The true face of the 'Red Devils'

(Baonghean.vn) -It seemed like MU was gradually regaining their form, but Jose Mourinho and his students were crushed on their return to Stamford Bridge. People began to doubt the Portuguese coach's sweet words after the disastrous 0-4 defeat to Chelsea.

The irony

When Roman Abramovich - the owner of Chelsea FC fired Mourinho and invited Antonio Conte, it meant that the Russian owner was considering a sustainable solution. Meanwhile, the owner of MU invited the "special person" to Old Trafford to rely on Mourinho's fire-fighting skills.

But yesterday's match at Stamford Bridge showed that only Abramovich was right, and the Glazer brothers do not know when they will see the first results of Mourinho's work.

After the 0-3 defeat to Arsenal at the end of September, the former Juventus and Italy coach boldly switched from the traditional 4-4-2 formation to 3-4-3. The 4-0 win over MU was the third consecutive victory, scoring 9 goals and conceding none. An incredible performance, even though Conte had just finished assembling the squad.

Coach Conte has “revived” Mose and Alonso, two wingers who were abandoned by Jose Mourinho at Chelsea and Real Madrid before. They have effectively locked down the very young MU wingers Lingard and Rashford, limiting Valencia and Blind from joining the attack. Not to mention, Antonio Conte has used Pedro to replace midfielder Willian in a very good way, allowing this Brazilian player to hold the ball and hit straight into the middle.

It took just 30 seconds for Pedro to open the scoring and ruin his former coach Mourinho's plans to bring the bus to Stamford Bridge. In the 70th minute, he had a beautiful one-two with N'golo Kante before the Frenchman sealed a 4-0 victory for Chelsea.

He was brought to Chelsea by Mourinho himself, but in 4 months he only scored 1 goal, but in the reunion with his coach Pedro had 1 goal, 1 assist. What a bitter and ironic result. Coach Antonio Conte was too clever when he left Willian on the bench in this match and only came on to replace Hazard when the match was already decided.

Graceless

In fact, MU is not weak, they still controlled the ball 56%, launched 17 shots, of which 5 were on target, the technical indexes were all higher than the home team Chelsea. But what people expected most was the goal did not come, the Red Devils' strikers were too weak.

Striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic arrived at Old Trafford at the beginning of the season and had a dream start with 4 goals in his first 3 matches but has failed to score in the last 5 Premier League matches.

The 34-year-old assassin had 24 shots but failed to score once, an unstable situation happening in MU's attack.

The 4-2-3-1 formation with Ander Herrera and Fellaini in midfield meant Mourinho freed Pogba from defensive duties but the French midfielder still played quite erratically. Mourinho had Pogba play as an attacking midfielder right behind Ibrahimovic but when facing Luiz and Cahill, he became more clumsy and awkward than ever.

Mourinho out of cards? Internet photo

While on the opposite side, Kante not only did a good job of blocking but also scored a goal himself, people wondered: Where is Pogba's real value? If Pogba "chooses good matches" to play like a sleepy person in the match against Liv, then plays extremely well in the match against Fenerbahce, then disappears from the match against Chelsea, he will always be an "expensive boy" and cannot be a big star.

The attack line had not yet scored a goal but the defense could not withstand the attack of the trio Pedro, Costa, Hazard. Blind's wing was continuously penetrated and center back Smalling appeared confused in front of Chelsea's technical players.

Epilogue

In the Premier League, until yesterday, the two teams had met a total of 49 times. As a result, Chelsea won 17, Man Utd won 13, the remaining 19 matches ended in draws, which is not shameful. But what MU fans are worried about is that Mourinho is still talking about winning the Premier League this season, but in just the first 9 matches, they have received 3 defeats. In addition to the fact that they directly lost to teams competing for the championship such as Arsenal and Chelsea, statistics show that any team that loses more than 6 matches in a season will hardly be able to talk about 2nd place, let alone the championship.

Another worrying thing is that, except for Rojo replacing injured centre-back Bailly, Mourinho failed to make an impression when he brought Mata and Martial onto the pitch. Is it possible that the Red Devils have lost their claws and that's all their true face is?

Goals: Pedro 1', Cahill 21', Hazard 61', Kante 70'.

Line-up:

Chelsea (3-4-3):Courtois 6.5; Azpilicueta 6.5, Luiz 6.5, Cahill (c) 7.5; Moses 6.5, Kante 7.5, Matic 7, Alonso 6.5; Pedro 7 (Chalobah 71, 6), Costa 7 (Batshuayi 78), Hazard 8.5 (Willian 77)

MU (4-2-3-1):De Gea, Valencia, Bailly (Rojo 52), Smalling, Blind, Ander Herrera, Fellaini (Mata 45), Lingard (Martial 65), Pogba, Rashford, Ibrahimovic."

An Thanh