On the day of the second leg against Porto, at Old Trafford. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Before the second leg of the life-or-death match had officially begun, the atmosphere at Old Trafford was completely heated by the nearly 70,000 Manchester United fans in attendance. Despite United's recent slump in form, Manchester United fans are confident that their side can successfully turn the tables at home and progress to the last eight of this year's Champions League.

With such a mood and expectation, when the players of both sides have not yet entered, they completely overshadowed the voice of a small number of Porto fans who came from afar with deafening singing and cheering.

However, this enthusiasm was shortly lost to the dreary situation on the pitch, with the pre-match cheers and singing that resounded over Old Trafford replaced by occasional disgruntled boos from the United fans.

The boos were not their dissatisfaction with the performance of the United players on the pitch, but their dissatisfaction with Porto, who began to completely retract their own half and put on a rigid posture at the beginning of the game.

Due to Keane's suspension and the sudden knee discomfort in the pre-match period, Ferguson had to deploy a 4-4-1-1 formation for this game.

At the back, apart from the injury-sided, Fortune was replaced by O'Shea, and the line-up position was exactly the same as when the two teams met in the first leg, with Phil Neville continuing to play at right wing-back, while Gary Neville continued to play as a cameo at centre-back and partnered Brown in this game, but overall there was not much change. And compared with Fu Qiong, who has stronger offensive attributes, O'Shea, who is known as the panacea in the backcourt, is undoubtedly better defensively. I'm afraid that even if Ferguson had not been injured, Ferguson would not have started this game due to his poor performance in the first round.

Not to mention up front, as long as there are no special circumstances such as injuries or suspensions, the combination of Scholes and Ruud van Nistelrooy is almost impossible.

The biggest variable in Manchester United's starting lineup is in the midfield, especially because Keane has been confirmed to miss this game after getting a red card in the first leg, and before the game, people were a little curious about how Ferguson would deploy the lineup to minimize the huge impact of Keane's absence.

It has to be said that Ferguson's arrangement was bold and unexpected to everyone. In addition to Giggs, who has no doubts, whether he let Jemba and Bartt partner in the back two in this game, or let the teenager Fletcher replace Cristiano Ronaldo in the right midfield position, it is a big surprise.

After Manchester United's starting lineup came out, the commentators who commented on the game were surprised to say that Ferguson's starting lineup was more about attacking and defensive balance, rather than blindly bombarding Porto at home.

United's frequent losses to Porto in the first leg may have been a valid argument, but it wasn't enough to convince everyone. While a small number of people agreed with Ferguson's seemingly conservative move, many more questioned it.

After all, the score of the first leg between the two teams was 2:1, even if they had an away goal advantage, but in the final analysis, Manchester United was the side behind on aggregate. If you can't take the lead in breaking the deadlock at home and taking the lead, then the so-called advantage of an away goal can only be a flower in the mirror that you can see and can't eat.

So, no matter what, Manchester United should first step up their attack at home and score goals, even if they have to be conservative, it will be after the goal.

And, judging from the dreary first 20 minutes of the game, these people's opinions are not entirely unreasonable. The current starting line-up on the field may be more solid in defence, but it is slightly lacking in attacking power.

While United were the dominant side in the first 20 minutes, Porto's defensive strategy was more successful, and for the entire 20 minutes, the home side did not even have a single shot on target, let alone pose a threat to Porto's goal.

Faced with such a situation, it is no wonder that Manchester United fans, who have always enjoyed the joy and excitement of attacking football at Old Trafford, are unhappy. Although they have not yet publicly expressed their dissatisfaction with the Manchester United players on the pitch, it is inevitable that they will be depressed and booing the Porto players on the pitch.

And in addition to venting their dissatisfaction, it is also not used to stimulate the Porto players on the field and let them attack in it. It's a pity that in this Porto, Mourinho has already achieved high prestige. So no matter how shrill the boos of the Manchester United fans were, the Porto players on the pitch faithfully implemented Mourinho's strategy of sticking to the ground, firmly sticking to their own half, and no matter how tempting the Manchester United players on the field were, there was no intention of attacking.

For a while, the situation on the field was so dull and ugly that it was deadlocked.

But in such a situation that is not favorable to Manchester United, what people don't notice is the calm and calm face of Ferguson in the coach's box on the sidelines, as if the situation on the field is very satisfactory to him at the moment, and he has always been under his control, without the slightest dissatisfaction and anger on his face, and he looks like he is sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Tai.

Not many people noticed this, Mourinho in the Porto dugout counted as one, and Li Lei on the bench also counted as one. Both of them saw Ferguson's plan clearly, the difference was that Mourinho could only scold Ferguson for being an old fox in his heart, while Li Lei admired Ferguson's old spicy and steady again in his heart.

Ferguson is very clear in his calculations, and he is still very confident in Manchester United's attacking power, and he is not worried about whether he can score at all when there is still plenty of time left in the game. Although Manchester United did not score, the away goal advantage in the first leg was that the illusory bubble was useless, but at this moment, what Ferguson remembered more was how to make Porto not score.

In the first leg of last week, Porto's sharp counter-attack impressed the veteran.

In this game, Manchester United was bound to attack because of the aggregate score, but Porto's sharp counterattack was feared by the old coach. It would be nice to score as soon as possible and gain an aggregate advantage, but it would come at the cost of getting Porto on the counter-attack again, and if Porto score again, it would be a big blow to United's prospects of qualification.

It is precisely because of this that he will line up this starting lineup that seems to be lacking in attack power in this game. Just as you need to find the feel to shoot in basketball, players also need to keep trying to find the best feeling on the court in football, and the main reason why the coach started so much in this game is that he wants to dull Porto's sharp counter-attack blade as much as possible.

Try to reduce the sharpness of Porto's counter-attack as much as possible before United begin their full-fledged attack, thereby depressurizing United's patchwork defence on the pitch right now.

It has to be said that Ferguson is a wise strategy not to focus on a certain period of time, but to lay out the whole field. Although Manchester United is still behind in the aggregate score, after his arrangement, it seems that he has completely grasped the initiative of the game, and Mourinho's Porto can only be led by Manchester United.

This is probably the point that Mourinho is most dissatisfied with on the sidelines at the moment.

As long as Mourinho is still afraid of Manchester United's attacking power at Old Trafford, and does not dare to boldly press out to fight against Manchester United like in the first leg, he will not be able to break Ferguson's trick at all.

And this is precisely the soft underbelly of Mourinho, although his bold performance against Manchester United in the first leg won him praise across European football after the game, but he is a conservative and crazy gambler at heart.

The boldness of the first leg was because he saw a great opportunity to surprise Manchester United and Ferguson, so he "boldly" let the team press out and play against Manchester United, but this time, when he knew that Ferguson and Manchester United would not be fooled again, he was not as "brave" as the Portuguese media boasted, and his deep-rooted conservative side was completely displayed.

Just like now, although he also guessed Ferguson's plan, he just didn't dare to let Bol's image press out like in the first round, for fear that he would easily lose the advantage he had accumulated in the first round.

Therefore, although he was very unhappy in his heart, he could only let Ferguson completely suppress him in the arrangement of strategy and tactics.

This damn old fox!

However, although he can endure the dissatisfaction in his heart, his sharp and unhappy gaze will still turn to Ferguson from time to time on the sidelines of the Diaoyu Tai.

At the same time, what he didn't notice was that Li Lei, who was sitting on the bench at Manchester United, was also silently watching him.

From Mourinho's frequent targeting of Ferguson, after noticing that the Portuguese coach really had no back-up moves this time, Li Lei breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Ferguson told him before the game that as long as Howard did not perform well in this game, he could go straight to the position, but he still preferred Manchester United to beat Porto and go one step further in the Champions League than personally.

After all, in the coming season, Manchester United still has a game, and there is a chance to make Howard "abdicate", and he is not in a hurry to the point where he can't bear this little time.

Thinking of this, Li Lei was even more relaxed, sat on the bench, and began to enjoy the game up close from the perspective of a Manchester United fan, waiting for the moment when Manchester United scored a goal.

His eyes were full of sincere anticipation!

Fervent!!

It's hot again!!