Liverpool is getting better at Old Trafford Stadium, and their morale is even stronger after equalizing the score!
When Rooney had to retreat to his own half, Rashford and Martial were a little lazy in defense. Although this did not prevent the two from being outstanding in the offense, if Situ Yunbing was their head coach, he would not ignore it.
It is the duty of a winger to be able to attack. How can a winger without offensive ability be worthy of playing?
But playing is not just an offense.
The era of playing the old man’s ball has long passed. Look at the role of Ronaldo in counter-attack, look at Messi’s awareness of sacrificing and retracing for the team to organize. The two superstars have raised the definition of super in this era, and also given other players the best templates and standards.
After a failed counterattack, Rooney suddenly saw Rashford and Martial watching in the frontcourt. He suddenly shouted angrily at the two of them, pointing to the backcourt to order the two to participate in the defense!
Liverpool's anti-robbery performance in the midfield and frontcourt today comes from the desperately desperate Henderson. He is the most active player in the midfielder. Regardless of whether the counter-robbery is successful or not, it will disrupt the opponent's rhythm and create a better chance of stealing for Kanter!
In the 35th minute of the game, Vardy received a cross from Mbappe from the front of the penalty area. He kept shooting and hitting a tricky angle. However, because he paid too much attention to angle control and did not pursue the ultimate strength, the ball was blocked by De Gea in time when it was about to fly into the goal!
There was another burst of exclamation at the scene!
Damian initiated a counterattack in the backcourt, and the football passed by Rooney in the backcourt to Rashford's feet.
This time, Rashford quickly dribbled inward and came to the middle of the frontcourt early. When he was hit by Kanter and Van Dijk, he also rationally passed the ball to find Martial. The latter was shoveled by Coolibali when he quickly advanced to the right side of the penalty area!
Martial has a flexible control of the ball under his feet, and his rhythm pauses and quickly changes direction and dribbles past Kulibali!
Van Gaal immediately held his breath and focused on Martial's next performance!
But after Martial passed by Kulibaly, he suddenly found that Ter Stegen abandoned the door and left!
And it's less than 5 meters away!
Martial wanted to drift past Ter Stegen, but he could only dribble towards the bottom line!
After a sudden acceleration and a quick shot, Ter Stegen had already foreseeedly swerving his body and snatched it hard. When the football was about to pass by, Ter Stegen saved the ball from the bottom line with his left hand!
All the Red Devils fans hugged their heads and sighed!
“Martial missed a great opportunity!
Ter Stegen made a key save!
Maybe Martial shouldn't have walked to the bottom line, either passing or shooting early!
But after taking a step, he wanted to completely shake the angle of Ter Stegen's save, which was a bit unrealistic. Sure enough, Ter Stegen made a wonderful save to dissolve his shot!
Manchester United missed the opportunity to lead Liverpool again at home.”
Van Gaal couldn't help but turn around and bow his head.
Manchester United attacked corner kick.
Liverpool's entire team retreated to defend, Mata's corner kick was cleared by Coolibali in the middle of the goal, and Rooney lost in the battle!
The football that was cleared outside the penalty area was headed too much by Henderson to Coutinho's feet. The Brazilian took the lead in controlling the ball and retreating, dodging the counter-attack from Manchester United players, and then passed it out with a diagonal long pass, and the football flew straight to the right side of the frontcourt!
Mbappe suddenly started, and his speed was astonishing!
All the Red Devils fans realized that Manchester United's defense was in danger!
Damian immediately went forward to intercept Mbappe from the front, but the latter chose to shoot the ball with one kick and hit it across!
After the cross, Mbappe continued to run forward. When Valdi responded in the middle, he also made a pass with one kick and passed the ball to the ground!
The football rolled over the route of Mbappe's running position. Damian turned around and chased him back, but was surprised and desperate to find that the distance between him and Mbappe was getting farther and farther!
This time, Blind, who did not go up to fight for the header, immediately rushed towards Mbappe. He was planning to foul!
But just when Mbappe was less than 3 meters away from the dribbling, Mbappe stopped and spiked back. Brindle lost immediately, and Mbappe also passed the ball accurately to the area near the left side of the midfield.
Sane arrived at lightning, and after stopping and changing directions, he swept Schneiderlin and then dribbled forward, he was already going to the meeting alone!
Red Devils fans no longer dare to watch the next scene!
Liverpool's counterattack was already at the gate in less than ten seconds!
The moment Sane dribbled into the penalty area, De Gea had already made a halfway attack, and Sane decisively chose to take a shot!
A precise shot shot shot shot at the lower right corner of the goal!
De Gea saved immediately but was less than half a meter away to meet the football!
He had already turned around and looked towards the goal before he fell to the ground. He was not sure whether the ball would go out of bounds!
Bang!
The football hit the inside of the right post and bounced into the goal!
Sane turned around and ran to the corner flag area to celebrate this goal that took Liverpool's lead!
De Gea closed his eyes in pain.
Manchester United players suddenly felt their scalp tingling, from leading to being overtaken, such a change is always difficult to accept.
Situ Yunbing clapped and applauded, but his expression did not look particularly excited.
Because of a counterattack goal, this is common for Liverpool.
Manchester United is very morale, and it cannot be said that they relaxed their vigilance, but they overestimated their current strength. Liverpool scored the second goal in the simplest way, which is nothing to be proud of for Liverpool!
"Sane scored with a single shot! Liverpool led Manchester United 2:1!
It's so good that it's so good. Martial had the opportunity to help Manchester United score a goal a minute ago, but he missed the opportunity. One minute later, Liverpool scored with Sane to help Liverpool overtake it!
This is football, you will never imagine what will happen in the next second!
Manchester United begins to fall into a tough battle at Old Trafford!
When Liverpool is behind, I won't say that Liverpool has become passive, but when Manchester United is behind, I'm pretty sure that now Manchester United wants to win the game, or even end up with a draw, will be very difficult!
They need to perform better than before!”
When Manchester United re-telephoned, Liverpool had already moved into position to defend. Situ Yunbing would not be proud, because he ignored the fact that Liverpool was not much better than his opponent in this game as a whole.
Van Gaal also reminded Manchester United to be more cautious, he does not want Manchester United to fall into Liverpool's trap because of a rash!
Moreover, the current situation forces Manchester United to make some adjustments during the halftime break.
In fact, Van Gaal was psychologically shady by the defensive counterattack. In 2010, Situ Yunbing led Monaco to beat Bayern Munich in a very embarrassing manner in the Champions League semi-finals, and Ribery and Robben, the two sky swords, were no longer available!
Situ Yunbing led Hamburg to play against Bayern Munich in his first season, and it also had a defensive counterattack, which directly made Bayern Munich, who was in turmoil at that time even worse!
When he coaches Manchester United, he can be said to be hit by various defensive counterattacks in the Premier League so hard that he couldn't raise his head. In front of him was Chelsea, Mourinho and Ranieri's Leicester City this season.
So once you encounter a strong team with strict defense, Van Gaal will have a headache now and will inevitably become cautious.
You can't be careless, and you may be beaten by your opponent so hard that you can't take care of yourself.
Both teams were relatively cautious in the last few minutes of the first half of the FA Cup quarter-finals and failed to create a clear threat.
When the whistle at the end of the first half sounded, Situ Yunbing turned around and walked towards the player passage. When passing by the nearby stands, no Manchester United fans hugged him and booed him. At this time, their faces were full of worries.
After returning to the locker room, Situ Yunbing made some adjustments to the problems that occurred in the first half and specially named Guerrero. The latter immediately stated that he would perform better in the defense in the second half!
Situ Yunbing didn't care about the players' promises. No matter how beautiful you said, it was useless. You had to take some practical actions.
When the two teams returned to the court to change sides and then fight again in the second half, Van Gaal's adjustment was very obvious. He made the offense more layered. Rooney slightly retreated to the position and linked the attack. Martial took the initiative to respond on the side, while Rashford's position was even more forward, not only for activities on the side, but ready to counter-offside forward at any time.
There is no big problem with such an arrangement, but if Manchester United wants to break through Liverpool's defense, they still have to make more changes in the offense.
Schneiderlin's offense made no contribution, Mata was alone, and Herrera had the problem of going up but it was difficult to go back immediately. It was not because of lack of physical fitness or speed, or the awareness of the game. He had been playing in the forward or front midfielder before, but his defensive awareness of the back midfielder was still very lacking.
This is equivalent to his first reaction after he made a ball in the frontcourt, his mind was to run and respond, rather than observe the opponent's player's position and whether he should retreat to make a vigilant prediction of defense against the opponent's counterattack.
In the 51st minute of the game, Coutinho was sniper in the frontcourt. When he was wading, Schneiderlin stabbed the ball away. Herrera immediately stepped forward and made a diagonal teleport.
The football flew to the frontcourt to find Martial on the right, who was pressed by Guerrero as soon as he stopped the ball.
Situ Yunbing told him during the break that instead of being passively defended, unable to find the rhythm of stealing, and being led by his opponent and lost someone after being left, it is better to take the initiative to attack. Even if he is passed, he can create a good opportunity for his teammates to press again.
So he did.
Situ Yunbing's eyes showed a look of relief.
Chapter completed!