Chapter 808: 12 Consecutive Victories (Part 1)

November 29th.

At the Carrington base, the players are packing up in the locker room and preparing to go to Old Trafford. Today is the 13th round of the Premier League. Manchester United will play against Hull City at home.

The outside media are praising Manchester United... This season they are the only team in the five major leagues to remain unbeaten in the league, and they have won 12 consecutive victories.

Now the Premier League's longest winning streak and unbeaten record are maintained by Arsenal, 14 consecutive victories, and now Manchester United is 2 games away, and the next three opponents are Hull City, Stoke City and Southampton .

This means that Manchester United is likely to break Arsenal's winning streak, and the Premier League media is excited. For this reason, Pochettino asked the players to go to the Carrington base today instead of going directly to Old Trafford.

"Are you sure?" Sun Wu, who was queuing up to get on the bus, poked Giggs next to him, "Who?"

Giggs whispered, "The one next door."

Savage? Sun Wu tilted his head and thought for a while, this Montenegrin defender might not be willing to come, and at the age of 24, he is in his prime. He is in good competitive form and has experience at the same time, so his value will definitely not be low.

And Florence is not a fuel-efficient lamp. They sold Cuadrado to Chelsea at a high price of 2,650 pounds. The poor Colombian winger was named the biggest parallel import of Premier League transfers this season...

Sun Wu is not very optimistic about Pochettino's decision. He thinks that Savage may not be willing to come, and even if he does, the cost performance is not high... However, Sun Wu is not going to refute. This kind of tacit understanding is as close as it is far away.

Regardless of whether it is for the team's record or for personal image considerations, Sun Wu will not pierce this layer of window paper.

The bus arrived at Old Trafford and moved forward slowly surrounded by fans. Although the players would not open the windows, they smiled and waved out frequently.

A few days ago, with Lukaku's brace, Manchester United beat Chrissburn Athletic 2-1 at home, which allowed Manchester United to remain unbeaten in the Champions League and the league... League Cup? Don't even give us that thing!

However, there are also bad remarks. Many Manchester United fans and even famous people believe that red ghosts like Lingard, Rashford, McNair, and Januzaj should get more opportunities to play. Keane's story repeats itself.

After getting out of the car to change clothes to warm up, and then returned to the locker room to prepare to play, Sun Wu keenly found that Pochettino was a little excited today... 13 consecutive victories are beckoning him, which is an amazing record.

In La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga,

A 13-game winning streak is not easy, but it is not too difficult. Inter Milan has swept Serie A for several years, Barcelona is the Cosmos team, and Bayern is the only one after Sun Wu left.

But in the Premier League, it is really difficult to win 13 consecutive victories. Four or five teams can reach the Champions League knockout rounds under normal circumstances, and even the finals are not surprising. Here, 13 consecutive victories are almost impossible. .

In fact, Wenger's 13-game winning streak was completed before Mourinho came to the Premier League.

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"It's a bit dull." Mortensen yawned, "Obviously, when Best is restricted to the midfield, Manchester United's offense will not stagnate, but it is difficult to play a tacit and wonderful cooperation, and Rizmann hasn't started yet."

It's been nearly twenty minutes and the score is still 0-0.

At the beginning of the game, Sun Wu's cold shot from 30 meters tested the opponent's goalkeeper, and then he sent a wonderful pass, but Mane and Lukaku grabbed a point and handed over the ball to each other, and finally Dawson rescue.

Afterwards, Hull City began to retreat and defend across the board, and set up a bus within the 30-meter area. Once Sun Wu entered the 30-meter range, Livermore, the guy who was once kicked out by Sun Wu from Tottenham, stuck to Sun Wu. Wu...Obviously, this is a hint given by Wenger.

"Best picked a pass from the left, Ashley Young went in, an inverted triangle..."

"Unfortunately, Lukaku and Thomas Muller are both in the back point, Mane is in the front point, and no one is responding near the penalty point!"

Pochettino is not too worried about this, because he saw that after Sun Wu retreated in an obvious position, he gave more points and lateral passes to the wings. There were almost no oblique plugs and direct passes. Lingard was tentatively advancing. running position.

In this week's training, Sun Wu has been working on this tactic with his teammates. His own position is slightly retreated, and his partner advances to attract attention, but who has the trump card is determined according to the actual situation.

In fact, Pochettino has always believed that in terms of talent, Sun Wu performed best in the position of central midfielder.

Last season, the French "L'Equipe" once counted a statistic, the data of the last pass before the assist, Sun Wu is far ahead in the five major leagues, which means that Sun Wu is looking for the gap in the opponent's defense.

"L'Equipe" describes this stat like this. Converted into basketball, this is a top rebounding stat. Although it cannot create a second offensive opportunity, it allows teammates to easily and smoothly get the chance to threaten the goal.

Sun Wu glanced at Hull City coach Steve Bruce on the sidelines, another Manchester United coach, a famous Manchester United player, and the captain of Manchester United back then.

Bruce yelled on the sidelines to make the midfielder Livermore pay attention to Sun Wu, but Sun Wu, who always kept a safe distance, calmly organized the attack, and kept running and distributing the ball to make Manchester United's midfield run smoothly.

The problem now is that the tacit understanding between the starters Mane, Lukaku and other teammates is not enough, and several passes and runs have not been connected, which makes Manchester United's frontcourt attack seem to have a lot of mistakes.

In the 32nd minute, Lukaku in the middle took the ball back. Lingard tried to develop to the left but was intercepted. Schneiderlin successfully grabbed the ball and passed the ball back to Sun Wu.

At this time, Hull City's backcourt was a bit chaotic. Lukaku brought the opponent's central defender out, and he also took the position. Valencia on the right.

Through the "God's perspective", Sun Wu can see very clearly that Livermore is not far from him and is always on guard against advancing forward, while at the far end of the diagonal, a small man is quietly walking forward.

"Antonio!"

Sun Wu called out, and Valencia, who was hesitating whether to pass back or break forward, immediately sent a cross.

Livermore sensed the danger, he took two steps forward, looked nervously at the opponent in front of him but didn't dare to make a move first... This Chinese player's fake move is a must.

But Sun Wu didn't make any fake moves. He stepped on the lawn with his left foot firmly to keep his center of gravity while leaning himself, then raised his left arm along the trend, and kicked the ball violently with his waving right foot!

Direct long pass?

Bruce curled his lips, Hull City is not afraid of a long pass... Although Sun Wu's posture is a bit like Beckham back then.

But the next moment, Bruce's face was ashen, because the sharp whistle sounded, the referee's hand first pointed to the penalty spot, and then stretched to the trouser pocket behind his buttocks!