Chapter 487： 17th foot single pole

In fact, relying too much on a certain star is never a good thing.

In Ferguson's book, he does not regret that he established this tactical play with Ronaldo as the core, but the drawbacks are also very obvious, and Ferguson himself knows it clearly.

In his own impression, the Scottish old man believes that in recent years, Manchester United has played the best season in the 2006-07 season.

At that time, Cristiano Ronaldo had just been established as the core of the team, the team's overall tactical coordination was still very smooth, and the players' cooperation with each other was still in place, so that season created Manchester United's second most single-season goals in the new century. ball, eighty-three balls.

This number is second only to the 87 goals in the 2001-02 season. At that time, it was the peak period of the 1992 class. The golden four midfielders were still there, and the king of the small penalty area, Van Nistelrooy, just transferred from PSV to Manchester United.

More importantly, Manchester United only conceded 27 goals in the league in the 2006-07 season, far less than the 44 goals in the 2001-02 season, which shows Manchester United's dominance in the Premier League.

In the 2006-07 season, Cristiano Ronaldo scored 17 goals and contributed 16 assists in the league; Rooney scored 14 goals and provided 12 assists.

In addition, players such as Saha, Solskjaer, Scholes and Ryan Giggs have performed very well. Manchester United at that time can be described as blooming everywhere, whether it is offensive or defensive, they are very good.

But unfortunately, that season, Manchester United stopped in the semi-finals of the Champions League.

The following season, the situation quietly changed.

Cristiano Ronaldo set a career-best scoring record with 31 league goals and seven assists; Rooney also scored 12 goals and 13 assists, and Tevez also Contributed fourteen goals and six assists.

The tridents in the frontcourt all showed a very eye-catching performance.

However, United only scored 80 goals that season, significantly less.

To this season, Manchester United's goals further dropped sharply.

Although the league has played 34 rounds, the total number of goals scored is only 63, which is not even as good as Liverpool, which has always been weak in attack.

Ferguson is soberly aware that Manchester United's model has gone wrong.

Among the data collected by Fernando Lucas, there are some that have attracted profound attention.

In the last two seasons, Cristiano Ronaldo has scored as many shots as the opponent's team in many games, often accounting for more than half of his own team.

This is a very unreasonable phenomenon.

It took ten or even a dozen shots to score a goal. It was at this time that Lang Sheluo's nickname appeared.

The other set of data is more interesting.

Berbatov is one of Ferguson's most promising centers, but he doesn't call Cristiano Ronaldo very much.

According to statistics, so far, the Bulgarian center has contributed 16 straight passes to Ronaldo, helping him to form a single-handed shot, but the number of times Ronaldo has converted these 16 single-handed shots into goals is zero!

Almost under these circumstances, Ferguson made the major decision to introduce Benzema and sell Cristiano Ronaldo, because he knew that this model of Manchester United would not go on.

But the most interesting and elusive thing about football is that it is completely unpredictable, and a lot of times, even the manager will think that it is deliberately joking with you.

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When the game reached the 77th minute, Manchester United played a quick counter-attack.

Carrick distributes the ball to the left flank to Evra.

The French left back quickly dribbled the ball along the left, just passed the center line, glanced ahead, quickly sent a diagonal pass, passed to the front to find Rooney, but Lichtsteiner fought with Rooney for the top and grabbed the spot .

It is a pity that the Swiss right-back failed to clear the ball, but landed near the top of the arc of the penalty area.

Berbatov took the lead to intercept the ball. After picking the ball past Thiago Motta, he leaned on Bonucci with his body and controlled the ball skillfully. From between the two central defenders of Naples, a wave in the direction of the penalty area.

The Bulgarian center just turned his back to the goal and pulled the ball out of the gap.

At this time, Cristiano Ronaldo, who rushed to the horse, rushed to the right of the penalty spot before Vargas. After receiving a pass from Berbatov, he pushed the ball and sent the ball into the Goal of Naples.

In an instant, the entire Sao Paulo stadium was in an uproar.

All the Napoli fans couldn't believe it.

The balance of power that had been stalemate for 77 minutes was broken in such a way.

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When Gao Shen saw the Portuguese score on the sidelines, his heart jumped instinctively, he wrapped his head in his hands speechlessly, turned around and walked back to the home team's coaching bench.

"Damn, I actually scored a goal this time!" Gao Shen was too depressed.

The seventeenth single-handedly, he actually entered!

What did you do the first sixteen times?

Gao Shen really has the feeling of playing FM Football Manager now, because in this game, he has a lot of experience of being scored the first goal of the season.

Tonight, Cristiano Ronaldo's goal was about the same.

"If you don't enter the sixteenth time, you will enter the seventeenth time!" Zidane also smiled bitterly.

This ball is actually very helpless, it is a coincidence of all kinds of opportunities.

Napoli's defense didn't make any major mistakes.

Lichtsteiner's clearance was only under the interference of Rooney. Berbatov has always had the technical ability to hold the ball under the double-team of two players, while Cristiano Ronaldo, The speed at which he sprinted was unstoppable by Vargas.

But all of these, Naples had limited it well before and didn't give their opponents a chance.

Only this time, they did!

"What now?" Zidane asked eagerly.

The game time has been seventy-eight minutes.

After thinking about it deeply, he made a decisive decision.

Substitution!

Hamsik replaces Thiago Motta.

Pelai replaced Cavani.

Naples changed from 433 to 4231!

Press and oppress from a high position, attack me!

Because Gao Shen knew that he had no choice.

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Before the game, Ferguson had been wondering, whether it was the first half or the second half, in the opening stage, Gao Shen did not try to attack, which made him a little puzzled.

He even wondered if Gao Shen was deliberately hiding his hand?

When Naples suddenly pressed out to attack, Ferguson really felt a little hopeful.

His hanging heart fell instead.

So, he immediately made substitutions and replaced Anderson with Ryan Giggs.

He wanted to try and fight back.

Napoli's 4231 has been rehearsed for three seasons. The team is already very skilled at this style of play. Everyone is familiar with their responsibilities. Once they are adjusted, the players will immediately know what to do.

It is very familiar to play high-level pressing and pressing, and it will firmly suppress Manchester United all at once.

When the Red Devils faced Naples in the midfield, they had no advantage in the first place, and now they are even more disadvantaged.

Ferguson did not make substitutions, but adjusted the midfielder's position and even let Rooney retreat.

"This kid is crazy!" Ferguson laughed.

He didn't even think that Cristiano Ronaldo would receive Berbatov's assists and goals.

You know, these two people basically do not call.

A full sixteen single-handed shots, not a single ball was scored.

Who would have thought that either he would not score, and that one would be a crucial goal like the Champions League semi-final.

Got a precious away goal, what Ferguson wants to do now is to consolidate this goal first, and then try to expand the result if there is a chance.

But Naples is not a fuel-efficient lamp either.

Especially on the two sides.

After changing to 4231, the tactical role of center Pelai in front was more obvious, and Di Maria and Sanchez on the two sides also let go of their hands and feet completely.

However, Manchester United's central defenders were all consumed by Cavani.

The Uruguayan center from Naples, whether it is running ability, physical confrontation, or the impact on Manchester United's penalty area, has brought huge pressure to the center back and consumes a lot of physical energy.

Ferdinand, in particular, was obviously overwhelmed.

Manchester United's central defender has been plagued by injuries this season. First, a groin strain and then a back injury have caused him to miss a lot of games. Now, under the repeated impact of Cavani, his consumption is also quite large.

In the 83rd minute, Ferguson hesitated and finally replaced Ferdinand with Evans.

But just three minutes after Manchester United made a substitution, after a backcourt steal by Napoli, Biglia passed the ball to the receding Di Maria, and the Argentine quickly dribbled the ball forward along the left flank.

Cristiano Ronaldo did not keep up with Di Maria for the first time, but let the Argentine drive the ball all the way.

Just after passing the center line, before Fletcher approached, Di Maria made a cross and gave it to Hamsik in the space behind Fletcher. He sprinted forward quickly, and pointed forward to signal Hamsik. Pass forward.

The Slovak midfielder and Di Maria also cooperated very well. Without stopping the ball, he directly returned the ball and passed the ball behind O'Shea. Di Maria sprinted right in front of him, allowing the Argentine winger to catch up and just throw it away. O'Shea.

Two to one!

As soon as he took a step, he saw Vidic grabbing it. UU reading Di Maria deftly kicked a pass behind him, bypassed Vidic's side, and scored the ball directly. However, he just forcibly surpassed Vidic by speed.

"Beautiful! A counterattack from the left from Naples!"

"Di Maria's people have divided the ball!"

The whole Sao Paulo stadium cheered wildly.

Di Maria had just dashed past Vidic's defense, and immediately caught up with the ball that he had just passed. At this moment, he had reached the left side of the front of the penalty area.

At this time, Pelai in the middle of Naples was in a more backward position, but Sanchez on the right had also caught up quickly.

The only defensive player in front of Di Maria was Evans, who was almost equal to Carrick in the middle, but behind him were O'Shea and Fletcher and other chasing soldiers.

At least the speed slowed down a little, and was immediately caught up by Manchester United's defenders.

Di Maria did not hesitate too much and chose to single out Evans directly!