Chapter 518: Ginger Is Still Spicy

Aston Villa's players, led by assistant coach Ceballos and Steve Werner, are warming up on the field.

Fang Jue stood on the sidelines, watching with great interest the Manchester United players who were warming up on the other side.

Rather, he was staring at Ferguson.

Although the two had spoken on the phone many times, they had never met before.

Ferguson put his hands in his trouser pockets, watching the players warming up.

The old man couldn't help but yawned.

Old people are not easy to fall asleep.

During the lunch break at noon, I finally fell asleep when I was woken up by the phone call, and then I couldn't fall asleep again.

His intuition told him that someone was watching him, so he turned his head to look for Fang Jue who happened to be looking at him.

Fang Jue nodded to Ferguson.

The old man smiled and nodded.

Then both of them turned their heads away, and there was no verbal exchange.

...

Ceballos came over and handed Fang Jue a bottle of water.

Fang Jue unscrewed the bottle cap, first took a big gulp, then gulped and spit it out.

"Ferguson really wants to be in a bad mood." Ceballos said, he saw the old Scottish man yawning one after another.

"When you get older, you will inevitably lose your energy," Fang Jue said.

After warming up, the players from both sides returned to the locker room to make final preparations and arrangements before the game.

...

After about half an hour.

A huge uproar erupted at Villa Park.

This is where players from both sides enter the field.

The commentator is also introducing the starting lineups of both sides.

Manchester United lineup:

Goalkeeper: Foster;

Defense: Fabio, O'Shea, Evans, Evra;

Midfielders: Valencia, Fletcher, Scholes, Nani;

Forwards: Rooney, Berbatov;

"For Manchester United, the biggest change has been at the back."

"Because of Ferdinand's injury, O'Shea cameo again as a central defender."

O'Shea is definitely a super jack-of-all-trades player.

He has experience in many positions, whether it is a full-back, a central defender, a midfielder, a forward, or even a goalkeeper, he has experienced it.

...

Aston Villa lineup:

Goalkeeper: 31-Robert Enke;

Defensive line: 24 - Cuellar, 6 - Senderos, 15 - Davis, 8 - Milner;

Midfielder: 10-Deisler, 19-Petrov, 5-Clement, 27-Gareth Bell;

Forwards: 9- Van Nistelrooy, 25- Diego Costa;

"Huh?" Lineker was surprised, he noticed that the striker of Aston Villa was not the partner of Abanglahor and Ruud van Nistelrooy.

"Diego Costa unexpectedly appeared in the starting XI."

In addition, there is another change in Aston Villa's defense.

That is the central defender Cuellar playing right back.

"There is no news of Lukyan's injury. It seems that the choice of Cuellar to play right back is more of a tactical choice."

"What the hell is this guy doing?" Ferguson glanced at the visiting coach's bench and said.

His focus is on the front line.

Fang Jue finally sent Van Nistelrooy to start, which did not exceed Ferguson's expectations.

To his surprise, the young man named Diego Costa replaced Abanglaho and partnered with Van Nistelrooy.

This is a striker configuration that Aston Villa has never used before.

In fact, Manchester United has been studying how to deal with the striker configuration of Ruud van Nistelrooy and Abanglaho during training these days.

Even though Ferguson dismissed Fanny as useless, the old man is most aware of the frightening aspects of this former disciple.

Rich experience and strong ability to grab points.

Plus an Abang Lahuo who is extremely fast but is like a small tank.

Aston Villa's striker configuration made Ferguson dare not underestimate it.

But I didn't expect Abanglahor to sit on the bench and Costa appeared in the starting lineup.

This makes some of Manchester United's tactical arrangements useless.

...

The game has been started for a while.

Fang Jue's attention was on Rooney.

Manchester United's lineup appears to be a double striker.

However, Rooney's position is quite flexible.

He'll cruise to both wings.

Sometimes it drops quite deep, becoming a link between Berbatov and the midfield.

This is a bit similar to Rooney and Scholes forming a dual-core style of play.

When Fang Jue was thinking.

An attack from Manchester United came.

Rooney went wide again.

He broke through with the ball.

Cuellar struggled a bit in the face of Rooney's breakthrough.

Fortunately, Petrov came to help and pulled Rooney down.

The referee Webber's whistle sounded, calling for a foul by Aston Villa.

...

The Football Association of England also paid special attention to the focus of this battle between the fourth place in the league and the second place in the league, and arranged for England's number one golden whistle Webber to enforce the law.

Manchester United get a free kick in the frontcourt.

Rooney gets up and wants to send a free kick quickly.

However, a person stood in front of him.

It was Ruud van Nistelrooy.

Rooney looked at Van Nistelrooy standing in front of him.

When Ruud van Nistelrooy left Manchester United, Rooney had grown into one of the leading stars at Manchester United.

Although the media generally believed that Van Nistelrooy was kicked out by Ferguson because of his conflict with Ronaldo.

However, it is undeniable that Rooney's rapid growth is also a reason for forcing the Dutch veteran to leave Spain.

More than three years have passed in a flash, and I did not expect to see Ruud van Nistelrooy wearing an Aston Villa jersey as an opponent in the Premier League.

Rooney signaled Ruud to get out of the way.

Fanny glanced at this junior, but ignored him.

Rooney raised his hand to signal the referee.

The referee came up to let Ruud van Nistelrooy go away, and the Dutch veteran slowly backed up to Cuellar, forming a double wall with him.

"The Dutchman was very excited today, he just went all the way back to defense, which is very rare."

...

Manchester United's free kick.

Rooney made a cross after the run-up, and the football flew into the penalty area.

Berbatov tried to grab points.

A person jumped higher than him and pushed the football out.

"Senderos! Beautiful header!"

Manchester United's attack did not end there.

Fletcher appeared on the spot where the football landed and stopped the ball.

Aston Villa's defenders just wanted to press out collectively when they saw Fletcher get the ball.

So, they had no choice but to stay in front of the goal and prepare to defend Manchester United's second attack.

Milner rushed up immediately, it was a dangerous position, and Fletcher couldn't easily get the ball there.

Fletcher didn't tangle with Milner either.

He passed the ball to Scholes who came to meet him.

After Scholes dribbled horizontally, he made a gesture to kick and shoot.

But it suddenly blocked the football.

Nani has rushed up, he crossed directly.

Wayne Rooney was in front, and he stretched out his foot to rub the football.

This caused confusion in front of the door.

In the chaotic battle, Berbatov appeared ghostly in front of the football, turned around and shot.

...

"Shoot!"

The football was blocked by Senderos with his body.

Fang Jue was taken aback by Berbatov's shot.

This lazy Bulgarian has a strong ability to seize opportunities in front of goal.

Fortunately, Senderos completed the interception on the goal line at a critical moment.

Ferguson frowned.

Senderos's header beat Berbatov just now.

Now another goal-line save is done.

That Swiss kid really rejuvenated under Fang Jue's hands?

How did this guy do it?

...

The football pops out and is picked up by an Aston Villa player.

Aston Villa took the opportunity to launch a counterattack.

But their ball was blocked by O'Shea just after halftime.

At the same time, Fabio, Evra and others have returned to defense at high speed.

Aston Villa's counterattack was aborted.

The quick counterattack did not start, and Aston Villa had no choice but to continue to retreat.

Fang Jue blinked, and Ferguson arranged for O'Shea to play as a central defender. However, in fact, this player's defensive area is quite large.

Ferguson gave full play to the characteristics of O'Shea's panacea. The central defender Evans stayed behind, while O'Shea pressed up and could even be used as a defensive midfielder.

This also gave Fabio, Evra and others time to return to defense.

Fang Jue had to admit that ginger was still old and spicy.

With Ferdinand and Vidic both injured, Manchester United's central defender was originally a weakness.

However, O'Shea's guest role as a central defender was actually played by Ferguson.

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