Before the game, Manchester Municipal Stadium, in the dressing room of the away team.

Ferguson was lecturing as he paced back and forth as he paced back and forth as the United players who had changed their shirts and were ready to play, shouting loudly to make them nervous: "...... Think about our defeat in the league last season, imagine Manchester City celebrating the league title with all their might! It's a century of shame for Manchester United! If you don't want to continue to suffer this season, then this game gives me all my energy. Defeat the opponent in front of you!"

Half an hour ago. He has already secured the Manchester City squad. It turned out that he was very cautious and justified. Mancini sent the strongest squad he can send so far to play this game, it can be seen that Mancini's words before the game are smokescreens, Manchester City is very strong in this game.

"Win Manchester City, let's close the gap with Manchester City, the rest is to make no mistakes and wait for Manchester City to make mistakes in the long season!"

In the away team dressing room.

Unlike Ferguson's impassioned expression, Mancini's expression was serious.

"Guys, I don't need to say enough about the importance of this game, winning the game, we continue to lead and being able to make the chasers feel powerless!"

'It's a Manchester derby, do you think we have a reason to lose? ”

"No!!"

"Nobody wants to!"

"The devil is willing!"

Under the leadership of captain Yang Fan, a group of people roared

"Good! Let Alex Ferguson and Manchester United taste what you can do. Mancini high-fived and shouted.

Therefore, Yang Fan was very active at the beginning of the game, frequently raising his hand to ask for the ball. And Manchester City are also very cooperative, often putting football at his feet. Yang Fan said before the game that he would go all out in this game to help the team win the derby.

Manchester United are also very face-saving defensively, mainly based on harassment. The combination of Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov is a regular attacking combination for Manchester United this season, and Owen is too old to play as a substitute, and United are already considering putting Owen on the transfer market at the end of the season.

However, the occasional harassment of the two strikers did not pose much of a threat to Zabaleta and Joe Hart due to the lack of strong support from the back, and the occasional few shots were within the control of the goalkeeper and defenders.

All eyes were on Manchester City's front, Manchester United's back. That's where the main battlefield comes in.

Yang Fan waved his hand and apologized to Milner for not receiving the pass. Just now, Milner broke through Manchester United's full-back and had a very beautiful cross, but it was a pity that Yang Fan did not receive the football under the close watch of Vidic, and watched the ball be carried away by O'Shea.

Vidic's defense against Yang Fan this time was quite successful.

Ferguson arranged the most intimate protection for Yang Fan, Vidic is Chinese New Year's Eve years old this year, is the golden age of a defender, outstanding explosiveness, strong body, and excellent headers, is the best candidate to defend Yang Fan. So Ferguson gave him this important task.

Yang Fan's several shots after the opening were all because of Vidic's ubiquitous "close care", so none of them were shot within the goal frame, either high or off.

Like Yang Fan, Silva in the middle is also a dangerous figure that Manchester United is focusing on. Carrick defended him like a kraft candy, making it impossible for him to fully support Yang Fan. Ferguson has thoroughly studied Manchester City's common tactics and the technical characteristics of individual players, and believes that although Manchester City is a traditional 442 formation, it is not a team that blindly emphasizes the style of play on the wing, on the contrary, they dare to seek cooperation and breakthrough from the middle, which is different from many teams now. There aren't many teams in football these days who dare to stick to the middle of the game.

But Manchester City dared. This is because of the presence of Silva and the individual ability of a superstar like Yang Fan, Manchester City have the ability to tear through the opposition defence from the middle.

Silva and Yang Fan's cooperation is extremely tacit, so they can always succeed in the middle, Silva's dribbling and sharing the ball combined with Yang Fan's explosive power and terrifying judgment of the landing point make this pair a golden combination in the entire Premier League and even the whole of Europe.

Ferguson's bout is about putting the pair in a shackle that restricts their movements.

Vidic was used to keep a close eye on Yang Fan, allowing Carrick to tightly limit Silva's movements and foul if necessary. The purpose of the second half was to compress the space of the attacking duo in front of Manchester City and limit their movements. The competition on the football field is, to put it bluntly, nothing more than a game for space and time, depending on which side has more space and time in their hands.

Silva dribbled the ball in the middle to face Carrick, who had already suffered once, so this time he did not choose to continue in the middle, but turned around and led to the left side of the pitch, and Carrick naturally followed him. Silva glanced at the scene - Silva saw Carrick following him closely, and knew that he was being tagged again.

His eyes were on Dzeko, who had come over to pick him up, which led everyone to think he was going to pass the ball to the obvious target, especially to convince Carrick to be true. Then, when he saw Carrick's center of gravity shift, he suddenly slammed the ball with his heel to Yaya Toure, who was inserted in the back row.

Carrick didn't dare to leave Silva to pounce on Yaya Toure, so he had to watch Yaya Toure rush into the 30-meter area unhindered.

Fortunately, Park Ji-sung followed up in time to not let Yaya Toure make a comfortable long-range shot.

Yaya Toure, who was targeted, had no choice but to give the football to Milner. Milner lifted the ball straight into the box.

Commentators were lamenting Milner's reckless cross. The first few crosses clearly exposed a problem, and Yang Fan didn't have much advantage in the battle with the strong Vidic.

Vidic also thinks so, he feels that this time he must still have the upper hand in this battle, and Yang Fan will not have any chance.

Only their goalkeeper David De Gea felt that something was wrong, because Yang Fan did not entangle with Vidic in the box, but instead left Vidic's pressing range.

Yang Fan won the ball and rushed away!

Vidic realizes that something is wrong and wants to chase it, but it is too late.

De Gea screamed badly and hurriedly rushed forward to block Yang Fan's shot, and he immediately made a judgment - this must be a direct shot!

Yang Fan **** stopped the ball, stretched out his body, and then volleyed directly!

De Gea made the move almost at the same time as Yang Fan shot...... Oh, no, if you have a very detailed slow motion, you can see that he actually made a save before Yang Fan shot the goal. De Gea pounced on his body laterally, then spread his hands out to try to extend his defence...... It was a perfect save and the goalkeeper did it well enough.

By the time Yang Fan found De Gea pounced, he had already completed his shooting and hurriedly flashed to the side.

The ball hit De Gea's trailing leg, rubbed it quickly, then jumped up and turned to the outside of the goal, and then O'Shea, who was driven back, kicked it out.

"Oh——!!! Yang Fan! De Gea! A wonderful one-on-one! In the end, De Gea won! He saved Yang Fan's shot from close range!! This is also Yang Fan's first shot inside the woodwork since the opening! It was only a matter of moments! Let's take a look at the replay again......" the commentator shouted passionately. This kind of shot and this kind of save is always the most exciting.

"!" Yang Fan jumped up in annoyance, when he shot, he thought the ball was there, but he didn't expect it to be saved by De Gea, he glanced at the Spanish goalkeeper.

De Gea also waved his fist excitedly, facing the best star in football today, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and roar to be able to save Yang Fan's shot.

The Manchester City fans at the Etihad Stadium were cheering for the shot, but the final result made the United fans cheer.

Yang Fan's shot on goal showed the Premier League's top scorer and the outstanding performance of Manchester United's young Spanish goalkeeper. After that, close-ups frequented the two.

Roberto Mancini looked nervous on the sidelines and asked his players to press up and keep the formation tight so they could keep the pressure on United. He didn't dare to relax, because he knew that Manchester United was terrible, and if he couldn't kill the opponent early, he would be killed by the opponent in turn.

But there is a degree to everything.

Manchester City are pressing too high and the players only want to attack and not care about defense, after all, there will still be a lot of opportunities for Manchester United, it depends on whether they can take advantage of it.

Manchester United deliberately recycled some of them, as if they were completely overwhelmed by Manchester City. The enemy advanced and I retreated, and Manchester City naturally pressed even higher. There were a couple of near-misses in front of the Manchester United goal, all of which stimulated the City players to make their attacks even more frantic and crazy to the point of not caring about the space behind them.

Yang Fan's long-range shot from outside the box was securely met by De Gea. De Gea then immediately threw the ball in his hand and attacked.

His powerful hand throw was so powerful that it almost hit the center circle.

Carrick received a pass from David De Gea and didn't wait for the ball to stop, but he kicked the ball out again with a long pass. This time the target was Dimitar Berbatov in the frontcourt.

United's two strikers only have one man back to defend while City are attacking, while the other is always careful to stay parallel to City's last defender and can cut forward against offside at any time.

Berbatov is one such piece that United have left in front.

Carrick's long pass was found by Berbatov, who saw the moment before activating it after Carrick's pass. Almost at the same time, the last defender who was dragging on the Manchester City backline, Kolo Toure, hurriedly ran forward and raised his hand to signal that Berbatov was offside.

But the linesman ignored his complaint and ran forward with Berbatov!

Anti-offside success!

Kolo Toure was dumbfounded, and quickly turned around to chase Berbatov. But there was one man who was faster than him......

Zabaleta flew back to defend the distance between him and Berbatov, which was getting shorter and shorter. Running with the ball is not as fast as running without the ball, not to mention that Zabaleta is already faster than Berbatov, who is not a speedy goalscorer.

"Dimita! there's someone behind!!" Carrick shouted to remind Berbatov that Zabaleta's momentum in the chase was amazing, and that kind of head-down rush made Carrick feel bad, and he hoped that Berbatov would pass the ball as soon as possible.

'It's a chance for Manchester United, but Zabaleta hasn't given up and he's trying to get back!' He's not the kind of fast striker who doesn't get the ball out soon......

Berbatov, of course, would not be unaware that someone was chasing behind him.

Berbatov looked up to see Jeruni in the middle, he had followed up and he knew it was time to pass.

Zabaleta could already reach out and grab Berbatov.

Berbatov could clearly hear heavy breathing coming from behind him, and he even felt the breath from the other's nose and mouth hit the back of his head and neck.

Can't wait any longer!

Zabaleta sank, grabbed Berbatov's shoulder with her right hand, and shoveled the ball with her left foot.

Berbatov flicked his hand just over Zabaleta's chest and moved his body slightly to the side. Kick cross!

As soon as the football flew out, Zabaleta's black foot shoveled into the position where the football had just been. It was so dangerous! It almost allowed Zabaleta to sabotage the attack.

The football was passed and everyone's attention shifted from the wing to the middle of the box.

Colo Toure jumped up as he ran back, a little anxious because he had failed to play offside just now. He wanted to make amends, but he didn't hit the ball after he jumped, and he had a problem judging where the ball landed.

Kompany's side also lost and there was nothing he could do about it.

In the end, Manchester City's two central defenders had to watch Rooney rush to the football spot, without stopping the ball, and directly volleyed.

Joe Hart flew to the far corner, but his hand was not long enough, Rooney's ball was too tricky, and he couldn't do anything about it.

The soccer ball flew into the goal by grazing the post, then rolled up the net and fell to the ground with a thud.

“1！！！！”

“！”

Rooney raised his fist and shouted at the City fans.

Manchester City dominated and attacked wildly, but it was the visiting team Manchester United who broke the deadlock first......

"It was a beautiful counter-attack!" it took less than half a minute from David De Gea's interception of Yang Fan's shot to Rooney's goal......

Wayne Rooney, he opened the scoring for Manchester United. ”

'Manchester United's tactics were successful, they knew City at home were going to attack, so they were defending on the counter-attack and they were sharp on the counter-attack. ”

"De Gea, he saved Yang Fan's shot and then instigated this counterattack!" the commentator shouted.

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