Towards the end of the first half, Wolfsburg finally scored a crucial goal from a set-piece after a long and dreary game. With this goal, an earth-shattering roar rang out from the stands at Old Trafford, and this roar also gave Moyes the illusion of living like a year throughout the half-time break.

Their own team is behind Wolfsburg at home. They conceded the ball after 40 minutes of stubborn play – and Moyes couldn't even recall how he explained the hapless defeat to his players in the dressing room when he started the second half, and he doesn't remember if his players listened to him.

In fact, how much difference does it make to listen or not? Regardless, Manchester United are also lagging behind.

Although this game, strictly speaking, the coach of the Premier League champion and the Bundesliga champion, both of their teams, have last season's championship as proof of their strength, such a game, it is very possible for both sides to lose and win, and it should not be a surprising game, but this is Manchester United, and the opposite team is Wolfsburg. The fame of these two has already been decided, this kind of game, Manchester United should win, and can only win, and there is no excuse for them to lose.

Moyes sighed as he stood on the sidelines: he knew very well that whether the players listened to his own explanations or not, from the bottom of their hearts, they looked down on him. In their opinion, they are not worthy of the position of Manchester United manager, and this poor result is the best proof.

Moyes knows this. Sadly, he never had a good way to change their minds. The players looked down on him because of his results. But he just couldn't prove himself with decent results, which was the most depressing thing.

I have known it for a long time. Succeeding Alex Ferguson was not so easy to do, but he never imagined that it would be so difficult to do it. All of his tactical changes to Ferguson were boycotted by the players and questioned by the media, and he was almost unable to move an inch. What made him even more confident as a coach was that although he was bent on reform, many times, when his own theory didn't work, he had to use the same methods used by Manchester United before.

Like now. At the start of the second half, he had to bring on Ryan Giggs, even if it was reluctant.

This approach has always been extremely resistant to him. Ryan Giggs is old, he's old enough to be a coach. He does not represent the future of Manchester United, always relying on him to continue his life, Manchester United will not go far - these truths are quite simple.

But what can he do without Giggs? This is also a big problem. His reforms did not show results. If you refuse to use the old ways, can you still watch Manchester United die? At a crucial moment, only Ryan Giggs can be counted on in this team, this has to be admitted.

At least. After the substitution of Ryan Giggs in the second half, the situation on the pitch has changed a lot.

Falling behind in the first half. It can be said that it has put Manchester United in a very embarrassing situation. Although it is not a big deal to be 1-0 down, maybe they still have a chance to fight back. Able to equalise, but as Manchester United fans. They don't want to watch their team being beaten at home by underdogs. Manchester United fans want to see the style of the team playing big clubs, they want attack, and this is the situation that Moyes has to face.

He's not Ferguson, he doesn't have the prestige to quiet the fans. He is also not Mourinho who can put the complaints of the fans behind him. Faced with this situation, he had to make adjustments, and after the start of the second half, he replaced Welbeck, who had not played much, and replaced Ryan Giggs, and the situation for United was very different.

Unlike Welbeck and others who have counter-attacking ability but can't control the ball, Giggs's excellent skills make him on the pitch and make Manchester United's attack slightly better. Manchester United has Van Persie in the front court, and there is no lack of skills, and after having Giggs, relying on him to get rid of the ball in the front court and try to make the ball for Van Persie, Manchester United's chances seem to have increased a lot, which also calmed the anger of the fans a little.

However, having said that, at least for now, United still don't see much chance of scoring. With only two people cooperating to attack, it seems that it is still a little weaker. In this game, Manchester United has been thinking about how to defend to be able to score, Wolfsburg's defense is also very strong, Manchester United's attack, even if it improves, can not open the opponent's defense for a while, and the game is still in a stalemate.

Such Manchester United still has to be reformed - looking at the situation in front of him, Moyes will think the same thing in his heart.

To be fair, Moyes doesn't think there are too many mistakes in his tactical reform, but if he does, he thinks he did it right: all the coaches in the Premier League have been aware for a long time that the Premier League's tactics have lagged far behind the continents, and that the need for reform is a common understanding in English football.

Because of the ban, because of the reform of the format, because Margaret Thatcher reformed the English competition, Scottish football could not keep up with the pace of the development of the Premier League...... For too many reasons, the Premier League is already behind. Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, and even Jose Mourinho and Rafael Benitez were all trying to change the landscape of English football.

From Arsene Wenger's attempts at technicalisation to Ferguson's aggressive introduction of Portuguese players. From the arrival of Mourinho with the 4231 that later swept the Premier League, to the protracted dispute between Benitez and Liverpool management. Over the years, Premier League coaches have made countless attempts to reform them.

It wasn't David Moyes who was the first to make an attempt at reform in the Premier League, and it wasn't David Moyes who was the most successful and the most unsuccessful in reform, he was just one of countless people, and if there's one thing worth paying attention to, it's that he's been rooted in the Premier League long enough, is familiar enough with the Premier League's environment, and has the most views on the state of the Premier League.

He believes this is the reason why Ferguson chose him to succeed him: Ferguson is not looking for fame, but for being able to continue the long-term development of Manchester United. After all, at the end of Ferguson's tenure, he himself had to admit that for various reasons, his tactical reform plan to bring English football to catch up with continental football also failed. He doesn't have the time to complete the reform himself, all he can do is build a team, use the English way, and his unrivalled experience to realise his dream of taking Liverpool off the throne, and more than that, he can only leave to future generations.

For him, the long-term development of Manchester United is probably the most important thing he wants to see. It is precisely because of this that he would rather choose a coach than Moyes, who is unknown but can coach a team for a long time, rather than Mourinho, who is famous and has a great chance of winning the championship but has no certainty.

Manchester United's coaches can't easily abandon their team, they're not Real Madrid, they're not Chelsea, they're Manchester United, they've got their own characteristics.

But apparently, things turned out beyond Ferguson and his expectations. Apparently Ferguson forgot that the coach may not abandon the team, but the team does sometimes abandon the coach. As a big team, there are times when patience is poor. This is not the era when he was in charge of Manchester United, and the team can give him a few years to slowly rise. Today's Moyes, even a few defeats will make fans extremely dissatisfied, his road to reform is long, but whether he can stick to the end is a big question.

His start to the season at Manchester United was really rough, losing to Liverpool and Manchester City, which was already questionable. He was expecting the team to play better in the Champions League and prove that he is not an underdog in the Champions League. At least use the Champions League to renew your life and keep yourself going, but now it seems unlikely.

There may be a real chance that he will be sacked early, or at least, Moyes believes that if his team plays as badly in the Champions League as they are in the league, then he may really consider leaving Manchester at Christmas.

For a while, Moyes was also full of thoughts, from the possibility of his early dismissal to Manchester United's idea that he might not be in a hurry to fire his own idea because it was difficult to find a coach on the eve of the World Cup, he also thought about it a lot. Maybe looking at the stadium, after the substitutions, the situation of Manchester United has improved a little, and Moyes's anxious mood has also eased a little, which makes him no longer worry about the situation on the field, and his thoughts drift farther and farther away.

However, when his thoughts drifted away, the players of Wolfsburg did not think so divergently, at least, in the face of the opponent's enhanced attack, Gao Shunyao did not have so many cranky thoughts.

Compared with Moyes's sadness, as a dominant player on the field, Gao Shunyao would never think of so many things. On the field, the only thing that can attract his attention is the game itself. The opponent replaced Ryan Giggs, and the offensive power suddenly increased a lot. Seeing this old guy skillfully controlling the ball in the front court, Gao Shunyao also had a slight worry in his heart.

After all, Wolfsburg was only a 1-0 lead. This score is arguably the least secure score in football. After all, this is an away game, and Manchester United's home stadium is not ordinary, so it seems that such a score is not enough to guarantee victory, maybe he should find a way to score a goal again.

It stands to reason that this is unlikely, the opponent's defense is not weak, and the attack has strengthened and seems to be invulnerable. However, perhaps there is an opportunity in this, and the United style of play seems to have changed a lot, and the balance between attack and defense has been broken. However, their coach watched very quietly from the sidelines, not taking the opportunity to make adjustments to attack with all his might or press steadily, which made Manchester United's attack and defense seem to be disconnected.

What was the opposing coach thinking when he was in command? Gao Shunyao didn't know, but he knew that maybe, this was a good opportunity for Wolf Castle. (To be continued.) )