August has passed, the Premier League has started, the Champions League has settled, and the battle in European football has set off a small climax.

The week of early September was the national team break day, and the national team members of the various clubs left the team one after another to report to the national team.

The attention of the fans is on the national team competition.

Fans from all over the world watched the game with great interest, while the managers of the big teams were worried and frightened.

Once a player is injured in the national team, it's a problem......

For Manchester United, the result was not bad, with the players largely uninjured.

It's just that the physical fitness has some effect.

It doesn't matter, as long as no one gets hurt.

On 10 September, Manchester United travelled to Britannia Stadium to take on Stoke City.

This is the fourth round of the Premier League and Mourinho is very serious.

Three days later, Manchester United will face the first round of the Champions League group stage, where they will travel to Borussia Dortmund.

It was arguably the hardest game for United in the group stage.

Until then, you have to stabilize the league before you can go all out against your Champions League opponents.

Manchester United sent a rotation squad for this game, and basically none of the players who played for the national team last week played today.

For example, Lukaku, Mkhitaryan, Pogba, Nemanja Matic, Jesse Lingard and other players.

The debutants are mainly veterans.

Rooney, Carrick, Ibrahimovic and other players.

These veterans have all retired from the national team and there are no national team events, so the fitness is very good, and it is appropriate to start this game.

Among them, Xia Xing is the youngest one.

After all, he doesn't have a national team either.

Agent Mendes told him that the England national team had made an offer to him and promised a large sum of money.

There is even a captaincy status.

But Xia Xing still refused.

The reason is simple, there is no interest in playing at the national team level.

France, Germany, Argentina, Brazil and other countries have also contacted Mendes to try to dig up Xia Xing to see if there is a chance.

Xia Xing is better and doesn't care.

I'm not interested, I just want to play club games now.

So after a week of recuperation, he also got the chance to start consistently.

This game is against Stoke City, and Manchester United are bound to win.

Last season, this opponent barely succeeded in relegation, and this season is still in poor form, opening three rounds, two draws and one loss, and then struggling in the relegation zone.

In this game against Manchester United, they still lined up with an iron bucket.

Coach Mark Hughes is very self-aware.

Playing Manchester United, it's good to get a point, don't think about miracles.

So even though they have a strong striker Choupo-Moting, a high-school striker Crouch, and an excellent individual Shaqiri and other attacking players, they still retreat across the board in this game.

5-4-1 formation, the tactics are clear.

Manchester United's game was naturally an all-out attack.

Ibrahimovic is up front, with Xia Xing, Wayne Rooney and Anthony Martial behind him, and Herrera and Juan Mata in the midfield position.

It's still 4-2-3-1, but it's 4-2-4.

But even so, they still had a lot of trouble in this game.

The captain of the opposing team in this match was Scottish player Fletcher.

He was born and raised in the Manchester United Academy and spent more than a decade at the club before leaving in 2015.

He moved to Stoke City on a free transfer this summer and quickly became the heart of the midfield with his consistent performances.

He was in charge of the team's midfield playmaking and the team's defence was well organized.

There is also a midfielder, Jose, who is a wide attacker for Stoke City.

He was once a talented player in Real Madrid's academy but never played at Real Madrid and opted to move to Paris last season.

But in Paris, too, he didn't have much opportunity to perform.

This season he went on loan at Stoke City.

As an attacking player, his task at Stoke City is to counter-attack quickly.

The only draw of the season was his quick counter-attack, setting up Choupo-Moting to score from the spot.

He was an important tactical link for Stoke City.

From the first minute of the game, Stoke City retreated decisively.

Manchester United attacked all over the line, but it was difficult to find the back of the net.

Until the end of the first half, United failed to score.

On the contrary, Stoke City almost scored with a brilliant counterattack from Jesse.

This made Mourinho on the sidelines frown.

At half-time, he made a decisive substitution.

Directly used up the two substitutions!

Centre-back Phil Jones comes off and Marouane Fellaini comes on.

Anthony Martial came off and Scott McTominay came on.

After those two substitutions, the Reds changed to a 3-3-4 formation.

Up front, in addition to Ibrahimovic and Wayne Rooney, new players Marouane Fellaini and Scott McTominay also pushed into the box.

Both of them are more than 1.9 meters high, and Mourinho wants the two to start bombing mode!

And Xia Xing, Juan Mata and Herrera in midfield, as well as Luke Shaw and Valencia on the wing, their goal is to cross!

Decisive cross!

Such a simple and decisive change of formation made Stoke City a little difficult to parry.

In the 67th minute, Manchester United finally broke the deadlock.

With a succession of low crosses, Stoke City have defended hard.

Even Xia Xing struggled to find particularly good crosses.

This time, he fought his way through the crowd and rushed to the bottom line!

Press on the bottom line and cross directly!

The ball found the young McTominay accurately!

Manchester United's youngster leaps high and hits the goal with a header!

The ball smashes into the net!

1 to 0!

Manchester United finally scored a goal!

McTominay was delighted to hear the goal!

He strode towards Xia Xing and hugged Xia Xing tightly!

“xia！ Thanks for the pass! ”

"Wheat, your header is amazing! Congratulations on scoring your first Premier League goal! ”

Jose Mourinho on the sidelines of the pitch was also smiling.

yes, the first goal in the Premier League, that's good.

When he arrived at Manchester United last summer, he was the first to go to the youth team.

He took a fancy to the tall McTominay at a glance.

However, the first team did not have his place and opportunities, so Mourinho was not in a hurry to promote him to the first team last season.

This season, the pressure on multiple fronts has increased, and Wheat has finally become a member of Manchester United's first-team team.

Now, he has proven his hard work with his great performances!

He's not the kind of player with extraordinary talent, but he's the kind of player who is tenacious and hard-working!

That's Mourinho's favourite feature!

With one goal in the first place, Manchester United is finally stable!

And that's not the end of it.

Six minutes later, it was Xia Xing's cross from the left again!

Fellaini was found exactly this time!

The Belgian midfielder had already stepped forward, squeezed through the defense, jumped high and hit the goal with a header!

The ball smashed into the top right corner of the net!

The door will not have time to react in the future!

2 to 0!

Manchester United scored another goal!

This game they are stable!

The magic bird changes formation and allows Manchester United to break the deadlock!

The three points are coming! (End of chapter)