green showman

Chapter 985
Sun Wu was sitting on the sofa at home, staring at the TV screen with a solemn expression, and opened his mouth...

Christine stuffed the peeled orange into her mouth with one hand, and stuffed the peeled orange peel into Sun Wu's mouth with the other...

"Bah, bah, bah!" Sun Wu chewed it several times before realizing something was wrong, and turned his head to stare, but Christine's eyes were rounder than his staring.

"Hehe," Sun Wu had a strong desire to escape, and immediately hugged Christine with a smile, "Aren't you afraid they will get hurt?"

"I think you care more about them than me!"

Sun Wu shivered, "Next season, next season, most of the work will be handed over to Mike Phelan and Patrick, and I will only lead the team to compete!"

"Can the league really win the championship?"

"For Patrick, I will do my best." Sun Wu winked, "If Josep didn't answer the phone at all, I really want to make a bet with him."

Christine suddenly laughed. Just a few days ago, Gary Neville apologized to Harry Kane in a column in the "Manchester Evening News". Sun Wu, who was bet by Gary Neville, has also become synonymous with "caring coach".

Since he is a "caring coach", Sun Wu naturally has to show his love.

After being tied by Chelsea, it was the national team match. Sun Wu paid close attention to the movements of all Manchester United players. He also wondered if the players could rest this time. After all, the European Cup qualifiers have ended.

But Sun Wu made a few phone calls, and they all hit a wall without exception. He doesn't have much connections in the coaching circle. The head coach of the national team doesn't care about your Manchester United record, he only cares about himself.

Although there is a period of adjustment before the start of the European Cup, it is still necessary to go through several warm-up matches in the first half of the year to adjust the formation and observe the players. Therefore, basically all the main players of Manchester United have been transferred.

But Sun Wu was upset!

A group of people such as Van Dijk, Pavard, Phil Jones, Rojo, etc. have either just returned, or their medical insurance cards have just expired.

There are also those absolute main players who are indispensable to Manchester United now, such as Salah, Griezmann, Kanter, and Harry Kane. Even if they have a medical insurance card, they must also consider the physical consumption of two national team matches in a short period of time. .

In this regard, Sun Wu can only say that fortunately Mane, Falcao and Bernardo Silva have not yet returned!
So in the past few days, besides his own training, Sun Wu made phone calls from time to time, and sat down to watch the live broadcast from time to time with trepidation. …

For example, now is the warm-up match between the French team and the England team.

What pays the most attention to this game is not the players on the field, nor Hodgson and Deschamps, but Sun Wu.

There are six members of the England national team in the Manchester United first team: Phil Jones, Harry Kane, Lingard, Milner, Michael Keane, and Luke Shaw. In this game, except for Michael Keane, the other five They are all starters.

The French team has Kanter, Lucas, Pavard, and Griezmann, all of whom started.

Among the nine starting players, Griezmann, Harry Kane, and Kanter are the absolute main players, and they are the key figures that Manchester United has no other options at present, while Lucas, Pavard, and Phil Jones are also all. Main level players.

How can this not make Sun Wu frightened.

Sure enough, there was an injury next time. Lucas and his club teammate Milner collided and fell to the ground. Both team doctors entered the field. Milner finally returned to the field, and Lucas was replaced by Evra.

After the game, Sun Wu called to ask for the first time. Two hours later, Lucas's inspection report was freshly released. The knee joint was damaged. The specific recovery time needs to be further determined, but at least there is no need to count on him in February.

However, Sun Wu was relieved, because Lucas was the only Manchester United player who was injured in the national team competition. Except for Alderweireld, Rojo and Salah, the rest of the players did not play the full 180. minute.

On February 2, Manchester United players returned to the Carrington base one after another, but Sun Wu only conducted individual inspections, and then announced a two-day holiday after restorative training. .
During the two-day holiday, Manchester United's coaching staff started a lot of work and began to prepare for the upcoming Champions League knockout match. Scouts and assistant coaches handed over a lot of reports and video materials, which required the coaching staff to analyze.

For this reason, Sun Wu made a special call to find Lannick, who recommended him a good video analyst. This position looks ordinary, but in fact it requires high tactical analysis ability. Back then, Villas-Boas was Mourinho. The video analyst of the Austrian team.

After the two-day holiday, Manchester United will fly to Sunderland in the northeast of the British Isles on February 2. After this round of the league, Manchester United will have two weeks without thinking about the league. Of course, there will be a Champions League knockout match and a football match. Total cup game.

February 2, Stadium of Light.

"Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!"

"It's Harry Kane again, 25 minutes into the game and he scored twice with an overhead kick!"

Mortensen shouted: "Hodgson should thank Best, he has found a good center forward for England, look, Harry has scored 17 league goals, second only to Diego Costa who is still recovering from injury !"

Harry Kane, who was shaking his fingers and ran to the sidelines, had a bright smile on his face. The sharp striker who was "missed" by Tottenham was soaring in the sky with a new life at Manchester United.

In this game, Black Cat Sunderland made a bold attack at the beginning. The left back Van Aanholt accidentally took the lead with a 45-degree cross. Defoe tried to hit the ball with his heel but missed the ball and was shaken. De Gea watched the ball fly into the far corner after bouncing off the ground.

But the subsequent aggressive attack by Manchester United made this goal meaningless.

In the 11th minute, Herrera's ingenious oblique ball found Salah on the right rib. This time the Egyptian did not pass the ball after breaking through two defensive players in a row, but volleyed the ball vigorously into the far corner.

Then Sun Wu commanded Manchester United to start a high-position press, and Sunderland frequently conceded the ball in the backcourt.

In the 16th minute, the former Manchester United defender O'Shea made a mistake in passing the ball. Harry Kane immediately rubbed the shot after stealing the ball in front of the penalty area. The goalkeeper Mannone, who had already attacked, could only look at the ball and sigh.

In the 24th minute, Sun Wu took a corner kick, Van Dijk headed forward and scored, Mannone barely blocked it with one hand but missed it, Harry Kane scored twice with a header.

"The 0-0 battle between the red and the blue made many people doubt Manchester United's offense. After all, Falcao, Mane, Bernardo Silva were all injured." Zhan Jun commented: "But in this game, Salah And Harry Kane proved it with goals, the Red Devils and us!"

After a suffocating 0 to 0, and because of the goal difference being suppressed by Manchester City, the Manchester United players were not soft at all. In stoppage time in the first half, Herrera scored another victory from outside the penalty area .

Even though Sun Wu adjusted himself and Salah off the field in the second half, Milner and Lingard, who came off the bench, had a stronger desire to perform.

In the 68th minute, Luke Shaw made a cross from the left, O'Shea headed the ball to make a clearance, Milner headed into the penalty area immediately, and Lingard shot from a small angle to rewrite the score to 5-1.

In the 75th minute, Manchester United played an efficient counterattack. Lingard took the ball and accelerated the breakthrough in the middle and was brought down. Pavard took the ball and made a pass from the right. Harry Kane stopped the ball on the left side of the penalty area and sent the ball into the far corner. .

In the 85th minute, Milner made the final cut. He used a penalty kick to make the score 7-1.

After a bloody massacre, Manchester United, who finished the game ahead of schedule, regained the top spot. Although only 12 hours later, Manchester City also won and took the lead again, but the goal difference between the two sides has been narrowed to only 7 points.

(End of this chapter)