Chapter 917

On the afternoon of May 14, 2011, at Wembley Stadium in London.

The FA Cup final has been going on for 70 minutes, and the score of both sides is still zero to zero.

Gao Han and Ferguson have not made any substitution adjustment, obviously they are maintaining the situation on the field.

Manchester City, as always, controlled the ball's right and pace, launching wave after wave of attacks towards Manchester United's goal.

The Red Devils United also showed great tenacity in this game. Ferdinand and Pepe's combination of centre backs, as well as the old goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, were in front of the goal to help United resolve the crisis again and again, especially Edwin van der Sar.

As early as in the first half when Manchester City launched the bombing, van der Sar repeatedly made a key save.

In the 23rd minute, Cristiano Ronaldo got a chance to start on the left side of the penalty area, almost directly to the dead corner, but Van der Sar bravely saved the ball with one hand to resolve a crisis.

But the most dangerous thing was that in the 35th minute, Benzema quickly put in a straight pass from Modric and reluctantly unloaded it in the state of no defense. At the critical moment when Benzema was about to start to hit the goal, van der Sar resolutely abandoned the goal and saved Benzema's volley.

This is also a very dangerous attack. If Benzema didn't react fast enough and stop his feet in time, van der Sar would have to take a strong shot.

However, the ball didn't fly far after saving, but fell at the foot of David Silva in the front of the restricted area. The Spaniard volleyed after stopping the ball in the restricted area and wanted to hit an empty goal. After saving the ball, van der Sar jumped up from the ground and bravely opened his arms to block Silva's shot again.

Van der Sar, who has been 40 years old, won the house full of cheers with two consecutive saves. Even the Manchester City fans who came to the away game gave cheers and applause to the Dutch goalkeeper.

It is also in van der Sar's brave play, coupled with united united united, finally tenacious to block the attack of Manchester City.

And Manchester City is not impatient, still methodically control the ball, patiently looking for opportunities.

Especially in the second half, Manchester United players' physical consumption is increasing, although occasionally they can seize the opportunity to fight back, but also frequently revealed flaws, copper walls also continue to crack.

In the 73rd minute, Sanchez broke through on the right and brought the ball to the right side of Manchester United's penalty area. However, Leighton Baines and Mattic defended at the same time, forcing him to return the ball.

Modric ran to the right and moved to the foot of David Silva in the middle.

The Spaniard catches the ball and Manchester United's Fletcher pounces on him for the first time, but without waiting for him to get close, David Silva has passed the ball to Benzema in the penalty area.

In the penalty area, the French Center leaned against Ferdinand, received a pass from David Silva, saw the Spaniard push forward quickly after passing the ball, immediately understood and passed the ball to the bottom line with his heel without thinking.

Sure enough, David Silva went into the penalty area at high speed, threw away Fletcher, and then slanted behind Ferdinand. He grabbed the ball before Pepe, made a quick stop, turned around and saw Cristiano Ronaldo who raised his hand at the front of the penalty area.

The Spaniard passed the ball back, Cristiano Ronaldo stopped and fired straight.

Only a bang was heard, and the ball went straight to the goal.

At this time, Manchester United's penalty area was full of people. Ferdinand instinctively blocked the Portuguese's shot, but when everyone thought that Manchester City's attack was going to fail again, Kaka suddenly appeared on the right side of the penalty spot. He didn't wait for Ferdinand's ball to land, so he took a volley.

The sudden shot made van der Sar less responsive. He instinctively raised his hands and made a crooked dive, but he couldn't reach the slightest point. The ball directly hit the goal behind van der Sar.

one to naught!

Kaka was so excited that he raised his hands and kept running and praying. He rushed to the edge of the field and fell on the ground, as if worshiping his God. But he was soon overlapped one by one by the Manchester City players who came up behind him, holding the Brazilian superstar firmly under him.

This is a fatal kill!

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After seeing Kaka score the goal, Ferguson was not as excited or angry as expected.

He seemed to calmly accept the result, turned and walked back to the coaching position.

As a matter of fact, he was mentally prepared for losing the ball.

With Manchester United's current strength, it's not up to the level of challenging Manchester City, not to mention that the manager of Manchester City is still very cold.

He has reached an agreement with the management, as long as the cold leaves Manchester City, the management will increase the investment of the club, let him lead the team to attack the Premier League and the Champions League once again, so that he can retire with glory.

But as long as the cold is still in Manchester City, including Manchester United and Chelsea, there is not much desire to burn money.

The reason is very simple. No matter how much you burn, you can't win against Manchester City. It's better to keep the money and wait for the opportunity.

It's also a year. In the eyes of the players, the manager and the club leaders, those are three very different concepts.

Ferguson and Gao are good friends and neighbors, but he sincerely hopes Gao can win the Champions League this season and leave the Premier League as soon as possible, because he can't wait any longer.

His players can't wait any longer.

At the end of this season, van der Sar, Scholes, Gary Neville and Owen all decided to retire.

Before you know it, Scholes and Gary Neville are almost four years old. Owen, who was once a wind chaser, is already thirty-one years old, while Edwin van der Sar, an old man, has passed his infallible age, which makes Ferguson feel very much.

Since the news that Edwin van der Sar will retire, the reaction of Manchester United fans is extremely fierce. Almost everyone hopes that Edwin van der Sar can stay and continue to play for the team, because even at the age of 40, van der Sar is still one of the most eye-catching and excellent goalkeepers in Europe.

With 32 league matches, 14 clean sheets, 80 dangerous saves and a terrifying 72.7% saving success rate, he is second only to Manchester City's Peter Cech and can be called the second goalkeeper in the Premier League.

You know, Peter Cech is in the golden age of his career, but Van der Sar is 40 years old.

Years hardly leave any trace on van der Sar, solid goal line technology, accurate pre selection, stable and calm psychological quality, all of which make van der Sar the most reassuring and despairing presence in front of Manchester United's goal.

In this match, in the face of the bombardment of Manchester City stars, Edwin van der Sar tried to keep the goal. If it wasn't for him, Manchester United would have lost more than three goals now.

It can be said that van der Sar is still the most indispensable member of the United team. His departure scares Ferguson and he does not know how to deal with the pre goal crisis next season.

"Next season, Ferguson will miss Edwin van der Sar very much," his arch rival Arsene Wenger said after playing for Manchester United

In fact, needless to say, Ferguson himself knows.

It will be the final for van der Sar, Scholes, Gary Neville and Michael Owen.

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The game time entered 80 minutes, the score is still 1-0, Manchester City with Kaka's goal for the time being ahead.

After losing the ball, Manchester United once wanted to fight back, but they failed to break the defense of Manchester City. On the contrary, Manchester City's counterattack repeatedly threatened Manchester United's goal, which made the Red Devils feel very depressed.

Ferguson made his first substitution in the 81st minute, when Scholes came on and replaced mcitarian.

Only four minutes later, Ferguson made a second successive substitution, Michael Owen replaced Tevez.

All the fans who came to the scene finally understood that the Manchester United manager has given up this game and only replaced the players who are about to retire this season to let them accept the cheers of the fans.

In the stands, whether Manchester United or Manchester City, the fans of both sides stood up from their seats and applauded warmly to see off the retired veterans. It will be the last final of their career.

Especially in the 89th minute, when Gary Neville came on the bench, the applause was even more enthusiastic.

The legendary Manchester United captain's contribution to the team need not be mentioned. He is the flag figure of class 92. He has been playing less and less in recent years and will retire now.

With each replacement, Manchester City's coaching staff and substitutes, including the high cold, all went to the sidelines to applaud them. In the stands, there were already Manchester United fans playing a huge banner.

"Goodbye, legend!"

This is undoubtedly a tearful scene, but also the entire FA Cup final atmosphere to reduce to the weakest.

Especially at the end of the game, United's class 92 came out of the players' channel one after another and appeared at Wembley, including former superstars such as Beckhams, Giggs, Bart and Phil Neville.

When the referee whistled, the students of class 92 rushed into the stadium and surrounded Gary Neville, Scholes and others, just like they did when they were on the field. It was very moving.

Professional league is cruel, full of cold calculation, but football has temperature, it brings together the feelings and friendship of countless coaches, players and fans.

Once again, all the fans stood up from their seats and gave Manchester United's class 92 the warmest applause since the beginning.

Today, at Wembley, there was no win or lose.

Gao believes that fans all over the world will be moved by this scene.

Many years later, people may forget that Manchester City won an FA Cup at Wembley on this evening, but they will certainly remember that on this evening, witnessed by 90000 fans and live TV viewers all over the world, a generation of legend was sent away from European football.

All of a sudden, Gao Han envies Ferguson.

He won more championships, won higher honors, and even trained more players, but he did not have such a group of proud disciples as class 92.

It was also at this moment that Gao Han completely understood and saw what kind of road he was going to take.

Thinking of this, Gao Han suddenly moved in his heart and strode into the stadium.

"Well, what are you doing?" Brian Kidd was taken aback.

Gao Han, however, waved his hand without turning his head back

Everyone was completely stupid.