Chapter 61: Fighting Vieira (2)

When the boos of the Arsenal fans rang out again, Li Lei immediately turned around, and he didn't want to be blacklisted by the referee team because of this. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info In view of the fact that there is a second half that is destined to be more intense, Li Lei is not a reckless man who can't think.

Sure enough, when he turned around, the huge movement made by the Arsenal fans also attracted the attention of the referee team in front of Li Lei. It's just that when the referees turned around, all they saw was Li Lei who greeted them with a "sincere smile", and they didn't know what was going on.

After they reflexively gave Li Lei a friendly smile with a bewildered expression, they watched Li Lei walk in front of them and said nothing.

Moreover, what is even more coincidental is that since Li Lei has not gone far from them at this time, when they looked at the big screen at the scene, he and others also happened to appear on it.

In such a situation, they didn't doubt at all whether Li Lei had done anything to the Arsenal fans again, but just wondered if they had provoked the Arsenal fans with their decisions in the first half.

Well, regardless of the brainless referees. When Li Lei walked into the Manchester United dressing room, he was immediately called by the team doctor, told him to lie down, and began to perform a physiotherapy massage to relieve the discomfort and pain in his lower back.

I have to say that the effect of the massage is really good, at least Li Lei, who is lying on his stomach, is so happy that he is humming in his mouth.

Ferguson, meanwhile, quickly began to set up a tactical style of play for the second half. Since he couldn't suppress Arsenal in the front, he retreated to fight back, and the old coach's arrangement was very decisive, without a little hesitation in face.

Although speed is not Ruud van Nistelrooy's advantage, the boss believes that the Dutchman is fully capable of dropping back to serve as the fulcrum of Manchester United's counter-attack in front, allowing Ryan Giggs and Ronaldo on both sides to fully use the advantage of speed to attack Arsenal's defence.

After the first half, Ferguson was pretty sure his old rival Arsene Wenger would not be willing to settle for a draw with such a big field advantage. At that time, facing Arsenal under the pressure of the army, Ryan Giggs and Ronaldo will have enough space to play their speed advantage.

In addition to this, he also deliberately made some changes in defense. Although Manchester United did not concede a goal in the first half, it was completely dependent on Li Lei's unexpected extraordinary performance. In the second half, although he was confident that Li Lei could continue to play like this, he would not put all his bets on this point.

Shrinking the defensive line on both sides, comprehensively blocking the middle, and letting go of the defense on both sides is Ferguson's method.

He made that judgment in the second half of the first half after seeing the excellent form of Thierry Henry and Bergkamp in the first half.

He is well aware that it is impossible to completely block Arsenal's attack with the current Manchester United defence. In that case, it was necessary to make a decisive choice and use the numerical advantage to do everything possible to block Arsenal's most threatening frontal attack in the middle, and this was the choice Ferguson made.

As for Arsenal's wing attack, Ferguson can't care so much, he can only depend on Manchester United's luck and Li Lei's return.

Thinking of this, Ferguson, who had already arranged the tactical play, walked to Li Lei's side with concern and asked, "How do you feel?" No big deal. ”

"How can there be a problem, I'm not done with Arsenal yet!" Li Lei raised his eyebrows and said confidently to Ferguson.

Seeing Li Lei is mental state, Ferguson smiled with satisfaction.

The 15-minute break at halftime passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was time for the second half to begin. This last bit of time, Ferguson did not let go.

He took advantage of this time to briefly carry out a pre-war mobilization, and said loudly in a passionate voice full of inclammation: "In the second half, I have only one requirement for you, and that is to persevere!" Hold on again!! Stay the course!! Arsenal are bound to make mistakes, all you have to do is stick with them until they make a mistake and then give them a fatal blow! Did you hear that?!! ”

"Yes, Boss!" The Manchester United players responded in unison.

The passivity of the first half did not dampen their morale and they were confident that the veteran Scottish boss would lead them to victory, as he had done before. They have no doubts about this.

'Well, we can see that the players from both sides are already playing. Although the score was only 0-0 in the first half, we enjoyed a wonderful, intense first half, and we hope that the second half can maintain this high standard..."Seeing the players from both sides appearing on the screen one after another, the Sky Sports commentator spoke eloquently about the wishes of all the neutral fans.

And it was clear that after the resumption of the second half, he and the vast number of neutral fans who watched the game were fulfilled. After the referee on duty blew the whistle, the second half was not dull, but more intense than the first.

As soon as the second half began, the Reds immediately retracted to Ferguson's set-up and concentrated the vast majority of their defence in the middle.

However, Arsenal apparently adopted the same strategy as at the beginning of the first half, starting with a fierce attack without any reservations.

One wants to retreat and counterattack, the other wants to attack with all his might, and the tactics of the two sides are compatible, without any midfield entanglement and entanglement, the scene has formed a one-sided siege of Arsenal.

However, after Paul Scholes also dropped back to fully engage in defence, Thierry Henry and Bergkamp didn't have as much space in the middle as they did in the first half. After several unsuccessful attempts, their main attacking direction went to the two flanks as Ferguson envisioned.

It's just that in front of Manchester United's defensive strategy of letting you cross, but never letting you break through with the ball, Arsenal's wing attack did not have many good ways for a while, and could only make frequent monotonous crosses.

And that's where the Reds defence comes in, with plenty of defenders in the box to minimise Arsenal's cross-threat.

For a moment, Arsenal kept crossing, and the picture of Manchester United's defenders constantly pushing the ball out of the box became a regular loop in the second half.

However, United's defence is not entirely immune to Arsenal's aerial bombardment, but once the numbers have accumulated enough, there will always be a few exceptions.

For example, in the 49th minute of the second half, Pire, who was on the edge of the penalty area this time, did not pass the football to Ashley Cole, who was inserted in the back, but suddenly crossed directly from a 45-degree angle.

Moreover, the quality of the cross was quite good, with good speed, curvature and power, and it went just past the head of O'Shea, who was playing as United's left wing-back, and was very accurate to the head of Ljungberg, who was ambushed at the far post.

In the face of such a good opportunity, the Swede was very decisive, without any hesitation, he just stretched out his head and rushed forward, completing a powerful header to the top of the goal.

Seeing that the Arsenal fans were about to stand up and cheer for the goal to score, a black figure with a colorful head suddenly flashed to the far post, with one side of his hands, directly blocking the football from the bottom line, making their cheers turn into sighs of regret.

Seeing that the crisis had been resolved, Li Lei breathed a sigh of relief. He was not glad that the shot that was not too difficult was defused, but that he was completely relieved of the injury to his lower back. Judging by the sensation he felt after striding from the near post to the far post and making a sav, there was no noticeable discomfort in his lower back.

As for Ljungberg's header, it was actually expected after he saw Pire's pass. As soon as the ball flew into the penalty area, he relied on his super dynamic vision to predict the landing point faster than anyone else, and immediately began to move.

Therefore, the difficulty of this save is not too big for him, it is just average.

However, the complete innocence of his waist made Li Lei full of confidence after the completion of this save. At this time, the confidence, morale and form accumulated after completing consecutive wonderful saves in the first half were finally fully reflected in him at this moment.

As a result, Li Lei soon showed his super god side in the next game.

In the 52nd minute of the second half, Arsenal finally made a change on the left flank. Ashley Cole relied on his speed advantage to get on top of Pire's fancy back-heel pass and get ahead of Gary Neville to get a fleeting shot from Henry Henry in the box.

But his trademark tricky push shot into the far corner was easily blocked by a quick side-to-side pounce by the already bloody Li Lei, and was finally cleared by Ferdinand with a big foot in front of the Arsenal players.

While Arsenal fans were bemoaning Thierry Henry's shot, they didn't know that this was just the beginning of Lei's astonishing performance.

Just three minutes later, Arsenal were back in action. But Bergkamp's brilliant lob from the edge of the box into the top corner of the far post was once again lifted off the bar by Li Lei's incredible reflexes.

This time, in the face of Li Lei's incredible agility and superhuman reaction in the air, even the commentator of Sky Sports couldn't help but exclaim: "Spider-Man!" He's Spider-Man!! ”

At this moment, even people who don't usually watch the game know that Li Lei is excited to play and his state is complete. In anime terms, "He's already in the realm of ZONE." ”

On the football field, in addition to the striker's wonderful goal, the goalkeeper's amazing save can also give the whole team a great morale boost.

Just like now, after Li Lei made three amazing saves twice, the morale of the whole Manchester United team completely improved. After feeling the peace of mind of the gate defense for a long time, everyone in the team became excited, and even the defense carried a howling wolf nature.

"You remind me of Peter (Schmeichel), boy! Keep it up, keep it up! ”

In the 63rd minute of the second half, after Li Lei once again held Pire's long-range shot firmly in his arms, Ferdinand on the side could not hide his excitement and said these words to Li Lei.

Well, Li Lei doesn't know much about the legendary goalkeeper who left Manchester United four years ago, but that doesn't stop him from being very happy about it.

Being affirmed, appreciated, and praised by his peers is still a new thing for Li Lei, who has always been alone, and it is still a good fresh thing.

Just when Li Lei was in a state of great courage and continued to block Arsenal's shots in front of the goal, the morale-boosting Manchester United attacking players also began to slowly launch counterattacks after the team gained a foothold.

In the 66th minute of the second half, United finally played the most successful counter-attack of the second half. After Pire's shot was blocked by Rio Ferdinand's body, Scholes, who got the ball before the Arsenal players, immediately passed the ball to the feet of Cristiano Ronaldo, who was already up in speed, without stopping.

Subsequently, the Portuguese youngster did not stick to the ball too much this time, and directly over-the-top the football to the feet of Ruud van Nistelrooy. The Dutch centre-forward, who was firmly attached to Campbell's impact behind him, immediately sent a comfortable through ball to Ryan Giggs, who had accelerated forward, which broke the entire Arsenal defense in an instant.

After winning the ball, the Welsh king on the left ran wildly and almost staged a good show of riding alone. It was only after shaking off Toure that he had a kick at the goal, and was bravely saved by Lehmann under the regret of Ferguson's punch on the sidelines.

Although this counterattack did not make a final contribution, it scared the entire Highbury Stadium into a cold sweat. For a while, this even reduced Arsenal's offensive a lot, and they were very afraid of Manchester United's counterattack.

In the 72nd minute of the second half, Vieira didn't want to give Manchester United any chance to counterattack, and at the moment when Ronaldo was about to accelerate the ball, he directly put down the Portuguese youngster from behind.

Such a vicious foul immediately detonated the smell of gunpowder on the field again. Under the boos of Ronaldo's "fake fall" from Arsenal, the field was once again in chaos, and the players from both sides gathered together again, pushing and scolding each other.

And Li Lei, who stood in front of the door and did not participate in this chaos, saw something else key and important in Vieira's foul.

Especially after seeing the referee on duty show Vieira a yellow card without any hesitation, his eyes lit up.

Bright as a murderous sword!

It's cold!!

It's cold!!