Chapter 56: Deathmatch (I)

When Manchester United came out of the dressing room, the morale of the whole team was completely different, indescribable, if I had to say what it looked like, it was like a tiger coming out of the cage after a few days of starvation.

Ferguson didn't make any adjustments, choosing to continue to give his young men a chance. Instead, Heidenward, who had a big lead, made a substitution, with defensive midfielder Jonathan replacing Ricardo in midfield to strengthen the team's defense in the middle.

AC Milan's peak midfielder Pirlo and Gattuso were a well-known combination, one organising the other to regain possession, and the two complemented each other perfectly. Pierce plus Jonathan has a bit of that in it, and Portsmouth need Jonathan to change the status quo of defensive weakness and add a touch of hardness to the midfield.

There has been an old saying on the football field for more than a decade, that the midfielder wins the world. No matter what tactics a team plays, the ball will always return to the middle, because the goal is in the middle. To judge the strength of a team, it is largely only necessary to look at the midfielders of a team. The midfielder here is neither a midfielder nor a midfielder, as many of the characters are set up to compensate for the shortcomings of adjacent positions.

In a normal formation, as long as the opponent's midfield is jammed, they have to lose half. Why? The ball can't come back to the front, and it will be cut off when it comes back, and the full-backs don't dare to assist, and the assists will be beaten behind, largely due to the loss of control in the midfield.

There are two elements in any regional strength comparison, one is quality and the other is quantity. For example, 442 plays 442, both are two midfielders, who is stronger? Whoever has a high quality player has an advantage. 442 beats 451, two against three, who is stronger? The side with the largest number of midfielders has the advantage. So if the 442 side but there are strong midfielders pressing the formation, and they meet the 451 led by the opponent's weak chicken, who is stronger? The answer is mutual explosion.

Manchester United's Gibson Gaoshea midfield combination, not Hydward looks down on them, the current level, at best, is at the same level as Jonathan in his hands. Of course, they're just getting started, and Jonathan is already at the peak of his playing career. The attacking midfield they dominated against Jonathan, who had Pierce to assist the defence, started the second half with a draw.

Ward kept clutching the armrest of the chair because of the pain, and he was a little gnashing of teeth when he spoke to Assistant Coach Walker: "The old man has been tricked." ”

Walker looked at the young man next to him with an incredulous face, "Do you still have a move?" ”

Starting from the signing of Alex Ferguson, to the overly complacent Manchester United team, and the secret weapon Pierce. Ward's wit and control on the field made him feel impressed.

'If United make a change at half-time, whether it's Michael Carrick or the South Korean Park Ji-sung, our midfielder will be under pressure that we can't imagine. But the old man's pride did not allow him to do so, and he trusted his group of young men more than anyone else. ”

Manchester United's bench was star-studded, Paul Scholes was injured and was not in the squad, but Michael Carrick was just as impressive. South Korea's pride is the undead of Park Ji-sung, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Ryan Giggs, Wayne Rooney, and substitute goalkeeper Lindegaard. Compared to Portsmouth, there are too many shabby, and the substitutes of seven people are at least brought in to make up the number, and the play is to give away the head.

Compared to the first half, Pierce was still active in the second half. Despite Ferguson's targeted arrangements, Heidward also arranged for Jonathan to protect him.

He kicked more and more unscrupulously, like a fish in water.

The scene was repeated two minutes later, when Patrice Evra, a left-wing-back desperate for an equaliser, glanced at Gibson and strode forward. As he used to do, as soon as he got to the edge of the box, Carrick or Paul Scholes could pass the ball through, and no one could stop him from breaking down the flank, or crossing or going down or cutting inside, and he had to show Portsmouth the power of the whole European wing.

Pierce was on the spot, tangling with Gibson in the centre circle, and experience has taught him not to let his opponent get any space to play at this time. As long as the ball is passed to Manchester United, the counter-attack will be deadly.

Huang Zhong has two out of seventy, Fang beheaded Xiahou Yuan in Dingjun Mountain, and most of his life was unknown. Pierce is so similar, his body is old, but his will to fight is stronger than when he was younger. Gibson is pushing forward with the ball, and he's in the position next to him, not trying to break your ball, but just asking you not to pass it easily.

"Damn it, let go of my !!" Gibson shook his strong body and wanted to throw Pierce hanging on him, gritting his teeth and looking at the referee not far away. This guy is like this, this is a movement that only exists on the basketball court, don't you care?

The black-clothed judge was indifferent, the whistle was not in his mouth, and he could even be described as expressionless, the refereeing scale of the Premier League has always been very lenient and even some encourage physical confrontation, didn't you fall to the ground.

Jonathan kept a close distance from Pierce, strictly followed the coaching staff's arrangement, and arrived at the scene of the accident in just two seconds.

With the instinct of being in the back, he stretched out a kick first and broke the ball that Gibson had been very difficult to control.

This is unstoppable, he is a back back who does dirty work, after winning the ball, he looks at the front court, a red and a blue, and the whole person's eyes are panicked for only a moment. He doesn't have the ability to take the head of a general from a chaotic army like Ricardo and Pierce, and I heard the boss say that his vision is still imagination and the like, so it's a 5 in the single digits. Just blurred in front of him, he knew that the head coach didn't cheat himself, and what found that the vacancy did not exist for him.

He turned to Pierce, who was still entangled with Gibson, and even if the ball was lost, the two were still fighting for their lives.

Veteran Pearce had his back to the United goal, but his outstretched finger pointed to their left, which was Portsmouth's right.

Jonathan knew the moment he got the command, the area was empty, and he used his suckling strength to kick the ball high and floating with his big footwork.

Unfortunately, as long as the full-back dares to plug in, the opponent can play behind you.

Evra yelled badly, turned halfway through and went back to chase back, and Pompey's right winger, Etuhu, appeared in the area that had just been empty half a second later.

"Oh! Jonathan, pretty! Evra's back was pierced in one fell swoop! The clumsy Jonathan actually made such a wonderful pass. The commentator Glero was drunk and started his own crazy commentary mode, not caring at all that his throat was dumb in the first half.

Jonathan's long pass footwork was a bit poor, and it took a lot of effort for Etuhu to get on the ball before he could adjust to the baseline. But it didn't matter, he started to walk along the baseline towards the penalty area, and it was impossible to count on Patrice Evra, and Phil Jones extended to defend.

The Nigerian is the kind of guy who doesn't like to eat alone, and he wore an inverted triangle against the ball into the penalty area, and the follow-up Lawrence curled his bow and volleyed.

The ball whistled towards the top right corner of the goal.

However, it was not Portsmouth who came from an expedition to cheer, Manchester United fans, Manchester United's bench, and Ferguson jumped up.

De Gea, who had been focused, took two steps and jumped early to lift the ball over the top of the crossbar.

It was a world-class save, close and fast, but it still couldn't stop Manchester United's duck daddy!