Manchester United today is a 442 formation: goalkeeper 1-edwin van der Sar; four guards 21 Rafael, 5-ferdinand, 15 Vidic, 3-evra; four midfield 13 Park, 24 Scholes, 24 Fletcher, 10 Gao Xiaodong; double forwards 7 Rooney, 14 Hernandez
Manchester City is a 433 formation: goalkeeper 25 johart; four guards 17 Boateng, 28 Kolo Toure, 4- Kompani, 5-sabaleta; double back: 34 Derong, 42 Yaya Toure, 17 Barry; three strikers: 21 Silva, 45 Balotelli, 32 Tevez
Manchester City's starting lineup has a strong attack and a tough midfield, which fully shows Mancini's determination to win at home. In fact, they also have the strength to fight Manchester United.
Manchester United's starting line-up seems reasonable, and most of them are the starters in the front battle. However, the 11 men on the field, including Scholes, Vidic and Evra, are not in the best condition because of the flu. Nani and Berbatov even sit directly on the bench.
Although Scholes and Vidic are not in the best condition, the record setting derby will attract worldwide attention. Ferguson can't use Anderson, Gibson, Evans and other young players. He can only use the veteran to see the situation.
Andy Gray simply commented on the lineup and characteristics of the two sides, "the strength of Manchester United is needless to say, won all the games since the start, this set of diamond 442 formation players are also very familiar, although Nani, Giggs are not on, Valencia season reimbursement, the creativity of the flank is much less, but in the middle there are Scholes and Gao Xiaodong, Manchester United created The biggest disadvantage of Manchester United is that they have just suffered from injury, and Scholes is old. Facing the three iron backs of Manchester United, he doesn't know if he can hold on
"Last season, Manchester City's offensive firepower once shocked the Premier League. Tevez scored 22 goals in the League last season, Adebayor scored 14 goals and Bellamy scored 10 goals. However, their middle and back court has also become an obstacle to their progress. In many games last season, Manchester City often skip the middle court and pass the ball directly by the guard line to find a few strikers with outstanding personal ability. This game is very successful Jiman city introduced Yaya Toure, J. Boateng, Silva, Kolarov and Balotelli, all three lines have been enhanced, but the hardness of Manchester United's midfield is enough, but the attack power is worse than that of Big4 in the Premier League. From the starting line-up, Mancini simply gave up the attack power of the midfield and replaced it with the waist of beast, trying to strangle Manchester United in the midfield, and then compete with Manchester United The Italians are very clever in competing for the front and the back. Mancini's tactical idea is correct, but the effect still needs to be verified through the game
Before Andy Gray had finished his introduction, the players of both sides came out of the dressing room. There was a lot of shouting on the scene, and the noise in the stadium went up in decibels, which interrupted Andy Gray's words.
the Manchester City stadium can accommodate fifty-five thousand people. Today, it is full. However, the city are very damaged. Knowing that the market is booming, they only reserved five thousand tickets for Manchester United, that is, less than half of the stands. The rest are all City fans.
When the players entered the stadium, the Manchester City fans welcomed their players with loud applause, and then "welcomed" the Manchester United players with more loud boos, creating psychological pressure on their rivals in the same city.
Zhang Rui, a Chinese Manchester City fan, is the owner of a Chinese restaurant in Manchester. He has been in the UK for more than thirty years. Before coming to the UK, he knew nothing about football. After coming to the UK, he buried his head in business. The atmosphere of British football is so strong, but he did not like football.
By chance, a Chinese player from Manchester city came to Manchester City and had dinner at Zhang Rui's restaurant. Zhang Rui went to the scene to support the Chinese player for the purpose of supporting his compatriots. Then he fell in love with football and became a loyal football fan of Manchester City. He went to the scene every weekend to watch the ball, hoping that Manchester City would win the championship and Manchester United would be demoted I'm afraid that Zhang Rui's love for Manchester City will remain unchanged after the Chinese player left blue moon and returned home.
Last summer, Manchester City said they wanted to buy a Chinese superstar named Gao Xiaodong. All the Chinese are Gao Xiaodong's supporters. Zhang Rui is looking forward to Gao Xiaodong's transfer to Manchester City every day, leading the city to soar to the sky and overpower its rivals Manchester United. But last season, Gao Xiaodong went to Inter Milan and won the treble with Inter Milan, becoming the pride of the Chinese.
This season, Manchester City has invested an astronomical amount of money to buy Gao Xiaodong. However, Gao Xiaodong chose Manchester City's arch rival Manchester United this time, which makes Zhang Rui very contradictory. He loves Manchester City and is willing to support Gao Xiaodong psychologically. Every time he hears that Gao Xiaodong scores on behalf of Manchester United and breaks the record, Zhang Rui can only feel pain and happiness.
in this world famous Manchester Derby, Zhang Ruiben does not plan to go to the scene to watch it, because he is afraid that he cannot bear the feeling that his brain is torn in half. However, in the end, a friend in China asked him to help buy tickets. After the tickets were bought, his friend was unable to come to the UK. Zhang Rui did not want to waste a ticket, but he came to the scene.
Seeing Gao Xiaodong, who is at the forefront of Manchester United, Zhang Rui's mood is very complicated. All the Chinese fans around him shout Gao Xiaodong's name, but he just sits around. He thinks that if Gao Xiaodong joins Manchester city like sun Hai, he will be Gao Xiaodong's most loyal fan. Now, he finds it hard to cheer for a player wearing Manchester United's shirt.The pre match ceremony passed quickly, the referee Atkinson blew his whistle, and the world-famous Manchester derby finally opened the curtain.
Manchester United, who took the lead in kickoff, skillfully controlled the ball and looked for the flaws of Manchester City. The players of Manchester City were like tigers going down the hill in the cheering voice of more than 50000 fans in the whole stadium, and madly oppressed the players holding the ball of Manchester United.
Manchester United's back line is oppressed by three strikers. After a few passes, they can only pass the ball to Fletcher. Fletcher handles the ball.
Manchester City's three midfielders are all players with a wide range of coverage. They run in a large area and give Manchester United a small space to catch the ball. The time is very short and the passing line is fleeting. This requires a very high passer. Fletcher has just got the ball, and there are people in front of and behind him to press for it. At the same time, Gao Xiaodong and Scholes also come to take over.
Under the crazy pressure of the opponent, it may be better to pass the ball to Gao Xiaodong, a player with strong confrontation ability. Gao Xiaodong can protect the ball, but if he can't, he also has the ability to fight back very quickly.
But Fletcher and Scholes have worked together for many years, and the same chance must be passed to Scholes.
Scholes is also suffering from the flu. He is old and not in good shape today. However, Ferguson is worried that Gao Xiaodong can't control the game alone. Today's game is unusual after all, so Scholes can play half-time to help Gao Xiaodong adapt.
Scholes was conscious enough, but his body couldn't keep up with him. He was a little slow in dealing with the ball, and the opponent immediately grabbed the ball in place. Scholes' pass to Gao Xiaodong was touched by de Rong, changed the direction, and was snatched by Yaya Toure.
Yaya Toure with the ball into the fast, high Xiaodong quickly from the back of the side.
Toure didn't dare stick the ball, quickly split the side and passed it to Silva.
Before his move to Manchester City, Silva was a Valencia player. He was a winger who could appear on either side of the field. At the same time, he could play as a midfield organizer and even a shadow striker. He has excellent breakthrough ability, excellent vision and excellent ability to interpret the game, and can often send accurate passes to the forward to tear the opponent's defense.
Silva is the main breakthrough player of Manchester City. Today, he is in the right wing and his goal is to tear up Manchester United's right defense. No matter Rafael, brown or Neville, they will not be opponents of Silva.
In less than a minute, Manchester City broke the ball and Silva got the chance to single out his opponent's right back. Silva didn't miss this opportunity. He rushed to Rafael with the ball quickly and confidently.
Rafael didn't dare to step down, so he followed Silva to prevent him from passing and cutting, waiting for his teammates to assist in defense.
Silva suddenly turned inward, Rafael quickly blocked.
What Silva did was a fake move. He quickly pulled the ball back, quickly moved forward, stopped at the bottom line, broke through Rafael's crotch, and then broke through Rafael's defense from the bottom line.
"Good" stands of Manchester City fans almost at the same time broke out a cheer, they were all impressed by Silva's performance.
After Silva broke through Rafael, he saw United's centre back Vidic blocking the ball. He didn't return the ball in the inverted triangle because United protected it very well. But Silva creatively rubbed the ball to the other corner of the penalty area and found the defenceless Balotelli.
Balotelli is not defenceless. It's not that Balotelli is unimportant, but that Manchester United's right side is too dangerous. Everyone's attention is on the right side, and no one thought that Silva would pass the ball here.
It's a fantastic pass!
Balotelli lived up to Silva's wonderful pass. He volleyed the ball into the right side of the goal.
After scoring, bashen was very proud. He lifted his shirt and ran to the stands of Manchester United.
Originally, the fans of Manchester City were clapping and cheering wildly when they saw the goal, but when they saw the words "to my dear little Donggao" written on bashen's shirt, the applause stopped and everyone was stunned.