When chasing points, can the Red Devils without Dai Zhiwei work?

Actually, it really does.

The "winner" in Go refers to a person who has a strong desire to win and tenacity. On the chessboard, you will never relax because of your advantage, and you will never give up because you are behind. Always insist on waiting, after the chance of victory comes, a sword seals the throat, and the opponent has no chance.

And in this FA Cup final between Manchester United and Tottenham, Mourinho proved that he is still the "winner and loser"!

Although Mourinho has been repeatedly criticized by famous fans for his conservative style of play and arrogant personality in some games, he has been making changes to suit Manchester United's attacking tradition, and even reined in some of his personality that does not conform to the club's image.

Even if the Red Devils on the field do not have their blade Dai Zhiwei, but with the treble still expected this season, this Manchester United has been truly reborn, and it is no longer the mud that Dai Zhiwei could not support the wall in his previous life.

Since Sir Fred's Manchester United won the league championship in 2013 to today, for 5 years, this Manchester United has never touched the league championship, Mourinho is like a subordinate, from the beginning of the "layout" for Manchester United.

Mourinho's team building strategy can be said to take into account the club's financial operation, league results, and Champions League performance, and the current achievements of Manchester United also prove that in the complicated team building affairs, Mu Shuai has always stood at the bow of the ship, commanding Manchester United, a century-old giant, to break the waves.

After Tottenham broke the deadlock in the 12th minute, United began to show why they are league leaders and Tottenham are only a top four team at best.

Just three minutes after Jose Mourinho stood on the sidelines and expressed his displeasure with the performance of the Red Devils players on the pitch, United came close to finding the back of the net when Nemanja Matic crossed from the left and Giroud headed high in front of the six-yard box.

Giroud, who missed his chance, crossed from the right two minutes later, but this time it was Jesse Lingard's header that went wide.

Although the successive attacks missed the goal, everyone could see that the Red Devils were on the rise!

Manchester United finally equalized in the 27th minute, Pogba stole Dembele on the left and crossed, Giroud stretched his leg to deflect the ball, and Herrera fired a powerful shot into the net from the edge of the box, 1:1!

It was also a boost to Jose Mourinho and the Manchester United players, proving that they would have scored and equalised without Dai Zhiwei!

Before half-time, United even had a chance to overtake the scoreline.

Nemanja Matic crossed the ball and Pogba's curling shot from 25 yards was deflected off by Tottenham goalkeeper Vorm and bounced off the left-hand post.

At half-time, Mourinho made another brilliant adjustment and used a "slashing tactic".

The slashing tactic is famous on the basketball court, but it is not uncommon on the green court, in fact, it is to use fouls to frequently interrupt the opponent's offense, but try to ensure that the cards are not allowed.

After Mourinho's targeted arrangement, Tottenham, which was still smooth in the first half, was difficult to shoot in the second half, and Kane also showed what is the product of "British blowing".

Harry Kane is certainly the top striker in the world, and can even be ranked in the top five, but he is definitely not as good as English football touted, as can be seen from the annual Ballon d'Or table.

The simplest question is, why haven't the big clubs brought in Harry Kane?

Don't say that the transfer fee for introducing him is too high, after all, compared with Neymar's 222 million euros, Mbappe's 180 million euros, Coutinho's 160 million euros, and Dembele's 147 million euros, if Kane is really that strong, there will definitely be local tyrants who will spend 200 million to buy.

However, what about the facts?

Back in the game, after Harry Kane was locked up, United began to make a difference.

First, Paul Pogba sent a through ball and Giroud's powerful shot from the left side of the box was confiscated.

Pogba's own powerful shot in front of the box was then saved by Tottenham goalkeeper Worm.

Tottenham are not vegetarians, though. In the 62nd minute, Dembele passed the ball and Alli's left-footed volley from 25 yards was saved by De Gea, before Vertonghen fired high from the left side of the box from a corner scuffle.

"Dai, get ready to warm up!" After the 65th minute of the game, the assistant coach called Dai Zhiwei up and began to warm up with Rashford and other team-mates on the sidelines.

If it is more than 70 minutes and Manchester United still can't overtake the score, then Mourinho will definitely replace Dai Zhiwei and use him to end the game.

In the 76th minute, after a passing error by Tottenham, the electronic screen held high by the fourth referee on the sidelines finally played the Arabic numeral that Manchester United fans were looking forward to - 7!

Jose Mourinho replaced Giroud with Dai Zhiwei!

"You equalize, I'll take care of the rest!" Dai Zhiwei straightened his shirt, hugged Giroud, and quickly rushed into the stadium.

Seeing Dai Zhiwei on the stage, all Tottenham players were nervous, even Pochettino on the sidelines frowned.

Although Dai Zhiwei is Manchester City's nemesis, apart from Manchester United, other Premier League teams face him, which team is not a bitter master?

Because the football was passed out of the sideline by Tottenham Hotspur players before, it was Manchester United who controlled the ball after Dai Zhiwei came on the field.

After receiving a through ball from midfielder Nemanja Matic, Dai Zhiwei used his body to protect the incoming ball, and a sideways deftly leaned away from the snatching Dyer, and immediately turned on the fast run mode.

Tottenham defender Dembele hurriedly followed, his collision made Dai Zhiwei's center of gravity shake, and after he tried his best to protect the ball, he had lost a good opportunity to attack quickly, so he had to turn and pass back.

It seems that Dai Zhiwei has been resting off the court for a long time, and he hasn't found the feeling of the game for the time being?

These Premier League teams are not clear, at the beginning of their debut, Dai Zhiwei had the reputation of Evergrande's super substitute.

Seeing that Dai Zhiwei wanted to pass back, Dembele strode forward and was about to intercept the football, but he didn't expect Dai Zhiwei to suddenly turn to the other side, and passed directly with his right foot to Lingard who was waiting on the right side, and the Englishman immediately spread his feet and started running.

Jesse Lingard has always played well at Wembley Stadium and this time he was watching

After Dai Zhiwei rushed past Dembele, he passed the football back.

Dai Zhiwei received the ball and shook off Eriksen's defense with a feint, although Eriksen intercepted in the midfield, he was not a full-time defender after all, so Dai Zhiwei's defense was just for show.

After Dai Zhiwei got past Eriksen, he was standing in front of Tottenham centre-back Vertonghen.

Against Vertonghen, he performed a trick similar to "croquettes", flicking the instep of his right foot and immediately clapping it back with the instep of his left foot when he flashed a spot.

The ball slipped under Vertonghen's crotch with ease, and Dai Zhiwei flashed past Vertonghen with disdain.

Vertonghen pounced and wanted to turn back and chase immediately, but because he rushed to the ground too hard, he didn't have time to stabilize his center of gravity and slipped to the ground.

Dai Zhiwei didn't feel that his passing action just now was exaggerated, but everyone on the sidelines, including the fans on the field, was stunned.

Is it so easy to finish wearing the crotch?

Vertonghen never imagined that he would one day be humiliated in this way, and although it was not a shame to be deceived by such a difficult skill, he still got up from the ground in shame and chased after him.

But it stands to reason that although he is slower than Dai Zhiwei, Dai Zhiwei is now running forward with the ball, and he is sprinting, but he can't catch up at any distance.

Tottenham's backline did not expect Vertonghen, who has always been reassuring, to be passed so easily, although the defense was well organized, but looking at Dai Zhiwei's crazy speed with the ball, their hearts were full of pressure.

When Dai Zhiwei was on the sidelines and ready to play, they swelled with ominous omens.

Now, it's here!

Shrinkage across the board!

Tottenham's two full-backs, Kieran Trippier and Ben Davies, began to shrink into the middle, and the centre-backs continued to move closer in the middle, but it was a brief moment of panic that allowed Dai Zhiwei to see the hole.

Slash straight plug!

Mesut Ozil, who had been lurking in the opposition backline, suddenly burst out like lightning, broke through the defense on the right side of Tottenham's penalty line, and received a direct pass from Dai Zhiwei, Ozil only faced goalkeeper Vorm at this time, and the left-back and centre-back had been left behind him.

Although Ozil is not the kind of striker who scores goals, he is also a top attacking team with double goals in a single season, and scoring a single goal is a simple thing for him.

Before Worm could get in position to seal the angle, Ozil fired a single shot through the Tottenham goal.

It's easy, it's easy!

2:1！

Tottenham's defenders were all stupid, they could not have imagined that their defence was so well organised that there was a small gap when the four defenders began to shrink into the middle.

But this kind of opportunity is often fleeting and basically negligible, but it was so easily seen by Dai Zhiwei and seized?

Mesut Ozil smiled and hugged Dai Zhiwei to celebrate with him, for him, Dai Zhiwei was simply his dream strike partner.

However, in the past, it was Ozil who assisted Dai Zhiwei to score goals, but this time it was Dai Zhiwei who assisted Ozil to score a single goal, and the roles of the two were reversed.

Mesut Ozil's goal came in the 78th minute of the game!

The reversal and falling behind 10 minutes before the end of the game made the Tottenham fans restless, and they all stood and sang loudly to cheer on the players.

Jose Mourinho had a smile on his lips and as long as the deadlock was broken, it would be much less difficult for Manchester United.

Jose Mourinho began to celebrate on the sidelines, while Pochettino on the other side signalled for a substitution.

Vanya immediately, Dembele down.

Lamela up, Sun Xingmin down.

Sun Xingmin happened to pass by Dai Zhiwei when he left the court, and the two also nodded deliberately to express their friendship.

No matter what the quality of Korean athletes is, at least their superficial etiquette is still worth learning from our Chinese athletes.

Seeing Sun Xingmin go down, Dai Zhiwei was also a little emotional, in the previous life, the other party was a well-deserved Asia's No. 1 football superstar, but no one could compete for the title of "Asian King" in this life before Dai Zhiwei retired.

Even so, Dai Zhiwei doesn't care about this name at all.

When the game resumed, the Tottenham players began to fight back, and they naturally did not want to lose the only possible title of the season as they played "at home".

However, "there is always a champion, there is no champion" is talking about Tottenham.

In the football world, there are often some teams that have reached the championship level but fall in front of the trophy every time, the most well-known example is the millennium runner-up Netherlands team that has fallen in front of the champion several times, and there are also such as Sanya Wang, who can only win the runner-up if he can never win the championship. These examples show us that winning a championship requires not only strength, but also some luck.

Tottenham either took their last breath before they came close to the title every time, or collapsed at the last minute.

And today, they chose to collapse in the last 10 minutes.

Pochettino's substitution of Wanyama and Lamela was naturally for the last stand, but he didn't expect that these two people failed to strengthen Tottenham's attack after they came on the field, but completely messed up Tottenham's defense.

In the 84th minute, Lingard received a long pass from central defender Smarin in a quick counterattack, and chose a low flat ball cross after setting the side side, and Dai Zhiwei stabbed the front point to score.

3:1！

Seeing this conceded goal, all the Tottenham players were embarrassed, and even Pochettino's face was much more ugly.

The goal also sealed the win for Manchester United, and then Tottenham were unable to fight back and accepted the fate of FA Cup exit.

Jose Mourinho was pleased with United's comeback to reach the FA Cup final, and was full of praise after the game: "We played a good game, scored a lot of goals, equalised after conceding the opening goal and then came back to the top, it was a perfect reaction from the players! ”

'The score could have been bigger because we had a lot of good chances, but I'm already very satisfied.'

Mourinho also praised Dai Zhiwei, who played 15 minutes and sent a shot and a pass, "You need your key players to perform well, Dai Zhiwei is very important in this game, when you have players like this, you can really lose a lot of hair when you are in lineup. ”

In the other semi-final, Chelsea won 2-0 at Southampton, with Romelu Lukaku and Alvaro Morata both scoring as they set to face Manchester United in the final on 19 May.

Speaking to the BBC after the game, Eden Hazard expressed his desire to win the FA Cup: "Now that we're in the final, we're going to fight for Champions League qualification and win the FA Cup, that's the goal! ”

When asked by reporters how to limit Dai Zhiwei's play, Hazard was very unconvinced: "Many media think that Dai Zhiwei is the number one player in the Premier League today, I think this kind of comment is inappropriate, although he has a lot of goals, but he has been in the Premier League for less than a season, and a season's performance is nothing." I think in the FA Cup final, maybe you know who the best player is in the Premier League. ”

When the reporter then told Dai Zhiwei about Hazard's "declaration of war", he only got a "hehe" reply.

It's useless to talk more, goodbye on the battlefield!

(End of chapter)