After Brown came on to replace Neville, Stoke City took a corner, the ball was pushed out by Ferdinand again, Pennant grabbed the landing point and shot again, the ball was blocked by Gao Xiaodong first.

The ball fell to Nani, who counter-attacked along the flank.

Stoke City defender Collins was shown a yellow card by referee Marinell for a tactical foul and a vicious frontal tackle on Nani.

Stoke City players and fans were unhappy with the decision, believing that the referee was biased in favour of Manchester United and that the penalty for Neville had just been lenient.

Gao Xiaodong ignored the opponent's protests, quickly sent a free kick, and passed it to Hernandez.

Hernandez dribbled the ball to the penalty area, Stoke City defender Shawcross followed, Hernandez shook off Shawcross and burst into the penalty area, Shawcross misjudged and tripped Hernandez with his outstretched foot.

The referee, Marinell, blew the whistle, but instead of a penalty, he awarded a free-kick on the line of the box.

The United players were unconvinced, believing Hernandez had gone into the box.

Hernandez, who was lying in the box asking for a penalty, was furious and went to the referee to ask for an explanation.

Scholes, worried that the referee was bullying the newcomer, pulled Hernandez aside and negotiated with the referee himself, but Marinel insisted on his decision, and Scholes was helpless.

The free kick on the penalty line is not easy to kick out of the arc, and it is difficult to cooperate, it is a volley, Scholes handed the free kick to Gao Xiaodong to take the penalty.

Stoke City discharged a thick human wall, Gao Xiaodong's powerful volley still hit the human wall's leg and bounced, Scholes grabbed the landing point and shot again, the ball went over the crossbar.

The game continued, it was still Manchester United attacking, Stoke City defending, this situation lasted until 75 minutes, Stoke City had not been able to use the opportunity to equalize the score on the counterattack, seeing that Manchester United was ready to close the troops, Stoke City could not continue to wait, manager Pulis replaced Pennant with Goodjohnsen, and Wilson with Tonchai, and began to strengthen the attack.

By the 75th minute of the game, Ferguson was no longer expecting to expand the score, he was about to replace Carrick to strengthen the defense, but he didn't expect Stoke City to attack, Ferguson gave up the decision to make a substitution, ready to score another goal in Stoke City and then make a substitution.

Stoke City did a decent job of counter-attacking, but the attack was simple and rough, either with long passes from the middle or from the wings, and then the forwards and midfielders rushed into the box.

If this tactic is used when counterattacking, the number of defenders is small, and they have not yet fallen into a good position, and the threat will be much greater, and now Manchester United's defenders are in position, and the midfielders Scholes, Gao Xiaodong, Fletcher, and Nani are all in front of the defenders, and Stoke City's counterattack is almost like attacking the city with a bow and arrow, and the threat to Manchester United's goal is very small.

Manchester United can now finally 'instruct' Stoke City on how to play on the counter-attack.

In the 78th minute of the game, Stoke City's long pass was given to Gao Xiaodong by Vidic, Gao Xiaodong stopped the ball on his chest and picked it up to Scholes, Scholes did not wait for the opponent to close the circle, and quickly passed to Nani, Nani took a few steps, and passed to Gao Xiaodong, who quickly broke through the opponent's high position.

Three passes and two downs, at this moment, there is only Stoke City's guard line left in front of Gao Xiaodong.

Gao Xiaodong stopped passing the ball, took advantage of the running position of his teammates, and quickly approached the central defender of Stoke City with the ball.

Look at Gao Xiaodong's 30-meter area, Stoke City's central defenders did not dare to retreat, and Faye decisively grabbed and forced Gao Xiaodong to pass.

Gao Xiaodong is waiting for the central defender to grab this, now Manchester United's two forwards, Berbatov is watched by another central defender, the little-known Hernandez is empty, Gao Xiaodong's arch gently pushed to the ribs of the penalty area, and passed the ball to Hernandez.

It's finally passed!

Hernandez was moved to the point of tears, but he was waiting with his eyes open.

Hernandez was excited and moved, and on the spur of the moment, he shot into the penalty area and pushed the far corner with the arch of his foot.

But Stoke City goalkeeper Sorensen is not an idle man, he is a Danish international, since 1998 Sorensen has been playing in England, has been playing for more than ten years, the weak team is out of the door, for many years for the middle and lower teams goalkeeper, Thomas Sorensen is very good at saving the ball alone, he fell to the ground quickly, hit the ball with one hand, the ball deflected off the post and flew out of the bottom line.

Little Pea was disappointed that his good chance to seal the win was wasted, but Hernandez was more worried that his teammates would not be willing to pass him such a ball next time than if he missed the winning one-on-one ball.

"It's okay, there's still a chance. ”

Gao Xiaodong generously came over to comfort Hernandez, as if he was the big brother, in fact, he was 2 years younger than Hernandez.

"Swear to God, I'll score next time!"

Hernandez heard Gao Xiaodong say this, and he was overjoyed, and swore to score next time.

In the 85th minute of the game, Fletcher cut off the pass of Stoke City and passed to Scholes, Scholes and Gao Xiaodong, Nani continued to make short passes, and finally Nani crossed, Gao Xiaodong received the ball, and Hernandez and Berbatov formed an opportunity to face two central defenders and a back.

Gao Xiaodong received the ball and shot from a distance.

Everyone on the earth knew that Gao Xiaodong's long-range shot was powerful, and no one dared to let him go, so Depra hurried over to "block the eye".

Gao Xiaodong had long expected that the opponent would not let him shoot, so he buckled the ball, shook it past Depra, and continued to move forward with the ball.

Gao Xiaodong scored too many goals and threatened too much, seeing that Gao Xiaodong was about to approach the top of the penalty area, Stoke City's two central defenders took the risk of giving up Berbatov and Hernandez and pounced on Gao Xiaodong together.

Gao Xiaodong was very calm in the face of the two central defenders, and he pushed the ball from Faye's feet to Hernandez.

Berbatov and Hernandez were empty, but Gao Xiaodong did not pass to the main striker Berbatov.

Hernandez was pleasantly surprised, he thought that Gao Xiaodong would pass it to Berbatov, after all, he just missed a single goal, but he didn't expect Gao Xiaodong to pass it to him again, and now it seems that this boss is not in vain.

Hernandez was very savvy, and after he stepped into the box, he faced the attacking goalkeeper Sorensen, and did not shoot directly, but made a move to shoot into the near corner, and with a flick of his ankle, he fired the ball into the far corner.

Sorensen was deceived, and when Hernandez feintmed, he stretched out his foot to block the near corner, and by the time Hernandez really shot, he was unable to make a full save and could only watch the ball go into the net.

2:0

After the goal, Hernandez excitedly pounced on Xiaodong. Stretched out his arms and hugged Gao Xiaodong, and kept saying, "Thank you, thank you." ”

Berbatov next to him watched Gao Xiaodong and Hernandez celebrate, he was very unhappy, he felt that he was the main center, and his shooting skills were better than Hernandez, Gao Xiaodong didn't pass it on to himself, which was obviously prejudiced against him.

The rest of the United players didn't think as much as Berbatov and everyone ran to Hernandez to celebrate the game-winning goal with him.

After Hernandez scored, Stoke City had no way out, and could only invest more troops to attack, but this also gave Manchester United more opportunities to counterattack, in the 90th minute of the game, Gao Xiaodong split the ball in the middle, Nani crossed from the bottom, Hernandez scored with a header, and the score was locked at 3:0.

After three minutes of stoppage time, Stoke City had no intention of playing and United did not score again, and in the end, Manchester United beat Stoke City 3-0 away to win nine in a row, equalling Jose Mourinho's best start to the Premier League set by Chelsea.