Chapter 921: Magical Su Ya
The goal didn't go in, but that doesn't mean there are no problems with United's defence, it's just that they're a little bit more lucky.
"You should have approached me as fast as you could. ”
Brown was not satisfied with Smalling's defense and directly criticized him.
Although Brown is also a 32-year-old veteran, he has not played many opportunities due to injury problems, and Smalling did not take Brown's criticism to heart, pretending not to hear it, and went straight forward.
Edwin van der Sar played the ball to Patrice Evra and United pushed the ball forward from the wing.
Suarez was the only one in Liverpool's attack, and they didn't press high up, but when the ball reached United's midfield, Liverpool's five-man midfield was immediately quick and ferocious in his hands on the receiver.
The focus of Liverpool's siege is Ryan Giggs, who adopts a single defense against Nani, and a vicious foul if he can't prevent it.
Every player in a giant team like Liverpool is a world-class player with a strong sense of tactics, and they can make reasonable judgments based on the situation on the pitch without the need for special advice from the manager.
Nani is young, fast, and has good skills, and he may not be able to rob him down, and it is possible that other positions are less than people who are attacked by other players of Manchester United, and Giggs is older, although he has a lot of experience, but he does not have much physical energy, and his speed has also come down, and the success rate of the siege is high, and he can also consume Giggs's physical energy if he can't grab it.
Giggs is an old man, he can guess Liverpool's little tricks with his eyes closed, when Evra passed the ball to his feet, he saw Liverpool's players moving towards him, and he passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong as soon as possible, not giving Liverpool a chance to wrap up.
Gao Xiaodong's position today is the back midfield, but he is also responsible for organizing the attack, Gao Xiaodong's partner Carrick is also a player who has both offense and defense, Ferguson let Carrick play, put Fletcher on the bench, is to let Carrick share the offensive task with Gao Xiaodong, so that Gao Xiaodong can focus more on defense.
As a midfielder, Gao Xiaodong naturally did not dare to pass through the dense midfield with the ball, and if he was tackled by the opponent, he could immediately directly attack Manchester United's backline.
Gao Xiaodong took two steps forward, Gerrard immediately blocked it, Meleles came over to help defend, and Suarez quickly chased from behind Gao Xiaodong.
Gao Xiaodong quickly handed the ball to Nani and tried to attack from the other wing.
Nani was no more marked today than Gao Xiaodongsong, and before he could touch the ball, Lucas came running over and slammed a flying tackle towards the ball.
Lucas didn't have a chance to tackle the ball, but as long as Nani got the ball, he had a chance to tackle Nani.
Now it depends on whether Nani dares to use the tackle as a price in exchange for a yellow card for Lucas.
If this was an ordinary game, Nani might have conceded, but this is a double red meeting, almost six or seven billion people in the world are watching, let it go, it is to lose face in front of the whole world, how can Nani let it, he quickly flicked the ball in the opposite direction, and then jumped up to dodge Lucas's flying tackle.
Nani was quick, and as he jumped, Lucas' flying tackle slid right under his feet.
There were exclamations from the United fans, who were furious at Lucas's ferocious defence, which Nani had dodged and could have been injured if he couldn't dodge.
Nani dodged a flying tackle from Lucas, but couldn't avoid a tackle by Liverpool left-back Aurelio.
Aurelio chose the timing of the tackle well, and at least half the chance to get the ball.
Nani didn't back down and tried to snatch the ball from his opponent's spikes, but he was half a beat too late, and the ball was tackled by Aurelio and flew straight out.
Liverpool's midfield was overcrowded, and the ball fell to Gerrard's feet, who quickly crossed to Meleles.
Meireles received the ball and immediately went straight to the ribs of the penalty area to find Maxi Rodriguez.
Rodriguez cut diagonally from the wing to the right side of the penalty area as fast as he could.
Liverpool's counter-attack after the break was very fast, and it only took three passes to the Manchester United penalty area, and Gao Xiaodong and Carrick had no time to intercept it.
Brown came over as fast as he could.
But the 32-year-old, who has undergone several major repairs, no longer has the pace of his youth, and by the time he arrived, Rodriguez had already taken the lead, and the Argentine knocked the ball sideways, dodged Brown, and fired a diagonal shot into the far corner before Gao Xiaodong could make up for it.
Van der Sar was moving towards the near corner, and Rodriguez caught him off guard with a shot in the far corner, only to look back and the ball flew towards the far corner.
Rodriguez deliberately pursued angle, and his shot escaped Van der Sar's fingers, but it was deflected wide of the goal and flew off the bottom line against the post.
In less than five minutes, United didn't have a single shot on target, while Liverpool had already completed two dangerous shots.
Obviously, this is not Liverpool's strength compared to Manchester United, Dalglish's first game in charge, Manchester United also eliminated Liverpool in the FA Cup, and now there is only one more Suarez.
The reason, of course, is that Liverpool's tactical design is right, the starting line-up is well-arranged, and Manchester United are missing two main centre-backs.
If Nemanja Vidic and Ferdinand had been there, the two shots from Suarez and Rodriguez just now might not have been there.
Ferguson stood up from the dugout and walked to the sidelines with a serious face.
Liverpool's tactic is not uncommon at all, that is, the midfield, fierce pressing, quick counterattack, it is not that no team has used this tactic to deal with Manchester United before, and the reason why it is effective today is mainly because of the lack of Ferdinand and Vidic in the central defenders.
Ferguson has no choice about this, he has asked Gao Xiaodong to go back to play in the back, but he still can't fill the hole of the central defender. With only five minutes to play, Ferguson could only hope that Brown and Chris Smalling could find a tacit understanding as soon as possible.
In the 10th minute of the game, Manchester United finally had a chance to shoot.
Manchester United played two wings in a row, thinning Liverpool's central defense, Gao Xiaodong quickly dribbled forward to the 30-meter area, attracting Liverpool's defense and then dividing the side to Rafael, who was quickly inserted, and Rafael crossed directly from the side.
Skrtel got the ball in front of Giggs under Berbatov's scramble.
Giggs took two steps forward, shook off the hastily pounced Meeleles, and fired a right-footed volley from the edge of the box.
Liverpool defender Glen Johnson was quick to cover the ball and used his body to keep the ball out.
The ball was picked up by Evra, Evra quickly crossed the bottom, Berbatov, Gao Xiaodong and Rooney fired three arrows together, inserted into the Liverpool penalty area to grab points, but the ball was kicked out of the bottom line by Skrtel.
Ryan Giggs takes a corner and the ball is headed out and Carrick volleys hard from outside the box over the crossbar.
After two shots in quick succession, United's two full-backs, Rafael and Patrice Evra, boldly pressed in support of Ryan Giggs and Nani, and the Reds finally found a bit of attacking touch.
In the 15th minute of the game, Giggs crossed, Beba broke through the corner of the penalty area on the left side and suddenly hit the goal, and Liverpool goalkeeper Reina flew to save the ball.
Liverpool's dense defence in the middle was diluted after United's two flanks created a threat, with Gao Xiaodong and Michael Carrick also given space to dribble in the middle.
In the 20th minute of the game, Gao Xiaodong dribbled the ball past two Liverpool defenders and distributed the ball to Rooney, who stopped the ball a little more and lost the opportunity to shoot, so he passed to Berbatov.
Beba, who failed to complete a hat-trick in the last time out of the double, had a strong desire to shoot and did not stop the ball and fired a right-footed volley directly from 22 yards.
The shot was of such high quality that Reyna couldn't touch the ball when he made a flying save, but the ball bounced off the left post.
United gradually dominated the field, receiving successive shots on goal, and Liverpool's defenders increased the pressure and action.
In the 25th minute of the game, Gao Xiaodong pulled the side to support Nani, Aurelio stepped forward to block and was shaken by Gao Xiaodong, Aurelio chased to the bottom line to block Gao Xiaodong's cross, the ball was blocked by Aurelio, but Aurelio had a thigh muscle strain and had to be replaced by Kirgiakos.
Kyriakos came on and partnered Sketter in central defence, with centre-back Carragher playing at right-back and right-back Glenn Johnson moving to the left to play at left-back.
The scene was not dominant, the main left-back Aurelio was injured, and the back line shifted greatly, which cast a shadow on the hearts of the Liverpudlians, who felt that their luck was really bad.
Manchester United saw Aurelio injured and felt that the opportunity had come, and wanted to take advantage of the chaos in Liverpool's backline.
Despite the injury to Aurelio, Liverpool remained solid defensively, and United's successive attacks failed to produce a dangerous shot on target.
In the 34th minute of the game, substitute Kirgiakos made a long pass from the left, Suarez pulled to the side and chested the ball past Manchester United right-back Rafael;
Seeing Suarez kill two people in a row to the penalty area, Brown didn't dare to get his feet, trying to jam the position and prevent Suarez from entering the penalty area.
Suarez bullied Brown for an old man, flicked and dunked, and shook Brown along the baseline into the penalty area.
Seeing Suarez pass three in a row, Manchester United fans and Liverpool fans were shocked and couldn't believe that this was the truth.
Van der Sar had blocked the near corner to prevent Suarez from shooting from a tight angle.
Suarez saw that there was no angle to shoot, and with a false shake, he passed the ball between the legs of the intercepted Van der Sar to the goal.
Gao Xiaodong had already returned to the goal, but the ball was in front of the goal, Gao Xiaodong couldn't kick to the bottom line, he lost his center of gravity and hooked the ball sideways, but the ball hooked right in front of Kuyt, Kuyt pushed with his foot and shot the ball into the empty goal.
1-0. Suarez miraculously made a three-man run to give Kuyt the lead.