Reborn Liverpool

Chapter 395

第二天12月23日，英超第18轮倒数第二场比赛，曼联在客场5-1大胜卡迪夫城。

Manchester United beat Cardiff City 5-1.The Red Devils' offensive runaway, in fact, this is not just the outbreak of Pogba alone, the performance of Manchester United's entire offensive line is impressive.

Martial, Rashford and Lingard finally released their instincts, and all had the opportunity to have fun and attack.

The British media previously reported that one of the important reasons for Mourinho's dismissal was that the senior management believed that young players did not show good development momentum under him.

The two biggest representatives are Rashford and Martial. Although these two people have occasional shining moments under Mourinho, in general, their development is not as expected, and it is obviously not as good as it was during the Van Gaal period. of shine.

After Suo Shuai first arrived, the first thing is to fully tap their potential.

After the game, Manchester United's main player Pogba accepted an interview. He publicly talked about Mourinho's problems. He said that getting along with Mourinho was not all smooth, but he still thanked Mourinho for helping him improve. Now he just wants to move forward look.

Pogba said: "I know you are waiting to ask about Jose (Mourinho) and the result of today's game. Obviously, we are very happy with the result of the game. We played well and the team performed well. , I know what you want to ask about Jose. About Jose, we won trophies together and I want to thank him for that. Not everything went well, but we won trophies. Winning trophies makes you improve , that's all for now. That's over, and I want to thank him."

"I'm sure all the players are now looking forward to the next game, to get the points. We want and have to get back to the top of the league, that's all I can say. The team is doing great and we're happy with the new manager. The first game started like this and now the most important thing is to keep going like this. We can't score five goals one game and lose the next one."

In Manchester United's 5-1 victory over Cardiff City, Wayne Rooney was invited to serve as a guest commentator on TV.

Wayne Rooney put forward his own views on today's Manchester United. He believes that the current team is on the right path and firing Mourinho is the right decision.

Rooney said: "Sometimes you have to make changes and I think it was right to fire Mourinho. Especially when you see Mourinho messing up the Manchester United dressing room relationship so badly, even the staff working in the kitchen. No one will be happy. At this time, a change must be made. I was told by former Manchester United colleagues that Mourinho was dismissed from class, and they told me that Mourinho did not get along with the players very well."

Rooney thinks United's short-term move to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is a good choice:

"I think this is a good change. Solskjaer is an old Manchester United man. He knows the tradition of Manchester United and is making changes in this direction. Everything is developing in a good direction. The return of Phelan is the same. They have worked. When you see them coming in with a smile and the players coming in with a smile, it makes it a little bit easier. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer gave United months to find a manager , it's important that Manchester United make sure they find a suitable candidate this time around."

Rooney was full of praise for Manchester United's 5-1 victory:

"Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has brought back the DNA of Manchester United. Unlike Mourinho, when Manchester United score goals, the team will continue to attack. This is the tradition of Manchester United. I am really happy to watch it. To see something like this happen. It's fantastic."

Rooney believes that Manchester United want to become a successful club, no detail can be ignored:
"To be a successful club, every little detail counts, your scouts, your training ground caretakers, whatever. Every single detail counts, it's about them being able to get along with the club, with a smile on their face. Come to work, and then you will be successful.”

The British media, who are good at digging out details, naturally praised Solskjaer, saying that "Solskjaer has found the true soul of the Red Devils, and he will not imitate Mourinho's bus!"

Changing coaches is like changing knives.Solskjaer's first game as Manchester United's coach was amazing, and the team won a 5-1 victory.

Compared with the victory, what is more gratifying is the mental outlook, attitude and method of the game shown by Manchester United.

Sky Sports stated that Manchester United is like changing a team, becoming more like the Manchester United people want to see...

A set of data from the game may illustrate how much Manchester United has changed tonight:

Against Cardiff, Manchester United's possession rate of 74.2% is the team's highest record in the Premier League so far this season;

The pass success rate of 87% is also the highest record of the team in the Premier League so far this season;

5 goals in a single game is still the team's highest record in the Premier League so far this season.

It is worth mentioning that the last time Manchester United scored 5 goals in the league dates back to May 2013, 5, when Ferguson coached Manchester United in the last game, the Red Devils played against West Bromwich Albion. It became a 20-5 draw.

No matter from which point of view, we can say that Manchester United played the best game of the season tonight.

In just three days after taking over the team, Solskjaer has given the team a completely new look at Manchester United.

The most important of these is obviously the effect on the attitude and mentality of the players, when the players are happy they are motivated to give their all on the pitch.

Under Mourinho, the atmosphere in the Manchester United team is obviously gloomy...

But now, the players are trying their best to prove themselves. In Lingard's words: "The boys played very energetic today, and they were very happy and excited."

From a tactical point of view, Solskjaer did not do magic tricks, he just let Manchester United find themselves and their true colors.

First of all, Manchester United's offense was more active in this campaign. Solskjaer said after the game that he emphasized running and the forward penetration of the two full-backs in his two-day training session. Good results.

Manchester United's players in the frontcourt performed very eye-catching in this campaign:

Pogba has completely unleashed his offensive ability, and Herrera has often participated in the offense. Even Lindelof once went to the frontcourt and almost assisted Rashford to score. Plugged in more often too.

This is almost unimaginable during Mourinho's time. Mourinho has strict requirements on defensive positions. Not only the players in the midfield rarely get assists, but even the wingers have to return to the defense at any time to assist in the defense.

Suo Shuai and Mourinho have different starting points. Solskjaer considers offense first, while Mourinho considers defense first.

Secondly, Manchester United played more flexibly and three-dimensionally, and the players ran more actively.

There is a statistic that can reflect the agility of Manchester United's offense. The Manchester United team ran 5 kilometers more than Cardiff City, and sprinted 20 times more than their opponents.

Generally speaking, the technical ability of relegation teams may be a bit worse, but their ability to fight and run is their characteristic.

But the Manchester United team ran 5000 meters more than Cardiff City in this game, which is inseparable from the team's large-scale cross-running.

For example, for Manchester United's third goal, Martial, a left winger, appeared in the middle to cooperate with his teammates. Lingard also frequently moved to the middle to attack. Manchester United's position came alive, and the entire offense also came alive.

During Mourinho's period, the positions of Manchester United players were relatively dead, basically fighting alone, and it was difficult to form a joint force.

In addition, Manchester United has obviously strengthened the cooperation between passing and cutting in some small areas.

The most classic cooperation is naturally the third goal. In just a few seconds, Martial, Pogba and Lingard hit the wall consecutively and completely tore apart Cardiff City's defense.

Facts have proved that the Manchester United team has this ability.The Premier League's official Twitter said that this team's cooperation has almost booked the best team goal in the Premier League this season.

When Mourinho was coaching Manchester United, he preferred simple and rough long passes and constant high balls. He would send Fellaini to fight in the penalty area. This style of play is not only ugly, but also extremely inefficient.

After the game, the British media praised Manchester United for rediscovering the DNA of offense, and the team has recovered its soul.

The tradition of Manchester United is to continue to attack. Regardless of the score on the field, leading or falling behind, the team must carry out the attack to the end.

This is the case in this field, no matter the score on the field is 2-0, 2-1, or 4-1, the starting point of the team is always looking for the next goal, and they never stop attacking.

For this, Rooney is also full of praise: "The difference from the Mourinho period is that Manchester United scored a goal and they are still insisting on continuous offense. This is great."

"Govern by doing nothing".In a certain sense, this is what Solskjaer has done in the past two days. He did not limit the talent explosion of Pogba and Martial. The nature of the offensive end.

At the same time, Solskjaer found the soul of Manchester United's offense, recovered the tradition, and found the roots of Manchester United.

In terms of coaching performance and coaching level, Solskjaer is not as good as Mourinho.

One game doesn't care to prove that Solskjaer will definitely bring Manchester United out of the predicament, but he obviously understands Manchester United's culture better than Mourinho.

In the two and a half years of coaching the team, Mourinho has never tried to make his football philosophy more in line with Manchester United's expectations, and even put the contradictions and conflicts between the two sides on the table through the media.

And his complacency at the tactical level and locker room management methods made Mourinho a target of public criticism.

Perhaps this is why the management dared to fire Mourinho and replace Solskjaer to fight the fire when we were in a desperate situation.

Changing to someone who knows the club better can at least improve the atmosphere in the team so that it doesn't fall apart.

And Mourinho may still be defeated by his own stubbornness.

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Perhaps it was stimulated by Manchester United's coaching change. In the last league game of this round, Tottenham beat Everton 6-2 away. Sun Xingmin and Harry Kane scored twice, and Ali and Eriksson scored goals.Tottenham won 4 consecutive league victories and pressed Manchester City by 2 points.

After Tottenham beat Everton 6-2 in the away game, they narrowed the gap with second-ranked Manchester City to 2 points, while they were 13 points away from top-ranked Liverpool.

The schedule is only halfway through, and the Tottenham players who have successfully advanced to the Champions League third in the league are also motivated.

"Daily Mail" conducted an interview with the Tottenham general after the game:

Kane said: "Everyone is talking about Liverpool and Manchester City, we will do our job. There is still a long way to go in the season. This period is very busy."

"We've had a great week and it's important to keep the momentum going. There's a lot of games coming up and it's fast paced. But we're going to win them all."

"We've got to be strong in December, January, February and wait until next April to see where we are."

Another Sun Xingmin who scored twice said:
"We were a little bit unlucky when we went down 0-1, but we showed a spirit of not admitting defeat, not only turned the game around, but also scored 6 goals. We just need to focus on ourselves, play one game at a time, and strive to win the game. The road to the crown is very long."

The winning Tottenham coach Pochettino is naturally happy, but in addition to praising his players, he has to deal with Mourinho's dismissal by Manchester United just like Liverpool's Shaqiri.

Mourinho left the Manchester United coach shortly after Manchester United lost 1-3 to Liverpool in the last round.

In this regard, Liverpool general Shaqiri said: Many people say that I kicked Mourinho out of class, but in fact it is not just me who kicked Mourinho out of class. There must be other reasons.

In that game, Shaqiri came off the bench and scored twice to help Liverpool completely kill the game. Two days later, Manchester United announced the dismissal of Mourinho.

In this regard, before challenging the Wolves this round, Shaqiri said in an interview with the media:

"When Jose Mourinho sacked I got a ton of messages from my friends. It started with a lot of good texts, talking about my performance at Liverpool against Manchester United. But after a while, they The text messages came and it was Mourinho and someone said 'It's your fault Mourinho is out!' But sometimes that's how football is."

"I don't think Manchester United want to change their manager just because we won that game. There must be other reasons, but that game will go down in history. That game will always be My history."

Manchester United has fired Mourinho. Based on the news from the British media, Manchester United may hire the famous Red Devil Solskjaer as the interim coach to lead the team through the season.

Manchester United will be looking for a reliable coach next summer, and Pochettino is their first goal.

The Argentine coach himself spoke cautiously in an interview, saying that he now only wants to focus on Tottenham's game.

Talking about the rumors with Manchester United, Pochettino said: "There are always many rumors in the football world, and I don't want to be involved in them. In five years, there have been many rumors about me. What happened to another club has nothing to do with me. I focus on doing my job well.”

Speaking of Mourinho, Pochettino expressed his respect, he said: "I want to send Mourinho the best wishes, I am sad because I know him very well, I know him well. Had a great relationship with him, he was a great friend and what happened today is sad news."

Pochettino avoided talking about succeeding Mourinho, but was more willing to talk about today's victory:

About this victory:

"The team's performance is very good, I am proud of the players' energy and performance. The upcoming schedule is very intensive, and getting these three points is very important."

About the championship:

"I still think Liverpool and Manchester City are the title contenders. If you count us, then Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United. It's too early to say. The first thing we have to do is stay fit We are still fighting on four fronts, we just beat Arsenal in a difficult derby in the middle of the week, and our performance in this game should still surprise many people."

On the next level of the team:
"I think it is very close. All we have to do is to stay focused and fight steadily. There are still many tough battles to fight. The fourth-line battle will be very difficult, but we will try our best."

About replacing Ali:

"I didn't see Wu Allen's action. I want to watch the video again. I can't comment now because I haven't seen it. We hope Ali has no major problems."

Mourinho has temporarily left the Premier League, but the legend about him is still fermenting in the Premier League...

(End of this chapter)