Chapter 319: Great Attack and Defense
A smile appeared on Leon's face, who sat back in the coach's seat.
The players have clearly received his 'signal' and are putting his demands on the pitch.
When the team picks up speed and exerts strength, Leon hopes that the team can mobilize the opponent's defense through quick passes.
Manchester United is a relatively well-knit team, especially when Manchester United temporarily focus on defense, it is difficult to form a more direct and effective attacking effect by relying solely on individual skills, but it is possible to seek to tear apart the gaps in Manchester United's defense through rapid passing after speeding up.
Like now!
Juan Mata suddenly passed the ball behind him, and then people saw Evra suddenly press up!
This scene made the commentators from all over the country excited in the broadcast box, and the full-back assist is a 'symbol' of a team's start to attack actively, which is of great significance, for example, before that, whether it was Manchester United's full-backs or Inter Milan's full-backs, they rarely pressed half the pitch, and even if they crossed the central axis, they would soon 'retract'. Never before has Evra pressed so deeply, so resolutely!
"Patrice Evra suddenly stepped forward and got involved in the attack!
Ferguson roared from the sidelines, and the United side was caught off guard by Patrice Evra's sudden forward and someone had to make up for it immediately!
I can't help but be worried that Ferguson is not worried, the full-back assists, this tactic can be said to be very old-fashioned, but it is also very effective!
Especially when the opponent is a team like Inter Milan, because Inter Milan has two central strikers, Adriano and Diego Milito!
While United's two centre-backs, Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand, are impressive, Ferguson also doesn't want to see his penalty area put to the test.
Because, for the attacker, if you try ten times, you only need to succeed once, on the defender's side, if you succeed a hundred times, you will pay a heavy price if you fail once!
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Brown greeted him.
The brave Manchester United right-back went straight to the tackle and tried to shovel the ball at Patrice Evra's feet.
Unfortunately, Evra seemed to have judged Brown's move, and he slammed the ball forward, jumping himself to avoid Brown's flying tackle!
"Stupid! stupid!" Ferguson burst into a rage on the sidelines, "what is he doing!"
Brown's flying tackle was just too reckless.
This kind of flying shovel that throws the entire center of gravity out is completely a hammer deal, either success or failure, and there are two possibilities for failure, shoveling down the opponent, fouling, or emptying!
Brown is the latter failure this time!
The result of his failed tackle this time was catastrophic!
Patrice Evra dodged the tackle and strode forward to catch up with the football.
"Danger! Evra has broken through!"
Now, Ferdinand is in a dilemma, if Brown can entangle Patrice Evra, if not make a tackle, it will be a huge help for United's defence, Ferdinand will have to keep Adriano at bay, while his centre-back partner Nemanja Vidic will have to keep an eye on Diego Milito!
Now it's terrible.
Patrice Evra easily 'got rid of' Brown and now the French left-back has a wide range of options to play a high ball into the box, or cut inside and choose to pass or shoot!
Rio Ferdinand wants Patrice Evra to opt for the first option, which is the best defensibility for Manchester United.
Because neither Ferdinand nor Nemanja Vidic are out of position at this time.
However, it was clear that Patrice Evra had a very high ball intelligence and knew how to threaten the United defence, so he slammed the ball and cut it horizontally!
Ferdinand had only one choice, drop Adriano and pounce on Evra!
Although he knew that meant that Adriano was unguarded, which was extremely dangerous, however, as a defender, he had no choice.
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However, the moment he rushed out, Ferdinand caught a glimpse of Scholes actively returning to the defense, filling his position and moving closer to Adriano, which made Ferdinand breathe a sigh of relief.
Although Paul Scholes is not a pure defensive player, it is better than letting Adriano go unguarded!
Of course, these are all things that happen in the blink of an eye.
"Beautiful!" Ferguson clenched his fists on the sidelines, Scholes's active defensive support was very crucial!
The corners of Leon's mouth also showed a subtle smile, and his eyes glanced at the field, to be exact, the right side of Inter Milan and the left side of Manchester United!
Inside: Almost at the same time as Evrane cut in, Juan Mata suddenly ran diagonally.
Ferdinand was taken aback.
He's going to beware of Patrice Evra sending a through ball to Mata!
Patrice Evra slumped and made a passing pose.
This forced Ferdinand to force his body to twist his body and block the pass with his feet!
However, Ferdinand realised in the next second that he had been fooled, as Evra did not pass the ball and he flicked the ball again and dribbled horizontally along the line of the penalty area!
Ferdinand, who had already changed his focus, did not expect Evra to break through so resolutely, and there was nothing he could do to see his opponent break through from his side.
He didn't dare to foul!
And most importantly, while Mata was running, Modric was also stealthy!
Then, instead of passing the ball to Mata, one saw Patrice dribbling horizontally, and a beautiful cross with Modric who was running: Evra missed the body and the football was left to Modric!
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After the game, people repeatedly observed and commented on Inter Milan's attack and Manchester United's defensive response, which was hailed as a great offensive and defensive confrontation!
Because, Manchester United showed their defensive energy!
United's defence was resilient and, almost instantly, they were able to respond to Inter's beautiful combination, with Nemanja Vidic pounced on Luka Modric and left-back O'Shea coming up to defend Diego Milito.
However, Inter Milan did better!
Almost at the same time, Modric passed the ball decisively!
What he was waiting for was the moment when Manchester United switched positions and made up for the defense!
A boccia ball passed to Diego Milito!
"This pass ......," the commentator exclaimed. Not praise, but surprise.
Because Diego Milito has his back to the goal and O'Shea by his side!
In this case, you can hardly expect Diego Milito to be able to turn and shoot, or even to stop the ball and successfully control it.
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Diego Milito was certainly aware of this, and he immediately made a judgment that it was just difficult for him to turn with the football, and if he stopped the ball, he was likely to be tackled, which also made the attack end there.
Leon stood up suddenly, and he stared at the field.
Leon has repeatedly praised Diego Milito as a big player, a player with a high ball IQ!
This time, the Argentine striker did not disappoint Leon either: he did not stop the ball, let alone force a turn to shoot luck, but immediately passed the ball over!
And it was passed to the left rear of himself!
"Nice passing!" exclaimed Ferrari.
Then, everyone saw David Silva there, who received a pass from Diego Milito.
Then, the Spanish international met the ball with a powerful volley!!
"David Silva!!"
Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar struggled to save but couldn't reach the ball, David Silva opted for a powerful burst that he was not good at, with the only goal of shooting the ball fast!
Before Van der Sar could touch it, the ball skimmed over the inside of the post and slammed into the snow-white net.