Chapter 294 No one can replace him!

As New Year's Day approaches, Yang Xiaozhuang enjoys a New Year's feast with a group of international players at the national football training base. When watching the New Year's Day party, there is a long-lost New Year's lively, and Manchester United, who is far away in England, also announced the transfer news.

Leicester's young England international winger Demarle Grey was bought by Manchester United for £30 million, with the additional clause saying that if the player plays 20 times for England, Manchester United will pay another £10 million for this!

That is to say, Manchester United will eventually pay £40 million for Demarle Gray!

For £40 million, buying a 22-year-old winger who can be left and right, it sounds like... it's really not cheap!

But when Woodward faced Leicester's final additional clause of 10 million pounds, he agreed without hesitation. It was really that after Yang Xiaozhuang left, Manchester United's attack line was short of people!

Besides, buying a 22-year-old all-round winger with a "household account book" for 30 million yuan can only be said to be the normal price. The addition of this 10 million pounds is just to bet on Demarle Grey's future.

When signing the contract, Woodward also felt that Solskjaer was a guy who had played professional football. His vision and ideas were indeed clear. Compared to Mourinho's "hammer and stick", he wanted to buy good players when he saw them.

And look... China Yang left for a month because of the national team competition mission, and Demale Gray will be able to play his role immediately after coming. It can be seen that Solskjaer bought people carefully after careful consideration.

Anyway...what to say it?

It's your own people!

Everything is right!

On January 2, Manchester United went away to play Everton in the 18th round of the Premier League. Everton has fallen to sixth place, but he still has some strength, especially when facing Manchester United without "God Yang", Everton can overcome his psychological awe first.

In this game, Solskjaer also used the team's 4-3-3 again, but the middle position was replaced by Rashford, and the new transfer winger Demale Gray appeared at the right winger.

Originally, Manchester United's tactics relied on the speed of the attack line to make a fuss. Before, Andreas Pereira's speed difference was quite a bit. Now with Demarle Grey, the team can play football like Yang Xiaozhuang when he was.

As a result, in this game, with Martial's "two-scoring" and Rashford's goal, Manchester United finally scored 1:3 away against Everton and won another victory.

However, the performance of new aid Demarle Gray attracted a lot of attention. The winger did not score in the game, but gave Martial an assist. His speed can play very limited role in the right.

During an interview after the game, Demale Gray performed very low-key: "I used to think I was quite fast, but when I got here, I realized that there were many people in the team who were faster than me. The speed of Manchester United's teammates running... was amazing!"

Everyone saw that in this game, the "Red Devils" who played away did use their running speed to finally tear open Everton's defense, but the coaching staff of Solskjaer and Manchester United are hard to say that they are satisfied with the team's performance.

That's right, Manchester United's speed has indeed been regained, but although Demarle Gray's ability to break through on the right is not weaker than Rashford, his crossing level is much worse. Perhaps this is because he has just joined and is not familiar with his teammates' running habits, but overall, the attack power on the right has decreased.

As for Rashford's performance after moving to the middle lane... average!

Very average!

In the whole game, Rashford completed 6 shots and scored one goal. Yang Xiaozhuang's efficiency in 249 shots was even worse than that, but... this is not the biggest problem!

The biggest problem is that Rashford's ability to create shooting opportunities is much worse than Yang Xiaozhuang!

Yang Xiaozhuang's 249 shots were completed in 21 games, which means he can average 11.9 shots per game. This is mainly because he has a strong ability to get rid of his opponent's defense, so that he can complete so many shots in the game.

Rashford's ability in this regard is much worse. He has tried his best to complete 6 shots in the game, and this is the data that faces Everton's defense. If it were Chelsea and Manchester City's defensive strength, Rashford might have completed two or three shots.

The day after leading the team back to Manchester, when Manchester United players were on vacation, Solskjaer brought his coaching staff to review the game...

Rui Faria smiled bitterly with the data table: "Guys, since Yang left the team, we have played three games now. In the ninety minutes, we completed 19 shots, 25, 19 shots, and 21 shots per game... When Yang was still in the team, we averaged almost no less than 30 shots per game, and even against weaker teams, we can shoot more than 40 shots! From this perspective, it is enough to prove that Yang has indeed improved the quality and frequency of our team's offensiveness by a higher level."

Rui Faria said that the Manchester United coaching staff nodded repeatedly. It was not clear when they did not do statistics. They only knew that after Yang Xiaozhuang left the team, Manchester United's attack power and efficiency had dropped a lot, which was a kind of visible decline.

But now after Rui Faria compared the data, Manchester United coaches can really clearly realize how much the team's attack power has decreased...at least 30%!

If you have 10 fewer shots in a game, it means that at least one goal is missing!

Not to mention a super scorer like Chinese Yang, even a defender player who can score 10 shots in a game will definitely score a goal!

Now, the main reason why Manchester United has dropped a lot in terms of momentum and mentality compared to before is actually only one... China Yang is not in the team!

If Yang in China is still in the team now, with his personal ability, he will add 10 shots and one goal to the team in each game... Then Manchester United is still an invincible division that no one can stop!

But at present, among the offensive players, except Yang Xiaozhuang, Rashford performed best in the middle. Martial and Andreas Pereira were like headless flies when they were put into the middle, not to mention the new Demarle Gray, his physical condition and personal style did not allow him to appear in the middle.
Chapter completed!