Chapter 861

Last season, Chelsea beat Manchester United twice and won the league title by riding on Manchester United's head. Originally, it should have a great psychological advantage for Manchester United. But this season, Manchester United's momentum was too strong and bluffed them. In the first half, even if there was a home advantage, they were not so confident. They only dared to fight back after losing the goal, and the goals in the first half were not as many as Manchester United.

Now with one more player in the draw, the confidence and momentum of the players are totally different.

After Manchester United's kick-off, the three lines of Chelsea pressed forward together, almost lifting the defence near the central arc.

Chelsea have been able to run, strong body, now more than one person, their close to Manchester United almost forced no more than three foot pass opportunities, can only big foot forward.

When Gao Xiaodong returns to the middle, the right side of Chelsea is also active, especially Anelka. 31 year old Anelka is strong and fast. When Gao Xiaodong plays left wing, he retreats deeply. He is strong, fast and flexible. Together with Evra, he freezes Anelka and Ivanovic.

Now Manchester United play less than one person, Gao Xiaodong has to attack and defend in the middle, the task is very heavy, has no time to take into account Evra, Anelka and Ivanovic give full play to the advantages of strength and height, catch Evra desperately bullying.

In the 48th minute of the game, aerika stuck to Evra and forced to turn around. Evra stretched out his hand and pulled him down. The referee sent Vidic off in the first half. This time, he was merciful and pretended not to see the foul.

But five minutes later, Anelka and Ivanovic headed the relay, Anelka smashed the ball to shake Evra across to the front of the area.

Manchester United's young centre back, Smalling, stepped forward quickly to block the ball, and Anelka shot a long shot.

Anelka dealt well in the front, which can be said to be superstar level, but in the end, the long-range shot was out of standard, and the ball was almost a meter away from the post.

However, Anelka's two successes put a lot of pressure on United's back line. In the first half, United's back line seldom defended the left side, but they mostly defended the right side. Now, United's back line and two flanks need to defend.

Obviously, the two sides are tight, the middle to fill the defense, the result is that the middle defense is weakened.

Lampard is also a world-class midfield. He has a strong ability to read the game. Seeing the weak defense in the middle, he immediately asked Essien and Ramirez to attack the middle of Manchester United's forbidden area.

In the 55th minute of the game, Drogba headed the ball to ferryboat. After Lampard stopped the ball, he gave it to Essien. Essien volleyed hard at the front of the penalty area, but the ball hit a bit right and was bravely saved by goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar.

Then Lampard took Ashley Cole's Cross and turned to shoot, but the ball bounced out of Drogba's body.

At the moment, the Chelsea soldiers came down and the second landing point was snatched by Essien. Essien's first long-range shot was not good. This time, he gave up the long-range shot and gave the ball to Ashley Cole.

Ashley Cole again crossed the ball to the penalty area, Ramirez inserted a header in the back to attack the goal, and the ball hit Smalling's leg to pop up the bottom line.

Chelsea opened the corner, Lampard made a forward point, Ivanovic head after the rub, the ball flew to the back point.

This is the simplest tactical cooperation of corner kick, but no matter how simple the tactical cooperation is, as long as there are suitable candidates, it will also play a huge power.

Chelsea ambush to the back of the point is 1.86 meters tall Anelka, defending him is and Gao Xiaodong general high Evra.

Evra wanted to get stuck and not let Anelka fight for the top, but Anelka jumped high and put him under his body to complete the header.

The ball ran to the near corner of the goal, but was blocked by Carrick.

This is a successful corner match, the only unsatisfactory is Anelka's header in the bottom corner, if the top corner, maybe the goal.

However, it didn't affect the morale of Chelsea. On the contrary, the morale of Chelsea became even higher due to the continuous shooting opportunities.

A lot of Chelsea fans in the stands have been excited to stand up and wait for the celebration after the goal. In their opinion, Chelsea is very close to the goal.

Announcer Andy Gray sighed: "it's too big to have a strong dialogue without one person. In this situation, it's really difficult for Manchester United to keep the following 30 minutes. Now it depends on whether Manchester United can steal one. If Manchester United can steal one through counterattack, the unbeaten gold medal may be able to survive. If they can't score, Manchester United will win today It's very likely to lose

Manchester United fans are also aware of the seriousness of the situation. Now Manchester United can't defend and even have no chance to fight back. The rhythm of the game is completely in the hands of Chelsea. The taste that the fate is no longer in their own hands makes Manchester United fans very uncomfortable.

"The game was too passive!"

"If you go on like this, you'll lose the ball!"

"You can't defend, but you have to have the chance to fight back. Now you can't defend, you can't defend, you can't fight back!"

"What about Gao Xiaodong? Why is Gao invisible? ""Gao Xiaodong must stand up, or he will lose!"

"I don't see two Chelsea players around Gao Xiaodong all the time. Gao Xiaodong is in trouble today."

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Manchester United fans in the stands are talking anxiously, but they can't help the situation.

Ferguson didn't sit in his seat for a while after the start of the second half. He couldn't sit still. The attack of Chelsea was too fierce. All the Manchester United players couldn't defend themselves. There was no chance to fight back.

The key for Manchester United now is not only the loss of one person, but also the loss of balance.

The two flanks were severely suppressed. The originally stable middle road has now become a disaster area. The cooperation between Smalling and Ferdinand is not tacit, which has become the focus of attack of Chelsea players.

The position of centre back is very important and often needs experienced players to play. Now that Vidic is sent off unexpectedly, Ferguson can only let the tall Smolin play.

For Gao Xiaodong's invisibility, Ferguson is very helpless. Fletcher in the middle can't organize the attack at all. Carrick has a long pass at most, and his organizing ability is not much better than Fletcher. The task of organizing and counterattacking in the middle falls on Gao Xiaodong, but now the number of Chelsea is one more and they are running actively. Gao Xiaodong has few chances to get the ball, and occasionally takes it When they get the ball, they can't pass it, because there are no team-mates at all. They can only dribble and control the ball by themselves. At this time, the players of Chelsea come up to grab the ball. Gao Xiaodong at most creates a chance for set pieces.

Ferguson looked at the crooked melons on the bench. It's no use changing anyone in such a difficult situation. Unless there is another player who has both offensive and defensive abilities like Gao Xiaodong, the Manchester United midfield with such a few players may be able to compete with Chelsea.

Is Gao Xiaodong invisible? In the eyes of outsiders, Gao Xiaodong is invisible, but he did not give up his efforts, he always forbeared to seek the opportunity to break back.

With one less player, there is a huge gap between the two sides, and there are few chances for Manchester United to fight back. Gao Xiaodong, as the most important attacking organization and initiator for Manchester United, must seize every possible opportunity while assisting his teammates in defense.

After 60 minutes of the game, the snowflakes suddenly became big, like goose feathers, and the sight of the players was slightly affected.

This kind of situation is more disadvantageous to the defensive player, the snowskater also slides, the defense appears a little mistake, may cause the great injury to the goalkeeper van der Sar.

The players at Chelsea are very experienced. Seeing this situation, they immediately reduced their ground cooperation and increased their long-range shots and wide crosses in an attempt to make United's defensive mistakes.

In the 65th minute of the game, Chelsea left back Ashley Cole crossed the ball from the side and Ferdinand headed the ball before Drogba.

Ferdinand is really old enough. Even if the penalty area is so chaotic, his mind is still clear. When he is out of the way, he still throws the ball to the direction where Gao Xiaodong is.

Although Ferdinand thinks it is useless even if Gao Xiaodong gets the eggs, at this time, what Ferdinand trusts most is Gao Xiaodong.

When Ashley Cole passed the ball, all the players in the middle ran to the penalty area, ready to grab the spot. When Ferdinand got the spot, he didn't go back.

Gao Xiaodong has the task of counterattack. As soon as he sees Ferdinand grab the landing spot, he immediately runs sideways to see if he hopes to get the ball.

When Ferdinand's header came over, Gao Xiaodong was very happy. He gave Ferdinand a thumbs up. He went to get the ball as fast as he could.

Even in the rush of attack, Chelsea did not relax their focus on Gao Xiaodong. Defender David Lewis gave up Rooney, but he must go to see Gao Xiaodong's position at the first time.

Seeing Gao Xiaodong go to get the ball, Louis immediately went to stick Gao Xiaodong. His intention is very clear. It's better to stick and wait for his teammates to defend. If he can't stick, he'll foul. It's cost-effective to end a counterattack opportunity of Manchester United with a yellow card. From the current situation, it's very difficult for Manchester United to create more than three counterattack opportunities.

Gao Xiaodong has a sense of full position, he knows what the defender is thinking at this time, and then immediately came up with the idea to deal with David. Lewis's way.

Gao Xiaodong runs forward quickly, as if to meet the ball, David. Louis is ready to foul, of course, can't let Gao Xiaodong away from himself, he runs very fast, chasing Gao Xiaodong away.

However, Gao Xiaodong shamelessly stopped suddenly when he was still far away from the receiving point.

David. Lewis was watching the ball while running with Gao Xiaodong. He thought Gao Xiaodong had to run at least another three meters to head the ball or stop the ball in his chest, so he was still speeding up. As a result, he just hit Gao Xiaodong's back.

Of course, Gao Xiaodong won't stand up straight and let David Lewis hit him. He arched his back when he stopped in an emergency. This is just David. Lewis's chest abdomen junction, hit Lewis on the ground, almost breathed.

Gao Xiaodong had already thought about the action behind him. He turned quickly to chase the ball like nobody.Now the ball has landed on the ground. Before it bounces up, Gao Xiaodong presses his foot forward and stops the ball in front of him, ready to kill the half of Chelsea. However, by this time, Gao Xiaodong has seen through his super glasses that Essien, who has returned to defense, is almost behind him.

Gao Xiaodong suddenly moved the ball sideways to avoid Essien and move forward quickly with the ball.

Essien moved sideways and continued to catch up with Gao Xiaodong. After Gao Xiaodong killed half-time with the ball, all three of the players of Chelsea came running for him. Gao Xiaodong then moved the ball to the outside and then went outside.

The defenders of Chelsea continued to chase Gao Xiaodong, but at this time, Gao Xiaodong suddenly started to cross and passed the ball to Nani, who was on the wing at high speed.

Under the three men's bag, we can see Nani inserted in the side road, which is definitely the credit of super glasses. The radius of vision of ordinary people is not so large.

When Nani inserted, no one kept up with him. Gao Xiaodong took the players from the middle to the other side. As long as Nani stopped the ball well, he could kill to the restricted area obliquely. Even if someone came to defend, Nani passed the ball to Wayne Rooney, who was inserted in the middle at high speed. There was a lot of hope for the goal.

But now it's rainy and snowy weather, the sight is blocked, not to mention, the foot also slips. Nani made a mistake when he stopped the ball with the arch of his foot. As soon as he slipped, the ball actually crossed his foot and flew out of the sideline.

It was United's best chance in the second half, and it ended in such a way that Gao Xiaodong was very depressed. He yelled at Nani and ran back to defend.

The counterattack organized by Gao Xiaodong made Chelsea a little nervous. Terry didn't dare to attack blindly, and Essien and Ramirez were more active in defense. However, this kind of good situation is rare. Less than 10 minutes later, the players of Chelsea were dazzled by the frenzy of attack, and they were all pressed up again.

In the 70th minute, Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti saw that he couldn't score with one more player. He made a substitution adjustment and replaced David. Luis, replaced by Bosingwa; replaced by Anelka, replaced by Zhirkov, continue to strengthen the attack.

Manchester United continued to defend and counterattack. After resisting for almost five minutes, Ferguson also made a substitution adjustment. Anderson came on the court and replaced Michael Carrick to strengthen the running and physical confrontation in midfield.

Manchester United's substitution has little effect. Under the siege of Chelsea, Anderson and Carrick have little effect. It depends on whose luck is better.

The game entered 80 minutes, the score was still 1-1, nervous and anxious to become a Chelsea man.

Manchester United are now without a centre back Vidic, and the strength of Manchester United has dropped to the lowest level. If Chelsea still can't seize the chance to win at this time, they won't have to fight for the championship.

Ancelotti rarely used up the last place to replace. Ramirez came off the field at the back, Torres came on the field at the front, and three strikers and a winger were put on the front court of Chelsea, which made the most fierce half-time siege to Manchester United.

Commentator Andy Gray said: "Manchester United let Vidic in the half and Gao Xiaodong didn't show his magic. If Chelsea still can't win, it's really God who wants Manchester United to surpass Liverpool."