Chapter 307: Hidden in the team
After the Glory goal, the entire Manchester City Stadium was the shouts and cheers of Manchester City fans.
Manchester City fans are very excited because they feel that there is great hope of them successfully advancing to the final this time.
When they played against Inter Milan in the semi-finals last season, all kinds of unfavorable conditions, almost every one of them foreshadowed that Manchester City would not have a good result.
And this time, the semi-finals met a mortal enemy in the city. In the past few seasons, Manchester City and Manchester United have met many times, and they are already very familiar with this team.
Manchester City fans have nothing to worry about when playing against Manchester United.
Now that Glory has scored the first record for the team in the game, many people's hearts are more stable.
The goal that was replaying Glory in the monitor, retreating from Glory to midfield, receiving a pass from Leighton Barnes, and finally he scored the football into the goal. The whole process was completely presented to everyone.
Alan Hansen looked at the goal and sighed: "It's so terrible to be so glorious!"
John Mortson nodded, "Of course, it's very scary."
But Alan Hansen shook his head and said, "No, I'm not talking about how this goal is. In fact, in terms of the excitement of the goal, this goal can't even make the top fifty in Rong's career exciting goals. But I think it's just such Rong that he hides himself in the entire team..."
Alan Hansen said, and John Motson next to him also understood.
"Yes, when he retreated to respond, there were two people next to him. But after he passed the ball, Carrick stopped following him and went to defend David Silva."
"It's precisely that. Rong used his two-foot pass to relax his guard against Manchester United's defensive players. It seems that David Silva and Sneider are the main task of Manchester City's attack this time. How did Rong do this before? He showed his sharpness alone, attracting all the defensive players to his side, and then turned these people over and over, and finally even the goalkeeper was given, and then shot the football into the goal..." Alan Hansen's statement was very vivid, which made the fans in front of the TV think of Rong Guang's personal heroic goals as soon as they heard it.
I'm not saying that it's not good to play like this. Rong always scores such goals, which proves that his strength is outstanding. It's difficult for ordinary people to score such goals, but Rong can keep scoring and score many such goals. But because Rong's talent and ability are outstanding, I think he should give him more expectations and stricter requirements. For Rong, it's not enough to be able to show off by himself. Although his goal style is beautiful, it's very risky... I'm not saying the risk of not scoring the ball, I'm saying the risk of him being injured because of this... No one can guarantee that a madman will suddenly lose his mind on the court, just like Rorik Canna back then..."
Alan Hansen talked freely.
"What makes me happy about this ball is that Rong learned to hide him in the team so that the opponent's defense is not on him, and he can do a lot of things. I think a truly great player must not only be able to perform well with the ball under his feet, but also with the ball under his feet. I am very happy to see Rong moving forward in this regard..."
"What makes sense is, Alan. A Rong who can hide himself in the team will be even more terrifying. Just like a sniper lying in a disguise in a jungle, it will be more difficult for his opponent to defend!"
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While the two commentators discussed glory, the game had already started again.
After conceding the ball, Manchester United faced a very difficult situation.
Ferguson stood on the sidelines and stared at the stadium with his brows.
The timing of this goal is really bad. If you have to concede the ball, Ferguson hopes to concede the ball at the end of the first half. In this way, he can make adjustments during the halftime break and stabilize the team's morale.
But now that the halftime break has passed, he has lost the best opportunity to adjust.
Now he can only adjust through substitutions and yelling on the sidelines.
But such adjustments are destined to be minor repairs and have limited impact.
When it comes to other teams, this on-site adjustment is still useful. However, for Manchester City, which has glory, Ferguson believes that such adjustments are not strong enough...
After Manchester City scored a goal, the morale of the whole team increased and they also firmly gained the upper hand in the field.
They formed a siege against Manchester United's goal.
Although Manchester United is fighting against defensively in this game, they hope that Manchester City will be besieging their goal. However, now Manchester United can't even pass the half-time game against Manchester City's siege, so they don't mention any counterattack at all...
During this period, Manchester United played very passively.
Fortunately, they finally survived and did not continue to concede the ball - conceding the ball in a short time after conceding the ball, which is the situation that many teams against Manchester City are most afraid of.
Because Manchester City has such ability, they are very good at completely breaking their opponents in a short period of time.
This was the case with the last city derby.
Manchester United survived this time.
Not only did he not conced the ball within five minutes, but he also did not conced the ball in the sixth and seventh minutes.
This is thanks to Ferguson's decisive adjustment. After conceding the ball, he asked the whole team to quickly strengthen the defense. He should not think about counterattacks during this period. He should not concede the ball.
For him, it is actually acceptable to lose 0:1 away.
If you really can't score a away goal, don't force it.
Forced often means thinking too much, and thinking too much often makes it a tragedy.
Too many failures against Manchester City are due to the fact that the opponent thinks too much, and when he loses less, he wants to equalize the score, and when he draws, he wants to win.
The result was miserable...
Ferguson now thinks strategically, it is very cost-effective to lose only one away goal in the first leg.
So he quickly adjusted the team's tactics and would focus on defense in the next time.
Trying to hold on to the score that is behind this goal - it seems a bit awkward to say, but it's really Ferguson's idea.
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On Manchester City, after a while of attacking, they did not score a goal, and they also made adjustments to slow down the pace of the game a little.
However, the whole Manchester City team can slow down the pace, but Glory does not, because if he slows down the pace, it will really not threaten Manchester United's goal, which is the situation that Manchester United most hopes to see.
When the pace of the whole Manchester City team slows down, Glory must be fast because he still has the possibility of speeding up. In addition, his speed can also disrupt Manchester United's defense - now he is taking Park Ji-sung and Carrick to run in the frontcourt.
Rongguang's running position is still very erratic, sometimes in the front court, sometimes in the midfield, sometimes in the front, sometimes going to the left and right sides.
Both Park Ji-sung and Carrick have outstanding running skills. If it were someone else, they might be dragged down by Rongguang.
But now these two people can't stand it anymore.
Carrick's breathing was already heavy and slowed down.
And Park Ji-sung is still able to keep up with the pace of glory, but it is also very difficult.
It's just that what is reflected in him is not very obvious, because Park Ji-sung uses his tenacious willpower to make up for the shortcomings in this regard.
"Rong's physical fitness is simply unlimited..." Manchester United's assistant coach Huilan couldn't help but sigh when he saw this scene.
Ferguson, who was sitting next to him, chewing gum, expressionless.
"I rarely see Park running so hard in the competition..." Coach Mullensting, who was sitting next to Whelan, also shook his head.
They are right. Park Ji-sung has a nickname called "Park Sanli", which means that Park Ji-sung is very good at running. He is attracted to by Ferguson because of his excellent running ability. He is not the absolute main force at Manchester United, but he has many opportunities to play, which has a lot to do with his running ability.
While defending the glory of the defensive, Park Ji-sung's running ability came in handy.
But even so, Park Ji-sung made the Rongguang belt unable to keep up...
They didn't know that Rongguang ran through the mountains since he was a child, so he was not only fast, but his physical strength was also his strength.
He never seemed to know what fatigue is...
And Glory is not just about running. He keeps receiving passes from his teammates during the run and then constantly passing the football out. Sometimes he will choose to shoot by himself or break through by dribbling the ball, but you don’t know whether his next move after receiving the ball is to break through, pass or shoot. So no matter where he is, Carrick and Park Ji-sung must follow him.
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Under Glory's tireless running, Carrick took the lead in withdrawing, and he pulled his tendons until the 72nd minute of the game.
Ferguson replaced Anderson with an exhausted Carrick.
After Anderson came on the court, he still followed Park Ji-sung with Rongguang.
But perhaps because he just came on the court, Anderson had not had time to enter the game.
Maybe Park Ji-sung's physical fitness has dried up...
In short, these two people's defense against Glory is not as strong as before.
Rongguang seized this opportunity and took advantage of a sudden acceleration to temporarily escape from the close-up of the two people.
And Sneider's pass was just right, and he was in tune with each other...
Of course, for players like Rongguang, Ferguson naturally cannot just arrange Anderson and Park Ji-sung to follow his defensive plan.
There will inevitably be other Manchester United players to come forward to make up for defense.
So even if Sneider passes the football to Rongguang, Rongguang may not have the chance to score.
But what if Rongguang didn't think about shooting himself?
Facing the ball passed by Sneijder, Rong Guang did not stop the ball or shoot, but twisted his waist and turned around and kicked the football to the other side!
Football slipped past Manchester United centre-back Rio Ferdinand who came up to defend him.
In fact, the speed was not fast, but Leo Ferdinand's body was stiff due to inertia, so he could only watch the football pass through his feet, but he was powerless...
He turned his head and followed the football, trying to see whose footwork ended up falling to.
At this time, he saw David Silva cut into the penalty area from the wing and swung his left leg against the football!
"David Silva--!!"
The football was drawn hard by David Silva and then flew towards the goal.
Although Van der Sar had already saved it hard, he was attracted by Rong Guang to the other side of the goal before. Seeing Rong Guang pass the ball, he quickly turned back and rushed back, took David Silva and shot the ball in the direction he was in before. The football passed by him. It was not easy for him to make another save action... It was really difficult to stop the ball from flying into the goal!
"2:0! 2:0! Beautiful goal! David Silva expanded the score for Manchester City!"
Chapter completed!