In order to break the magic spell of being unbeaten at Stamford Bridge for nine years, Manchester United made the most detailed arrangement before the game, including how to deal with the lead and lag.
Although Manchester United are in the lead now, there are still 20 minutes left in the game and there is time for Chelsea to level or even surpass.
In order to break through the gate of Chelsea, Ferguson sent out two veterans and caught them off guard. But everything has its advantages and disadvantages. The two veterans cooperate with each other tacitly and have excellent attacking power, but they have poor athletic ability and poor defense. If they can break through the gate, how can they use these two veterans to defend the last moment of the attack and keep the victory? That's what Manchester United have to face before the game It's hard to study.
Obviously, it's very difficult to attack instead of defending. In the face of desperate Chelsea, no one can say that they can hold on. At last, Ferguson and the coaching staff thought of a good idea, that is, to fall back in the back court and kill time. If Chelsea are in a high position, they will fight back by the way.
Manchester United's player skills are not delicate enough, but Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Scholes, Giggs and Fletcher have cooperated with each other for six or seven seasons, and the tacit understanding is very good. In addition, the game has reached more than 70 minutes in the second half, and the strength of Chelsea's front court is certainly not as strong as that of the beginning, so the backcourt is completely conditional.
At the start of the game, Chelsea launched a fierce attack on Manchester United.
Malouda, the new player, was full of fighting spirit. He quickly used his physical and technical advantages to get rid of Valencia and hit the ball directly on the side of the penalty area.
Drogba attracted a lot of firepower. Torres quickly grabbed Vidic's chest to stop the ball. Without waiting for Vidic to get close to him, the Spanish golden boy directly turned to volley.
The difficulty coefficient of this set of movements is very high, the shooting is very stretch, but it's a pity that we can't hit the right part, draw the lower part of the ball, and the ball flies high into the stands.
It's time for Chelsea to fight back. Although they didn't score, it was very tiresome. The fans in the stands gave Torres warm applause.
The old goalkeeper van der Sar understood Ferguson's intention. Now it's time to control the time consumption of football. He put the ball thrown by the caddie and pretended not to see it. He went outside to pick up the ball and took it into the court. Seeing the ball thrown by the caddie, he quickly went to the corner of the small penalty area and threw another ball get out.
The fool can see that van der Sar is killing time, but the killing is very reasonable, and the referee can't judge him for a foul.
Announcer Andy Gray sighed: "there's an old man in the family, but there's a treasure in the family. Van der Sar's way of delaying time is so implicit. Young people get the ball and lie on the ground. It's really not creative."
Souness said sarcastically: "the key is that there are three old players like Manchester United, all of them are old demons. Each of them consumes three minutes, and ten minutes will pass."
Andy Gray said with a smile: "if you want to talk about the obscene play, it's still Xiao Donggao. In the first round of the league, it's Xiao Donggao's obscene delay that Dafa took a point from Stamford Bridge."
While speaking, goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar passed the ball to Evra, Mikel quickly rushed to close, Evra passed the ball to Ferdinand.
When Drogba forced Ferdinand again, Gao Xiaodong had already run out of position, Ferdinand easily passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong.
Gao Xiaodong tried to pass the ball to Fletcher, who was in a better position, but quickly turned to Giggs.
Gao Xiaodong's fake action not only deceived Lampard, but also cheated Giggs. However, Wang Laoji's stopping skill was superb. He easily stopped the ball, brought out a space and passed it to Scholes.
In the face of Manchester United's continuous backcourt backcourt, Chelsea had to press on and compress Manchester United's passing space, forcing Manchester United to make mistakes.
There are advantages and disadvantages in doing so. Manchester United is not a small and quick team. It has always played well. Now it's just a special time to play occasionally. As long as the space is compressed, Manchester United's passing is bound to make mistakes. It's much more dangerous to steal in the front court and attack directly.
But after the three lines were pressed, the half of Chelsea was empty. Manchester United's quick counterattack was very frightening. Scholes and Giggs could pass long. Gao Xiaodong and Valencia were very fast. Rooney's speed was only a little slower than the two of them. The three of them attacked and it was difficult for the defender of Chelsea to stop them.
This is a double-edged sword, but Chelsea have no choice. If they get an away goal from their opponents, even if they level the score, they will be behind the hemisphere. If they lose the game, from the historical record, if the team who loses 0-1 at home has no more than 10% promotion probability, they will be eliminated.
Sure enough, after the massive pressure of Chelsea, the passing space of Manchester United has become smaller. Even the passing of Giggs, Scholes and Evra can not guarantee the success rate. After all, they don't play fast football, it's not for them.
In the 75th minute of the game, Scholes made a mistake when he received Fletcher's pass. Fletcher deflected the pass a little under the interference of his opponent and was snatched by Ramirez.
Ramirez cross Drogba, Drogba burst into the right side of the penalty area to carry Ferdinand small angle shot, van der Sar in a hurry to block the ball out of the bottom line.The chance of corner kick is also very precious for Chelsea. All the players who can attack come to the penalty area to take part in the competition.
Lampard opened the corner, Vidic showed great courage, pressure Torres to get the ball out of the box.
However, the ball is still under the control of Chelsea. Mikel crosses Lampard sideways, Torres runs in the penalty area, Lampard crosses, Torres knocks the ball to the bottom line and turns to wipe Vidic.
Torres is used to eating Vidic raw from the quick start. Now he wants to eat it again after the overhaul, but it's not as easy as before. Although Vidic is half a bit slow, he uses his body to fight against Torres and stealthily pulls a small hand, which slows down Torres' speed. Torres didn't get the ball under the interference of Vidic and the ball rolled out of the baseline.
Vidic twice defended Torres successfully. He was very excited. He clenched his fist to celebrate.
Scholes came to shoot Vidic and praised his defense. Gao Xiaodong also gave Vidic a thumbs up.
Then, under the strong pressure of Chelsea, Manchester United still made a lot of mistakes in passing. Fortunately, most of the United players were in their own half. Chelsea broke the ball to fight back. Manchester United also had an advantage in the number of defenders. The attack of Chelsea did not create too much threat.
Although Manchester United have not yet got the chance to fight back, they have almost finished several times, but they were destroyed by Chelsea's tactical fouls.
However, Manchester United's players are not in a hurry. They know that with such a large space in the back court of Chelsea, as long as they are given a chance, they can break the goal of Chelsea again and lock in the victory. Even if they lose the ball, the result of a 1-1 draw away from home is completely acceptable.