644, 5-0 VS four consecutive wins
The specific grouping of the Champions League was soon announced in the media.
With the exception of Manchester United's Group A and Real Madrid's Group H, the teams in the other groups are:
Group B: Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain, Anderlecht, Celtic
Group C: Chelsea, Atletico Madrid, Roma, Qarabag
Group D: Juventus, Barcelona, Olympiacos, Sporting Lisbon
Group E: Spartak Moscow, Sevilla, Liverpool, Maribor
Group F: Shakhtar Donetsk, Manchester City, Napoli, Feyenoord
Group G: Monaco, Porto, Besiktas, Leipzig
As soon as the group matches were announced, Groups C and H became the targets of discussion among countless fans. Many people are debating which group is the "group of death" in this Champions League.
And the next day.
A Premier League match quickly stole the excitement of the Champions League grouping, attracting countless people's attention.
Manchester City 5:0 Liverpool.
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"Liverpool is in trouble again?"
With the clash against Stoke City just around the corner, Manchester United's players couldn't help but pay attention to the other game that had just ended.
"yes. 5:0! ”
"That's too bad! Are Manchester City so strong this season? Liverpool can win by five goals! ”
"It's said that someone from Liverpool was sent off with a red card, so ......"
"Even if it's one less, it won't lose five at once."
There was a lot of talk among the players.
They were very surprised by the result of that game.
Everyone knows that Manchester City spent heavily on players this summer, the highest total summer transfer investment and net spending in the Premier League.
On the basis of retaining the original framework, the strength of their team has been greatly strengthened.
For this reason, many media outlets regard Manchester City as the top two favourites to win the Premier League season. Quite a few media outlets have even directly asserted that Manchester City will be the Premier League champions this season.
Manchester United and Manchester City are in the same Manchester, and the training bases of the two clubs are even close to each other.
For Manchester City, Manchester United's players are naturally all too familiar.
They are well aware that the "neighbor" has great ambitions this season.
If Manchester United are to successfully defend their title this season, Manchester City may well be their biggest obstacle.
However.
Even the Manchester United players did not expect that the neighbour could sweep away Manchester United's long-time rivals Liverpool with a huge goal difference of five goals to achieve a jaw-dropping victory for the entire Premier League.
This was so surprising.
In the 37th minute of Liverpool's game, striker Mane was sent off for a red card for stepping on Manchester City goalkeeper Bravo for dangerous actions.
Liverpool have one man to play.
This is indeed an objective difficulty.
But as one United player said, even if you play with one less, you won't lose five goals. In football, it is a very rare phenomenon for an opponent to score five goals in a single game.
Liverpool are not a fishy team.
Last season, Manchester United won against Liverpool and won easily.
This season, Liverpool have also brought in Egypt's Chugo Salah and Sweden international Victor Lindelof, and their strength has continued unabated.
However, they still lost a 0:5 draw.
Manchester City's strength this season is terrifying!
For a while, the United players were feeling some pressure.
Mbappe leaned closer to Chu Ge.
"What was your score against Liverpool last season?" He asked.
"3:3 in the first half, 3:2 in the second half." Chu Ge thought for a while before replying.
Chu Ge played a lot of games, and many games were almost forgotten. Fortunately, the two legs against Liverpool were a bit special, and he still had a little impression.
Van Dijk glanced at Chu Ge.
For those two games, Van Dijk can be said to remember it vividly.
The match between Manchester United and Liverpool is known as the "Double Red Club". In the second leg of last season's double red meeting, Van Dijk watched the match live.
In a sense, it was that game that made him decide to turn down Liverpool and join Manchester United.
The situation at that time was roughly as follows:
Uncle Scum watched Leak Flun being beaten by Chu Ge, and shouted in his heart: Van Dijk is coming to the bowl.
Van Dijk said after reading it: Slipped.
"A hat-trick away from home in the first leg, a shirt at Anfil; In the second leg, one goal and two passes broke the Liverpool defense again. Such a player is safer to be a teammate. ”
This is the best choice.
Durant on the other side of the ocean gave Van Dijk a heart and a thumbs up.
"The total score of the two rounds is 6:5, and you don't take much advantage. Manchester City 5:0 Liverpool, Manchester United 6:5 Liverpool, Manchester City 10:6 Manchester United? Listening to Chu Ge report the score, Mbappe muttered.
Logical genius.
The king of mathematics.
Manchester United have picked up the treasure.
Chu Ge hehe, raised his eyebrows, and said, "What." Are you scared? ”
Mbappe smirked professionally: "How is that possible. We have big brother you here, it's impossible to lose if you lose, you won't lose in this life. ”
Rashford passes by.
Licking dogs is not allowed to house.
He made a friendly gesture with his backhand.
Chu Ge was too lazy to pay attention to Mbappe.
"Thinking about Liverpool, it's better to think more about tomorrow's game." He reminded.
"Stoke City?"
Mbappe pouted.
For tomorrow's opponent, he said he can play ten.
"What? Looking down on Stoke City? I remember someone who hasn't scored a single goal this season? Seeing Mbappe's little expression, Chu Ge's interest came.
Goal?
What is a goal?
Jesse Lingard heard the topic of goals from afar.
He quickly hid far away, lest he catch fire again.
Take care of the world's best Zero Emperor.
Mbappe couldn't dodge, he looked at Chu Ge aggrievedly.
"Hey, why am I so unlucky. Why haven't I scored yet? Boom. ”
……
Discussions about other matches didn't last long.
They quickly turned their attention to their game.
A day later.
Manchester United came to the home of the "Potter" to face Stoke City.
Like other opponents, Stoke City's defensive focus is on Chu Ge.
And it is precisely because of this that they collapsed.
In this game, Mbappe performed extremely well.
After a month of adaptation, Mbappe figured out the defensive habits of the England defenders and adapted to the referee's enforcement scale. He began to show what he could do at the age of 17 to win the best young player in Ligue 1, Monaco's champion thigh player, and what a 150 million star should have.
When the Stoke City people were extremely nervous about Chu Ge and focused on keeping an eye on Chu Ge, Mbappe was given plenty of space to play.
In plenty of space, his acceleration, his breakthroughs, his dribbling, were as good as King Henry of Highbury. Under the leadership of the French prodigy, Manchester United dominated the game and held down rivals Stoke City on the road.
Eighteen minutes into the first half.
Mbappe connected two people on the left wing, ran 40 meters with the ball, and crossed with one kick.
Chu Ge made a block and demolition in the middle of the road.
He took a step and slipped the ball through.
Marcus Rashford, who was flanked behind him, fired a powerful shot into the Stoke City goal.
1:0。
Manchester United, who are playing away, have a one-goal lead.
Towards the end of the first half.
Mbappe is back in power.
He picked up the ball at the corner flagpole and was caught between two defenders before suddenly passing them in a brilliant breakthrough that the Stoke City defenders did not expect.
When dribbling to the bottom line of the small penalty area and attracting the opposition goalkeeper, Mbappe made an inverted triangle pass.
Marcus Rashford gets the ball ahead.
Due to interference from the defenders, Lara did not touch the football.
It doesn't matter, though.
Chu Ge rushed to the scene.
True and false, he dashingly got rid of the Stoke City defenders who came forward to press.
Followed by.
He stabbed very calmly.
Football drills into the Stoke City goal for the second time!
2:0!
Manchester United lead by two goals!
Even if he encounters the opponent's ubiquitous marking, even in the small space in the penalty area, Chu Ge can still use his running, his calmness, and his skillful foot skills to tear apart the defense, win space, and shoot the goal with one shot!
After witnessing the goal, Ferguson walked back to the dugout from the sidelines.
Sit firmly on the Diaoyu Tai.
Chu Ge's goal gave Manchester United complete control of the game.
It was his fourth consecutive goal in four league games of the new season!
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The game went into the second half.
Stoke City have been forced to be more pragmatic.
At home, they focused on defence.
Even if they are already two goals behind.
But they don't want to be five goals down.
In the second half, they also strengthened their defense against Mbappe.
Mbappe in the first half made the Stoke City defenders very uncomfortable.
They may be among the first defenders in the Premier League to experience Mbappe's power.
After being taken care of, Mbappe's performance has declined. However, this is also deliberate.
He doesn't want to show his full range in one game.
Please call me the scheming boy Mbappe.
With a drop in fitness and a two-goal lead, United played a more conservative second half. They stepped up more possession in midfield.
With N'Golo Kante protecting the defence, Paul Pogba passing left and right, and Kylian Mbappe and Chugo taking turns to catch the ball, United soon dominated the midfield and kept possession at 60 per cent.
And just when people thought that the game would end 2-0, Chu Ge's personal breakthrough won another penalty for Manchester United.
The seventy-seventh minute of the match.
Chu Ge passed the Stoke City defender in the penalty area. Due to the drop in fitness, the defender stretched out his leg and tripped Chu Ge.
The referee did not hesitate to blow for the penalty.
Chu Ge stood at the penalty spot.
Last season, Ibrahimovic and Wayne Rooney were Manchester United's penalty takers. Chu Ge did not take the penalty.
Now that Ibrahimovic is half-hidden and Chubby has left the team, Chu Ge is not only the team's top star, leading scorer, but also the captain of Manchester United, although Ferguson did not arrange the first penalty taker, almost all the team members acquiesced that the penalty should be handed over to Chu Ge to take the penalty.
Chu Ge glanced at the opponent's goalkeeper.
He thought for a moment.
The S-level penalty, coupled with Chu Ge's own shooting skills, should not be a problem against this goalkeeper.
There is no need for him to deliberately improve his penalty skills.
But.
glanced back at the somewhat depressed younger brother Mbappe.
Chu Ge smiled.
With a toe lift, and then a pick, the football immediately flew high in place, just landing on Chu Singer.
(If the referee does not blow the whistle to resume the game, it is a stop in the game and does not count as a handball foul)
Don't look at it.
Feel free to throw it behind you.
The football fell right in front of Mbappe.
“?”
"Why did the soccer ball fly?"
Mbappe was surprised.
But he still subconsciously reached out and took the football in his hand.
looked up at Chu Ge, just as Chu Ge looked back at Mbappe.
Chu Ge smiled.
Nodding.
Walk away from the penalty spot and leave the spot to Mbappe.
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", take the initiative to give way?"
'Mbappe hasn't scored this season, so a lot of the media are criticising him and questioning him. The captain took the initiative to give him a penalty at this time, which is too warm! ”
"Let the points be so handsome! Especially the one that turned back and killed, the eyes were too good! I'm all right! Boom! ”……
Chu Ge's move to concede a penalty caused heated discussions on the Internet in an instant.
Even before Mbappe started to kick a penalty, Chu Ge bounced the ball on the spot, and then threw the ball to Mbappe, as well as the two looked at each other, this series of actions were edited into dynamic pictures by fans and became popular on social networks.
Countless fans are attracted to it.
They took the initiative to broadcast this picture and kept praising Chu Ge. Appreciation points from inside and outside the arena poured towards Chu Ge like a tide.
Many passers-by fans, especially Mbappe's French fans, even began to become fans of Chu Ge because of Chu Ge's action.
"It's awesome to make the points so handsome!" A fan's exclamation resonated with countless fans.
……
Lingard was about to cry.
He knew that he could drop a penalty on his head if he was close, and he shouldn't have been so far away in the first place.
Looking at Mbappe who walked up to the penalty spot.
Emperor Zero is extremely envious.
"It's not just this kid who is missing a goal, captain! He's just a newcomer, captain, aren't you too fond of him, too partial? Boom! ”
……
Mbappe made it overnight.
His penalty flew straight into the goal like a cannonball, without any delay.
The Stoke City goalkeeper guessed the wrong direction entirely.
Rumble!
After the goal, the United fans began to celebrate again.
Their team leads Stoke City by three goals on the road.
This will be United's fourth win of the new season!
Four league games, four wins, a golden start!
After the goal.
Mbappe did not arrogantly use his usual celebration of the goal, but ran directly to Chu Ge.
Chu Ge opened his arms.
Mbappe jumped up and threw himself into Chu Ge's arms.
"Thank you!"
Mbappe thanked Chu Ge for the first time.
The goal drought in four league games is not long or short.
Since his move to Manchester United, Mbappe has performed relatively well, and Manchester United fans have been quick to accept him. But as a striker, you haven't scored for a long time, and it's impossible to say that there is no pressure. Especially under the pressure of the sky-high transfer price of 150 million euros, Mbappe will inevitably be suspicious and start to be a little less confident.
Football is a science, but sometimes it is also metaphysics.
That's how a player scores.
If a striker doesn't score for a long time, no matter how good a player is, he may wonder if he has a problem, whether he doesn't fit the team, and whether he should change the environment. There are even people who question their own strength, question their way of shooting, and thus fall into a vicious circle.
Consecutive non-goals will not only put pressure on the players themselves, but will also make their teammates less trusting, make more criticism appear in the media, and complicate the situation.
And the best solution to this series of problems is to score goals.
A goal would have silenced all critics.
Mbappe is as much as he looks forward to his first goal at Manchester United, and how grateful he is to Chu Ge.
This penalty was won by Chu Ge himself, and he is also the team's first penalty taker. In the new season, Chu Ge is Manchester United's top scorer and the current top scorer in the league, and he must be hoping to score more goals, consolidate his advantage in the scorer list, and strive to become the top scorer in the Premier League.
There are no strikers who don't want to score more goals.
Not to mention the added bonus for scoring goals.
Giving up a penalty is not an easy thing for any striker.
Mbappe is so grateful to Chu Ge.
He felt more and more that joining Manchester United was the right decision.
If you choose to join Paris Saint-Germain, whether it is the team's previous main striker Cavani, or Neymar, who joined this season at a sky-high price, I am afraid that he will not easily give up a penalty to this little brother.
"Mbappe has scored! He finally scored his first goal since joining Manchester United! ”
The commentators were still cheering, and the fans were still jubilant.
The camera focuses on Chu Ge and Mbappe.
The two United players hugged each other and celebrated their goal together.
Ferguson sat firmly in the dugout.
He looked at Chu Ge and Mbappe and nodded.
This is Manchester United that he wants to see, and this is the future he has chosen for Manchester United.
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The game is over.
Manchester United 3:0 Stoke City.
On the road, they won again to make it four wins in a row at the start of the league season.
The fourth round of the league is over.
Manchester United, who have won four in a row,
Manchester City with a five-goal win over Liverpool,
This pair of Manchester brother teams suddenly became the focus of discussion among the media and fans.
"Who's the strongest in England?"
The front page of The Times ran the headline.
In the picture under the title, Manchester City's Pep Guardiola on one side and
Chu Ge.