From the man behind the football king to the football king

Chapter 493 Harry Kane

Harry Kane helped Manchester United extend their advantage to five goals, and England's top scorer also scored twice.

With a 5:0 lead, Mourinho began to deploy his troops.

McTominay replaced Harry Kane, Mata replaced Bruno and Herrera replaced Kante.

When leading by a big score, it is also a normal operation to allow substitute players, especially young players, to get more playing time and increase experience in spawning monsters.

With the continuous substitutions, Manchester United's offense has indeed been affected. However, under such circumstances, Manchester United still did not stop scoring goals.

In the injury time of the game, Mata sent an overhead pass. After successfully countering offside, McTominay entered the penalty area and succeeded with a beautiful volley, locking the score at 6:0.

In the end, Manchester United defeated Everton 6:0 in this game. This was also Manchester United's third consecutive game with a margin of victory of more than 6 goals.

What’s even more frightening is that Manchester United’s winning streak continues.

At 8pm GMT on September 20, the third round of the 2017-2018 English League Cup continues. At Old Trafford, the defending champion Manchester United, with a full substitute lineup, defeated the British Championship team Burton Britain 4-0 and advanced to the last 16. Mahrez had 2 shots and 1 pass, Lingard and McTominay both had 1 pass and 1 shot.

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Three days later, on the afternoon of September 23, in the sixth round of the Premier League, Manchester United visited St. Mary's Stadium to challenge the Saints Southampton.

Since returning to the Premier League in the summer of 2012, Southampton has performed well. Except for ranking 14th in the league in the 2012-2013 season as a newly promoted team, Southampton has ranked in the top half of the standings in the following four seasons. Among them, the 2015-2016 season ranked sixth, and was only 3 points less than the Manchester City duo in front of them.

Last season, under the leadership of French coach Pierre, the Saints ranked eighth in Southampton last season. The record was 12 wins, 10 draws and 16 losses, with 46 points, scoring 41 goals and conceding 48 goals. The performance can be said to be quite good. Not bad.

Compared with several other teams with similar rankings, Southampton's home and away results are relatively balanced, with 6 wins, 6 draws and 7 losses at home, and 6 wins, 4 draws and 9 losses away from home, which is rare among mid-tier teams in the Premier League.

Although he will travel to Spain to challenge Atletico Madrid in the middle of the week, Mourinho still used his best players in this game, with the goal of getting all 3 points.

Although Manchester United has won consecutive victories in the Premier League, they have not opened up a gap with the teams behind them in the standings. After Guardiola's Manchester City continued to strengthen in the summer, it also performed very strongly in the Premier League. In the first five rounds, it had 4 wins and 1 draw, scoring 16 goals and conceding 2 goals, and was closely chasing Manchester United.

Under such circumstances, Mourinho naturally does not want to slow down his progress in the league and give his rivals in the same city a chance to overtake.

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In the new season, Southampton has changed its head coach again, with Argentinian Mauricio Pellegrino taking charge at St. Mary's Stadium.

Pellegrino's team didn't perform very well on both offense and defense, but they didn't make too many mistakes either. They scored 4 goals and conceded 4 goals, which shows that their offense is relatively weak, but their defense is pretty good.

After the game started, Southampton played relatively conservatively on the court. Obviously, they were also very afraid of Manchester United's powerful attack power.

However, as the home team, they cannot defend their own half and not attack at all.

In the 20th minute of the game, this was an attack by Southampton.

Romeu passed the ball forward, Sean Long's header went back, Tadic was about to catch up and get the ball, but Kanter poked the ball first.

After the football was kicked away, Southampton left-back Bertrand, who came up with an assist from the wing, got the ball. He intended to pass the ball, but was entangled by Valencia and could not get away for a while.

Then Phil Jones rushed up and joined forces with Valencia to intercept the ball from Bertrand's feet.

Mourinho's butt immediately left his seat. He strode to the sidelines and stared nervously at the court.

This is Manchester United's counterattack opportunity, and it is also a good opportunity that Manchester United has been waiting for for twenty minutes!

After Phil Jones stole the ball, he looked up and looked in front. He did not choose to dribble the ball himself, but passed the football directly forward.

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Bruno, who was retreating, caught the ball. He pulled the ball and turned around, looking up to the front.

If you have an overhead perspective from the air, you can see that Bruno takes the ball and two Southampton players are approaching him. In front, Rashford is running wildly on the left, Mbappe is also sprinting on the right, and Harry Kane is also running in the center, but his speed looks faster than Rashford and Mbappe. Slower.

Bertrand fought back desperately. This player once won the UEFA Champions League with Chelsea in the 2011-2012 season, and still played in the Champions League final as a starting player.

Although he didn't have many playing opportunities while playing for Chelsea, he has seen big scenes as he has won the Champions League and Europa League.

Interestingly, at Southampton, Bertrand was a left-back, while at Chelsea, he was used as a left-winger.

Since he can play as a winger, he has one characteristic, and that is his speed.

Just when Bertrand was about to catch up with Bruno, Bruno suddenly stopped and turned around, just avoiding Bertrand.

Then before Bertrand counterattacked, Bruno passed the football to Gundogan in the middle.

Then, Bruno made a lateral move.

At the same time, Rashford on the left was also moving towards the center, but he did not slow down.

Mbappe ran diagonally.

In front, Harry Kane is already almost parallel to the last Southampton defender. Ma Yoshida, who was guarding him, moved forward, trying to put Harry Kane in an offside position.

Manchester United already had five players in Southampton's half.

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"Return to defense!" Southampton's captain and midfielder Steven Davis shouted to his teammates to quickly return to defense.

"This is Manchester United's counterattack!" Lineker shouted. "The teams coached by Mourinho have always been very good at counterattacks, whether it was Chelsea in the first period, Inter Milan, or even Real Madrid and Chelsea in the subsequent period. , Mourinho’s team’s quick counterattacks are terrifying, and this Manchester United is no exception!”

"Now, Manchester United's counterattack is coming!"

After Gundogan received the ball, Lemina was the first to press forward. He was already ready for a tactical foul. However, Gundogan obviously knew what the opponent player was thinking. He did not confront Lemina head-on. He passed the football forward and Bruno got the ball.

Bruno did not stop the ball and directly distributed the football to the wing. The football rolled forward, giving Rashford the opportunity to take advantage of his speed.

After catching up with the football, Rashford took the ball from the center to the wing and ran wildly with the ball along the wing!

Rashford dribbled the ball along the wing at high speed, which forced Southampton's incomplete defense to start moving closer to the right.

Rashford passed the football across to Bruno who was approaching. At the same time, Gundogan and Rashford pounced on the left rib, which forced Southampton's defense to close to the right again.

At this moment of opportunity, Bruno passed the ball.

The football was passed before Southampton's defense was completed. A long diagonal pass, the football rolled to the right.

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Southampton's defenders moved closer to their right ribs, which made their left wing relatively empty, especially on the left wing, which was a large open space.

When Bruno passed the ball, Mbappe had already moved over and he received the football.

"Mbappe is completely unguarded! Southampton is ripped off!!!" Andy Gray shouted.

Holt quickly dropped Gundogan and ran to the wing to defend Mbappe, while Yoshida Ma could only fill in to defend Gundogan.

In this case, Harry Kane's side was immediately empty, so Mbappe dunked the ball and passed it out.

Harry Kane received the ball and drove the ball directly into the penalty area.

“Nice coordination!”

"Breakthrough!"

Seeing Harry Kane break through, there was chaos in front of Southampton's goal.

Gundogan and Maya Yoshida were fighting each other, and they squeezed in front of the door desperately, preparing to grab some points.

Another Southampton defender, Cedric, rushed towards Harry Kane desperately. The other Southampton defenders also rushed towards Harry Kane, intending to stop him before he could pass or shoot. He used his body to block the ball from the baseline.

Harry Kane did not choose to shoot, he swept the football directly into the center.

"F**K!"

Mourinho cursed, saying that the quality of Harry Kane's passing was a bit poor. His feet seemed to be mixed up when passing the ball, and he just swept the football away slightly.

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Cedric rushed forward, about to destroy the football, but suddenly found a figure rushing forward, and shot directly before him.

He could tell from the opponent's figure that it was his national team teammate Bruno.

"Bruno!"

Bruno is like a desperate man. He doesn't care about the angle of his shot. It's good to be able to hit the football anyway.

The football suddenly jumped up, and Southampton goalkeeper Foster subconsciously stretched his legs to block it and blocked the ball.

This caused chaos in front of Southampton's goal. Just when Bertrand was about to make a clearance, someone was faster than him. He rushed up and drove the ball into the empty goal.

Southampton goalkeeper Forster is still lying on the ground and hasn't gotten up yet.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOALLL!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Manchester United broke the deadlock! Harry Kane! He scored in front of the goal! This is his 6th league goal since joining Manchester United!"

"1:0! Manchester United scored, Harry Kane's clever follow-up shot succeeded."

After scoring the goal, Harry Kane was very excited. He turned around and ran towards Mbappe, who had passed the ball for him before. The two hugged each other tightly.