Driven by abundant fighting spirit and enthusiasm, Millwall's overall performance was very good, but it was not easy to complete the goal, Millwall began to play some offensive, but an offensive does not mean that they can score.

Manchester United defended well, too.

As a representative team in England, Manchester United's defense is quite good, and their defensive players are no worse than attacking players in terms of reputation, the most representative of which is central defender Rio Ferdinand.

Rio Ferdinand is a talented defender who began his career at the age of 18 at West Ham United and joined Leeds United four years later for a record-breaking transfer fee of £18 million, before Ferdinand broke the All England transfer record again two years later to join Manchester United for £29.1 million.

The value of a player does not mean everything, but in international football, due to factors such as commercial influence, the value of defenders has always been underestimated, which shows how Ferdinand's strength is.

In addition to Ferdinand, Manchester United's backline also has outstanding players such as Silvestre, O'Shea, and Brown, so the defense line dare not be said to be the first in England, and it is definitely only Chelsea that can compare.

Millwall have an attack, but it is still a little too difficult to break down the Manchester United defence.

Eighty minutes were spent on the game.

With only ten minutes remaining, it was back into the most tense moments, and everyone knew that there was a lot of hope for a goal in the final minute, and neither United nor Millwall wanted to accept a draw.

Many football analysts have expressed their opinion that "the result of the draw is quite good for Millwall." ”

This is not surprising at all.

Manchester United is the 'hegemon' of the Premier League, and has not won the Premier League title in the past two seasons, but it has also entered the top three rankings.

They also endorsed Millwall's play.

Very few teams can play with Manchester United to this extent, if Manchester United does not play well, like the game with Middlesbrough, it is not surprising to lose, but Manchester United's performance is not bad, and it is even surprising, that kind of smooth cooperation, not every game can be played, but Millwall still stabilized the defense, and while scoring a goal in the first half, it was only scored by Manchester United once.

This kind of performance is surprising enough, even those media who do not support Millwall and have a very bad sense of flamboyance, have to admit that Millwall has played extremely well, and it is not an ordinary team that can play Manchester United to this extent.

However, the public opinion is still not optimistic about Millwall.

With 10 minutes remaining, United are 'unbeaten' and the only factor affecting the outcome of the game is whether or not they can score in the coming minutes.

Millwall didn't stand a chance.

During this period, Millwall defended well, and occasionally had two counter-attacking opportunities, and it was too difficult to score goals.

It could almost be described as a miracle.

Do Millwall still have a chance to win? Most people are not optimistic, and even Millwall fans feel that a draw is a happy result, but the players on the Millwall field did not give up, they still insisted on fighting with Manchester United, and also seized every attacking opportunity and seriously invested in the game.

Manchester United also wanted to score, and the scramble between the two sides became fierce.

In the 82nd minute, Darren Ward defended Van Ni too much, was shown a yellow card by the referee, and the players on both sides had a verbal dispute, Alan Smith pushed Livermore, the referee warned Alan Smith, who died down, but Alan Smith did not seem to give up, only two minutes after the game restarted, Alan Smith retaliated hard into Livermore when he was defending.

Livermore just shook his body and was not knocked to the ground, but Alan Smith fell to the ground, holding his shoulder and shouting pain, the most speechless thing is that Smith also told the referee that it was Livermore who fouled, even if the Premier League referee has a good impression of Manchester United, he can't be so openly biased in favor of Manchester United players, and the referee was a little annoyed that Smith took him as a fool and showed him a yellow card without hesitation.

None of the other United players had the cheekiness to argue.

It was only after the referee showed two yellow cards in a row that the players on both sides became calmer and knew that there was no good in fighting in the game.

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Since the second half of the second half, seeing that the team as a whole was quite good, Smitchell has been trying to organize the whole team to counterattack.

A counterattack, not a counterattack.

The difference between the words and the meaning is different, the premise of the counterattack is to defend first, and the counterattack is to advance head-on, Smitchell is the core of the whole team, and he is also a veteran of the Premier League, and his ability to read the game is not comparable to others.

The game entered the final stage, Smitchell clearly knew that it was almost impossible to continue to defend and rely on counterattacks to find opportunities, because the opponent was Manchester United, unless it was a situation where the score was behind, Manchester United would not make that kind of mistake, even in the attack, Manchester United would ensure the defense of the backfield, the team wanted to rely on a sudden counterattack to score, it was very unrealistic, and the only option could only be to advance head-on.

How to fight the frontal advancement?

Millwall doesn't have star players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Ruud van Nistelrooy, the strength and performance of their teammates up front are not bad, but it's just good, and the hope of getting rid of Manchester United's defense is extremely slim, and it is unrealistic to rely on the explosion of a single player.

Therefore, to score goals, we can only rely on frontal advancement and the cooperation of players in all positions of the team.

Smitchell felt he had a chance because his team-mates were doing really well and everyone was going to work hard and be very cautious with the support of a lot of fighting spirit.

Smitchell kept trying to do that.

In the 87th minute, Millwall launched a smooth offensive and Smitchell was in good form, not hesitating to split the ball when he saw the United defence empty on the left.

Braniff receives a pass!

The pass was so precise that Blaniff easily got past Fletcher to receive the pass, and Fletcher wanted to turn around and chase the ball, but Blaniff took it forward as soon as possible.

Brown ran over to entangle Braniff.

Braniff's ability is very comprehensive, the skill at his feet is not superb, but it is enough, especially he has a flexible brain, and occasionally his IQ cannot keep up, it does not mean that he does not have the wisdom of the game, and the moment he receives a pass, Braniff knows that it is a good opportunity.

Manchester United's defense on the right side is empty, there are only two people, Brown and Fletcher, Fletcher runs forward, and he is thrown away at the first time, and there is only one Brown left, as long as he can get past Brown, the situation will become very good.

Brown wasn't easy to deal with.

Braniff is very confident, but he is also arrogant to the point of being 'invincible in the world', he still has a certain judgment of his own ability, and wants to dribble an experienced and well-known defender, the opportunity is there, but it is only very small.

Braniff glanced left and right.

When Brown stepped forward, there was a very helpless expression on his face, as if he didn't want to pass the ball, but there was nothing he could do, and then he handed the ball to Elliott, who was inserted horizontally.

Brown was deceived by Braniff's expression!

Seeing Braniff's expression, it seemed that he was helpless to be defended by himself, Brown was suddenly a little fluttery, but the next moment Braniff ran past him, and beckoned to Elliott, "Pass over!" ”

By the time Brown realised it wasn't good, football was back at Braniff's feet.

Braniff showed off his intelligence superiority and felt very happy inside, while Brown chased back with a gloomy face, but when he was about to catch up, Braniff had already kicked the ball to the middle first.

Smitchell latched on to a pass, dodged Alan Smith's interception with a slight change of direction, and then found Joey Healy with a pinpoint lateral shift.

It's a great pass!

There was more than 20 metres between Smitchell and Joey Healy, but the ball rolled precisely in front of Joey Healy, who easily received the ball and kicked it back to David Livermore.

Livermore's position was diagonally facing the penalty area, and he could already shoot with his feet, but Livermore did not rush to shoot, because the angle was not very good, he was not very sure, and after hesitating for a moment, he still chose to give the ball back to Smitchell.

Smitchell got the ball again.

Unlike the previous two times, Smitchell was only 20 metres away from goal and had no United players to defend, and when the ball was handed to Smitchell, almost everyone thought he would shoot.

This is Millwall's best chance in recent times!

At that moment, Smitchell also intended to shoot, but when he raised his right foot, he noticed a figure running into the box from the right side, so he immediately changed his approach, put away his strength and hoisted the ball to the right side of the box.

The football crashes straight to the right side of the penalty area!

When seeing the figure of an opposing player at the football landing point, the Manchester United players suddenly realized that it was not good, but most of them couldn't do anything, the only one who could do something was Leo Ferdinand, but Ferdinand's position was also two meters away, and it was too late to get stuck in the position, he could only rush over and jump, trying to use his body to stop the opponent.

That player was none other than Braniff.

Braniff's mind was spinning, and without Rio Ferdinand, he wouldn't hesitate to head home.

Seeing Ferdinand rushing towards him, the two would definitely collide, and Braniff didn't want to miss the opportunity, so he had to jump early and stagger the timing of the best shot, and he only had time to put his head in the right position.

The ball fell and bounced off Braniff's head, and Ferdinand also went diagonally and hit Braniff's shoulder.

Neither was able to maintain their balance and fell on the grass.

Smitchelton, who was in the back, yelled at the referee, "Foul!" ”

That's a foul indeed!

Unsurprisingly, Millwall would have been awarded a penalty, but no one cared about Ferdinand's foul as the ball was knocked into the feet of Darren Bent.

Darren Bent was barely noticeable when Braniff and Rio Ferdinand collided, and he easily slotted a shot less than five metres away at the rolling ball, leaving goalkeeper Van der Sar unable to do anything but watch the ball roll into the net again.

While the penalty area was still chaotic and many players didn't realise what was happening, the crowd erupted.

"Hula......"

"The ball went in ——!!!"

The shouts from the crowd left a few players at a loss for a moment as they wondered if Rio Ferdinand would award a penalty, before they realized what had happened, "Darren Bent scored the second goal for Millwall!" ”

Braniff rose from the grass in an instant.

Smitchell turned and rushed towards Darren Bent, hugging him hard for the first time.

The other Millwall players also ran forward frantically, cheering along the way, "The ball is in!" 2 to 1! Millwall regains the lead over Manchester United! ”

"Ahead! Ahead again! ”

With 88 minutes played, Millwall's regain the lead over United could not have been clearer: it could well have been a stunner! It's too difficult for Manchester United to catch up again!

Millwall, win!