Chapter 856

The snow is still falling, but the red and blue clash between Manchester United and Chelsea is on schedule.

Stamford Bridge Stadium, which can accommodate 41000 people, is not vacant because of the bad weather. There are many fans of Gao Xiaodong who fly to London from Asia to watch the game. They are holding the bright red Chinese flag and shouting Gao Xiaodong's name.

Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich and his wife Zhukova, Zhukova's best friend, world star Emma. Watson also came to the scene, and they sat with Manchester United's young owners Joel and Edward.

Abramovich is quiet and cautious, Joel is calm and capable, and they don't speak, only Edward keeps talking to Emma. Watson was very gallant and talkative.

On the court, the snow has been cleared, but the sky is still sparse snowflakes falling, but the players trampled on the field, soon disappeared.

Just five minutes into the game, Andy, the commentator. Gray just began to introduce the starting lineup of the game to the players.

This is Andy, too. Gray's characteristic is that he doesn't like to introduce the fans through the starting list before the game, because the starting list is very different from the position of the players in the actual game, especially Gao Xiaodong, who is a very versatile player. He can push forward, that is the forward, and pull back, that is the defender. The specific position formation can only be determined after the game.

"Manchester United is a 4-5-1: goalkeeper 1-edwin van der Sar, 22 O'Shea, 5-ferdinand, 15 Vidic, 3-evra; five in the field: 18 Scholes, 24 Fletcher, 16 Carrick, 17 Nani, 10 Gao Xiaodong; single forward: 7-rooney..."

"Judging from this formation and the performance in the first five minutes, United are mainly attacking on the left side, Gao Xiaodong's partner Evra, and Nani's assistant attacking on the right side. Therefore, the right back behind Nani is O'Shea, not Rafael, which should be said to be Ferguson's cautious move. After all, from 2002 to now, United have only won one game at Stamford Bridge."

"Fletcher, Carrick and Scholes, who started in the middle, can also see Ferguson's prudence. Fletcher and Carrick are partners in the midfield. Scholes is in charge of midfield. In fact, Scholes and forward Rooney also have good defensive ability."

"It's hard to say whether Manchester United can win or not, but it's not easy for Chelsea to win

"Let's look at the starting lineup of Chelsea. It's a 433 formation, with goalkeeper 1-cech; four defenders 2-ivanovic, 4-david Lewis, 26 Terry, 3-ashley Cole; three midfield: 5-essien, 7-ramirez, 8-lampard; three forwards 15 Malouda, 39 Anelka, 11 Drogba; this starting line-up has no new ideas, no bright spots, no bright spots Problems, fully reflects Ancelotti's conservative tactical style, this starting even fans can guess, Manchester United's Sir Alex is certainly not worse than our fans, but Ann fat on this ability, even if you completely guess his starting, even if you guess his tactics, you may not be able to win him

"We've finished the start of both sides. Now let's look at the game. In the past five minutes, both sides saw the opponent's tight defense in the middle and looked for the opponent's space from the side. But now no one can attack the opponent's penalty area, just fighting in the midfield. Now let's watch patiently and see who finishes the first shot..."

Andy Gray's words are not lost, and Chelsea launched a threatening attack from the side.

Essien cut off Michael Carrick's pass to Scholes in the middle and made a long pass to Anelka.

Anelka saw that Gao Xiaodong didn't have time to return to defense. After stopping, he singled out his compatriot Evra.

Anelka two feint forward, did not get rid of Evra, momentum back to the ball, suddenly a cross, hit the front of the area.

Just now, Anelka's two fake moves didn't pass Evra, but he shook his teammate Drogba into the restricted area. Drogba brought both centre backs into the restricted area. Fletcher defended Lampard in front of the top of the arc in the restricted area. No one noticed that Malouda suddenly ran from the side to the front of the restricted area. In the case of no defense, he pushed the arch of his foot and pushed the ball Push the ball to the bottom right corner of the goal.

Van der Sar has been watching the movement of the opponent's players, Malouda crosscutting, he has noticed, he wanted to ask his teammates to mark, but his teammates did not keep up, van der Sar is very worried about giving him a big volley, so close, it is difficult for him to react at this age, to see Malouda push angle, van der Sar was very happy, he jumped, the ball blocked in front of the goal line.

Although he failed to score, the Chelsea fans gave Malouda warm applause and encouragement

commentator Andy Gray said: "good shot! Better! Malouda is the top runner, but it's not enough to break van der Sar's ten fingers

After finishing a goal, Chelsea played more actively. In the ninth minute of the game, Ramirez passed the ball, Essien took two steps and was immediately caught by Fletcher, Carrick and Vidic.

Essien didn't pass the ball. He raised his foot and made a big volley.

Vidic put his foot in a block, the ball hit his foot, changed the line and went straight to the goal.Vidic did not expect to play this effect, startled, fortunately the ball went straight to the goalkeeper van der Sar fly, van der Sar easily reached out to pick the ball off.

Manchester United didn't get a shot in almost ten minutes, and the players also stepped up their running. In the 13th minute of the game, Ramirez was forced by Carrick, and Gao Xiaodong suddenly came over to steal the ball.

Ramirez is afraid of Gao Xiaodong's counterattack. He falls to the ground and reaches out to hook Gao Xiaodong.

This is a typical tactical foul. According to the rules, it is a yellow card. However, the referee Atkinson is known as the Royal referee of Chelsea. Manchester United players are very nervous. They are afraid that Atkinson will not play according to the card principle.

But Atkinson didn't take sides with Chelsea this time, and didn't care about the pressure at home. He took out a yellow card and warned Ramirez.

Seeing this, Manchester United's players and fans are more relieved. As long as the referee's whistle is not too dark, Manchester United will have a chance to win.

Manchester United sent a free kick from midfield, Scholes passed it to Gao Xiaodong directly, Evra boldly took over and ran to the half court of Chelsea with Gao Xiaodong.

Gao Xiaodong's speed is very fast, and he is rushing towards Chelsea defender Ivanovic.

Gao Xiaodong's speed of catching and dribbling is very fast. Chelsea winger Anelka is not far away from Gao Xiaodong, but he has not caught up with Gao Xiaodong. He can only catch up and watch Gao Xiaodong single against Ivanovic.

Gao Xiaodong accelerated all the way to the bottom line and finally completely threw away Ivanovic, sweeping the ball to the small penalty area.

Gao Xiaodong's speed was too fast. As a result, Rooney didn't make a pass at the back of the ball. The ball slid past the goal and was defeated by United's full back Ashley. Cole was in front of the sideline.

It's a good time to switch offense and defense, Ashley. Cole launched a quick counterattack, Drogba scored the ball in the front court, Anelka shot into the right rib of Manchester United's penalty area from a small angle, but the ball also crossed the goal.