For this encounter with Tottenham, Ferguson can be said to attach great importance to it. The quickest update was to allow the players to be in the best shape for the game, and the Lord even strategically forfeited the midweek Champions League match and risked a large number of substitutes in the match against Olympiacos!

Unlike later, in order to win votes and win the support of the football associations of those small countries, Platini deliberately brought some unpopular teams into the Champions League by adjusting the schedule and match tables, and the current Champions League is indeed worthy of the phrase "there are no weak teams in the Champions League". Although Olympiacos is the weakest team in Manchester United's Group D, the Greek giants have made the Red Devils pay a heavy price when Manchester United has hidden a large number of key players, and under the leadership of Rivaldo, Olympiacos narrowly beat Manchester United 2-1 at Old Trafford to get their first Champions League victory of the season!

gave away the three points in hand, and the originally relatively easy qualifying situation has become grim...... After paying so much price, Ferguson and the Manchester United players have only one goal at this time, that is, to beat Tottenham in this direct confrontation and break the curse of Manchester United's "assassination and invincibility" after George became the owner of Tottenham!

Goalkeeper Van der Sar, right-back Bardesley, left-back O'Shea, central defenders are Rio Ferdinand and Silvestre; in the midfield, Carrick and Hargreaves partner in the middle, Joaquin and Park Ji-sung are on the left and right wings; and on the forward line, it is a combination of "King of the Small Penalty Area" Ruud van Nistelrooy and England's new ace Wayne Rooney!

The reason why they can only send such a shabby starting line when they are fully prepared is because Manchester United's backline has encountered a wave of extremely serious injuries from the beginning of the season, and Heinze, Gary Neville, Brown and other main or main rotation players have fallen one after another, and O'Shea has only recently returned from injury. Otherwise, Ferguson said that it would be impossible to put a youngster like Bardesley in the starting line-up!

Compared with the backline, which is seriously understaffed due to injuries, Manchester United can be called full of talent in the midfield, even if Ryan Giggs is out due to injury, there are stars such as Scholes, Fletcher, Alan Smith, Saha and other stars on the bench at any time, and they can deal with any situation!

Looking at Tottenham's side, because he just played a big game with Lyon two days ago, George decisively rotated the starting lineup in this round of the league, goalkeeper Cech, Stephen Carr, Ledley King, Dawson and Baines lined up in the backline; midfielders Phil Neville and Davies formed a double back, and the young Dempsey got the opportunity to make his debut; As for the offensive trident, George arranged Arshavin, Lennon and Klose this time to partner with a trio!

Compared with Manchester United, which is almost all the main players, Tottenham, which has many main players resting, is obviously slightly inferior in overall strength. However, that doesn't mean Tottenham won't be able to win on the road. In fact, if the players can play according to George's tactical set-up, take advantage of the lack of manpower in United's backline, and chase down Bardesley and Silvestre's defence, then Tottenham will still be able to teach United some profound lessons!

Ferguson was well aware of the team's problems at this point and knew that Tottenham must not be allowed to play a fluid attack. Therefore, from the very beginning of the game, Manchester United took advantage of the home field to launch a fierce attack, intending to replace defense with attack, relying on strength and physical advantage to force Tottenham to shrink in defense, so that they have no time to devote excess energy to the attacking end!

Relying on these advantages, United quickly took the lead. Just seven minutes into the game, Wayne Rooney won a free-kick on the left side of the pitch for United on a breakthrough. Chubby personally hoisted the ball into the penalty area, and Van Nistelrooy shook off Dawson, who was in charge of marking him, and shook his head directly in front of the goal seven meters in front of the goal!

In the face of Ruud van Nistelrooy's close-range shot, Cech subconsciously raised his hand to block the ball, but he was unable to control the ball in his hands due to lack of preparation, and instead had a pounce on the ball. Therefore, when the follow-up Park Ji-sung rushed to the ground in front of the goal before Ledley Kim cleared the siege, the Czech goalkeeper who was out of reach could only sigh with admiration!

"Fake left midfielder, I can't believe that Alex actually learned this trick from Bosque. Seeing Park Ji-sung's goal, George couldn't help but be surprised. He didn't expect that the tactics invented by Bosque in order to settle Zidane would be used by Ferguson on Manchester United!

Although he is called left midfielder, in fact, "Park Sam Lung" has a range of activities all over the stadium, and he can be seen in almost every corner. As for Manchester United's attack and defense on the left side, O'Shea and Wayne Rooney are mainly in charge, and Park Ji-sung's job is to use his super running ability to show up wherever he thinks he needs to be there to support his teammates!

This is the biggest difference between Ferguson and those managers of his time, when most managers are sticking to their own set of "successful experience", the lord has not stopped absorbing new knowledge, and can also apply what he has learned, so that he and Manchester United will not be eliminated by the times because they can't keep up with the trend!

Falling behind by one goal did not make the Tottenham players panic. With Ledley King's reassurance, Tottenham quickly settled their ground. George's subsequent changes made Tottenham's defence more targeted, and United's attack had to come to a standstill. In the same way, due to the staffing and the strong pressure of Manchester United, Tottenham, who have limited input in attack, will not be able to cause much trouble for United's defence!

At his peak, Ruud van Nistelrooy was worthy of the title of King of the Small Forbidden Zone. But it was his presence and habit of waiting for his team-mates to feed him in the box that made it difficult for Ferguson to see the players in attack to be carried out, and it also limited the space for other United players to move. Coupled with the fact that Hargreaves and Carrick are not very aware of the attack, so once Ruud van Nistelrooy is in the middle of the siege, United's attack tends to be quite difficult!

The stalemate was not broken until the 68th minute. Arshavin played the inexperienced Baddersley with a man-shot and burst into the penalty area, grabbing Ferdinand to make a decisive kick before he could make up for it!

With a consistent performance throughout the game, Van der Sar almost became the culprit of Tottenham's first league defeat this season. The Dutch international first flew to save Arshavin's curling shot, and then got up to block Dempsey's header. However, when Klose broke the ball from the feet of Silvester and hit the goal for the third time in a minute, Van der Sar, who had already made two wonderful saves in a row, could only choose to surrender!

After all the hardships, Tottenham finally broke through the door of Manchester United with great difficulty and brought the score back to the same running line!

When will you be able to find me a reliable defender to be my teammate! This is the sentence Van der Sar wants to say the most in his heart at this moment, less than three months after joining Manchester United, he can no longer stand Silvestre's endless and new low-level mistakes, and desperately hopes that the team can bring in a more consistent central defender and Ferdinand's partner!

In the end, when Howard Webb, who was the referee of the game, blew the whistle for the end of the game, with Klose's goal, Tottenham successfully retreated from Old Trafford amid Ferguson's dissatisfied roar, ending the contest with a draw!

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