Chapter 888 - Another 3:0
With two goals down, the Tottenham players on the pitch were in a hurry.
The offense began to go viral, and Bale took the ball and rushed forward, trying to rely on his speed to break through Rafael's defence.
But Rafael is not fighting alone, Manchester United knows that Bale is fast and capable, Anderson pays attention to the help defense on the side after he comes on the field, plus Rafael intends to retreat and compress Bale's sprint space, Bale's several breakthroughs are either destroyed and broken, or he wades out of the bottom line and sideline.
Modric and Van der Vaart in the middle also have no patience to cooperate anymore, Manchester United's defense is very tight, and it is difficult to get good shooting opportunities with cooperation.
Van der Vaart doesn't even split very little, shooting when he has a chance, and forcing a break when he doesn't.
Redknapp saw that the attack was a bit messy and out of order, and it was a joke to try to break through Manchester United's goal.
In the 62nd minute, Redknapp made his first adjustment on the field, and the fast striker Defoe came on to replace midfielder Palacios to continue to strengthen the attack.
Tottenham were desperate to get back on goal, but United defended well, and after taking a two-goal lead, the players' mentality was more relaxed and the formation was tighter, and Tottenham were never able to get a dangerous shot on goal.
However, Tottenham's fierce attack was not without results, in the 73rd minute of the game, Manchester United counterattacked, Rafael took the ball on the side to break through Bale, but was tackled by Bale.
Bale took the ball and wanted to launch a quick counterattack, but Rafael was helpless and tripped Bale with his outstretched foot.
It was a tactical foul and the referee showed Rafael a yellow card.
Three minutes later, Rafael received a pass from central defender Rio Ferdinand, Bale pounced on the tackle, Rafael gave Bale a flying tackle, landed on Bale's head, and Bale covered his head and shouted in pain.
Tottenham players saw Bale's injury and ran over to besiege Rafael.
Gao Xiaodong, Scholes, Fletcher and other Manchester United players also rushed over to protect Rafael.
Seeing Tottenham defender Eittok coming over to push Rafael, Gao Xiaodong unceremoniously went over and pushed Etok away.
"There's something to talk about!Don't move your hands and feet!" Gao Xiaodong yelled at Aitok.
Aitok was defenseless, and was almost pushed down by Gao Xiaodong, a little annoyed and angry, and rushed over to make a move with Gao Xiaodong.
The Tottenham players didn't want to make a big deal either, so they quickly pulled Aitok, and the Manchester United players here also pulled Gao Xiaodong.
At this time, the referee came over, thinking that Rafael was deliberately stepping on, took out a red card and sent Rafael off directly, and then showed a yellow card to Aitok and Gao Xiaodong, who had just clashed.
Manchester United's players disagreed with Rafael's decision and had to go to the referee to defend themselves.
Scholes and Gao Xiaodong are worried that their teammates will receive yellow cards again and will not stand on the following games, and now Manchester United is mainly defending and counterattacking, and they will win the game after eating the cards, and they stopped their teammates together.
Seeing this scene, Ferguson on the sidelines nodded secretly, feeling that Gao Xiaodong could stand up when his teammates encountered unfairness, and he could calmly control his emotions, although there was a bit of acting, but Ferguson felt that such Gao Xiaodong could indeed be considered as a candidate captain.
But that's all for the future, and now Ferguson has to make a substitution to fill the spot of Rafael, who was sent off.
There are still almost eighteen or nineteen minutes to go, and if you can't defend well, it's not impossible to be equalized by Tottenham.
Ferguson replaced Paul Scholes and brought on O'Shea at right-back, Nani dropped back into midfield, leaving Rooney in the forward line to carry on the counter-attack to the end.
Redknapp, seeing Manchester United sent off, felt it was an opportunity for Tottenham, and he made another substitution, with striker Robbie Keane coming on for Van der Vaart and attacking the United penalty area with a front three.
After Manchester United was sent off Rafael, the three lines were basically left in their own half, leaving very little space for Tottenham, and the speed of Tottenham's two flanks was basically wasted, and they could only attack hard.
Manchester United has a defensive combination of Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic, and there are three tough guys in the midfield, Fletcher, Anderson and Gao Xiaodong, who can run and fight, and it is very difficult for Tottenham to force Manchester United's penalty area.
Sure enough, after Rafael was sent off, Tottenham's substitution of three strikers did not help, not only could not enter the penalty area, but even long-range shots were repeatedly blocked, and the attack was similar to an itch in the boot.
Tottenham's attack was not good, but the danger at the back was increasing, although after each goal, Tottenham pressed high to prevent United from playing a counter-attack.
But as soon as United break through Tottenham's high press and get the ball to the feet of Wayne Rooney, who is the bridgehead, United can almost form a dangerous counter-attack.
In the 83rd minute, Gao Xiaodong passed a through ball to find Rooney, Rooney broke through to the top of the penalty area single-handedly, and shot angrily at goalkeeper Gomez, but the ball was saved by Gomez with both hands.
There are only ten minutes left in the game time including stoppage time, and at this time Tottenham has little hope of equalising, but in the cheering of the fans, Tottenham still did not give up, they attacked bravely, hoping to score a goal and save a little face.
Tottenham's losses to Manchester United are all out of psychological shadows, and Tottenham's fans are not demanding, don't just concede three more like in the last leg at Old Trafford, it's better to score one.
In the 85th minute of the game, under the continuous attack of Tottenham, the Manchester United defenders finally made a mistake, Vidic headed Tottenham's cross in front of Modric.
Luka Modric didn't stop the ball and fired a volley into the back of the net.
The ball was powerful and angled, and Van der Sar couldn't touch the ball when he made a flying save, but the post saved United and the ball bounced off the post.
Such a good opportunity was denied by their own goalpost and Tottenham fans and players were desperate.
Modric held his head with an incredulous expression.
Tottenham's players also beat their chests and couldn't believe their eyes.
The on-site commentator sighed: "It looks like Tottenham's curse against Manchester United is going to continue. The score of 0:2 is not too big, but it is passable, and Tottenham are now ready for the next game. ”
However, just when the Tottenham players were still thinking about the goalpost just now, the game actually did not stop, the ball popped up and bounced in front of Anderson, Anderson was about to stop the ball, Gao Xiaodong shouted: Leak to me.
Anderson immediately stopped taking the ball and leaked the ball to Gao Xiaodong.
Anderson attracted the high pressing Tottenham players, cheapened Gao Xiaodong, Gao Xiaodong easily stopped the ball unmarked, he glanced ahead, and hit a long pass more than 40 meters behind the Manchester United defender, looking for his striker Wayne Rooney.
Rooney and Gao Xiaodong have a tacit understanding as soon as Gao Xiaodong gets the ball, Lu Fatzi immediately runs forward, after the ball is passed, Rooney has thrown off the two central defenders, caught up with the ball, and formed a single knife to the meeting.
Tottenham goalkeeper Gomez struck quickly to save the ball at Rooney's feet, but Rooney pushed the ball into the net from Gomes' feet.
Wayne Rooney's goal sealed the score for Manchester United, who sent Tottenham a 3-0 away game.