Villas-Boas admires Mourinho's ability to accurately grasp the mentality of players, and there is no shortcut to success, and if you want to become a world-class manager, in addition to having excellent coaching ability, you also need to adjust the player's mental state of play.

For example, the current arousal of the players is so that they can be assured that they are full of passion throughout the second half.

After adjusting his players' desire to fight in the second half, Mourinho turned his attention to the team's technical and tactical aspects.

The visitors' dressing room was in a rather low mood at this point, and they were ready to await manager Alex Ferguson's 'hair dryer'.

Sure enough, the red-faced Ferguson entered the dressing room and roared at those responsible for conceding the goal in the first half.

When he felt like it was about the same, he stopped roaring and began to make targeted arrangements for the second half of the game.

Surprisingly, Ferguson's first name was not Cristiano Ronaldo, but Wayne Rooney!

"Wayne." Ferguson looked up at the little fat Rooney and said: "Remember that you are a striker and not a playmaking midfielder, you were too selfless in the first half, you must be selfish when you have the opportunity, you are a striker!" The striker who destroyed the city!! ”

Rooney's eyes lit up, especially the sentence 'You are a striker, a striker who destroys the city!' ’。

Only now did he remember...... I'm a striker myself!

At the start of last season, manager Alex Ferguson demanded that he make a modest sacrifice in order to give his friend Cristiano Ronaldo more chances, so many times his first instinct was to pass the ball to Cristiano Ronaldo, rather than looking for a shot on goal himself.

"I see!" Rooney nodded firmly, and at the same time clenched his fists, and said secretly: "I will prove that I will not be worse than Cristiano!" ”

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Fifteen minutes passed quickly at half-time, with players from both sides coming out of their dressing rooms and into the pitch through the tunnel of the players.

At the same time, the Chelsea stadium in the stands sang the team anthem "blue-is-the-colour".

Listening to the singing from the main stand, the home players turned around collectively as soon as they entered the stadium, gave them a high thumbs up, and clapped their palms to signal that they were doing well.

The home fans saw their efforts being seen by the players, and their voices grew louder.

Rooney pouted and said dissatisfiedly to his friend Cristiano Ronaldo: "This voice is so ugly! ”

"yes...... So we're going to do our best to score goals and stop them! The corners of Cristiano Ronaldo's mouth curled.

"Good! Come on!! ”

Rooney stretched out his right hand and clapped his hands with Cristiano Ronaldo, encouraging each other!

"Come on!"

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Manchester United, arguably the best team in the Premier League since its inception, were not timid away from home against league leaders Chelsea, attacking Chelsea's defensive heart from the first seconds of kick-off.

Just 30 seconds into the game, Cristiano Ronaldo burst into the box at high speed and smashed Chelsea captain John Terry to the top of the ball, which was slightly deflected off the post but scared the home fans into a cold sweat.

Mourinho, who was also scared out of a cold sweat, was standing in the command area of the home team, the defense just now was really very critical, if it wasn't for Cristiano Ronaldo's header that didn't hit the goal, otherwise it would be dangerous, if the opening less than 30 seconds were tied by the visitors, then this game would be difficult to say.

So he yelled at the defenders on both wings: "Limit their passers!" ”

Although it is difficult to keep a goal in the whole game in the face of a strong attack by a team of Manchester United's level, Mourinho asks the players to delay the attacking rhythm of Manchester United players as much as possible, so that their attack cannot play smoothly, so that this time can ensure that the goal does not concede goals in the best chance.

That's why Jose Mourinho asked his players at half-time to take advantage of the counter-attacking opportunities, because a team of Manchester United's level will not give their opponents too many counter-attacking opportunities.

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With less than a minute of attack, Chelsea consciously limited the two wide ball carriers, so that Cristiano Ronaldo, who frequently cut into the box, could not compete for the header, so he pulled out of the box to play a long-range shot as he did before the end of the first half, but it was too far from the goal and the chances of scoring were pitifully low.

Chelsea were given chances to attack after successfully defending two attacks in a row, only to end up with Didier Drogba scrambling wide of the post.

The two sides played back and forth, and the fans in the stands never stopped, making the players on the pitch play extremely hard.

Little did they know, however, that their goal was slowly looming.

Tevez was very unhappy in the first 50 minutes of the game, because of his own characteristics, he is not the kind of striker who rushes the point, and Rooney's characteristics are a bit similar, he needs the ground ball support of his teammates rather than the support of high balls, and at half-time Ferguson has reminded him to be positive, not to stay in the box and wait for opportunities, so this time he is ready to pull out of the box to see if there are any good opportunities to find.

Even if you can't score, it's acceptable to assist your teammates, after all, football is a team sport.

Carlos Tevez on the right added pressure to Ashley Cole as he had to keep an eye on United right-back Hargreaves at all times.

However, the effect is still not good, because the purpose is too strong.

In the 11th minute of the second half, the 56th minute of the game, it was Cristiano Ronaldo who came to the wing, and he quickly received a pass from Carrick, and as usual, when the full-back received the ball on the wing, the full-back had to perform the play-back tactic of the wing.

As for whether to pass the ball or not, it depends on the ball-carrier's own considerations.

Cristiano Ronaldo made a feint to pass the football to Hargreaves behind him, and Ashley Cole had a knee-jerk to turn around and chase after him.

At that moment, Cristiano Ronaldo flicked the ball sideways and quickly connected his right foot to a fast cross.

No one thought that Cristiano Ronaldo, who had scored 33 goals in 35 league games, would choose to cross.

Even Ashley Cole, who made a knee-jerk back move, focused most of his attention on Cristiano Ronaldo's sudden inward cut.

Mourinho, who was standing in the command area of the home team, frowned, looked at the football in mid-air, and instinctively worried about his own goal.

Because of the high quality of the ball, the ball made a wonderful arc in the air and flew towards the penalty spot.

Seeing this, he suddenly remembered that Cristiano Ronaldo was not a standard full-back before the World Cup in Germany? It was only later that Ferguson tapped his terrifying scoring potential, so he switched to playing a free man in the front court and got more shooting opportunities.

Dangerous!

As a key part of Manchester United's side crosses, although the high point Cristiano Ronaldo is not in the penalty area at this time, Terry and Carvalho still pay attention to the forward combination of Rooney and Tevez.

But what I didn't expect was that Cristiano Ronaldo's cross was very accurate, and the landing point was just between Terry and Carvalho, and Rooney ran to the point where the cross landed in a few arrow steps, and jumped sideways to head the ball.

Although Cech struggled to make a save reaction, he was still out of reach, because Rooney's fish leap was very powerful, and there was also a bounce on the ground, which was very difficult for Cech who subconsciously made a save, and could only watch the football fly into his goal.

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When Cristiano Ronaldo picked up the ball on the right flank, all eyes were on him, and this past season was the only Portuguese who could bite Eelo at the top of the scoring charts, and as a winger, he has no less goalscoring ability than Aillo, and many of United's games this season have relied on his individual brilliance to win games.

So no one dares to take the ball lightly for Cristiano Ronaldo who takes the ball on the side, Ashley Cole is serious, but Hargreaves on the set does not dare to ignore it, so his defensive position is very good, whether it is Hargreaves who is inserted behind to receive the ball or Cristiano Ronaldo to dunk the ball and cut inside, he can react at the first time, but what he didn't expect was that Cristiano Ronaldo actually chose to cross.

This is not scientific!

Rooney, who has played with Cristiano Ronaldo for four seasons, has long guessed the location of his best friend's passes, so he has a running stop-and-go turn when responding, and Cristiano Ronaldo's cross is very accurate, and he jumps sideways to head the ball into the goal.

Suddenly, Stamford Bridge became incredibly quiet.

Manchester United fans who came to cheer on the team seized the opportunity and chanted the name of the goalscorer, Wayne Rooney.

"Beautiful! Cristiano Ronaldo's beautiful passes, Rooney's runs and headers are equally wonderful!! I have to say...... Chelsea's defense made a serious mistake this time, otherwise Rooney, who is less than 1.8 meters tall, would not have found an opportunity! ”

BBC commentator Lineker said, shaking his head.

“…… Have the Chelsea players forgotten? Cristiano Ronaldo was an indispensable assist for Manchester United two seasons ago, but it was only in these two seasons that Sir Alex Ferguson tapped into his crazy attacking ability to change his style, so the moment I saw him was when he scored, and Chelsea's goal was due to their own lack of anticipation of the players......

Andy Gray also shook his head.

"Hahaha...... Chelsea's Ai assisted a goal, and Cristiano Ronaldo also assisted Wayne Rooney to score, which is really-for-tat...... Come on, victory belongs to the Red Devils! ”

The local commentator in Manchester said happily.