The game played for more than 30 minutes, and Manchester United and Fulham drew 1-1.

With such a score, Manchester United, who is playing away, is not satisfied, and Fulham, who is playing at home, is also not satisfied. After the game started again, Manchester United and Fulham launched a joint attack.

In the 35th minute of the game, Fulham attacked, and Koncheski quickly broke through from Rafael's side to the side of the penalty area and crossed.

Fulham centre-forward Zamora chested the ball in the box and turned to get rid of Vidic, but fell under Vidic's close defence, the ball was cleared by Ferdinand, and the Zamora and Fulham players came over to ask for a penalty, but the referee ignored it.

The game went on and Manchester United immediately attacked with colour.

United instigated an attack on the right, Patrice Evra and Paul Scholes combined and crossed into a low cross, Evra passed more than Rafael did, Berbatov nodded the ball back, Hernandez shot wide from the back post.

Gao Xiaodong and Nani also had a cooperation, Gao Xiaodong passed the ball to Nani, Nani cut into the penalty area after going down and forced a shot, the ball was blocked by goalkeeper Stokedal, Gao Xiaodong entered the penalty area to shoot, the ball hit the goalkeeper and popped up the bottom line.

Manchester United won a corner, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic, the two centre-backs, ran into the Fulham penalty area to grab the spot, Gao Xiaodong was short and came to the edge of the box to wait for a long-range shot.

Paul Scholes' fast, spinning ball into the box was met by Rio Ferdinand leaping high to beat centre-back Hangranda, who headed Tarzan towards goal.

Goalkeeper Stokedahl was a step slow to make a save, but the ball flew off the line against the post.

Everyone's attention was on the flying ball, and Ferdinand landed right on Hangranda's foot and fell into the box screaming in pain.

"Leo!"

At this time, Vidic saw it, he screamed, and hurried over to stop Hernandez, who wanted to help Ferdinand, and raised his hand to stretch the field.

The stretcher quickly came up and carried Ferdinand out.

The Manchester United team doctor examined Rio Ferdinand's ankle and said to Ferguson with a heavy face: "The ankle is swollen, and there is also a possibility of causing an old injury. ”

"Bastard!"

Ferdinand was furious and desperate, and slammed his fist on the stretcher.

Ferguson slapped his head hard and let out a long sigh.

"Leo, rest well, we'll win the game. ”

Ferguson pats Ferdinand on the shoulder.

Ferdinand sighed, silently took off the captain's armband and handed it to Ferguson, for a 32-year-old veteran, an injury is not a good thing, not to mention that now is the critical period for him and Vidic to compete for the captain, without stable playing time, it is difficult for the head to hand over the captain's armband to him.

Now, Manchester United's regular captain Neville is mainly a substitute and does not get many playing opportunities, so the captain is rotated by three vice-captains Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic and Ryan Giggs, and occasionally Patrice Evra and Paul Scholes wear the captain's armband.

After Ferguson replaced Rio Ferdinand with substitute centre-back Evans and handed the captain's armband to Nemanja Vidic, the game resumed.

Rio Ferdinand and Evans are one of the best centre-backs in the world, and Rio Ferdinand's injury has had a big impact on Manchester United's morale, at least Gao Xiaodong is no longer in the same position as Paul Scholes, and he has dropped back almost 10 metres to assist the centre-backs.

Fulham, on the other hand, was a little demoralised after the scoreline was equalised, but seeing Ferdinand injured, their morale was lifted again.

Mark Hughes also felt that there was a bargain to be made, and he immediately directed his players to press forward and slam into the middle to see if he could open a gap from Evans' body.

However, Gao's retreat made up for the hidden dangers caused by the lack of cooperation between Evans and Vidic, and many of Fulham's attacking threats were defused by Gao Xiaodong almost before they could get close to the central defender.

In this regard, the commentator Martin praised: "Manchester United's luck at Craven Cottage has been bad, Rio Ferdinand's injury has dealt a big blow to Manchester United's defense, but this time Gao Xiaodong's retreat has a good effect, although Manchester United's attacking power has decreased as a result, but at least Manchester United fans don't have to worry about the cooperation of the central defenders." ”

The opponent is in a brave state, Manchester United injured the central defender, Gao Xiaodong's lot of energy is involved in defense, Manchester United's ability to move in front of the door has greatly decreased, and the front can only rely on the dashing brother who walks to play football, the newcomer Xiao Pea, the two kings of the left and right Na do not pass and tile do not shoot, these four people to attack, it is very difficult to break the confident and high-spirited Fulham goal.

In the final minute of the first half, Fulham put together a brilliant attack, Duff crossed, Dempsey cushioned the ball into the box, and Etuhu quickly cut into the box to receive the ball.

Van der Sar is too experienced, and with such a tall body, he fell down as quickly as he could to save the ball.

Etuhu quickly followed up with the follow-up shot, and Gao Xiaodong kicked the ball out of the line before Etuhu.

Fulham took a corner and United made a concerted effort to break the ball off the touchline, before the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half without giving Fulham another chance to attack.

The Fulham fans were very happy with their players in the first half and they all gave them a standing ovation when they came off the pitch.

Craven Cottage was a small stadium with only 25,000 seats, and the United fans didn't come much, only three or four thousand, and they also stood to cheer for the United players, but under the overwhelming noise of the Fulham fans, they could only make more noise than nothing.

Back in the dressing room, the United players were afraid that Ferguson's blower would sound again, and they sat there with their heads bowed one by one.

In fact, Rooney has gastritis, Ferdinand is injured, and the opponent is a home dragon, and Manchester United is not bad to get a draw in the first half.

But Ferguson couldn't accept that he couldn't win a victory at Craven Stadium for four consecutive years, and the big disciple Mark Hughes of the year had a look of "old man, you should retire", which made Ferguson very unhappy, and when he returned to the dressing room, Ferguson finally got angry.

"Do you think we played well in the first half? Do you think we weren't lucky enough? Do you think Wayne Rooney is sick, Rio Ferdinand is injured and we're not the best team? Do you think a 1-1 score is acceptable?"

The players were silent.

Ferguson continued to wave his arms and yell in the dressing room.

"No! I can't accept it! I can't accept it! We're Manchester United! We're Premier League champions! We can't afford to win a game in a stadium with just over 20,000 people in four years! It's a shame! If you don't feel it's a shame! But I'm an old man!"

When Ferguson passed in front of Gao Xiaodong, Gao Xiaodong could even feel the old man's spit on the top of his head.

Gao Xiaodong then understood why Ferguson was called a blower, and he was now worried that Ferguson would fly up and kick his shoe in his face.

Then Ferguson began to scold Nani and Valencia again, and scolded Nani and Valencia for almost having their heads tucked in their crotches.

After Ferguson finished scolding, he began to arrange tactics, replacing Little Pea Hernandez and replacing Fletcher, pushing Gao Xiaodong to the front line and strengthening the attack.

When Ferguson had finished his tactics and the break was up, Ferguson said to the players: "Go out and fight! If you want to take back the title from Chelsea, you have to kill Fulham first!"

"Got it!"

After the Manchester United players were scolded by Ferguson, they walked onto the pitch one by one as if they had been beaten with blood.