Eight Hundred and Three Cornerstones of the Manchester United Dynasty

In European professional leagues, every head coach has his own set of ideas for team formation, but there is one key point that is generally recognized.

It is the central axis!

This is something that cannot be underestimated when any team is formed.

In fact, fans can also start from this aspect when analyzing a team or a head coach's ability to form a team, because the central axis is like the pillar of a team.

Even though Gao Shen clearly sees that the importance of full-backs is constantly increasing, and even in Leeds United, he asked Sarri to maximize the offensive firepower of full-backs, but in fact, the foundation of Leeds United is still the central axis.

From this point of view, many problems can be seen clearly.

For example, why Gao Shen has always concluded that Boas will fail?

Terry, Lampard and Drogba, this is the central axis of Chelsea.

Don't Boas know?

No, he knew, but he had a radical belief that he could steer and control the situation.

But as it turns out, he's back to relying on those three veterans.

Ferguson said in his autobiography that when he formed the Manchester United team, he also arranged around the central axis, and the starting point was to start with the central defender.

"Manchester United under me is based on a centre-back and has always been a centre-back. I am always looking for a centre-back who is stable and reliable."

These are the original words in Ferguson's book in the tactical library, which represent his true thoughts.

If you carefully analyze Manchester United's glory and ups and downs over the years, you can generally see the clues.

Ferguson's first dynasty at Manchester United was built on the basis of two powerful central defenders, the old captain Steve Bruce and Gary Parist. Steve Bruce is now a famous Premier League coach, and Gary Paris Especially known as the "giant".

After the two main central defenders got old, updates and iterations were inevitable. During this period of time, Manchester United's performance experienced certain ups and downs, until the second generation dynasty, Class 92 and the era of the Triple Crown.

In the era of the Triple Crown, Manchester United had the best top central defender in the world, the Dutchman Stam, standing next to him was Ronnie Johansen. Although there were many injuries, the combination of the two was Manchester United. The key factor of the crown.

But it is a pity that Ferguson later sold Stam for various reasons.

So, to make up for that mistake, he brought in Rio Ferdinand for a record fee.

Fans who are familiar with and understand Manchester United will not be surprised that Manchester United will make such a decision, because Manchester United has always respected localization, Ferguson likes to use the best local central defender, and Ferdinand was the best in the UK at the time and the best in the world. One of the good central defenders.

But only one Ferdinand is not enough, coupled with the successive departures of Beckham, Keane, Ruud van Nistelrooy and others, as well as the strong rise of Chelsea, so Manchester United experienced turmoil and troughs in those years, until Ferguson discovered Nemanja Vidic.

The combination of Ferdinand Gavedic allowed Manchester United to once again dominate European football.

Three years later, Ferdinand will soon be 33 years old, Vidic is also entering his 30s, and Manchester United's strongest central defender combination in history has also begun to decline.

More importantly, over the years, Manchester United has always had only two reliable central defenders in the defense, which caused Ferguson to use these two central defenders to death, causing their bodies to suffer injuries of varying degrees.

This season, Ferguson even spent a lot of money to introduce Phil Jones from Blackburn, hoping that this young local central defender can provoke the banner of Manchester United's defense, and at the same time continue to refine Evans patiently.

As a big colander for Manchester United's defense,

Evans has always been criticized, and his performance has been ups and downs. He was even ridiculed by the media before. As long as he plays, Manchester United will beat ten to eleven.

The implication is that Manchester United is the same with or without Evans.

But this season, Evans' performance has a faint tendency to improve. In the defeats of Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea, Evans has won the first game, and his performance is also good, which has been recognized by Ferguson and the fans. .

This makes many Manchester United fans are delighted to think that Evans will take over the banner of Ferdinand and Vidic and become another banner of Manchester United's defense. Even the players have faintly revealed their ambition to seize power.

Before facing Manchester City, Evans said in an interview with the media that he was satisfied with his state this season and believed that he was ushering in a peak in his career.

"I often tell myself that when I'm not playing well, I should face the pressure bravely, and sometimes I need to endure those unpleasant noises."

Although Evans also said later that after Phil Jones joined, if he did not perform well, he would be kicked out, so he had to relax and respond to criticism with performance.

But for his use of noise to describe doubts, the media and fans reacted badly, thinking that he was too complacent.

Ferguson is more tolerant towards his lover. He believes that Evans is such a big-hearted player.

"When you go through enough, you will find that a lot of young players will have a good season or two, then they will have a difficult period, and the people who don't make it through end up disappearing."

"I think Evans has passed this difficult stage, and he is ushering in his own golden stage."

Strong self-confidence, coupled with Ferguson's strong support, made Evans faintly show signs of grabbing power.

In the Manchester derby, Ferguson put out what he thought was the best lineup for Manchester United at this stage, allowing Evans to start alongside Ferdinand.

But the Red Devils teenager clearly lived up to Ferguson's high hopes.

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When the game progressed to the 21st minute, Hazard dribbled the ball in from the left and then made a cross. Sturridge went straight to the front and took away Ferdinand. At the same time, he attracted Evans' attention, resulting in The latter missed his most important man-marking target.

Van Persie moved forward quickly and scored an empty goal from close range, opening the scoring for Manchester City.

But that's not the worst.

After changing sides in the second half, just thirty seconds into the game, Manchester City stole the ball and launched a counterattack. Van Persie retreated to get the ball on the left side, then turned around and sent a direct pass. Sturridge and Evans were engaged one on one.

Originally, Evans could suppress Sturridge with his body, but for some reason, he didn't do that, but let Sturridge activate.

Everyone knows that the English striker is best at speed and explosive power. Once he got up, Evans couldn't stop him at all. Sturridge broke into the penalty area and scored with a low shot, 2-0!

Both goals came from Evans' mistakes!

Evans was booed again at Old Trafford.

But Manchester City also relied on the goals of two forwards to beat Manchester United 2-0 away.

This has been the third season in a row that the sophisticated Manchester City have beaten Manchester United at Old Trafford.

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Before the game, Gao Shen still gave Ferguson two boxes of wine.

After the game, the godfather of Manchester United invited Gao Shen to drink in the office at Old Trafford.

Although, in the history of European football, it is not uncommon for the coach of the home team to invite the coach of the visiting team to drink, but in recent years, such things have become less and less.

You know, as the competition becomes more and more fierce, it is a blessing that the coaches of the home and away teams don't fight much.

Like Mourinho poking his hand directly into Vilanova's eyes, do you still expect Guardiola to buy him a drink?

Also, like Ferguson, his status in the world is too high, so he doesn't take people to drink easily.

Even like Mourinho, during his coaching at Chelsea, he did not often receive invitations from Ferguson.

But Gao Shen is an exception. Every time he comes to Old Trafford, Ferguson will buy him a drink.

Of course, what Gao Shen drank was water.

The two sat together, but they didn't really talk about the game.

To be honest, like this Manchester derby, there is really nothing to talk about. No matter how you look at it, Manchester United has little chance of winning.

Evans is stunned. He has performed well recently, but he himself was a little bit swayed, and he was unlucky in the game.

This is not all Evans' problem, even if Nemanja Vidic starts, partner Ferdinand, Manchester United will still lose.

To put it bluntly, the gap in strength lies there.

Otherwise, why would Ferguson belittle the Manchester derby in front of the media after playing Liverpool a week ago?

To put it bluntly, isn't it because he knows that his chances of winning are not high, so he lowered his expectations in advance?

If he was really sure, he would have scolded Manchester City to death long ago.

This is the top battle!

In terms of psychological warfare, how many players in European football today can beat Ferguson?

If you don't talk about the game, then you can only talk about other things.

Such as advanced.

"It's likely the last we'll drink after a game as an opponent like this."

Ferguson looked at Gao Shen with a smile, picked up the red wine glass in his hand, "Aren't you going to have some?"

Gao Shen shook his head, he really doesn't drink alcohol.

"You have decided?"

Two days ago, Mubarak said that he had a dinner with people from Manchester United, saying that he wanted to talk about Gaoshen.

"Manchester United's position will not change!" Ferguson was very firm.

"I'm going to be seventy soon, Gao, as I said, I'm going to retire with a league championship, but if you've been here, I won't have this chance, I'm afraid I can only keep coaching, and you Don’t want to see me coach until I’m eighty?”

"You are wrong, I look forward to seeing it very much." Gao Shen said with a smile.

"But it's useless even if you can fix Manchester United. Several clubs have already passed on each other. Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal will all oppose it!" After a pause, Ferguson looked at Gao Shen and added: "You understand of."

High and silent.

To put it bluntly, isn't it just the old rhetoric of Newmoney and Oldmoney?

This is the same reason they asked UEFA and the Premier League to delve into Manchester City's finances.

In the final analysis, Manchester City moved their cheese and harmed their interests.

Whether it is Gao Shen or Manchester City, they are all psychologically prepared for this.

Even if it's not a profound thing this time, sooner or later they will find other reasons and excuses, such as the financial deficit caused by Manchester City's salary structure.

Gao Shen has always felt that there is a double standard in this regard. Why is there no problem with Arsenal’s debts due to losses in real estate projects and the huge debts transferred to the club by the Glazer family after acquiring Manchester United, but there must be problems with Manchester City’s investment?

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