Win Wolves, win West Ham United, and still win Aston Villa, a top 5 team in the Premier League? Today's Manchester United just likes to dominate and disagree, with goals from Hojlund and McTominay, 2-1 away from home, counting the previous draw with Tottenham, the last four Premier League rounds have won 10 points, temporarily sitting in the 6th position in the standings.
In fact, as a traditional giant in the Premier League, Manchester United's ambition is not only to qualify for the sixth League Cup in the Premier League, but also to strive for the top four to reach the Champions League range. So in this game against the divided team, Aston Villa, who are fifth in the Premier League, Manchester United's real idea is to take all three points. That's what they were able to do in the final stages to regain the lead.
What is more puzzling is that Manchester United has hardly made any filling in the winter window, and the coach is still Teng Hi, who has been complained about, and there have been no drastic changes in the formation and style of play. Perhaps the biggest variable lies in the adjustment of employment.
With the formation still unchanged, Ten Hag can only adjust key roles in key positions, such as Antony, who has gradually faded out of the starting lineup in recent games.
Antony has not been in Ten Hag's starting line-up since Manchester United were humiliated 2-1 at Nottingham Forest and veteran Anthony Elanga in the 20th round. Even if Antony scored in the Cup, the number of goals and assists in the league is still an embarrassing zero. His position was also completely occupied by Rashford, which not only directly improved the efficiency of Manchester United's attacking frontcourt, but also increased Manchester United's ability to grab points.
In these games when Antony did not play or could only play as a substitute, the frontcourt trident combination of Hojlund, Rashford and Garnacho can output almost every game, as long as Antony is not there, it seems to be able to reduce the lame link and greatly improve the efficiency of the team's frontcourt cooperation.
Antony was left on the bench in the first win of the season ahead of United's defeat to Nottingham Forest before Antony was on the bench, and as a result, chemistry developed between Hojlund and Marcus Rashford, with Hojlund returning the favor and Hojlund scoring his first Premier League goal.
As a result, I don't know which nerve Teng Hi's brain was wrong against Nottingham Forest, and he continued to let Antony start, not only after the team lost 1-2, he was sold by the veteran Elanga on the sidelines; After Anthony failed to make a humiliating breakthrough in the game, he was directly ridiculed by the opposing player.
may be because of the extreme humiliation, which finally made Teng Hi learn from the pain, and finally made him make up his mind to abolish the 95 million euros that he had hand-picked at the beginning, and finally ushered in the rebirth of Manchester United. It's just that with nearly 100 million yuan of funds to buy such a big lesson, the price is a bit heavy.
Of course, Antony's rapid decline is also related to the domestic violence lawsuit since September last year, if he can completely get out of the family trivialities, maybe he can also let Manchester United return a little bit like Sancho, and even see the hope of being reborn again. After all, after failing to complete the equity change, it is not very likely that the Manchester United top management will continue to build Teng Hi with one or two billion euros.