Gao Xiaodong's goal let Manchester United take the initiative to advance to their own hands, but the hope of Inter Milan's promotion is no less than Manchester United's.
At present, the score of this game is 2-2, and the total score is 4-3. As long as inter score another goal, they can knock out Manchester United with the advantage of scoring away from home.
In other words, Gao Xiaodong's goal makes Manchester United closer to promotion, but it doesn't cause too much trouble for Inter's promotion. If Gao Xiaodong doesn't score, inter will score a goal if they want to advance. If Gao Xiaodong scores, inter will also score a goal if they want to advance.
There is not much time and we still have to score goals. Leonardo is afraid to continue playing with his Christmas tree formation. He made a substitution adjustment. Stankovic left the court, and young player kudinho came on. The formation has become 4231.
If there is hope, there will be fighting spirit. After the game starts again, inter, who need to score in order to advance, have become more active and have more forward pressure.
Although United are in the lead in the total score, the advantage is too small, even less than one goal. As long as Inter Milan score, they will be eliminated, so Manchester United can't defend. They also have to attack, score more goals and ensure the promotion.
Both teams want to attack, the rhythm of the game immediately changed, if the front is the andante, now it's the Allegro.
Manchester United are the first to create shooting opportunities at home.
In the 61st minute of the game, Gao Xiaodong forced his way in with the ball, passed Cambiasso and then separated the ball. Valencia broke through Chivu's cross on the side. Hernandez missed the ball when he grabbed the point. Rooney shot from a small angle at the back point and the ball slid through the door.
After that, inter goalkeeper Cesar made a big kick-off error, but Gao Xiaodong and Rooney cooperated on the right side of the penalty area, then Rooney crossed the ball, but Hernandez's push force was too small, so he was saved by goalkeeper Cesar, and defender Lucio got out with a big kick.
But now Inter are no longer passively beaten. After the change of gutinho, the number of front court attackers of Inter has reached four. Their high level of pressure makes it difficult for Manchester United to give the ball.
In the 67th minute of the game, Maicon passed from the right, and Smalling made a mistake to kick to Coutinho. Coutinho swung past Fletcher with the ball and shot with a straight arc. The ball bypassed Edwin van der Sar's ten finger pass and flew out of the baseline by rubbing the column.
Coutinho's shot threat is not small, but his position in Inter Milan is very low. Eto'o and Sneijder are dissatisfied with him for not passing the ball and shooting directly. Eto'o just shows his hand to show me that it's better, and Sneijder directly talks about Coutinho's face, "you know, blind shot! I can't see anyone
After being criticized by the team's boss, kudinio won't dare to shoot easily if he takes the ball to break through.
In the 70th minute of the game, Sneijder sent out a top pick pass. Pandev stopped the ball in the middle of the road and turned to volley. The ball was hit by goalkeeper van der Sar. Scholes and Sneijder vied for the landing point. The ball flew to one side and was snatched by Coutinho.
Coutinho took two steps forward, did not dare to continue to break through, saw Eto'o to the ball, passed directly to Eto'o.
Eto'o took advantage of the confusion in Manchester United's penalty area and lifted the ball to the right side of the goal to find maikong. Maikong inserted into the big penalty area and shot hard, but the ball flew out of the crossbar.
After 75 minutes, the score of 2-2 was not changed, but the players of Manchester United and Inter Milan became cautious and did not dare to attack as fiercely as before.
Now this time point is too sensitive, at this time, no matter who scores, it may become the final winner, but the losing party may also become the final loser, it can be said that this is the time when no one can afford to lose the ball.
At the beginning of the second half, Ferguson and Leonardo were relatively calm. Now they are also nervous. They both come to the court and shout loudly. Every mistake of the players will cause their roar. Every foul of the opponent is missed by the referee, they will also make exaggerated body posture complaints.
It's no wonder that Ferguson and Leonardo are nervous. For such giants as Inter Milan and Manchester United, the league is just the bottom line, and the Champions League is the key. Whoever falls in the last 16 can't be regarded as a success even if they win the league.
Maybe it was too easy to play in the first leg at meacha. In the second leg at Old Trafford, Manchester United's players were prepared for the difficulties of the game. They didn't expect to play 75 minutes, but they still didn't win. The situation was even more dangerous than after the first leg.
Not only the coach is nervous, but also the players of both sides are nervous. This is the reunion of opponents in last season's final. Manchester United want revenge and are eager to score another goal to win, but they are afraid of being hit back by Inter.
This kind of mentality of wanting to win and fearing to lose makes some inter players cringe when playing football, especially the defenders. They dare not plug in when attacking. Even if they do, they dare not insert too deeply. Once they lose the ball, they dare not encircle the ball on the spot. They just let the forwards harass them, and the defenders immediately run back to defend.
Some people want to attack and some people want to defend. This is the most dangerous situation. Because the players are not unified in thinking, they can't play with each other, and they can't form a tacit understanding, which is very unfavorable to attack and defense.Ferguson's experience is very rich, he quickly saw the problem, look at the time is close to 80 minutes, Ferguson let O'Shea warm-up, ready to play, and then wave the players to shrink, strengthen defense, ready to play Inter's counter attack.
This is Ferguson's wisdom, in fact, at this time, the choice of attack and defense are the same, there are risks, but the biggest risk is to do nothing. It's not a problem for Ferguson to choose defensive counter attack when he is in the lead.
However, the charm of football games is full of accidents.
In the 80th minute of the game, Sneijder sent a long pass near the central circle to find forward Eto'o.
Eto'o's heading ability is general. Smalling bravely grabs the ball and gives it to his teammate Fletcher.
Fletcher chest stop the ball, want to control the ball, but did not expect inter young player Coutinho after playing very active, he grabbed Fletcher to stop the ball before the foot to steal the ball down, then passed to Eto'o.
Eto'o didn't expect the ball to come back, and after Smalling finished competing for the top, he rushed forward and wasn't with him.
Eto'o pulled and pushed the ball into the penalty area from his rib.
However, Manchester United defender Brown has rich experience. He quickly blocked in front of Eto'o and didn't give Eto'o the chance to shoot. Eto'o can only carry the ball horizontally, pass brown and look for the chance to shoot.
United's defense is not isolated. It's a system. Brown was knocked by Eto'o and full back Evra made it up.
This is the so-called "more hits, more players". Eto'o has rich experience. He once again dribbled the ball to avoid Evra and passed it to Pandev on the right wing before Smalling came back to defend.
Eto'o's foot went right to Pandev's left foot.
Pandev is a player with extremely uneven left and right foots. In Serie A, when defenders defend Pandev, they don't need to look after his right foot at all, just focus on his left foot. Pandev himself said that he gave his left foot nine points and his right foot only zero.
Facing the powerful pass from this angle, Pandev skillfully pushed the ball with his "golden left foot", and the ball flew close to the post into the upper left corner of the goal. Inter Milan led Manchester United 3-2 and the total score was 4-4.
A goal scored by an opponent at an extremely dangerous time, whether in the stands, on the court, or in the box, whether it is a live fan or a TV fan, all Manchester United people are shocked, because the score means that if United don't score, they will be eliminated.
With 10 minutes to go, United have been pushed to the edge of the cliff.