Chapter 1008, Conte's Life-Saving Straw

Between the two Champions League games, Manchester United played a total of three games. These three games are a league game, an FA Cup and a League Cup.

In the twenty-eighth round of the Premier League, Manchester United ushered in the underdog West Brom. They scored a 3-0 score very easily in this game and continued to lead far in the standings.

In this game, Manchester United's substitute players ushered in an explosion, especially Sane and Ali. The two assisted each other and arranged three goals in the game. Ali, who scored twice, became the best player in this game.

In the England national team recently, Southgate has paid more and more attention to Ali in the warm-up match. Now the offensive combination of Sterling, Harry Kane and Ali has become Southgate's absolute killer.

In the midfield position, Lingard also got a lot of opportunities. Also because of his outstanding performance at the club, Lingard was also placed high hopes by Southgate.

During this period, Manchester United also played an FA Cup game. It's an FA Cup quarter-final match, Manchester United vs Chelsea.

At present, Chelsea is still swaying between eighth and tenth in the league. Conte has encountered great trouble this season. The Blues have been in trouble this season, with ups and downs in performance and has been unstable. If they continue to sink like this, then at the end of this season, their results are very likely to be a mess.

But now Conte seems to be breaking the can, and now they are performing very well in the Champions League and the FA Cup. The FA Cup has reached the quarter-finals, and the Champions League has also entered the knockout round. In the quarter-finals, Chelsea defeated Sevilla 3-0 at home in the first leg, and they have stepped into the quarter-finals of the Champions League with one foot.

Now Conte wants to understand that if he wants to recover the league points, it is almost impossible. Not to mention Manchester United at the top of the list, even Liverpool and Tottenham behind Manchester United, and Arsenal who are gradually getting back on track, it is impossible for Chelsea to even catch up with them. Now only Manchester City and Chelsea share the same disease, and the two teams are mixed in the middle of the league.

Therefore, the Champions League and the FA Cup have become Conte's life-saving straw this season.

In this context, in this FA Cup quarter-final against Manchester United, Chelsea can be considered full of energy. Conte played his best cards and they are ready to fight Manchester United.

From the first minute of the game, Chelsea surrounded Manchester United's penalty area and bombarded them indiscriminately, making Manchester United exhausted for a while, and there were almost no good offensive opportunities.

In this game, Manchester United still adopted a rotation tactic. Although Kintag knew that Chelsea was difficult to deal with, he had no choice, because there were two more important games waiting for them, so they had to play a certain role in this game. Amplitude rotation.

However, in the first half, although Chelsea's offense was very fierce and Manchester United's defense seemed a bit embarrassed, they still successfully resisted Chelsea's offense.

In this game, Romero made consecutive wonderful saves, and the strength of Argentina's national goal is beyond doubt.

And because of Bailey's injury, the Red Devils' new England defense rotation partners-Maguire and Jones, both of them performed very well. Maguire's card position, Jones's attack, the two of them even have the taste of Ferdinand and Campbell when they were in the national team.

Neither team scored a goal in the first half. Players from both sides returned to the locker room with a 0-0 score.

In the second half, Kintag replaced Martial in the middle and replaced him with the faster Mbappé.

This substitution had an immediate effect.

In the first half of the game, Manchester United still had some chances, especially in the 10 minutes before the end of the game, Manchester United got three good chances to attack the goal, but Martial was not active enough when facing the opportunities. In the 50-50 fight, Martial was all robbed of the ball by the opponent's defender, which made Jin Taige very dissatisfied!

Super talented, but not active in fighting, this is Martial's biggest problem.

During the intermission,

Jin Taige replaced him directly, and then let his little brother from the national team debut.

Mbappe had just played less than two minutes in the second half, and he got a good chance in a counterattack. Carrick's clearance ball was passed directly to the frontcourt, Mbappe inserted at high speed, Rudiger couldn't prevent him at all, and finally pulled him down in the penalty area.

penalty! Manchester United got a great chance to score!

Although the goal was scored by Mbappe, Mbappe gave the penalty to the old captain Carrick.

Since this season, Carrick has also suffered from injuries. Although there is no major problem, he is a little older after all, so at the beginning of the season, he still encountered frequent injuries.

Since entering 2018, Carrick has suddenly returned to form. He has played well in several consecutive starts, and he seems to be getting older and more demonic.

Even Kintag seriously asked him if he could postpone his retirement, but Carrick refused.

Since the little brothers gave themselves the penalty, Carrick will do his part.

When facing Courtois, Carrick, who has always been cautious, actually hit a penalty kick with a whistle, which Courtois did not expect at all.

Penalty kick into the net! 1 to 0! Manchester United lead the score!

Seeing the Manchester United players celebrating excitedly on the field, Conte on the sidelines was in a hurry!

Now that the game has progressed to the 66th minute, Chelsea attacked for an hour and failed to score, but Manchester United succeeded in a sneak attack.

Conte didn't wait any longer, he replaced two forwards in one breath, Giroud and Pedro, let them seize the last time and strive for goals.

Giroud only came to Chelsea this winter transfer period. Because Lukaku was injured in December last year, Conte bought Giroud and wanted the French to replace Lukaku.

However, Giroud did not perform well in the first few games; after Lukaku recovered from injury, he returned to the bench.

This winter, because of Lewandowski's injury, Kintag even had Giroud's idea, wanting him to come to Manchester United as a substitute to enrich his tactics, but after asking privately, Giroud directly refused.

He doesn't want to sit on the bench at Manchester United!

Giroud left Arsenal and switched to Chelsea just to get more opportunities, but he is still a substitute, which is really embarrassing.

However, in this game, Giroud showed his value as the starting center of the French team. Not long after he came off the bench, he received the ball with his back on the left side of the penalty area, and shot directly with a barb, and the ball went straight to the dead corner!

1 to 1! Chelsea equalized the score! They once again rekindled their hopes of qualifying!