It was Tottenham who kicked off first.

Robbie. Keane fed the ball back to Luka Modric, who had just gotten the ball back to his backline when Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney rushed past him.

Rooney has been longing for the captain of Manchester United for a long time, and now Neville is retiring, Ferguson said that whoever performs well in the dressing room and the game will be the captain, which greatly stimulated Rooney.

Berbatov was no different than usual, running unhurriedly, for the dashing brother, the captaincy of the position was almost impossible to fall on his head, his lazy personality also made him not so interested in the captaincy position, he now just wants to play with his own temperament.

Manchester United is really confident in playing Tottenham, Rooney, Berbatov went up, Nani and Fletcher also pressed up, the attacking core Gao Xiaodong saw that his teammates were pressing forward, he couldn't stay behind, and he also pressed up, leaving only the veteran Giggs in the midfield.

Giggs understood why these people were so positive, he shook his head, and honestly moved a few meters to the middle, trying to make up for the vacuum left by Gao Xiaodong and Fletcher.

In the face of Manchester United's strong pressing, Tottenham did not open a long pass, because they were not playing the tall man Crouch today, but Robbie Keane, who was fast and flexible.

Redknapp can't play Crouch because Manchester United's two central defenders Vidic and Rio Ferdinand are too good, Crouch is tall, but like a telephone pole, he can't grab air supremacy in front of Vidic and Ferdinand, rather than this, it is better to play the fast and explosive Robbie Keane.

Playing high with fast play, this is also Redknapp's tactic in this game.

The ball was passed a few times through Tottenham's backfield before reaching the feet of Luka Modric, the heart of midfield.

Manchester United certainly wouldn't be unaware of Modric's role at Tottenham, with Fletcher already eyeing Modric, and the moment the defender passed the ball, he quickly pounced on it and tackled.

Modric has the reputation of Mozart in the stadium, his judgment of the speed of the ball is far beyond the average person, Fletcher pounced on this side, the ball has not yet arrived, but Modric accurately judged that the ball will reach his feet first, he stood still, when the ball arrived, he suddenly pulled the ball and turned around, and got rid of Fletcher between the moments.

However, Gao Xiaodong didn't believe that he could grab the ball when Fletcher stole it, and when Fletcher pounced, Gao Xiaodong also quickly approached Modric, and when Modric pulled the ball and turned around, Gao Xiaodong also pounced at a very fast speed.

Modric is known as Mozart on the pitch, and he has already seen the surrounding situation when he passes, and he has also thought about his next move, and before Gao Xiaodong pounces, he pushes the ball with his foot and passes the ball to the side to find Bale.

Modric's catch-and-get rid and pass is very fluid, and it can be said that he is flawless.

However, today's opponent of Modric is Gao Xiaodong.

Gao Xiaodong took into account that Modric would pass the ball when he pounced, and he would definitely pass to the extremely fast Bale.

Gao Xiaodong made such a judgment because from the perspective of Tottenham Hotspur's starting Robbie Keane, he must play fast, since he wants to play fast, and at this time, Manchester United's formation is so pressed, it is impossible for Modric not to pass to the fast Bale, and Gao Xiaodong himself will definitely pass like this.

Since it was judged that Modric would pass to Bale, Gao Xiaodong was ready to steal when he grabbed it, so as soon as Modric's shoulders and waist moved, Gao Xiaodong immediately slowed down, turned, and flew to shovel the ball to Nani who returned to the defense.

Nani was overjoyed, received the ball and turned around, and quickly went to the baseline.

Gao Xiaodong didn't run to the middle to grab points, he knew how fast Tottenham's Bale was, he didn't believe that Nani could single-handedly pick up the full-back before Bale caught up with him, so he quickly moved closer to the side and raised his hand to ask Nani for the ball.

If it was before Neville announced his retirement, Nani would definitely not pass, break through the wings, and single out full-backs, which is what he likes and does best.

But after Neville announced his retirement, Gao Xiaodong has become one of the candidates for Manchester United captaincy, and his agent Mendes has also publicly supported Gao Xiaodong, Nani certainly will not be unable to get along with Gao Xiaodong at this time.

Nani gave the ball to Gao Xiaodong with a little regret, and continued to run towards the baseline to suppress the opponent's full-backs.

However, as soon as Nani passed the ball, he heard the wind whistling around him, and Bale had already passed him like a cloud, diagonally to chase Gao Xiaodong.

Nani instantly got goosebumps all over his body, and if he hesitated a little, it was estimated that Bale would be able to rush over from behind and steal.

After Gao Xiaodong received the ball, he turned to face the goal and raised his finger to the penalty area to let Rooney and Berbatov run.

Rooney saw Gao Xiaodong take the ball and started to run, Berbatov didn't pay attention to Gao Xiaodong's gestures, he still ran according to his habits.

Just when everyone thought that Gao Xiaodong was going to pass the ball, Gao Xiaodong took a step forward and suddenly shot from a distance.

Half of Tottenham goalkeeper Gomez's attention was on Rooney and Berbatov, but Gao Xiaodong shot directly from 30 meters away, and hit the bottom left corner of the goal.

Gomez scurried sideways and fell to the ground, his fingers barely touching the ball, which deflected slightly and bounced off the post with a thud.

Gao Xiaodong's cold shot scared the Tottenham players into a cold sweat, and more than 1,000 Tottenham who came to help also screamed.

In fact, Manchester United's players and fans were also taken aback, they didn't expect Gao Xiaodong to raise his hand to direct his teammates to run, but he shot directly with his feet without warning.

"Hold the grass!"

"What a pity!"

"It looks like the goalkeeper pounced!"

"It's so cunning!

"It's going to drain your brain cells to compete with this obscene guy!"

"Hua Guogao should be the captain! He is the captain, Manchester United will never suffer!"

……

Although there was no goal, Gao Xiaodong's cold shot in the opening minute or so still made Manchester United's fans wet, and everyone applauded and praised them, and they all felt that it was not bad for the hot-blooded Manchester United to have an obscene and cunning captain like Gao Xiaodong.

Ferguson was also shocked by Gao Xiaodong's cold shot, and when he saw the ball hit the post, the old man patted his head vigorously, and it was a pity that this shot could not be scored.

For Gao Xiaodong, Ferguson loves him very much, but Gao Xiaodong's status in his mind is still not as good as Ronaldo's back then, because Ronaldo's personality is more like Ferguson, but Gao Xiaodong is a completely different style, Ferguson has coached Manchester United for more than 20 years, and no one is similar to Gao Xiaodong.

At first, Ferguson felt that Gao Xiaodong was not stable enough, too obscene, and did not fit the image of the captain of Manchester United in his mind, so he did not have the idea of letting Gao Xiaodong be the captain, but through more than two months of observation, Ferguson found that this obscene, cunning and money-greedy Chinese not only has excellent football skills, but also has a strong affinity and leadership, but in two months, he has gathered young players such as Nani, Anderson, Hernandez, Park Ji-sung, Rafael, etc., and has the ability to compete with the local gang and the mainland gang.

Although Nani and Anderson are close to Gao Xiaodong because of Mendes, Gao Xiaodong has won the love of the 92 class boss and the friendship of Rooney in a short period of time, which is not something that just anyone can do.

Thinking about Dongfang Zhuo back then, Ferguson was very optimistic about his talent, but after following Manchester United for so long, Dongfang Zhuo didn't make any friends, all of them were Chinese, but compared with Dongfang Zhuo and Gao Xiaodong, it was like a cloud.

Such an extraordinary, extremely strong leadership, and super popular player, even if it is a little obscene, Ferguson feels that he should also consider the possibility of Gao Xiaodong becoming the captain of Manchester United.