Although Rooney kicked United's best chance in the first half, he also gave the attacking Arsenal a blow. They realized that United's shrinking defense was not without attack. The tiger's purpose was to give them a fatal blow at the most appropriate time.
Then Arsenal became more cautious in attack and didn't dare to attack like they had just lost the ball.
In this way, for Arsenal, the defensive line was a little safe, but the attack power was also weakened. In the last ten minutes of the first half, Arsenal were no longer able to break into Manchester United's restricted area. Only van Persie and Arshavin completed two long-range shots.
With Webb's whistle, the players stopped the game and went to the dressing room to rest.
Gao Xiaodong went to Rooney's side, "Wayne, what's the matter with that ball?"
After Rooney missed the goal, he always looked very depressed. Up to now, he didn't slow down. He said: "the ball is too fast, the judgment is not accurate, it's a little enough to play."
Gaoxiaodong suddenly, no wonder will kick to the beam, he sympathized with the way: "Wayne, don't be depressed, everyone has an empty door not into the time."
Rooney cried, "the ball is too close to the goal, more than seven meters of the goal, flying is too humiliating."
Giggs is just behind Rooney and Gao Xiaodong. After listening to Rooney's words, Giggs said: "Wayne, don't have any psychological burden, just because you think too much after flying the ball, and you can't grasp the opportunities behind."
Rooney dejected way: "such a ball did not score, I can not help but want."
"You have to overcome that," Giggs said. "People are sentimental animals, but they can't be sentimental."
Roonino, that's it.
Back in the dressing room, Ferguson praised the players' performance in the first half and was satisfied with the players' strict implementation of their tactical requirements. Then Ferguson simply deployed the tactical requirements in the second half and took Gao Xiaodong and Rooney to the coach's lounge.
Ferguson asked Rooney and Gao Xiaodong to sit down, then frowned and said, "Wayne, how could the ball be like that?"
Rooney was embarrassed, but he told Sir Alex the truth.
Ferguson laughs bitterly. He is also a player. He knows that although the probability of kicking is only one in a thousand, in Rooney's opinion, it is even inevitable to play at the post.
Then Ferguson asked Gao Xiaodong, "high, a lot of corners, why do you want to direct the free kick to attack the goal."
Gao Xiaodong pondered for a while and said seriously: "I actually want to pass the ball. I didn't control my footwork well. I didn't expect that I got into the net. I can only say that I'm lucky."
Ferguson is dubious of Gao Xiaodong's words. He knows that he is a wretched and tired guy. However, Ferguson thinks that the ball has been scored anyway. No matter what he thinks, he doesn't ask.
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In the front dressing room of the visiting team, Arsene Wenger's attitude is different from that of Ferguson's. Arsene is very angry. In a necessary victory, Arsene first lost one goal. This score is maintained until the end of the game, and Arsenal's dream of winning this year's championship is disillusioned again.
"If you want to win Manchester United, you can't just rely on physical confrontation. But if you don't increase physical confrontation, you can't win Manchester United. Therefore, any player dares to fight. Of course, football is not a fight. The style of Arsenal will not change. We must make the ball move and defeat the opponent with tacit cooperation..."
"Looking at the arrow figures of the opponents, Gao Xiaodong and Scholes, they are the engines of Manchester United's attack, but Berbatov and Rooney should not be underestimated, they have the ability to fight against a single back line."
"In the second half, we have to cheer up. We'd rather lose a big score than a draw or a small loss. As a big team, if we don't have a chance to win the championship, it's a shame. We have to win for ourselves or for La Liga."
After playing chicken blood for the players, Arsene Wenger explained in detail what happened to Manchester United in the first half and what Arsenal should do. When Arsene Wenger finished, the 15 minute break was up.
When he heard the whistle outside, he waved his hand and said, "go ahead, play your best and don't leave yourself any regrets. I believe you."
The average age of Arsenal's players is the youngest in the Premier League. With the encouragement of Arsene Wenger, the players were full of enthusiasm. After the second half, they forced the midfield to suppress Manchester United.
Although United intend to shrink, this is Old Trafford. United are 11 points ahead in the table. It doesn't matter if they lose a game. At home, the United General doesn't want to lose to his opponent.
See Arsenal attack out, want to compress themselves into half court, Manchester United players also quickly run up, and Arsenal fight in midfield.
United's midfielders are Gao Xiaodong, Fletcher and Scholes, while Arsenal's midfielders are Wilshire, song and Fabregas.
Manchester United's midfield is stronger and more fierce. Arsenal's midfield cooperation and dribbling are more.However, after some encouragement from Professor Arsene Wenger in the dressing room, coupled with the score behind, Arsenal's players are more motivated, in better condition and more active in running. Under the pressure of Arsenal's power, Manchester United's passing cooperation has problems. They have not cooperated more than three feet in the middle and front court, and then they are either forced to make mistakes or are forced to make a big start.
Short pass penetration has always been Arsenal's skill. In this fierce confrontation and competition, Arsenal's pass success rate is still better than Manchester United's. in particular, Arshavin, van Persie and Nasri in the front field of Arsenal have strong personal ability, they all have the ability of one-on-one breakthrough, and one can't prevent them.
Once Arsenal push the ball forward to give it to any one of Arshavin, van Persie or Nasri, United's defence will be in trouble.
After 60 minutes of the match, because of the delay in equalizing the score, Arsene Wenger first made a substitution adjustment. Arsenal's midfield song came off, Czech midfield Rosicky came on, and Fabregas returned to his familiar midfield position.
Although this is a normal replacement, Rosicky's appearance indicates that Professor Arsene Wenger has to work hard, because song, who is specially responsible for midfield sweeps, has been taken, and Arsenal's midfield has become a technical player. Such a midfield has better ball control ability and more delicate passing and cutting cooperation, but its defense and interception ability is definitely not as good as song's.
It has to be said that Professor Arsene Arsene has a set of ability to adjust the attack. After Rosicky came on, Arsenal's rhythm of passing the ball in the front court suddenly speeded up. After disturbing Manchester United's defense, they immediately used their personal ability to strengthen Manchester United's defense.
In the 69th minute of the game, Arsenal broke through United's encirclement after passing in the midfield, and Fabregas put a foot straight to Nasri on the wing.
Nasri tried to break through full back Evra, but Gao Xiaodong's quick return forced Nasri to pass the ball back to Rosicky, who immediately crossed to the front of the penalty area.
Fabregas put in the back and shot the top right corner of the goal with his right foot.
This shot without any interference, Fabregas almost do not do any adjustment, the ball is very powerful, but also very tricky.
However, van der Sar, the Dutch giraffe, though old and in the same condition as before, judged the shooting direction of Fabregas in advance, leaped forward and held the ball out of the bottom line with both hands, thus defusing a threatening attack by Arsenal.