Despite having already decided to leave the new United after the season, Bruce is still doing the same, as if nothing happened, and he will raise his voice when the players show even the slightest slack on the training ground.

I don't know if it's the result of Xiao Yu's subtle influence beside him, or other reasons, Bruce's temper in some aspects has some signs of moving closer to Ferguson, at least his hair dryer skills are getting more and more skillful, the only regret is that Bruce's figure is also out of shape unconsciously.

Many professional players will slowly gain weight after retiring, and Bruce has the potential to do this now.

There were only three people who knew that Bruce was leaving, so it was business as usual at the club and everything went according to plan.

On November 1, the selection of the best coach of the month in the national league was announced, without exception, with the outstanding performance of the new Manchester United in October, Bruce was once again elected the best coach of the month, and the new Manchester United Kicic won the title of the best player again.

On November 6, the new Manchester United ushered in the first round of the FA Cup, hosting the Maggsfield team from the English League C, this team is ranked 15th in the English League so far this season, and the strength is considered to be in the middle of the English League C, and the offensive and defensive ability are very average.

The new Manchester United's home game against Magsfield did not attract much attention, after all, it was only the first round of the FA Cup, and without the intervention of teams such as the Premier League and League One, such a game would not be noticed by anyone other than local fans.

So despite the new Manchester United's 2-1 home win over Magsfield to reach the second round of the FA Cup, the local Manchester City Evening News reported in a small article, it took up even less space than the league.

On the 8th, the FA's draw results for the second round of the FA Cup were officially announced, and this time the new Manchester United drew a League Two team, a team that Xiao Yu is very familiar with, Reading!

Reading is also a long-established club, founded in 1871 but with a long history of playing in the lower leagues of England.

In the 94-95 season, Reading was promoted to League One again and finished second in League One in the first year, but because the Premier League reduced the number of participating teams from 22 to 20, Reading could not be promoted directly and was forced to participate in the play-offs, but was eliminated by Bolton and failed to be promoted to the Premier League.

In the 95-96 season, Reading had a terrible run in League One, finishing 19th by the end of the season, and the following 96-97 season was equally unsatisfactory, and finally relegated to League Two in the 97-98 season.

After that, although the owners of Reading Club were bent on bringing Reading back to glory, but Reading's performance has not been satisfactory, as a relegation team, Reading has been in the middle of the League Two table for two consecutive years, so far this season, Reading are in 13th place in League Two, promotion is already quite a difficult thing.

Despite this, Xiao Yu still attaches great importance to this game.

According to Bruce and the coaching staff, Reading have been terrible in attack this season, scoring just 15 goals in 18 league games, but conceding 21 goals, while there have been seven draws in 18 league games, relying on the team's tenacious defence.

It can be seen that even if they are playing at home, Reading will still use the defensive counterattack that the team is best at.

Bruce reacted to this, with a rare lineup with a strong attacking surname in the away game, although it was still 442, but the two full-backs were given more attacking tasks, and the midfield configuration was Juninho Jr. partnering Poulsen, the two wing-backs were also using Knorvic and Hleb, who were doing better and better, and the forwards were Kic and Olich.

The game at the Madhiski Stadium was a thrilling affair that was even harder than the new Manchester United's away game at Kidminster, as Reading defended so fiercely that they did not change their colors against a team two levels below them.

"I wonder why anyone would compare Reading to a cookie man?" Xiao Yu felt that this analogy was not appropriate at all.

In reality, Reading played the kind of fierce football and they were very defensive, which led to their team being like a pang from front to back, but it was precisely because of this that it was clear that the new United were very uncomfortable with this kind of fierce confrontation at the beginning of the game.

But Reading's tactics that worked against other teams clearly didn't work for the new United.

Juninho, who has shown his free-kick prowess since his free-kick prowess against Kidminster, is now the new United's chief set-piece specialist, and his set-pieces are better than Darren Lyones's, whether it's scoring directly or indirectly assisting team-mates.

Reading's biggest mistake in this game was that they ignored a set-piece in front of the new Manchester United.

In the 26th minute of the first half, Reading's left wing-back tripped New Manchester United's right midfielder Hleb on the left side of the penalty area, and the referee awarded New United a free-kick in front.

Juninho Jr. walked towards the penalty spot and staggered past Hleb, who made a gesture towards Juninho Jr. to finish them off, and Juninho Jr. nodded calmly in agreement.

According to the usual, as long as there is a chance for the new Manchester United frontcourt set-piece, Abidal, Distin, Kicic and other tall men will invariably squeeze into the penalty area, and at the same time, the periphery is the heavy gunner Novick and Paulson, so the free kick tactics of the new Manchester United often work.

This time, Juninho Jr. made a gesture at the back point, and Kic, who was standing at the front point, immediately understood, almost at the same time as Juninho Jr. took the free kick, he ran forward, and immediately attracted the opposing defenders who were paying attention to him.

Juninho's free kick was fast, a little high, but when it was close to the back point, there was a quick fall, so Abidal, who was ambushed at the back point, effortlessly pushed the ball into the goal under the cover of Distin, 0:1!

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Reading, who were a goal behind, looked a little flustered, and their defensive resolve wavered as they began to look for an equaliser.

In such an emotion, the team is out of touch, which suddenly gives the new Manchester United another opportunity to take advantage of.

Or little Juninho, in the 43rd minute, in the backfield after receiving the pass after Abidal broke the ball, immediately straight to the opponent's defense, the teenager Hleb almost all the way to the offside, successfully anti-offside, shook off all the opponent's defenders, single-handedly faced the goalkeeper, calmly scored the ball, 0:2!

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Falling behind by two goals put Reading in a complete dilemma, this is the FA Cup, unless this game is drawn, there is only one leg, so no matter which way you think about it, Reading can only attack in the second half.

In this regard, Bruce was obviously prepared, and at half-time, he asked his players to defend the second half, and everyone had to wake up the spirit of 12 points, and not give Reading even the slightest chance.

You know, Reading is a League Two team, as the saying goes, there are still three pounds of nails in the broken boat, Reading can mix in the League Two, and it is impossible to have no strength.

Sure enough, things were just as Bruce expected, and Reading launched a fierce attack on the new Manchester United at the start of the second half.

This season, after the introduction of speed central defenders such as Abidal and Distin, especially after the game against Kidminster, Bruce was very bold to push the new Manchester United defense forward, and then when defending, he mobilized the personnel of all three lines to form three closely coordinated defensive lines.

Such a defensive line has layer, depth, width and depth, and the new Manchester United have a group of players at hand, which makes the new Manchester United defensive this season solid.

Reading's attacking power was already weak, and they could hardly find anything to do in the face of the new Manchester United's solid defence.

After the new United survived the first 20 minutes of the second half, Reading's attacking momentum gradually stopped, but it was at this time that the new Manchester United attack once again showed its fangs.

In the 68th minute of the second half, Paulsen broke the ball in the backfield and passed to Olic who came back to receive the ball, who quickly dribbled the ball and made a beautiful two-on-one with Juninho Jr., who was inserted in front of the penalty area, and assisted Kic to score the third goal at the edge of the penalty area, 0:3!

After taking a three-goal lead, the game suddenly lost its suspense.

After another 25 minutes, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and the new Manchester United were once again in the third round of the FA Cup!

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The reaction from fans to the second consecutive FA Cup third round has been positive, with all of them acknowledging the quality of the team in league and cup competitions, but this year things were different.

With United heading to Brazil for the inaugural World Championships, the FA made an exception to allow United to play in the FA Cup from the fourth round, so the new Manchester United will have to make it past the third round if they want to meet Manchester United.

However, when the results of the second round of the match are in, fans will suddenly find that of all the teams participating in the third round of the FA Cup, the new Manchester United are the lowest level, the only team from the national league, and the rest are all from the professional league.

It's not scary, what's really scary is from the third round, where Premier League and League One teams will also join the FA Cup.

If the English professional league is described as a pyramid, the Premier League is undoubtedly the top of the pyramid, League One is in the middle, and the Premier League seems to be close to the Premier League, but there is a world of difference, and League Two and League C are the bottom of this pyramid.

It was precisely because it was difficult for the team to make it past the third round but could not meet Manchester United that the fans were not interested in the new Manchester United in the FA Cup.

Even so, the results of the FA Cup third round draw were announced on time on the third day after the second round of matches and distributed to each participating club.

But unlike usual, as soon as the results of the draw were announced, it immediately caused a sensation in England!

ps: I worked overtime yesterday and was busy until 11 o'clock before I went home, so I didn't change it, sorry!

I have to work overtime at noon, and I guess I will change it later!

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