Although Manchester City were beaten twice by Manchester United this season and all the players wanted revenge, the desire for the FA Cup title made them play very cautiously after the opening game and did not rush forward, mainly holding on to the midfield and waiting for United to make mistakes.

Manchester United is the number one club in the Premier League. Now unbeaten and in good form, against their city rivals, Manchester City can shrink back and wait for a counter-attack, but Manchester United can't, they have to take the initiative.

Today, Gao Xiaodong and Carrick partnered in the back two, Scholes stood in front of Gao Xiaodong and Carrick to organize the scheduling, Manchester United's attack mainly relied on Nani and Valencia on the two wings.

At the beginning of the first half, it was another deciding knockout game, and Manchester United did not attack aggressively from the beginning, and the two full-backs, O'Shea and Patrice Evra, did not press more than the center circle, mainly relying on the individual ability of Nani and Valencia to tear apart City's defence.

Manich's preparation for today's game is very sufficient, with two beast-type midfielders in the middle, David Silva and Adam Johnson in the three front midfielders Although they are attacking players, the two are very defense today, and they have been sparing no effort to return to the side of their penalty area, assisting the fullbacks to pinch Valencia and Nani, and not giving Valencia and Nani the opportunity to break through and cross easily.

With City's very targeted defence, the delicate Nani could not play to his strengths, while Valencia created a certain threat with their own speed.

In the fourth minute of the game, Scholes took the ball back and passed it to Gao Xiaodong, who took a step forward and then passed it straight to Valencia on the side.

Gao Xiaodong's shot went straight behind Manchester City full-back Kolarov, giving Valencia the chance to make the most of his pace.

Manchester City defender Korolav's speed is not slow, but Gao Xiaodong's pass is sudden, and he has to turn around, which is slow, and he can't keep up with Valencia.

Seeing Valencia catch up with the ball, Korolaf, who was more than a position behind, made a decisive tackle and tried to break the ball off the touchline.

But Valencia moved faster and took the ball out first, and Korolav couldn't touch the ball and directly tackled Valencia.

Valencia only returned from injury after a broken leg, and when he played on the pitch, Manchester United fans were worried that he would be injured again, and seeing Krollaf shovel Valencia down with such a ferocious move, Manchester United fans shouted with excitement.

"Foul! Missed tackle! Foul!"

"It's a dangerous move!

"I just think Valencia has broken her leg and is deliberately threatening!"

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Manchester United players also came to protect Valencia, protesting to the referee and asking referee Quinn to give Korolaf a yellow card, but referee Quinn obviously didn't want to play the card at the beginning, he only awarded a free kick and did not give Korollaf a yellow card.

Paul Scholes took the free-kick and the United players came to the box to fight for the ball, Scholes passed the ball into the box, Berbatov collided with the opposition defender when he grabbed the spot, the ball flew into the air, Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart rushed out and punched the ball out.

Joe Hart's ball was not far away, the ball was picked up by Carrick, who did not pass it to his team-mate, adjusted his pace and shot directly from a distance, but the ball was far off the post.

Manchester City kicked off the goal, Joe Hart kicked it out, and striker Balotelli grabbed the point, but Manchester United's two central defenders cooperated very tacitly, one stuck the position to prevent Balotelli from grabbing the point, and the other rushed over to clear the header.

The ball fell to the feet of Scholes, who did not dare to pass the ball to Valencia again, and he found Nani on the other side with a long pass.

As soon as Nani received the ball, De Jong made up from the midfield position and pounced on Nani.

When Nani waited for De Jong to get close to him, he dunked the ball and wanted to shake De Jong, but Nani underestimated De Jong's ferocity, Nani just picked up the ball and wanted to get past De Jong, and De Jong swept it over with a high whip leg.

Nani was frightened and quickly leaned back, but fortunately Nani reacted quickly, and De Jong's kick only swept past Nani's eyebrow arch, and the spikes hit Nani's eyebrow bone, and the blood flowed.

Kolarov has just tackled Valencia, and now De Jong has kicked Nani again, which is clearly intended to use violence to intimidate and limit Manchester United's players.

The fans of Manchester United couldn't stand it, and they jumped up and scolded the Manchester City players for being barbaric, shameless, not kicking, coming out of the fighting class.

Nani and Valencia on the field are also the real main players of Manchester United, the two are highly valued by Ferguson, Ferguson saw his disciple being fouled by the opponent in a row, he was so angry that he ran to the fourth official to ask the referee to do justice, but the fourth official just made peace with the mud, but did not go to the referee.

Referee Quinn had previously forgiven Korolav and did not issue him a topaz card, but he didn't expect that only nine minutes later, De Jong did it again.

De Jong's reputation has always been bad, in European football, he and Real Madrid's Pepe have been called butchers on the pitch, and the referee is also biased against them, Quinn directly took out a yellow card to warn De Jong.

Seeing De Jong eat cards at the beginning, Mancini looked heavy next to him, although De Jong was fierce, but the position of the back is indeed indispensable for Manchester City, he received a yellow card, Manchester City's game was not very good.

Scholes continued to take the free kick, and Scholes did not pass the ball directly to the penalty area this time, but played tactics and passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong.

Gao Xiaodong took two steps forward, wanting to try whether his feet were right, but when he saw that Carrick was inserted into the penalty area, Gao Xiaodong immediately passed the ball and looked for Carrick who was quickly inserted.

Carrick didn't expect Gao Xiaodong's passing skills and vision to be so good, so he raised his hand, and Gao Xiaodong's pass arrived.

Carrick has been recuperating from injuries since Gao Xiaodong arrived, and the competition and training are three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, and there is not much run-in with Gao Xiaodong.

Carrick couldn't get a good grasp of Gao Xiaodong's passing speed, and his header was high over the crossbar.

Although Manchester City mainly defended and counter-attacked after the opening, they were not prepared to hold a draw today, and after withstanding Manchester United's attack for almost ten minutes, Manchester City gradually launched an attack.

In the 13th minute of the game, after Manchester United cooperated in the midfield, Carrick made a long pass to Berbatov, Berbatov received the ball and turned away, shaking off the defender Lescott who was marking him, but he didn't expect defender Kompany to rush from the side and break the ball.

Kompany broke the ball and immediately made a long pass, and hit the front court with a kick to find his teammate Yaya Toure.

Yaya Toure took advantage of his height to win the ball and go straight to his striker Balotelli, but Van der Sar was experienced and rushed to the edge of the box to clear the ball in front of Balotelli and defuse a crisis.