Chapter 650 Don't Give Him a Chance!

Pellegrini saw the dilemma faced by Yarmolenko below. Yarmolenko is the sharp knife in the team's offense. If he is entangled by Bruno, West Ham United's offense will be paralyzed in half.

The head coach of West Ham United thought about it and made corresponding adjustments. He brought Yarmolenko to the front line, and West Ham United changed to 433.

Bruno has no choice now. He can't change his position to a defender in order to defend Yarmolenko, right?

It's not that he can't play as a central defender, but if he retreats to play as a defender, who will organize the offense?

Of course there is no problem with his physical fitness, it is enough to support him from running from this penalty area to that penalty area, but how to calculate the time lost?

Delaying a fighter jet is a serious mistake in war, and the same is true in football.

Do we need everyone to stop the ball in front and then wait for him to run up from the backcourt before attacking? This is obviously not possible.

Seeing Yarmolenko hiding between Luke Shaw and Van Dijk, Bruno was helpless.

Now it seems that there is only one way to solve the problem, and that is to attack and score goals.

Give Manchester United a sense of security with more goals!

Having made up his mind, Bruno turned forward and tried to find a way to organize an attack.

He wants to rewrite the score before West Ham United scores a goal.

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West Ham United completed another attack. This time Yarmolenko received a pass from Anderson in the penalty area and got an excellent opportunity. Unfortunately, Yarmolenko did not expect that football would be so easy from three defenders and An Anautovic passed in front of him, but no one touched the ball, allowing him to take advantage.

Unprepared mentally and with his feet, Yarmolenko was a little slow to stretch his feet and his center of gravity was unstable. He almost had an empty goal opportunity and let him shoot straight away.

"Ah! This is an opportunity that is even more difficult to miss than to score! Yarmolenko actually missed the shot!" the commentator supporting West Ham United said with great regret.

The commentator who supported Manchester United breathed a sigh of relief and said with lingering fear: "It's so dangerous... It's so dangerous... Manchester United almost fell behind! We can't let West Ham United score! West Ham United's offensive is very strong during this period. , If I were Mourinho, I would let the team defend solidly..."

If it was the former Mourinho, he would definitely make such a decision. After all, the reputation of Mourinho lies there. This is not only because Mourinho's team is good at defense, but also because when the team falls into a passive situation, the first thing Mourinho thinks of is defense.

But after taking charge of Manchester United, Mourinho gradually made many changes, and even became completely different from the Mourinho in people's impressions.

For example, this time, Mourinho's decision was to attack!

Attack versus attack, it all depends on who scores first!

This is a very bold approach, but it is also the one most commonly used by Manchester United.

What they are most confident about is their offense.

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Noble saw Bruno and mentally considered whether he should continue to follow the new World Footballer.

Coach Pellegrini gave instructions to Yarmolenko but said nothing to him.

What was he going to do? Continue to follow Bruno? But Bruno obviously has no role. He is more like a bystander in this game, an unimportant supporting role.

As if to prompt him to make up his mind, Mgundogan stepped forward, received passes from his teammates many times, and moved in the area between the back line and the forward line.

Bruno directed his teammates to pass the football to Gundogan, while he stood aside and watched, at most he acted as a wall for Gundogan.

Gundogan has also played as an attacking midfielder and has some ability in passing threatening balls.

Bruno was stared at by his opponents, and Manchester United also had Gundogan, but it was really not possible. There was also a full-time attacking midfielder Mata sitting on the bench. Mourinho is not afraid.

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After Gundogan passed a one-on-one ball to Harry Kane, Noble decisively dropped Bruno, who seemed to be doing nothing, and pounced on Gundogan.

Gundogan did not expect Noble's sudden return and lost the ball. West Ham United took this opportunity to launch a counterattack.

Of course, before the football could reach Yarmolenko's feet, it was interrupted by Kanter.

Kanter, who intercepted the ball, did not pass the ball to Bruno, but to Luke Shaw who was moving on the wing. Luke Shaw then passed the ball to Gundogan.

Gundogan moved from the defensive midfielder position to the forward line to support him, and it seemed that he really wanted to change his posture to play as an attacking midfielder.

Noble followed up to defend Gundogan, and Bruno was unmarked for a while.

Gundogan stopped the ball and attracted the defensive attention of West Ham United players. He did not pass the ball forward, even though Harry Kane was raising his hand for the ball, nor did he pass the ball to Luke Shaw who had already advanced and Rashford on the other side.

Surrounded by Noble and Obiang, he suddenly knocked the football behind him with his heel!

Bruno received the ball from Gundogan while running forward. This time he did not simply act as a transfer station. After receiving the ball, he first made a gesture of taking a long shot, deceiving the West Ham United defender. They shifted their defensive focus to the middle, and then suddenly flicked their ankle and passed the football from the ribs into the West Ham United penalty area!

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"Coming, coming! Bruno's direct pass!" the commentator supporting Manchester United shouted excitedly, because he had seen that at the moment Bruno passed the direct pass, Manchester United's right winger Rashford suddenly changed to cut inside. He caught the ball!

Rashford received the ball unmarked and took a powerful shot!

Fabianski reacted quickly, quickly returned to defense, and then jumped up to save the football with one palm.

This was originally a wonderful save, but after the football was saved, it did not pop out of the baseline, nor did it fall at the feet of the West Ham United players. Instead, it flew towards Rashford by mistake.

Rashford was upset when he saw such a good opportunity and didn't even score a goal when he saw the football flying back.

Fabianski, who fell to the ground, also reacted quickly. When he saw the football flying towards Rashford, he quickly struggled to get up from the ground.

At the same time, Rashford also started swinging his feet again!

This could be another shot.

No!

Rashford swept the football sideways into the middle with his right foot!

The ball passed between Fabianski and West Ham United centre-back Diop, and Harry Kane, who came from behind and was unmarked, gave the ball a gentle push...

“The ball went in——!!”

"Oh! Oh! The ball is in! The ball is in!"

"GOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLL!!!!! This is Manchester United's second goal of the game!"

"Who is the biggest contributor? Bruno! It was his sudden direct pass that gave Rashford such an opportunity... West Ham United's defense against Bruno was very strict throughout the game, but it was at this time that they relaxed... …”

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Harry Kane, who scored the goal, ran towards Rashford who passed the ball to him. The two went to Bruno and then hugged a group of teammates.

Manchester United's players began to celebrate the team's lead, but West Ham United coach Pellegrini was very angry. He yelled and lost his temper on the field.

The person who made him unhappy was Noble. He did not give instructions for Noble to mark Gundogan, but the West Ham United captain made the decision without authorization. As a result, Bruno was left unmarked.

Isn't it asking for trouble to leave the new World Footballer unmarked?

Pellegrini knew this very well, so he did not let Noble defend others, but he did not explain the matter clearly to Noble, allowing Noble to have his own ideas...

"Don't give him a chance!" Pellegrini complained, spreading his hands towards Noble.

Faced with the scolding from the head coach, Noble could only lower his head and remain silent.

He couldn't refute anything. The problem did arise for him. If he continued to follow Bruno closely, Gundogan would always have someone to defend him, or the head coach would definitely be able to make corresponding adjustments to prevent Gundogan from being in a long-term position. Without defense...

These things were not something he should have to worry about.

Well now, they got their comeuppance.

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Harry Kane's goal gave Manchester United the lead, but it didn't put West Ham in disarray because it was not a big blow.

As long as they score another goal and tie the score at 2:2, it is an acceptable result.

Although it cannot end Manchester United's unbeaten record, West Ham United does not have to win against Manchester United.

Of course, they stepped up their offensive, but they did not go all-out to attack. The defense still paid attention to marking several key figures of Manchester United.

Noble no longer cares about Gundogan, but still follows Bruno every step of the way to prevent him from passing threatening balls.

Bruno found that he was in trouble again if he wanted to continue organizing the offense. Although he knew that the current score of Manchester United was still not safe, there was nothing he could do.

Now that they have just lost the ball, West Ham United's counterattack is very fierce, so it is better to avoid its edge.

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In the following time, Manchester United began to shrink its formation and engage in defensive counterattacks.

Mourinho decided to completely defend for at least five minutes. If he defends these five minutes, West Ham United's morale will fall back. At that time, Manchester United will attack West Ham United again.

In the last ten minutes of the game, if the score remains unchanged at 2:1, West Ham United will inevitably become impatient and start attacking aggressively, because they can equalize the score with just one goal.

Ten minutes would be a good amount of time for them. If the time is too long, the chance of being attacked by the opponent will be greatly increased. If the time is too short, they will not be able to do it themselves.

Ten minutes is very reasonable. In this way, when they press hard, Manchester United will recover appropriately, and then start to use the speed of the two wings to counterattack. As long as the sneak attack is successful and another goal is scored, the game will be won.

Of course, if West Ham United is satisfied with the current score, then Manchester United can happily spend the last time and maintain the 2:1 score until the end of the game.