Chapter 100, the Situation Is Bad

In the tenth round of the Premier League on October 29, Manchester United challenged Fulham as a guest at Craven Farm. In the 31st minute of the game, Smalling pulled down Berbatov in the penalty area. The referee decisively awarded a penalty and sent Smalling off. Berbatov made a penalty and Manchester United fell behind 0-1.

Manchester United has one man sent off and is still one point behind. The current situation is extremely dangerous...

Seeing such an unfavorable situation on the field, in this case, Kintag can only do a good job of defending first, remove a forward and replace it with a defender to fill the vacancy after Smalling was sent off.

Kintag made tactical adjustments. He removed Icardi and replaced him with Jones, allowing Jones and Van Dijk to form a central defender to stabilize the defense.

But in this way, although the defense is no problem, because a striker has been withdrawn, the offensive force investment is even smaller.

Fulham now has a numerical advantage on the field, and they are gradually attacking. The two teams have offense and defense against each other, but neither has any good chances. The score of 0 to 1 was maintained until the end of halftime.

During the intermission, Kintag made further demands on the team: Although the team now has one less player on the court, the score is still behind, so the second half should focus on offense.

In the second half, Kintag replaced Carrick with Martial and let Martial go into the penalty area to strengthen the speed of the frontcourt. As a result, the frontcourt offense has improved somewhat. With Martial's forward penetration, coupled with Rooney's strong impact, these two created a lot of opportunities in the penalty area.

Seeing that Manchester United's offense has improved, Fulham immediately recovered the formation. They originally wanted to rely on their advantage of having one more player to score a few more goals and secure the victory of this game, but there was Kanter as a barrier in the midfield, and the newly replaced Jones was also very fierce defensively, so Don't look at Fulham with one more player on the field, but they still haven't gotten any good opportunities.

Before the game, Kintag arranged for Smalling to mark Berbatov, but Smalling was sent off accidentally, so the heavy responsibility of marking Berbatov fell on Van Dijk. Berbatov thought that after Smalling was sent off, he should be able to get more opportunities, but he was wrong.

In terms of position sense and one-on-one defense, Van Dijk's strength even surpassed Smalling. He and Smalling are both 193cm, but he is 10kg heavier than Smalling. His strong body is comparable to Berbato Husband confronted and had an absolute advantage. Berbatov still had a few good chances in the first half, but Berbatov was suppressed by Van Dijk in the second half and did nothing.

In the 70th minute of the second half, Manchester United passed a set-piece in the frontcourt, and Valencia passed it into the penalty area. Rooney's head-shaking attack flew out of the goal against the crossbar, which shocked the Fulham fans present. In a cold sweat.

Fulham coach Martin Jol saw that the situation was not good. He immediately dispatched troops, replaced an offensive midfielder, added a central defender, let the midfield line retreat for protection, and only left behind Berbatov alone.

Seeing that Fulham was fully retreating, Kintag also continued to make substitution adjustments. He replaced Ashley Young on the left and replaced Nani. Since there are not many opportunities to pass into the penalty area, it is better for Nani to cut inward with his foot on the left to create opportunities.

Unfortunately, Nani in this game is not "C Ronaldo No. 2", but "Little Sheep". After he came on the field, he immediately fell into the siege of the opponent on the left side, and there was no good opportunity.

Jin Taige said to Scholes annoyedly: "Every time I send Nani to play, I am gambling on whether his status is head or tail."

Seeing that Nani was cut off by his opponent again, Ferran spread his hands: "It seems that Nani's state today is not the front or the back, but the side..."

The final score of this game was 0 to 1. Fulham won and achieved the first league victory of the season.

After the game, they walked around the field to thank the fans amidst the cheers of the home fans; while Manchester United lost in the away game and returned empty-handed.

After the game, when Kim Taige was interviewed by reporters, he said with regret: That goal was indeed a penalty kick, and he had nothing to justify, and the recent continuous battles had a great impact on the team, and his players were already very serious. I tried my best, but unfortunately I didn't get the desired result.

On November 2, the Manchester United soldiers returned to Manchester on the same day; two days later, on November 4, Kintag took his team to Spain for the fourth game of the Champions League group stage, away against Real Sociedad.

But this time at the Royal Sociedad's Anoeta Stadium, Manchester United encountered the stubborn resistance of the Real Sociedad.

Kintag still put on an offensive posture this time. After experiencing a league defeat, he urgently needs a victory to boost the morale of the team. It is still a 4-4-2 formation. In the starting lineup, the goalkeeper is De Gea, and the defense is still Smalling, Vidic, Evra and Rafael; the midfielder is Kanter and Giggs partnering in the middle , with Mahrez and Martial on both sides, and a combination of Van Persie and Rooney on the front. The 7 substitute players are Alisson, Alonso, Jones, Ashley Young, Valencia, Nani and Icardi.

The Real Sociedad is still in a 4-3-2-1 formation, a combination of 4 defenders and 3 midfielders. The defensive end is led by Bravo, and the offensive end is Griezmann. Manchester United stalemate.

The Manchester United team almost used all the offensive methods: the two wingers Mahrez and Martial frequently inserted into the hinterland of Real Sociedad, and cooperated with Van Persie and Rooney in the middle to create scoring opportunities; while Giger in the center Si also stepped forward frequently to support; Evra and Rafael also kept plugging in. Except for the two central defenders and midfielder Kanter, Manchester United invested all their offensive forces.

But even so, Kintag's team still couldn't break through the Real Sociedad goal. This time the Royal Society's iron-hearted defense, especially against Mahrez and Martial, who performed well in the previous game, the Royal Society has focused on marking.

Because this game is at home, Real Sociedad's defensive actions are very strong, and the referee's whistle today is relatively loose. He turned a blind eye to several fierce tackles by Real Sociedad.

Jin Taige was very angry. He complained repeatedly to the fourth official, but the fourth official still turned a blind eye. For this situation, Jin Taige had nothing to do.

At the end of the first half, the score between the two sides was still 0-0.

Looking at the confused appearance of the players on the field, Jin Taige said to himself: "The situation of this game is very bad..."