Chapter 502 Fighting against Saint Siro

According to Ferguson's opinion, if Manchester United's rotation lineup can hold on for the first 70 minutes, then replace Yin Jun at the last moment to see if he can take away a victory away.

Ferguson's tactics almost worked. From the beginning of the game, Manchester United defended comprehensively, but Manchester United's defense was not the kind of eleven people piled up in the penalty area and used a bus to defend. They mainly strangled their opponents in the midfield and tried not to let their opponents threaten their goal.

Although Manchester United's starting lineup looks like 433, in fact, when the game started, Manchester United was completely a strikeless team. Ronaldo, Rooney and Alan Smith all retreated to the midfield and strangled AC Milan's midfield with Fletcher, Phil Neville and Forjon.

Once AC Milan dares to push forward on a large scale, Manchester United will fight back, which will be enough to give AC Milan a headache.

In the 12th minute of the game, AC Milan almost broke through the goal by Manchester United's quick counterattack. Milan, who was pressing heavily at the time, was intercepted by Manchester United in the midfield. The Red Devils immediately launched a quick counterattack. Ronaldo shot with his right foot 20 meters in front of the goal, but fortunately Dida performed well and hugged Ronaldo's long shot with a strong and heavy long shot.

One minute later, Ronaldo dribbled the ball from the left. After passing Starm and Kafu in succession, he pushed the ball with his left foot 13 meters in front of the goal, but the angle was too straight and confiscated by Dida.

Manchester United made two extremely threatening quick counterattacks in a row, which greatly hit AC Milan's morale and did not dare to put up all over the place. The game immediately entered a stalemate.

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Seeing that Manchester United was about to defend the draw and enter the midfield, at this time, the players on the field had some inattention. It was this moment when the flaw was seized by the experienced AC Milan.

In the 43rd minute, AC Milan's seemingly casual pass formed a perfect match. Gattuso and Kaka headed the ball in the middle circle, Shevchenko passed back and then inserted forward, Kaka took the ball with a slight adjustment and suddenly made a straight pass. The Ukrainian understood it and quickly started over Ferdinand. Howard did not take the initiative to attack. Shevchenko pushed the ball with his right foot and scored in the lower left corner 12 meters in front of the goal.

1:0, AC Milan took the lead.

Ferguson was very annoyed about Manchester United's conceding. In this conceding, Manchester United's players in the midfield and frontcourt were not running positively enough.

Yin Jun also felt very sorry for the team to concede the ball at this time. As long as we persist for another two or three minutes, Manchester United will be able to keep their innocence and rest until the halftime break.

Taking a draw into the midfield and entering the midfield with a score of 0:1, the players' mentality will be completely different.

However, he understood the mentality of the players at that time. After all, he was almost fighting for the first half, and as the game was about to end, it was completely normal to have some slack thoughts.

During the halftime break, Ferguson scolded Fletcher and several other players and asked them to entangle the opponent's players like dog skin plaster after the second half, and never give the opponent the chance to pass the ball calmly.

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After the second half of the game began, Manchester United launched a counterattack and almost broke through AC Milan's goal.

Ronaldo dribbled the ball in the middle, and Stam blocked the ball at the edge of the penalty area, but Ronaldo's second reaction was quick and immediately launched a counter-attack. He immediately made a pass to the left. Manchester United left back Evra, who followed up, shot from a small angle of right foot from 18 meters in front of the goal, shot at the close-angle corner. Dida rushed to the side but missed the ball. Fortunately, he made timely remedies and did not let the ball roll across the goal line.

Evra looked at the sky with regret, and other Manchester United players also felt very regretful.

Soon, Manchester United made a comeback. Ronaldo received a cross from the left. His right foot shot was blocked by the defender from 16 meters in front of the goal. Rooney's shot from the right was blocked again.

Seeing that this lineup consisting of mostly substitute players fighting against AC Milan on the court, a smile appeared on Ferguson's face.

Especially Ronaldo and Rooney, they performed very well in this game, flying up and down on both wings, frequently posing a threat to AC Milan's goal.

In the 60th minute, Ronaldo and Rooney cooperated in the middle again. Ronaldo fell to the ground in contact with Maldini. Although Maldini did not foul, his hastily blocked showed the fatigue of the home team.

The experienced Ferguson immediately decided to substitute, and he replaced Fuqiong with Yin Jun. Ferguson hoped to use Yin Jun's pass to tear through AC Milan's defense line.

Ancelotti quickly made a substitution adjustment, and he replaced Crespo, who had performed poorly in this game, and continued to strengthen the offense.

Obviously, Ancelotti is not satisfied with the advantage of only 1 goal away game.

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Shortly after Yin Jun appeared, he posed a threat to AC Milan's goal.

In the 65th minute, Ronaldo rushed into the penalty area with Yin Jun's over-top pass. Maldini returned to defense and blocked his way. Ronaldo knocked back with his right foot. Yin Jun, who followed, came to the ball near the penalty area line and shot.

The ball roared straight to the upper right corner like a cannonball.

Dida made a mistake in his judgment of Yin Jun's shot, which led to a problem with his position. When he saw that the football was heading towards the far corner, it was too late to save it.

But just as Dida had surrendered, a bald man flew into the goal and pushed the ball out of the goal line.

It's Stam!

The former Manchester United defender rejected his old club's goal with his outstanding performance.

Ferguson on the sidelines was so angry that he stamped his feet.

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Four minutes later, Manchester United made a comeback. Yin Jun passed the penalty area from the left side, but Alan Smith did not reach it, but Rooney pulled the ball hard at the back point and rolled the ball to the middle. Ronaldo grabbed Pirlo and shot with his left foot 8 meters away from the goal but missed the far post.

With midfield defense out of control, Ancelotti replaced Pirlo with Ambrocsini. But this did not help AC Milan change the situation on the field.

In the 73rd minute, Maldini made a clearance mistake. Rooney intercepted the ball and broke into the right side of the penalty area. He did not shoot directly but hooked in front of the goal. However, Alan Smith did not follow up in time, causing Manchester United to lose another chance.

In the 78th minute, Alan Smith reached the landing point in the penalty area. Yin Jun, who followed up, shot half a volley from his right foot near the penalty area line, but this time the shot was confiscated by Dida.

Ancelotti continued to make substitution adjustments on the defensive end, and he replaced Serginho with Sedov in the 82nd minute of the game. It was obvious that Ancelotti was already planning to defend the current score of 1:0.

Manchester United made substitutions on the offensive end, and Ferguson replaced Alan Smith with Van Nicht. The old Sir was obviously hoping to score an away goal.

However, until the game entered injury time, the score on the field still did not change.
Chapter completed!