The Manchester City players began to celebrate excitedly.
Less than 3-0 at halftime.
You know, their opponent is Manchester United!
This is the king of the Premier League!
Similarly, Manchester United has never suffered such a disastrous defeat in the past three or four seasons.
This season's third place in the league is not only their worst performance in many consecutive seasons.
If they fail to win the FA Cup, this will be the first time in many years that Manchester United will be empty of all four majors in the season, without any championship trophy!
This is almost Manchester United's darkest season!
Cristiano Ronaldo: As soon as I came, it became dark? I was black, right?
Although... this will indeed embarrass some players.
Yes, we are talking about Saha.
Saha:……
Forty-one minutes.
Manchester United tried to counterattack a goal late in the first half.
As long as they score a goal, they still have hope.
Three goals in half and two goals in half are completely different concepts.
boom!
Giggs sent a cross from the left.
Ruud van Nistelrooy's difficult volley hit the ball over the crossbar.
Kompany put strong defensive pressure on Van Nistelrooy.
Forty-four minutes.
Van Nistelrooy retreated and sent a diagonal pass.
But Cech struck too quickly.
Ronaldo could only grab some points and push the ball, but he could only push it on Cech.
The football bounced back and Ronaldo immediately shot back.
Cech, who was sitting there, rushed to the side almost at the same time and completed the save again.
Two consecutive divine attacks!
Cech yyd!
"Oh! What a pity! What a pity!"
"Cristiano Ronaldo didn't score a goal in two consecutive strikes."
"Cech was simply a defensive god today!"
"He seems to have installed countless transparent glass in front of Manchester City's goal. Although he can't see it, he can block all the shots of Manchester United players time and time again."
"He deserves to be the best goalkeeper in the Premier League this year."
"It only took Cech one season to go from the worst goalkeeper in the Premier League to the best goalkeeper in the Premier League! We are very curious about what caused such a magical change for him."
"The camera showed Schmeichel, who is Petr Cech's goalkeeper coach. The Manchester United legend's last championship trophy before retiring was won by defeating Manchester United on behalf of Manchester City."
"Can his disciples do the same now? Let's wait and see."
The game time immediately entered the intermission period.
Both sides have made tactical adjustments, but there have been no personnel adjustments.
After all, it is the last one or two games at the end of the season, and the strongest players must have already played.
After the start of the second half.
Manchester City's tactical thinking has also become clear.
Focus on passing and controlling.
Delay time.
The reason is naturally because Manchester City still has a UEFA Cup final to play in four days.
They want to avoid wear and tear, especially injuries.
The last time the two sides met, the irritable Keane kicked David Silva's leg off.
Although Manchester United is eager to steal the ball, Manchester City has already achieved great control.
Their overall ball possession rate this season ranks among the top five in Europe.
And their comprehensive ball possession rate in the second half of the season ranked first in Europe!
A full thirty minutes.
Manchester United are doing nothing.
People who play in the game are drowsy.
Until the seventy-sixth minute.
Manchester City unilaterally declared that the game had entered garbage time.
Guardiola waved Marquesa's big hand, and three people connected in a row.
Mandzukic, a young player from Croatia, replaced Adriano.
Sun Jihai of China replaced Maicon.
The meritorious veteran Desailly replaced Yaya Toure.
Desailly moved to the central defender position after coming on.
Thiago Silva, who was at the center back position, moved to the midfield position, forming a double defensive midfielder with Mascherano.
Thiago Silva is a versatile player in the backcourt.
Neither he nor Mascherano can be called a top-notch defensive midfielder in the Premier League.
But when the two of them work together, their defensive effect is definitely no worse than any first-class defensive midfielder.
Their golf IQs are very high.
And they can be said to be both offensive and defensive.
At the same time, Fabregas' position moved towards the center and came to the attacking midfielder position.
Torres moved from the left center position to the right wing, playing as a right winger.
Deng Kai moved from the midfield to the left wing of the team, playing as a left winger.
Manchester City have changed their formation.
413!
It's not like Manchester City doesn't have such a formation.
When they were under strong pressure in the past, Yaya Toure's position would move back, which was a 413.
But the problem is...the soul of this lineup, the only "1", has always been Deng Kai.
But this time, it turned out to be teenager Cesc Fabregas.
Team brain!
Can he really?
Could Manchester City be too confident?
In addition, can Deng Kai really dominate the midfield position if he is on the left wing?
You are indeed the number one star in the world.
But it doesn’t mean that you can be the best in the world at any position.
Respect science.
If you ask Zidane to play center, Ronaldo to play midfielder, Figo and Rivaldo to play center back, I'm afraid that's the end of it.
How can you, Deng Kai, be so virtuous?
Huang Jianxiang: "It is very rare for Deng Kai to appear in the winger position."
"We can hardly find any record of his appearances at this position from official information."
"But as an absolute Kai fan, I have exclusive information here."
"Deng Kai once played as a winger during the youth training period of Sporting Lisbon. His performance at that time was no worse than the twin star Ronaldo in the team at that time!"
Ronaldo:???
Eighty-one minutes.
Saha, who had a disastrous performance throughout the game, finally had a highlight performance.
He played Ashley Young on the wing and completed a cross before Thiago Silva came up.
Ruud van Nistelrooy's header flew over.
Ronaldo turned and volleyed in the penalty area to complete the goal.
However, the linesman raised his flag immediately.
Ronaldo is offside!
Ronaldo looked at Ruud van Nistelrooy helplessly.
In fact, after Ruud van Nistelrooy stopped heading the ball, Ronaldo was able to directly attack the goal.
But Ruud insisted on paying this much.
It's really not necessary.
Eighty-three minutes.
Saha, who seemed to be confident, cut directly inside to challenge Thiago Silva this time.
The sister-in-law stretched out her foot without hesitation to complete the steal, and then passed it to Deng Kai who retreated to receive the ball.
Saha turned and pounced on Deng Kai.
Deng Kai pulled the ball in a V-shape and easily shook Saha away. Before Saha could turn around again, he directly took the ball away from Saha and rushed out.
Dazzle you once, return the favor once!
boom!
Deng Kai accelerated the ball and took off from the wing.
After a brief moment of astonishment, Saha raised the corners of his mouth and gave chase.
Than speed?
now it's right!
Although his speed is not as fast as Ronaldo's, he is still a top-notch speedster in the Premier League.
How could a mere midfielder be better than him...
boom!
Deng Kai touched the ball one after another, and his speed increased.
Saha followed him all the way, but the distance between the two did not close at all.
This directly led to a misjudgment by Gary Neville, the right back of Manchester United.
He thought Saha could put some defensive pressure on Deng Kai and entangle Deng Kai.
Therefore, Gary moved in early to prevent Deng Kai from passing the ball to Cesc Fabregas who was advancing in the ribs.