Chapter 812: The Unbeatable Body Is Broken

Manchester United's away game against Burnley is the penultimate game of this round, and the remaining game is Manchester City's home game against Aston Villa. According to the current situation, this game has been postponed.

The fact is that the Premier League originally planned to postpone the game between Manchester United and Burnley, but Manchester United considered that the schedule of this season has been severely compressed and the schedule in the future may be more intensive, so after consultation, it was arranged to be held on Monday night.

After the game started, Manchester United, who played away, also firmly grasped the initiative of the game in their own hands. Manchester United's possession rate reached 60% throughout the game, creating a total of 13 shooting opportunities, 7 of which hit the goal frame. Although Burnley also created 12 shooting opportunities through defensive counterattacks, Manchester United's defense did not give them any chances in this game.

Although Manchester United launched a wave of attacks higher than one wave in the game, it has to be admitted that Burnley's goalkeeper Pope performed too well in this game. He completed 6 wonderful saves in a single game and almost shut down the powerful Manchester United on his own.

In the first half, although Maguire helped Manchester United open the scoring, the goal was cancelled due to a foul. In the second half, after receiving a pass from Rashford, Bruno shot hard and hit the defender, causing a refraction before breaking Pope's ten fingers.

It can be said that Bruno's goal saved the team's forward line. The personal state of Manchester United's forward trident in this game was very bad, and they wasted many excellent scoring opportunities. Mbappe was unable to grasp the single-handed ball at the last moment of the game.

This is caused by the lack of complete pre-match training.

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Although Manchester United Club gave the players a three-week holiday as required, the players basically did not get enough rest, because most of Manchester United players are international players of various national teams and participated in the national team competition in early September, which made Manchester United's main players basically only get about ten days of rest time.

Before the start of the new season, there was a high-intensity game for more than two months. The players were all tired, and then they did not get enough rest and did not conduct any pre-season training. It is obvious that the team is in poor condition.

Fortunately, Bruno was powerful enough. His goal helped Manchester United complete the lore and win the game, and also helped Manchester United get 3 points as they wished.

In this round of the league, except for the postponed game between Manchester City and Villa, the other 9 games all decided the winners and losers. But this also made Manchester United only ranked 7th in the standings after the victory, unlike the previous seasons, when it topped the standings from the beginning of the season.

Arsenal and Leicester City both won 3:0 in this round, and the two teams ranked in the top two of the standings.

Chelsea and Liverpool also won. Only Tottenham in the BIG6 overturned at home. They lost 0:1 to another traditional Premier League team, Everton.

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Due to the epidemic, the new season was forced to start in mid-September, and under normal circumstances, the Premier League would have played three to four rounds of games at this time.

And there will be the European Cup next summer, which means that the Premier League must end before May next year.

In this way, all 38 rounds of the Premier League will end in just 8 months, with almost 4 to 5 league games every month.

During this period, the League Cup and FA Cup games have to be arranged. Teams participating in the European war also have European wars. Manchester United even has to participate in the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup.

According to past experience, Manchester United has 60+ games every season, with an average of about 8 games per month. This means that Manchester United will almost maintain a frequency of two games a week throughout this season.

No, the season has just begun, and Manchester United has entered this high-frequency game rhythm.

Because there will be the third round of the League Cup next week, and then the European Super Cup will be played on Thursday night, which makes Manchester United's schedule stretched.

After coordination from many parties, Manchester United's second round of games was moved forward to Friday night, which is the evening of September 18th, local time in the UK.

Since this game is Manchester United's first home game in the new season, Manchester United still attaches great importance to this game, and Mourinho also arranged most of the main lineup to start.

The epidemic has not yet been alleviated, so this game is still played in an empty stadium.

After the start of the game, although Manchester United played more actively, most of the players were obviously in poor condition.

In the 7th minute, Crystal Palace launched an attack from the left. Schlupp swept in front of the goal. Townsend made a small angle shot in front of the back post under the interference of Luke Shaw!

Manchester United 0:1 Crystal Palace!

Manchester United, who fell behind, launched a counterattack, but they not only failed to equalize the score, but almost lost the gate again. In the 14th minute, Lindelof's pass was not strong enough, and De Gea's clearance almost gave a gift under Zaha's pressure.

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After 20 minutes of the game, Manchester United finally stabilized.

In the 20th minute, Bruno took the ball in front of the penalty area line, faked a shot, and then fired a heavy shot. Guaita turned sideways and saved the ball steadily.

In the 22nd minute, Rashford dribbled into the penalty area from the left, took a step horizontally, and suddenly shot a cold arrow into the far corner. The ball rubbed the far post and flew out of the bottom line.

Manchester United's offensive became more and more fierce, and they suppressed Crystal Palace on the field.

In the 39th minute, Bruno was knocked down by the opponent behind him in the penalty area, but the referee did not make a penalty after listening to the VAR's opinion.

This caused great dissatisfaction among Manchester United, because from the video replay, the opponent kicked Bruno's ankle, but they didn't understand why the VAR referee did not make a penalty.

Mourinho was so angry that he swore on the sidelines, and then he was verbally warned by the referee.

At the end of the first half, Manchester United was 0:1 behind Crystal Palace at home.

After the start of the second half, Manchester United counterattacked with all their strength, but Manchester United's strikers were obviously not in good shape. Their offense was very weak, and they were threatened by Crystal Palace's counterattack again and again. Manchester United's goal was in a state of panic.

Finally, in the 70th minute of the game, Manchester United lost the ball again. It was a counterattack by Crystal Palace. Ayew shot in the penalty area and the ball hit Lindelof's hand. The referee made a penalty after confirmation by VAR.

Crystal Palace had a penalty kick opportunity. Ayew personally took the penalty kick and shot the ball to the lower left corner of the goal. De Gea blocked the ball with one hand, but VAR determined that De Gea was off the line in advance, and Crystal Palace got a chance to take a heavy penalty kick.

Mourinho was furious about such a penalty, but it did not help, and he was instead given a yellow card.

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Crystal Palace had a second penalty kick opportunity. Zaha took the penalty kick and kicked the ball to the upper left corner of the goal. De Gea jumped in the right direction again but failed to touch the ball!

Manchester United 0:2 Crystal Palace!

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Seeing the bad situation, Mourinho made substitutions. He directly replaced all three starting forwards. Harry Kane, Rashford and Mbappe were all replaced, and Mahrez, Greenwood and McTominay came on as substitutes.

Manchester United, who replaced three players in a row, finally had some threats in attack.

In the 80th minute, Cancelo sent the ball into the penalty area with a 45-degree cross from the right. The Crystal Palace defense made consecutive mistakes, and Bruno took advantage of the chaos to shoot into the far corner!

After the start of the new season, Bruno scored in two consecutive rounds, Manchester United 1:2 Crystal Palace!

This is also Bruno's 163rd goal in the Premier League. He tied Liverpool legendary shooter Robbie Fowler and rose to the seventh place in the Premier League's historical scorer list.

In front of Bruno is Arsenal legendary shooter Thierry Henry, who was once the best player in the Premier League and the best foreign player in the history of the Premier League. In his 8-year Arsenal career, Henry has always maintained a high goal efficiency and scored a total of 175 Premier League goals, ranking sixth in the Premier League's historical scorer list.

The top five are Chelsea legend Lampard with 177 goals, Manchester City striker Aguero with 180 goals, Manchester United legend Andy Cole with 187 goals, another Manchester United legend Rooney with 208 goals, and Premier League historical scorer Alan Shearer with 260 goals!

The six players ahead of Bruno, except Aguero who is an active player, the other five have retired, which means that their number of goals will not increase.

Even Aguero, the Argentine striker is now in the twilight of his career. He has been plagued by injuries since last season and has only scored 16 league goals. He is still recovering from injuries this season and it is unknown when he will be able to return.

According to Bruno's scoring efficiency of almost 40 goals every season, after the end of this season, he is very likely to surpass Andy Cole, who ranks third, and enter the top three of the Premier League historical scorer list.

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Bruno's goal helped Manchester United narrow the gap to 1 goal, and with injury time, there were still about 15 minutes left, which gave Manchester United hope of tying the score or even turning the tables.

In the remaining time, Manchester United pressed forward, hoping to tie the score in the shortest time.

However, Manchester United did not wait for their second goal, but the defense made another mistake, allowing Crystal Palace to score the third goal of the game.

In the 85th minute, Crystal Palace made a cross pass from the left, Lindelof intercepted the ball and sent it to Zaha's feet, Zaha turned and dribbled into the penalty area and shot the ball into the lower left corner of the goal!

Manchester United 1:3 Crystal Palace!

In the end, Manchester United lost to Crystal Palace 1:3, and lost the first home game of the season, exposing a shocking upset.

This defeat also means that the unbeaten record at home in the Mourinho era has come to an end.

Since taking over Manchester United in the summer of 2016, Manchester United has never lost at home in all competitions in the past four seasons, which extends their unbeaten home record to 114 games!

However, in the first home game of Mourinho's fifth season as Manchester United coach, this record came to an abrupt end.