Atletico launched a counterattack, their attack is still unhurried, in the midfield through the pass to try to pass through Manchester United's midfield, while Manchester United relied on running in the midfield to open up pressing, perhaps because of the previous relatively smooth organization, Veron's form seems to have become very good, he also began to run actively in the midfield, and intercepted Atletico's attack with his teammates.

There is no doubt about the running ability of Manchester United's midfield, one of the characteristics of the Premier League team is that they are very capable of running, Manchester United is even more able to run, in this kind of running, Atletico Madrid's attack also seems very difficult - for this, Dick has taken it into account, but he is not worried, with Atletico Madrid's midfield control and tacit understanding, the opponent's pressing will not have much impact on their attack, Dick specially sent a midfield lineup in this game that has played together for a whole season last season, It's all about keeping the error rate to a minimum.

Watching Atletico Madrid's players pass back and forth in the midfield, Ferguson is also a little hot - his Manchester United lacks this, Manchester United's overall strength can ensure that in the confrontation of the Premier League, they can always catch the opponent's mistakes more, and their own mistakes will always be less than the opponent's, which is their advantage, but in the European arena, it is not who can catch the mistakes, but who can make fewer mistakes, in this regard, Manchester United's style of play is too rough and not fine enough, watching the scene vigorously do not fall behindIf Manchester United can show the same level as Atletico Madrid are now, then Ferguson no longer has to worry about the team losing in Europe!

After going back and forth, Atletico finally created a chance, Belleron passed back to the follow-up Baraja, who split the side to Camoranesi, who cut across the ball and shot with his feet, which was blocked by Barthez.

Seeing that the attack was ended, the Atletico players began to run back like a tide to prevent Manchester United's quick counterattack, Erwin just passed the ball to Giggs in front, Giggs took the ball and turned around and was harassed by Camoranesi who returned to the defense, and when he stabilized the ball, the Atletico players were basically in place......

Ferguson frowned, and then he nodded, because when Giggs saw that there was no chance to counterattack, he had already passed the ball to Veron, who came to ask for the ball - when the counterattack could not be played, it was the wisest choice to control the midfield and prepare to quickly switch to positional warfare - he introduced Veron, thinking that this is the effect, if you can play fast attack, you can play fast attack, and if you can't play fast attack, you can turn into positional battle, and Manchester United in the past is a little ineffective in this link, and you can barely play fast attack failure, Then it was immediately suppressed by the other party, resulting in passivity on the scene.

Veron received a pass from Ryan Giggs, Baraja immediately pressed up, Veron kept controlling the ball in midfield before passing the ball over, Atletico began to defend in their own half, and Manchester United began to look for opportunities in front of the pitch with a decent back-and-forth pass......

Dick waved his hand from the sidelines to signal his players to go deeper, to make room for United, and to lure them to press higher.

Seeing Dick directing the players to be more recycling, Ferguson frowned on the sidelines, it was obvious that Dick wanted to play a counterattack, and at the same time didn't want to give Manchester United too many opportunities, although Vanney had excellent ability to grab points, but there was a stam who was very familiar with him, even if Beckham could pass him a beautiful cross, it would be difficult to grab the first landing point - now Beckham and Vanney's cooperation is not as tacit as in the next period of time, after all, they have only been playing together for about a month, and they are far from being extremely tacit in cooperation, As long as Beckham gets the ball, he can basically give Ruud van Nistelrooy an assist......

This is also the reason why Dick is worried about facing Manchester United away from home, in the next game, I am afraid that Beckham and Ruud van Nistelrooy will be able to form a very tacit cooperation, at that time, even if you defend it, it will be difficult to defend Manchester United's attack!

Ferguson can see that in the face of Atletico Madrid, Manchester United may not have any chance to score even if he has the initiative on the field, but he acquiesced to the current situation on the field, in the face of Atletico Madrid's midfield, even if he can fall a few more feet on the field and pass a little longer, he can better achieve the team's tacit understanding - Ferguson is also a long-term manager, this approach may not be able to make Manchester United win, but it is possible for Manchester United to have a qualitative leap in the future!

So he acquiesced to the situation and wanted to see what kind of changes the team could play in this tactic - in fact, in the next game, United dominated the midfield quite well, Veron seemed to return to his form at Lazio, with his constant mobilization to launch one attack after another for Manchester United, and he himself was very active, in addition to scheduling the rhythm of the whole team, he also constantly stepped forward to try to use long-range shots to make a difference for the team......

The only regret is that Atletico Madrid has done a very good job in defense, especially a few midfielders, not only cutting off most of the straight plugs into the penalty area, but also constantly intercepting the shots of several Manchester United's heavy gunners, most of Manchester United's attack is concentrated in the middle, which makes Beckham and Ryan Giggs attack less often, and it is also one of the reasons why Atletico Madrid seems more comfortable in defense.

Atletico's defence at the edge of the penalty area is quite strong, as the two centre-backs and the midfielders are both excellent front-facing defenders, and despite their dominance on the pitch, United can actually get very few chances.

Ferguson frowned and watched the game, he felt that Manchester United's midfield is running well, but there is always something missing - the real control flow, the purpose is not to control the ball, but to find opportunities to score in the possession, this is the ultimate goal of all tactics, otherwise even if you can fall under your feet for 90 minutes and get 100% possession, you can only get a draw, and you will be ridiculed by everyone, and the Barcelona of the future will often have more than 80% possession, However, what really makes them a Cosmos team is that they can always score a lot of goals and win a lot of accolades when they have a high percentage of possession, and what can they get if they just possess the ball?

So possession is just a means, better scoring and reducing their own risk of conceding the ball is the ultimate goal, now Manchester United's offensive possession is up, but the threat of attack has become less, changing the previous style of play, such a big midfield advantage, I am afraid that the goal has already been scored.

However, Ferguson had another question in mind - would he be able to achieve such a big midfield advantage with a different style of play? I'm afraid not, because Manchester United's previous midfield attack was excellent, but the control ability can only be regarded as average, and they can do it very well in fast attack or something, but it seems unlikely to suppress Atletico Madrid like this.

Thinking of this, Ferguson couldn't help but sigh, is it relative to control the midfield and create a lot of attacking opportunities? So what are you tossing about......

However, Ferguson is an old and strong existence after all, but this moment of distraction, he immediately hardened his heart - my path will not go wrong, now it is only because the team is not adapted to this tactic enough, so I have not been able to perform better, and now there is progress, and it will definitely get better and better!

Just when Ferguson was thinking like this, Atletico Madrid's counterattack was quietly launched!

After a Manchester United attack failed, Molina quickly threw the ball to Belleron at the edge of the penalty area, and after receiving the ball, Belleron pretended to pass it to Baraja, but quickly dunked the ball back, and then got rid of Veron, who came up to press!

Belleron's sudden force caused the vigilance of Manchester United's midfield, Keane did not press up at the first time, but quickly returned to the defense, and just when he returned to the defense, Belleron had already launched this counterattack with a long pass.

The long ball landed accurately near the center circle, where Jardel, who had been swimming for a long time, jumped high against the ball, and then pressed Johansen behind him, flicked his head to the right!

Camoranesi outplayed Manchester United's veteran Irwin in a physical duel, and then got Jadel's header first, and he didn't dribble the ball much, but curled a ball with his right foot and flew straight to the left wing!

There, Vicente was cutting forward at high speed, and despite Gary Neville's constant pushbacks, he was still thrown some distance away!

Closer to the 30-metre area, Vicente caught up with the ball, he didn't stop the ball, he didn't dribble it, but went straight forward and then accelerated forward - he didn't even have time to adjust the angle, because Neville was chasing very closely behind him, and if he delayed a little, he could be caught up by the opponent in the middle of the game.

And when he stepped forward, Jadel was also quickly forward, he ignored the interference of Johansen and Blanco, just ran towards the penalty area, as long as he ran to the edge of the penalty area, Vicente passed the ball over, he was able to score the ball!

Vicente really passed the ball, but when Jadel was about to fly to hit the ball in, a figure grabbed in front of him and narrowly blocked the ball directly out of the bottom line!

The stands resounded with the cheers of Manchester United fans and the sighs of Atletico Madrid fans, Keane made an accurate judgment at the crucial moment and defused a must-score for Atletico!

Dick shook his head slightly, such a good counterattack opportunity was ruined by Keane......

Ferguson was also taken aback, Atletico Madrid's counterattack was obviously planned for a long time, if it wasn't for Keane's timely judgment, maybe Manchester United would have lost the victory because of this goal!

After Dick kept waving his arms, Stam also ran up from the backfield, only Thuram was still behind, Thuram's scoring ability was not strong, but Stam was a very good header of the central defender, his forward scoring was also quite good, his forward insertion, also attracted the attention of Manchester United's defenders - if Stam scored a goal, then Manchester United would be a bit of a loss of face......

Even Ruud van Nistelrooy stepped back to help the defenders defend the corner.

Belleron stood near the corner kick spot, observing the movement in the penalty area, and only after the referee blew the whistle that he could take the penalty could be taken, he raised his foot and passed the ball into the penalty area!

The players on both sides in the front and middle of the penalty area jumped up one after another, but the ball flew directly over their heads and flew to the back point - there, Héctor, who didn't know when he ran up to assist, received a pass from Belleron on the edge of the penalty area and shot directly at the goal without stopping!

The shot drew an arc in the air, and in Barthez's stunned eyes, it fell diagonally into the back of the goal!