Chapter 679 Don’t Worry

After mobilizing the morale of Manchester United players, Mourinho began to deploy tactics and details for the second half of the game.

At the beginning of the second half, Mourinho even replaced two people. He replaced McTominay and Mata, who performed relatively average today, with Bruno and Harry Kane.

In today's game, Mourinho made some rotations. Mbappe, McTominay and Mahrez were on the front line, and Harry Kane and Rashford were on the bench.

In addition, Mata started in the attacking midfielder position, replacing the team captain Bruno.

Although Bruno only needs to score one more goal to unlock the achievement of 100 goals in the Premier League, although this is Manchester United's last game in 2018, and although this is Manchester United's last home game in this stadium, Mourinho still chose to let Bruno sit on the bench.

Kante did not start either, and Fred started.

The reason for the large-scale rotation is that it is currently in a super-intensive Christmas devil schedule. If there is no proper rotation, the players' physical fitness will hardly survive such an intensive schedule.

Although Bruno has good physical fitness, he has played too many games this season. Starting from the Community Shield in early August, Bruno played a total of 31 games for Manchester United and the Portuguese national team in 5 months, an average of 6 games per month!

However, the score of 0:1 at halftime and the opponent's good performance in the first half of the game made Mourinho dare not be careless and made adjustments in the midfield.

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Eddie Howe sat in the coach's seat. Although his team was besieged by Manchester United, he was not panicked. Because similar scenes had appeared many times in the first half of the game, but they failed to break through Bournemouth's city.

Eddie Howe believed that his players could still resolve Manchester United's offensive this time.

Bruno took the ball in the middle.

Manchester United passed the ball back and forth in front of Bournemouth's penalty area, but failed to find a suitable offensive path.

Harry Kane came out to respond, and Bruno passed the ball to him.

"Harry Kane controlled the ball outside the penalty area. As a center forward, he did not stay in front of the goal, but pulled it out." Andy Gray said.

In order to tear open Bournemouth's defense, Mourinho asked the frontcourt offensive players to keep running, looking for opportunities, and interspersed back and forth during the halftime break.

This time, Harry Kane was pulled out of the penalty area again.

Bournemouth's central defender Ake rushed out and built a defense line on the penalty area line.

1 Ake debuted in Feyenoord's youth training camp. He is a versatile midfielder who can play as a left back, left wing back, central defender and even midfielder.

In 2011, Ake transferred to Chelsea, and then he was loaned out for training, and officially transferred to Bournemouth in the summer of 2017.

Harry Kane controlled the ball, he pretended to pass the ball, Ake stretched out his foot to intercept. But Harry Kane was just a fake move. Seeing Ake stretched out his foot to intercept, he immediately changed into a breakthrough move.

Ake came up to entangle the opponent. He thought he could squeeze Harry Kane away with his excellent physical fitness and steal the ball, but Ake soon realized that his opponent was difficult to deal with.

"This guy is really good at protecting the ball!"

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Harry Kane held Ake, who tried to steal the ball twice but failed.

Suddenly, Harry Kane tried to turn around forcibly, and Ake quickly moved his body to intercept. Harry Kane pulled his body back and twisted his butt to the other side, and Ake was squeezed away by the twisting of his butt.

Bournemouth full-back Cook hurried over to make up for the defense.

Harry Kane was waiting for this opportunity.

Before Cook and Ake's encirclement, Harry Kane passed the ball and stuffed the ball through the gap between the two people's double-teaming defense line.

"A beautiful through ball!"

"Bruno!"

Bruno received the ball on the left, and he did not choose to continue to break through with the ball or shoot, but directly slid the ball to the right side of the penalty area.

"Mbappe!"

Bournemouth's defense was attracted by Harry Kane's penetrating pass and Bruno who got the ball.

Everyone thought Bruno would choose to dribble directly into the penalty area or shoot. No one thought he would pass from the left to the right.

The football passed in front of the goal.

Mbappe suddenly moved forward, passed through the entire back line of Bournemouth, and appeared behind them.

"Mbappe! Not offside!!" Commentator Martin Taylor shouted hoarsely.

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Mbappe was very excited after successfully countering offside. He knew this was his chance.

With Mahrez's performance getting better and better recently, Mbappe has a strong sense of crisis. He now attaches great importance to every scoring opportunity.

Because of the devil's schedule, the head coach rotated the team's lineup, and he got the chance to start today.

Mbappe was full of fighting spirit. He wanted to prove that the head coach's decision to give him the starting position was the right one, and he wanted to prove that he deserved to start.

Facing the attacking Bournemouth goalkeeper Begovic, Mbappe showed admirable calmness. He did not look back or hesitate, and shot directly into the far corner.

Mbappe shot with the outside of his foot, and the ball drew an arc and passed by the left hand side of the attacking Bournemouth goalkeeper Begovic.

Begovic had no way to deal with such a close and decisive shot. He could only hope that Mbappe's shooting skills were as bad as rumored.

Then, he heard the cheers of Manchester United fans in the stands of Old Trafford. The Bournemouth goalkeeper felt cold in his heart and knew that he was finished.

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"GOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The football almost stuck to the inside of the far post and spun into the goal!

"Mbappe! Mbappe! Mbappe! He scored, Manchester United scored, 1:1! Manchester United finally equalized the score on the field!!"

"Beautiful!! Mbappe's shot! Manchester United changed the score to 1:1! If the game ends with this score, Manchester United will break AC Milan's 58-game unbeaten record!"

"The key goal, facing a team with dense defense, the first goal is the most critical, this is the goal to break the deadlock."

"1:1, this goal means that Bournemouth's defensive tactics have failed. They are now tied, and there is no point in retreating to defend. They can no longer end Manchester United's unbeaten record except for getting the 1-point king at Old Trafford. And once Bournemouth presses out, it will mean more trouble for them, because Manchester United is one of the teams that are best at quick counterattacks."

The Bournemouth players obviously thought of this, so the Bournemouth players looked very frustrated, standing in the field in a daze watching the Manchester United people celebrate.

Mbappe opened his arms and ran to the bottom of the stands, waving his fists at the stands to celebrate.

In the camera, Manchester United fans rushed forward like a tide, celebrating excitedly.

In the stadium, other Manchester United players also gathered around Mbappe to celebrate together.

This goal was too timely and too crucial, just like breaking through that layer of window paper.

This will be the goal that opens the door to victory!

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On the sidelines, Mourinho stood up from his seat, he just clapped his hands, and then stood there looking at the field.

He did not celebrate loudly, he told the players in this way: it was just a goal, Manchester United just equalized the score, which did not satisfy him.

"Coach Mourinho looks very calm." Andy Gray glanced in the direction of the home team's coaching bench, "It seems that he is very confident that his team can score."

Compared with Mourinho's calm confidence, Bournemouth coach Eddie Howe was a little panicked.

Due to Manchester United's powerful offensive power, Bournemouth's tactics today were very conservative. Bournemouth's players may be thinking about defeating Manchester United to end their opponent's unbeaten record, but Eddie Howe has no such plan.

Eddie Howe's wishful thinking is to keep the draw and get one point to win. If he can defend and counterattack and finally win the game, it will be a perfect result.

Originally, Bournemouth's goal at the end of the first half made the situation develop towards the most perfect result in Eddie Howe's mind, and also made Eddie Howe have some ideas that he didn't have in his mind.

Now, Bournemouth's goal was broken by Manchester United, which is a very bad thing for Bournemouth.

In the first half, Manchester United couldn't score, which made Manchester United players more anxious and unable to show their normal strength.

Now that Manchester United finally scored a goal, it also broke the shackles in their hearts, and their performance became normal.

Manchester United's strong offensive power is unbearable for Chelsea, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham and other giants, let alone Bournemouth.

Eddie Howe obviously doesn't think Bournemouth's defense is more solid than the defense of the traditional BIG6 giants.

Therefore, once the performance of Manchester United players returns to normal, their defense will be under great pressure and they are likely to continue to lose the ball.

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Twelve minutes later, Eddie Howe no longer has to worry about anything, because worrying is useless. His team really lost the ball again and the score was reversed by Manchester United.

Bruno made a long pass to Rashford. Bournemouth's right wingback knew that he couldn't keep up with Rashford's speed, so he could only reach out and pull Rashford down.

The referee showed Abby a yellow card.

Manchester United's free kick.

Bruno made a beautiful arc kick, and Bournemouth goalkeeper Begovic had no way to deal with this ball.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!"

"Bruno Fernandes, 2:1, Manchester United overtook Bournemouth."

"Beautiful arc, Bruno scored a direct free kick. This is also the second consecutive game that Bruno has scored a direct free kick, and it is also Bruno's fourth direct free kick goal this season. He deserves to be the strongest free kick master in the world football today!"