After Brown came on to replace Neville, Stoke City opened a corner, the ball was headed out by Ferdinand again, pennant grabbed the landing point and then shot, the ball was blocked by Gao Xiaodong.
The ball fell at Nani's feet and Nani hit back along the side with the ball.
Stoke City guard Collins made a tactical foul and shoved Nani in the front. He was shown a yellow card by the referee malinell.
Stoke players and fans were dissatisfied with the decision. They thought the referee was biased towards Manchester United. Neville's decision was very loose.
Gao Xiaodong ignored the opponent's protest and quickly sent a free kick to Hernandez.
Hernandez dribbled the ball to the penalty area. Stoke City guard Shawcross kept up. Hernandez swung the ball and Shawcross burst into the penalty area. Shawcross misjudged and tripped Hernandez.
Referee malinell whistled, but instead of a penalty, he gave a free kick on the line of the penalty area.
Manchester United's players are not convinced that Hernandez is in the penalty area.
Hernandez, who was lying in the penalty area asking for a penalty, was very angry. He used to ask the referee for an explanation.
Scholes worried that the referee bullied the newcomer and pulled Hernandez to one side to negotiate with the referee himself. However, malinell insisted on his decision and Scholes was helpless.
The free kick on the line of the penalty area is not easy to kick out of the arc, and it is also difficult to cooperate, that is, a volley. Scholes gave the free kick to Gao Xiaodong.
Stoke City discharged a thick wall, Gao Xiaodong's strong volley still hit the leg of the wall and popped up, Scholes snatched the landing point and shot again, the ball was higher than the beam.
The game continued, with Manchester United still attacking and Stoke City defending. This situation lasted until 75 minutes. Stoke City had not been able to use the opportunity of counterattack to level the score before. As Manchester United were ready to withdraw, Stoke City could not wait any longer. Manager Pulis replaced pennant with goodjohnson and Wilson with tonchay to strengthen the attack.
When the game reached 75 minutes, Ferguson didn't expect to expand the score. He was preparing to replace Michael Carrick to strengthen his defense. Unexpectedly, Stoke City came out. Ferguson gave up the decision to change players and was ready to score another stoke goal before changing players.
Stoke's defensive counterattack is good, but the attack is really simple and rough, either in the middle of the long pass, or wide pass, and then the forward and midfield charge into the penalty area.
If this tactic is used in the counterattack, the number of defenders is small, and they are not in a good position, so the threat will be much greater. Now Manchester United's defenders stand in the position, and Scholes, Gao Xiaodong, Fletcher and Nani in the midfield are all in front of the guards. Stoke's counterattack is almost like attacking the city with bows and arrows, which poses little threat to Manchester United's goal.
Manchester United can now "guide" Stoke City on the spot how to fight back.
In the 78th minute of the game, Stoke City's long pass was headed by Vidic to Gao Xiaodong. Gao Xiaodong stopped the ball in his chest and picked it to Scholes. Scholes didn't wait for the opponent to encircle, but quickly passed it to Nani. Nani took a few steps and then passed it to Gao Xiaodong, who quickly broke through the opponent's high position.
Three passes two falls, at the moment Gao Xiaodong front already left Stoke City's guard line only.
Gao Xiaodong no longer passes the ball, but uses his teammates' running position to quickly approach Stoke City's centre back with the ball.
Look at Gao Xiaodong into the 30 meter area, Stoke City's center back dare not retreat, Faye decisive on the snatch, forcing Gao Xiaodong to pass.
Gao Xiaodong is waiting for the centre back to grab this one. Now two of Manchester United's forwards, Berbatov, are watched by another centre back. The little-known Hernandez is emptied. Gao Xiaodong gently pushes the arch of his foot to the rib of the restricted area and passes the ball to Hernandez.
Finally!
Hernandez was almost moved to tears, but he was eager to wait.
Hernandez excited and moved, impulsive, into the penalty area to shoot, arch push shot far corner.
However, stoke goalkeeper Sorensen is not an ordinary person. He is the Danish international goalkeeper. Sorensen has been playing in England since 1998 and has been playing for more than ten years. The weak team is a good goalkeeper for the middle and lower reaches of the team for many years. Thomas Sorensen has a strong ability of single shot. He fell to the ground quickly, hit the ball with one hand and flew out of the post baseline.
The good chance to win was wasted. Pea was very disappointed. However, Hernandez was more worried that his teammates would not pass such a ball to him next time than losing the single shot to win.
"It's OK. There's still a chance."
Gao Xiaodong came to comfort Hernandez as if he were the big brother. In fact, he was 2 years younger than Hernandez.
"Swear to God, I will score next time!"
Hernandez was overjoyed to hear Gao Xiaodong say that and vowed to score next time.
In the 85th minute of the game, Fletcher broke Stoke City's pass and passed it to Scholes. Scholes, Gao Xiaodong and Nani made a short pass in succession. Finally, Nani crossed the ball and Gao Xiaodong received the ball, forming a situation with Hernandez and Berbatov to face two centre backs and one back opportunity.Gao Xiaodong catches the ball and makes a long shot.
People on earth all know that Gao Xiaodong's long-range shot is powerful, and no one dares to let him go. Depra comes to "block the eye".
Gao Xiaodong had long expected that his opponent would not let him shoot. He buckled the ball, swung past de PRA and continued to push forward with the ball.
Gao Xiaodong scored too many goals and threatened too much. Seeing that Gao Xiaodong was close to the top of the forbidden area, the two centre backs of Stoke City risked giving up Berbatov and Hernandez and rushed to Gao Xiaodong together.
In the face of two centre backs, Gao Xiaodong was very calm. He pushed the arch of his foot and passed the ball from Faye's foot to Hernandez.
Berbatov and Hernandez are empty, but Gao Xiaodong did not pass to the main forward Berbatov.
Hernandez was very surprised. He thought Gao Xiaodong would pass it to Berbatov. After all, he just missed a single shot, but he didn't expect Gao Xiaodong to pass it to him again. Now it seems that the boss doesn't admit it.
Hernandez is very savvy. After he waded the ball into the penalty area, he didn't shoot directly in front of goalkeeper Sorensen. Instead, he made a shot in the near corner. With a shake of his wrist, he shot the ball in the far corner.
Sorensen was cheated. When Hernandez made a fake move, he stretched out his foot to block the near corner. When Hernandez really shot, he was unable to make a complete save, and could only watch the ball into the net.
2: 0
after the goal, Hernandez rushed to Xiaodong excitedly. He held Gao Xiaodong up with his arms and said, "thank you."
Berbatov was very upset when he watched Gao Xiaodong and Hernandez celebrate. He felt that he was the main center and his shooting skill was better than Hernandez. Gao Xiaodong didn't pass it to him, which was obviously biased against him.
The other Manchester United players didn't have as many ideas as Berbatov. They all ran to Hernandez to celebrate a goal with him.
After Hernandez scored, Stoke City had no way back and could only put in more troops to attack, but it also gave Manchester United more opportunities to fight back. In the 90th minute of the game, Gao Xiaodong scored in the middle of the game, Nani passed the ball from the bottom, Hernandez headed the goal and locked the score at 3:0.
Stoke City didn't want to fight, and Manchester United didn't score any more Manchester United beat Stoke City 3-0 away to win nine games in a row, equalling the best start of the Premier League created by Chelsea under the leadership of Jose.