"Hello, viewers, welcome to watch the 2017-18 season, the eighth round of the Premier League, the game between Liverpool and the Red Devils Manchester United brought to you by LeTV."
"This game was affected by the FIFA virus on the international match day, and both Manchester United and Liverpool suffered injuries."
"For Liverpool, Lovren strained his thigh muscle during the match between Croatia and Slovakia, and Milner and Wijnaldum were also injured."
"And Manchester United's Romero, Ashley Young and Fellaini are also troubled by injuries and are not in the squad for this game!"
"The performance of both sides in the league, Manchester United has entered the state faster than Liverpool this season."
"In the first seven rounds of the league this season, Manchester United has achieved undefeated results and is only four points behind Manchester City at the top of the list. They have great hope of competing for the championship!"
"And if Liverpool lose this game, with the strong performance of Manchester City and the duo this season, they may lose the qualification to win the championship."
"Okay, the players are on the field. This is the lineup of both sides for this game!"
Manchester United:【433】
Goalkeeper: De Gea
Defender: Valencia Smalling Jones Damian
Defensive midfielder: Pog Bamatic
Attacking midfielder: Lingard, Mkhitaryan and Martial
Forward: Lukaku
Liverpool:【433】
Forward: Maneibrahimovic Salah
Midfielder: Moyang Fabinho Lallana
Defenders: Robertson, Van Dijk, Matip Arnold
Goalkeeper: Alisson
In this game, both sides can be said to have the strongest lineups, and the core players are not missing.
As Zhan Jun said, Klopp is bound to win this double red club.
Otherwise, if Manchester City continues to widen the point difference to 8 points, their probability of winning the championship will be infinitely close to zero.
It would be fine in other leagues, but in the Premier League, even 3 points is sometimes enough to make people despair.
"Does anyone feel like I do that Moyang is a lot stronger?"
"I discovered it a long time ago. Mo Yang is obviously building muscle. I hope it won't affect his flexibility! Otherwise it will be a tragedy."
"Personally, I don't think Mo Yang needs to gain muscle. His current body is actually very good for a midfielder. His most important weapon is his aura of breakthrough and unbridled creativity!"
"My enemy! Mo Yang, please don't go astray!"
No, I have to go to his Weibo to remind him not to let this guy mess around."
"Haha! I'm making money from cabbage, but I'm still trying to sell F!"
The time of this game is very friendly to domestic fans. It happened to be 7:30 in the evening, which made the live broadcast room extremely lively.
12:45pm local time in England.
The first round of the 2017-2018 Premier League double red meeting officially started with a whistle from referee Clattenburg.
However, not long after, Klopp, who was as stable as a rock on the coaching bench, suddenly walked to the sidelines.
Because Mo Yang was restricted by Manchester United, the situation was a little bad.
Standing on the sidelines and watching the Manchester United players restrict Mo Yang during the team's two attacks, Klopp had a stern look on his face. He never expected that the Portuguese would come up with new restrictions on Mo Yang.
On the field, Mo Yang launched two charges towards Manchester United in the past six minutes.
But every time he steps into the Manchester United half, no matter which side he is on the left, center or right, he will be surrounded by three to five Manchester United players.
This kind of encirclement can appear anytime and anywhere.
Once Mo Yang fell into the encirclement, Manchester United's defensive players immediately quickly narrowed the area in front of the encirclement and compressed his space for movement.
Not to mention Mo Yang passing the ball after a breakthrough, sometimes he couldn't even get rid of it.
In the 8th minute of the game, Mo Yang came to the right to organize the attack.
As soon as he received Arnold's pass in the ribs, Manchester United's encirclement appeared again.
Martial and Lukaku teamed up to chase back from behind Mo Yang, and Damian on the right side of Mo Yang also blocked Mo Yang's path to the wing.
At the same time, it also blocked the possibility of inserting Arnold's receiving line and Mo Yang's passing ball.
In front of Mo Yang, Matic and Mkhitaryan rushed up from the left and right, restricting Mo Yang from continuing to break into the penalty area.
There was also Jones, who was directly in front of Mo Yang, ready to attack at any time.
The six Manchester United players were like a shrinking square cage that directly filled Mo Yang inside.
In the end, there was no accident. Mo Yang directly knocked down Matic.
But at the moment of impact, Mo Yang still seized the fleeting opportunity and pushed with the arch of his left foot, trying to pass the ball to Salah, who was adducting to the right at the top of the arc.
However, Jones suddenly rushed out of the penalty area and poked the ball away from halfway.
"Although Manchester United did not get the ball in the end in this defense, they did their best to limit Mo Yang's defense this time, and the effect was excellent." Seeing Manchester United's defense of six and one this time, Zhang Lu smiled happily.
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This tactic is not new to Mourinho. He has used it on Messi when he was coaching Inter Milan and Real Madrid.
From another perspective, this means that Mo Yang's comprehensive ability has reached the level of Messi that Mourinho is afraid of.
But now the Mu-style cage tactics used on Mo Yang are more perfect and more targeted.
"Is Mourinho planning to take away a point?"
"This time, even the players on Manchester United's forward line retreated to participate in the defense."
"In this case, what attack can Manchester United have?"
"There were really ten people participating in the defense just now! He didn't want to score?" Zhan Jun smiled and asked the question in his mind.
Although he knew that Mourinho's tactics would never be that simple, he still couldn't figure out how Manchester United could make up for the disadvantage of insufficient offensive numbers while investing so many offensive forces.
"Mourinho should still have an efficient and concise counterattack in this game!"
"We can now see that Manchester United's formation is very compact and does not give Liverpool's players much space for offensive activities."
"During this period, Manchester United's possession rate accounted for less than 30%. Mourinho gave up possession of the ball."
"But although Liverpool has a higher ball possession rate, facing Mourinho's compact formation, they move the ball most of the time. In addition, Mo Yang is greatly restricted by Manchester United and cannot organize.
They can launch an effective attack, so Liverpool can't actually threaten Manchester United at all."
"To sum it up in one sentence, the first part of Mourinho's tactics is to allow Liverpool to control the ball, but not to allow them to create too many offensive opportunities, and then wait for the opportunity to seek the quick, efficient and concise counterattack that he is best at."
"The key to the problem now is how Mourinho threatens Liverpool's goal." Zhang Lu analyzed everything in detail.
Like Zhan Jun, he is also very curious about the second part of Mourinho's tactics.
Although Mourinho has been repeatedly labeled by the media in recent years as "conservative defense", "only a bus driver" and other defensive labels.
This statement is actually wrong and ridiculous!
If Mourinho only knew how to defend, how could he lead his team to win two Champions League titles, as well as multiple league titles such as the Premier League, La Liga, and Serie A.
In Serie A, Mourinho led Inter Milan to win an unprecedented treble in Serie A.
During the Galacticos era, the Real Madrid stars he led set a La Liga single-season scoring record of 121 goals in a single season.
So it is extremely ridiculous to say that such a world-class head coach cannot attack.
He has a complete offensive philosophy of his own.
Therefore, in Zhang Lu's view, whether Manchester United can win this game depends on whether Mourinho can restrain Mo Yang while stimulating Manchester United's offensive attributes in the frontcourt.
Otherwise, once Klopp is asked to come up with countermeasures, Manchester United's outcome may not be too optimistic.