Today's first game to talk about tonight's 10 o'clock Premier League: Leicester City vs Manchester United!
Mingming Leicester City has been in poor shape this season, with only 8 points after 7 rounds, ranking in the bottom half, and even being ridden by Legia Warsaw, who is less than one-twentieth of them.
But many Manchester United fans are not optimistic, why?
Probably because of the bad news: The main centre-backs, Maguire and Varane, are both absent.
How important is Maguire, the Manchester United captain?
United played 38 Premier League games last season, with Maguire missing just four.
United lost to Leicester City in 4 games, were fed four by Liverpool, drew with relegated team Fulham, and narrowly defeated Wolves, and the decline in strength was very obvious.
As England's strongest centre-back (probably not one), Maguire's ability to shoot the ball and his defensive awareness are top-notch.
Not to mention Manchester United, the England national team can't do without him, Maguire is not there, England is the level of drawing with Hungary and Scotland, losing to Belgium and Denmark.
Is the other main centre-back, Varane, irreplaceable? The wine thinks there is none.
But the problem is that Maguire and Varane are absent, and the only people who can replace them are Lindhoff and Bailey.
The two of them have not fought side by side since February this year, and their tacit understanding is doubtful.
Centre-back is a very important position in modern football, and insufficient ability or tacit understanding will seriously affect the team's combat effectiveness.
If nothing else, look at last season's defending champions Liverpool, without Van Dijk, even the Champions League area almost did not go in.
Now Manchester United, this backcourt defense, really look at the people's hearts trembling.
Combined in all competitions this season, United have played 10 games, only one of which has been able to keep a clean sheet, and the defensive performance is much worse than the same period last year. If you look closely at the 10-game stats, there's only one, and it's United who scored fewer goals than the data expected.
Today, there are still two less defensive generals, which is even more worrying. The king of the Blue Foxes, Vardy, has scored 6 of his seven games this season, in excellent form, can Manchester United hold on?
Leicester City's problems are similar to Manchester United's, mainly because there are too many injuries in the back line, Evans, Fafana, Justin... Injured three absolute main defenders in one go.
Although the Foxes are no longer a civilian team, they do not have any family background, which can stand this, and it is not surprising that three consecutive Premier League games have been poured by others.
But today the defensive core Evans will come back, more than this Lord Fury love disciple, I believe that the Foxes' defensive level will not be small to recover. Will the balance of strength still be completely tilted in favor of Manchester United? The cocktail party would like to look forward to leicester city at least 1 point!
Well, for today's other competitions, Xiaojiu will still send text analysis to everyone in the afternoon. If there is anything unclear, you can ask me, watch the ball to see clearly, we don't see each other every day!
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