Chapter 81: Ginger is old

Logically speaking, according to the principle of defensive counterattack, George Wood's defense target should be Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes, and the person opposite him is this "ginger head".

But Wood glanced at Cristiano Ronaldo.

In this game, Donn did not ask Wood to specialize in defending Ronaldo, but just put Wood on the right side. If Ronaldo gets the ball, Wood can go to support and assist in defense. Because he studied Ronaldo's performance this season, he found that it was unrealistic to let the only defensive midfielder in the team specifically target Ronaldo. Ronaldo was not fixed on a certain side. His position was very flexible and he could score so many goals, but it was not enough to just play on a certain side.

He was on the sidelines when the team was deployed in the front line of the game. As soon as the game started, his position became much more flexible. He could be on the left, on the right, or even... he became a legitimate center forward!

Ronaldo has indeed scored a lot of goals this season, but he scored as a midfielder. He has never experienced it once. Not only that, Wayne Rooney, who should have been Manchester United's regular center, actually appeared on the wing...in this game.

Scholes did not choose to fight George Wood to the death. Although Wood had announced his withdrawal from the national team when he joined the England team, he was still quite clear about the ability of this junior. He passed the football to Rooney on the side.

As Manchester United's striker, Rooney played the wing forward in this game, which made everyone unable to understand.

Even the commentator kept asking: "What did Ferguson think? He pulled Rooney, who was suitable for center, out of the penalty area, far away from Nottingham Forest goal. But he let Ronaldo, who was originally a winger, be center, and was sandwiched in the middle by the tall defenders of the Forest team, and he could not give full play to his advantages and technical characteristics. "

Before, Manchester United had never had such a change of formation. Maybe there was this in training, but it had never appeared in the game.

Seeing Rooney get the ball, Tang En moved his eyes off the court and turned to Ferguson. The old sir was commanding the game on the sidelines at this time. In fact, there was no need to come out to command now, so he just stood on the sidelines with his hands in his pockets.

What did he think about this personnel adjustment?

Tang En thought in his mind.

In this game, Nottingham Forest's natural ranks are 442, goalkeeper Van der Sar. The back line is Gareth Bale, Pepe, Pique, and Rafinia. The midfield is Ribery, Van der Fate, George Wood and Beckham. The forward line is Van nerfrui and Arshavin.

It's almost the strongest lineup.

Manchester United uses 451.

The goalkeeper is the young Ben Foster. The lineup from left to right on the back line are Evra, Vidic, Rio Ferdinand and Brown. The midfielder is familiar with the lineup.

The midfielder who originally belonged to Giggs or Park Ji-sung was occupied by Wayne Rooney on the left. Giggs and Park Ji-sung did not get a starting opportunity today, and Park Ji-sung did not even make the roster.

Ronaldo ran over and wanted to replace Rooney for a free kick. Beckham still stood in front of the ball and did not move out of the way, so Manchester United's No. 7 signaled to the referee, is it a violation of the rules for Beckham to do this?

The referee came up and asked Beckham to walk away. Then Beckham slowly retreated back to Rafinia. He formed a double wall with him.

After Ronaldo assisted, the ball quickly passed in front of the goal. No matter it was Pepe, Pique, Van der Sar, Rooney, Ferdinand or Vidic, he had not touched the ball.

The football flew through the place with the most crowded people in the center of the penalty area and flew to the other side.

Hargreaves appeared at the landing point of the football and stopped the ball. The Forests defenders were just about to push out collectively when they saw Hargreaves get the ball. So they had to stay in front of the goal and prepare to defend Manchester United for the second attack.

Of course, Hargreaves can't get the ball so easily outside. Someone must force him up. Left guard Gareth Bale rushed out and rushed straight to Hargreaves.

Hargreaves did not bother with Bale, and he passed the ball to Scholes who pulled it out to meet him. Scholes decisively shot after dribbled sideways, but the football didn't have time to be confiscated by Van der Sar. He was blocked directly from the crowded penalty area.

Unfortunately, the person who blocked this shot was Manchester United's own player - Carrick.

Manchester United fans could only hold their heads with their hands and lamented that they had bad luck in the offensive this time.

The football bounced out and was taken by the Forests players. Nottingham Forest took the opportunity to launch a counterattack. However, their ball was stopped by Oshei just after halftime. At the same time, Leo Ferdinand and Vidic had both returned to defense at high speed. Ferguson didn't have to worry about the Forests' quick counterattack. At the same time, Oshei's performance also proved that he was so smart about the number one character in the midfield.

Nottingham Forest's rapid counterattack did not start, and he had no choice but to continue retreating.

The more the game continues, the more awkward the players in Nottingham Forest feel.

The tactic arranged before the game is that Ronaldo is a dangerous person and needs to focus on the defense, so the two sides have become the places where Forest teams are heavily guarded. Rooney is the second-rate. At the same time, since Rooney likes to retreat and get the ball as a center forward, George Wood and the central defenders still need to take care of the middle.

But now Rooney and Ronaldo have changed positions. They are at a loss.

Moreover, the pressure does not only come from two dangerous people. More importantly, Ferguson's team adopts a full-attack attitude at home! Even O'Shea has to over half the game. Manchester United is not an unknown team. If they want to attack all the money, it will bring great pressure to the defensive side.

This is what Tang En didn't expect.

He thought that in such a critical game, the old man Ferguson would be more steady and cautious, first stabilize the defense and then deal with the Forest team.

Unexpectedly, this old man had no such plan at all. He was very determined to let the team attack and crush Nottingham Forest at home.

As for preventing the Forest’s counterattack... Osheim is a gate, but in fact, it is more important to rely on their offense to suppress the Forest’s offense.

Tang En thought that the Forests were fighting back against the defensive away game.   Test first. Who would have thought that the game would be under such huge pressure from the beginning?

He couldn't sit still anymore.

Although Ronaldo is the center forward, he is not staying in front of the goal honestly, his position is as flexible as ever. It is just closer to the goal than when he played in the midfield. With his current state of continuous goals, closer to the goal means closer to the goal.

What's more, Ronaldo has outstanding footwork, is 1.89 meters tall, and is not bad at heading.

Donn knew this and decided to squeeze Cristiano Ronaldo out of the penalty area regardless of Rooney.

He walked to the sidelines and shouted loudly to the defenders not to let Ronaldo enter the penalty area.

Ronaldo stopped entering. After receiving the pass outside the penalty area, he directly shot a long shot and flew out against the post. Everyone in Nottingham Forest was shocked and sweated coldly.

Don En found that he had done useless work. Originally, Ronaldo didn't have to be fixed in the penalty area. Ferguson's arrangement should be because he was interested in his state and feeling of scoring consecutive goals, thinking that he might score goals in this game. So, letting him in the forward position naturally get closer to the goal. In fact, an excellent player has many ways to score goals, not only to prevent him from entering the penalty area, but to prevent him from entering the penalty area. What's more, Ronaldo used to be a midfielder, and those thirty goals were also scored outside the penalty area... Anyway, he would definitely have a way to score goals.

At this moment, Don Eun frowned. How to defend Ronaldo? Let Wood have one-on-one? This is not on the wing, but in the middle, at the front of the penalty area. It is impossible for Wood to freeze Ronaldo for 90 minutes without making any rules at once.

This season, Ronaldo scored six free kicks in various games, almost the ball was wonderful and the ball was beautiful. Done was deeply impressed by the free kick he scored in the match against Portsmouth.

Even if Ronaldo's frontal breakthrough in the middle by fouls, he can still use a free kick to score.   If it were two seasons ago, no one would care about his free kick.   It would be impossible not to care now, if he doesn't care, he would concede the ball...

Tang En bit his lips tightly and said nothing.

The performance of Forest players on the court was not satisfactory due to Manchester United's strong offensive. Under Manchester United's strong offensive, they can only temporarily have no time to counterattack out of a completely defensive situation.

Manchester United launched a tide-like attack on the heart of the Forest with the cheers of home fans, one wave after another, one wave higher and one wave higher.

Ferguson's meaning is very obvious, which is to use home advantage to strive to use Donne's unexpected tactics to lock in the victory in the first half, and at the same time bring the game into the rhythm that Manchester United is best at.   As long as you establish enough lead, the players will all enter the state again, and it is not Manchester United's final say how to play the game? In addition, the deafening cheers at Old Trafford arena, home advantage and home advantage are not something you can say.

Ferguson observed on the sidelines for a while and found that the game was still under his control, so he turned around and walked back.
Chapter completed!