Mourinho's 'homecoming' day

(Baonghean.vn) - If there is a football field in the foggy country that coach Jose Mourinho wants to return to the most, it is Stamford Bridge. MU will enter a match that promises to be very difficult when they have to visit Chelsea's Stamford Bridge on Sunday (October 23). This is the place where Mourinho has many happy and sad memories of his coaching career.

Super Sunday

Jose Mourinho led the Red Devils to Stamford Bridge not “when his hair was still green” but certainly the coach with gray hair “came here to wander in the wind and rain”. The match between host Chelsea and MU is the “Super Sunday” of round 9 of the Premier League and coach Jose Mourinho is the focus of this “Super Sunday” match.

Simply because the Portuguese strategist had twice led "The Blues" and left in anger after winning 8 titles, including 3 Premier League championships.

Coach Mourinho will be the focus of the “Super Sunday” match. Photo: Internet

Along with Mourinho, midfielder Mata is determined to win with MU to get revenge in the reunion with Chelsea. Not long ago, Mourinho himself confessed that he was not the one who forced Mata to leave Chelsea, but the opposite. So surely this time Mata is very eager to prove himself to the old team that once abandoned him.

Therefore, in addition to the professional factor, the presence of Jose Mourinho at Stamford Bridge makes the "Super Sunday" match - the meeting of two English football giants - much more worth watching.

Form

MU is going through October with a tight schedule. They just had a hard-fought goalless draw with Liverpool in the early morning of October 18 at Anfield. Before that, they also drew 1-1 with Stoke in a disappointing match. But in the early morning of October 21, the "Red Devils" just won 4-1 against Fenerbahce in the Europa League.

The most encouraging thing is the brilliance of “blockbuster” Pogba and captain Rooney. Along with the return of a series of players after injuries, that is a great mental lever for them to aim to defeat Chelsea this weekend.

Midfielder Pogba (MU). Photo Internet

With his goal against Bournemouth, Rooney has made history in the Premier League as the player with the highest number of away goals with 87 goals, alongside the legendary Shearer. Before this match, he declared that he wanted to score his 88th goal at Stamford Bridge. Not to mention, MU goalkeeper De Gea has been in extremely good form recently, he has discouraged Liverpool's strikers. Not to mention, in the match against Fenerbahce, young player Lingard scored and assisted for MU for the first time in his career in the same match.

Meanwhile, Chelsea owns Diego Costa - the striker who is leading the scoring list in the Premier League this season with 7 goals. Striker Diego Costa is really a big danger to De Gea's goal in the "Super Sunday" match. In the Premier League, "The Blues" just won the reigning champion Leicester City 3-0 in round 8. Perhaps there is a little doubt when coach Antonio Conte has lost in the battles of the English football giants, Chelsea lost both matches against Liverpool (1-2) and Arsenal (0-3).

If Chelsea coach Antonio Conte is considered to have a very strict tactical mindset, Mourinho is making decisions that are considered "unique". In the match against Liverpool, he started with a 4-2-3-1 formation but unexpectedly pushed Pogba up to play as an attacking midfielder for Zlatan Ibrahimovic; and put captain Rooney in as a center forward in the match against Fenerbahce.

It is not difficult to see that Mourinho has given many key players a rest in the match against Fenerbahce, meaning that the “Special One” is taking this return to his old home very seriously. Is this sweet revenge?

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