After the Carabao Cup in midweek, Sunderland's focus is back on the league as they travel to a mighty Manchester United side at the weekend, and neither the media nor the fans are optimistic that they will be able to walk away from Old Trafford. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Mourinho's appointment has regained Manchester United's confidence to impact the championship, and the arrival of Mr. Pogba and the free signing of Ibrahimovic, the "Great Bongxian", have made this already strong team even more powerful, and Sunderland, who visited this time, is like a small shrimp, far behind the opponent in any comparison.

Facing opponents who are far stronger than themselves, Nan Xiao still lined up the same lineup as he faced Tottenham Hotspur in the first round of the league, except that Murphy replaced the injured Dokal.

Manchester United's starting lineup is star-studded, Ibrahimovic is a single arrow, behind Martial, Rooney, Juan Mata, Pogba and Herrera form a double midfield, the back line has Blind, Smalling, new signings Bailly and Valencia, and the door is still guarded by Spanish goalkeeper De Gea.

Manchester United fell into a brief trough after the retirement of the old man Alex Ferguson, and the successive coaching of David Moyes and Louis van Gaal did not bring the "Red Devils" Manchester United back to the top four, let alone compete for the title; In the first three rounds of the league, Manchester United defeated Middlesbrough, Southampton and Watford, and beat the "Blues" Chelsea at the top of the table with a goal difference, although the strength of these three opponents is not strong, but fans are still pleased with Mourinho's performance.

Once the game began, United unsurprisingly controlled the situation on the pitch, with Anthony Martial's frequent breakthroughs down the left flank leaving Billy Jones looking stretched and embarrassed; And Pogba's several long-range shots from outside the box also shocked Sunderland's goalkeeper into a cold sweat.

In the 27th minute of the game, the Sunderland team finally made a mistake under the siege of Manchester United, Mata took the ball outside the penalty area and dribbled horizontally, and suddenly found Ibrahimovic in the penalty area with a pick-up pass, Ibrahimovic faced the goalkeeper with a single knife, and was about to shoot with his feet, Kolo Toure on his side hurriedly fell to the ground to block, but he didn't expect Ibrahimovic to fake the real buckle, and shook Kolo Toure's tackle, but Kolo Toure not only did not shovel the ball but brought down Ibrahimovic in the penalty area.

As Ibrahimovic fell to the ground, players on both sides looked at the referee for the first time, only to see a whistle from the referee's mouth, and his left hand resolutely pointed to the penalty spot.

Rooney put the ball on the penalty spot, faced Sunderland goalkeeper Mannone and calmly pushed the ball into the bottom left corner of the goal, the angle was tricky, although Mannone judged the right direction, but he had no choice but to watch the ball fly into the net with his fingertips. Manchester United take a 1-0 lead!

Just before half-time, Sunderland conceded again, this time by Anthony Martial; Anthony Martial is becoming more and more confident in the face of Billy Jones' defense, this time he advanced along the side, saw Billy Jones sticking up, and completed the breakthrough with a bicycle, Kirchhoff saw that Martial was about to dribble into the penalty area, and hurriedly made up for it, but at the same time there was a large gap behind him, so Martial made a one-two cooperation with Ibrahimovic who was outflanked in the middle, easily got rid of Kirchhoff's defense, and then shot straight into the corner of the goal, Mannone did not react to such a close shot, Reluctantly, he turned around again and took the ball out of the goal.

Manchester United returned to the dressing room with a two-goal advantage, while Sunderland unfortunately left the turf at Old Trafford for the time being.

Nan Xiao has long expected the current score on the field, and he does not feel that such a score is unacceptable, he has been very fond of the story of Tian Ji horse racing since he was a child, he thinks that losing one or two games is not terrible, what is terrible is not winning the game that must be won; So during the more than ten minutes of the halftime break, he didn't make too much tactical arrangements, he just told the players a fable of ancient China, the story of Tian Ji horse racing.

In the second half, Sunderland seemed to play more relaxed than in the first half, and some people thought that it was the score on the field that dashed their expectations of picking up points, but only the players who played on the field themselves knew that it was the story of Nan Xiao that made them let go of the heavy burden on their shoulders.

Rather than widening as most expected, the score was pulled back by teenager Carlos towards full-time.

The high pressure of Manchester United's formation gave Sunderland a great opportunity to counter-attack, Herrera's careless pass before the end was tackled by Jedinak, he passed the ball to Elviti next to him for the first time, and Elviti's long over-the-top pass accurately found Carlos from the opposition back line, this was the third time this season that Carlos had won such a long solo goal, his speed was completely beyond the reach of the returning defenders, so after a light pass to the goalkeeper again, Carlos held the ball safe"Stopped" in the Manchester United goal.

Although the goal was no longer a big deal, the fans of Nanshaw and Sunderland were still very happy to see such a sharp counter-attack.

In the end, the Sunderland team unfortunately failed to leave the Old Trafford stadium, before leaving, Nan Xiao also shook hands with Mourinho, and this time Nan Xiao put on Mourinho's ear and said to him: "When you come to our home stadium in the next game, I will definitely not let you take even a point."

Nan Xiao didn't look at Mourinho's expression, he was very satisfied with what he just said, he kept thinking about how the "madman" Mourinho would react when he heard his words? Maybe I'll be able to see the replay tomorrow, and I hope the broadcast footage recorded this interesting scene.

Although the team ushered in the first defeat of the new season, but this did not affect Nan Xiao's good mood, after returning to the team's hotel in Manchester, Nan Xiao said to Chen Mingshuo and Shen Chao: "Tomorrow the first team will rest, let's go to see the training of the youth team, right?"

"What's so nice about youth team training?" Shen Chao said reluctantly.

'We can train with the youth team and prepare for the next game.' Nan Xiao said with a smile.

"That's right! The strength of our youth team is definitely much stronger than that group of students, so we can talk to those kids about a few tricks first. Shen Chao suddenly became interested.

"Then it's decided, we'll go to the youth team training base early tomorrow morning and have a chat with them."

"I don't know if people are willing to compete with us." Chen Mingshuo poured a basin of cold water.

"Hey, our three executives want to discuss with them, they dare to disagree, be careful that Lao Tzu will punish them for their salaries." Shen Chao stuck his waist.

The next afternoon, Nan Xiao and the three arrived at the training base of the youth team in training clothes, and Blake was very surprised by the arrival of the three of them, but he was even more surprised when he learned the purpose of the trip. But forced by the manager's "obscenity", Blake had to blow the assembly whistle and then announce to the youth team players in front of him.

"Today the manager of our team is going to test your quality for himself, so you have to ...... Ahem, behave well. ”