Chapter 201, Dealing with Intensive Defense

On the bus back to Manchester from Birmingham, Jin Taige looked at the notebook in his hand with a serious face.

On the afternoon of January 28, Manchester United ushered in a challenge from Cardiff City at home. Cardiff City currently ranks last in the standings, and the relegation situation is worrying. In the first half of the Premier League game, Manchester United once beat Cardiff City 5-0 away.

After a break, Manchester United's starting players are currently in good condition. Kintegger also has an absolute main lineup for this game: 4-4-2 formation, goalkeeper De Gea, defenders Ferdinand, Van Dijk, Evra and Rafa Er, the midfielder Kanter, De Bruyne, Mahrez and Valencia, the forwards are Martial and Van Persie.

The opponent is weak, and his players are in good condition, so Kintag doesn't have too many worries about this game.

But this match was not at all what he expected.

When the referee blew the whistle to end the first half, the scoreboard was still 0-0.

Jin Taige frowned and returned to the locker room.

Cardiff City's goal in this game is very clear: defend with all their strength and try to take a point!

Therefore, throughout the first half, Cardiff City only left one striker in the frontcourt, and the rest of the players all retreated near the penalty area, completely setting up a bus in front of the goal.

Manchester United players bombarded Cardiff City's goal for half the time, but nothing was gained.

Phelan, who was off the court, said to Scholes irritably: "The bus tactics are so slippery, is their head coach Mourinho's apprentice?"

The Manchester United fans at home were also very dissatisfied with Cardiff City's performance, and there were boos everywhere at Old Trafford.

Even so, Cardiff City is still unmoved. They just entered the Premier League last year. Their goal this season is to avoid relegation. within their consideration.

Although the fans were dissatisfied, although the Manchester United players stormed, they still failed to score, which was fatal.

During the intermission, Kintegger made tactical adjustments. He replaced Martial with Icardi and Mahrez with Ashley Young. The two speed players, Martial and Mahrez, did not perform well in this game, because the opponents were all huddled near the penalty area, so they did not have much room to take advantage of their speed.

Kintag asked Ashley Young to make more crosses after he came on the field, and created opportunities by raising the ball; while Icardi played a double-center tactic after he came on the field, and he and Van Persie took root in the penalty area to try to create opportunities.

After these two men played, Manchester United's offense gradually became more threatening. Even so, it was still useless to break through the opponent's goal. The game went on to 70 minutes and the score was still 0-0.

Now Jin Taige was completely in a hurry, and there was not much time left in the game. If the delay continued like this, he would run away with a steady three-pointer.

With a big wave of his hand, Kintag replaced Ferdinand, who had suffered a serious decline in physical strength, and replaced him with Salah. Substitute a defender and put on a striker. Kintag let Salah wander around the penalty area in a large area and freely choose the attack method. He has only one requirement for Salah: to create scoring opportunities as soon as possible.

But after Salah came on the field, the situation still hasn't changed much. Cardiff City is still desperately defending, and now there are 10 minutes left in the game, Cardiff City sees the hope of taking away a point. At this stage, if they can score one more point, they will be able to avoid relegation by one more point. Therefore, although Cardiff City is at the bottom of the list, their momentum in this game is high, and they vowed to defend the draw with all their might.

At this time, Kintag began to miss Rooney a little. Although Rooney started to lose speed when he was attacking fast, but in the face of this kind of positional warfare, Rooney's strong body and excellent impact can still gain a lot. Chance.

It is a pity that Rooney is about to leave the team. Jin Taige has already made up his mind. When the summer transfer period comes, he must buy an excellent center forward and enrich his offensive routines!

Thinking of this,

Jin Taige remembered what happened a few days ago.

When the winter transfer period just started, Kintag called Lewandowski and once again sincerely invited him to join his team. However, Lewandowski did not agree on the spot, nor did he refuse. He just expressed his gratitude to Jin Taige again. He said that there is still some time before the end of the season, and he must seriously consider his future.

Jin Taige didn't push him too fast. He knew that it was useless to be anxious about this kind of thing. Lewandowski is a very calm player. It is almost impossible to persuade him with a few words. If this is the case, then wait for Hua open it.

Just when Jin Taige was a little distracted, something changed on the field.

Because Manchester United pressed heavily and Cardiff City retreated, most people surrounded the front of the penalty area, and even Kante rushed forward to help defend.

At this time, De Bruyne carefully observed the situation on the field. He felt that he did not have much effect in the middle, so De Bruyne moved to the left and came near Ashley Young.

During this period of time, the two wingers faced great difficulties. Ashley Young and Valencia both had good crosses, but neither of them had much room to play today, and the winger defense was stared down. deadly. Especially Valencia on the right, after running for more than 80 minutes, was already exhausted.

And now Ashley Young on the left is slightly better. Ashley Young has been a substitute in the previous few games, but he does not have any dissatisfaction. Under Mahrez, who is in excellent form, he exists as a substitute steadily.

Kintag admires players like Ashley Young and Valencia very much. They have certain strengths and good personalities, and they can also play different positions of full-back and full-back. This kind of player is The backup player any team needs.

More than 80 minutes into the game, Ashley Young, who came off the bench, was still running. At this time, he suddenly found De Bruyne cruising to the left and cooperated with him. Ashley Young is very happy, in this way, he can have more offensive means.

Seeing De Bruyne coming to his side, Ashley Young pushed along the wing, on the edge of the penalty area, suddenly passed the ball to De Bruyne, and then bypassed the defender in front of him, and slammed Insert into the restricted area!

And De Bruyne also understood. After receiving the ball, he didn't make any adjustments. He directly picked up the ball and passed it into the penalty area. At this time, Ashley Young just ran to the position and the ball was passed just right.

Ashley Young didn't stop the ball, he shot the ball with his right foot, blasted a world wave on the edge of the penalty area, and the ball went straight to the dead corner of the goal.

1 to 0! Manchester United finally broke the deadlock!