Chapter 798: Lock in the win

The ball was cleared by a Valencia defender, and Carrick grabbed the spot, stopped the ball, stepped forward and pumped it hard.

Carrick's shot was powerful but couldn't be held down and the ball flew straight into the stands.

The Valencia fans in the stands booed and laughed, and some gave Carrick a thumbs up and thanked him for relieving Valencia.

Valencia served in goal and Sanchez passed the ball to the full-backs to continue attacking United from both flanks.

United continued to retreat and counter-attack.

With Nemanja Vidic and Ferdinand in the middle, Manchester United's side defense is much easier, against Pablo and Mata, if they can't prevent it, they only guard their inward cut, let them cross, as long as Pablo and Mata do not cut into the penalty area, disrupting Manchester United's defensive system, the cross is not much of a threat to Manchester United.

In the 70th minute of the game, Pablo attracted the defense, and Miguel quickly cut in from the wing to cross the bottom line.

It was a bocce cross that had not yet been intercepted outside the six-yard box and it became dangerous to clear the ball once it entered the six-yard box, but Soldado ran too fast for Vidic to get the ball out of the line first.

Valencia took a tactical corner and the ball crossed to the edge of the box, which Fernandes followed up with a long-range shot that bounced off the crossbar.

The scene was full of exclamations and sighs.

It was the closest Valencia came to scoring at full-time, but unfortunately it was unlucky that the ball hit the post.

The ball popped up, Albelda quickly went to the landing point, he was about to stop the ball on his chest, Gao Xiaodong suddenly rushed over from the side, headed a little, pushed the ball out of Albelda's chest, and brought Albelda to the ground.

After Gao Xiaodong stealed, he quickly dribbled the ball to Valencia's half, and Valencia's left-behind players hurried over to surround Gao Xiaodong, wanting to strangle Manchester United's attack in "infancy".

Gao Xiaodong passed the ball very decisively, and without waiting for the blocking players to come, he picked up the ball and passed it to Berbatov, who was running forward.

Berbatov comfortably headed the ball forward and dribbled towards Valencia's penalty area.

The Valencia players saw Gao Xiaodong pass the ball out, leaving one person to follow Gao Xiaodong, and the two players went over to chase Berbatov.

Berbatov was not fast and was quickly caught up by Valencia's defender Navarro, but Berbatov did not pass the ball to Gao Xiaodong, who was in front of him, he chose to make a quick stop and change direction, get rid of Navarro, and continue to dribble forward.

Berbatov didn't pass the ball at the first time, and when Fernandez caught up, Berbatov saw that Gao Xiaodong completely got rid of the defender, and when he passed the ball again, Navarro had already caught up, fell to the ground, and shoveled the ball to the sideline.

A good counterattack opportunity was destroyed, Gao Xiaodong spread his hands depressedly and shook his head, he felt that since Berbatov didn't have that speed, he should pass the ball to him as soon as possible, run by himself, and wait for the shot.

Berbatov did not apologize to Gao Xiaodong, but shrugged his shoulders and turned around and ran to the sideline.

Ferguson's face on the sidelines also sank, with Berbatov's ball quotient, the ball should be able to be passed out early, instead of being forced to pass the ball out, the reason why Berbatov has such a problem, Ferguson thinks that this is Berbatov's greed, or did not take Gao Xiaodong to heart, for Ferguson, both are unforgivable.

With 75 minutes heading into the game, Alex Ferguson made a change, with right-back O'Shea coming on for Rafael and striker Hernandez coming on for Berbatov.

These two substitution adjustments are very targeted, at this point in the game, Manchester United, who are only one goal ahead, must strengthen their defense, O'Shea is much more stable than Rafael, and O'Shea is taller and can also provide aerial firepower, when it is necessary to defend, O'Shea is much more useful than Rafael.

Hernandez replaced Berbatov, and not just because Hernandez was faster and better suited to counter-attack than Berbatov, but Ferguson thought Berbatov didn't like to play with Gao Xiaodong.

Now Gao Xiaodong is the offensive core of Manchester United, and Berbatov, a single arrow, does not want to cooperate with Gao Xiaodong, so there is no need for him to stay on the field.

Hernandez is a Mexican player, who is new to Manchester United, and is lonely, so he naturally intends to find a thigh hug, but the local gang and the continental gang are very strong, and even if he takes refuge in the past, he is also a little minion who leads the horse and falls.

After Gao Xiaodong came to Manchester United, Hernandez felt that Gao Xiaodong had just arrived, and it was also a continent that was not taken seriously, and Gao Xiaodong was connected with the same fate and got closer, but soon he found out that Gao Xiaodong was not a bare-bones commander like him, Nani and Anderson were both supporters of Gao Xiaodong, and Ferguson also attached great importance to Gao Xiaodong, so Hernandez took the initiative to make friends with Gao Xiaodong and became Gao Xiaodong's friend.

After Hernandez came on the court, he performed very actively, when attacking, he actively stepped forward, cooperated with Gao Xiaodong, and when defending, he retreated deeper than Gao Xiaodong, which can play an important role at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.

Compared with the lazy Berbatov, Hernandez is simply a model worker, the so-called is not better than not knowing a little pea, seeing such a hard little pea, Manchester United fans think that Berbatov should be put on the bench and let Hernandez start.

After Hernandez came on the court, Gao Xiaodong played more comfortably, because at the moment there were Anderson, Nani, and Hernandez by his side.

Gao Xiaodong is physically strong and fast, his teammates run out of the open space, he can pass the ball out, his teammates can't run out of the empty space, he can use his strong body to protect the ball, and it is very difficult for the opponent to grab his ball.

Under Gao Xiaodong's needle lead, Manchester United's forward pass and receive the ball is very smooth, and from time to time it can advance to Valencia's 30-meter area, and even penetrate into the penalty area to shoot, which makes Valencia have to return to the defense with heavy troops, and it is difficult to free up his hands to attack.

Ferguson on the sidelines looked bright, he didn't expect that under the leadership of Gao Xiaodong, Manchester United could play pass control on the Spanish field, although it was only a small range of cooperation in the front court, but this was already very surprising, you must know that the Spanish team always calls the Premier League team Rough Brother, but today's Rough Brother taught Valencia a lesson.

With 80 minutes to go and Valencia still behind, Emery had no choice but to bring on veteran Joaquín and put Mata in the middle to attack, allowing Joaquín and Pablo to attack from both wings.

Joaquín + Vicente used to be a pair of golden wings for Valencia, but Vicente is riddled with injuries, Joaquín is old, and the two have been replaced by Pablo and Mata, but now Valencia has been unable to attack for a long time, and Emery thinks of Joaquín again, hoping to use the veteran's dribbling and breakthrough to open up the situation for Valencia.

After Joaquin came on the field, Valencia's attack was mainly launched from the side, and at this time, the three midfielders in the middle did not play a big role, Ferguson simply replaced Carrick and replaced Park Ji-sung, and the formation became 4231 to strengthen the defense on the side.

Both teams used up three substitutions in the 82nd minute, which surprised the commentator at the scene, "Both sides used up three substitutions with more than ten minutes of stoppage time, this situation is actually rare, this old and young, it seems that they are coaches who dare to take risks, now the score is only 1:0, anything can happen in the last ten minutes, let's see if Manchester United breaks the embarrassing record of not winning away against Valencia, or Valencia continues to maintain a strong home game against Manchester United." ”

Ferguson's adventurous substitutions had a significant effect, and after Joaquin came on the pitch, Manchester United's defensive intensity and number of people on the wing increased, and Joaquin's breakthrough effect on the wing was not good, and it was difficult to form a cross after the breakthrough.

Manchester United's running ability is stronger than Carrick's, Manchester United's frontcourt attack is more fluid, and the counterattack is more powerful.

In the 87th minute of the game, Anderson stole and passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong, Gao Xiaodong passed the ball to Nani on the side, Nani shook one person and passed it to Gao Xiaodong again, Gao Xiaodong went straight to Hernandez, accelerated forward, and broke through Valencia's middle bag.

Hernandez didn't stick to the ball, decisively distributed it to Park Ji-sung on the wing, and quickly inserted himself behind the defender.

Park Ji-sung did it directly to Gao Xiaodong, and Gao Xiaodong didn't stop the ball and directly picked up the back of the defender.

These few passes from the wing to the middle, from the middle to the wing, the defenders were dizzying, and before they could fully react, Hernandez had successfully countered offside, killed behind the defender, he stopped the ball in the air with the instep, went forward, and went into the Valencia penalty area.

Valencia goalkeeper Alexis Sanchez made a quick save to save the ball at Hernandez's feet.

Hernandez shook the ball and wanted to shoot again after passing the goalkeeper Sanchez, but Sanchez stretched out his foot to block the ball, the ball was a little off the way, Hernandez wanted to shoot directly a step late, and when he caught up with the ball, the defender had arrived, Hernandez forced his foot, and the ball was blocked out of the sideline.

Although Manchester United's attack did not score a goal, Manchester United's several passes were very fluid, and they easily penetrated Valencia's defense.

Seeing Manchester United's smooth cooperation, Manchester United fans are about to burst into tears, how many years, Manchester United in their eyes is a bloody crazy rush flow, like this kind of snapping kick pass cooperation is too rare, although the single knife does not score, but the tactics are played, this is success.

Manchester United served the sideline, and Nani threw the ball to Gao Xiaodong, who was watched by two people.

Gao Xiaodong is so depressed, no matter how strong my ability is, the two of them are staring at such a narrow range, what else can I do?

Complaining and complaining, after Gao Xiaodong stopped the ball on his chest, his body leaned on and entangled him for the whole Albelda, and his feet continued to pull the ball to avoid the steal of another opponent.

At this time, Gao Xiaodong's super glasses helped Gao Xiaodong, he saw Fletcher who was receiving from the side and back, and after Gao Xiaodong pulled continuously, he knocked his heel and passed the ball from under Albelda's crotch to Fletcher.

Fletcher didn't expect Gao Xiaodong to see him at all, he was about to run in front of Gao Xiaodong to answer, Gao Xiaodong's pass happened to his feet, Fletcher wanted to stop the ball in a hurry, but he got on the cart and fell to the ground.

Joaquin Daxi, who was about to come over to surround Gao Xiaodong, poked the ball and dribbled along the sideline to Manchester United's half.

Gao Xiaodong thought that the ball had been transmitted, but when he turned around, Fletcher had not yet gotten up, but Joaquin took the ball to his own half.

Gao Xiaodong was speechless, turned around and chased Joaquin closely.

Although Joaquín is 29 years old and his speed has dropped, he is more proficient in dribbling and better combination of man and ball, and after he brought the ball up, Manchester United's interceptors were almost all stakes, and Nani and Patrice Evra were easily shaken by him.

Joaquín is a traditional winger who doesn't like to cut inside, dribbling the ball all the way down and then passing to players who outflank in the middle.

After Joaquin passed the fullback Evra, he didn't expect someone to catch up, he went down to the bottom line, glanced at the penalty area, and was ready to cross, but just when he looked at the middle, the afterglow of his eyes suddenly found that Gao Xiaodong was chasing over, and if he crossed, it was very likely to block Gao Xiaodong.

Joaquin stepped on it, wanting to shake Gao Xiaodong over, and then crossed.

But Gao Xiaodong has a full range of S-level professional player skills, and when he was in hot pursuit, he had already guarded against Joaquin's emergency stop, and when Joaquin stopped the ball, Gao Xiaodong stretched out his foot and swept the ball out of Joaquin's feet when he ran over.

Joaquin was swept away, and when he controlled his center of gravity and then wanted to pass the ball, Gao Xiaodong had already turned around and directly stretched out his foot to grab the ball.

Joaquin dunked the ball and wanted to dunk it over, but Gao Xiaodong had more strength, and lifted it up with a hook, breaking the ball from Joaquin's feet.

After Gao Xiaodong cut off the ball, he immediately passed it to Anderson, and he quickly stepped forward, and Anderson understood and passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong again.

When Gao Xiaodong stealed, no one had run yet, and when Anderson passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong again, the players in the midfield began to run forward desperately, waiting for Gao Xiaodong's long pass.

At the moment, Valencia's players focused on defending the fast-moving striker Hernandez, but after Gao Xiaodong swept the front field, he passed to Nani.

At the moment, the players who stepped forward were Park Ji-sung, Fletcher, Hernandez and Nani, and Gao Xiaodong passed the ball to Nani instead of others, mainly because Nani handled the ball more imaginatively.

Sure enough, Nani saw that if he handled the ball well, the opponent's defender would come up, and time did not allow, so he decisively gave up the stop, swung the ball with a header, and passed it to Hernandez who was cutting forward.

Nani's pass was well-timed as Hernandez made his way through the defenders and once again had a chance to go one-on-one.

The first time Hernandez tried to pass the goalkeeper to score, but was saved, this time Hernandez did not pass the goalkeeper again, and when he hit the line of the penalty area, he directly got up and pushed the bottom right corner of the goal.

Hernandez played very decisively this time, the angle was also hanging, goalkeeper Sanchez used his foot to block the ball at Hernandez's feet last time, this time Sanchez wanted to repeat the old trick, but Hernandez shot too fast, he didn't stretch out his leg, the ball flew into the net close to his feet.

2:0

Hernandez took advantage of a one-on-one chance to seal the win for Manchester United.