Wembley Stadium
one of the greatest in the world.
The home of England team is also the final place of all kinds of cup matches in England. In 1966, it witnessed the glorious moment when England team won the championship. Pele called it the world football center and church.
Entering the stadium through the 133 meter high arch and seeing the 52 meter high ceiling, all the newlyweds of Manchester United who came to Wembley Stadium for the first time were awed and felt solemn. At this time, they finally understood what Bailey meant by the church.
"How magnificent! If I can score a goal here, I can play all my life
During the warm-up, bogba talked to himself excitedly around Gao Xiaodong.
Because of his poor performance in training, bogba didn't play in the league match with Fulham. Bogba thought he had no hope of playing in the FA Cup semi-final. He didn't expect Ferguson to put him in the 18 man squad, which made bogba surprised and happy. Although he didn't think he had much hope of playing, he was happy enough to be in the derby. After all There is still hope.
Gao Xiaodong listened to bogba's words and said: "Paul, you are the back waist. Don't always think about goals. In the eyes of the coach, the role of the back waist is not to score goals."
Although Gao Xiaodong is only three years older than bogba, but Gao Xiaodong is already a golden ball. Bogba is convinced of Gao Xiaodong. He said with a smile: "brother Gao, I think wrong. If I have a chance to play, I will defend well."
Gao Xiaodong nodded his head and said: "if I have a chance, I can also insert the assists forward. The back waist who can assist is also an advantage. When I played back waist, I scored a lot of goals."
Bogba after listening, black face more black, heart, you just don't let me always think about goals, now said he played a lot of goals in the back, this is how I do, but he only dare to gossip, can't say, had to continue to smile: "I understand, I understand."
Gao Xiaodong continued: "you certainly don't have a chance to start, but you have to be prepared. Once you have the chance to come on as a substitute, you have to hold the Manchester derby and play at Wembley Stadium. If you play well, you can become famous."
"Yes, I will be ready." Bogba nodded like a chicken pecking rice, with a look of great desire in his eyes.
More than ten minutes after the warm-up, Manchester United's players went back to the dressing room to have a rest and get ready to play.
In the mixed channel, Gao Xiaodong met Balotelli. Ba Shen was very honest before the match and didn't make any jokes. Seeing Gao Xiaodong, Ba Shen ran over and held Gao Xiaodong's neck and said: "Gao, I want to beat you. The league and the Champions League are yours. The FA Cup is ours."
Gao Xiaodong is speechless and sincere. These championship trophies are produced by your family. You can give them to whoever you want? But Gao Xiaodong knows that Balotelli is what God nagging, also don't mind, smile way: "thank you for your blessing, but the FA Cup we also want ah."
Balotelli released Gao Xiaodong, clenched his fist and said, "Gao, you can't pass me."
Gao Xiaodong hit Balotelli's chest with his fist, "let's meet on the field."
"See you on the court." Balotelli and Gao Xiaodong wave their hands and each enters his own dressing room.
When Manchester United and city players make the final preparations in the dressing room, the Wembley Stadium, which can hold 90000 people, is almost full.
This season, Manchester United are invincible. They are very hopeful of winning the treble. Manchester City are very angry. There is no big suspense for them to enter the Champions League. Both teams are very popular. In addition, the semi-final is almost equivalent to the FA Cup final in advance. The fans who come to watch are even higher than the focus of the league.
The competition also attracted nearly 300 or 400 journalists and dozens of commentators.
At the moment, the commentators have got the starting lists of both sides and are introducing them to the fans.
Manchester City today is Mancini's favorite 4-2-3-1 formation, the goalkeeper is 25 Joe Hart; four guards: 5-sabaleta, 4-kompani, 19 Lescott, 13 Kolarov; double back: 18 Barry, 34 Derong; three front midfield: 21 David Silva, 42 Ya Toure, 11 Adam Johnson; single forward: 45 Balotelli
Manchester City Main forward, Captain Tevez was defeated Before the game, Tevez took the lead in attacking coach Mancini. On the eve of the war, Mancini said that he couldn't stand it. Especially now Balotelli is in good condition. Mancini has the courage to beat the recalcitrant Tevez.
Manchester City's lineup is relatively conservative, two big beast waist de Rong and Barry are mainly defensive, three front waist Yaya Toure and Johnson also have strong defensive ability, only Silva and Balotelli full-time attack.
United's starting formation today is 4-3-3: goalkeeper 1 - van der Sar; four guards: 22 - O'Shea, 5 - Ferdinand, 15 - Vidic, 3 - Evra; three midfielders: 16 - Carrick, 18 - Scholes, 10 - Gao Xiaodong; 25 - Valencia, 9 - Berbatov, 17 - Nani.
In addition to the suspension of Rooney and Fletcher, and the unstable position of O'Shea, other positions are the main force of Manchester United. Moreover, the starting line-up of Manchester United is very aggressive. Michael Carrick, Paul Scholes and Gao Xiaodong in the midfield are all players who can forward assist. The two wingers Valencia and Nani are strong in attack and weak in defence. It is very important to use such a starting line-up to deal with Manchester City It's amazing how brave Ferguson is.In the luxurious VIP box, two of Manchester United's deputy directors, namely the two sons of Glazer, evram and Edward, also came. While waiting for the game to start, they discussed the renewal of Gao Xiaodong's contract.
Evram doesn't agree to give Gao Xiaodong too much annual salary, and doesn't want to set a penalty for Gao Xiaodong. He is afraid that Manchester United will repeat the mistakes of inter and suffer a big loss.
Edward thinks that Gao Xiaodong is one of the best players in the world, comparable to Messi, and has potential. He thinks that he should meet Gao Xiaodong's requirements, keep Gao Xiaodong's heart, and let Gao Xiaodong help United build a dynasty.
In another VIP box, Mendes and Manchester United manager David Gill sat together. Instead of discussing Gao Xiaodong, they discussed Nani and Anderson.
Nani is in good condition. Mendes doesn't worry about his future, but Anderson's condition is not very good. He spent half a year in hospital because of injury. After he recovered from injury, he lost his form and the main position. Manchester United's attitude towards Anderson's contract extension is very ambiguous, which makes Mendes have to come to the scene to watch the game and talk with David Gill about Gao Xiaodong and Anderson And Nani's future.
There is no need to mobilize in the derby. After the warm-up of Manchester United and city players, they took a rest in the dressing room to get familiar with the problems that should be paid attention to in today's game, and then went to Wembley Stadium under the leadership of the referee Quinn.