Chapter 1267 Don't Think It's Stable
Losing 1:2 at home, Manchester United has only one last fight.
At the moment of crisis, Ferguson showed the courage of the iron handsome, at Stamford Bridge, discharged a full attacking lineup.
Berbatov and Wayne Rooney were on the front line, with a 442 diamond-shaped midfielder, Gao Xiaodong stood behind the two forwards, and Carrick stood in front of the defenders.
The left and right midfielders are Ryan Giggs and Valencia.
The centre-backs are Ferdinand and Evans, and the left and right full-backs are Evra and Rafael.
It's a fight, not thinking about conceding the ball, but only about scoring goals.
Relatively speaking, Chelsea's firefighting coach Di Matteo's arrangement was much more conservative. He arranged a lineup to defend and counterattack, with a Torres in front.
Di Matteo made it clear that he was holding on to his first-leg victory at Old Trafford.
This is also normal. Chelsea is one of the best defensive teams in the Champions League. With such a big advantage in the first round, defensive counterattack is the best choice.
Football games are both technical and tactical contests, as well as psychological contests.
If the trailing side wants to reverse, they must score early.
The sooner a goal is scored, the greater the pressure on the leading side, and the greater the pressure, the easier it is to make mistakes.
Manchester United, who are playing away, are naturally aware of this truth.
Once the game started, Manchester United launched a fierce attack on Chelsea.
Chelsea are fully psychologically prepared for Manchester United's onslaught, intensively defending the middle, and do not give Manchester United the opportunity to break through and long-range shots.
Chelsea's defense is very good, and they also focus on guarding stars like Gao Xiaodong and Rooney, but it is impossible to completely restrict stars like Gao Xiaodong and Rooney.
Just 3 minutes into the game, Gao Xiaodong took a long shot from 35 meters away.
This kick is a bit far, and Chelsea goalkeeper Cech is not prepared.
The ball whizzed straight to the top right corner of the goal.
Cech hurriedly flew to make a save and hit the ball over the baseline with one hand.
"what!"
"so close!"
Chelsea fans in the stands exclaimed!
No one thought that Gao Xiaodong would shoot directly from this position.
Manchester United get a corner kick.
Carrick takes the penalty.
Chelsea's high-altitude ball defense was excellent, Manchester United did not grab the spot, and the ball was pushed out by Terry.
Manchester United's peripheral players grabbed the landing point and headed into the penalty area again, and the ball was confiscated by Cech.
Cech threw the ball to find Torres, but was destroyed by the extremely fast Valencia kicked out of the sideline.
Gao Xiaodong's long-range shot kicked off Manchester United's long-range shot, and then Rooney, Ryan Giggs and Berbatov fired long-range shots in an attempt to attract Chelsea's defenders.
Chelsea players are not in a hurry to expand their defensive range. In addition to strictly defending Gao Xiaodong's long-range shots, others basically block them if they can, or let them shoot if they can't. They grab the ball and launch a counterattack.
Chelsea are not underdogs, they just beat Manchester United on the road, their psychological advantage is still there, they dare to invest their troops when they counterattack, and they are a great threat to Manchester United's backline.
In the 8th minute of the game, Torres stopped the ball with his back, turned around forcibly, threw away Ferdinand, and took a long shot from about 30 meters, the ball slightly missed the goal post.
Although the ball missed the target, it also frightened De Gea.
Manchester United were not and will not be frightened by Chelsea's counter-attack. They have no way out, only one way to attack.
As time went on, Manchester United put more and more troops into the attack, and the two full-backs almost never went back to the front.
There were also holes in Chelsea's defence under constant pressure from Manchester United.
After attracting the defense in the middle, Gao Xiaodong made a straight pass and looked for Rooney who was in the penalty area.
Chelsea's defender was in a hurry to make a clearance, and the ball was grabbed by Berbatov.
Seeing this, Gao Xiaodong inserted into the penalty area at high speed and responded to Berbatov.
Gao Xiaodong's movement attracted Terry and midfielder Mikel, creating space for Berbatov to shoot.
Berbatov did not pass the ball to Gao Xiaodong, and shot directly from outside the penalty area.
Berbatov did not exert his strength,
With a flick of the outer instep, he shot the ball into the back corner of the goal.
Chelsea goalkeeper Cech's attention was attracted by Gao Xiaodong, and he made a save after Berbatov kicked his foot.
If Berbatov's shot was quicker, Cech wouldn't have had a chance to touch the ball.
But Berbatov's shot speed was a bit slow, and Cech, who was tall and long, took the ball off the goal line.
Cech is experienced and knows that this is the best chance to counterattack. After getting the ball, he throws the ball directly to find the unmarked Mata.
Cech's throwing the ball is deadly. Mata is Chelsea's best player in terms of overall situation and passing. The ball can always create murderous intent at Mata's feet.
Mata had already observed the situation ahead before catching the ball. The ball reached his feet, Mata turned around after receiving the ball, and immediately found Torres who was at the top with a long pass.
Torres took the ball and took two steps forward, and immediately changed to the front of the penalty area.
Manchester United centre-back Ferdinand was moving in the direction of Torres, who suddenly changed direction and staggered Ferdinand.
Torres accelerated laterally and fired a furious shot before Evans could catch up.
Manchester United goalkeeper De Gea just hit the penalty area, Torres has already shot, in a hurry, De Gea reached out to block, but did not touch, the ball flew from his hand into the net.
1:0
Chelsea, who played at home, took the lead and extended the aggregate score to 3:1.
After scoring the goal, the Spanish Golden Boy was very excited. He ran to the sidelines with his hands up and shouted at the fans.
Chelsea fans are more excited, they already have a big advantage, this goal scored, Manchester United need to score 3 goals to advance.
Chelsea have conceded less than one goal per game in the Champions League this season, and it is almost impossible for Manchester United to score three of them.
"Torres! Torres! Torres..."
Blues fans chanted Torres' name and applauded wildly.
Desperately attacking to no avail, but being counterattacked by the opponent scored a big blow to Manchester United's morale.
Although Ferdinand tried his best to comfort his teammates, his face was also extremely grim, and he also understood that it would take a miracle to make a comeback.
Gao Xiaodong is the only one that Manchester United can laugh at.
Facing the frustrated teammates, Gao Xiaodong called his teammates over confidently and said loudly: "Don't think they are stable, they can't score this goal, it has no effect on us, as long as we score two, we can tie, They played overtime."
Carrick doesn't have the confidence of Gao Xiaodong. He retorted: "We can tie with two goals, but Chelsea may also score."
Gao Xiaodong said, "Then let's go in."
Ferdinand stood up to support Gao Xiaodong, saying: "Gao is right, this ball has little impact on us, everyone continue to work hard and score goals quickly."
Rooney was also inspired by Gao Xiaodong and said, "Yes! It's all here, what else do you think! Just fight!"
Ferguson was a little annoyed at first, so he walked to the sidelines and saw that the players gradually recovered their fighting spirit with the encouragement of Gao Xiaodong and Ferdinand, so he returned to the coach's seat and sat down.
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