Starting with saving Manchester United

"What did you say?"

In the suburbs of London, at the hotel where Manchester United, who had come south from Manchester, had signed a cooperation agreement, Yang Fan heard some shocking news.

"Just now at Stamford Bridge, in Wenger's 1000th match, Arsenal suffered a humiliating 0-6 defeat to Chelsea!" Paul Brand was equally shocked.

This is incredible!

Yang Fan was surprised that his butterfly effect changed Manchester United's draw, but failed to change the "tragedy" of Wenger being thrashed by Mourinho in his 1000th game.

"Wenger was furious and didn't even attend the post-match press conference."

"In addition, according to the live match report, in Cardiff, Solskjaer's team is facing Liverpool. Only 25 minutes into the game, the two sides have already scored 3 goals, and Cardiff is temporarily leading 2-1."

This was another high-scoring game!

Yang Fan remembered that in his previous life, this match was 6-3, with Liverpool coming from behind to win away from home.

Liverpool are truly strong this season.

Suarez and Sturridge are playing at the peak of their careers, occupying the top two spots in the Premier League top scorers list.

"The pressure of competition is too great these days!" Mike Phelan said with a sense of sympathy.

This is also why he has always been unwilling to coach independently.

Head coaches often have to bear too much pressure, which can really be overwhelming.

Steve Lund nodded in agreement, "Now there is an increasing emphasis on teamwork, but if even one position is not done well, the opponent will often seize the opportunity to attack, and even score goals again and again."

Just like Arsenal in this match.

Yang Fan had paid attention to this match in his previous life, and many people were focused on that red card.

Chamberlain handled the ball in front of the goal, resulting in the referee mistakenly sending Gibbs off.

This was certainly a basic misjudgment, but the red card was correct.

However, it would be a big mistake to think that Arsenal's crushing defeat was solely due to the red card.

The first three goals occurred within a short period of ten minutes, and they all followed the same pattern.

After Chelsea intercepted the ball near the halfway line, they quickly attacked behind Arsenal's defense.

Arsenal were completely helpless against this, and were repeatedly overwhelmed by Chelsea's counter-attacks.

The most outrageous thing is that after conceding goal after goal, Wenger did not choose to retreat to the defense at all, but continued to attack Chelsea.

To put it bluntly, if Chelsea hadn't held back a little, Arsenal would have suffered an even more astonishing defeat.

Mourinho's tactics for this match were to target Arsenal's weaknesses.

Current football trends favor high pressing, emphasize rapid transitions between attack and defense, and focus on attacking the opponent's weak points, all of which contribute to frequent high-scoring games.

But Yang Fan strongly agrees with a statement made by the legendary Boban Marshall.

High-pressing, fast-paced offense and defense, or overall tactics are not inherently wrong.

The real culprit is the head coach who failed to select and adjust tactics based on the team's actual situation.

Just like Wenger in this match.

Your high press failed, and the opponent repeatedly intercepted the ball near the midline. Why didn't you drop back to defend?

Wenger was like that, and so was Guardiola.

Their approach can be described as idealism by those with high emotional intelligence, or as inflexibility by those with low emotional intelligence.

Yang Fan is different.

Whether in his past life or this one, he believed in pragmatism.

……

17:20 PM, Upton Park Stadium, East London.

In the home team's dressing room, Sam Allardyce was given Manchester United's starting lineup for this match.

It's still a three-defender formation.

Goalkeeper: De Gea;

Defense: Smalling, Ferdinand, Phil Jones;

Midfielders: Evra, Cleverley, Fletcher and Rafael; Attacking midfielders: Fellaini and Juan Mata;

Forward: Rooney.

"They actually dare to use three defenders? Do they really think Downing is too old?"

Allardyce was somewhat surprised, and also somewhat angry.

West Ham's wing strength is by no means weak, with a winger like Downing who once dominated the Premier League.

That rookie at Manchester United actually dared to use a three-man defense?

"And then there's Rooney, Juan Mata, and Fellaini. These three players have already been proven to be completely incompatible. How dare he still use them?"

"Could it be a return to a 4-3-3 formation? Phil Jones has performed well playing as a defensive midfielder, Rooney on the left, Fellaini in the center, and Juan Mata on the right?" Assistant coach Neil McDonald asked.

Since the starting lineup is ordered by player numbers and not by specific positions, they can only guess.

"No, we'll be playing Olympiacos on Wednesday. The three-man defense was well-organized, and the extra man made an immediate difference. He won't make any changes easily."

Allardyce thought for a moment, "More importantly, he now has to be rotated."

With its core players aging and the team plagued by injury-prone players like Van Persie and Fletcher, the team is also facing the challenge of competing on two fronts.

All of these factors forced Yang Fan to rotate his team.

McDonald immediately understood what the head coach meant: "So he'll still do what he did on Wednesday?"

"He has no experience and just took over. He should play it safe from the start!" Allardyce said with certainty.

Manchester United's defense cannot be stabilized by a single big win.

More importantly, in such a short period of time, how could Yang Fan, a complete novice with no experience, possibly take over the Manchester United dressing room?

How is that possible?

"This time, we're going to teach that rookie a lesson on our home turf!" Big Sam shouted, clenching his fists.

He was not only encouraging himself, but also instilling that fighting spirit in the West Ham United players during his subsequent pre-match pep talk.

Since February, West Ham United have won four consecutive home games, scoring nine goals and conceding only two. However, due to their poor away record, they remain in 10th place.

With Manchester United currently in turmoil, Allardyce wants to seize this opportunity to take a step forward.

"Step onto the pitch and show those Manchester United bastards who owns East London!"

The West Ham United players responded to the manager's call with great fighting spirit.

……

Amidst the deafening roar of 35,000 West Ham United players, Juan Mata kicked the ball to Rooney with a whistle from referee Lee Mason.

The latter quickly passed the ball back to Smalling.

Almost simultaneously, Andy Carroll, wearing the number 9 jersey for the West Hammers, rushed out at top speed.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex charged towards Smalling first, and after seeing Smalling pass the ball back to De Gea in the penalty area, it turned around and charged towards De Gea.

The Spanish goalkeeper had just stopped the ball near the penalty spot when Andy Carroll was already there.

De Gea got there first, kicking the ball forward with a long kick. The English Tyrannosaurus Rex jumped over and tried to block the ball.

Fortunately, De Gea's long kick was timely and was not intercepted.

But it still gave everyone a fright.

"West Ham United were very motivated today and came out on a fierce attack."

"This was clearly instructed by manager Allardyce to take advantage of Manchester United's away game and their instability to gain the upper hand."

Gary Neville once again served as a guest commentator in the media area at Upton Park, providing commentary for the match.

Three days ago, his commentary at Old Trafford was criticized by many viewers and even Sky Sports executives for being too biased, so his tone has changed somewhat today.

But I still like to bring up the past all the time.

Just like when Gary Neville saw West Ham United press aggressively at the start of the game, and Manchester United made several long passes from their own half but couldn't find anyone, he said something like that.

"When we were playing football, Sir Alex Ferguson always told us not to just blindly kick the ball long like that."

"Manchester United players are superior in ability and can definitely take possession of the ball."

"But the three-defender tactic has weaknesses on the flanks, and Carrick is not playing."

"To be honest, I don't understand Manchester United's lineup tonight at all."

Just as West Ham United were putting pressure on Manchester United in the attacking third, making it difficult for the Red Devils to organize an effective attack, Rooney intercepted a cross from the opponent near the bottom of the center circle in the Hammers' half, just 3 minutes and 29 seconds into the game.

After winning the ball, Rooney immediately turned around and dribbled forward.

After entering the 30-meter zone, the ball was quickly passed to Juan Mata on the right flank.

With his back to the right sideline, the Spaniard, without stopping the ball with his left foot, chipped it over Rooney's pass.

Fellaini dashed forward quickly.

But center-back James Collins got there first, clearing the ball with a header.

In a hasty attempt to clear the ball, it wasn't headed far enough.

Rooney quickly caught up, chested the ball down, and then dribbled it out again, heading towards the left side of the penalty arc.

Almost simultaneously, Juan Mata quickly cut diagonally from the right side of the arc to the left side of the penalty spot.

Another center-back, Tomkins, was blocking Rooney just outside the penalty area when Juan Mata sneaked in from behind.

Rooney dribbled into the encirclement of three players, faced Tomkins, first took a step with his right foot, feinted, and then gently passed the ball forward after Tomkins took a shot.

Mata arrived quickly, caught up with Rooney's through ball, stopped it, and then launched a low left-footed pass to the far post from the left side of the six-yard box.

Fellaini made a run to the far post, slid in and fired a shot that nestled into the bottom right corner of West Ham United's goal.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"

"Goal!!"

"Less than four minutes into the game, Manchester United launched a quick counter-attack after winning possession in the attacking third."

"Juan Mata assists Fellaini to score!"

After scoring, Fellaini excitedly rushed to the sidelines and jumped high in celebration.

Rooney and the others followed closely behind, surrounding him.

On the sidelines, Yang Fan, who was originally sitting in front of the away team's coaching bench, was so excited when he saw Fellaini score that he jumped out of his seat and excitedly waved his right fist to cheer for Fellaini's goal.

"Well done, Marouvan!"

Not far from him, Allardyce, standing in front of the home team's coaching bench, looked very serious.

broken!

The situation is not good!