Paul Scholes suffered a leg injury early last month and the doctor's diagnosis was that it would take at least a month and a half to recover, which must have been the real news, as there were still a dozen days to go before the match between Manchester United and AC Milan, and United did not have to release the smoke bomb so early.

The last round of meetings between the two teams, coupled with the past league games, also proved that Scholes was indeed injured.

No matter how you think about it, Paul Scholes won't recover so quickly, but how did he end up with Manchester United in Milan? Media reporters were at a loss.

"It's a smoke bomb! England's teams are good at this little trick! "Even if Paul Scholes does recover from injury, he will not be able to play for Manchester United!" ”

Other Italian media also followed suit, not thinking that Scholes would have a chance to play, Scholes was injured is a fact, some time ago, it was said that it would take a long time to recover from the injury, and now it is only a dozen days, and it is impossible to fully recover.

Paul Scholes arrived with the team in Milan City, causing discussion within AC Milan.

That evening, members of the AC Milan coaching staff gathered to discuss the game and talked about Paul Scholes, who was caught off guard by Scholes' arrival.

If United have Paul Scholes in the field, the organisation in midfield will be greatly improved and they will have to be targeted.

'Even if Paul Scholes is back, he hasn't trained with United for three weeks and can't start, so we don't have to worry!'

This phrase was recognized by others.

Ancelotti thought about it, and also felt that Scholes was impossible to play, everyone knew that Scholes was indeed injured, even if he recovered, how could he play for Manchester United?

Scholes's situation may be the same as Van Nistelrooy's when the two teams met in the previous round.

Van Nistelrooy was United's leading striker, but he sat on the bench for the whole game, with Diego Forlan coming off the bench.

Although Diego Forlan scored a goal, it also proved that Van Nistelrooy, who had just recovered from injury, was indeed unavailable.

Scholes would be the same, right?

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At the press conference that night, AC Milan and Manchester United announced their respective squads, and Paul Scholes was included in the Manchester United squad.

Both the media and AC Milan believe Paul Scholes will only be on the bench and unlikely to start for Manchester United.

But when the next day's game was about to start, Manchester United announced the starting list, but Scholes's name was in the starting lineup, and he and Roy Keane partnered in the middle of the pair, which caused an uproar in the media and made AC Milan a little flustered.

AC Milan were unprepared for this!

In the past few days, AC Milan's defense has been aimed at Manchester United's wings, especially C-Ronaldo's road, which needs to be defended tightly.

AC Milan didn't pay much attention to the defense in the middle.

One is that AC Milan has Pirlo and Gattuso in the middle, and the combination of three backs is enough to stabilize the central defense, plus the assistance of the central defenders, they think that the middle is foolproof.

Second, without Scholes's Manchester United, there will basically not be much threat in the middle.

But now AC Milan is panicking.

In the two hours before the game, Carlo Ancelotti was unable to make any further adjustments, and they had to bite the bullet and prepare for the game against Manchester United.

Manchester United used Paul Scholes to beat AC Milan by surprise.

Manchester United are not just preparing for Paul Scholes, and in order to make the Reds more secure to win, Ferguson decided to use risky tactics and let the team attack AC Milan in the opening game.

AC Milan had no idea that United would play so aggressively.

United started with a full-fledged press as if they were going to open the door to AC Milan, which was the exact opposite of what they thought, because AC Milan were the ones behind and they needed to score in the opening game.

The gap between the game situation and the imagination made AC Milan's formation a little flustered, but fortunately, core players such as Pirlo and Kaka stabilized the formation and did not give Manchester United a chance.

But Manchester United are in great shape!

Although he failed to succeed in the opening 'sneak attack', his face was still constantly attacking.

"It's a little wrong......"

AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti felt that he could not understand the game, and he did not know what kind of confidence United had to do so at the San Siro.

AC Milan's plan is actually to use the home advantage to counter-suppress Manchester United, which is actually no way, the main thing is that AC Milan is two goals behind, and they must take the initiative to have a chance.

But now the situation has been sent.

Manchester United took the initiative to attack, launched a ferocious attack at the beginning, and after several waves of attacks, there was no intention of easing at all, and AC Milan was completely suppressed for a while, which made their pre-match preparation equivalent to useless work.

At this time, Kaka, who was slowly retreating, watched Manchester United continue to pass and receive the ball in the backfield, and he couldn't help but say to Gattuso, "It seems to be different, different from what the coach said." ”

"It's completely different." Gattuso ran for a while, gasping roughly, "They seem to be planning to break the goal as soon as possible." ”

"They're going to break down? But they were already two goals ahead. ”

"I don't know...... But I know that if they have a goal, we have almost no hope of winning! "Gattuso's analysis is simple and straightforward.

Kaka nodded.

That's exactly what Ferguson had in mind.

Manchester United is two goals ahead of AC Milan, and the advantage is still relatively large, but if they play solid tactics and respond with defensive counterattacks, AC Milan has no small hope of winning.

But if they can score a quick goal to stretch the gap to three, plus an away goal, AC Milan won't have any more chances.

This is indeed a good idea, but generally speaking, Ferguson will not do this, because it is very risky, but with the 'Sheep Football Training Group', Shen Yang is very sure that every player is in good shape, and Ferguson has confidence.

Now AC Milan has nothing to deal with, coach Ancelotti is at a loss on the field, the tactics have been arranged, everything has been explained, and when it comes to the real game, it is found that the tactics conflict with the opponent, and AC Milan can only play like this.

Carlo Ancelotti will be hoping AC Milan can find a chance to salvage the situation and when they go on the attack, they will be enough to threaten the United goal.

But luck was on Manchester United's side.

It was Manchester United who had a good chance first, and with fifteen minutes played, United had a long-range set-piece opportunity.

In football, this kind of opportunity is often to drive the ball directly and continue the game, but Manchester United did not do this, C-Ronaldo came to the ball steadily, and other players hurried forward to find opportunities.

C-Ronaldo kicked a long-range lob cross that drove the ball straight into the box.

AC Milan realized the danger, and several defenders stared at their opponents, but in the panic, AC Milan still leaked, and the back plugged in Roy Keane rushed over to grab the position, swinging his head on the football, and the football instantly arced towards the goal.

AC Milan goalkeeper Dida was very cautious, but in the face of the football that bypassed his body, he could only stand in despair, and he didn't even react at all.

“Goooooooooooal！！！”

The British media shouted in surprise, "The ball is in!" Manchester United Captain Roy Keane! ”

"Three to zero! Manchester United leads AC Milan by three goals over two legs! ”

The commentator at the San Siro stadium also shouted helplessly to score, but his voice was not very happy, the Manchester United fans who came to Milan with the team cheered excitedly for the goal, while the AC Milan fans of the home team only had regret and despair on their faces.

Three balls!

With more than 70 minutes left in the game after trailing by three goals, does AC Milan really have a chance?

AC Milan fans just saw the scoreline, and the AC Milan players were more desperate than the fans, because the tactics arranged by the manager before the game did not work at all.

First, Scholes came in.

For a while now, Manchester United's offensive has proved the role of Scholes, AC Milan's defense in the middle, can only rely on the player's individual play, for the defense of the wing formation, there will definitely be some negligence in the middle, plus Manchester United is quite fluent, their defense seems to be full of mistakes.

Second, they failed to beat Manchester United in a frontal attack.

Now AC Milan are three goals behind and the players are at a loss and don't know what to do next.

Many AC Milan players subconsciously looked at the coach's seat.

Coach Carlo Ancelotti found it tricky.

The most annoying thing for a manager is to get out of control, and that's undoubtedly the case with the game now, and his pre-game setup didn't work at all.

Perhaps the result is more important......

It would have been a different story if AC Milan had scored, but when United scored, AC Milan were in a very disadvantageous situation, with three goals down leaving the team with few options.

"Attack!"

Carlo Ancelotti stood on the sidelines, waving his hand to direct the team to step up the attack.

AC Milan have never been a team that has been good at taking the initiative, but now they can't afford them.

"Attack! Attack it! ”

Carlo Ancelotti kept shouting that he hoped that the next game would remain the same, and that the two sides would have a head-to-head battle, and AC Milan would not necessarily have no chance.

But Ancelotti was disappointed!

Ferguson has no intention of letting the team fight with AC Milan head-on, even if Manchester United is in good form, but with a three-goal advantage, Manchester United can drag it out to the end steadily, and there is no need to fight AC Milan.

Then Manchester United began to shrink their defence.

This was arranged before the game.

As long as you can score a goal quickly at the beginning, you will start to play defensive counterattacks normally, if you can't score, Manchester United will also make adjustments, always have a goal advantage, there is no need to fight hard with the opponent.

In the face of Manchester United's defensive counter-attack, AC Milan was even more passive.

They are much better off than they were just now, but anyone who knows a little bit about football will know how dangerous AC Milan are.

It's not easy for them to score in attack right now, and a careless one will give United a chance to counter-attack.

Seeing this situation, Ancelotti knew that it was his own mistake, and he felt very annoyed, but now that the game is going on, there is no need to think about anything.

Ferguson smiled.

Only twenty minutes into the first half, he knew there was no suspense.