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Chapter 1046 Unexpected News

May 5, Carrow Road Stadium.

The camera captured the home fans covering their faces and crying in the stands. "Canary" Norwich has been upgraded and relegated in the previous five years. He returned to the Premier League as the champion of the British Championship at this time last year, but today he One round of relegation early.

Sun Wu, who had been sitting on the coach's bench and did not appear on the stage, frowned and discussed something with the assistant coaches next to him.

Both the FA Cup and the Champions League are currently in the final stage of preparation, but the first thing to solve is the league. At present, Manchester United is only 5 points ahead of Manchester City, and Manchester United will have a make-up match against Tottenham in the next round. The league championship is not sure.

In this game, Sun Wu gave the players who participated in the Double Red Club a rest. Alderweireld, Coleman, Phil Jones and Rojo started the game. Midfielders Fabinho, Fletcher and Esper Leila, Harry Kane, Bernardo Silva and Milner up front.

Although the Norwich players worked very hard, the strength gap between the two sides was too great, and the Manchester United players who did not get a chance to play were suffocating in their hearts just after a 10-1 bloodbath against Liverpool.

Although Norwich set up the bus, Manchester United's offense has never been able to create any threat, but before the end of the first half, Manchester United still took the lead.

In the 44th minute, Herrera took a corner kick, and Rojo made a strong charge to the opponent's goalkeeper. The Norwich player kicked his teammate's back and bounced into the goal.

Two minutes later, Bernardo Silva assisted Harry Kane to score the 2nd goal in the league. This data ranked third in the Premier League scorer list, and the second place was Griez who scored 22 goals. Mann, the first is Diego Costa who scored 25 goals.

During the intermission, Sun Wu replaced Harry Kane with Rashford. He does not have a medical insurance card. Although this guy is not a glass man, he has been injured a lot.

In the 64th minute of the second half, Bernardo Silva scored twice and assisted Herrera to seal the victory after cleverly passing through the bottom line.

Then Sun Wu focused on the state and performance of Manchester United players. Mike Phelan raised a key question in the meeting yesterday, how to choose Sun Wu's partner in the last two finals.

Although Milner will be selected for the big list because of the characteristics of panacea, his chance of starting is very small. In terms of ability, he is relatively the worst among the candidates.

Among the other candidates, Fletcher is both offensive and defensive. Although he has good physical fitness, he can still maintain a wide range of running ability and cover a wide range, but his explosive power has declined sharply due to his age. When he meets Eriksson and Modri Qi is at a disadvantage.

Fabinho played very few games in the first half of the season, but in the second half of the season, Sun Wu likes to use this Brazilian midfielder very much. He has a very strong defense, strong ability to compete for high points, wide coverage, and a good long pass. But he lacks the ability to plug in the back row.

Herrera is the ideal partner. He is dedicated in defense, has the tenacity of the Basque, has organizational skills, can insert in the back row, and has a long shot. He has scored key goals against Bayern and Liverpool before.

But the problem with the Spaniard is that he is too mediocre, there are no obvious shortcomings, but there is nothing particularly outstanding.

Sun Wu scratched his head and stared at these three people. They were all in good condition. Who should they use?
Just when Sun Wu was frowning and thinking hard, the whole game was over. Manchester United easily swept Norwich 4-0 in the away game and kicked it into the British Championship. The last goal came from Milner's long shot.

After attending the post-match press conference and returning to the hotel, Sun Wu received good news. Mane, who was injured in the Shuanghong Club a few days ago, after a detailed inspection, basically has no problems and can return within a week.

The next day, the Manchester United team returned to Manchester, while Sun Wu and Mike Phelan flew to London, and they wanted to closely observe the status of Tottenham Hotspur players.

Sitting in the stands of the White Hart Lane Stadium, after only watching for 10 minutes, Sun Wu pursed his lips and wrote in his notebook, "Formation change."

Mike Phelan nodded, took the pen and wrote his name, "Dell."

Dell has a high tactical position in the Tottenham team. He can send the ball forward to the frontcourt, complete the transfer of the ball, and can also become a barrier in front of the central defender. The most important thing is that he can retreat in formation transitions. Playing central defenders, the formation changed from four backs to three central backs, with Trippier and Rose on the wings advancing to support the midfield.

Sun Wu pondered silently in his heart, but Pochettino might not dare to play like this in the FA Cup final, because although Eriksson was responsible for the defensive task, his defensive quality was relatively average. Another midfielder Dembele's defense The ability is not too strong.

Sun Wu estimates that Pochettino will adopt the double midfielder formation of Dell and Wanyama, but in this way, the high-position press in the frontcourt and the organizational offense of positional warfare will be greatly affected. After all, Wanyama is a purely defensive player. lower back.

Tottenham's opponent today is Southampton. In order to grab the fourth, Tottenham has no intention of holding back. The Saints are ranked 11th and have no desires.

In the 25th minute, Tottenham played a high-quality counterattack. Eriksson dribbled the ball through the midfield at high speed and scored the ball. Ali took the ball from the left side and cut inside the penalty area on the other side. Kaku blocked the shot with his right foot and opened the scoring. This is his 21st league goal of the season.

The 1-0 score lasted until the second half. Pochettino began to mobilize his troops and replaced Ali with Mata.

Three minutes later, the Southampton defender cleared the penalty area with a header. Eriksson picked a pass from the outside. Mata, who received the ball on the right side of the penalty area, unexpectedly smashed the ball and knocked on his heel. Trippier stepped in from the outside. The first pass was made, and Sun Xingmin, who made the second point, easily pushed and scored.

Mike Phelan took the notebook and wrote Mata's name, Sun Wu nodded in agreement, there are a lot of good frontcourt attackers in the Tottenham team, Eriksen must occupy the central position, and Lukaku must be the starter Center forward, but the two positions on the left and right are hard to say. Sun Xingmin, Ali, Januzaj and Mata are all likely to start.

Ali is more versatile. He likes to insert into the penalty area to grab points. Sun Xingmin and Januzaj have better breakthrough abilities. Whether Mata plays or not determines Pochettino's frontcourt tactics. The Spanish midfielder is slow and has no breakthroughs. Ability, but a master passer.

Five or six minutes before the end of the game, the two left White Hart Lane early.

Seeing that Sun Wu was still frowning, Mike Phelan comforted: "After all, we lead by 5 points, we can accept a draw."

Sun Wu shook his head slightly, led by 5 points, tied with Tottenham and led by 3 points, who knows what will happen in the last round, Bournemouth is not a soft persimmon, Eddie Howe may be the most thoughtful of England's young coaches That, this season also won the best coach of the month.

Besides, Tottenham is now ranked fifth, 1 point behind Chelsea, who is fourth. In order to grab the fourth, Pochettino will do his best.

However, soon, an unexpected news came.

While Tottenham easily beat Southampton 3-0, Chelsea lost to Sunderland unexpectedly 2-3 away.

This means that Tottenham surpassed Chelsea by 2 points and successfully entered the Champions League. Chelsea did not have a make-up match, only the last round of games remained, and Tottenham still had a make-up match against Manchester United.

As long as they get a draw in the make-up match, Tottenham will be able to firmly lead Chelsea by 3 points and occupy No.4, because Tottenham's goal difference is much higher than Chelsea.

Just when Sun Wu breathed a sigh of relief, another unexpected news came.

Another game at the same time also came to an end. Mark Hughes led Stoke City to a 1-1 draw with Manchester City at home. In the 85th minute, the substitute Gao Dao Crouch scored a key goal to equalize the score. ball.

Sun Wu stared at Mike Phelan in astonishment. Neither of them expected that they had thought so much. As a result, at the most critical moment, their direct rival Manchester City lost the chain.

what does this mean?
It means that there is still one round of the league and one round of make-up games left. Manchester United leads Manchester City by 7 points and has already embraced the league championship in advance.

(End of this chapter)