Although Blackburn Rovers are no longer the eight faces of the Premier League leaders in the 94-95 season, and even they were just promoted back to the Premier League in the 01-02 season, they are definitely not fish belly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Under Souness's leadership, he finished 10th in the league in the 01-02 season just after returning to the Premier League and won the English League Cup. The following season, he won the 6th place and entered the UEFA Cup for two consecutive years, competing in Europe.

This season, their momentum has slipped and they are currently only 13th in the Premier League. However, while the overall main force framework is still good, their actual combat effectiveness has not decreased much.

Such a Blackburn Rovers is already a tough enough bone for Manchester United to gnaw at in the rebuilding period that is now in the whirlpool of public opinion, even at Old Trafford.

Among them, Andy Cole's threatening header in just two minutes of the game is the best proof of this.

Brown's poor marking in this defense made Ferguson, who had been in a bad mood all this time, angry directly. The old coach rushed to the sidelines and yelled at him: "Wes (Brown)! Wes!! Hell of you, keep an eye on you! Damn it!! ”

The old coach's loud voice was clearly recorded by the microphone on the sidelines, which made Lineker, who served as the commentator of the game, laugh and joked: "It seems that Sir Alex Ferguson has accumulated a lot of fire in this time!" It's a pity that there is no Rio Ferdinand central defender on the bench for him to choose from. ”

On the field, looking at Brown, who was looking ugly in front of him, Li Lei felt a little aggrieved for him. Li Lei still knows a little about this teammate.

He has a wide range of skills, can play as a centre-back or a guest at right-back, and is very capable in all aspects. Even Alex Ferguson himself once praised Brown, saying: "He's undoubtedly the club's last defender in years. ”

But helplessly, his body is vitreous, and continuous injuries have completely cut him off from Manchester United's main position, and he has not reached the height that people expected him before.

In August '02, he suffered an unfortunate ankle fracture, which was completely reimbursed for the season and was not healed until the start of the season. For this reason, he has played less than 45 minutes in a combined game this season, and this game is his first start of the season.

In such a situation, although his bad state cannot be said to be inevitable, at least it should be reasonable. But who made Ferguson feel the worst during this time, this benevolent brother just happened to hit the muzzle of the gun.

However, at this time, Li Lei did not have time to care about the troubles on Brown's side, and his full attention was already focused on Blackburn's offense.

In response to Manchester United's current predicament, Souness deliberately arranged restraint tactics in this game. On the basis of defending the counter-attack, the flexibility of the formation is increased to strengthen the pressing of the front, put pressure on the Manchester United defence that lacks Rio Ferdinand, the backbone, and force the Manchester United defenders to make mistakes.

This tactic made it very uncomfortable for the whole United team to play on the pitch. In addition to Manchester United's attacking line in front of Blackburn's iron bucket once again exposed the old problems of this season's lack of attacking power and creativity, Manchester United's defenders were also forced by Blackburn's players to be very embarrassed, and even Li Lei had to make two big kicks in a hurry after only 10 minutes in the opening period.

Due to the fact that he is not yet proficient in the kung fu of driving big feet, the quality of these two big feet is not ideal. Not to mention whether he found his teammates, one of them even drove directly out of the sideline when the pressing was not very strict, which made Li Lei a little difficult to get over in terms of face.

Seeing such a situation, Manchester United's defenders seem to have finally remembered that Li Lei, a rookie, has not yet arrived at home in terms of big feet, so he has reduced the number of passes back to Li Lei.

But in this way, it also had to put them in a more passive situation when facing the tight pressing of Blackburn's frontcourt players.

For a while, Manchester United's backline was in shambles.

Damn it! Seeing such a bad situation in front of him, Li Lei had never had a strong desire to immediately practice these skills like now.

He was a very good young man. If this kind of behavior was done by a Manchester United teammate, he would not say anything to this teammate, or be disgruntled or anything, but if this person were himself, he would definitely not be able to stand it.

In the 9th minute of the first half, in the face of the return pass that Silvester had to pass, Li Lei rushed before Andy Cole rushed over, and immediately had another big foot. Although he is bold, he is not even skilled in opening big feet, and he will never be stupid and bold enough to dribble past the opposing attacking players like Ikita.

After the big foot was opened, Li Lei's eyes were fixed on the football flying high in the air at high speed. He was relieved only when he finally got it right and managed to find the top of Vanney's head.

It's just that this is still his small trouble, and Li Lei's real big trouble is still in Blackburn's quick counterattack.

In the 14th minute of the first half, Ronaldo's slightly impatient direct long-range shot from outside the penalty area was directly blocked by Blackburn's defender Roft with his body. Then, another Blackburn Rover's defender, Tougay, grabbed ahead of Scholes to take control of the ball and launched a wave of counter-attacks.

When Tugai hit the ball directly behind O'Shea, allowing Blackburn's right midfielder Douglas to compete directly with O'Shea for sprinting speed, Li Lei immediately tensed up and played 120,000 points of attention.

First, he immediately moved his position to a step outside the six-yard box, a position that could both be ready to attack and drop back in front of goal at will, dealing with Blackburn's wide range of attacking options.

While paying attention to the speed competition between Douglas and O'Shea, Li Lei did not miss Andy Cole, who was already about to rush into the box, and Blackburn's other striker, Stade. The positions of these two people are one left and one right, one in front and one behind, arranged in a very orderly manner, forming two very hierarchical mid outflanking points.

Damn it! Seeing this, Li Lei couldn't help but burst into foul language in his heart.

Andy Cole's running position is a textbook distribution of goalkeepers in the counter-attack, which undoubtedly makes the difficulty of Manchester United's defense at the back and Li Lei's saving difficulty to a higher level.

Meanwhile, the speed contest between Douglas and O'Shea on the flanks has finally come to an end. Before O'Shea could make a desperate tackle, Douglas scrambled to cross first. The cross from the edge of the box showed great quality and flew into the box at a 45-degree angle flat and fast.

Crossing, outflanking level, number of people, when these two points are completed by Blackburn extremely perfectly, it is enough to make the Manchester United defense and Li Lei in front of the goal like a big enemy.

According to the current situation, this is not a good opportunity to directly deal with this crisis, so Li Lei stayed in front of the door honestly, ready to respond to changes with no change.

When the football was about to fly above the heads of Andy Cole and Brown, who had been entangled, Li Lei's whole body muscles tensed up in an instant, his heels were cocked under his feet, his toes hit the ground, and his legs could kick out in any direction with maximum strength at any time.

At the same time, the hands were fully open as best they could, like the two large pincers of a crab, and they were fully defensive.

But even so, Li Lei still ushered in a change that was completely unexpected.

Brown, who was stuck in front of Andy Cole and jumped first, actually rose to the top. The ball flew over his head in the air and landed on Andy Cole's head, which was also leaping high behind him. The former Manchester United striker, who had a strong desire to shoot from the start, had another chance to face Li Lei directly.

Right!

Looking at the direction of Andy Cole's head, with his super dynamic vision, Li Lei immediately had a judgment in his heart. His center of gravity began to shift to the right, and the power that had been stored in his legs began to burst out.

But just as he was about to kick out, Andy Cole's header unexpectedly hit Brown's shoulder and changed the line.

This change, although the speed and power of the football have weakened, after a bounce on Brown's shoulder, it fell to the left of Li Lei in a parabolic arc. Although the angle is not too off, for Li Lei, who has shifted his center of gravity, Andy Cole's line-changing header seems to have become out of reach at this moment.

Damn it!!

In the exclamation of the Manchester United fans in the audience, Li Lei gritted his teeth and changed the signs of his body's center of gravity to the right with his super physical fitness and balance ability.

However, it is already his limit to do this step, and at this time, it is impossible to let him burst out of his legs again, jump up and save this sideline header that is not very fast and powerful.

Not only that, but what was worse was that at this point when he forcibly changed his center of gravity, the football was actually in the air over his head and behind him, which added a little more difficulty to Li Lei's already extremely difficult save.

There is a good saying, people are forced out.

At this moment of life and death when he lost the goal, a clip from the video of the Iquita game that he watched most frequently these days suddenly appeared in Li Lei's mind.

I saw that under the stunned gaze of the audience, his body suddenly fell forward, and while his hands touched the bottom, the powerful upper body strength completely exploded.

As he pushed upwards with all his might, his eight chocolate abs immediately worked at full capacity, throwing his legs upwards with all his might.

According to the previous flight path of the football, when the football was completely invisible, Li Lei could only rely on the estimation to stretch his backward hooked foot to the general direction of the football with all his might.

At this time, there was no bottom in his heart at all, it was just a desperate fight that he was not sure of.

However, he was lucky. Perhaps Lady Luck didn't want to see the first goal of his career come so quickly, and finally let the deflected soccer ball hit the heel of his left foot, which he was trying to reach, before bouncing back into the box.

In the end, O'Shea made a final big kick before the Blackburn players rushed up to shoot.

But this was not the main thing, at this time everyone's attention was on Li Lei's previous completely incredible save action.

Whether it's Andy Cole who shoots, Souness and Ferguson on the sidelines, or the fans on both sides in the stands at Old Trafford, or the players on both sides on the field, or the game commentators, or the reporters in the media box, there is only one thought in their minds at the moment.

Damn it! It's a scorpion tail swing! The extinct scorpion wags its tail!!

After being stunned for a moment, Lineker's passionate voice exploded completely: "Ah!! Unbelievable! Unbelievable!! Scorpion tail wagging! Scorpion tail waging!! Damn it! God, what did I see! What the hell did I see!! It's not football! It's a work of art!! This is a miracle!! ”

Rumble!!!

At the same time that Lineker was very excited, the Manchester United fans who had come back to their senses finally broke out, and the sudden cries like a tsunami made the entire Theater of Dreams tremble with excitement!

Everybody is crazy!

Totally insane!!

And Li Lei became the center of this madness.

The whole world is pouring for him!

Amazing!!

Crazy!!!