Chapter 872 Creating Opportunities

After the celebration, the game continued.

In the last double red meeting, Manchester United swept Liverpool 7:2. Then Liverpool fell all the way and is now almost in the relegation zone.

This time the FA Cup Double Reds scored a goal at the beginning, and Manchester United's players didn't take Liverpool to heart very much.

Everyone thinks that Gao Xiaodong will attend the Golden Globe Awards tomorrow, and they all want to create opportunities for Gao Xiaodong to score a goal.

In the 4th minute of the game, Manchester United counterattacked. Scholes controlled the ball. Gao Xiaodong quickly moved forward. The right back Rafael received Scholes's pass in the middle and quickly passed the ball back to Nani who was inserting into the ribs. .

Nani broke into the right rib of the penalty area from the right. In this situation, usually even if Ferguson came on the court and raised his hand to ask for the ball, Nani would shoot directly. But today Nani changed his mind and did not even shoot. He passed the ball across to the forward. Gao Xiaodong was inserted.

Gao Xiaodong is pushing forward, and Nani has a good time to pass the ball, but the focus of Liverpool's defense today is Gao Xiaodong.

Meireles followed Gao Xiaodong, and center back Skrtel's attention was always on Gao Xiaodong.

Nani passed the ball, and Skrtel quickly grabbed the ball. He fell to the ground and shot, destroying the ball before Gao Xiaodong.

Gao Xiaodong regretfully gave Nani a thumbs up, saying that he passed the ball well but he didn't catch it.

Nani was also a little depressed. He felt that maybe he should pass the ball further back. Even if Gao Xiaodong could not shoot directly, it would not be destroyed. With Gao Xiaodong's skills and cunning, he must have many ways to deal with it.

Liverpool quickly launched a counterattack after grabbing the ball.

Gerrard distributed the ball, Torres made a breakthrough pass from the right, Vidic pushed the ball out, Gerrard grabbed the ball and passed it diagonally, Maxi Rodriguez shot with his right foot from 15 yards in the right rib, Manchester United's second Goalkeeper Kuzzak struggled to save the ball, and Vidic made a big kick.

The second goal was controlled by Liverpool. Maxi Rodriguez passed through. Full-back Kelly crossed from the right to the baseline. Goalkeeper Kuzczak made a mistake. He went out to get the ball but missed it. Fortunately, Ferdinand Clearance in front of Torres.

Liverpool's counterattack was very smooth and created continuous opportunities.

Since the start of this season, Liverpool has been unable to attack and defend, and such counterattacks are relatively rare.

Although Liverpool's counterattack was smooth and threatening, Manchester United was not afraid. After getting the ball, Manchester United continued to attack and strive to score the goal that sealed the victory.

The Manchester United players were very confident and cooperated very well. After continuous cooperation and passing, they once again created a shooting opportunity.

After entering the penalty area, Berbatov lost the space to shoot. He took the ball to the baseline and passed it back to the corner of the penalty area.

At this moment, Liverpool's defense was very flat. Rafael stood in the corner of the penalty area and already had space to shoot, but he still chose to pass the ball across to Gao Xiaodong.

Gao Xiaodong really wanted to score, but Liverpool was keeping a close eye on him. The defensive players were not far or close to him, so they were waiting for the Manchester United players to pass the ball to him and then come over to attack him.

Before the ball has been passed, the shadow of Skrtel has appeared in front of Gao Xiaodong. He moves very quickly and is not afraid of being passed by Gao Xiaodong because he is only the first defensive player, not the last. As long as he can Block Gao Xiaodong's first move, and his teammates will immediately surround him.

With so many defensive players around, Gao Xiaodong couldn't take the cake, so he had to pass the ball to Rooney.

When Rooney shot, the time passed and the ball hit Agger and bounced out.

Lucas ran actively to grab the spot. He quickly passed to Gerrard. Gerrard passed Scholes and quickly dribbled the ball in. Liverpool's two wingers rushed to keep up.

After Gerrard arrived in the frontcourt, Gao Xiaodong had already returned to defend, and Fletcher also came over to attack.

Gerrard didn't stick to the ball and immediately gave it to Kelly.

Kelly did not go down and directly passed the ball at a 45-degree angle to the penalty area to find Kuyt at the back point.

Kuyt headed the ball, and Torres shook off Vidic and volleyed with his right foot from 14 yards.

However, Vidic's old partner Ferdinand arrived in time.

He used his body to block the ball out of the penalty area.

Liverpool's two counterattacks both resulted in threatening shots, and the counterattacks had clear ideas and reasonable movement, and they had the shadow of when Benitez led the team.

The on-site commentator Martin exclaimed: "Liverpool's counterattack was very sharp, giving Manchester United almost no time to defend. The King really had two brushes, and the adjustment was immediate."

Although Liverpool did not score, Ferguson also felt the danger, with a solemn look on his face.

Although the game lasted only ten minutes, Ferguson quickly saw the intentions of his old rival Dalglish.

Liverpool's performance is so poor this season, mainly because the style of play has changed too much. Hodgson and Benitez are not the same way at all. The players can't adapt for a while. After the performance dropped, Hodgson couldn't control these big-name stars, and they couldn't work together. , so that the more they fight, the more chaotic they become.

Although Dalglish is the king, he has only been here for a day. Even if he is God, he cannot bring about earth-shaking changes in Liverpool.

Dalglish was very smart. He took advantage of the players' dissatisfaction with Hodgson, overturned Hodgson's tactics, followed the original Benitez tactics, and then added some chicken blood to use this against Manchester United.

This idea was good, but I didn't expect Manchester United to score in the opening game. Dalglish's counterattack tactics were questioned by Gerrard, but Dalglish had the confidence to stick to his tactics. Players including Gerrard, even if there were Even if they disagree, Dalglish's tactics will still be implemented. This is why Liverpool's current smooth and sharp counterattack is possible.

Liverpool got a chance for a corner kick. Gerrard's corner kick was deflected by Vidic, and Meireles' long shot was confiscated by goalkeeper Kuzzak.

Kuzczak was more aggressive than Van der Sar. He quickly ran to the side of the penalty area and threw the ball to Scholes to launch a counterattack.

Scholes received the ball and Rooney quickly pulled over to take over.

Scholes' long pass found Rooney like a precision missile.

Berbatov quickly got behind the defender and reached for the ball.

But Rooney did not pass the ball to Berbatov. He took two steps to the wing and immediately passed the ball across the middle to Gao Xiaodong, who was running wildly.

Gao Xiaodong has always been "meticulously taken care of" by the Liverpool players. His teammates created opportunities for him several times but failed to complete the shot. This time he used his speed to get rid of all the defenders and finally had the opportunity to catch the ball comfortably. .

However, Gao Xiaodong came in from behind. The ball was still about 30 meters away from the goal, and the shooting range was still a bit far. Gao Xiaodong took the ball forward two more steps, hoping to get within 25 meters and shoot.

However, Liverpool's defense against Gao Xiaodong today was really desperate. Gao Xiaodong had just received the ball, and the players who were marking Berbatov and Rooney gave up their marking targets and rushed towards Gao Xiaodong together.

It was impossible for Gao Xiaodong to leave two open first-class shooters to break through or force a shot. He had no choice but to give the ball to Rooney and move forward without the ball.

However, Skrtel's defense against Gao Xiaodong today was simply crazy. He did not let go after Gao Xiaodong played the ball. When Gao Xiaodong ran past him, Skrtel stretched out his foot and tripped Gao Xiaodong.

When referee Weber saw Rooney taking the ball and Berbatov advancing forward, the offense was favorable, so he did not stop the game and allowed the game to continue.

Rooney and Berbatov formed an excellent situation of two ghosts hitting the goal. Rooney only needed to attract Reina and cross the ball, and Berbatov would have an empty goal.

However, when Reina came out, Rooney took an extra step. The defender came back and there was no way to cross the ball. Rooney had to shoot from a small angle, but Reina blocked the ball from the baseline with his foot.

Seeing that this must-goal opportunity turned into a corner kick, Ferguson was very angry. The first time Rooney passed the ball to Berbatov, Berbatov was able to counter the offside and form a single shot, but Rooney passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong.

The second time Rooney passed the ball early, Berbatov shot from a better angle than Rooney, but Rooney was a step slower.

What made Ferguson angry was not Rooney's passing timing and choice, but Rooney obviously didn't like to cooperate with Berbatov, and he wanted to play for Gao Xiaodong.

This situation cannot continue. Gao Xiaodong needs to score goals, but Dalglish obviously guessed the mentality of the Manchester United players to create opportunities for Gao Xiaodong, and defended Gao Xiaodong very tightly. The Manchester United players were forced to create opportunities for Gao Xiaodong. , As a result, the offense was not reasonable and concise enough, and at least two scoring opportunities were lost.

Taking advantage of the corner kick opportunity, Ferguson called Rooney and Nani to the sidelines and told them that Liverpool was not easy to play today and asked them to pass fewer passes to Gao Xiaodong and secure the victory first.