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Chapter 822: Kill Chelsea first and then Arsenal

Having just defeated Chelsea at home, Manchester United had almost no rest time. Three days later, they faced Midtjylland, a giant in the Danish Super League, at home in the second round of the Champions League group stage.

For Bruno, this was a very unfamiliar opponent, because he had never met it before. But for Rashford, he had a good memory of Midtjylland.

On February 25, 2016, in the second round of the Europa League round of 32 knockout match between Manchester United and Midtjylland at home, Rashford made his first appearance for Manchester United's first team and scored two goals for the team, helping Manchester United beat Midtjylland 5:1.

For Manchester United, Midtjylland is the weakest team among the three Champions League group stage opponents, so the two rounds of games must ensure that all six points are taken.

However, since the team had just fought a fierce battle with Chelsea three days ago, and had to face Arsenal in less than four days, Mourinho had to make a large rotation of Manchester United's starting lineup. Bruno and Rashford got the chance to start, but the other nine players, including goalkeeper De Gea, were rotated. Romero guarded the goal, Dalot, Lindelof, Tuanzebe, and Brandon Williams formed the back line. In the midfield, Bruno partnered with Fred and Mata, and the front trident was Rashford, Greenwood and Mahrez.

This game became another masterpiece of Rashford. He performed a hat trick in the game and helped Manchester United slaughter the Danish team 5:0 at home. The other two goals were scored by Bruno and Greenwood respectively.

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Due to another group match in this group, Atalanta drew with Ajax at home, and Manchester United, who won two consecutive games, ranked first in the group standings.

After winning this group match, Manchester United's unbeaten record in the Champions League has been extended to 39 games!

And their winning streak has also been extended to 29 games!

The Red Devils have already been in the UEFA standings and have a clear advantage!

In the same round of group matches, the Premier League teams still appear very strong in the European arena.

In the Champions League, Manchester City beat Marseille 3:0 away, Chelsea swept Krasnodar 4:0 away, and Liverpool beat Leipzig Red Bull 2:0 at home. The four teams that played in the Champions League won all the games, and all of them were big wins and complete wins.

In the Europa League, Arsenal beat Dundalk 3:0 at home, Leicester City beat AEK Athens 2:1 away, and only Tottenham lost away, losing 0:1 to the Belgian team Antwerp.

However, 7 teams went out and achieved 6 wins and 1 loss. The Premier League teams are still the best in the five major leagues in the European arena, worthy of their status as the first league.

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Manchester United slaughtered Midtjylland with most of the substitute lineup, and all of Europe was exclaiming that the invincible Red Devils are back.

However, Manchester United still has no time to cheer and celebrate, because their next opponent is on the way.

On October 31, Manchester United will face Arsenal, the last opponent of the month. If they can win at home, the team's record in October will be very good: seven consecutive wins in all competitions!

Mourinho continued to rotate the team, and most of the starting players in the match against Chelsea returned to the starting lineup. Goalkeeper De Gea, defenders Cancelo, Maguire, Van Dijk and Luke Shaw, midfield trio Kante, Fred and Bruno, front trident Mbappe, Harry Kane and Rashford.

For Arsenal, Arteta arranged a 343 offensive formation, with Leno guarding the goal, Tierney, Gabriel and Holding partnering as three central defenders, Saka, Elneny, Thomas Partey and Bellerin forming four midfielders, and Aubameyang, Lacazette and William forming three forwards.

Due to consecutive losses to Manchester City and Leicester City in the 5th and 6th rounds of the league, Arsenal, which was previously ranked at the top of the standings, has dropped to 12th place in the standings before the start of this round, which puts Arteta under considerable pressure.

Although Arsenal's starting lineup looks 343, when the game really starts, people find that the Gunners' real lineup is 541. Arsenal is very conservative away from home, with 9 players participating in defense most of the time, leaving only one striker in front.

In the first half of the game, the two sides played very anxiously, but the scene was very dull. Although Manchester United kept trying to attack, they basically did not get a good chance to shoot in front of Arsenal's iron bucket formation.

Although Arsenal occasionally counterattacked, it was difficult to threaten Manchester United's goal because of too few personnel.

The two sides entered the halftime break with a score of 0:0.

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After the start of the second half, Manchester United stepped up their offensive. But they suffered a blow before they scored a goal.

Manchester United's midfielder Kante got the ball in the midfield, and he was tackled to the ground by Arsenal's Ghanaian player Thomas Partey.

After falling to the ground, Kante screamed in pain. Bruno ran over to check and immediately made a substitution gesture.

"F**K!" Mourinho couldn't help but swear.

Not only because of the injury of his own players, but also because the referee Marina only verbally warned Thomas Partey and did not play a card.

This caused strong dissatisfaction from Manchester United. There was a small-scale conflict between the two sides, and the referee showed yellow cards to Manchester United's young player Bellingham and Arsenal's young player Saka respectively.

Mourinho was forced to make a substitution, and he replaced Kante with Fred.

Not long after the game resumed, it was Thomas Partey again, who knocked Luke Shaw to the ground this time.

This time, the referee Marina finally warned Thomas Partey with a yellow card, but this still did not satisfy Mourinho, because Luke Shaw was injured again due to this foul.

"That guy should be sent off!" Mourinho roared on the sidelines.

"Please calm down, Mr. Mourinho." The fourth official warned him.

"Am I wrong?" Mourinho said with a bad look.

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After Ashley Young left, Manchester United was actually stretched in the left-back position. Luke Shaw is the only reliable left back. Although young player Brandon Williams is also a left back, his ability is really average and it is difficult for him to play for Manchester United, let alone take on the heavy responsibility.

Although Cancelo can play as a guest, his right back position also lacks a reliable substitute.

Fortunately, there was a plan in the usual training. Mourinho moved the right back Cancelo to the left back position and replaced another Portuguese. The young Dalot came on the bench and played as a right back.

Thomas Partey's two bad fouls ignited the anger of Manchester United's players, and the actions of both sides on the field became more and more serious.

Throughout the game, both sides were angry, and the situation of people falling down and horses on the field appeared from time to time. The referee Marina showed a total of eight yellow cards and one red card.

The red card was given to Thomas Partey. The Ghanaian was finally sent off because of the accumulation of yellow cards.

In the second half of the game, both sides scored a total of 3 goals. As for Arsenal, Aubameyang won a penalty for the Gunners, and he took the penalty himself and scored, helping Arsenal take the lead.

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But after gaining the advantage in numbers, Manchester United finally scored goals in succession. Bruno assisted Mbappe and Harry Kane twice, which also allowed Manchester United to reverse and win 2:1, winning five consecutive league victories.

And the second place was Manchester United's old rival Liverpool.

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Despite winning the game, Mourinho did not have the idea of ​​​​keeping things quiet at the press conference after the game. He strongly criticized the rough foul of Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey, and Mourinho also questioned the referee's enforcement, believing that the referee did not control the game well.

"Mr. Marina is a contradiction. He turned a blind eye to such a rough foul at first, and then saw the situation out of control and played cards crazily."

"No, no, no, I don't mean to criticize the referee. I'm just talking about a proposition, which is that if Thomas Partey is punished earlier, the game will be more harmonious."

Mourinho's rage again made the reporters on the scene excited.

This is the king of topics in the Premier League. Not only can he lead the team to achieve good results and attract the attention of the world, his topics off the court are also highly noticed, just like the former Manchester United meritorious coach Ferguson.

After the game, Mourinho's behavior of firing at the referee was exaggerated by the media.

The English Football Association quickly made a statement that it did not think there was a problem with the referee Marina's enforcement in this game.

At the same time, the English Football Association verbally warned Manchester United coach Mourinho to control his temper and not make trouble out of nothing.

Of course, the English Football Association will not only verbally warn him, but also issue him a fine of 20,000 pounds.

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Manchester United fans were not sad about the team coach being fined. They were in a good mood and celebrating happily.

After winning the game against Arsenal, Manchester United won five consecutive league games, with a record of 6 wins and 1 loss in the first seven rounds, and stood firmly at the top of the standings.

Ranking second is Manchester United's old rival Liverpool. Klopp's team achieved a record of 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in the first 7 rounds, and is closely following Manchester United by 2 points.

Only in the 7th round, the Premier League has returned to its usual situation: two traditional strong teams compete for the championship!

The fact is that since the chaotic 2015-2016 season, except for the traditional BIG teams, in the long season, due to the huge gap in strength, it is basically difficult for the rest of the teams to compete with the top giants for the league championship.

This is also the real reason why Leicester City's victory in the 2015-2016 season was called a miracle, because such a situation is difficult to see again in the Premier League!