Chapter 267: Perfect Debut, Ten Hag Is Serious!

The match has reached the 72nd minute of the second half!

Lin Lin Jiade stands up from the Manchester United bench; it seems Ten Hag is about to substitute Tang Ye off the field.

However, just a few minutes before Ten Hag prepared to make the substitution, Swansea defender Bartley advanced with the ball from the backfield.

It looked like nothing more than a simple defensive advance with the ball.

But Bartley directly tore through Manchester United's midfield defense!

"What's going on!"

"Where is Manchester United's central defensive line? Neither Mkhitaryan nor Tang Ye are standing in their proper positions!"

With no one in the center, Bartley easily dribbled past the halfway line.

And even then, still no one was near Bartley!

Just like that, Bartley dribbled for over fifty meters before finally delivering a pass to striker Ayew.

Goal!

The score is now 3:1!

"Huff..."

The sudden concession made Ten Hag extremely angry, his breathing rate inevitably quickening.

He shook his head.

Ten Hag was deeply dissatisfied with his team's defense just now!

This was not the defensive performance Manchester United should have produced!

"Jesse, continue warming up."

Because of this sudden goal conceded, Ten Hag postponed his plan to substitute Tang Ye off the field.

As the king of the Teng Armor Army...

No, as a member of the Red Devils!

As an important member of the Red Devils, Tang Ye is undoubtedly one of the team's absolute mainstays.

Since Tang Ye and the team have now exposed integration issues, Ten Hag must thoroughly investigate this problem!

Sitting back down on the bench, Ten Hag took a notepad and pen from his pocket and carefully wrote down something unknown.

"Could it be that Tom's position is a bit too advanced?"

Fan Fan Dejiahe reminded him.

"No, definitely not."

Ten Hag quickly rejected Fan Fan Dejiahe's guess.

"Tom would not have any problems; I feel it should be Henrik (Mkhitaryan) or Marcus."

"That guy Marcus has forgotten to track back again!"

Mentioning Rashford immediately stirred anger in Ten Hag's heart.

What bullshit Manchester United Crown Prince!

That is not a valid reason for Rashford to be exempt from tracking back, is it!

"Alright."

Fan Fan Dejiahe nodded and studied the data on his computer.

【Number 10 Tom: Distance run 8.4km, effective offensive participation rate 100%】

"Hiss..."

Taking a deep breath, Fan Fan Dejiahe shivered his body.

Compared to his time at Utrecht, the current Tom is more than twice as strong!

"United! (Manchester United)"

Boom! Boom!

"United!"

Boom! Boom!

Such an easy goal by Swansea left the Manchester United fans somewhat panicked.

The noise from the away stand grew even louder!

The match reached the 81st minute!

Tang Ye cut diagonally from the center to the right flank, running directly past Martial.

Bang!

A through ball from Martial!

Not rushing to touch the ball, Tang Ye followed it little by little toward the baseline.

Still the same principle.

First check the far side, memorize the situation, then check the near side!

On the near side, there was only Bartley running toward him, but this guy had not yet formed an effective defense against Tang Ye.

Then the logic was already clear.

Pass immediately!

Slap!

【De Bruyne Bottom Cross Lv3: Simulation】

Proficiency: 325/400

Very close to a Lv4 Bottom Cross!

Let's see what effect this produces!

Inside the penalty area!

Phil Jones!

He jumps up and heads it straight in!

Goal!

"Haha!"

Tang Ye leaned his hands on his knees, panting, then raised both arms to celebrate after confirming Phil Jones had scored with a header.

【You have obtained 10 Counterattack Points】

【Assist hat-trick achieved; you have obtained an additional 40 Counterattack Points】

【First Premier League assist hat-trick achieved; you have obtained an additional 40 Counterattack Points】

This was Tang Ye's first match in the Premier League.

In this match, he achieved his first assist hat-trick in the Premier League!

Right here, right now!

Clap, clap, clap, clap!

Ten Hag clapped continuously: "Played so well, he played so incredibly well!"

"You should say 'they'."

Fan Fan Dejiahe reminded him in a low voice.

After replaying the goal footage, the broadcast camera cut to Tang Ye.

"Tom!"

"Tom!"

The Manchester United fans were ecstatic!

Facts proved that Snorlax wasn't just good at sleeping!

"Beep, beep-beep—!!!"

The referee blew the whistle ending the full match; ultimately, Manchester United secured victory in their second league match of the season with a 4-1 scoreline.

"Impressive."

Rashford high-fived Tang Ye, who was waiting for him near the center circle, and the two walked off the field together.

"Haha, Marcus, didn't I tell you that you'd get more opportunities?"

Suddenly noticing Rashford had gone silent, Tang Ye looked up ahead.

Ten Hag was waiting for them on the sideline!

"Mr. Erik."

Tang Ye embraced Ten Hag, who looked at Tang Ye with a face full of smiles: "Perfect! Perfect! Perfect!"

"Haha! Thank you!"

After exchanging a high-five with Ten Hag, Tang Ye stood in place waiting for Rashford.

But he found that Rashford did not embrace Ten Hag, instead walking directly toward the player tunnel.

"Marcus, shouldn't you embrace Mr. Erik?"

Tang Ye looked at Rashford beside him.

Players embracing the head coach after leaving the field is a custom practiced by almost every club.

"Uh, I don't know how to put it."

Rashford shook his head: "I don't really like Erik, and Erik doesn't really like me either, so I don't think it's necessary to do that."

Tang Ye shrugged helplessly.

Marcus, a strange friend!

Check Dongqiu Di Match Report: Manchester United defeats Swansea 4-1 away; Tang Ye's assist hat-trick marks a perfect debut (23,151 comments).

The club's inherent fan base plus Ten Hag's popularity plus Tang Ye's popularity.

Manchester United is now undeniably the king of traffic in the football world!

After the match ended, Rashford accompanied Tang Ye to receive the MVP trophy.

The Premier League's single-match MVP award differs slightly from La Liga's.

【Player of the Game (Best Player of the Match)】

"Is this a water cup?"

Looking at the English words on the trophy, Tang Ye wore a thoughtful expression.

"It does look very much like a water cup, but..."

Rashford took Tang Ye's trophy and made a twisting motion as if opening a bottle cap: "This thing can't be unscrewed."

Taking the trophy back, Tang Ye tossed it up and down in his hand twice: "Hmm, actually, it's quite convenient to hold, and easy to store this way; I can just put it directly in my backpack."

"It also saves space in the room."

"What?"

Rashford caught the keyword in Tang Ye's words: "Saves space? Tom, do you mean you plan to win many MVP trophies?"

"Haha."

Scratching his head, Tang Ye said with a smile: "Of course, if I can win more, the more the better, but I feel winning an MVP trophy in the Premier League will be harder than in La Liga because the match rhythm is different."

Tang Ye preferred the match rhythm of La Liga.

Or, to be more precise, he was better adapted to the match rhythm of La Liga!

Suddenly thinking of something, Rashford asked Tang Ye a question: "Then how many MVPs did you win in La Liga? I'm talking about single-match awards."

"Uh..."

Biting his fingernails, Tang Ye looked up and thought for a moment: "More than ten, I don't know the exact number."

"How many!?"

"How did you get so many?"

"I don't know either."

Tang Ye shook his head: "When I was at Villarreal, I had many, many chances to receive the ball; I feel it must be related to that."

"Hmm, and also my previous teammates."

Tang Ye thought of Aleix and Bruno, who often set him up: "My teammates are great; they often passed to me, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten so many MVPs."

Hiss—

Taking a deep breath, Rashford still wanted to discuss with Tang Ye the secret to winning single-match MVPs, but reporters immediately swarmed over.

While Tang Ye and Rashford were being interviewed by reporters, Manchester United manager Ten Hag walked alone into the stadium's press conference room.

Because the interviewee was Ten Hag, the reporters on site could more or less feel some pressure.

"Eric, I am very happy that you won this match, and with a score of 4:1."

"Mm."

Ten Hag nodded.

The reporters below stared intently at Ten Hag's face.

Unfortunately, so far they had yet to find any flaw in Ten Hag's expression!

"We see that you directly put Tom on the field for this match; may I ask what was the reason for doing so?"

"Keep in mind, he only just reported to the team two weeks ago."

After the question ended, the scene fell silent.

Ten Hag leaned close to the microphone on the table before him: "Tang only reported to the team two weeks ago; the time was indeed somewhat rushed. But after observing his training for two weeks, I believed Tang could start in today's match."

"Before the match began, I told Tang that he might have two assists today."

"Unfortunately, I made a slight error, because his final assist count was three."

In the locker room, Manchester United fans stood in front of the television.

Rashford turned his head to look at Tang Ye: "Did Eric tell you that you would have two assists today?"

"No."

Tang Ye, who was gulping down a drink, shook his head.

The corner of Rashford's mouth twitched.

"It might just be Mr. Eric's rhetoric for dealing with reporters,"

Tang Ye guessed, then moved in front of the television.

Ten Hag continued speaking.

"The fact is, when you know a player can achieve a very good performance in today's match, you, as the coach, should let him play."

The reporters nodded.

"Then what about that goal conceded in the second half? Bartley's dribbling drive eventually breached your goal; many fans believe that was a goal you should not have conceded."

"Indeed, that is the case."

Ten Hag expressed agreement with the fans' viewpoint.

"We should not have conceded that goal, but we did; this is because someone on our team made a mistake, but it wasn't me."

Hiss—

In front of the television, Tang Ye suddenly felt a surge of pressure.

Someone made a mistake!

Could it be that the person who made the mistake was him?

"Hmm, it wasn't Tang either; only I and Tang can be ruled out,"

Ten Hag added.

"Phew..."

Tang Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

Manchester Evening Post post-match player ratings: Tang Ye highest at 9.0, Rashford and Mata at 8.0, Herrera lowest at 5.5.

The Times front-page headline—A 200-million divine soldier descends from the heavens; will Manchester United challenge for a higher league ranking in the new season?

After the second round of matches concluded, nearly all Premier League fans turned their attention to Manchester United.

Through this match, Manchester United completed the verification of Tang Ye.

The 200-million divine soldier is terrifyingly powerful!

But Tang Ye was actually not the most crucial element!

As early as the previous interview, Ten Hag had said that he intended to unveil the strength he had previously hidden this season.

A 200-million-euro divine soldier, plus Ten Hag's strongest tactics!

Hiss—

Terrifying!

What height will Manchester United ultimately reach this season?

After the match ended, a Daily Mail reporter interviewed a Manchester United fan who had just exited the stadium.

The reason the reporter selected this fan as the interviewee was because he was holding a very distinctive support sign.

【Tom, as long as you don't sleep, you are the most awesome!】

"Yes, I'm a Manchester United fan; I've supported Manchester United for a long time, since 1998."

"Are you satisfied with Tom's performance?"

Mentioning Tom, the fan being interviewed immediately broke into a smile.

"Satisfied, of course I'm satisfied. Although there was great controversy over Tom's transfer fee, after watching this match, many fans who previously doubted Tom will shut up."

"But..."

The reporter pointed at the support sign in the fan's hand.

"Oh, haha, I forgot to tell you—I am one of those Manchester United fans who previously doubted Tom."

Reporter:...

The fan held the support sign up to the camera: "I made this before the match started; back then, I didn't expect he would have three assists in his first game."

"Now that you're in front of the camera, who from Manchester United do you most want to say something to?"

"I want to say something to Ten Hag."

The reporter was slightly surprised by the fan's choice.

"Sitting Like! A perfect signing!"

"You are going to become Manchester United's savior!"

Check Dongqiu Di hot discussion: Shooting straight to the top of the league assist chart in one match—how do you evaluate Tang Ye's Premier League debut?

Sitting on the return flight, Tang Ye scrolled through news on Check Dongqiu Di.

Reached the top of the assist chart?

Let's see what's going on!

Premier League Assist Chart (as of Round 2)

1. Tang Ye (Manchester United), 3 times.

2. De Bruyne (Mancheng), 1 time.

3. Mahrez (Leicester City), 1 time.

11. Willian (Chelsea), 1 time.

【This is what 200 million euros looks like; haters, speak up!】

【200 million euros isn't simply 200 million euros; it's 100 million plus 100 million.】

【Actually, I still feel 200 million euros is a bit exaggerated, but Tang Ye's performance is truly unstoppable.】

【Both came up through Villarreal, yet the difference in treatment between Rodri and Tang Ye is huge; Rodri didn't even make the squad list, while Tang Ye started directly.】

【Rodri isn't Ten Hag's protégé; what kind of good treatment did you expect him to get?】

Damn it!

The fans' comments made Tang Ye rather unhappy!

Rodri isn't Ten Hag's protégé, so he didn't make the squad list?

This makes it seem as if Tang Ye only made the starting lineup because of his personal friendship with Ten Hag!

This is the greatest insult to his hard training!

Touching the faintly visible rattan armor on his body, Tang Ye asked the flight attendant for a glass of orange juice.

"Gulp gulp"

After finishing the orange juice, Tang Ye suddenly felt the urge to urinate.

But Rashford, sitting outside, had already fallen asleep, so he could only hold it for a while.

He continued reading the comments on Check Dongqiu Di.

Because they shared the same nationality, Chinese fans' comments were much friendlier than those of English and Spanish fans.

This was also the reason Tang Ye liked reading comments on Check Dongqiu Di.

In the comment section of Check Dongqiu Di, he even possessed basketball talent comparable to Jordan's!

【Luckily Tang Ye chose football; otherwise, James would be dried to death with one three-pointer per kick.】

"Haha"

Laughing as he turned off his phone, Tang Ye unknowingly felt a strange pressure.

Wanting to deliver an even better performance in the upcoming matches for the fans, Tang Ye even had the strange thought of adding extra training for himself.

He could now somewhat understand the feelings of those top students in the football school.

In the football school, a top student's playing time over a semester might be ten times that of a poor student, or even more.

Having enjoyed so much of the privilege of playing time, and having received so much praise from coaches and parents, top students would absolutely never allow themselves to become poor students again, so they would exert even more effort to protect their status as top students.

No wonder the teammates Tang Ye met when he previously skipped levels to play for the U15 first team were all guys who trained hard!

Breaking out of his thoughts, Tang Ye checked his system.

【Cruyff Backline Turn Template (Legendary)】

Minimum requirements: Ball Control 85 (met), Speed 75 (not met)

Tang Ye's current Speed attribute is 73 points!

Only 2 attribute points away from activating the next Legendary template!

Manchester Evening News front-page headline: Manchester United's third league match of the season kicks off on August 26, but Tom's Chinese national team has a World Cup qualifier against Uzbekistan on August 31 (Beijing time), meaning the player will most likely be unavailable for the match against Leicester City.

Tang Ye being unable to play in the match against Leicester City is not good news for Manchester United fans.

But one shouldn't view this matter with an overly pessimistic mindset.

The Chinese team's World Cup qualifiers have two final rounds remaining, on August 31 and September 5 respectively.

It is an extremely tight schedule, which also means Tang Ye will miss at most two Premier League matches.

If he returns quickly, he might even miss only one!

"Faster! Even faster!"

At the base training ground, fitness coach Craig loudly urged the players undergoing speed-endurance drills.

Five 100-meter shuttles, totaling 1,000 meters!

"Huff, huff, huff..."

Accelerating into a sprint, touching the baseline, then turning to change direction.

Before this drill began, the players had already run a 5km, so Tang Ye was already exhausted.

I really can't go on!

Bring out the props!

【You purchased Grealish's Draft Beer】

His head felt dizzy, but the physical fatigue had indeed eased considerably.

After today's training session ended, Tang Ye would return to his home country; including flight time, he could rest for a full three days.

In today's training session, Tang Ye could completely exhaust all his stamina!

"Huff, huff-huff..."

Gasping for air, Tang Ye, having completed the sprint, found Rodri and plopped down on the ground.

"Rod, I'm about to die."

The Manchester United players lay on the grass; Mkhitaryan and Blind had directly vomited.

One could only say that Ten Hag truly lived up to his reputation; this training intensity was far more exaggerated than what Escrivá had arranged!

Craig and Fan Fan Dejiahe recorded the data while Tang Ye lay flat on the grass, talking to Rodri beside him.

"Tom, which teams do you think we'll face in the Champions League?"

"Is the draw about to start?"

Tang Ye paused for a moment as Rodri explained.

In just three days, the draw for this season's Champions League group stage would take place!

"Huff, huff!"

While catching his breath, Tang Ye pondered the teams participating in this season's Champions League.

Real Madrid and Barcelona would definitely be participating!

And Villarreal too!

Bruno and the others would also participate!

"I really want to play a match against Bruno and the others, but I don't want to be drawn in the same group as them; it would be terrible if Villarreal got eliminated."

Tang Ye analyzed seriously when Ten Hag walked over and pulled him up from the ground.

"What is it, Mr. Erik?"

"Continue!"

"Huh?"

Ten Hag pushed Tang Ye back onto the training field: "You still have two 200-meter shuttles left, move quickly now!"

"Beep!"

Ten Hag blew the whistle, and Tang Ye inexplicably began extra training.

"Faster, even faster!"

"Speed is crucial!"

Running across the grass, although dizzy, Tang Ye's mind remained extremely clear.

He was acutely aware of one thing.

Back under Mr. Erik's command, his physical training would no longer be as easy as it was last season with Yellow Submarine!

(End of Chapter)