Chapter 493 Harry Kane

Chapter 493 Harry Kane

Harry Kane helped Manchester United expand their lead to five goals, and England's top player 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.

With a big lead, it is normal to let substitute players, especially young players, get more playing time and increase monster experience.

The continuous substitutions did affect Manchester United's offense. However, under such circumstances, Manchester United did not stop scoring goals.

In the injury time of the game, Mata sent an over-the-top pass, and McTominay successfully countered the offside, broke into the penalty area, and made a beautiful volley, locking the score at 6:0.

In the end, Manchester United defeated Everton 6:0 in this game, which was also the third consecutive game in which Manchester United won more than 6 goals over their opponents.

What's more terrifying is that Manchester United's winning streak is still continuing.

At 8 pm on September 20th, Greenwich time, the third round of the 2017-2018 English League Cup continued. At Old Trafford, the defending champion Manchester United, who played with a full substitute rotation lineup, defeated the English Championship team Burton Briton 4:0 and advanced to the round of 16. Mahrez scored 2 goals and assisted 1, while Lingard and McTominay both assisted 1 goal and assisted 1 goal.

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Three days later, on the afternoon of September 23rd, 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 been performing well. Except for the 2012-2013 season when it was ranked 14th in the league as a newly promoted team, it ranked in the top half of the standings in the next four seasons. Among them, it ranked sixth in the 2015-2016 season, and was only 3 points less than the two Manchester City giants in front of it.

Last season, under the leadership of French coach Pierre, Southampton ranked eighth last season, with a record of 12 wins, 10 draws and 16 losses, 46 points, 41 goals scored and 48 goals conceded, which can be said to be quite good.

Compared with 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, which is rare among mid-level Premier League teams.

Although he will go to Spain to challenge Atletico Madrid in the middle of the week, Mourinho still sent his best players in this game, and the goal is naturally to get all 3 points.

Although Manchester United has won consecutive big games in the Premier League, they have not opened up the gap with the teams behind them in the standings. After Guardiola's Manchester City continued to strengthen in the summer, they also performed very strongly in the Premier League, with 4 wins and 1 draw in the first 5 rounds, scoring 16 goals and conceding 2 goals, and chasing Manchester United closely.

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

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In the new season, Southampton changed its head coach again, and Argentine Mauricio Pellegrino took over St. Mary's Stadium.

Pellegrino's team did not perform well on both offense and defense, but there were no major mistakes. They scored 4 goals and lost 4 goals, which shows that their offense is relatively weak, but their defense is still good.

After the game started, Southampton played relatively conservatively on the field. Obviously, they were also very afraid of Manchester United's strong offensive power.

However, as the home team, they could not 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 headed the ball back, Tadic was about to chase up to get the ball, and the football was poked by Kante first.

After the football was kicked away, the one who got the ball was Bertrand, the Southampton left back who came up from the wing to assist. He intended to cross 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 at the field nervously.

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

After Phil Jones intercepted the ball, he looked up and looked ahead. He did not choose to carry the ball himself, but passed the ball forward directly.

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The one who received the ball was Bruno who retreated. He pulled the ball and turned around, looking up and looking forward.

If there is a bird's-eye view from the air, you can see that Bruno took the ball and two Southampton players were approaching him. In front, Rashford was running wildly on the left, Mbappe was also sprinting on the right, and Harry Kane was also running in the middle, but his speed seemed to be slower than Rashford and Mbappe.

Bertrand desperately returned to defense. This player once won the Champions League with Chelsea in the 2011-2012 season, and played in the Champions League final as a starter.

Although he didn't have many opportunities to play when he played for Chelsea, he had won the Champions League and the Europa League, so he had seen big scenes.

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

Since he can play as a winger, he has a trait, that is, fast speed.

Just when Bertrand was about to catch up with Bruno, Bruno stopped and turned suddenly, 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 core 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 Yoshida Maya 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.