Chapter 814: Poor Condition

Chapter 814 Poor Condition

After returning to the UK from Hungary, Manchester United faced two back-to-back games against Brighton within three days, both away from home.

Brighton is a coastal city in southern England. Its landmark building is the Royal Pavilion. Brighton is famous for its pebble-covered beaches.

Manchester United certainly didn't come here to enjoy the scenery.

Manchester United is currently in a bad situation due to the unexpected loss to Crystal Palace in the second round of the league. Although they won both games last week, advanced to the fourth round of the League Cup, and won the fifth European Super Cup in team history, Manchester United still hopes to see the team win in the Premier League.

However, Manchester United's game at the American Express Community Stadium was very difficult.

The players failed to get enough rest before the season and had a very tight schedule after the start of the season, which caused them to look very tired.

In the first half of the game, Manchester United was obviously in poor form. Brighton was clearly the better performing side and they completely suppressed Manchester United.

In the 39th minute, Brighton midfielder Lamptey dribbled into the penalty area and fell to the ground after a slight contact with Bruno. The referee Chris Kavanagh immediately awarded a penalty.

Although Bruno appealed to the referee that he did not commit a foul and the contact between the two sides was a normal confrontation, the referee Kavanagh did not accept Bruno's appeal and insisted on the penalty kick. Mo Pai scored from the penalty kick and Brighton beat United 1:0.

The fact is that Manchester United was very lucky not to fall behind in the score until this time. Before that, Trossard and Webster of Brighton had hit the goal frame three times in the 9th minute, 20th minute and 29th minute of the game.

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After falling behind, Manchester United quickly equalized the score in just 3 minutes. In the 42nd minute, Manchester United won a free kick on the left side of the penalty area. Bruno took the penalty himself, and the ball drew a perfect arc and flew into the Brighton goal. Brighton 1:1 Manchester United.

In the first half of the game, Brighton was clearly the better side. They completely suppressed Manchester United, with 7 shots, 3 on target, and 3 hitting the post, while Manchester United only had 3 shots.

The most crucial thing was that in the first half of the game, Manchester United almost didn't get any of the half-balls. This made Mourinho very angry. During the halftime break, the Magic Bird went on a rage in the locker room and sprayed everyone, even Bruno.

Bruno's performance in the first half was not good. Although he scored a beautiful free kick and the penalty was suspected to be a misjudgment, in the first half, the Manchester United midfield led by him was unable to control the situation on the field.

In fact, Bruno was also very depressed.

In this match, Brighton, playing at home, played very tough. Every time they confronted Manchester United, they seemed to be fighting desperately, and scenes of people falling down kept appearing on the field.

After a period of tough confrontation, the three players on Manchester United's front line became very afraid to confront their opponents, which led to them losing almost all of their half the balls. Even some balls that were originally in an advantageous position were snatched away by Brighton players who were more ruthless.

According to official statistics, in the entire first half, Bruno only made 44 of 26 passes, with a success rate of only 59%.

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Bruno knew very well that his passing was no different from usual. After all, his passing had become very accurate after eight years of systematic training.

However, due to the poor condition of the strikers, they were not running at the correct rhythm, and they were afraid to confront their opponents, which resulted in many of Bruno's passes being snatched away by his opponents. This also caused Bruno's pass success rate in the first half to drop to an incredible level.

You know, since moving to Manchester United, his pass success rate has never been lower than 90%.

In the first half of today, his passing success rate dropped drastically.

Under such circumstances, Mourinho was naturally very annoyed. So even though he knew that it was not Bruno's fault, as the captain of the team, Bruno should also bear a great responsibility for the team's poor performance in the first half.

Rashford was the one who was criticized the most by Mourinho. The performance of this Manchester United youth training genius in the first half was disastrous. Not only was he afraid to confront his opponents, he was also very passive in running and could even be said to be lazy.

Before the start of the second half, Mourinho replaced Rashford with Greenwood.

You know, the head coach rarely makes substitutions at the beginning of the second half of the game, unless it is due to injury or a player performs too poorly in the first half.

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The Manchester United players, who were severely criticized by Mourinho, were thinking about giving the home team a warning after the start of the second half, but they did not expect that the team would be awarded a penalty kick again just after the start of the game.

In the 46th minute, Gundogan had physical contact with Connolly in the penalty area. The referee Kavanagh awarded a penalty, but the penalty was cancelled after VAR confirmation.

This penalty scare made Manchester United players break out in cold sweats, but they finally came to their senses and performed at a relatively normal level.

In the 54th minute of the game, Gundogan made a straight pass from the backcourt, Bruno broke into the penalty area, dribbled continuously and scored, helping Manchester United to overtake the score.

In the 60th minute of the game, Brighton got another chance, but unfortunately the team's shot hit the inside post and bounced out. This was Brighton's fourth post in this game.

In the 77th minute of the game, Brighton had another one-on-one opportunity, but hit the post again. It has to be said that their luck was a bit bad.

Just when all the Manchester United fans around the world thought that Manchester United could easily win 3 points, in the 5th minute of injury time, Brighton passed the ball to the back post again, and this time March finally seized the opportunity and scored with a header.

To be honest, he had the chance to score four goals in this game. He had had three excellent scoring opportunities in front of Cancelo before, but unfortunately he failed to seize them.

If Rashford was the worst player in the first half, then Cancelo was the worst player in the second half. The right side of Manchester United, which he guarded, became a free passage for Brighton. If it weren't for Brighton's poor ability to seize opportunities, Manchester United would have been beaten into a sieve by Brighton in this game.

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The game was equalized in the 5th minute of injury time with little time left, which made Manchester United fans all over the world extremely disappointed. They seemed to have seen that the team had missed out on 3 points twice in the first three rounds of this season.

At the critical moment, it was Bruno, the captain, who stood up.

After Manchester United's midfielder kicked off, they quickly attacked the frontcourt. Harry Kane's shot was blocked out of the bottom line and Manchester United got a corner kick opportunity.

Bruno took a corner kick and found Maguire accurately. However, his header hit Maupai's hand and the referee decisively awarded a penalty kick.

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At this time, it was already the 7th minute of injury time, which had exceeded the 6 minutes of injury time, so the penalty kick caused great dissatisfaction among the home team players, who believed that the referee had given too much injury time.

However, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this approach. The injury time given by the referee is not completely accurate. During the game, the final injury time can be determined according to the situation. It is okay to end the game early or give more injury time.

As the first penalty taker for Manchester United, Bruno stood up without hesitation. And his penalty kick was scored without any surprise, and Manchester United defeated Brighton in the last seconds!

After winning this hard-fought victory, Manchester United moved up to eighth in the standings.

It is worth mentioning that this round of competition revealed another shocking upset, that is, Guardiola's Manchester City suffered a 2:5 defeat to Leicester City at home, which was simply shocking.

After losing this game, Manchester City, with only 1 points due to one game less, was ranked 3th in the standings and almost fell into the relegation zone.

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Three days later, on the evening of October 3st, at the same American Express Community Stadium, Manchester United continued to challenge Brighton.

This is the fourth round of the League Cup this season.

At the pre-match press conference, coach Mourinho said, "We are currently in a period of intensive competitions. We will make corresponding adjustments. The team will have two sets of lineups for the league and cup games, so we will make some adjustments to the lineup, which will be very similar to the game against Luton last week."

The game went as Mourinho said, Manchester United won a big victory away from home.

In the first half of the game, Mata assisted McTominay to score with a header; in the second half of the game, Bellingham assisted Mata with a heel to expand the score, and then Bellingham scored directly with a beautiful free kick.

At the end of the game, Manchester United beat Brighton 3:0 and advanced to the quarterfinals of this season's League Cup.

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As we enter October, the summer transfer window, which was postponed due to the epidemic, is nearing closing.

Just one day after Manchester United advanced to the quarterfinals of the League Cup, that is, Friday afternoon local time in the UK, Premier League giants Chelsea officially announced a transfer, that is, the Blues signed England goalkeeper Dean Henderson from another giant club, the Red Devils, Manchester United.

Although both parties did not disclose the transfer amount, according to the powerful media reporters, the transfer amount was as high as 6000 million pounds.

Moreover, the contract signed by both parties revealed by the transfer expert also contains a repurchase clause.

The repurchase clause is different from the right of first refusal. It does not require the consent of the taking-over club, but is automatically triggered after the pre-agreed terms are met. For example, how much money will be paid within one year, how much money will be paid within two years, how much money will be paid if certain terms are met, including how many years the buyback can be made or whether the buyback cannot be made in the first few years.

The advantage of this over renting is that, on the one hand, the club that receives the young player can devote more effort to training the player. After all, they are the players they have bought with their own money, and they can make a lot of money by buying them back after they have trained well. This has been used in transactions by more and more clubs. The more successful cases in the football world are Casemiro and Carvajal of Real Madrid, both of which went through the process of signing, transferring and buying back.