I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

Ye Su didn't expect that his first double-red game in charge of Manchester United would come under such circumstances.

At 8 am on August 5th, Beijing time, the second International Champions Cup final kicked off at the Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, USA. Last season's Premier League runner-up Liverpool faced Manchester United, also a Premier League club.

In the history of the two clubs, there have been 190 main match encounters. Manchester United has a slight upper hand with 75 wins, 51 losses and 64 losses. In the Premier League last season, Liverpool won 1:0 at Anfield and then 3:0 at Old Trafford. The bloodbath of Manchester United, the double-kill feud, avenged the double-kill by Manchester United the previous season, but in the League Cup, Manchester United won 1:-0.

In this year's International Champions Cup, both teams performed extremely strongly. Manchester United won three consecutive group matches, defeated the three giants of Roma, Inter Milan and Real Madrid in a row, and advanced to the final one round ahead of schedule. Although Liverpool failed to advance to the final one round ahead of schedule, they had 2 wins and 1 tie. They were the first to win the right to advance after the match between Manchester City and Olympiacos was tied in advance.

No one from Manchester United and Liverpool will not pay attention to the double red meeting, even if it is just a warm-up match, not even an official game.

In this game, Liverpool coach Rodgers sent a semi-main lineup, Skrtel partnered with Sacco as the central defender, Gerrard was in the midfield, and new aids Lambert, Coutinho and Sterling formed a trident. Players such as Rich, new aid Markovic and Lallana were absent due to illness, and another new aid, Emre Can, was on standby.

For Manchester United, Ye Su did not dare to relax at all for the first time in his career to coach the Double Red Club, and formed the strongest team in his mind. Spain's national goalkeeper De Gea guards the goal, and the back four is a combination of Valencia, Van Dijk, Maguire and Ashley Young. In the midfield, Kanter and Carrick partnered in the midfielder. In front of them was the forward line composed of Vardy, Mata and Bruno Fernandez. Rooney, who wore the captain's armband, served as the single arrow.

However, after the start of the game, Manchester United's formation was more like 433, with Vardy and Bruno Fernandez both positioned very high, completely wingers.

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Although the United States is a football desert in the Western world, it has many large stadiums. Just like the Michigan Stadium where Manchester United played against Real Madrid last time, the capacity is as high as 110,000 people, which can be called a super giant.

In addition to Michigan Stadium, the United States has five stadiums with a capacity of more than 100,000 people. As for stadiums with a capacity of more than 80,000, there are as many as 20 seats.

Compared with these super giants, Miami's Sun Life Stadium, which accommodates 76,500 people, has 500 more people than Manchester United's home stadium, Old Trafford, but it seems inconspicuous.

However, this stadium has been the venue for the final of the International Champions Cup for two consecutive years.

A year ago, Real Madrid defeated the Blues Chelsea 3:1 here and won the first International Champions Cup.

Today, Manchester United will compete with rival Liverpool for the second International Champions Cup here.

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Although it was a warm-up match, both sides played very seriously, completely treating it as an official match. But it is precisely because both sides are too serious that the fluency of the game is not so high.

Especially the few new players who joined the team even seemed a little nervous. In such a situation, players are likely to make mistakes.

In the 9th minute of the game, Bruno Fernandez, who played the right midfielder, or the right winger, made a mistake. At that time, Liverpool won a free kick in the frontcourt. Facing Gerrard's free kick, Fernandez, who was actively returning to defense, accidentally turned his header into an own pass, which gave Liverpool midfielder Henderson a close-range header. Chance. Fortunately, Henderson faced this unexpected pass,

Obviously under-prepared, slightly higher than the beam.

Although the goal was not scored, it still scared the Manchester United players.

Manchester United, which had a bad start, soon suffered another blow. In the 10th minute of the game, the team's starting right back Valencia was injured in a confrontation with Liverpool players and could not persist in the game. Ye Su had to replace him with Smalling.

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These two incidents had some impact on Manchester United players, and also led to Manchester United's subsequent goal loss.

In the 14th minute, Maguire fouled Sterling, and the referee pointed to the 12 yard point. Gerrard took a penalty kick and tricked De Gea into the lower left corner. Liverpool led Manchester United 1-0.

This conceded goal woke up Manchester United, and the players behaved much more normally in the subsequent games than before.

In the 19th minute, Manchester United ushered in the first shot of the game. Rooney received a pass from Mata and kicked 25 yards away from the goal, but was blocked by the Liverpool defender who bravely blocked the hole.

The game entered a stalemate, and the two sides came and went, playing very fiercely.

In the 24th minute, Kelly made a cross from the right side of the penalty area, Coutinho volleyed from 20 yards and was saved by De Gea. In the 27th minute, Rooney hit the wall with a 25-yard free kick.

In the 34th minute, Sterling fell in the penalty area. The referee signaled that there was no penalty. The slow-motion playback showed that the two sides did have slight physical contact, but it was not enough to make Sterling fall to the ground.

However, this penalty made the Liverpool fans at the scene very dissatisfied and booed all over the sky. Manchester United fans thought that Sterling flopped, and when Sterling received the ball later, they would boo him.

In the 43rd minute, there was a scene on the field that caught Manchester United off guard.

Manchester United played a rather smooth attack, intending to take advantage of the last moment before the end of the first half to equalize the score.

After passing consecutively, Vardy received a pass from Mata outside the penalty area on the left, because the Liverpool player failed to post Vardy in the first place, which gave him a chance to kick, and Vardy kicked without hesitation Long shot.

But this shot was blocked by Liverpool defenders, and the Liverpool player who cleared the ball kicked the ball very far, directly across the midfield, and fell behind Manchester United's defense.

Liverpool counterattacked quickly, Coutinho passed a long ball and found Sterling on the left. The Liverpool teenager cut in with the ball. When he was close to the penalty area, facing the Manchester United players who retreated quickly, he decided to shoot, but the ball still failed to pass De Gea's ten fingers.

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Although Manchester United made some mistakes in the first half of the game, Ye Su did not make personnel adjustments.

After the game started, Liverpool took the lead again.

In the 48th minute, Gerrard intercepted a diagonal pass from the frontcourt, but Lambert's 18-yard low shot was weak and de Gea confiscated it.

Two minutes later, Coutinho made a straight pass, and Sterling's shot from the left before the penalty spot was blocked by the defender from the bottom line.

Manchester United immediately fought back, scoring two goals in three minutes, reversing the score on the field.

In the 55th minute, Bruno Fernandez made a pass from the right side of the penalty area. Rooney pushed a shot from the far corner into the net at the back post. Manchester United equalized the score, 1:1!

In the 57th minute, Bruno Fernandez made another cross from the left side of the penalty area. Mata took a shot 18 yards away from the goal. The ball hit the defender and refracted into the net, rewriting the score to 2:1.

Liverpool made personnel adjustments, Rodgers replaced three people in a row, Lucas, Emre Can and Ibe replaced Joe Allen, Gerrard and Lambert respectively.

However, Liverpool's substitutions have not yet seen the effect. On the contrary, Manchester United almost expanded the score on the field again.

In the 64th minute, Bruno Fernandez made a lob shot from the right side of the front court. The ball hit the crossbar and bounced back into the field. Rooney made a supplementary shot into the net. The referee once determined that the goal was valid. It was ruled that the ball went out of the baseline first and the goal was invalid.

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Ye Su immediately made personnel adjustments, and Shinji Kagawa, Nani and Lingard replaced Mata, Bruno Fernandez and Carrick respectively.

Liverpool also continued to make substitutions and adjustments, Rodgers continued to replace Sacco with Toure, and Paterson replaced Coutinho.

The game on the field is still very anxious. Although Liverpool's score was reversed, they were only one goal behind. As long as they can score a goal, they can tie the score.

The game of the International Champions Cup is different. If the two sides are tied in regular time, there will be no overtime, but a penalty shootout.

After all, it is just a warm-up match, and everyone's purpose is to train troops. There is no need for an overtime game that consumes a lot of energy.

If Liverpool can equalize, it will be a penalty shootout with Manchester United. They still have a great chance to beat Manchester United and win this championship trophy.

However, this gave Manchester United a chance to fight back.

In the 88th minute, Manchester United made a quick counterattack, Ashley Young made a cross from the right side of the penalty area, Shinji Kagawa made the ball, Lingard volleyed into the lower right corner from 18 yards, 3:1!

This was the goal that sealed the result of the game. Liverpool saw that the situation was over, and in the next few minutes of the game, they did not fight Manchester United again.

In the end, Manchester United reversed Liverpool 3:1, and Ye Su also led Manchester United to win the first championship trophy since coaching the team, which was a surprise.

Moreover, during this period, whether it was Ye Su, the new coach, or the few lesser-known new aids that Ye Su insisted on introducing, they all showed a good state, which made Ye Su's criticism a lot less.

Next, Manchester United's summer warm-up matches will continue, but they are all individual warm-up matches, not a series like the International Champions Cup.

Moreover, the team's main energy will be on the Premier League opener on August 16.