Chapter 735: The First Crown is in Hand
After Gao Xiaodong scored twice, Chelsea launched a fierce counterattack, Drogba, Kalou, Malouda, and Lampard took turns to attack the Manchester United penalty area, and also got several opportunities to shoot, but Manchester United central defenders Nemanja Vidic and Ferdinand are experienced, Scholes and Carrick in the midfield defended actively, Gao Xiaodong, Nani, Hernandez also retreated to defend, and Chelsea's attack did not form a lethal chance.
After one minute of stoppage time, referee Marriner blew the whistle for the end of the first half, and the players from both sides went back to the dressing room to rest before the second half was played 15 minutes later.
As soon as Gao Xiaodong sat down, Ferdinand, the deputy of the locker room team, beckoned him and Nani to come to him.
Gao Xiaodong and Nani walked over, Gao Xiaodong sat down beside Ferdinand with a big grin, but Nani stood aside obediently like a translator.
"Why didn't you go back right away when Ashley Cole and Essien kicked you?" Ferdinand asked with a serious face.
Nani translated it to Gao Xiaodong.
Gao Xiaodong said honestly: "Wait for the opportunity." ”
"Wait for the right time?" Ferdinand laughed, "When is the time, if you don't kick back immediately, they will think you are cowardly, and someone will continue to kick you, and if you are bullied, you will immediately go back!
"What should I do if I eat cards?" Gao Xiaodong asked rhetorically.
Ferdinand said disdainfully: "If you eat cards, you will eat cards." ”
"Okay, I see. Gao Xiaodong was speechless, this is not in line with his values.
"Well, you did well today. Let's go back. Ferdinand's indifferent horse face finally showed a gentle smile.
Gao Xiaodong and Nani returned to their seats, and Captain Neville smiled: "You have been trained, right?"
Gao Xiaodong said lightly: "No, the team vice-president, is teaching me to adapt to the Premier League." ”
Neville laughed: "You played well today, but Leo likes to find ballast the most, even Scholes doesn't let go, and he can't play well. ”
At this time, the head coach Ferguson came in, and the lord was in a good mood, and began to praise Gao Xiaodong when he entered the door, and praised Gao Xiaodong after praising Gao Xiaodong, and after arranging the tactics and substitutions in the second half, he then praised Gao Xiaodong.
Ferguson is not usually a person who likes to praise players explicitly, but what he did so obviously today is obviously to show the dressing room Gao Xiaodong's status in his heart and warn Manchester United's players not to bully newcomers.
The break passed quickly and the Chelsea and Manchester United players returned to play.
With Chelsea down by two goals, Carlo Ancelotti was unhappy with the start and replaced Malouda with Anelka to continue to strengthen the attack.
With two goals in hand, Ferguson also began to adjust the line-up, with Fletcher replacing Carrick to maintain the defensive strength in midfield.
Ashley Cole's side of the game was disastrous in the first half, with Chelsea not daring to play on the left in the second half, with the focus on Kalou and Branowich on the right.
Manchester United's left side is Patrice Evra and Nani, from the card, Manchester United is not a loss at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, but in fact, Nani except for the occasional pass to Gao Xiaodong, the rest of the time is on his own, the effect is much worse than Chelsea.
In the 50th minute, Nani cut wide and took the ball to the den, and the ball was cut off by Mikel and handed to Frank Lampard, who played it to Drogba in the middle.
Rio Ferdinand was close to the defense, but Drogba received the ball in front of the box and turned and suddenly fired a low left-footed shot that Ferdinand couldn't block and the ball went wide of the post.
Chelsea then snatched Van der Sar's kick-off, Branislav Ivanovic and Kalou forced their way down the left, and Didier Drogba moved to the left to help, squeezing the Reds' defensive focus to the left.
After successive unsuccessful attacks, Ivanovich shifted the ball to the right side of the penalty area.
This time the transfer was quick and accurate, when Rafael ran to the side, Anelka had already got the ball, seeing that Gao Xiaodong did not come back, Anelka shook Rafael and crossed the ball to the edge of the box, Lampard attracted the United defence, and Essien followed up with a burst of shots.
Cesar reacted quickly and flew to save the ball with both fists.
Kalou was quick to follow up but was distracted by Vidic's hand-kick and sent the ball away.
Chelsea's attacking wave was dangerous, and if it weren't for Nemanja Vidic's penalty to interfere with Kalou, United would have conceded a goal.
Ferguson thought Nani had a clue in the first half, but after the siege of Chelsea in the second half, Nanildinho immediately became a non-passer.
Ferguson couldn't take it anymore and immediately warmed up Giggs, and five minutes later, replaced Nani with Giggs.
Although Giggs, nicknamed Wang Laoji, is old and old, and he is not as good as Nani in breaking through the defense, he is experienced and will definitely not miss the opportunity to counterattack.
Ferguson's substitution had an immediate effect, in the 57th minute, Scholes counterattacked with a long pass from the back to find Hernandes, and the Mexican teenager took the ball and very cleverly stuffed it to Beba, but unfortunately Beba was successful in the offside position but the speed was slightly slow, and the ball almost didn't touch the ball in the penalty area, and the ball was confiscated by Chelsea goalkeeper Hilario.
Five minutes later, Giggs counterattacked on the side and crossed to Berbatov, who passed to Hernandez, who split the side to Gao Xiaodong and quickly cut into the penalty area to grab points.
Ashley Cole saw the Manchester United striker inserted into the penalty area, thinking that Gao Xiaodong was going to cross the bottom, but Gao Xiaodong received the ball and made a forward sprint, but the ball cut horizontally and brought it to the front of the penalty area.
Ferreira and Terry quickly lifted up to contain Gao Xiaodong and create an offside position for Berbatov and Hernandez.
Gao Xiaodong's vision is very broad, he saw Giggs quietly inserted from the side to the ribs of the penalty area, and immediately crossed the penalty area diagonally to find Giggs.
"Beautiful!" Giggs said to himself, and sped towards the penalty area.
Seeing that this anti-offside position was about to succeed, Hernandez thought that Gao Xiaodong was passing to him, and stretched out his foot to stop the ball.
"Phew!"
Referee Marina's whistle blew, offside.
Giggs was angry and scolded Hernandez for being an "idiot".
Hernandez saw Giggs rush in when he stopped the ball, only to realize that he had made a big mistake, and after being scolded by Giggs, he hung his head in frustration and did not speak.
Carlo Ancelotti saw that his team was still unable to score and made another change at the 70th minute, with Benayoun replacing Mikel to step up the attack again.
However, when two teams of similar strength play each other, the side with a two-goal lead not only has an advantage in the score, but also has a greater psychological advantage, which cannot be solved by substitution.
In the 75th minute of the game, Manchester United extended its advantage again, Ferdinand's long pass in a straight line at the back tore through the Blues defense, Gao Xiaodong stepped forward at high speed to shake off Ashley Cole's bottom cross, Berbatov in the middle fell to the ground and shot, the ball hit the goalkeeper Hilario and rebounded to the feet of Hernandez, Hernandez pushed into the net unguarded, rewriting the score to 3-0.
Hernandez had just ruined a chance for the bigwigs and was now making amends for it by scoring his first goal in a competitive game since his move to Manchester United, and he was so excited that he took off his clothes and ran to the sidelines to celebrate, and was shown a yellow card by referee Marriner.
Ferguson then replaced Hernandez, who scored the goal, and replaced Park Ji-sung to find form.
In the final fifteen minutes, Chelsea brought on striker Sturridge to launch the final onslaught at Manchester United, but the Reds were too experienced to give Chelsea a chance, and in the end, United beat Chelsea with a brace from Gao Xiaodong and a goal from Hernandez to win the 17th Community Shield in the club's history.