spn The Old Trafford stadium was filled with jubilation. Some fans had already stood up and were ready to cheer for the goal, and Rooney did not let them down. The little fat man didn't even raise his head to observe, but just shot straight away!!
This was a low shot. The football stuck to the turf and rolled towards the goal very quickly. Although Helton fell to the ground to save the ball, he was unable to touch the football!
The ball went in!!
2:2, Manchester United equalized the score again. Porto head coach Ferreira looked at Rooney who was simply celebrating the goal on the court, and Li Yu and Ronaldo who took the football out of the net. They were both born in 1985.
Young people, the other one is even younger, this is Manchester United's attacking combination, they run towards the center circle together, he frowned, this ball really can't be too demanding on the defense, they have tried their best, to be honest, Manchester United
This team's offense was indeed exciting.
Ferreira looked at Ferguson not far away with some envy. I believe that almost all head coaches would envy Ferguson. Li Yu, Ronaldo, and Rooney, these three talented young people, would be the best in any other team.
The core of the offense, and Manchester United suddenly had three, but he did not give up in the following games. It can be seen that Manchester United has been risking his life in the beginning, but Manchester United players are also human beings, and their physical fitness is not good in the second half.
It was very exhausting at first, but Porto will have a chance to overtake it again, and Manchester United may soon experience a decline in physical fitness.[
Three minutes later, what happened on the field surprised Ferreira. Manchester United players still had the physical strength to continue to support such an attack. After equalizing the score, the Manchester United team continued to attack and almost overtook the score.
This is when O'Shea, who came up with an assist, received the ball from Scholes, moved the football forward, caught up with the attacker and hoisted the ball into the penalty area.
This pass was quite comfortable. Li Yu grabbed the front of Alves and shot directly from the top. Just when the Manchester United fans had raised their arms and were ready to cheer for the goal again, Helton made a world-class save.
, he blocked the football with one palm.
"He was really good at grabbing the point. Li Yu completely got rid of the opponent's central defender. What a powerful header. Helton saved Milan. If Manchester United scored two goals in three minutes,
Porto will also be in trouble. I have to say that Li Yu is a very smart player. This is talent. He has a clear judgment on where to play football. Li Yu's talent is not only physical, but also has a football awareness that is far beyond ordinary.
Where people are!" Director Zhang Luzhang was explaining the essentials of the action in conjunction with Li Yu's attack.
The analysis is correct, but it is not Li Yu's talent at all, it is completely the result of his special training. Now it seems that in the game, he has a clear judgment on the placement of the football, which is still very helpful to Li Yu.
Manchester United got a chance for a corner kick. Ronaldo went to take the corner kick. The Portuguese took the corner kick. Li Yu bumped the football at the front point. After he bumped the ball, the arc was a bit weird and it spun towards the goal. Helton
Football is blocked again.
Li Yu fought for two header opportunities in a row, which made Porto coach Ferreira unable to sit still anymore. If Manchester United's No. 9 continues to do so, Helton will not be able to save the goal no matter how brave he is.
Anxious and worried, Alves is already the best leading player in the Porto team. If he can't do anything with Li Yu, it will be useless to replace him. Now we can only hope that the other Manchester United players will soon tire of Li Yu.
The support weakens a bit, and there is no chance that the natural threat will come down.
Pressing, crazy pressing, Ferreira began to direct the Porto players to press Manchester United desperately. Compared with their opponents, they have a physical advantage. Now there is no need to wait any longer. After the physical energy of the Manchester United players is almost exhausted, Porto will face
Come take a chance.
As the game time went by, the score on the field was still 2:2. This is definitely an acceptable score for Porto, and it couldn't be better. With two away goals in hand, in this case, back to
At home, it only takes a 0:0 or 1:1 draw with Manchester United in the second round to eliminate the favorites, Manchester United, and advance to the semifinals.
Although after 20 minutes of the second half, Ferguson continued to make substitutions to strengthen the team's running and interception capabilities, there were only three substitutions, and it was impossible to replace all of them. Manchester United did not have any players substituted in the second half of the second half.
It's all about struggling to support the next game. It's already good to equalize the score. This is the result of the sudden inspiration of the frontcourt trident combination. Otherwise, the first round of Manchester United's home game is likely to end with Manchester United's defeat.
end.
When Rizzoli blew the whistle at the end of the game, the score on the big screen at Old Trafford remained unchanged. Although Porto did not defeat Manchester United at home, they also gained two golden away goals.
ball.
Although it was a draw, Manchester United, the defending champion of the Champions League, seems to have reached a dead end.
As far as this game is concerned, what is the problem for Manchester United?
Injuries and players' fatigue after continuous battles and exhaustion must be an important reason.
Almost all the players in Manchester United's main lineup represented the national team in the World Cup preliminaries or friendly matches last week.
For example, Rooney played the entire friendly match between England and Slovakia, and also played the full 90 minutes in the subsequent match against Ukraine. This is unimaginable given Manchester United's intensive schedule in the past two weeks.
Of course, in the match against Slovakia, Rooney had a chance to rest. England's forward players were constantly injured, which temporarily occupied all the employment quotas. Capello could only keep Rooney on the field, while Liverpool's midfielder
Gerrard was substituted at the beginning of the second half.
With ample rest time. Although Rooney did not play in last week's league due to suspension, Rooney's running in this game was not without his efforts, but his teammates were generally in a slump, so they were never able to play well.
Cooperation. However, Rooney still scored a goal in the second half.
Li Yu became the most outstanding player in Manchester United. Without the fetters of the national team, his state in the game was obviously better than other teammates, but his personal performance could not save Manchester United. The abnormal performance of his teammates made Li Yu
Jade's efforts came to nothing.
In Manchester United's starting lineup, the Red Devils players are not working hard, nor are they not active in running at the beginning of the second half, but it is obvious that their morale is not high and their condition is not adjusted well, which affects their performance at home.[
The absence of Ferdinand at the back has the greatest impact on Manchester United's defense.
Although Vidic returned from suspension and performed well, his partner Evans obviously could not adapt to the atmosphere of this competition, and the opponent's offensive in the first half really made Manchester United's defenders nervous.
It was a low-level mistake in Evans' defense that allowed Porto to score the first goal.
Other players including Ronaldo, Scholes and other players with offensive tasks, although they kept running, did not pose much threat to their opponents. This is also directly related to the players' tired state.
Ronaldo also participated in Portugal's World Cup preliminaries last week and played the entire last league game and performed well. However, playing three consecutive games in one week did have an impact on his physical fitness.
Although Scholes does not have a match assignment with the national team, time is not forgiving after all, and the former ginger head also encountered the embarrassing situation of poor physical fitness that affected his performance. Although he watched the last game on the sidelines, his state in this game was still affected.
Influence, time is like a butcher's knife, a midfielder as strong as Scholes still cannot escape the erosion of time.
Tevez even returned to South America to participate in the Argentina team's world qualifiers, and also tasted the bitter pill of the Argentinian team's 1-6 loss. He started and played nearly 90 minutes in the last league game, which also cost him the chance of this game.
The starting opportunity and subsequent substitute appearance can only be described as silent.
Furthermore, Porto's offensive power was underestimated.
Porto played three forwards in this game. The three offensive players are fast and can quickly pass through the midfield when switching from defense to attack and penetrate into the heart of Manchester United.
Although Ferguson had sufficient expectations for the opponent's formation and deployed three defensive midfielders: Scholes, Fletcher and Carrick in the midfield, the opponent's counterattack speed and more attack points
, still made the Manchester United midfielder exhausted.
It can be said that throughout the game, although Manchester United showed offensiveness in certain periods of time, they were actually led by their opponents.
The opponent could create a threat every time they attacked, and after retreating, the defenders were able to organize the defense very carefully. Even goalkeeper Ayrton hardly left the small penalty area, which shows that Porto came prepared.
If it weren't for a low-level mistake by Alves, Manchester United would have almost no chance to attack in the first half.
It is precisely because of the opponent's attack that Manchester United's third line is always suppressed to the midfield and its own half, and cannot advance the offensive line into the frontcourt. Under the opponent's pressing pressure, the passing, receiving and processing of the midfield and backfield
Continuous ball turnovers also gave the opponent more threatening offensive opportunities.
Evans's ball error at the beginning of the first half seemed to be due to a lack of personal ability. In fact, it was also caused by the pressure put on the entire Manchester United defense by the opponent's pressing.
In the second half, although Ferguson made adjustments to the defense, the right wing guarded by Neville still became a shortcoming. The opponent's equalizing goal was scored by the opponent precisely because Neville lost his position.
After the Club World Cup, Manchester United's morale was high, and they won consecutive victories to reach the top of the league. However, as the league entered the sprint period, they had to deal with multi-front battles, and with the outbreak of the ff virus, it was normal for Manchester United to show fatigue. At this time,
Manchester United must learn to make choices. If they are greedy, it may lead to tragedy. In history, no Premier League team has won at the Dragon Stadium. Although Ferguson claimed to break this fate after the game, the odds of such a fate are still there.
How many are there?
Should Evans or Neville be blamed for the disastrous 2-2?
The British media was objective this time and pointed the finger at Ferguson, who blindly relied on money and made huge bets. Wasn't it?
Even the people of Porto knew that the previous league games were advanced to last Saturday. Ferreira also hid Lucho Gonzalez, Lisandro and Rodriguez who had just returned from South America. Why did Sir Alex Ferguson refuse to apply to advance the game?
In one day of competition, you still insist on letting Rooney and Ronaldo start the game after a long journey? Manchester United, who have played 53 games, are they really the unbeatable Red Devils?
The Portuguese media gloated after the game and joked: "There is no 20-year-old genius to save you this time!"
Li Yu's goal was just an accident, punishing Aston Villa who are accustomed to losing points at the last minute this season.[
Manchester United's defensive problems have never been more prominent than now: O'Shea was rushed to pieces by Sissoko on the right, and Evans in the center was the beginning of disaster. Although the performance in the second half was acceptable, his partner Vidi
Qi is not that outstanding. Facing the physically strong Hulk, the Serbian's state is still far away from the peak of 14 clean sheets.
Of course, compared with Evra who was tortured by Rodriguez on the left, Neville who replaced O'Shea was simply a disaster. The last time Manchester United was defeated by the visiting team in the Champions League knockout round, they won 3-2.
In the first round, but was eventually eliminated by Milan.
Among Manchester United's main lineup, defenders Evra and Vidic, as well as midfielders Carrick and Scholes, were brought down by the battle. Frequent injuries caused by excessive fatigue have greatly weakened the power of the Red Devils. In the past,
The "spring collapse" that only happened to Arsenal is now happening again to Manchester United.
Sir Alex Ferguson's lament over his failure was beyond words: "Park Ji-sung is the kind of player who is born to be tireless, but after coming off the bench, I could tell last night that he was extremely tired."
Ferguson also praised Porto's performance. "They performed exactly as I expected. We watched their game against Atletico Madrid and they played exactly the same football in that game."
Talking about the second round away game, Ferguson admitted that it will be very difficult. "The game in Portugal will be a difficult game, there is no doubt about it, but we know what we need to do at that time."
"No British team has won there yet so it will definitely be tough but we are used to being first and we need to be first again because we have to win."
Li Yu also immediately stood up to encourage the team, "It's not that Porto is so strong, it's just that they were very lucky and happened to meet a Manchester United that was different from before. In the second round, actually we were not
Go to the Dragon Stadium to create a comeback miracle and perform to the level that Manchester United should have, which will be enough to defeat the opponent!"
Many fans still agree with Manchester United's No. 9. In their opinion, Manchester United is still very threatening when they perform normally in the second half. However, such a scene did not last for the entire second half. After all, it is still the physical fitness of Manchester United players.
Or they have reached a period of mental fatigue. A 4-point lead in the league with one game less is actually a 7-point advantage. At worst, Manchester United does not need the additional 3 points. Let the players have time to recover for a game, and Manchester United still has hope!
However, there are still different voices coming out. Maybe the Spaniard, who has just renewed his contract with Liverpool, is right. Maybe Sir Alex Ferguson is busy dealing with Liverpool's approaching challenges and has ignored his opponents' attention to Manchester United's defense and lack of physical fitness.
What is particularly worth mentioning is that the Porto midfielder kept running at a high speed throughout the game, emphasizing success rate in both passing and stealing. These were clearly demonstrated to Ferreira three weeks ago by Benidis.
. Let me ask, how can Ferguson not be depressed?
After being tied 2-2 at home, what are the chances of qualifying on the road?
The history of the Champions League gives 125% of the answer.
In the 2002 semi-finals, Manchester United was tied 1-1 by Leverkusen away from home, with goals scored by Keane and Neuville.
In the 1\8 finals of the 2005\06 season, Ajax and Rangers were eliminated by Inter Milan and Villarreal respectively. In the 2006\07 season, Inter Milan and Bayern were eliminated by Valencia and Milan.
Counting Atletico Madrid being defeated by Porto this season, it has been 6 times, and the home team was completely wiped out by the home team who was tied 2-2 in the first round.
Even counting the qualifiers, there were only 3 upsets out of 23 times.
Who is it? Unfortunately, it's Porto.
In the third qualifying round of the 2001\02 season, Porto was tied 2-2 at home by Grasshopper Zurich. It was Deco who completed the comeback 3-2 away and scored the winning goal.
In the 2004\05 season, which was also the third round of preliminaries, Juventus was tied by Sweden's Jurgaden at home. Fortunately, Trezeguet scored twice in the away game and completed a 4-1 comeback. The other time was in the 2002\03 season preliminaries.
In the first round, the Malta Irish team in the amateur group defeated Ireland's Sherwood.
In order to give the Manchester United people some confidence, dating back to before 1992, out of 36 precedents, only 5 times the unlucky home team was able to come from behind.
In the first knockout rounds of the 1978\79 and 1982\83 seasons, Brno of the Czech Republic and Celtic of Scotland were able to reverse the Hungarian Pest team and the giant Ajax respectively in away games.
In the quarter-finals of the 1976\77 season, Borussia Monchengladbach defeated Club Brugge 1-0 in an away game. In the quarter-finals of the 1958\59 season, Young Boys of Bern and the Karl Marx State Club of the former East Germany scored 2-2 in two rounds.
2. The Bernese only advanced through the play-offs. Obviously, Manchester United has no chance of the third game now.
In the past 8 successful comebacks, there was basically a disparity between strengths and weaknesses. The strong home team was forced to show its due strength in the away game. But look at Manchester United now. Next week at the Dragon Stadium, there will be no Ferdinand and Evan.
Do you expect to find the answer in Porto, which has created a miracle of reversal?
