Back in the dressing room, Ferguson's first words were: "Why not step up the attack?"

The back line is tight, but the attack needs to be strengthened?

Everyone was confused and didn't know how to answer.

Scholes, the eldest disciple of the lord's cronies, took the pot and said: "The central defenders have all received yellow cards, and I asked Gao to strengthen the protection of the backline." ”

Although Scholes said that he asked his teammates to retreat to strengthen the protection of the backline, Ferguson knew very well that the back line was unstable, and even if Scholes didn't say it, no player could attack without distraction, and Scholes just took the responsibility on himself.

Ferguson said excitedly: "Why defend? Scared? This is Old Trafford, we are seven points ahead of Liverpool, the back line is unstable, then we have to attack, we have to score more goals than the opponent!

Seeing that the Ferguson blower was ajar, the Manchester United players bowed their heads and remained silent.

After Ferguson finished speaking, he seemed to be unsatisfied, and continued: "A team like Liverpool is not worthy of us to shrink and counterattack, give me an attack in the second half!"

No one asks what to do with the defense? What to do with the yellow cards of the two centre-backs? They believe that since Ferguson said this, then it means that he has his own arrangements, and it is okay to do what Ferguson says, this is the authority, whether it is right or wrong, the players will believe him unconditionally.

After Ferguson laid out the game policy for the second half, he then began to analyze the performance of the Manchester United players in the first half, Ferguson only praised the positive Berbatov and the attacking Gao Xiaodong, but did not criticize any player, but everyone could feel that Ferguson was not satisfied with Rooney, and at the same time was not very satisfied with Gao Xiaodong and Scholes's defense.

However, Rooney has had too many off-field fetters recently, Scholes is old and his defensive strength is not normal, and Gao Xiaodong scored a goal in the first half, and when playing a team like Liverpool, it is unlikely that Gao Xiaodong will dominate both offensive and defensive ends.

However, Ferguson did not say anything about the most criticized central defender Evans in defense, Evans is young after all, and he is a substitute, and there is really no way to deal with a talented striker like Torres when the back does not protect him enough.

Away team locker room

The old coach Hodgson was satisfied with the performance of the players, Manchester United's two goals, the first was Gao Xiaodong's fairy goal, the goalkeeper had no way to defend, and the second was a goal in the counterattack, when Liverpool was already behind and could only attack, and then was beaten on the counterattack.

Against a team like Manchester United, as long as you attack, it's impossible not to give them a chance to counter-attack.

After 45 minutes of competition and comparison in the first half, Hodgson has a more intuitive understanding of Manchester United's strength, Manchester United's strength is indeed stronger than Liverpool, so he is still satisfied with the 2:2 score, he hopes that the team will play defensive counterattack in the second half, keep the draw and win, and wait for the run-in formation to play, and then compete with Ferguson when he returns to the home field.

However, Gerrard was not satisfied with Hodgson's arrangement, as the team's boss and spiritual leader, Gerrard's status in the Reds was no worse than Hodgson's, and when Hodgson returned to the coach's lounge after deploying tactics, Gerrard found Hodgson.

"Coach, the game against Manchester United is extraordinary, once the opponent demoralizes, can our defensive counterattack still be able to hold?"

Time was tight, and Gerald didn't go around in circles, and said bluntly.

Although Gerrard is for the good of the team, in Hodgson's view, this is questioning his authority, but Gerrard's status at Liverpool is so high that even if Hodgson is the coach, his advice must be respected.

Hodgson said lightly: "Steve, you're too worried. Wayne Rooney was not in good form, Berbatov had no impact and they couldn't break through our double defence. “

Gerrard said: "Coach, don't forget, they still have Xiao Donggao, he is the strongest attacking man at Manchester United. ”

Hodgson smiled: "Now Manchester United's two central defenders are carrying yellow cards, Manchester United only has Gao Xiaodong as a defensive midfielder, he is afraid that he is too busy to take care of himself, how can he have so much energy to attack." ”

Gerrard was still unconvinced, saying: "What if Ferguson replaces Scholes and replaces Fletcher." ”

Hodgson said: "If Ferguson is replaced by Fletcher, then only Gao Xiaodong will be the only one who organizes and promotes the midfield, can he create his own chances and then shoot by himself? ”

Gerrard was persuaded by Hodgson, he didn't come to find fault in the first place, he just didn't understand, since Hodgson had taken all aspects of the situation into account, then Gerrard had achieved his goal.

Fifteen minutes later, the game resumed with no substitutions for Manchester United and Liverpool, and the game continued with the same team.

After Dimitar Berbatov and Wayne Rooney kicked off in the centre circle, the United players complimented Ferguson's demands of attack, and the three lines quickly advanced to launch an attack on Liverpool's penalty area.

In the first minute of the second half, Nani burst down the flank, attracting the right leaning of the Liverpool formation, and then quickly passed to Vidic in the middle, who passed to Giggs to complete a wide transfer.

Liverpool's formation immediately moved to the left to prevent United from attacking from the left.

Giggs and Patrice Evra sprinted towards the baseline, but the pair combined in succession but could not break through Johnson's defence, Giggs passed back to Scholes, who saw Nani unmarked on the flank and found Nani with a long ball on the wing.

Gao Xiaodong saw Scholes pass the ball to Nani, he immediately ran to the ribs of the penalty area, and raised his hand to ask Nani for the ball.

Gao Xiaodong has asked Nani for the ball several times in the first half, Nani didn't pass, this time Nani was criticized by Ferguson alone, and the ball is not easy to handle, after he stopped, it is estimated that the defender Konchesky also posted it, and there was no chance to break through, so he gave Gao Xiaodong a header.

Gao Xiaodong didn't expect Nani to pass so happily, he just ran to the right edge of the penalty area, and Nani's ball arrived.

Gao Xiaodong did not hesitate, adjusted his pace, bent his bow and arrow, and fired another volley, hitting the ball to the right side of the goal.

The shot was powerful and sinked into the goal in an instant.

However, Liverpool goalkeeper Reina is one of the best goalkeepers in the world, and he was focused, reacted quickly, jumped up and punched the ball out of the box.

Manchester United had a shot on goal at the start of the second half, and it was the midfielder Gao Xiaodong who was in charge of the defense, which was a signal that United did not want to defend.

However, Liverpool did not pay attention to this signal, they still thought that Gao Xiaodong did not dare to press too much, and did not take targeted defensive measures against Gao Xiaodong's insertion.

In the 50th minute of the game, Manchester United's long pass was attacked, the ball was pushed out by Liverpool central defender Carragher, and the ball was grabbed by Gao Xiaodong and passed to Scholes.

Paul Scholes lobs the ball into the box and Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov swooped down on Liverpool.

Dimitar Berbatov and Carragher scramble for a header, their heads collide together, and the ball falls to Rooney's feet, Rooney is closely followed by Skrtel and can't turn around, but Rooney is eager to score and force a turn to shoot, the ball hits Skrtel's body and bounces out of the box.

As soon as the ball popped up, Gao Xiaodong suddenly hit from the backfield, and before Liverpool midfielder Poulsen cleared the ball, he shot angrily.

The ball flew like a cloud-piercing arrow, lightning along the crack to the left side of the goal.

When Gao Xiaodong shot, goalkeeper Reina was blocked by the players in the penalty area, and when he saw the ball, there was no hope of saving, Reina didn't even make a symbolic move, and watched the ball fly into the net in front of him.

3:2

Gao Xiaodong scored twice to help Manchester United overtake the score again.

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