Although Manchester City were double killed by Manchester United this season, all the players hope for revenge, but the desire for the FA Cup title made them play very carefully after the opening, not eager to move forward, mainly to defend in the middle and back, waiting for Manchester United to make mistakes.
Manchester United are the Premier League's top clubs. Now the season is unbeaten and in good condition. Against their rivals in the same city, Manchester City can stay in the back and wait for the counterattack, but Manchester United can't. They have to take the initiative.
Today, Gao Xiaodong and Carrick are playing together as a double back. Scholes stands in front of Gao Xiaodong and Carrick to organize and dispatch. Manchester United's attack mainly relies on Nani and Valencia from two sides.
At the beginning of the first half, it was another decisive knockout match. Manchester United also made a big attack without opening. The pressure of two full backs, O'Shea and Evra, did not exceed the central circle, mainly relying on the personal ability of Nani and Valencia to tear up Manchester City's defense.
Mannich's preparation work today is very full. In the middle, he has two beast like backbacks. Although David Silva and Adam Johnson are offensive players, they work very hard on defense today. They always spare no effort to defend to their own side of the penalty area and assist the full back to attack Valencia and Nani. They don't want Valencia and Nani to break through easily And the chance to pass.
In Manchester City's very targeted defense, Nani can't play his advantage, while Valencia creates a certain threat with his own speed.
In the fourth minute of the game, Scholes took the ball back to Gao Xiaodong. Gao Xiaodong took a step forward and then straight to Valencia.
Gao Xiaodong's foot went straight behind city full back Kolarov, giving Valencia the chance to give full play to their speed.
Manchester City defender korolav is not slow, but Gao Xiaodong's pass is sudden. He has to turn around. If he slows down, he can't keep up with Valencia.
See Valencia catch up with the ball, behind a multi position corollaf decisive shovel, trying to break the ball out of the sideline.
But Valencia move faster step, the first step to the ball out, krolav was not able to touch the ball, directly Valencia to shovel over.
Valencia came back from a broken leg. When he played on the court, the United fans were afraid that he would be injured again. When they saw that crolav shoved Valencia down with such a fierce action, the United fans all cried out excitedly.
"Foul! Didn't get the ball! Foul
"It's dangerous! Yellow card
"I think Valencia's broken leg is a deliberate threat."
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Manchester United players have come to protect Valencia, protest to the referee, want to let the referee Quinn to give a yellow card to korolav, but the referee Quinn obviously does not want to play at the beginning, he just awarded a free kick, did not give a yellow card to korolav.
Scholes took the free kick. Manchester United players came to the penalty area to fight for the top. Scholes passed the ball to the penalty area. Berbatov collided with his opponent's defender when he was trying to get the spot. The ball flew into the air. City goalkeeper Joe Hart rushed out and hit the ball with both fists.
Joe Hart didn't play far. Carrick got the ball. Carrick didn't pass it to his teammates. He adjusted his pace and shot from a long distance, but the ball was far away from the post.
Manchester City kick-off goal, Joe Hart big foot out, forward Balotelli grab the spot, but Manchester United's two big guards with very tacit understanding, a stuck position does not let Balotelli grab the spot, a rush to the header to clear.
The ball fell to the foot of Scholes, Scholes dare not pass the ball to Valencia, he found the other side of the long pass Nani.
Nani just received the ball, de Jung from the waist position to make up, pounce on Nani.
Nani dunked the ball when Derong was close to him, but Nani underestimated the ferocity of Derong. Nani just picked up the ball and wanted to lose Derong. Derong swept it with a high whip.
Nani was scared and quickly leaned back. Fortunately, Nani reacted quickly. Derong just swept through Nani's eyebrow arch, and the shoe nail bruised Nani's eyebrow bone, bleeding.
Just now Kolarov overturned Valencia, and now de Jong has injured Nani, which is clearly to use violence to intimidate and restrict Manchester United players.
Manchester United fans couldn't stand it. They jumped up one after another and scolded Manchester City players for being rude and shameless. They didn't play football, they came out of the fight class.
Nani and Valencia are also the real main players of Manchester United. They are highly valued by Ferguson. When Ferguson saw that his disciples were fouled continuously by his opponents, he yelled angrily and went to the fourth official to seek justice from the referee. However, the fourth official was just gentle and didn't go to the referee. Quinn, the
referee, had previously forgiven corroff and didn't give the yellow card to corralph. It was only nine minutes before De Jong did it again.
Derong's reputation has not been good. In European football, he and Real Madrid's Pepe have become butchers. The referee has prejudice against them. Quinn directly took out a yellow card to warn Derong.
Seeing Derong take the card at the beginning, Mancini's face is heavy. Although Derong is fierce, his position in the back waist is indispensable for Manchester City. If he gets a yellow card, Manchester City won't play very well.Scholes continued to take the free kick. This time, Scholes didn't pass the ball directly to the penalty area. Instead, he played tactics and passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong.
Gao Xiaodong took two steps forward, trying to find out if his foot wind was right or not, but when he saw that Carrick had just inserted into the penalty area, Gao Xiaodong immediately passed the ball to find the fast forward Carrick.
Carrick didn't expect that Gao Xiaodong's passing skills and vision were so good. As soon as he raised his hand, Gao Xiaodong's passing arrived.
Carrick has been recuperating since Gao Xiaodong's arrival. The competition and training are three days of fishing and two days of net drying. There is not much running in with Gao Xiaodong.
Carrick was not sure about Gao Xiaodong's passing speed. He headed the ball high above the crossbar.
Although Manchester City mainly defended and counterattacked after the opening, they were not prepared to defend a draw today. After withstanding Manchester United's attack for almost 10 minutes, Manchester City also gradually launched an offensive.
In the 13th minute of the game, after Manchester United cooperated in the midfield, Carrick made a straight pass to Berbatov. Berbatov turned around to catch the ball and got rid of his defender Lescott. But he didn't expect that defender kompani came from one side and broke the ball.
Kompani broke the ball immediately long pass, a foot to the front court, looking for his teammate Yaya Toure.
Yaya Toure took advantage of his height to get the ball and went straight to find his striker Balotelli, but Van der Sar had rich experience. He rushed to the line of the forbidden area and broke away in front of Balotelli.