Chapter 230 Carol's Performance
Since the forward combination of Sachah and Alan Smith is difficult to pose a substantial threat to Tottenham's goal, as time goes by and the game goes deeper, Manchester United, with heavy thunder and little rain, begins to gradually increase the pressure on the defensive end. Especially when the old Roy Keane cannot put enough pressure on the offensive players like before, and Carrick, as a partner, is relatively lacking in front of the defense, Drogba and others can directly attack the Manchester United defense line, resulting in frequent alarms in front of the Red Devils' goal. Roy Carroll was even more nervous, for fear that the Tottenham would be penetrated by the goalkeeper by him if he accidentally!
Ferguson was also helpless about the team's delay in starting the offensive end. Although he made sufficient preparations before the game and pointed out the players' weaknesses in defense, no matter how good the strategy is, it requires capable people to implement it. Judging from the current situation, Sir Judg's performance this time is obviously unintentional - Saha and Alan Smith's performance in this game really disappointed Ferguson's expectations for them.
To be honest, for Saha and Alan Smith's ability, before the game began, Ferguson knew clearly in his heart that the forward line between Saha and Smith could not bring much trouble to Vidic and Ridley King, the central defender partner. The fact was indeed not beyond the expectations of Sir Judg. Saha and Alan Smith had more fighting spirit but lacked talent, and lacked enough tacit understanding between them, which made it difficult for Manchester United to tear up Tottenham's defense.
It’s not that Sir Joseph doesn’t want to win this game, or wants to secretly help George, so that Tottenham can continue to beat Chelsea in the standings, but because such a scheduling team was Ferguson’s helpless move - if it weren’t for the fact that the striker Fanny was tired due to injury, Rooney was suspended by the FA for slapping Bolton defender Ben Haim in the game before, Ferguson would not have been able to let Saha and Alan Smith play in this strong conversation!
"It seems that the team still has a lot of things to strengthen and improve, and it's far from the time to be done." Seeing Drogba relying on his extraordinary power to force Sylvester and almost penetrate his own goal with a burst shot, Ferguson thought in his heart. Although the score on the court was still zero to zero, the Lord was already not looking forward to this game.
The only question is which Tottenham player will step up and score the goal that will be the record for the visiting team!
However, what Ferguson did not expect was that what really determined the direction of this game was not a Tottenham player he expected, but the goalkeeper of Manchester United in this game. This season, Roy Carroll, who replaced Howard, who made constant mistakes and Kudicini, who was accidentally injured, became the main goalkeeper of the Red Devils!
In the 43rd minute of the game, Ronaldo moved the ball to the place and dribbled over Wes Brown and then hung the ball into the penalty area. Carol, who chose to attack, did not intercept the cross. Under everyone's stunned gaze, the ball leaked from between the two gloves! Drogba, who was circulating from the back point, seized the opportunity and directly pushed the ball that Carol missed into the empty goal, one to zero!
Seeing this scene, Ferguson was so angry that his eyes suddenly turned dark. After all, Carol's mistake was too amateur - his goalkeeper did not catch the ball when he attacked and intercepted the opponent's cross, and directly "assisted" the opponent to score. How could the Lord, who had always been extremely demanding, bear it?!
However, what made Ferguson even more desperate was that Carol's "wonderful" performance did not end there. In the 70th minute, Carol threw the ball directly to Villa's feet when he threw the ball to Heinze on the left. Faced with such a big gift, Espanyol, who had been on the bench for less than five minutes, naturally accepted it happily. After passing Carol, who was trying to make up for the loss, he made a light push shot, rewriting the score on the field to 2-0!
"What is Carol thinking?" After seeing Carol score twice and assisting Tottenham to score again, Ferguson's anger was about to break through the sky. "Rene (Murrensten), tell me that he must get out of me this summer and go find it by himself! My Manchester United will never raise such a waste!"
If only the forward players are not good, Manchester United can rely on will and tactics to make up for this shortcoming, then with a goalkeeper with a constant stream of low-level mistakes, the Red Devils can basically say goodbye to any championship honor!
A good goalkeeper can stand half of the team. After witnessing the scam performances of many goalkeepers such as Tybby, Howard, Carroll, etc., Ferguson can be said to have a profound understanding of this sentence, and at the same time, he is more determined to bring a first-class goalkeeper to Manchester United this summer!
Although Cudicini has good abilities, somehow the Italian has been in a state of recuperation since joining Chelsea, which made Ferguson now only pick one of the two cheating guys, Howard and Carroll, who are cheating, and then praying that the person who plays will never make low-level mistakes in the game, making the game that Manchester United instinctively won a hard battle, and turning the game that he had the chance to win into a loss!
By the way, Tottenham had the opportunity to further expand the score to 3-0 before the end of the game - in the injury stoppage time, Carroll, who had already sent two surprise gift packs in this game, made another low-level mistake. When he received the ball, he actually missed a unthreatening lob shot from Xavi Alonso in the middle of the court and directly into the goal!
Although Carol immediately turned around and took the ball out of the goalkeeper's instinct, the camera clearly showed that when Carol took out the ball, the overall ball had actually crossed the goal line!
However, I don’t know if it was out of sympathy for Carol, Boer did not announce that Alonso’s goal was valid, but signaled the game to continue. Although Alonso was very dissatisfied with Boer’s penalty, when Tottenham had already secured the victory, Espanyol did not continue to tangle with Boer too much in this matter.
In this way, when referee Graham Pole announced the end of the game, Tottenham easily defeated Manchester United with the large gift package put on by Carroll, and won a 2-0 victory at Old Trafford Stadium, continuing to beat Chelsea, who had won Middlesbrough earlier today, leading the standings with a slight advantage!
Chapter completed!