Chapter 197： Mercury

On the afternoon of January 25, Manchester United's FA Cup match against Birmingham officially began at St Andrews Stadium, home of Birmingham.

Just after the game began, Manchester United launched an onslaught against Birmingham's goal. Today, the two players in the partner midfield are Manchester United's first team substitutes Shinji Kagawa and Fletcher. Both of them have a certain level: Fletcher is Manchester United. The veteran, produced by Manchester United youth academy, is not disciplined and diligent, except that the talent limit is placed there. If you go to a Premier League mid-downstream team, it is fine, but in the current Manchester United team, there is really no him. Position; similar to his situation, Kagawa Shinji, once Dortmund's frontcourt offensive core, aura of technical players, but because of poor physical confrontation, he has not played in Manchester United.

Even so, the midfield combination of the two of them is more than enough for Birmingham. In the opening stage, the two organized the midfield of Manchester United in an orderly manner, the team's offense and defense were orderly and very smooth.

The Manchester United's offensive players in today's frontcourt are all fast and dexterous players, Icardi with excellent running position, Salah and Dembele with excellent ball control, and Nani in excellent form. The cooperation of four people brought great trouble to Birmingham.

Just 10 minutes after the game, Manchester United had consecutive opportunities to threaten the ball.

This time it was Manchester United's midfield ball control. Kagawa Shinka flexibly passed the Birmingham steals. He divided the ball to the right and gave it to Salah. Salah, who performed well in previous games, continued. His good condition, this game is very active on the right, breaking through the defense of Birmingham again and again, making Birmingham's defensive players endlessly.

Salah quickly plugged in and received the ball. He saw that the frontcourt player had not yet run in place, so he did not pass the ball, but instead drew to the side. Two players in Birmingham blocked it immediately.

Salah didn't hesitate. He continuously changed his direction, passed a defensive player in Birmingham, and then continued to cut forward.

Another defensive player didn't dare to go up easily. He kept backing in front of Salah and kept the defensive formation.

At this time Salah found that someone had besieged it in the middle, it was the French teenager Dembele.

In the current starting lineup, Salah and Dembele are the fastest. After seeing Salah catching the ball, Dembele quickly moved forward in the middle to prepare for the response.

When Dembele was about to run in place, Salah made a stealth low-footed pass and the ball slid towards the center of the penalty area.

The ball was extremely fast and the Birmingham goalkeeper did not dare to attack easily. He could only stand there and prepare for the save.

Dembele's footsteps were fast, and the Birmingham defender could not keep up with his speed. When the ball came near the penalty spot, Dembele caught up and shoveled, and the ball went straight into the dead corner.

1 to 0! Manchester United made a big start!

Compared with usual, Manchester United fans who followed the team today to watch the game away are not many, but when they saw the ball enter the net, the fans still cheered!

"The goal is beautiful!"

"Dembele is good!"

"Sarah is so handsome!"

At the same time, on the visiting Manchester United coach, everyone was very happy.

Although the goal was scored, Jin Taige did not show a very happy look, first because it was just the FA Cup he gave up, and second because the opponent Birmingham was not enough to watch. If you score goals and win, then you don't have to say anything about the triumph of the Triple Crown.

The game reached the 24th minute. This time it was Salah's ball control. He broke through the sideline again and passed the ball to the center of the penalty area. Icardi tried to head the goal and the ball hit the crossbar. Unfortunately, the bottom line popped up.

Seeing that he missed the opportunity to score, Icardi was annoyed to hammer the post, but he still did not forget to reach out to Salah and pointed out his thanks, and thanked him for his accurate pass.

The game kicked for half an hour. Manchester United's home in Birmingham was not tied at all. Their cooperation was like the flow of mercury, flowing and flowing. This made Jin Taige off the court very happy.

Ferran said excitedly: "If these guys can bring this state to the Premier League, that would be great."

Scholes shook his head: "The Premier League team's defense is much stronger than Birmingham. They can cooperate here, it does not mean that he can play in the Premier League."

Kintag agreed with Scholes' point of view: "Paul you are right, Birmingham is really not good enough. They have limited strength and insufficient defensive ability. Just like Icardi's header from the goal just now, don't say anything else. The top center back, even if he replaced Smolin to defend him, he couldn't take the jump to the header so easily ~ www.novelhall.com ~ But even so, they are still very young, and it will become a great skill in time. "

The three were chatting, and at this time Manchester United's offensive started again.

This time it was Dembele who controlled the ball.

Seeing the wonderful performance of Salah in the opening stage, Dembele couldn't sit still. In the youth team, Dembele is recognized as the best young player in technology, even Sane and Asensio, who are also excellent in technology. They admire him very much. Compared with other players, Dembele is extremely fast, excellent dribbling, and superb shooting skills. His most dazzling is the excellent balance of left and right feet, which makes him the core of the frontcourt in the youth team.

In this game, Gintag made him start and ambush behind Icardi, on the one hand he wanted to take advantage of his speed advantage, on the other hand it gave him more space and the opportunity to get the ball.

Dembele received a pass from Fletcher. He started dribbling forward from the midfield and passed all the way to the penalty area.

Seeing that Dembele was so flexible, the players in Birmingham approached the defense, blocking his route and blocking the space for his shot.

However, I did not expect that Dembele did not continue to move forward, nor did he kick the shot forcibly. He paused for two seconds and then gently pushed the ball to the right.

At this time, a figure on the right forward quickly.

It's Salah!

The excellent performance of Dembele just made Birmingham players forget for a while, there is another super-threatening opponent on the side of the pitch. At this point Salah ran all the way to the right of the penalty area, Dembele's pass was just in place, Salah received the ball, he was empty in front of him.

Salah took a couple of steps and shot at the edge of the penalty area. The ball passed under the arm of Birmingham goalkeeper and flew into the net.

2 to 0! Manchester United expand the score advantage!