Losing to Tottenham, FC United had little time to bask in the bitterness of defeat and soon they were preparing for the quarter-finals of the Europa League.

RB Leipzig may have been affected by their first European appearance this season, and their results in the league are far less impressive than last season, and they have gone three consecutive games without a win before the Europa League match, and are currently sixth in the Bundesliga, and it is difficult to say whether they will continue to play in the Champions League next season.

However, they do not want to leave regrets in their first European trip, even if it is only the Europa League, RB Leipzig still sent all the main team.

Goalkeeper Gurasic, right-back Lemer, centre-back Upamecano and captain Orban, left-back Klostermann, Keita and Dem at the back, Fosberg and Bruma on the left and right wings, and Augustin and Timo Werner in the striker.

FC United's side will naturally not show weakness, Matuidi, who was rested at the weekend, has also returned to the starting line-up, and the goalkeeper is still the same Edouard. Mendy, right-back Tavernir, centre-back combination of Harry Maguire and Tarkovski, today Lu Wei did not send Robertson, who was more defensively solid, at left-back, but used Zinchenko.

The three midfielders are Hayden, Matuidi and Maddison, who have returned from injury, and the striker three are Lozano, Saint-Maximin and Olivier Giroud.

Interestingly, the formation of the German team RB Leipzig is the 442 used by the traditional English team, while the formation used by the English team FC United is the 4231 that the German team loves.

Although the formation is the formation of the opposing country, but the tactics are irrelevant, RB Leipzig's two strikers are not the kind of tall and fast combination, but two 1.8-meter-tall strikers, but Augustine and Timo Werner's technical characteristics are not very similar.

Although Augustin is not famous, he is also a member of the French youth team at all levels, and St. Maximin is also a teammate of the national youth team, Lu Wei learned from him that Augustin's instant explosiveness and foot technique are extremely good, and Timo Werner's offensive awareness and teammates' tandem effect is extremely high, the two strikers complement each other, no wonder these two strikers do not score many goals, RB Leipzig can also become a team second only to Bayern and Dortmund last season.

FC United's formation is based between 4231 and 433, although Maddison is nominally a front back, but has always played relatively far back under Lu Wei, more like Gerrard's role in Liverpool, the task of ball assault is given to two wings, Madison can better play his key passing advantage.

Although RB Leipzig's Forsberg is nominally a full-back, he actually undertakes the work of the midfield organization, most of the time is in the middle of the field, Timo Werner and Augustin will find opportunities to pull the side to find space, if FC United's attack is a continuous left and right hook, RB Leipzig's attack is a continuous jab straight to the opponent's face.

In the Red Bull Arena, which can accommodate 20,000 people, almost all German fans, due to the small capacity of the stadium, UEFA does not give too many tickets to the away team, and the feud between English and German football over the years is even more serious than that of England and France, avoiding some unnecessary conflicts.

In the cheers of the home fans, RB Leipzig suppressed FC United in the half-court onslaught as soon as the opening game, it was clear that they had collected enough intelligence on the enemy, for nearly a month, FC United were passively defending, and the result of the active attack was a loss.

So RB Leipzig coach Ralph Hasenhuttl saw that Lu Wei would play defensively on the road and put the game on their home turf.

But if Lu Wei is really seen through so easily, then he is not Lu Wei.

FC United were indeed a bit conservative at the start, as they had never played against a German team and needed time to get used to the pace of the game, but when 20 minutes passed, the Reds stretched out their guns.

Seeing that the players were almost adapted, Steele turned his head to look at Lu Wei, and after getting Lu Wei's consent, he walked to the sidelines and made a downward gesture.

Of course, such an obvious move could not escape Hasenhuttl's eyes, and he was even more determined that FC United's tactics in this game were mainly defensive.

If Lu Wei had mind reading skills and knew his thoughts, he would definitely sit there covering his stomach and laughing, because Lu Wei's command gestures in the game were all reversed, and the action of pressing down with both hands represented an all-out attack, and clenching his fists high was what made them retract their defense.

Soon, FC United immediately passed the ball to RB Leipzig's half after opening the goal, Giroud headed the ball to Maddison, Maddison sent a straight ball, and Lozano who was inserted at high speed dodged Orban's flying tackle, and then burst into the box and shot angrily to take the lead!

Not long after the goal, real-time data showed that the goal took only nine seconds from the goal to the goal, and it was completed by four players with three passes, a very typical fast attack.

Suddenly they were behind, RB Leipzig's players seemed a little unresponsive, wasn't FC United so suppressed by them in the first twenty minutes that they couldn't even breathe? How come we are lagging behind? This must have been just an accidental goal conceded, the English can no longer support it, their back line is just struggling to support, and then attack, FC United will definitely collapse.

RB Leipzig's players and coaches are right in thinking that if a team has been defending conservatively, as long as the luck is not too bad, it will definitely be effective.

But FC United didn't think about defending today, and five minutes later they extended the scoreline, Keita's rash forward assist allowed Maguire to stop outside the box, the ball reached Matuidi's feet, and immediately turned the ball to the wing, Robertson and Saint-Maximin played a two-on-one combination and quickly dribbled the ball into the near the box, a low cross was passed to the middle, Giroud stopped Upamecano behind, leaned over and shot the ball into the upper corner.

After the start of the second half, FC United gradually mastered the rhythm of the game through technical advantages, RB Leipzig can no longer even launch a smooth attack like the first half, and the huge contrast between the two goals behind has made their mentality unbalanced.

Hasenhuttl also did not make adjustments to the team at half-time, still stubbornly believing that the two goals conceded were just accidental, and he completely paid for his stubbornness in the second half.

In the 56th minute, Maddison's long-range shot hit Upamecano's arm, not only gave FC United a penalty, but also gave Upamecano the second yellow card of the game, was sent off, RB Leipzig lost a defender, not only this game completely lost the opportunity to equalize, the second leg on the red court, Upamecano will also face a ban and cannot play.

Tavernir sent the penalty into the top right corner and FC United already have a three-goal lead away from home.

But this is not the end, Lu Wei did not replace the defensive players at this time to consolidate the advantage on the field, but let the players on the field continue to strengthen the attack, strive to directly defeat the opponent on the road, and also replaced Balbosa to strengthen the attack.

It may be that the land of England is really not very friendly to Balbosa, in the 78th minute, St. Maximin's shot was saved by Guracic, the football fell right in front of Balbosa, easily completed the supplementary shot, fixed the score at 0:4, FC United has almost reached the quarter-finals of the Europa League.

"I look at the second leg next week and we can go through the motions."

Lu Wei smiled and turned his head to Steele jokingly.

"Lu, don't take the enemy lightly, don't forget that Paris Saint-Germain also led by four goals in the first leg last season, and Barca won all five of them in the second leg."

Steele frowned and reminded Lu Wei that he hoped the manager would make such a mistake.

"Don't worry, William, in our home stadium, I have absolute confidence, and the players of the Red Rebels will not think that they can reach the quarter-finals by playing casually."

Lu Wei put away his smile and said to Steele seriously. Lu Wei knows all too well about the reversal in the second leg, and Barca are about to experience what the Grand Paris experienced last season, and twice in two years in a row.

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