But no matter how eager Anelka was to beat Li Lei, it was clear from the situation after the start of the second half that he would have to be patient for a while.

At the start of the second half, City tried to continue the attacking tactics that had been so successful in the first half, but United made a change at half-time instructions from Alex Ferguson.

Although in terms of the overall form of both teams, Manchester United, who are suffering from physical disadvantages, is still weaker than Manchester City, after Ferguson concentrated the Manchester United defense in the middle and completely let go of the left and right wings, Manchester City's attacking ability, which is not much stronger, has been greatly limited.

Although this defensive strategy was more conservative than in the first half, consolidating the defence and weakening more of United's attacking strength, it is clear that Manchester City are the side that Manchester United are more unacceptable than Manchester United.

From Ferguson's point of view, after witnessing the slump in the first half, he was already determined at half-time to take a point at Maine Road. It is precisely because of this that he will rest assured that he will set up such a more conservative defensive strategy for the team in the second half than in the first half.

Keegan, on the other hand, wanted a lot more than Ferguson. Whether it is based on his personal wishes or the mentality of the players, Manchester City are clearly unwilling to miss this great situation, and use a home victory over local rivals Manchester United to alleviate the anger in the hearts of Manchester City fans who can only mix in the bottom of the Premier League table because of the team's poor results.

Add to that the fact that everything but the goal was perfect, completely suppressing the excitement of United's perfect first half on the pitch, and this vision was even stronger in the hearts of the whole Manchester City team, Keegan and indeed the Manchester City fans.

Therefore, for the result of a dull draw, now Manchester City is more unacceptable than Manchester United.

But if you can't accept it, you can't accept it, and if you want to say how many practical and effective ways Manchester City has to deal with Manchester United, who retreated to defend like this in the second half, there are really not many.

In addition to the Manchester City players on the field patiently looking for attacking opportunities, and the Manchester City fans in the stands booing and invecting the defending Manchester United players, Keegan on the sidelines can only be anxious like ants on a hot pot, walking back and forth on the sidelines quickly, but there is no way to do anything.

At the very least, for now, unless Keegan makes the whole of Manchester City completely press and continue to strengthen the offensive, otherwise, the old coach really has nothing to do.

But if you really want to increase the team's pressure on the offense again, the old coach is a little hesitant in his heart and keeps muttering. It's really that he has suffered too many losses at the hands of Ferguson before, and he is afraid that if Ferguson has the idea of waiting for Manchester City to press more aggressively, Manchester United can take the opportunity to counterattack.

Because he was afraid of this, he could only resist the urge to let the team increase the offensive investment, praying that the team could take the lead in such a situation.

But will he really be able to endure until that time?

Glancing at the unconcealed anxiety on Keegan's face on the sidelines, the corners of Ferguson's mouth couldn't help but show a sly smile. He knows very well that this old opponent, don't look at his age now, but he has never been a person who can calm down.

Of course, if luck wasn't on the side of Ferguson and Manchester United, and Manchester City really broke the deadlock and took the lead before Keegan could not help but make changes, then Ferguson's plan would have to be in vain.

But the problem is that, judging by this game, Ferguson and Manchester United are clearly lucky.

When the second half came to the 62nd minute, the situation on the field was still dull and deadlocked, Manchester City had absolute advantage on the field, but until this time in the second half there was no shot on target to threaten Li Lei, let him make a save, Keegan on the sidelines finally couldn't hold back anymore.

"Attack! Press me on the attack!! Sylvain! Grandchild! You also press up and intensify your attack! ......”

Finally, after seeing Keegan on the sidelines, he couldn't help jumping his feet and making this instruction, Ferguson on the side also quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Despite his confidence in his players, football is a sport that can be full of surprises at all times, and he has been worried about the image of Manchester City suddenly breaking the deadlock.

That's good, that's good, and then, it's up to you, kid.

Then, Ferguson's eyes shifted from Keegan to the tall figure with a strange colorful hairstyle in front of the door of his own team, and his energetic eyes were full of eager anticipation.

Obviously, in the future, whether Li Lei can ensure the integrity of the door behind him will be the most important basis for the success of Ferguson's second-half strategy for Manchester United.

And in this regard, although Li Lei on the field at this time does not know Ferguson's thoughts, he obviously will not easily disappoint the old coach.

In the 68th minute of the second half, he proved it with practical actions.

After Manchester City began to press on the formation and invested more manpower in the attacking end, Manchester United's previously very solid defense immediately suffered from huge pressure, and Li Lei in front of the goal felt this most intuitively.

However, this did not make him worry or fear in the slightest, but made him suddenly cheer up 120,000 points of spirit and be completely excited. After the start of the second half, he had been doing nothing in front of goal, and he was about to suffocate.

In this attack, when Sun Jihai inserted an assist on the side and forced a cross near the baseline before O'Shea's block, Li Lei's mind had already engraved in his mind the positions and movements of all Manchester City's attackers who were in the Manchester United penalty area at the moment.

Anelka is in front of the point, that's not right, the football drop is the back point.

Reyna was at the back point, but with Phil in the way, he couldn't rush up to the landing point.

All that's left is Wanchope, Gary is now watching him, and that's one of the best points City can use for high-altitude balls.

However, Gary is obviously not out of position now, and the landing point of this football is not good, a little further back in Wanchope's position, it is definitely not good to hit the goal directly, so he ......

In the almost instantaneous time when the football flew over the heads of Wanchope and Gary Neville in the penalty area, and to the time when the two jumped up in unison and interfered with each other with all their strength to fight for the first landing point, Li Lei, who was staring at the football in the air with both eyes, had already thought through everything in his mind.

Therefore, when Wanchope relied on his physical advantage and pressed Gary Neville in front of him to touch the ball first, Li Lei had already expected it, and his eyes turned his head and rushed to the front of the goal, and at this time, he had relied on a flexible and roundabout running position to temporarily throw off Anelka, who was next to Brown.

It's going to make a ball for this Frenchman!!

When Anelka put on a posture of rushing to the top without jumping, Li Lei in front of the goal also took a big step as expected, and kicked forward with full force with both legs, rushing up like a rocket launch.

In this way, with the judgment of super dynamic vision and accurate logical judgment, Li Lei was the last to come, and was stunned before Anelka's bald head touched the football, and directly like a hungry tiger pounced on a wolf, he firmly caught Wanchope's header in the air with his two big hands like a fan.

At the same time, he "couldn't contain his strength" and knocked Anelka in front of him directly into the penalty area.

After landing on the ground, holding the football, he looked at Anelka, who was lying on the pitch in pain because of his chest pain and stuffiness caused by his collision, and immediately showed a "sincere worry, concern" expression, leaned down, patted the head of the French striker, and expressed "condolences" and "comfort".

In the eyes of the uninformed, this is simply a standard picture, showing the classic picture of football competition friendship first and game second.

But in reality, it was a cold-blooded man who was giving his creature the final call to kill.

"Oh! Poor little kitten, it hurts! You still want to score, don't dream. ”

"I can tell you that this is the beginning!"

"Just the beginning!!"