After the start of the game, both sides played very cautiously.

Playing at home, Manchester United struggled to keep the ball in central midfield, with far more safe cross-and-back passes than straight and diagonal passes forward.

Manchester City, who played away from home, were even more desperate, with only striker Carlos Tevez alone in the first half, and he was ready for the first half.

Manchester United's ball was less than half the pitch, and the Manchester City players followed the crowd, and as soon as United passed the ball, the Manchester City players immediately pounced on the ball and grabbed it.

Manchester City have almost 10 players in their own half, and Manchester United have not invested many troops in the front, so Manchester City almost grabbed a spot.

However, Manchester United also stationed troops in the backfield, Manchester City grabbed the ball, and did not invest a lot of troops to threaten Manchester United's goal, and if too many troops were invested, Manchester United's counterattack was as fast as lightning, and Manchester City could not afford it, so Manchester City could not threaten Manchester United's goal if he grabbed the ball.

Both Manchester United and Manchester City played conservatively, fighting in midfield, and did not enter the opponent's box for the first five minutes.

However, the fans of both sides were not in a hurry, they watched the game patiently, and from time to time applauded the wonderful cooperation and excellence of their teams, and they knew that the Manchester derby would never be played like this for 90 minutes.

Neither Manchester United nor Manchester City will accept a 0-0 draw, and now it is up to them to see who loses their breath first, or who catches the opponent first to reveal the first flaw.

In the 8th minute of the game, Manchester City controlled the ball, Yaya Toure got rid of Rooney's Rooney's entanglement, suddenly broke through with the ball, and strode to Manchester United's half.

The change in tempo was abrupt, and Anderson, who was inexperienced, opted for a pounce and was shaken off by Yaya Toure.

After Anderson lost his position, Manchester United still had Fletcher, and a back line was there, but in fact, the danger was not too big.

However, Yaya Toure did not continue to dribble the ball, he passed the ball to Tevez and ran forward himself, but Smalling rushed over to prevent Yaya Toure from receiving the ball.

Although Tevez prefers to go it alone, but in the face of Manchester United's entire defense today, he chose to hit the wall with Toure, and before Smalling arrived, Toure touched the ball first, and then made a wall for Tevez.

City's two one-twos were too fast, Fletcher and Smalling were left behind in an instant, and Vidic could only come over to block Tevez who was about to hit the penalty line.

Tevez was very excited today and handled the ball very crisply, and once the ball was at his feet, he didn't pause at all and passed diagonally to Silva on the right side of the six-yard box.

Full-back O'Shea hadn't made up for it yet, and Silva had a one-on-one shot.

Goalkeeper Van der Sar stood at the back of the pitch with a good view of the entire pitch, and he was experienced, and he had already spotted Silva's threat in advance, and the first time Tevez passed the ball, Van der Sar made a quick attack to block Silva's breakthrough and shooting.

The full-backs were rushing to help the defence, the goalkeeper rushed to block and Silva picked the ball out of the middle of the game in an attempt to get past goalkeeper Edwin van der Sardi's header into the back corner.

It was too close for Van der Sar to react and the ball flew over his head.

Due to Van der Sadi's size, Silva lobed his shot high and the ball bounced off the crossbar.

Manchester City hit the wall a few times in the first few times, and the Manchester City fans who came to help in the stands did not cheer, they held their breath and waited for the final fatal blow, but they did not expect the ball to hit the crossbar.

"Alas, what a pity!"

Manchester City's fans pounded their chests and couldn't wait to rush onto the pitch to make up for the shot.

The attack was sudden, City didn't invest much, and just three players created a one-on-one chance, which really scared the United fans.

Andy Grey, the on-the-spot commentator, said: "Manchester City are really not to be underestimated now, they are no longer a noisy neighbour, now they are third in the Premier League and could be a strong opponent for Manchester United to win the title next season. ”

This is Old Trafford, the mecca of Manchester United fans, who have played 27 derbies since the start of the Premier League, including 13 at home, and United have only lost once.

Immediately after the Blues completed this beautiful attack, the Red Devils fans let out a loud cry to encourage their players to give their sworn enemies back the color.

In fact, there was no need for the encouragement of the fans, and the Manchester United players grabbed the bounced ball and launched an onslaught.

Gao Xiaodong's position today is in front of the two back Anderson and Fletcher, just now Manchester City invested few troops, he did not return to defense, I didn't expect his two backs and a complete back line to be almost blown up by the opponent's three people.

Gao Xiaodong was very annoyed, he scolded Anderson for being a fool, took Smalling's pass and brought it to the frontcourt.

Gao Xiaodong scolded Anderson, but he and Anderson often fought, Anderson didn't care, but Fletcher was angry, and said in his heart, as soon as he became the vice captain, he was empty-eyed, the opponent's attack was so sudden, and he hit the wall two in a row, who could react.

The Manchester City players had already guessed that United would take a retaliatory attack, and their formation was quickly recycled, and when Gao Xiaodong dribbled through the half-pitch, the three of them came in a zigzag to surround Gao Xiaodong.

Gao Xiaodong stopped and turned around, as if he was going to pass the ball back to Anderson, but when Milner was sideways to grab, he flicked his ankle, pierced Milner's crotch, passed the ball to Giggs, and reflexively stepped forward.

When Giggs saw Gao Xiaodong turn around, he understood that he had passed the ball sideways to Milner's back.

This is a common routine of Manchester United, mainly because other teammates make a wall for Gao Xiaodong and break the opponent's bag tactics.

Gao Xiaodong quickly stepped forward after passing the ball through the crotch, but he was the most threatening point of Manchester United, even if he was unprepared in advance, when Gao Xiaodong stepped forward, Barry was still following Gao Xiaodong.

However, Gao Xiaodong didn't stop the ball, he had already adjusted his pace when he was running, and when the ball arrived, when he was almost more than 30 meters away from the goal, Gao Xiaodong shot angrily and shot the ball towards the goal.

Manchester City goalkeeper Hart saw Gao Xiaodong go to get the ball, and he had a bottom in his heart, and he waited for Gao Xiaodong to shoot.

The ball whistled, and Hart let out a loud shout, jumped to his feet, and punched the ball in.

"Good!"

"Beautiful!"

"That's a man's ball!"

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Seeing Gao Xiaodong complete a beautiful long-range shot and forced goalkeeper Hart to make a save, the Manchester United fans in the stands were very happy and relieved, and they all applauded Gao Xiaodong.

Manchester United were awarded a corner, Ryan Giggs came to take the penalty, and Gao Xiaodong stood on the edge of the penalty area waiting to grab a long-range shot.

Manchester City's players did not dare to slack off, and deliberately let Tevez go over to mark Gao Xiaodong.

Ryan Giggs sent a forward point to link up with Wayne Rooney, but City were close enough to get Richardson ahead of Rooney and head over the line for United to take a corner.

This time it was still Giggs who took the penalty, the Manchester City defender was very strong in the air, Giggs gave up the pass to the penalty area for the second time, and he hit a long pass to the edge of the penalty area to find Gao Xiaodong.

This pass was a bit sudden, but Mancini's defense was really well-arranged, Tevez didn't go to the position, he followed Gao Xiaodong closely, and when Gao Xiaodong stopped the ball, he broke or fouled.

However, Gao Xiaodong looked at the situation, but he gave up stopping the ball, rushed over with an acceleration, jumped high, and hit a header from outside the penalty area to the upper right corner of the goal.

This is an extremely unexpected way to handle the ball, even Tevez didn't expect Gao Xiaodong to head directly at the goal, he ran closely with Gao Xiaodong, but was a spectator when Gao Xiaodong shot the goal.

The header from outside the box was not powerful enough and not fast enough, but Gao Xiaodong was extremely tricky at the angle, and goalkeeper Hart almost turned into a gibbon before barely poking the ball out of the crossbar with his fingertips.

After the ball was saved, the Manchester City players were startled and rushed over to touch goalkeeper Hart.

Manchester United fans also sighed, it was a pity that Gao Xiaodong's wonderful header could not break through the opponent's goal.