At the beginning, Manchester United and inter both made a tentative attack to see if they could steal one. As a result, none of them could.
After that, the two teams gave up the whole match and fought for the midfield. Both sides also created some opportunities. Inter's threat is greater because Maicon's shooting skill is better than Valencia's. In fact, both sides are still in balance.
If you want to break the stalemate, you often have to see the star's flash of inspiration or the opponent's mistakes.
In Manchester United and Inter Milan, it is Wayne Rooney and Gao Xiaodong who can break the balance. However, in the game, they were most closely defended by each other. Gao Xiaodong didn't have many shining points, but he had a very threatening pass. However, Rooney was seen dead by Lucio and showed little performance.
This made Rooney very anxious. After 20 minutes, he began to withdraw to receive the ball and intended to run to attack Inter's back line. However, Inter's Eto'o and Pandev were active in defending. Maicon and Zanetti gradually found the feeling of defense in the two flanks. Valencia and park Zhixing almost had no chance to pass the ball on the flank. Rooney's withdrawal can only serve as a fulcrum one after another Off the ball, nothing else.
Inter Milan strangled Manchester United's two sides, but their own side offensive also lost most of the face of Valencia's speed threat, sanetti easily dare not assist, Maicon assists is very positive, but Ferguson in his left wing on Park and Evra, under the defense of these two people, Maicon's attack threat in the side is still 50% of the usual .
Inter Milan and Manchester United are not strong in controlling the ball, passing and cutting. In fact, they both attach great importance to the attack on the side. Now the side restricts each other, and the focus of attack can only be shifted to the middle.
The main organizer of Manchester United's midfield is Paul Scholes. Michael Carrick can deliver a long pass in the back court, but also can attack the front goal and grab points. Fletcher is mainly responsible for the defense of the midfield. Such a midfield combination, together with Wayne Rooney who plays forward, has enough impact but needs space.
The distance between the three lines is very good, and the ball is thrown back very quickly, especially Gao Xiaodong and Eto'o. although these two are the core of the attack, the back defense is faster than Carrick and Fletcher's forward. Manchester United rarely have the chance to form the advantage of the number of people in the middle, and even the balance of power can not be achieved.
In fact, Inter's middle attack is more technical than Manchester United's. Gao Xiaodong is in the middle. Eto'o from Barcelona and Pandev from the former Yugoslavia are on both sides. In front of him is Milito from Argentina in South America. Such an attack combination can play beautiful attack cooperation as long as the foot is smooth. Now what they need is patience, and Gao Xiaodong is just the kind of super player A precocious player, he is not worried in the face of stalemate. He constantly arranges and organizes in midfield, waiting for the chance to give Manchester United a fatal blow.
In the 30th minute of the match, Maicon's Cross was snatched by goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar. He quickly threw it to Carrick. Carrick took the ball and turned to long pass. Gao Xiaodong saw that there was no time to close down and immediately turned to run back.
Rooney fought for the top spot, but Lucio was very aggressive. He rushed up and pressed Rooney to head the ball out.
Park Zhixing got the ball, he took a few steps forward and immediately passed it across to Scholes.
Scholes looked at Inter's two back midfield, he did not have a chance to play through, he gave up the ball, direct volley to meet the ball.
Scholes is not tall, but the foot is very hard, has a strong long-range ability, won the Champions League that season is to rely on his long-range shot out of Barcelona.
However, Scholes's long-range shot angle is not tricky enough, Cesar flew to the ball to the side.
Zanetti quickly past to get the ball, Valencia rely on their own speed, in the case of little chance also rushed to steal.
Saneti is an old demon with rich experience. It's too easy to deal with Valencia. He slams the ball to the bottom line and shakes Valencia away.
It's a good chance to fight back. Sanetti turns around and immediately moves forward quickly along the side.
Scholes immediately made up for Ferguson on the wing, while Fletcher and Carrick quickly retreated to protect their defence.
Zanetti wanted to fight to the front court and Pandev to attack Gary Neville, but Valencia's speed was really fast. Just after half-time, Valencia came back.
Sanetti looked at the front court and saw that Michael Carrick and Fletcher had not returned completely, so he passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong, who was fast forward. He stood on the side to meet him.
Zanetti's pass was a little late. When Gao Xiaodong received the ball, Carrick was already in the position. Fletcher came over. Facing such a double line of defense, Gao Xiaodong and Milito could not get through.
Gao Xiaodong gave up the fast break with a wry smile and passed the ball back to Cambiasso to organize the attack slowly.
Seeing that all the Manchester United players had returned to their half court to press for the inter players, knowing that the chance of counterattack had been lost, he ran to the side of the court and yelled at Zanetti: "don't carry the ball! Speed
Zanetti apologized for waving at Jose. He realized that he had just made a wrong choice. Today is his 700 games. He is greedy for credit. If he had given it to Gao Xiaodong earlier, there would be more changes.In the face of United's full back defense, Gao Xiaodong is not in a hurry, constantly passing the ball back to the side, mobilizing United's forces, waiting for United to make mistakes.
Manchester United have a lot of experience in the big game. They are very strict in defense and didn't give inter any chance. However, after inter passed the ball in succession, their defender also pressed near the central circle. Lucio saw the chance and suddenly pushed forward with the ball, which disturbed Manchester United's defense.
Scholes came to defend Lucio, but Stankovic was cleared.
Stankovic used to play in the front midfield. Later, as he grew older, he played more and more in the back, and finally became the back midfield. But he still had the sense of attack. When he saw the opportunity, he quickly inserted into the penalty area.
Lucio passes the ball to Stankovic, because Stankovic's long-range shot is very strong, Fletcher can only block Stankovic, so Gao Xiaodong is free again.
See Stankovic forward, in order to give Stankovic open space, Milito run to the ribs, and Eto'o is also moving to the penalty area, looking for shooting opportunities.
Gao Xiaodong is worried about Stankovic's random shot and shouts for his return pass. But Gao Xiaodong is behind, Stankovic can't hear or see at all.
However, Stankovic can see Eto'o and Milito, especially the inside cut Eto'o, is raising his hand to Stankovic for the ball, Stankovic immediately put the ball diagonally.
Manchester United fans in the stands exclaimed that it would be dangerous to pass the ball, and Eto'o could shoot from a small angle.
Fletcher slowed down a step and didn't touch the ball. However, Manchester United centre back Vidic predicted Stankovic's intention. He fell down to intercept and broke the ball.
At the moment, the middle and front court is in a mess, and there are a lot of people. Before Vidic gets up to get the ball, Gao Xiaodong pats his horse and arrives. Vidic is in a hurry. He sweeps his cross leg and wants to kick the ball away. If he can't sweep the ball, he has to sweep Gao Xiaodong down.
Gao Xiaodong took a step faster. He rubbed the ball, jumped and even passed Vidic with the ball.
When Vidic came out, Manchester United wanted to cheer, but before the cheers came out, Gao Xiaodong grabbed the ball again.
At this time, Gao Xiaodong has no defenders in front of him, only the penalty area and goalkeeper.
Manchester United fans are pale, many people cover their eyes and dare not look.
When the ball fell, it was very close to Gao Xiaodong's body, so it was not easy to shoot. But at the moment, there were too many people inside and outside the penalty area, and there was no time to adjust for one second. In the light of lightning, Gao Xiaodong showed his killer nature. He leaned forward with his calf and pulled the ball to the lower left corner of the goal.
This time, the front of Manchester United's penalty area is too chaotic. Van der Sar doesn't need to grab the ball. He just can't tell where the ball will go until Gao Xiaodong takes the ball. Van der Sar runs to the right side of the goal.
When Gao Xiaodong started, Edwin van der Sar had blocked to the lower right corner, but the ball speed was very fast. Edwin van der Sar's play was between Edwin van der Sar's foot and the post, so he couldn't fall down at all. Edwin van der Sar could only extend his foot to block.
If the ball rolled normally, van der Sar could block it, but the turf was trampled unevenly. The ball hit the ground in the rolling, and the ball just flew from van der Sar's instep into the net.
1: 0
GAO Xiaodong blocked his throat with one sword, making the first record for Inter Milan.
Van der Sar was stunned and sat on the ground in despair.
The time from leaving the ball to entering the net is very short, but Gao Xiaodong seems to have been waiting for a long time. Seeing the ball rolling in from van der Sar's instep, Gao Xiaodong excitedly lifted his shirt and ran to the stands.