Chapter 688 Go Ahead, Manchester United!

On the afternoon of February 24, the first championship of this season, the English League Cup, was contested between the Blue Moon Manchester City and the Blue Army Chelsea.

This is the first championship that the two teams can win in the past three years, because in the previous two years, Manchester United achieved a sweep of domestic competitions, and Manchester City and Chelsea were both empty-handed for two consecutive seasons.

Therefore, both teams attach great importance to this championship that was originally somewhat tasteless.

The two teams fought fiercely at the new Wembley Stadium, and the game was tied 0:0 in 120 minutes. The game had to enter a brutal penalty shootout.

In the end, Manchester City had the last laugh, defeating Chelsea with a score of 4:3, winning the first championship trophy in the Guardiola era, ending the team's three-year embarrassment of no championship. Chelsea still cannot win the first championship trophy in the post-Mourinho era.

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In the last midweek of February, the 28th round of the Premier League started one after another. Manchester United's game this round was at 8 pm on February 27, local time in the UK, away to challenge Crystal Palace.

The games of BIG6 basically started at the same time.

In the 15th minute of the game, Manchester United played a beautiful offensive cooperation. Kante and Gundogan teamed up to steal the ball, and then Gundogan quickly passed the ball to Bruno.

Bruno had a good vision and thought about how to deal with the ball when he received it. He kicked a diagonal ball and directly tore through the Crystal Palace's defense.

Manchester United's counterattack speed was very fast, and this sharp counterattack made Crystal Palace very uncomfortable.

When Rashford and Luke Shaw passed the ball continuously and finally cut into the penalty area horizontally, the Crystal Palace's defense had completely collapsed.

The last thing was simple. Luke Shaw sent a ground ball and passed it. Harry Kane squeezed defender Martin Kelly with his back to the goal and knocked the ball. Then Mbappe, who received the ball, was unguarded at this time. In this case, it was not difficult for the French genius to score a goal. Facing a small half-empty goal, he gently pushed the ball and rolled it into the Crystal Palace goal.

"Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful goal! Manchester United leads 1:0. This ball is very beautiful. Manchester United's counterattack speed is very fast. The whole process of scoring is almost a one-kick pass. A few passes tore through the Crystal Palace's defense. The home team seems to have no way to deal with this kind of attack."

Martin Taylor also praised this goal: "The Crystal Palace players are like being hit on the head by a stick. They are dizzy and have no idea how to defend. They can only passively follow, but the final result is-losing the ball."

Mourinho applauded on the sidelines and cheered for the team's goal. He was very satisfied with the goal so early. As long as he seizes the opportunity to score another goal, Crystal Palace's determination to resist will be greatly reduced.

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Even though Mourinho is confident in the strength of his team, he did not expect the team's second goal to come so quickly. Ten minutes later, Rashford's frontcourt breakthrough caused the opponent to foul, and Manchester United got a frontcourt set-piece opportunity.

Bruno's set-piece kick went into the penalty area. Harry Kane's header caused Crystal Palace goalkeeper Guaita to miss the ball. Crystal Palace defender Tomkins cleared the ball hastily. Gundogan didn't wait for the ball to land outside the penalty area, but he shot the ball from a distance and hit the defender. Harry Kane kicked the ball into the net before the defender cleared it.

2:0!

"2:0! Harry Kane, the Manchester United center scored his 17th league goal." Martin Taylor shouted, "Manchester United's goal came again. Facing Manchester United, Crystal Palace had almost no power to fight back."

Manchester United, who were leading by two goals, did not stop, but launched an offensive frenzy.

In the 39th minute of the game, Rashford assisted the team captain Bruno to score a goal, rewriting the score to 3:0.

Before the end of the first half, Mbappe cut in from the right and shot into the far corner. The French genius scored twice, which also helped Manchester United expand the score to 4:0.

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Manchester United took a 4:0 lead in the first half, which made commentators Andy Gray and Martin Taylor sigh that the suspense of this game no longer existed.

"Manchester United used a devastating attack to completely destroy Crystal Palace." He Wei, the commentator of CCTV's live broadcast of this game, commented.

Zhang Lu laughed and said, "The team built by Mourinho is very strong. These young people are very talented and their achievements are worth looking forward to."

At this time, Mourinho, who returned to the halftime break, was in a good mood. He was very satisfied with the result and progress of the first half of the game.

"Keep playing like this in the second half." Mourinho said, "Don't think that 4:0 is enough. Remember, goal difference is also crucial."

In the long league, not only every point is crucial, but every goal is equally important. When it comes to comparing goal difference to determine the ranking, sometimes a goal determines whether it is heaven or hell.

"After the second half, keep up the pressure," Mourinho said, "completely destroy Crystal Palace's fighting spirit."

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Mourinho was a little worried at first that Crystal Palace would regain their fighting spirit after the halftime adjustment. Although this would not have any impact on the result of the game, the opponent's fierce resistance would not be a good game. But he found out that he was wrong. The score of 0:4 in the first half had completely made Crystal Palace lose the will to resist, and in the second half of the game, Manchester United welcomed the team's fifth goal without suspense.

Facing Manchester United's fast and tough offensive, the home team had no way to deal with it.

In the 66th minute of the game, Bruno's long shot caused chaos in the Crystal Palace penalty area. In the chaos, Harry Kane held off Crystal Palace defender Van Aanholt and half-turned to shoot. After being saved by goalkeeper Guaita, the ball still flew into the net resolutely.

5:0!

Harry Kane helped Manchester United expand the score advantage to five goals.

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With a 5:0 lead, Mourinho began to deploy troops.

McTominay replaced Harry Kane, Mata replaced Bruno, and Fred replaced Kante.

With the arrival of the Champions League knockout stage, Manchester United's schedule will become more and more intensive. Seizing every opportunity to let the main players rest is what the head coach cares most about.

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

In the injury time of the game, Rashford made an overhead pass, McTominay successfully got offside, broke into the penalty area, and made a beautiful volley, locking the score at 6:0.

In the end, Manchester United beat Crystal Palace 6:0 away from home in this game and won by a large margin again.