I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

With a three-goal victory over Liverpool, Manchester United once again regained the top spot in the Premier League standings from Chelsea.

Because the next league game will not come until December 20th, Ye Su announced that the players will have a two-day holiday, and they will resume training on Tuesday afternoon.

On December 15th, Manchester United's players got a chance to rest, but Ye Su still had to run around. He and the team CEO Santoko flew to Nyon, Switzerland to participate in the Europa League top 32 draw.

The draw takes place at 1pm local time in Switzerland. According to the rules of the lottery, the 12 group winners in the UEFA Europa League this season and the 4 best third-place teams in the UEFA Champions League group stage will become seeded teams. They will have the advantage of playing at home in the second round in the 1/16 finals. The lottery adopts the principle of avoidance of teams in the same group and league.

Because they finally ranked second in the group stage, Manchester United naturally has no home court advantage in the second round.

In the end, Manchester United and Serie A Fiorentina drew together.

For Manchester United, this is undoubtedly an extremely bad signing. Although Fiorentina did not perform well in Serie A this season, they only ranked 8th in the league after 15 rounds, but their performance has picked up significantly recently. Since their home defeat to Naples 0:1 in early November, they have been in the following four rounds of the league. 3 wins and 1 draw remain unbeaten, including a 4:0 away victory over Cagliari, an away 4:1 victory over Cesena, and a 0:0 home draw with the mighty Juventus.

Moreover, for the Premier League teams, most of the Serie A teams are difficult to deal with.

However, Ye Su wasn't too worried. With Manchester United's current strength and getting better and better, there shouldn't be any problem in advancing to the top 16.

Moreover, after all, the Europa League knockout round will not start until late February, and there are still more than two months from now. What Ye Su needs to consider now is the upcoming Christmas Devil's schedule and the frequent schedule in January next year.

Not surprisingly, when teams in other leagues are about to enter the winter break, Premier League teams, including Manchester United, are about to face the most severe test.

Not surprisingly, in the two months from late December to the start of the Europa League knockout round, Manchester United will usher in at least 12 games, including 10 Premier League games, and at least 2 rounds of the FA Cup.

Among them, the most terrifying stage is the ten-day period starting from Boxing Day. According to the schedule, Manchester United will have three Premier League games and one FA Cup game, with an average of one game in less than three days.

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After returning from Switzerland, Ye Su devoted himself to preparing for the Christmas Devil's schedule.

On December 20, Yesu led Manchester United to Birmingham to challenge Aston Villa.

Villa is now ranked 13th in the Premier League. It is a mid-range team that looks like a team with no desires and no desires. However, Villa is only 5 points above the relegation zone, and they will fall into the relegation zone if they are not careful.

Therefore, for any game, Villa dare not take it lightly.

Because the Christmas Devil's schedule is about to come, Ye Su began to arrange the team's rotation, hoping to lead the team through this terrifying and intensive schedule.

At Villa Park, Manchester United faced tough resistance from the home team. They conceded the first goal in the 18th minute of the game. Villa's midfielder dropped a free kick into the penalty area. Benteke stopped the ball and shook Evans' right rib 14 yards away. De Gea's sight was blocked and he did not respond. Manchester United 0:1 Villa. This shot was Villa's first shot in the field.

Manchester United only equalized in the 53rd minute of the second half. Ashley Young, who started the rotation, broke through from the left and made a cross. Vardy, who was the single arrow because of Rooney's rotation, scored with a header from 6 yards. Manchester United 1: 1 Villa.

This was also the final score of the game, and both sides failed to score again.

Manchester United, who only scored 1 point in the away game, although the Chelsea game has not yet been played,

Temporarily retain the top position, but the point difference with the following teams has been narrowed.

Especially the city rivals Manchester City, because of the 3-0 victory over Crystal Palace at the Etihad Stadium, the points reached 39 points, only one goal behind Manchester United.

After Chelsea beat Sky City 2-0 in an away game on the night of the 22nd, they even tied Manchester United in points, and overwhelmed Manchester United with a goal difference advantage, taking away the top spot.

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Not being able to hold on to the top of the Premier League table over Christmas has left Manchester United fans a little unhappy.

However, on Boxing Day, Manchester United was at home and gave the fans a hearty victory.

In the 23rd minute, Armstrong dribbled the ball in from the left and blocked a right-footed shot from 16 yards. Manchester United quickly counterattacked. Rooney scored the ball. Wayne Rooney easily scored the ball into the empty goal from 5 yards, Manchester United 1:0 Newcastle.

This is Wayne Rooney's 189th Premier League goal. In the Premier League history scorer list, he surpassed the Manchester United star Andy Cole who scored 188 goals, and jumped to the second place in the Premier League history scorer list, second only to scoring Shearer with 260 goals.

However, with the gap of 71 goals, even if Rooney has the mysterious card Ye Su bestowed by the old tree sprouts and thus rejuvenated his career, I am afraid that there is no hope of surpassing Shearer, a super shooter, in the short term.

In the 36th minute, Vardy tackled the ball in the frontcourt, Mata took the ball and then obliquely plugged it in. The unguarded Rooney shot low with his right foot from 12 yards and the ball flew into the lower left corner. Manchester United 2-0 Newcastle. Wayne Rooney has scored 12 goals for Newcastle in the Premier League.

In the 52nd minute, Rooney made a 45-degree cross from the right. The unguarded Vardy headed the goal from 8 yards. The ball bounced and flew into the right side of the goal. Manchester United 3-0 Newcastle.

Leading by three goals and almost securing the victory, Ye Su began to replace the core offensive players in the midfield. Rooney, Mata and Vardy were all replaced one after another. Bruno Fernandez, James Wilson and Ashley Young came off the bench. debut.

Although the three major offensive players in the frontcourt were replaced, Manchester United still controlled the situation on the field.

However, before the end of the game, Newcastle launched a counterattack. In the 86th minute, Colback broke into the penalty area and was tripped by Phil Jones. The referee Mike Jones awarded a penalty kick, and the replay showed that there was no problem with the penalty. Cisse fired the penalty into the top right corner, scoring a face-saving goal for Newcastle.

Although the Magpies beat the Magpies 3:1, Manchester United still failed to regain the top spot in the Premier League, because the Blues Chelsea, who took the lead on Boxing Day, beat the Hammers to help West Ham United 2:0 at Stamford Bridge and continued to score 1 goal difference. The advantage suppressed Manchester United.

At the same time, Manchester City also defeated West Brom with a score of 3:1 in the away game, and continued to catch up with Chelsea and Manchester United by 3 points.

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Only less than 48 hours later, Manchester United continued to play in the Premier League.

This is the 19th round of the Premier League this season. Manchester United is a guest at White Hart Lane to challenge Tottenham Hotspur.

Under the leadership of coach Pochettino this season, Tottenham's performance has been relatively stable, and they have remained in the upper middle and upper reaches of the Premier League standings for a long time. After 18 league rounds, they also ranked 7th in the Premier League with 9 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses with 30 points, and they are only 2 points lower than the fourth-ranked Southampton, and they may enter the Champions League at any time.

In the Premier League, Manchester United has 29 wins, 10 draws and 5 losses in 44 games, occupying an absolute advantage. Although Manchester United has an obvious advantage in mutual record, the last time Manchester United beat Tottenham was on March 5, 2012. Then they played 4 games against Tottenham in the Premier League. Manchester United had 2 draws and 2 losses. Became the sufferer of Manchester United.

In this game, Manchester United has carried out multiple rotations, and Tottenham's starting lineup has also adjusted 4 players compared to two days ago.

Because there was only 43 hours between the last game of the two teams and this game, the physical fitness of the players who participated in the previous game is far from recovered, so the team is obviously out of shape.

In the end, after a boring battle, the two sides drew a goalless draw 0:0.

In the game, Manchester United actually scored a goal.

In the 24th minute, Rooney took a corner kick on the left, pointing Carrick and rubbing back, then pointing Maguire back. With a push, Vertonghen made an undercut on the goal line to make a clearance. Manchester United players all signaled that the ball had been scored, but the linesman signaled offside early, and referee Moss called it offside.

But judging from the replay, the ball did cross the goal line, and when Maguire headed the ball, Van Dijk was not offside. Manchester United once again suffered a misjudgment.

In the subsequent games, Vardy, De Bruyne, Rooney and Mata missed must-goal opportunities one after another, and Tottenham did not put De Gea on too many tests.

Manchester United scored 14 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss after 19 league rounds, with 46 points, which is 12 more points than the same period last season. The improvement is very obvious. The same points as Ferguson's last season in charge of Manchester United.

However, even if Manchester United performed so well, they still failed to win the Premier League half-time championship. Chelsea, who played later, drew 1:1 with Southampton in the away game, continued to suppress Manchester United with a goal difference advantage, and won the Premier League half-time championship.

For Manchester United, the good news is that Chelsea are also tied and did not leave Manchester United behind. And Manchester City was upset at home, being tied 2:2 by the relegation team Burnley, still 3 points behind Manchester United and Chelsea.

In this round of competition, the top 4 teams in the Premier League standings all suffered a draw, which shows the lethality of the Christmas Devil schedule for these teams.

On the other hand, the Gunners Arsenal beat West Ham United 2:1 away in a London derby and tied Southampton in points. The gang entered the Champions League.

This doesn't seem to be too difficult for the four madmen.

However, that's all. If you want to enter the ranks of the championship team, you are a bit weak.

Now the gap between Arsenal and the top three is still a bit big, 13 points behind Chelsea and Manchester United, and 10 points behind the third Manchester City. It can be said that they have been out of the championship this season.