"What do you say, Jim? Let Essien play right wing-back? Bruce looked at Cassel in surprise, whose smile was a little stiff, but it seemed that he was feeling good about the idea.

"I don't understand why you think that, Jim, Essien has never played at full-back, and now it's too risky to let him switch positions!" Bruce hesitated.

"No, Steve, you're right, Essien has never played full-back, but that doesn't mean he can't play, and his task is very simple, freeze the opponent's No. 7, in terms of speed and body, Essien can completely suppress the opponent."

Cassel had to admire Xiao Yu for giving him such an idea at this time, but after listening to Xiao Yu's words, he had to admit that this was indeed a very good move.

"Essien plays right wing-back, Stansson recovers, plays centre-back with Abidal and Distin, we attack on the left, let Evra, Kjanovic and Hleb play on the left side of the opposition, their left side is not very good!"

When Bruce heard this, he looked at Cassel in some surprise, and the latter shrugged his shoulders, knowing in his heart that such a risky tactic would definitely not come from Cassel's handiwork, and he must have been awakened.

Speaking of which, Bruce looked up at the stands behind him, Xiao Yu was sitting not far behind them, looking at him with concern at this time, and nodded, as if to say, just bet on this!

Bruce gritted his teeth and walked to the sidelines.

After a while, the new United got a throw-in, and Bruce immediately called Essien over!

"Michael, wait a minute, you go to the right and play full-back, don't worry about anything, keep an eye on the opponent's number 7, let Stanson go to the middle to play central defender, you tell Patrice and Alexander to attack the left, we must not lose this game!"

Essien was a little surprised by the order, as he had never played at full-back before, but he nodded yes to Bruce's affirmative look, and then ran back into the pitch through gritted teeth.

It didn't take long for the players on the court to receive Bruce's new instructions and immediately follow the manager's arrangement, and the new Manchester United lineup immediately changed from the previous 451 to 532, and Hleb roamed around Kic.

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It was the first time for Essien to stand in such a deep position, but he didn't show much discomfort because playing in midfield at the back, his job was to defend, and when he dropped back to the backline, his job was to defend.

In the past, he was running all over the field and grabbing the ball when he saw it, but now he has only one task, that is, to stare at the opponent's No. 7 and not give him any chance to create a threat.

Morecambe's No.7 is a striker, pace is his biggest strength, and for almost 20 minutes in the opening minutes, he played very well, playing the big and clumsy right wing-back of the opposition side, and now he has been replaced by a black imp, which he believes is a sign that the new United are afraid of him.

But soon, Essien gave the other party a head start.

Morecambe did not respond in time to the new Manchester United's adjustments, after all, their performance in the first 20 minutes was so good that the manager could not adjust at this time and disrupt the rhythm on the pitch, so they were still used to wanting to cut in from the left side.

But who knows, when their ball was passed to the number seven, Essien suddenly accelerated from behind and cut the ball off early.

After breaking the ball, he passed to Juninho Jr., who stopped the ball lightly, controlled the rhythm slowly, and then passed to Paulsen, one of Morecambe's central midfielders stepped forward to press, and the latter immediately passed back to Essien, who then passed to Juninho Jr.

It was just a circular pass, but the tempo of the game was completely controlled, Morecambe began to recycle into his own half, and the new United slowly organized the attack.

Although Kic's header failed to threaten in the end, it was a good sign.

"That's how it kicks!" Bruce kept waving from the sidelines, signaling the players on the pitch not to be too impatient.

Schmeichel called three centre-backs as the opposition goalkeeper was about to take the kick.

"Eric, wait a minute, you and Griffin go up, don't worry about the back, Hilvan pulls back some kicks the scavengers and organizes the defense at the same time, this will make our defense more layered, understand?" Schmeichel shouted loudly.

The three Abidal nodded suddenly.

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After a series of adjustments, the new United really began to stabilize the situation, although Morecambe still played exclusively on the left, but under the marking of Essien, the opponent's No.7 barely got any chances, especially after several vicious but accurate tackles by Essien, he completely wilted.

With the threat down the right gone, the new United were able to breathe a sigh of relief, and it was time for the Morecambe manager to tighten up their defence, and it was clear that in the first half they were only looking to hold on to their two-goal lead.

However, the new Manchester United obviously does not intend to give up like this, and has been put on two occasions, if it does not find some fields, it will not be the new Manchester United, so after Morecambe's recovery, the new Manchester United consciously strengthened the attack, especially the attack on the right side of Morecambe.

Patrice Evra has not been able to continue last season's Northwest Division Division to pose a threat, after all, his main task this season is to defend, and Bruce has also given him a heavy defensive task, which has improved his defensive ability, but the offensive improvement has slowed down.

But that doesn't mean he won't attack.

Knorvic frequently cut inside, and the entire left side was exposed in front of Evra, plus Abidal behind him would help him fill in the position, and Evra, who had no worries, frequently stepped forward.

When Juninho Jr. is defended by an opposing player, he can always spot Evra as long as he looks to the left, and then the ball is passed, and the latter immediately and decisively advances along the left wing.

"Here, Patrice!" Hleb raised his hand in demand when facing the opposing right wing-back.

Patrice Evra immediately passed the ball to his feet.

Hleb leaned on the opponent and cleverly stopped the ball, first pretending to make a move in the direction of the left touchline, but the right foot suddenly knocked the ball back, and the left foot pulled, and it was impossible for the defender who had been deceived into shifting his weight to the left to stop him.

Hleb was not in a hurry after passing one of the opposing players, because he clearly saw that Knowic and Juninho Jr. had already come up, and the high school striker Kic was firmly in the most advantageous position in the penalty area, and in this case, the hasty final blow was undoubtedly a wasted opportunity.

One of the opposing centre-backs saw that Hleb was intent on entering the box and immediately stepped forward to block the position, but the latter suddenly knocked the ball back to Evra, who took the ball and passed it directly into the middle.

Knorvick deliberately missed, and Juninho, who was following next to him, slapped his horse to catch up, stopped the ball, shot angrily, and did it in one go!

The ball was like a free kick taken by Juninho Jr., drawing a strange arc in the air, and then quickly falling in the penalty area, grazing the crossbar into the net, 2:1!

In the 34th minute of the first half, the new Manchester United finally breathed a sigh of relief and recovered a goal!

The goal was a huge morale boost for the new United, especially for the players who had previously been suppressed, and once the pressure was relaxed, the anger caused by the rebound would be enough to crush any opponent.

However, Morecambe's head coach is also scheming, he has already seen signs of the revival of the new Manchester United, so he decisively asked the players on the field to recycle and use the speed of the number 7 to start playing defensive counterattacks.

The time of the first half passed minute by minute, and on the scoreboard on the sidelines, the score of 2:1 never changed!

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"Morecambe has thrown in the towel, guys, they're throwing in the towel, so start playing defensive counter-attacks!" Bruce clenched his fists in the locker room, squeezing hard, causing his growing body to tremble a little.

"Although we are still behind in terms of score, it doesn't matter, there are still 45 minutes left, we still have a chance, in the second half we have to attack from the beginning, in the way we do best, with ferocious, unreasonable attacks, to break their stubborn fighting spirit and make them disarm and surrender!"

When the players heard this, almost everyone's eyes were breathing fire.

Indeed, the first 20 minutes of the first half were pressed by Morecambe, which annoyed the new United players in retrospect, and they were holding back their anger to vent.

"We had a good tactic in the first half, but it wasn't good enough, Michael, you didn't play at right wing-back, but you had a good first half, but you should have been more frequent and bolder, especially when Patrice came back, you should have gone up and Christian and Griffin behind you, they would fill in for you!"

After hearing this, Essien immediately nodded his head, looked at his teammates beside him, and all smiled in unison.

"Alexander, I hope you can entangle the opponent's right full-back in the second half, use your technique, use your speed, Chairman Mr. Xiao Yu once said, the Chinese have a saying called tooth for tooth, eye for eye, since they used this tactic to beat us in the first half, then in the second half we will double the return!"

Hleb immediately stood up and said loudly, in the last 20 minutes of the first half, the opponent's right wing-back was tortured by him almost to the end, and Hleb's skills are second to none in the new Manchester United, even the Brazilian star Juninho Jr. is a little inferior to him, which makes it difficult for him to concede goals against even two players on the other side.

"Okay, guys, our team is better overall than the other team, and the individual quality is better than the other team, so we should be more qualified than the other side to go to League C, as we said before this season, our goal for this season is the title, and now I add one, the double, we are going to win the double for two years in a row, are you confident?"

"Yes!"

"Of course I have that!"

The players in the locker room responded to Bruce's call with enthusiasm!

"Well, in the second half we fought back against our opponents and beat them, and at least half of the championship was already in our hands!"

"them!" The players roared out of the locker room!

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