From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 483 The new season begins

At four o'clock in the afternoon on August 2017, 8, at Old Trafford Stadium, in the first round of the Premier League, Manchester United faced West Ham United at home.

The strength of the two teams facing off in this game is quite different. Manchester United is playing at home. It is not difficult to win West Ham United, but everyone is still worried.

The first round of the new season is not easy to play, as both sides have not yet entered the rhythm of the season, so upsets are not uncommon.

In the first game of this round, Arsenal almost suffered an upset at home. The Blue Foxes led Arsenal twice in the game, but the Gunners finally relied on consecutive goals from Ramsey and Giroud near the end of the game to finally reverse and defeat Leicester City.

Liverpool, who played next, were not so lucky. They lost the ball at the last moment of injury time and were tied 3:3 at home by Watford.

Of course, compared to Chelsea, who made a lot of signings in the summer, Liverpool is already lucky. After all, they scored 1 point in the away game.

In this game at Stamford Bridge, because captain Gary Cahill was sent off in the 14th minute, the Blues completely collapsed in the first half and were scored by Burnley three times.

This is the first time in Premier League history that Chelsea trailed by 3 goals at half-time at home. Although Chelsea scored two goals in the second half, they eventually lost with a score of 2:3.

In this game, Chelsea lost one game after another. In addition to Cahill who was sent off shortly after the start, the team's midfield commander Cesc Fabregas was also sent off in the 81st minute of the game. Down.

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Will Manchester United go the way of Liverpool and Chelsea?

Can Bruno, who performed very well last season, continue his outstanding performance?

All of this will start from this game and slowly open the curtain.

Mourinho arranged a 433 formation.

The goalkeeper is De Gea, and the defense is a combination of Valencia, Phil Jones, Maguire and Blind.

After Smalling played in the European Super Cup against Real Madrid, he suffered a minor injury and was not cleared by the team doctor, so he was excluded from the squad and replaced by Phil Jones.

The midfielder is a combination of Gundogan, Kante and Mata, and the frontcourt is Rashford, McTominay and Bruno.

Bruno continues to be pushed to the front line by Mourinho, but despite this, Manchester United still does not have enough manpower on the front line. Lingard also had some physical problems, and the team medical team recommended that he take a rest.

In desperation, Mourinho had no choice but to let teenager McTominay play as center forward.

This young player, who is over 1.9 meters tall, played as a forward on the court in his early years. However, after joining the Manchester United youth academy, McTominay switched to midfielder under the then Manchester United youth team coach Warren Joyce.

Now, with the team in desperate need of a forward, Mourinho has no choice but to let the youngster return to his old career.

At the same time, Mourinho also asked the team responsible for the transfer to accelerate the transfer of Harry Kane and Mbappe to make up for the team's employment crisis on the front line.

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West Ham United's head coach Bilic is not a rookie in the Premier League. He is also very aware of the importance of the first round of the league and knows Manchester United's calculations. Therefore, he also arranged it very carefully and faced it with a 4231 formation, determined to defend and counterattack.

Manchester United pressed forward aggressively, using high center forward McTominay as the arrow to suppress West Ham United's defense.

Rashford and Bruno are on the wings, while Gundogan, Kante and Mata are pressing forward in the midfield.

From the beginning, Manchester United played a very determined high-pressure press in order to win West Ham United from the beginning.

But West Ham United is not a fuel-saving lamp, and the defense was still very tight at the beginning.

Bruno's condition is obviously improving one after another, and he is more active than during the European Super Cup.

Eighteen minutes into the game, he forced a breakthrough pass from the right, but West Ham United defender Ogbonna made a big kick in the penalty area. The football flew out of bounds, winning Manchester United a frontcourt penalty spot on the right side of the penalty area. Sideline ball opportunity.

"I'll do it!" Valencia quickly ran up from behind and signaled that he would take the penalty kick.

Bruno, who originally wanted to take a quick throw-in, saw that West Ham United had organized a defense line, but he no longer insisted, handed the ball to Valencia, and turned back to the stadium.

West Ham United's defensive players were facing a formidable enemy, blocking all Valencia's throwing angles. They didn't even dare to be careless even in the penalty area, for fear that Valencia would throw the ball directly into the penalty area.

In the entire right side of the penalty area, there are five West Ham United defensive players, but including Valencia, there are only three offensive players.

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Bruno was blocked by the defensive player and did not struggle. Instead, he kept changing his direction and disturbing the opponent, but at the same time he was also gesturing towards Valencia.

The two have been working together on the right side for a year and have a good understanding of each other.

When it was time to throw the ball, Bruno suddenly stopped and turned around, going around from the right side of the defensive player to the front. Just at this time, Valencia's hand-thrown ball came to his feet.

<divclass="contentadv">The person responsible for marking Bruno in this game is the left back, Arthur Masuaku, a player from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He had always been cautiously close to Bruno, for fear of accidentally missing someone, but unexpectedly, Bruno quickly stepped aside.

The Portuguese was too flexible and too fast, almost like a loach. But Masuaku is not stupid. He has already played in the Premier League for West Ham United for a year. He still has the strength. He quickly chose to resist Bruno from behind. Even if he couldn't stop him from catching the ball, he still had to prevent him from turning around. .

As long as he can't turn around, Bruno can't pose a threat.

Bruno also knew the opponent's thoughts very well. He blocked Masuaku with his body, stopped the ball back to Valencia, turned around and ran away.

Masuaku had no choice but to rush towards Valencia immediately.

If he didn't guard Valencia immediately at this time, the Ecuadorian right back would definitely make a cross. With a tall center like McTominay in the penalty area, who would dare to let him cross?

Especially since McTominay is still a newcomer, West Ham United has no understanding of his playing style, and they dare not give Manchester United a chance to cross.

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Masuaku stepped forward to defend Valencia, and then there had to be players behind him to take over and defend Bruno.

The switch between the two defensive players created a gap.

After Bruno bypassed Masuaku, he quickly rushed to the bottom line, and Valencia also understood the pass to the bottom line.

When the ball arrives, the people arrive.

When Bruno stopped the ball, he rushed into the penalty area and blocked West Ham United's central defender Ogbonna with his body.

The improvement in physical fitness was reflected at this time. Although Ogbonna is also tall and powerful, he cannot take much advantage against Bruno and cannot squeeze Bruno.

Not only that, Bruno instead took advantage of Ogbonna's opportunity to squeeze him, suddenly accelerated away from him and rushed into the penalty area.

At this time, Reid, another central defender of West Ham United, quickly rushed over from the center.

Bruno dribbled the ball from the baseline into the penalty area. He kept observing the situation around him.

West Ham United goalkeeper Joe Hart is an abandoned player from Manchester City. Guardiola gave up on the England international goalkeeper. On the one hand, Joe Hart's foot skills are too rough and do not meet Guardiola's requirements. On the other hand, It is because Joe Hart often loses concentration on the court and makes some low-level mistakes, and there is also a joke about "meeting Hartmon's kick" circulating in football.

At this time, Joe Hart was almost all next to the right post, squatting and bending, with his hands almost hanging to the ground, blocking every shooting angle of Bruno, and being able to make flying saves at any time.

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In fact, when dribbling the ball from the baseline, the shooting angle is very small. Bruno's best option is to pass the ball to his teammates.

Everyone on the field thought so, but Bruno noticed a very obvious gap at that moment, which was the head of goalkeeper Joe Hart.

In order to block all shooting angles of his lower body, he lowered his hands too low and bent his waist, which exposed the gap above his head.

Bruno realized this. He almost didn't think anything about it. He didn't even prepare to dribble the ball into the small penalty area and shot directly from the outside of the small penalty area.

Before everyone at the scene could react, even goalkeeper Joe Hart himself was surprised. The football had already passed over his head at extremely fast speed and hit the side netting of the left post behind him!

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!"

"In the 18th minute, Manchester United took the lead in scoring, with a shot from Bruno from almost zero angle!"

"God, this will definitely be the most exciting goal in the Premier League this round!"

"After Bruno cooperated with Valencia on the right, he forced his way into the penalty area, shot without hesitation, and hit a surprising zero-angle shot!"

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After Bruno scored, he rushed out of the stadium in excitement, jumped over the billboard on the sidelines, rushed directly to the opposite side of the fans' stands, spread his arms and sat in a gliding position, and finally knelt down in front of the fans' stands.

More than 70,000 fans shouted Bruno's name at the top of their lungs!

"West Ham United's defense has always been pretty good, but Manchester United played more aggressively in this game. We can see that from the beginning of the game, the home team pressed hard and suppressed West Ham United. In the half, this made West Ham United very uncomfortable and made frequent mistakes in the backcourt.”

"Bruno's attack was indeed very eye-catching. It fully reflected his personal game strength. In an instant, he seized the loopholes in the opponent's defense and relied on his personal ability to score goals."

"We can also see that Bruno's condition is recovering rapidly. I believe we can see the invincible Bruno again soon!"

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