Chapter 8 It's a dog that can break Manchester United's goal

Manchester United travel to Leicester City on Sunday.

Leicester City lost their opening game and it looks like United won't face much of a challenge away from home, either way. The news media are confident that United should be able to pick up all three points on the road and claim their first league win of the new season.

After being held to a draw at home to Tottenham, Manchester United do need a win, and if they can't win Leicester City again, and their rivals win again to increase the score, then United will not be able to chase after them.

Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial and Januzaj are still unavailable, and Ferguson can only pull the first-round squad over. In terms of the line-up, this time Ferguson chose several players who defended better, and the first to bear the brunt was Juan Mata's abandonment.

However, Dong Fangzhuo is still on the front line, and the partners on the left and right are still Di Maria and Mbappe.

At the back, Chris Smalling replaced Jones and there were no changes to other positions.

However, Foxes fans have seen Tottenham's performance and believe that Leicester City could also play Manchester United at home.

'The United defence is terrible at the moment, we are more than capable of scoring goals, even Harry Kane can score a hat-trick, can't our strikers do that? Vardy's pace, in particular, has the ability to create danger. ”

'Oh God, I should have bought a lottery ticket right now, I'm going to buy Jamie Vardy to score.'

'Maybe Mahrez should be brought in as well, the two of them are definitely a huge threat to United's defence.

Didn't Ferguson think of something that even Leicester fans could think of?

Of course he could have thought of it, so in the visiting dressing room, he went out of his way to reiterate the defensive problems and point out the pace of Riyad Mahrez and Vardy.

"Don't underestimate these two players who are not well-known, they are quite fast. When we attack, we have to be careful of their counterattacks. ”

"I don't want to have another situation like in the first round." Ferguson, of course, was not satisfied with the defense, and so was Dong Fangzhuo.

So after the meeting at Ferguson, he reiterated that as captain and reminded his attacking team-mates.

'I watched Leicester's first game carefully and although they lost, they didn't play badly, they actually played better than the other side, so why lost? It's because of luck. They had 21 shots on goal, 15 of which hit the woodwork. It's just that the opposing goalkeeper played too bravely, and they only scored one goal. But today we can't think they're going to have bad luck and it's their home turf. ”

'I want to remind our attacking players that if the ball is broken when we attack, you have to go back to defend at the first time, you can't think that we are attacking players, then we don't have the responsibility to defend and we have to help our team-mates.

'We've got to win this game.'

Everyone nodded seriously, if they were not three military lives at this time, there would be no place in Manchester United. As a member of Manchester United, they are not used to being at the bottom of the team, and the number one is what they want.

Had it not been for Dong Fangzhuo's comeback after the winter break last season, Manchester United would not have won the league title at all. This season, we started to fall behind in the first round of the league, which is still somewhat similar to last season.

And in the home dressing room, Italian Ranieri is giving a passionate speech.

'The Manchester United next door are not the United of last season, they have a porous back, the two centre-backs are like two stakes, they can concede three at home and three away from home, so we have to keep an eye on their backline.

"If you can send the ball in front with one kick, you must never use two feet!"

"The easier it is to fight back, the better."

"Mahrez and Vardy, you two are the two cheetahs in our hands, you have to be ready at all times."

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"Beat them! You will be the pride of all England! ”

Manchester United are unbeaten in 20 league games since January, with no team able to beat them, and their dominance in the league in the first half of the year was quite terrifying, but now it looks like it should be the weakest time for United, and any opponent who plays against them seems to want a bite on them.

The Foxes fans created a strong home atmosphere before the game began, and their singing never stopped. Although nearly 2,000 Manchester United fans came to watch the game, they were still overwhelmed by the crowds.

As soon as the game began, the Foxes opted to drop back to defend and give Manchester United space to attack. However, when United's attack advanced 30 metres in front of their penalty area, it became difficult for United's attack.

Italian Claudio Ranieri's defensive skills are on full display, his team defends perfectly, barely giving Manchester United room to penetrate, and in order to defend against Dong Fangzhuo, the middle is full of people. Dong Fangzhuo couldn't break through even after taking the ball, he could only pass the ball out.

But United are attacking on both flanks right now, and if you play crosses, it doesn't make much sense. Because Dong Fangzhuo was well guarded, the ability of others to grab points in the air was too poor.

So basically, you can only play ground attack, whether it is the middle or the two wings, it is a passing boccia.

But Ranieri also thought of it.

Although Manchester United surrounded Leicester City, they still did not get a chance to score, but let Leicester City tighten more and more.

Both of the strikers also returned to defend outside the box. It also allowed Smalling and Jones to get through the half!

Dong Fangzhuo retreated to take the ball twice and tried to shoot from a distance, but because the distance was too far and the shot was not too well prepared, the goalkeeper rejected both times.

In the 17th minute, although his third shot caused the goalkeeper to save the ball, the ball still fell to the feet of the Leicester defender, and then a sharp counterattack appeared, the defender's first pass came to the feet of Mahrez, and then Mahrez just raised his head and sent the ball forward to Vardy, Mahrez's right foot was lightly padded and directly stopped.

Neither Jones nor Chris Smalling had a chance to get close to him!

Immediately after that, Vardy showed his terrifying speed! Thousands of miles to ride alone.

In the end, he faced the attacking De Gea directly in front of the penalty area.

Shoot with your right foot into the bottom right corner of the goal.

There's nothing De Gea can do!

"Ahh Even a dog can break Manchester United's goal! ”

"What the hell is this defense-breaking!"

"It's still a defensive problem!"