Chapter 0640: The Game Is Over
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After Wayne Rooney's goal, United's offensive was not as fierce as before, but gradually slowed down.
Considering that the first half was nearing the end and the team had a three-goal lead, there was really no reason to continue fighting for the remaining ten minutes.
As the team's on-field commander, Carrick began to play more crosses and backpasses in midfield, allowing everyone to take a break from the excitement of the goal, pull away and slow down. So that everyone can take a break and go into halftime with more energy, so as to play the second half with more energy.
In the end, under Carrick's successful deceleration control, Manchester United ended the first half with a score of 3-0 and went into the break.
At the end of the first half, the TV broadcast focused on Michael Carrick, and the host of Manchester United's official television station, Mike Quinn, said very bluntly: "If you had to choose the best player in the first half, I think Carrick would be well deserved. Manchester United were able to end the suspense of the game in the first half, and Carrick took the credit. ”
As he walked off the pitch, Nemanja Vidic, the captain of the game, came up and communicated with Carrick as he walked off the pitch.
The commentators can't hear what the players are saying, but they can decipher something from the image.
Back in the dressing room, Ferguson praised his players for their performance in the first half, with Carrick among them.
However, after praising the team, Ferguson added: "But there are still 45 minutes to go and anything is possible. Even if you are three goals ahead of your opponent, they can equalize. Like if you were three goals down in the first half, I wouldn't let you settle for it. What's more, the opponent is still Arsenal, I know the old guy of Arsena very well, so next up. Therefore, you must still keep your fighting spirit high and not slacken. If you can still score, you're welcome. We must defeat the last shred of hope for our opponents!"
With that, Ferguson glanced at Carrick.
In Scholes' absence, Carrick is the only playmaker at Manchester United, and he is the only one who can organise the attack, and no one else is a professional at this. Therefore, whether Manchester United can continue to score goals depends largely on how strong the fighting spirit of Carrick, the core of the organization, is.
If the playmakers start to relax, then the team's offense will become a separate battle.
The look on Carrick's face is no different from that of any other player, and you can't guess what he's thinking just from his expression.
But Ferguson was sure that Carrick was definitely the one who knew what to do.
After a fifteen-minute break, the second half began.
Manchester United made no substitutions, while Arsenal, who were three goals behind, did not seem to want to give up, and they made a change at half-time when midfielder Aaron Ramsey replaced Alexander Song, who was disastrous in the first half, with both goals conceded somewhat related to him.
And in defending Carrick, he seemed a little overwhelmed, and was confused by Carrick's completely inaccurate running and passing.
Replacing him is evidence that Arsenal are not willing to give up this game.
At the start of the second half, Arsenal fought fiercely, they received two yellow cards in a row in two minutes, and seemed to want to regain the initiative with a ferocious scramble.
Carrick, who was active in the first half, was naturally the focus of Arsenal's players. Arsenal had two yellow cards in two minutes, one of which was on Michael Carrick.
When centre-back Kolo Toure wrestled Carrick on the edge of the box, there was a loud boo from the stands.
"Toure, this coward!" Zeng Cheng saw a Manchester United aunt fan next to him raise his middle finger very roughly, and said scoldingly, "! Barbarian!
"Michael made him a little flustered, he was like a clown in front of nimble Michael!" "A fat uncle next to the big mom was also taunting Chloe Toure.
Kolo Toure's foul on Michael Carrick made Alex Ferguson nervous – Manchester United are in a crucial period in defending their Champions League title and cannot afford to do without Carrick as a midfield commander. So when Carrick was thrown to the ground by Chloe Toure, he jumped up in excitement and shouted, "Hell!
He was worried that the referee had just given Arsenal defender Gibbs a yellow card and would not give another one out so soon.
However, the referee on duty, Larsson, decisively showed a yellow card to Chloe Toure.
Only two minutes into the second half, two of Arsenal's back four were booked......
When Carrick fell to the ground, it also worried his teammates.
Vidic, the captain of the game, was the first to rush up and find Kolo Toure in trouble to fight for Carrick.
Cristiano Ronaldo followed suit, shouting at Chloe Toure: "This is football, it's football!
Another player, Rio Ferdinand, went to see Carrick and asked, "How's it going, Michael?"
Carrick lay on the turf and replied to Ferdinand in a loud voice: "I'm fine, hiss-"
As soon as Carrick gasped, Ferdinand became anxious and asked anxiously, "What's wrong?"
"It's a bit of a bad fall...... OK. Carrick said, relieving, and tried to get up from the ground.
Seeing this, Ferdinand hurriedly reached out to hold him and slowly pulled him up.
Carrick, who was pulled up, was still hunched over his waist with his hands on his hips.
"Are you alright?" Ferdinand asked again.
"It's okay, it's okay...... Ahem!" Carrick coughed twice as he spoke. It was true that he fell not lightly just now, but fortunately, it was only a hard injury, and the fall was a little painful, but it did not hurt the joint.
Seeing Carrick so embarrassed, Ferdinand said: "Michael, you are too different from the opponent's body, there is no need to fight with them, you should dodge, you should let go, anyway, we are three goals ahead now......"
But Carrick shook his head and said, "You can't keep letting it, always hiding, right?" It's okay, Leo, I know that I can master the scale, and I can't carry it stupidly. ”
Seeing that Carrick was finally able to speak smoothly, Ferdinand left with peace of mind.
Then the person who came up to care about Carrick was replaced by Cristiano Ronaldo.
After answering Ronaldo with the same words, captain Nemanja Vidic also arrived.
It wasn't until everyone was sure that Carrick was really okay that they dispersed.
When the game resumed, Arsenal, who had two yellow cards at the back, played more passively.
In the 51st minute, they conceded another goal. It was full-back Patrice Evra who scored the goal this time. It was Cristiano Ronaldo who assisted Evra, who took the ball for nearly 30 meters before passing the ball to Evra, who was inserted after the edge of the set, and Evra fired a powerful shot that rolled into the near corner against the turf.
4:0!
Ten minutes later, in the 62nd minute, United were awarded a corner and captain Nemanja Vidic leapt high in front of goal to smash the ball into the Nuremberg goal with his head.
5:0!
Just three minutes after Vidic's goal, in the 66th minute of the game, Carrick was replaced by Alex Ferguson.
Carrick was replaced along with striker Carlos Tevez. It was Scholes and Dimitar Berbatov who came on the pitch.
After two substitutions in a row, Manchester United slowed down the pace of attack, and Arsenal had been beaten to the ground and had no idea of moving back.
Even many hosts believe that the Champions League semi-final between Manchester United and Arsenal has ended, and there is no need to play the second leg, and Manchester United will advance to the final for the second year in a row. Because no one would have thought that in the form of Manchester United, Arsenal would be able to move back to their home turf.
Never before in the history of the Champions League has anyone been able to come back from four goals down. Not to mention that Arsenal are now five goals behind.
In fact, the biggest comeback in the knockout stages of the Champions League before that came in the 2003-04 and 2004-05 Champions League finals.
In the quarter-finals of the 2003-04 Champions League, defending champions Milan beat Laco 4-1 in the first leg to give them a bright prospect of qualifying. However, in the second leg, Deportivo La Coruna staged a miracle at the Stadio riaço, equalising 3-0 at half-time, and Cafu's own goal in the second half sealed the score at 4-0. From 1-4 to 4-0, the bloodiness of the Laco people and the strange slump of Milan collectively made this rollercoaster story.
The other three-goal comeback also happened to the tragic AC Milan, and it was the Champions League final in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 25, 2005.
In this game, the Reds Liverpool achieved an incredible super comeback from a 0-3 deficit in the first half, and finally defeated AC Milan to win the Champions League. The final has been hailed as one of the most spectacular Champions League finals in history, with Liverpool becoming champions of the 50th European Cup. Liverpool are winning the trophy for the fifth time and will therefore be able to keep the trophy forever and receive a badge of honour representing their five titles, which can be printed on the left sleeve of their Champions League shirt. Gerrard became the second youngest captain in the history of the Champions League to win the trophy and entered the list of "world-class stars".
For this battle, although Zeng Cheng is a fan of Liverpool's sworn rival Manchester United, he also has to admire it.
As for Manchester United, they have also had a lot of precedents of reversal, but it is their label to reverse others. As for a single game, Manchester United have never been beaten by two goals since the inception of the Premier League, a record that will not be broken until five years later under Chef Van and Chef II.
Therefore, almost all Manchester United fans have already started to celebrate.