"You must keep an eye on Gnabry and don't let him get the ball or break in so easily. Do you understand?"

Van Gaal called Lingard to the sidelines and gave him face-to-face instructions.

In his opinion, the goal conceded this time was entirely because Lingard failed to notice Gnabry's movement, which allowed the opponent to successfully counter offside, and ultimately caused the goal to be lost.

With the Dutch coach feeling extremely depressed at the moment, his attitude towards Lingard was certainly not much better.

"If you let him sneak behind our defense so easily again, just watch the water dispenser from now on!"

This is a reprimand for poor performance of young players, but it also sounds a bit semi-threatening.

Van Gaal always does what he says.

The main reason is that the contrast between Gnabry and Lingard today is too strong.

Both are young players, and they also don't get many opportunities to play in the first team. They also came on the bench in today's game. They happen to be a left winger and a right midfielder, completely opposite.

Lingard is two years older than Gnabry, so he should be more mature technically and mentally.

But judging from the goal just now, Gnabry seems to have completely defeated Lingard.

Gnabry's movement is so smart, but Lingard is like a headless fly!

Therefore, Van Gaal is already reflecting on whether he should give Lingard a chance to play today.

If Lingard's performance does not improve in the next games, perhaps his future with Manchester United will be over.

Don't blame Van Gaal for being ruthless, because professional football is so ruthless.

Every year, every month, every week, how many youth training players from Premier League teams gradually grow up to compete for the pitifully few performance opportunities, and then compete for the only twenty or thirty first-team positions.

How many young players have no chance to enter the first team, but slowly drift to lower leagues, or even stay away from professional football.

Someone like Lingard who has the opportunity to play for a wealthy team can be said to be one in a hundred, one in a thousand.

But since Manchester United is a wealthy team, their requirements for players will be more stringent.

As a result, there are many players who finally made it into the first team and got a chance to play, but failed to show their ability and potential in the limited playing time and were decisively given up.

Their fate is transfer, loan, or even termination of contract...

In fact, Dong Fangzhuo, the former striker of Dragon Kingdom, is almost the same.

He performed well during his loan spell and was put on the first-team roster by Manchester United. In fact, he only had one or two opportunities to perform.

But in these two games (one of which was the start against Chelsea), he did not have any amazing performances.

So, will Manchester United give him more time and games? 10 games, 20 games?

Will not.

Teams have requirements for their own performance and cannot give you so much time to try and make mistakes, especially for wealthy teams.

In a team with strikers like Cristiano Ronaldo, Rooney, and Carlos Tevez, you have so few opportunities, and you have to seize them as soon as you come on the field.

Can't catch it? Sorry.

Of course, it's not just Dong Fangzhuo, young De Bruyne and Salah at Chelsea have encountered similar situations.

Sometimes it's not because the players are incompetent, but maybe because they don't match the coach's tactics or the rhythm of their teammates, they were too nervous to play, or they were NTR'd by their girlfriend the day before the game... it's all possible.

It's just that many times the team only looks at your performance on the field and doesn't care about much else.

There are also some players who seized the opportunity in one or two games, and won the trust of the head coach, and slowly began to play in the game, and even became the main force;

But as long as the performance in the next few games is not good, it is likely that he will sit on the bench again until he is given up...

Just like Paddy McNair, a young player from the youth training who plays the main central defender in Manchester United today and is highly appreciated by Louis van Gaal.

He could start at Manchester United, so why didn't he become famous later? There probably aren't many fans who know this person.

It was because he disappeared from the public not long after and was sold by Manchester United.

Playing in a wealthy club, the competition is so cruel!

Therefore, after Lingard's performance did not quite meet Van Gaal's expectations, Lingard's rating in the eyes of the Dutch coach has dropped another level.

In the remaining half an hour of the second half, it was Lingard's last chance to prove himself!

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Lingard is certainly very nervous now.

In fact, he was fine when he first came on the field, his mentality was relatively relaxed, and he was ready to perform well even if the team fell behind today.

But after Gnabry scored a goal and was scolded by Van Gaal, he became a little panicked.

In fact, Lingard felt that he was a little unjust.

First of all, Manchester United's formation today requires him to play as a right midfielder, which is not something he is familiar with.

He prefers to play as an attacking midfielder, shadow forward, which is a position closer to the goal, or as a winger.

Secondly, Van Gaal asked him to perform more duties as a defender on the court, which is not what he is good at.

Although Lingard can indeed run well on the court and is very active in fighting, he is not a defender after all, and he is not that strong.

He relies more on his dexterity and running position to make up for his shortcomings in strong confrontation, thereby realizing his contribution to the team's offense and defense.

Finally, the goal conceded just now was indeed scored by Gnabry, and Gnabry was indeed guarded by himself.

But the entire scoring process was the result of the overall effect of Chelsea's tightly-operated machine.

Marcos Alonso, Cancelo, Lukaku, Gnabry, these players completed a perfect cross-position, thus completely confusing Manchester United's defensive players-of course including Lin.

Gad.

When Gnabry started running towards the center and made a roundabout way to intervene, Lingard didn't even know if there was an order to continue running with him in his tactical instructions.

After all, Gnabry's running range was relatively large this time, and he had already reached the defensive area of ​​Smalling and McNair when he received the ball.

In this case, should we let the two central defenders defend or let Lingard continue to follow up?

After all, Lingard's main defensive area is still his right wing.

The same goes for Smalling and McNair.

They are also confused, now that Gnabry has started to cross, should I follow him? Or is this actually Lingard's responsibility, so just let Lingard continue to follow?

A "chain of suspicion" is created between the two parties, and there will be problems with their cooperation.

This is actually what Chelsea often play now, through wide-ranging interspersed running, causing the opponent's players to cause confusion in their defensive area, thereby finding more loopholes.

In some places there is overlapping of personnel, and in other places there will naturally be a shortage of personnel.

This situation became even more obvious today after Chelsea used the tactic of two central defenders coming in behind.

It can also be said that Lingard is indeed responsible for the goal conceded just now, but the underlying reason is that Manchester United's defensive system cannot really adapt to Chelsea's new tactical play.

Therefore, when it comes to the field, Manchester United's players are still mobilized everywhere by Chelsea's style of play and are exhausted. Moreover, the defense is often misplaced and the football is extremely difficult.

In the 60th minute, Chelsea launched another attack from the left rib of the center.

This time Azpilicueta detoured to the left to take the ball forward, and Manchester United left him open at that moment.

Lingard saw that Azpilicueta had entered a more dangerous area and rushed forward to cover the defense.

Azpilicueta first made a feint. After seeing that he could not get rid of Lingard's defense, he did not hesitate to fight and passed the ball to Cancelo who came in behind.

After the Portuguese got the ball, he walked to the left side of the penalty area and tried to break through, but Smalling's position was stuck accurately.

Cancelo did not choose to force Smalling, so he immediately turned around, skillfully protected the ball, blocked the Manchester United central defender with his body, and knocked the ball back.

At this time, left center back Marcos Alonso advanced again, and after getting the ball, he took advantage of the situation and cut inside.

This time Manchester United's defense was more focused, with two defenders, McNair and Herrera, attacking at the same time.

Marcos Alonso tried to hit the goal, but McNair was frightened and quickly stepped aside to block it.

But Marcos Alonso suddenly crossed the ball to the right of the penalty spot behind McNair.

I saw that Gnabry had reached this position without knowing when, suddenly came up from behind Herrera, met Marcos Alonso's pass, and fired a furious shot!

Lukaku, who was standing at the center position, was originally going to grab the ball, but when he saw Gnabry coming in, he quickly turned sideways to avoid blocking Gnabry's shooting path.

He is no longer the king of pestles in the future!

And Gnabry's furious shot just passed by Lukaku and went straight to the right side of the goal.

De Gea was helpless against such a shot.

"The ball goes in again!!!!"

"In the 60th minute, Chelsea scored again!"

"Oh my God, Chelsea are four goals ahead now!"

"It's Gnabry again! It's a great back-and-forth volley from Gnabry! He scored twice on his first appearance for Chelsea, and there really couldn't have been a better debut than this.

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"Chelsea's offense was really fierce tonight, and Manchester United's defensive problems were very seriously exposed."

"When Chelsea's central defender moves forward, many times there is no one to defend for the first time. Just now, young player Lingard went up to defend Azpilicueta, but missed Gnabry on the wing. Now
To be continued...