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Chapter 104 Transposition

"...Manchester City fell behind in the first half, but in the end they equalized the score, Rong entered a super zero-angle world wave..." When Wenger walked out of the locker room, his assistant coach Rice quickly followed and reported to him about the situation of another game, which was also what Wenger was very concerned about, the match between Manchester United and Manchester City.

"The score cannot tell the problem, the key is the process." Wenger said.

He actually said this to himself.

Because now in terms of scores, Arsenal, who plays at home, is also behind.

But in the scene, Arsenal is the dominant one.

Wenger is cheering himself up.

So what if you fall behind in the score?

As long as we continue to take the initiative in the game, sooner or later we will equalize the score and then take advantage of the trend to reverse the victory.

"From the scene, Manchester United has a little advantage... Rong was forced to the sideline by the whole Manchester United team, and the threat was greatly reduced... After Rong scored a goal to equalize the score, Manchester City launched a fierce offensive later, hoping to complete the overtake in the score before the end of the first half. But they failed, their offense did not improve much, and Rong's ball was also lucky to score..."

Rice briefly describes the situation in the first half.

Wenger nodded.

At this time, he still believed in Manchester United. It was Manchester United's home court and it was such an important city derby. How could the old Fox, Ferguson, make his team lose such an important game?

As long as Manchester United can beat Manchester City, Arsenal will be under much less pressure.

Even if Arsenal is unable to defeat Chelsea in the end and just equalizes the score, the gap between the two sides can be widened to three points.

Even if Arsenal loses to Manchester United in the next round of the league, it will only be the same score as Manchester City. In the last round of the league, both sides will win, but they will still be the same score.

According to the rules of the Premier League, if the two teams score at the same time, the goal difference will be compared first.

As of the 35th round of the league, Arsenal scored 63 goals, conceded 32 goals, and had 31 goals in the league.

Manchester City scored 64 goals, conceded forty-two goals, and 22 goals. Arsenal's goal difference was nine more than Manchester City.

As long as Arsenal will not lose to Chelsea in this game, and will not lose to Manchester United in the next round of the league, in the same score, Arsenal can step on Manchester City's body and enter the UEFA Champions League qualifier next season with the same score.

But first of all, Arsenal must not lose in this game, at least it must be a draw.

Arsenal is now dominant, and Wenger believes that it should be no problem to win a draw at his home court.

Moreover, if Manchester United beat Manchester City at home, it will have a great impact on the next direct dialogue between the two sides. After Manchester United won the same-city derby, they will continue to lead Liverpool by six points in points. With only two rounds left in the league, the six-point advantage can basically be ⊥Manchester United sealed the league championship.

So they may not be so desperate in the game against Arsenal, and they will definitely not be as desperate as this city derby.

In this way, Arsenal may still have a chance to beat Manchester United away.

Or maybe it won't work, it will tie Manchester United.

Manchester United won the championship with a four-point lead to Liverpool.

So Manchester United may not care whether the game against Arsenal is a win or a draw.

But this is much better for Arsenal.

If Arsenal can beat Manchester United, he can lock in the UEFA Champions League place, and he can also lock in the draw.

There is nothing to worry about at all.

Wenger has analyzed all the possibilities and the corresponding situations in his mind.

No matter what, Arsenal has a greater chance than Manchester City.

After all, Arsenal is leading two points now, not Manchester City.

Unless Arsenal loses this game and Manchester City wins the same city derby, that is the worst result.

But...how could Ferguson let Benitez show off his power?

Wenger and Ferguson have been fighting in the Premier League for thirteen years. With his knowledge of Ferguson, he firmly believes that Ferguson will definitely win this same-city derby.

Manchester City has no reason to win

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In such an important game, the fifteen-minute halftime break often seems particularly long, making the waiting fans want to start the second half in a second.

So when the players from both sides reappeared on the turf at Old Trafford Stadium, the fans in the stands cheered - the second half is finally about to begin

What will be the final result of this important game that concerns several teams?

When the referee blew the whistle to start the second half, Manchester City, who had the kick-off, attacked Manchester United's goal.

This time they didn't try to create opportunities in the middle, and they directly assigned the football to the side.

The football fell to the feet of glory.

At the beginning of the second half, Rong Guang changed positions with Robinho. He switched to the right to deal with Evra, while Rong Guang went to the left to deal with the young Raphael.

The change made Ferguson frown.

If we talk about the level of Manchester United's two wide-range players alone, Evra must be above Rafael. The young Brazilian full-back Rafael lacks experience, so his performance in defense is not as stable as Evra. However, many times, he can rely on his outstanding physical fitness to make up for the lack of personal experience, which is also the benefit of youth.

Raphael's physical fitness has some advantages in front of Robinho, so when Robinho was here in the first half, he really didn't have a good chance to face Raphael's pestering and beating him.

But Raphael is not the kind of extremely strong full-back, nor is it particularly fast. His physical fitness may have an advantage in front of Robinho. Once the glory is standing in front of him... the situation will be different.

Raphael himself did not expect that what he had to defend in the second half was glory...

You should know that when the kick-off in the second half, Robinho was still on his side... As a result, as soon as Manchester City kicked off, Robinho ran to the other side. Rong Guang was like him, and the two crossed positions in the frontcourt.

As soon as Rong Guang appeared here, he received a ball from Harman.

Looking at the glory of holding the ball, Raphael, who was not mentally prepared, was stunned for a moment.

However, when defending the glory of defensiveness, half a second of distraction may put defensive players in a very passive situation.

So just as he was stunned, Rongguang suddenly pushed the football forward with his right foot, and pushed the ball without any technical content. The football turned into Raphael and rushed over. At the same time, Rongguang started to accelerate and flew past the other side of Raphael's body.

The man ball was scored, forced breakthrough

At this time, Raphael reacted. He turned around suddenly, but could no longer catch up with Rongguang. What he saw was Rongguang's back dribbling into the penalty area, as well as Vidic and Park Ji-sung rushing towards Rongguang to make up for defense. The entire penalty area was instantly in chaos.

"Rong...the breakthrough speed is so fast"

Fortunately, Park Ji-sung has been on guard against Rongguang, so he posted it quickly, forcing Rongguang to push the football to the bottom line with his left foot outside of his foot, and he couldn't continue to cut in and shoot.

Finally, under Park Ji-sung's close-fitting press, Rong Guang made a pass, and the football hit Park Ji-sung's leg and flew out of the baseline, and Manchester City won a corner kick.

Raphael ran back at this time. He thanked and apologized to Park Ji-sung who helped him wipe his butt with lingering fear.

Park Ji-sung patted Raphael on the shoulder: "Don't get distracted next time, you have to know who he is."

Raphael nodded desperately. Just kidding, I didn't mean to be distracted. I really didn't expect him to come to my side... By the way, he changed his position by chance, right? He would still have to go back to Evra's side in a while, right?

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But Raphael's luck mentality was quickly broken and broken into glass residue.

After the corner kick was taken, Manchester City was unable to threaten the goal guarded by Van der Sar.

But in several attacks from Manchester City, Glory appeared on the left side, which was guarded by Raphael...

Raphael felt a completely different pressure from the first half. This pressure left him without even having time to take a breath.

This is the first time he has defended one-on-one defensive glory in a game.

The last time Manchester United and Glory met, Glory was still in Bayern Munich, which was in the Champions League semi-finals. Rafael was still in Brazil at that time...

In the same-city derby in the first half of this season, although Raphael started, Rongguang did not play, so he was unable to compete with Rongguang.

This game was his first time fighting Glory.

Originally, he thought he had played in the Premier League for half a season and often played against world-class players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Rooney, and Giggs in team training, and it should be no problem to deal with glory.

But now he realizes his naivety.

One-on-one with Glory in the game, that is a completely different feeling than the two things that compete with Cristiano Ronaldo in training.

The greatest pressure that Rongguang put on him was not even due to Rongguang's super fast speed and flexible body, but his strong self-confidence and momentum.

When he accelerates and rushes towards you, you will feel that it is a supercar that is galloping towards you. If you don't dodge, you will be knocked to fly...

The second half had just begun ten minutes, and Raphael was already out of breath and looked exhausted.

This is not just the physical energy consumed by turning and sprinting again and again, but also largely due to psychological pressure.

Ferguson frowned and tightened his brows from the court, and of course the chewing gum in his mouth became faster and faster.

If this continues, Raphael will collapse.

But he couldn't replace him either. First of all, it was very unfair and cruel to Raphael, a young man. It was equivalent to the fact that before Glory defeated him, the head coach declared his failure. This would bring a fatal blow to Raphael's confidence, so he could never be replaced at this time. He would rather lose this game than let Raphael lose the future of his entire career.

Secondly... Apart from Raphael, there is really no one to change in the right-back position. Although Gary Neville is sitting on the bench, he is already 35 years old. It is useless to ask him to deal with Rongguang, no matter how rich his experience is, he will be defeated by Rongguang.

So Ferguson can only work hard on the eleven people on the field and find ways to make adjustments.
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