Chapter 970

Manchester United's old players are aware of the danger of the situation, but Manchester City's morale is high and they have mastered the rhythm of the game. It's almost impossible for Manchester United to turn the situation around in the last few minutes of the first half. Manchester City is not a team that Manchester United can handle.

So at this time, Manchester United's most sensible choice is to hold on to the last five or six minutes. After five or six minutes, there will be a half-time break. In 15 minutes, the coach can make targeted deployment and replacement adjustment. Moreover, after a 15 minute break, Manchester City's morale may not be able to continue at that time.

When the team needed to defend, Gao Xiaodong returned to the back midfield position, Valencia and Nani returned to the midfield, leaving only Scholes and Berbatov in front, one responsible for the transition ball in the counterattack and the other for the goal.

Gao Xiaodong just returned to the back waist position, and immediately completed a interception. Yayature buckled Carrick in the middle of the restricted area and then volleyed. Gao Xiaodong stretched his foot to block the ball and it fell to Valencia's feet.

Valencia tried to use their own speed to launch a fast break, but Manchester City's high-level close down was very fast, Valencia's speed was not up, the ball was lost.

After Manchester City steals, the ball passes to Silva, launches the counter attack on the spot, continues to besiege Manchester United's forbidden area.

Silva is still the most creative and threatening player in Manchester City. He cut the ball in from the side and made several quick stops and starts in a row. After attracting the attention of Manchester United players to himself, Silva seemed to have long eyes at the back of his head and hit the ball to Barry in the middle with a knock on his heel.

Barry also has a good long-range shot, but his running position is not right. Barry wants to stop the ball and shoot again, but there are so many defenders in Manchester United at the moment. Barry just stops so that Valencia pours on him. Barry pulls the ball away from Valencia, and Carrick arrives. Barry shakes away Carrick again, and Gao Xiaodong arrives again. He spikes forward and kicks Shoved the ball out of the sideline.

In the 43rd minute, balotellia came out to attract United's centre back Ferdinand, and then quickly divided the ball. Kolarov inserted the ball from the left side. Balotelli used his speed to get rid of Ferdinand after passing the ball and quickly inserted the steal point.

It's a good match. Ferdinand is really old compared with Bartlett. He can't keep up with his explosive power.

However, when Balotelli was about to touch the ball, Gao Xiaodong took the lead to shove the ball out of the baseline from Balotelli's side.

Gao Xiaodong has won the applause of Manchester United fans for three consecutive critical breakouts.

Before that, when Gao Xiaodong came to Manchester United less than half a season ago and won the core position, some Manchester United fans did not understand that Gao Xiaodong's performance perfectly explained why he came to the top so quickly, not because of his sky high transfer fee, nor because he was the person that Ferguson liked, but because of his irreplaceable role in attack and defense.

Balotelli and Kolarov's tacit cooperation almost succeeded. Unexpectedly, Gao Xiaodong destroyed it at the last moment. Balotelli was very angry and yelled at Gao Xiaodong: "Gao, can you not follow me?"

Gao Xiaodong said with a smile: "who follows you? I follow the ball."

"You call me a ball?" Balotelli was even more upset.

I can't tell this Hun clearly. Gao Xiaodong is speechless and turns around to defend the corner next to the post.

City did not compete with Ferdinand and Vidic in the previous corner kick. This time, Silva hit the periphery directly when he opened the right corner. Kompani stopped the ball in the chest and shot hard with his right foot at 25 yards, but the ball hit the right column and deviated from the goal.

After kompani's powerful shot, the first half of the game was over. There was only one minute of stoppage time, but the ball was in the hands of Manchester United. As long as Manchester United spent this minute successfully, they could go back to the dressing room with a 1-0 score.

At this time, obviously can't let the goalkeeper van der Sar open the big foot, had better be in the backcourt to control the ball, if can fall to the front court, that is the safest.

Manchester City players also understand this truth. They didn't give up at the last minute. Their 4231 formation directly changed into 244 formation at the last moment. Four men in the front court pressed against the four defenders of Manchester United, and four men in the midfield pressed against the four players in the middle of Manchester United. They would never let them easily control the ball in the middle and back court.

Manchester City's scramble is extremely risky. Once Manchester United pours the ball at the foot of the striker, Manchester City's goal will be in danger.

Manchester City coach Mancini also looked a little nervous, he did not have such a layout, this is the players are excited to play, they do so.

At the last moment, the defender faced the opponent's one-on-one close down, and no one dared to get rid of him. Even Evra, the most skilled defender, did not dare to control the ball. When the ball came to his feet, he quickly passed it to Scholes.

The midfield players are also marked, Evra is still more confident in his old team mate Paul Scholes.

Scholes didn't pass the ball. Manchester City man's man to man defense was very dead. It was also a sharp shot when he came out. When Scholes tried to catch the ball, he stopped the ball to one side and was ready to get rid of Toure's mark. However, Yaya Toure had a long leg, fell to the ground and destroyed the ball.Scholes to chase, has been a step slow, Adam Johnson grabbed in front of Scholes to the ball.

Scholes had the chance to foul when Adam Johnson got the ball, but Scholes didn't want to give his opponent a set piece at the end. He gave up the foul, stopped and turned around, ready to catch up with Adam Johnson.

But to Scholes's surprise, he just turned around and found that Gao Xiaodong didn't know where he came from and snatched the ball from Adam Johnson's feet.

Scholes breathed a sigh of relief. The opponents are attacking vigorously, which really gives them the right to the ball at this time. Maybe they can really kill Manchester United.

After Gao Xiaodong grabbed the ball, he made a button back and just shook the chasing Adam Johnson.

Adam Johnson was first robbed and then buckled. He was a little annoyed. He stretched out his hand from behind and grabbed Gao Xiaodong's shirt.

Gao Xiaodong was waiting for Adam Johnson to break the rules. He immediately fell down and fell on the ball.

The fans in the stands are shouting "foul", but they don't applaud for the way of Gao Xiaodong's fall. In fact, Gao Xiaodong is particular about it, because if he doesn't fall on the ball, if the referee doesn't blow, the opponent will be a quick counterattack.

The referee Quinn was really ready to make a penalty. He wanted to give Manchester City a chance to attack, but Gao Xiaodong pressed the ball under him. He couldn't continue the game without blowing the whistle. Seeing that Adam Johnson still stretched out his foot to kick the ball from Gao Xiaodong, the referee Quinn quickly whistled and awarded a free kick to Manchester United.

At the moment, it's only ten seconds before the end of make-up time. It's estimated that the first half of the game is over. Manchester City's players are very annoyed, but they forget the most basic common sense to block the opponent's quick free kick.

Gao Xiaodong holds the ball in his hand and slowly gets up, just like a panda. But when he sees no one in front of him, Gao Xiaodong suddenly pushes the arch of his foot and passes the ball to Nani who stealthily inserts it.

At the moment, all the players in Manchester City want to continue to press. The players are all pressed. Gao Xiaodong just put his foot through all the defences. Nani rushed over and faced goalkeeper Joe Hart directly.

And at this time, Joe Hart also ran out of the penalty area, saw Nani form a single shot to the party, Joe Hart was afraid of Nani's drop shot, scared to turn around and run back.

Nani certainly won't let go of such an opportunity. He didn't wait for Joe Hart to return to the penalty area, and he just shot from 40 meters away.

Nani's footwork is very beautiful, the ball accurately over the head of Joe Hart flew into the net.

2: 0

in the first half of stoppage time, Gao Xiaodong was quick to serve a free kick, and Nani's shot helped United expand the score.