For a mature team, the fans' expectations can naturally be ignored at certain times!
After all, as long as you can keep winning, you can stop all doubts!
But Mourinho felt very unhappy!
Because he discovered something.
In terms of strength alone, this Manchester United team is really average!
Mourinho's ability to lead the team to the current results is really the limit!
But Manchester United fans are immersed in the glory of the past and take the team's current results for granted!
Instead, Mourinho was asked to play offensive football to please the fans!
Isn’t this nonsense!
This is what makes Mourinho most angry.
However, Mourinho's first consideration is how to defeat Stoke City in the next round of Premier League games!
On January 21st, the match between Manchester United and Stoke City officially started!
Mourinho chose to put Rashford at the center position!
This is also a helpless move.
Because Manchester United really has no center available.
I didn’t feel it when Ibrahimovic was here!
Once Ibrahimovic is injured, you will know how deep Manchester United's lineup is!
Tell the truth!
Mourinho wants to move Fellaini to the center position!
At any rate, Fellaini's header is good and can become the team's frontcourt fulcrum!
If Lin Feng can establish a bond with Fellaini, he can really do this!
Lin Feng has always done a very good job of passing the ball directly to the center!
However, in the Manchester United team, except for Ibrahimovic, Lin Feng's relationship with everyone else is very average, and it is impossible to activate the bond.
This is a bit difficult to handle.
Lin Feng can still pass the ball across the half-court in an aggressive manner, but if the frontcourt cannot catch the ball smoothly, it will lose its meaning.
It's not that the other players' skills are not good, but this kind of long-range pass, in addition to the passer's passing skills, really depends on the tacit understanding.
After all, the longer the ball flies in mid-air, the more time it gives the opponent to react!
"Ouch! Did Lin Feng make a mistake in passing the ball again? The pass was a little too big!"
Zhan Jun's voice sounded in the Longguo broadcast room.
"It's not that Lin Feng made a mistake in passing the ball, it's that Rashford started obviously a beat too late!"
"With this kind of pass, the chance you can seize is just a split second!"
"If you don't start chasing the ball, it will be the passer's fault!"
Huang Jianxiang's commentary position has naturally never changed, and he is naturally speaking for Lin Feng at this time.
It makes sense for him to say that.
But judging from the scene, it was indeed Lin Feng's passing error.
But once Rashford catches up with football, it will be a perfect opportunity!
Why is Ibrahimovic scoring so efficiently this season?
It is the tacit understanding between him and Lin Feng that allows Ibrahimovic to always run out of the extreme position of Lin Feng's pass!
Then, just do what a center should do most and that’s it!
Hit the ball directly into the goal!
"Seeing Lin Feng's current scene reminds me of another talented player from the Dragon Kingdom back then!"
Taking advantage of the situation on the court becoming dull, Huang Jianxiang suddenly said with some emotion.
"You're talking about Chen Tao, right?"
Zhan Jun nodded and guessed it quickly.
"That's right! It's him!"
"In that year's World Youth Championship, he and Messi were selected into the best team!"
"But now, look at Messi and then look at Chen Tao! The gap is really huge!"
Huang Jianxiang shook his head repeatedly.
"When he was in the national team, Chen Tao would often pass such threatening balls!"
"But unfortunately, other players in our team have really poor awareness of pushing forward!"
"This resulted in all Chen Tao's threatening shots turning into mistakes!"
"The rating after the game was also the lowest!"
Huang Jianxiang added.
"So that's it!"
Many Dragon Kingdom fans suddenly realized after hearing Huang Jianxiang's popular science.
Just tell me why this game looks so wrong!
Lin Feng's passing turnover rate is a bit too high.
It turns out that my teammates are not doing their best!
However, Dragon Country fans have Huang Jianxiang to popularize the knowledge.
No one from the Manchester United fans came to speak up for Lin Feng.
The commentator of Manchester Sports Media criticized Lin Feng at this time!
"A goalkeeper should not take on too many game tasks!"
"It makes other players look like show-offs!"
"Goalkeepers should do what they are supposed to do!"
The narrator said this.
Combined with the scenes of this game, many Manchester United fans felt that the commentary made sense!
In the first half of the game, the two teams tied 0:0!
Manchester United didn't even organize a decent attack!
And the Stoke City team, due to the gap in strength, was not able to pose a threat to the goal guarded by Lin Feng!
"Coach! We need a ground attack!"
"Lin! I think you should reduce your big feet in the backcourt!"
Rashford plays the center position for the first time this season, and is obviously very uncomfortable!
In the first half of the game, Rashford did not receive the ball smoothly.
It's not that Lin Feng has never passed the ball to Rashford in previous games.
But the playing requirements for the wing and the center are different.
There is more space on the wing, so it will be easier for Rashford to catch the ball and break through.
But at the front of the central penalty area, Rashford encountered the tight defense of Stoke City, and it became very difficult to catch the ball.
Lin Feng heard Rashford's voice and ignored him!
Don’t blame others for your own food!
Mourinho frowned.
As a head coach, he can see what Rashford is good at!
No comparison with Ibrahimovic!
But Mourinho cannot completely look at the problem from Lin Feng's perspective.
How to solve it is the key.
There is no high center forward in the frontcourt, so it is indeed better to attack on the ground.
"Forest!"
"In the second half, reduce the amount of kicking and start the attack directly!"
"Pogba! In the second half, you held the ball more and organized and provided support!"
Mourinho made his choice.
In the past, Lin Feng was relied upon to launch a counterattack, and there was no need to go through the midfield.
Now when he had to launch a counterattack through the midfield, Mourinho found that he really had to rely on Pogba!
Pogba is reused again, so he is naturally happy!
Pogba has been very honest during this period, but that doesn't mean he doesn't want to regain his core position!
"It should have been arranged like this a long time ago!"
Pogba thought silently in his heart.
Lin Feng didn't say much and remained silent.
Mourinho glanced at Lin Feng and said nothing.
Everything is about victory!
The second half of the game begins.
After using the ground attack, with the addition of Lin Feng's multiple team characteristics, Manchester United's offensive performance is really much better!
In the 65th minute of the game, after receiving an inverted triangle pass from Mkhitaryan, Rashford shot directly and hit the crossbar!
This is the closest Manchester United has come to scoring a goal!
"I'll just say it!"
"It would have been over if we had just kicked like this!"
Although no goal was scored, many Manchester United fans had already started cheering!
The momentum is completely different, right?
But what Manchester United fans didn't expect was that all this was just a short-lived illusion!