.

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Three days later, a crucial battle in the 32nd round of the Premier League kicked off at the Etihad Stadium, with Manchester City hosting Liverpool at home.

Just two minutes into the game, Mendy made a surgical pass and Jesus broke through Alisson's goal with a single shot, but the linesman raised his flag to indicate offside and the goal was ruled invalid.

In the 25th minute, Sterling broke through 1V3 in the penalty area and was pulled down by Gomez. The referee awarded a penalty and showed a yellow card. De Bruyne took the penalty and scored, 1:0!

In the 34th minute, Mendy intercepted the ball in the backcourt and launched a counterattack. Jesus passed the ball with his back, Foden cut inside to the top of the arc and passed it to Sterling. The former Red Army star stopped suddenly and flashed out of the gap and shot low into the net, 2:0!

In the 45th minute, Foden and De Bruyne played a wonderful wall pass, and the 20-year-old Manchester City player broke into the penalty area and shot with his right foot, 3:0!

Manchester City was already leading 3:0 at halftime, which was the biggest deficit in the first half since Klopp took office!

In the 66th minute, De Bruyne made a diagonal pass into the gap during a counterattack, Sterling dribbled the ball in the penalty area to get rid of Robertson and shot with his left foot. Chamberlain cleared the ball and shoveled it into his own goal, 4:0!

The Blue Moon had more chances to score, but their goal during injury time was cancelled by VAR.

In the end, Manchester City swept Liverpool 4:0 and completely stunned the Reds!