Chapter 778: Making a Penalty
In the 60th minute of the game, Liverpool manager Hodgson made substitutions immediately after Berbatov's brace, and central defender Ager came on to replace Konchesky, who was ravaged by Nani for 60 minutes.
Hodgson is unbearable, there is no full-back, he would rather use Ager as a full-back, than tolerate Konchesky becoming a big colander on the left.
Striker Ngog was also brought on to join Fernando Torres in attacking United's already weakened backline.
Ferguson, who is experienced and cunning, let his players take risks and attack, and after scoring two goals, seeing that Hodgson was going to play with his life, he immediately made a substitution, young centre-back Smalling came on to replace Evans, who had received a yellow card, and let Smalling come on to press, and the experienced Vidic was stuck in the back.
The timing of Ferguson's substitution was very good, although Smalling is a newcomer, young, a little frizzy, and he did not have a good run-in with Vidic, but he is tall, has a wide defensive area, and is still fast, and he and Vidic can still partner with Liverpool players who have begun to decline in fitness.
The most important thing is that after Smalling comes on, he at least has the ability to foul, Gao Xiaodong and Scholes no longer have to think about the safety of the back line at all times, and can continue to maintain pressure on the Liverpool penalty area.
In the 65th minute of the game, Liverpool striker Ngog, who had just come on the field, got an opportunity, Torres took advantage of the lack of tacit understanding between Smalling and Vidic, pulled the side and ran back, bringing Vidic and Smalling together, Meleleles plugged straight, Ngog took the ball and burst into the penalty area, and hurriedly shot at the goal under the interception of Smalling and Gao Xiaodong, the ball was weak and was confiscated by goalkeeper Van der Sar.
Ngog wanted to go over to intercept Van der Sar to launch a counterattack, but was tripped by Gao Xiaodong's seemingly unintentional stretching of his foot, Van der Sar was unstoppable, and quickly threw the ball to Nani who returned to the side to launch a quick counterattack.
Nani received the ball and ran like crazy towards Liverpool's half, and right-back O'Shea behind him also ran forward to meet Nani.
Nani was very fast, and Gerrard in the middle wanted to go to the wing to intercept a step too late, so he could only quickly return to the middle to defend Manchester United's forward players.
Nani was not far past halfway before he met the newly replaced Agger.
Faced with a cameo full-back and little pace, Nani was dismissive, and he made a feint to go inside, ready to overtake directly from the outside.
But Ag is a centre-back, although not fast, but he judged the timing of the kick very well, Nani did not finish the feint, he directly swept over, sweeping Nani to the ground.
Ag's kick was obviously to give Nani a dismount, and the kick was very fierce, so painful that Nani lay on the ground and rolled straight.
Seeing Agg's movements so rude, Manchester United bigwig Scholes immediately rushed over and yelled at Agg: "Do you want to kick his leg?"
"It's just a foul." ”
As the leader of the Portuguese Gang, Gao Xiaodong couldn't do anything, he ran to the accident point, pointed to Age's nose and said, "Aren't you afraid that others will kick and break your legs?"
Ah Ge contemptuously opened Gao Xiaodong's hand and said, "Milky boy, be careful of your legs." ”
Gao Xiaodong was furious, raised his foot, and kicked at Ah Ge, which frightened Ah Ge into taking two steps back.
Gao Xiaodong's legs were raised but he didn't move, and smiled contemptuously: "My legs are here, you have the ability to shovel them." ”
Referee Webber arrived at the moment, and he quickly separated the players from both sides, showing Agger a yellow card and awarding United a free-kick on the wing.
Although United are now two goals ahead, there is no Red Devil in the battle between Manchester United and Liverpool who did not want to score more, with centre-backs Chris Smalling and Nemanja Vidic both coming to the Liverpool penalty area to fight for headers, while Gao Xiaodong and Patrice Evra dragged behind to prevent the opposition from counter-attacking.
Scholes played the ball into the box and Smalling managed to get to the ground under Carragher's defence, but he couldn't exert his power at all, and the ball flew straight into the stands.
Liverpool served the goal kick, Reyna kicked to Manchester United's half, the two sides fought fiercely in the midfield, and finally the ball was grabbed by Gao Xiaodong with his strong body, he gave Nani to the side, so that Nani continued to break through Ager, who had just received a yellow card.
Nani received the ball and quickly stepped forward to face Agger again.
Nani thought that Agger had already received a yellow card and did not dare to make any more big moves, and after he changed direction left and right continuously, he was ready to break through from the internal test, but Agger was very arrogant and put a tackle again.
Nani had just been frightened by Agger's sweeping leg, and when he saw Ag put the tackle again, he coaxed and jumped up early, and the ball was shoveled out of the sideline by Ag.
O'Shea sent a throw-in to Nani again, Nani was afraid of Ag, didn't dare to break through again, passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong in the middle, and quickly inserted himself behind Ag.
Gao Xiaodong saw that Nani was going to play a one-two-one match with him, and he was moved to tears, this guy finally passed the ball, and it looked like he should let the opponent shovel him a few more times.
Gao Xiaodong did not delay the pass when he complained, he didn't stop the ball, directly passed a ball behind Nani, and quickly inserted himself into the Liverpool penalty area.
Agg's speed was slow, and even if Nani made an arc, Ag didn't catch up.
Nani hit the bottom line and saw that there were too many defenders in the opponent's penalty area, while Manchester United only had Rooney and Berbatov two points, he gave up the cross and passed the ball back to the edge of the box to Gao Xiaodong, who was cutting forward at high speed.
Gao Xiaodong was followed by Meleles, and there was Gerrard on one side, Gao Xiaodong couldn't adjust, and he didn't want to adjust, so he shot at the goal.
However, there were too many people in the penalty area, Gao Xiaodong smothered Paulsen's body, and the ball bounced back almost straight.
Gao Xiaodong's reaction was very quick, he bent over, tucked his abdomen, held his chest, turned the ball to Gerrard's reverse stop, and immediately ran over to get the ball.
Gerrard couldn't hold his feet and happened to collide with Meloles, who was running from behind Gao Xiaodong.
There was thunderous applause in the stands, and all the Red Devils fans applauded Gao Xiaodong's witty stoppage.
Gao Xiaodong caught up with the ball and wanted to shoot again, but Carragher had already blocked it, and Gao Xiaodong had no room to shoot.
Gao Xiaodong saw that Carragher was too anxious, he buckled the ball, passed Carragher, and went into the penalty area again.
Carragher couldn't let Gao Xiaodong pass, so he could only reach out and grab Gao Xiaodong.
Gao Xiaodong didn't want to fall, he could face the goalkeeper to shoot in the past, but Carragher's strength was enough, Gao Xiaodong didn't rush hard, and was dragged to the ground by Carragher.
Beep!
Referee Webb's whistle blew, and he decisively pointed to the penalty spot and ran over to take out a yellow card to warn Carragher.
Although United are now two goals ahead, the goal in the double red meeting is very significant, Rooney, who has always wanted to break the goal drought, ran for the ball, Berbatov, who wanted to score a hat-trick, also ran for the ball, and Giggs, who had the first penalty power, also ran for the ball.
Gao Xiaodong made this penalty, and he also wanted to score a hat-trick, Manchester United has not scored a hat-trick in the Double Red Club for 64 years, Gao Xiaodong never wanted to let it, he got up and ran to the ball. 10