Manchester United thought that after scoring the first goal, Stoke City would definitely attack and play well.

However, Stoke City's manager Pelis was very obscene, and he resolutely refused to attack one goal behind, still staying around the penalty area and waiting for Manchester United's counterattack.

The players of Stoke City are also very self-aware, they know how big the gap is with Manchester United, if they attack and are counterattacked by Manchester United, it is estimated that they may be slaughtered like Liverpool, and such a defensive counterattack, maybe there is a chance to steal a goal.

In addition, Stoke City has no offensive means and staffing, they have been promoted to the Premier League for two seasons, and relegation relies on intensive defense and long passing, and they will only play defensive counterattacks.

However, Stoke City fell behind and shrunk in their own half, which was unexpected by the Manchester United players, who also contracted the formation and waited for Stoke City to attack, but they did not expect Stoke City to carry out the defensive counterattack to the end.

United waited seven or eight minutes before finally realising that if they didn't score a second goal, Stoke probably wouldn't have made it.

The 1-0 score is not safe, Stoke City's long pass is still a certain threat, in case they are blinded in the final stage, Manchester United will not know where to cry.

Manchester United is the world's top giants, can not compete with a relegation team, after seeing Stoke City's intentions, although the first half of the time only left a little more than five minutes, but Ferguson waved his hand, the players decisively attacked.

With a goal in hand, Manchester United is more confident, and when attacking, two full-backs Gary. Neville and Patrice Evra both assisted, especially Gary. Neville, Gao Xiaodong's goal just now was a corner kick he created, and the old captain was even more excited, assisting the front court from time to time.

Gary. Neville was so excited by his 600 appearances that he forgot his age, he could attack it, but he couldn't take it back.

After Stoke City fell behind, although the tiger still did not come out of the hole, the troops invested in the counterattack were more than the original, and it was Neville's side.

In the 40th minute of the game, Manchester United's cross from the side was headed out by Stoke City, and Wilson's header was passed to Etherington, who quickly played Gary along the wing. Behind Neville.

Fletcher assisted on the wing, and Etherington and striker Watson played a combination to surprisingly break through Fletcher from the inside.

But this time Gary. Neville had chased after him, but Neville didn't have the energy to run after Etherington anymore, and he reached out from behind and stomped on Etherington's ankle.

Etherington fell to the ground, but it was a great counter-attack and the ball was quickly grabbed by Pennant and led forward.

Referee Marinel originally had the intention of stopping the game, but hesitated and let the game continue.

Pennant, a former Liverpool player and bitter rival of Manchester United, remained hostile to the Reds after his move to Stoke City and was particularly excited, dribbling quickly to find space between Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic before sparking a long-range shot.

Don't look at Pennant thin, but his shot is not small, and the ball flies close to the bottom right corner of the goal, which is very difficult for a tall player like Van der Sar to defend.

Van der Sar, who was experienced and prepared for Pennant's shot, went down quickly and single-handedly blocked Pennant's shot off the line.

After the ball went out of bounds, referee Marinell pointed to the corner area and signalled for Stoke City to take a corner, but did not make up for Neville.

The Stoke players were not happy to see Etherington still lying on the ground, and several players came to the referee and asked for a yellow card for Neville.

Neville had already received a yellow card and would have been ejected if he had eaten another one.

Referee Marinel still gave the veteran face, he refused to give Neville a yellow card, and told Stoke City to hurry to take a corner.

The Stoke City players had no choice but to indignantly go over to take a corner.

Ferguson on the sidelines really saw it, and his brow was furrowed tightly, to Gary. Neville was unhappy with his performance today, feeling that Neville was too impulsive and not like a 35-year-old veteran, and Ferguson warmed up Brown and was ready to replace Neville.

Stoke's corner didn't get past Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic, and the ball was cleared away by Ferdinand.

Manchester United then continued to besiege Stoke City, but Stoke City's iron bucket formation was really good, and Manchester United were unable to score another goal in the first half with all their attacking efforts.

The first half ended quickly and the United players returned to the dressing room with a 1-0 scoreline.

Ferguson didn't say much about the player's first half of the game, in the face of dense defense, no one has a good way, it is already very good to score a goal, Ferguson briefly summarized, called Neville to the coach's lounge, hoping that he would not assist so far forward in the second half, mainly to defend steadily, pass the ball to Scholes and Gao Xiaodong, and tell him that he may be replaced in 65 minutes.

Gary. Neville was older and knew he couldn't play the whole game, so he happily accepted Ferguson's advice.

After the break, the game started again, with Stoke City waiting for United to attack with all their players in their own half as always, and as soon as they got the ball, they immediately attacked Gary. Neville's side.

Gary. Neville was also the world's top defender when he was young, and he was never looked down upon by opponents like this, especially on his 600th anniversary.

After being attacked by Stoke City a few times, Neville used his experience to steal Wilson, he did not give the ball to Gao Xiaodong, and directly dribbled the ball along the side to kill.

Chasing back Etherington was quick, and he caught up quickly from behind and stretched out his foot to poke the ball at the feet of his team-mate Collins.

Collins then hoisted the ball to Etherington and quickly counter-attacked.

Etherington received the ball and turned around and tried to go down the wing, but Neville knew he couldn't catch up with Etherington and dragged Etherington down from behind.

The stands burst into boos, and the Stoke City fans chanted "Yellow card, yellow card!"

But referee Marinell let Neville go again and only gave Stoke a free-kick.

Ferguson originally planned to replace Neville in the 70th minute to give him enough face, but seeing that Neville played too badly today, and if he stayed on the field, he was afraid that he would be sent off with a red card, Ferguson made a decisive substitution decision to let Brown come on and replace Neville.

Neville was about to defend in the box and was surprised to see the substitution because he had only played seven minutes into the second half.

Ferguson was sitting in the dugout, and standing on the sidelines was assistant coach Ferran, and Neville came to the sidelines and said to Ferran: "Is it really me?"

Phelan smiled and said, "That's what Jazz means. ”

Neville snorted unhappily, took off the captain's armband without a smile, handed it to Brown, turned back to the bench, put on a cotton jacket, changed into cotton sweatpants, and walked towards the players' tunnel with a cold face.

Ferguson didn't expect Neville to react so much, he was furious, stood up and yelled at Neville, "Gary, you come back to me!"

Ferguson has been building up power for decades, and Neville is just hot-blooded, and he was yelled at by Ferguson, and he subconsciously stood there.

Ferguson shouted: "Is the TV in the dressing room good, the team needs you to sit here!"

Neville silently turned around and walked back to the bench to sit down, but his face was frosty, and Giggs spoke to him without answering.

Ferguson didn't say anything more, just pretended not to see it, Neville was old enough to hang up his boots at any time, it would be good to be obedient and come back, and Ferguson couldn't ask too much of him.