In the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals, Bayern visited Old Trafford to challenge Manchester United.
As soon as the game started, Manchester United took the initiative and formed a strong pressure on Bayern's midfield and backfield. After Rooney stole the ball in the frontcourt, he forced Lahm away with his body and made a pass.
In front of the goal, Tevez and Ronny moved forward one behind the other, but Neuer struck decisively and picked the ball out of mid-air. His performance was very steady and did not give Manchester United's offensive players a chance.
But Manchester United's attack still won warm applause from the fans at the scene.
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After failing to succeed, Manchester United quickly reorganized their offensive.
After Ronnie got the ball on the right, he quickly rushed to Marcelo's side with the ball, suddenly stopped on the right side of the penalty area, and passed the ball across to the front of the penalty area.
Tevez rushed into the penalty area and went too far, but Rooney quickly ran to the top area of the arc, faced Roney's cross, and fired a fierce shot, and the ball was slightly higher than the crossbar.
The whole audience exclaimed, followed by extremely warm applause.
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Just less than two minutes later, after midfielder Anderson stopped the ball, he sent a very penetrating pass, which was directly transferred to the left side of the penalty area and passed to Evra who came in behind.
The French left back made a cross and wanted to go to Rooney, but was blocked by Lahm.
The ball was still at Evra's feet. After stopping the ball, the Frenchman dunked past Lahm and fired directly with his left foot.
The ball went high again.
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After Manchester United opened the game, they created three shooting opportunities in less than four minutes.
The Red Devils' strategy is already obvious.
Ferguson just wanted to take advantage of the opening opportunity and take the lead.
Sometimes the purpose of attacking is not to score goals, or in other words, scoring goals is not the only purpose. It is more about disrupting the opponent's rhythm. What Premier League teams are best at is this kind of fast-paced offense and defense.
Many players have thrived in the European leagues, but they are seriously acclimated in the Premier League. The final analysis is because the pace of the Premier League game is too fast. Sometimes the defensive players have already rushed forward before the ball even stops.
, leaving no time to react at all.
Veron's experience at Manchester United and Chelsea is the best proof of this.
Therefore, when Premier League teams compete in European competitions, a very threatening weapon is to speed up the pace of the game and overwhelm their opponents.
Ferguson chewed gum and stood on the sidelines, turning his wrists from time to time and looking at his watch while also keeping an eye on the situation on the court.
The opening attack is a big question.
If you grab it well, even if you can't score a goal and disrupt the opponent's rhythm, it's still great.
But the risk is also very high. If you are not careful and go too far, you may end up killing yourself.
Therefore, it is easy to attack at the beginning, but when to stop is the real skill.
If you harvest early, you will not see any results, and you will waste the opportunity. If you harvest late, the other party will react and counterattack, and you may steal the chicken but lose the rice at any time.
Manchester United is a strong team, but Bayern is not a weakling either.
Ferguson must keep an eye on the situation and watch the time. If something goes wrong, he must stop immediately.
Only a head coach like him, who has absolute control over the situation and the players, dares to do this. If it were someone else, and after the order is given, the players on the court would have to delay for several minutes to adjust, which would be really dangerous.
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"Five minutes." Mike Phelan reminded from the side.
Since Queiroz left Manchester United and went to Portugal to coach the national team, Mike Phelan has become Ferguson's right-hand man, but his ability is still far behind Queiroz, so much so that the training of players is still left to Meulensteen
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Ferguson's plan before the game was to start the game for a maximum of ten minutes, but it could be closed at any time after five minutes, depending on how Bayern got into the rhythm of the game.
The whole world is troubled by the team coached by Heynckes.
Especially Su Dong, there was no way to defend against him.
As long as he has height, strength, and technique, he is a decathlete!
How to guard against such a player?
Coupled with the superb personal abilities of Ribery and Robben, no matter who encounters Bayern, they must be wary.
Ferguson is no exception.
After listening to Mike Phelan's reminder, Ferguson thought for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Wait a little longer."
Just as Ferguson finished speaking, Ronnie took the ball from the right and hit Marcelo again.
Everyone knows that the defense of the Brazilian left back is weak. Although he is now stationed at the back line with peace of mind, it is still difficult to contain Ronnie.
The Portuguese dribbled the ball from the right and passed, hitting Marcelo's legs and out of the baseline.
Corner kick.
Anderson quickly ran over and prepared to take the corner kick.
This Brazilian player came to Manchester United under the aura of Ronaldinho II. However, under the training of Ferguson, he has now become a dark and strong midfielder. This experience is similar to that of Mick who joined Chelsea.
You are very similar.
It gives people the feeling that an artistic young man has been tortured into a rough man.
Needless to say, this sense of accomplishment is pretty good.
Anderson quickly took a corner kick, but instead of going directly to his teammates in the front and center of the penalty area, he took the penalty very far back.
Almost out of the left side of the penalty area, Rooney got ahead of Lahm and headed the ball back to the center.
Bayern's defense missed the most important player in this kind of pulling and pulling.
Ronnie jumped high, blocked Pepe with his body, and headed the ball from close range to open the scoring for Manchester United.
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"
The announcer's excited shouts came from the live broadcast.
Ferguson also immediately raised his arms high and roared.
"so beautiful!!!!"
The old Scottish man shook his fist vigorously again and seemed quite satisfied with the result.
Less than six minutes later, Manchester United scored the first goal.
This was already within the scope of Ferguson's plan.
This corner kick was something he had practiced intensively before the game. He knew that Bayern's penalty area was full of strong points. Even if Ferdinand and Vidic went up, Manchester United might not be able to take advantage, so he used this method to create Bayern marking.
loopholes in.
The effect is really good!
Ferguson turned his head and looked at Heynckes, whose face turned red with excitement in front of the visiting team's coaching bench. The old Scottish man chewed gum vigorously and grinned.
Haha, Old Man Hai, are you surprised? Are you surprised?
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Su Dong stood in the 30-meter area of his own half. After watching Ronnie score, he rushed out of the stadium excitedly.
He felt helpless.
Bayern anticipated Manchester United's opening attack, but did not expect that they would score so quickly.
Tonight, under Manchester United's stormy attack after the start, Bayern's players were a little slow to get into the rhythm.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Su Dong clapped his hands vigorously to encourage his teammates around him.
"Everyone cheer up, give me the ball, and I'll equalize the score!"
Su Dong's roar was loud, and even though it was in German, many Manchester United players could roughly guess what he meant.
No one would think that Su Dong was trying to support his university, because he just had such strength.
Anyone who underestimated Su Dong has been trampled under his feet.
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By the time Ronnie came back from celebrating his goal, Su Dong was already standing in the center circle ready to kick off.
The Portuguese walked to the outside of the center circle with a smile, and looked at Su Dong with a proud look, as if to say, it's my turn to win tonight, right?
Su Dong glanced at this arrogant guy and snorted angrily: "Isn't it just a goal? How happy are you like this?"
"It depends on whose goal it is. If it is another team, I don't think it is okay. But if it is your goal, it is obviously different. If you are not convinced, you can score one if you can." Ronnie laughed.
Retorting with sarcasm.
"Don't try to provoke me on purpose, I'm not as promiscuous as you."
"What's wrong with me? I can score goals!" Ronnie was very arrogant.
Su Dong looked at his nouveau riche face, and the more he looked at him, the more unhappy he became, "Just wait for me!"
All the Bayern and Manchester United players around were very embarrassed. I really wanted to say something to them, buddy, we are in the semi-finals of the Champions League after all, and you two are both superstars who have won double Footballer of the Year. Can we have some face?
It's a competition!
But while they were embarrassed and complaining, they also felt the deep friendship between the two. Even the winning or losing of the game did not have any impact on them. It was more of a material for them to tease, attack and ridicule each other.
Perhaps the two of them train hard on weekdays just to make sarcastic comments about each other and gain a verbal advantage when they get together.
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After the restart, Manchester United decisively retreated on defense.
This is also the tactical play that Manchester United is best at.
In the defensive counterattack, Ronnie, Rooney and Tevez in the front are free to roam, and the midfield and backfield are mainly defensive.
This is the core weapon that Ferguson has used to sweep Europa in the past few years.
If Manchester United retreats, Bayern will advance.
But Manchester United did not retreat blindly, but rather strangled Bayern in their own half.
After two attempts, Bayern again dribbled the ball past the halfway line.
Bastian Schweinsteiger saw Su Dong retreating, raised his hand to ask for the ball, and immediately passed the ball to Su Dong's feet.
As Heynckes said before the game, both Fletcher and Anderson could easily leave their positions, so Sudong retreated to the gap next to Carrick and received Schweinsteiger's pass.
, stop the ball, turn around, and dribble the ball forward.
Anderson in front immediately chased back, and right back O'Shea also recovered in time to support Ferdinand.
Su Dong rushed forward with the ball, and from the corner of his eye he saw Ribery in the center and Robben on the right, but both of them were surrounded by Manchester United players, so he immediately decided to do it himself.
When he saw O'Shea's recovery, Su Dong made a quick decision, accelerated directly, and kicked the ball into the penalty area. He also accelerated to catch up, hoping to break through the defense of O'Shea and Ferdinand before they could get together.
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With Anderson behind him and O'Shea and Ferdinand in front of him, Sudong's sudden acceleration made Manchester United's defense somewhat unable to withstand it.
The ball entered the penalty area, but just when Su Dong was about to enter the penalty area, Ferdinand suddenly used his body to bully Su Dong. With a small pulling movement on his hand, Su Dong lost his balance and fell to the ground.
The restricted area is on the line.
There was a burst of exclamation at the scene!
Bayern's players stepped forward one after another, thinking it was a penalty kick.
But the referee signaled that the game should continue.
This is the home court of the Premier League. According to the Premier League's law enforcement standards, this cannot be considered a foul.
