Chapter 230: Carol's Performance
With Saha and Alan Smith struggling to pose a substantial threat to Tottenham's goal, the pressure on United's defensive side began to mount as time went on and as the game wore on. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Especially when the aging Roy Keane could not put enough pressure on the attacking players as before, and the frontal defensive ability of his partner Carrick was relatively lacking, Drogba and others were able to directly attack the unprotected Manchester United defence, causing the Red Devils to sound the alarm in front of the goal. Roy Carroll was even more nervous, for fear that he would accidentally be pierced by Tottenham through the door he was guarding!
Ferguson also felt helpless about the team's delay in opening the situation on the offensive end. Although he did a lot of pre-match preparation and pointed out Tottenham's defensive weaknesses for his players, even the best strategy needs someone who can implement it. And judging from the current situation, it is clear that the lord is not the one to trust this time - Saha and Alan Smith's performance in this game really failed to live up to Ferguson's expectations of them.
Truth be told, Ferguson knew before the game that Saha and Alan Smith were going to be able to cause much trouble for the centre-back duo of Nemanja Vidic and Ledley King. Saha and Alan Smith worked hard but lacked talent, and lacked enough understanding with each other, making it difficult for United to break down Tottenham's defence.
It's not that the lord doesn't want to win this game, or wants to secretly release water to help George, so that Tottenham can continue to overtake Chelsea in the standings, but because such a line-up is Ferguson's helpless move - if it weren't for the leading striker Ruud van Nistelrooy due to injury, and Rooney was banned by the FA for slapping Bolton defender Ben Haim in the game before, Ferguson would not have let Saha and Alan Smith pair up front in this strong conversation!
'It seems that there are still quite a few areas to improve in the team, and it is far from the time when it can be said that it is done. Ferguson thought to himself after watching Didier Drogba rely on his passing strength to force Silvestre and almost pierce his own door with a burst shot. Although the score on the field was still 0-0, the lord was already not looking forward to this game.
The only question is which Tottenham player will step up to score the opening goal for the visitors!
However, what Ferguson didn't expect was that it was not a certain Tottenham player he expected to decide the direction of the game, but Manchester United's starting goalkeeper in this game, Roy Carroll, who replaced Howard who made mistakes and Cudicini who was injured unexpectedly this season!
In the forty-third minute of the game, Cristiano Ronaldo shook the ball past Wes Brown and hoisted the ball into the penalty area, but Carroll, who chose to attack, did not intercept the cross, and leaked the ball between the two gloves under the stunned gaze of everyone! Drogba, who was outflanked at the back point, seized the opportunity and directly pushed the ball that Carroll missed into the empty goal, 1-0!
Seeing this scene, Ferguson was so angry that his eyes suddenly went black. After all, Carroll's mistake was too amateurish - his own goalkeeper didn't catch the ball when he went out to block the opponent's cross, and directly "assisted" the opponent to score, which made the always extremely demanding lord how could he bear it? !
However, to Ferguson's desperation, Carroll's "wonderful" performance didn't end there. In the 70th minute, Carroll threw the ball directly at the feet of Villa when he tossed it to Heinze on the left. In the face of such a big gift, the Spaniard, who had been on the bench for less than five minutes, naturally smiled happily, and after passing Carroll, who was trying to make amends, he made a light push to rewrite the score to 2-0!
"What the hell is Carroll thinking?" Ferguson's anger was almost on the verge of breaking through the sky after seeing Carroll score twice and assist Tottenham to score again, "Rene (Mulensten), tell him for me that he must fuck me off this summer and find it myself!
If it's just that the strikers don't give up, and Manchester United can still rely on will and tactics to make up for this shortcoming, then with a goalkeeper with endless low-level mistakes, the Red Devils can basically say goodbye to any championship honor!
A good goalkeeper can top half a team. After witnessing the cheating performances of many goalkeepers such as Taibby, Howard, and Carroll, Ferguson can be said to have a very deep understanding of this sentence, and at the same time, he is more determined to bring a first-class goalkeeper to Manchester United this summer!
Although Cudicini's ability is good, but somehow, the Italian has been in a state of recuperation since joining from Chelsea, so that Ferguson can only choose one of Howard and Carroll from the two cheats when arranging the starting lineup, and then pray that the one who comes on the field will not make low-level mistakes in the game, so that Manchester United's instinctive victory will become a hard battle, and the game that he has a chance to win will become a loss!
By the way, Tottenham had a chance to extend the score to 3-0 before the end of the game - in stoppage time, Carroll, who had already given away two surprise packages in this game, made another ultra-low mistake when he actually leaked Xavi Alonso's unthreatening lob shot from the middle circle of the pitch into the net when he received the ball!
Although out of the goalkeeper's instinct, Carroll immediately turned around and fished the ball out of the goal, the camera clearly showed that the whole of the ball had actually crossed the goal line when Carroll fished out the ball!
However, it is unknown whether it was out of sympathy for Carroll, Bol did not declare Alonso's goal valid, but signaled for the game to continue. Although Alonso was very dissatisfied with Bol's decision, the Spaniards did not dwell too much on this matter when Tottenham had already sealed the win.
And so, when referee Graham Bol announced the end of the game, Tottenham easily beat Manchester United with Carroll's super gift package, and won 2-0 at Old Trafford, continuing to push Chelsea, who beat Middlesbrough earlier today, to lead the table by a narrow one!
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