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

Chapter 529 The Invincible 2017

On the first day of 2018, Manchester United's mouthpiece "The Guardian" took stock of Manchester United and Bruno's performance in 2017 on its front page.

In 2017, Manchester United played a total of 69 official games, including 40 Premier League games, 6 Champions League games, 9 Europa League games, 6 FA Cup games, 6 League Cup games, 1 Community Shield game and 1 European Super Cup game. .

In these 69 games, Manchester United won 58 games, drew 8 games, and lost only 3 games, with a winning rate of 84%!

In these 69 games, Manchester United scored a total of 206 goals, setting an annual scoring record in team history.

58 wins, bringing 6 championship trophies to Manchester United.

而在40场英超比赛里，曼联则是取得了33胜5平2负，拿到了104个积分。

At the same time, they scored 40 goals in these 122 games, averaging 3.05 goals per game; they conceded 20 goals, averaging 0.5 goals per game.

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For Bruno personally, he represented Manchester United in 2017 games in various competitions in 60, including 38 Premier League games, 5 Champions League games, 8 Europa League games, 4 FA Cup games, and 3 league games. Cup, 1 European Super Cup and 1 Community Shield.

在这60场比赛里，布鲁诺一共打进61球，助攻39次；其中英超40球25次助攻；欧冠5球5助攻；欧联杯5球3助攻；足总杯6球5助攻；联赛杯3球1助攻，社区盾1球，欧洲超级杯1球。

In other words, Bruno scored 2017 goals for Manchester United alone in 100!

And his 40 Premier League goals also set a new record for goals in a single natural year in the Premier League.

It is worth mentioning that Bruno's teammate Harry Kane also scored 2017 Premier League goals in 39, including 21 goals with Tottenham in the first half of the year and 18 goals with Manchester United in the second half.

Of course, to take stock of Bruno's personal performance, we must also add his national team data.

2017年，布鲁诺代表葡萄牙国家队出战了10场比赛，包括4场联合会杯和6场世界杯预选赛。布鲁诺一共打进16球助攻8次。

In other words, Bruno played a total of 2017 official games in 70 and scored 77 goals and 47 assists. He directly made 124 goals, once again breaking the record of 2016 goals he set in 122.

"The Guardian" stated that Bruno was invincible in 2017. It was the biggest mistake of FIFA and "France Football" not to award Bruno the 2017 World Footballer and European Golden Globe Award.

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In response to Bruno's outstanding performance on the offensive end, the "Guardian" published a cartoon.

In the comic, Bruno, transformed into a cute cartoon image, makes a bet with his defensive opponent.

Due to the large range of activities, and the fact that Manchester United organized and operated the offense around Bruno, Bruno moved left and right, causing all the defenders who defended him to suffer.

"Guess, this time I'm going to kick to the left? Or to the right?" Bruno in the cartoon smiled very harmlessly.

"If you guess right, you'll get a prize. If you guess wrong, it doesn't matter."

The muscular and fierce-looking defensive player in the cartoon guessed wrong. He watched Bruno score the goal, but he burst into tears and regretted it.

But in fact, in reality, even if you guess correctly, you will still cry.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOALLL!!!!!"

"Oh God, my God!"

"Bruno! Bruno again!"

"Only three minutes into the game, Bruno quickly took the ball from the left and cut in, then hit the goal with his right foot, giving Manchester United the first chance to score Everton's goal!"

"In just three minutes, Manchester United scored and took the lead at Goodison Park. Everton's defenders simply couldn't stop Bruno!"

"They say a new year brings a new beginning. Bruno looked very excited tonight and he looked very active."

"This is Bruno's 30th goal in the Premier League this season, with an assist from Gundogan!"

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2018年1月1日，格林尼治时间17点30分，2017-2018赛季英超第22轮，曼联作客古迪逊公园球场挑战太妃糖埃弗顿。

Just three minutes into the game, Bruno scored a goal for Manchester United, which showed Bruno's extremely excellent competitive state.

Head coach Mourinho on the sidelines was even more excited to dance. He has really discovered now that as long as Bruno is in good condition and plays smoothly, Manchester United will be unfavorable.

And the facts also confirm his view. After Bruno opened the scoring, Manchester United turned away and continued to attack aggressively.

Everton organized a tight defense, but it only lasted fifteen minutes.

In the 18th minute, Bruno passed back to Cancelo from the right, and the Portuguese right back moved in a wide range. Luke Shaw assisted Harry Kane to score the second goal of the game.

Manchester United expanded the score 2:0.

Everton conceded two goals in a row, and the team's morale suffered a severe blow.

Sixteen minutes later, this time it was Mbappe himself, with an assist from Harry Kane, and the French international scored in the penalty area, further expanding Manchester United's score.

3: 0!

With a three-goal lead in the first half, Manchester United's morale was high.

<divclass="contentadv">During the halftime break, head coach Mourinho was full of praise for the team’s performance and repeatedly encouraged the players to keep up their efforts and strive to win a big game on the first day of the new year. win.

The term "good start" is not only used by Chinese people, but also by Westerners, but they don't call it "good start".

In the second half, the game changed sides and Everton's defense once again only lasted fourteen minutes.

In the 59th minute, Kanter picked up the ball at the front of the penalty area and passed the ball behind him. Bruno inserted his chest to stop the ball, turned around and volleyed with his left foot and hit the goal, giving Manchester United another victory and scoring twice.

4: 0!

After a devastating defeat, Everton has been completely defeated!

After taking a four-goal lead, Manchester United slowed down their attack and strengthened their possession of the ball. And Everton had no intention of taking the opportunity to counterattack. They had chosen to give up the game.

Mourinho replaced Bruno with Mata in the 70th minute.

As time enters 2018, Manchester United's schedule is still intensive.

After all, the Premier League team is about to usher in the FA Cup competition, and coupled with the Champions League knockout rounds that are about to start in February, Manchester United will usher in a four-front battle.

Under such circumstances, it is very critical to seize every opportunity to rest core players like Bruno.

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2018年的第一场英超联赛，big6的其他几支球队也都有着不错的表现，利物浦客场2:1力克伯恩利，热刺客场2:0斯旺西，曼城则是在主场3:1击败了沃特福德。只有本轮直接交手的阿森纳和切尔西，在酋长球场2:2握手言和。

The Premier League, which has many powerful players, has dialogues between powerful players that other leagues do not have.

After all, every big6 team has to play two rounds with the other five teams every season, which is 10 games. The six teams will have 6 strong dialogues in a season, and there will be a strong dialogue in almost every round.

This is also the reason why the Premier League is so beautiful and attracts so much attention. After all, in every round of the game, there are strong dialogues that fans like to see.

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A four-goal win in the league and Manchester United's morale is high.

At 1 o'clock in the evening on January 5, Manchester United ushered in the third round of the FA Cup and faced Derby County at home.

Derby County is currently the second-ranked team in the English Championship, and its strength is not weak. But compared with Manchester United, the gap is still a bit big.

Especially because Manchester United will face Manchester City in the first leg of the League Cup semi-finals in four days, so Mourinho made a substantial rotation of Manchester United's lineup in this game.

However, in order to ensure victory in the first home game of the new season, Mourinho did not arrange for Bruno to rest.

In the first ten minutes, Bruno received a pass from Valencia on the right and broke through Derby County's goal, opening the scoring for Manchester United.

This is also Bruno's first goal in the FA Cup this season.

In the 2th minute of the first half, Mata assisted Ibrahimovic to score, expanding the score to 0:.

After changing sides in the second half, Bruno was still very active on the right.

In the 60th minute, McTominay replaced Ibrahimovic and became the team's center.

Bruno and all his teammates worked hard to create chances for him as the Scot was desperate to score a goal.

Finally, in the 2018th minute, Bruno planned, Gundogan assisted, and McTominay scored the first goal in .

The Scottish teenager was so excited that he knelt down on the sidelines during celebration and refused to get up for a long time.

Subsequently, Manchester United never scored again. The score of 3:0 was maintained until the end of the game.

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In the third round of the FA Cup, the opponents of the Premier League teams were not too strong, especially the big6 teams, so they all won and advanced to the next round.

Liverpool is considered the unluckiest of the big6 teams. Their opponent is their city rival Everton. After a fierce Merseyside derby, Liverpool defeated Everton 2:1 and entered the fourth round of the FA Cup.

Manchester City's opponent is also a Premier League team, the Red Wine Legion Burnley. However, they did not cause too much trouble to Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium, and were easily defeated by Blue Moon with a score of 4:1.

Chelsea almost overturned. In the match against the British Championship team Norwich, they had a goalless draw with the Canaries 0:0 away from home and will have a rematch.

Tottenham beat AFC Wimbledon 3-0 at home.

Arsenal became the only team in the big6 to overturn. In this event, nicknamed the "Thermos Cup" by some fans, the Gunners actually lost 2:4 away from home against Nottingham Forest, who were in the middle of the British Championship. Come.

Bruno was also a little emotional. Arsenal even lost the "Thermos Cup" so early. No wonder Wenger will be dismissed after the end of this season.

After all, with Arsenal's strength, it is undoubtedly a dream to go all the way in the league or the Europa League.

As for the Europa League semi-finals, they may not be able to escape from Chelsea.