As he prepares for his home game against Everton, Li Liang feels that he is not the only one worried.

The coaching staff has been making repeated changes to the main line-up, with the decision to replace Mkhitaryan, who has been suspended internally, with Juan Mata being temporarily replaced, with Jesse Lingard deployed on the right.

Several veteran players, including Carrick, have asked if they can try to play the middle with Li Liang? After all, the new No.7 had an explosive performance in the last game.

Mourinho's reply is that Li Liang still needs time to adjust to the pace of the Premier League.

Faria said to Li Liang in private: "Li, keep up your current state, we all believe that you should appear in the main lineup soon!"

José is a bit stubborn, but he'll definitely keep trying to use it on you, so be prepared! ”

Li Liang replied with some gratitude: "Rui, thank you for telling me this!"

It's okay, I experienced the same thing when I was in Monaco, don't worry!

It's hard for me! ”

Faria was delighted: "Lee, Jose told me that you are a special player and will definitely really help us at some point this season! ”

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When the bus arrived at Old Trafford, the Manchester United fans who had already gathered erupted in cheers.

Jose Mourinho and his assistants led the players to the dedicated tunnel, and there were shouts on both sides: "Manchester United must win!" ”

"Romelu Lukaku is the best!"

Someone else shouted, "Look this way, Lee! ”

Li Liang waved his hand in a friendly manner, and the fans immediately shouted: "Jose, let Li start!" ”

Most of the fans had already poured into the stands of the Theater of Dreams, and Li Liang, who was cheering with his teammates to warm up, immediately saw several huge tifo (huge flags, posters, jerseys, etc.).

The theme of Tifo is all about one person – Wayne Rooney, who left Manchester United in the summer after 13 seasons and left behind a stellar record of 253 goals in 559 games.

In recent years, the 32-year-old Rooney has gradually lost his main position in Manchester United's system, joining Lukaku strongly this season, and Mkhitaryan, who has successfully occupied the main position, and the rising Rashford and Lingard are all ranked ahead of his appearance, and the unwilling Rooney chooses to return to his debut Everton team to continue his career.

As an iconic figure in the Premier League, Li Liang is also full of reverence for Rooney, since Rooney made a splash against the Gunners in his debut season at the age of 17, Li Liang, who is in middle school, has heard of Rooney's name!

The Everton players came out and there were even louder cheers, with Wayne Rooney, dressed in Everton's training uniform, walking at the front of the team, clapping with his hands above his head.

The players of Manchester United all chatted affectionately with Rooney, and Li Liang also stepped forward and stretched out his hand to Rooney.

Everton's new No. 10 looked Li Liang up and down, and then laughed heartily: "Lee, playing under Jose, you need to be stronger!" ”

When practicing with the ball, Li Liang knew that Rooney, who had scored goals one after another recently, was in good shape, and he deliberately paid attention to Rooney's total rating - 86!

The two sides returned to the locker room after the warm-up and prepared, and a big battle was about to start.

Tang Meng began to introduce the background of the game: "...... Everton's Dutch manager Ronald Koeman has a great deal to do with Jose Mourinho, with the two leading the team to a higher winning rate in their history, and both have Barcelona backgrounds. ”

Lu Yue added: "In addition to the Red Devils veterans Wayne Rooney and Schneiderlin, who have returned to the Theatre of Dreams, Manchester United also have two former Everton players in the squad, Marouane Fellaini and Romelu Lukaku.

There's also one player in particular who needs to be watched – Sigurdsson, known as the 'Icelandic Sniper'.

The attacking midfielder has put together a staggering stat in his last six games against Manchester United –

He scored three goals and provided three assists, which means that he averaged one goal per game against Manchester United.

The game officially began, and the two sides who knew each other well started a fierce scramble from the beginning, and the pace of the game continued to accelerate.

Li Liang was secretly surprised, such an offensive and defensive conversion speed was obviously beyond all the previous games of the Red Devils!

Even when he was sitting on the bench, he was secretly excited, and his mood kept rising and falling with the drastic changes on the court.

In the 17th minute, Wayne Rooney was brought down by Jones as he broke through on the edge of the box and Everton won a well-placed direct free-kick.

David De Gea shouted loudly to direct his team-mates to line up the wall, and it was clear that the United players were quite afraid of Iceland's set-pieces.

Even Tang Meng and Lu Yue became nervous, and in the picture, Sigurdson had already set up the ball, and the referee was drawing a marker with spray in front of the human wall.

Lu Yue said: "Under the tutelage of Koeman, who was nicknamed the 'free kick expert' when he was a player, Sigurdsson's free-kicks are becoming more and more threatening, and this position is extremely stressful for De Gea! ”

Before the words fell, Sigurdsson had already started to run, and the Icelandic sniper kicked the ball out of a powerful way-

Li Liang was shocked to see that the ball quickly changed direction after crossing the human wall, and flew into the upper left corner of the goal accurately!

De Gea stood stiff in place, he didn't react at all and had to watch the ball break into the net!

1:0! Everton, who are playing away, surprisingly score first!

Looking at the visiting players celebrating wildly, the Manchester United fans in the stands complained that it was the first goal scored at the Theatre of Dreams since the beginning of the season!

Tang Meng said regretfully: "I can't defend it, I can't defend it at all, this ball Sigurdson kicked out a theoretical dead end......"

Lu Yue continued: "Iceland successfully continued their goal record against the Red Devils, and this world wave reminds me of Li Liang's free kicks last season......

I don't know if Mourinho will send Li Liang in the second half, and whether Li Liang has a chance to return the color with a free kick in the same way! ”

The director focused the camera on Mkhitaryan in the stands, and the Armenian, who was not in the squad for this game, looked depressed.

Everton immediately changed their style of play after the goal, leaving Rooney in front of the rookie and England's young homegrown rookie Tom Davies, and even Sigurdsson retreating to a midfield position to actively participate in the defense.

Faria and Mourinho have been exchanging constantly, and Mourinho pulled out his notepad again.

Without Mkhitaryan's thread up front, the midfield combination of Jesse Lingard, Anthony Martial and Juan Mata struggled to penetrate Everton's dense midfield defence, and Romelu Lukaku had to retreat frequently after not receiving support, and United's attack had to concentrate on the flanks again.

The two wing-backs, Blind and Valencia, were barely able to deliver quality crosses in the face of the tight defence of opposition Martina and England international Baines, and the game became extremely dull after a long period of inactivity.

Li Liang had already heard the complaints of the fans behind the bench: "It's a cross again!"

It's a cross again! ”

"Will our coach attack or not!?"

Tang Meng said worriedly: "At the same time, the absolute main force of the two midfielders, Pogba and Mkhitaryan, Manchester United's midfield is becoming less and less energetic!"

Why doesn't Mourinho try Li Liang?! ”

Lu Yue also sighed: "Mourinho is a very great coach and a very controversial coach.

When he was at Chelsea, Romelu Lukaku, Kevin De Bruyne and Salah, including the later Juan Mata, all left Stamford Bridge because they couldn't play -

As a result, everyone has now seen that Romelu Lukaku and Kevin De Bruyne have become top superstars in the Premier League, and even Salah has made a name for himself in Roma and moved to Liverpool this season.

There's an argument that Mourinho isn't good at using technical, creative players –

In short, it is difficult for me to understand, since Mkhitaryan is not in the squad for this game, why not try to use Li Liang as the core of the organization? ”