And because the United defence has always remained intact, Gosau's classic quick counter-attacks have not been used, and Gosau can only rely on the individual ability of Egerman and Kautingho to get some sporadic shots on goal. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xiao Yang was mentally prepared for this kind of scene, and when he came to Manchester, he didn't expect to win Manchester United easily.

Just kidding, Manchester United is also the hegemon of the Premier League, the giants of the giants, they have been standing on the top of Europe for so many years, if they are so good at their own home stadium, then Ferguson has been a bastard for so many years.

Xiao Yang hopes to drag Manchester United into the quagmire here, even if it ends in a 0-0 dull game. After all, the current Gosho squad is not complete, and when the next game is back at Gosau's home stadium, Ribeiro can also return, and Gosau has more personnel available, and that is the good chance to beat Manchester United.

Ribeiro was injured in the Feb. 12 game against the Zurich Grasshoppers, who were estimated to be out for two months, but after nearly two months of treatment and recuperation, he has begun to return to training and will be available for the next league game. Xiao Yang decided that Ribeiro will be sent off the bench in the next league game against Aarau, and if Ribeiro is in good form in the next league game, then he may be sent to start the home game against Manchester United, and Ribeiro's appearance can free up Avanzini and enhance Gosau's wide attack.

The 45 minutes of the first half, which was a little dull, was finally over, and when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, Ferguson immediately walked into the dressing room, presumably he would not be very satisfied with the score of the first half, and he should hurry back to the dressing room to make tactical adjustments.

Xiao Yang smiled and high-fived his players one by one before leading them back to the away team's locker room.

In the dressing room, Xiao Yang praised the performance of the players in the first half, especially the excellent play of the defensive players, so that Manchester United did not get a clear chance in the first half. At the same time, he also prepared his players for a tough second half, and Ferguson will certainly not be willing to settle for a draw at home to Gosau, and he will definitely make adjustments in the second half.

Xiao Yang also gave Tobinski a separate face-to-face lecture, and he asked Tobinski to continue to pester Carrick in the second half of the game, and not let him take the ball and play the ball comfortably, and he would have made a contribution to this.

At the start of the second half, Manchester United's tactics did change, and their two full-backs began to take turns to provide assists, Rafael and Patrice Evra were both very good full-backs, and when they started to get involved, the United attack did improve somewhat.

In the 49th minute, Manchester United's right winger Cleverley controlled the ball near the midfield, Rafael inserted it at high speed from behind, Cleverley passed the ball over the top to Rafael in time, Rafael received the ball behind Gosau left-back Avanzini, and rushed forward at high speed, Avanzini chased back at full speed, his speed was no less than Rafael, Rafael has not been able to completely get rid of Avanzini, and he has been carrying the ball to a place close to the bottom line before forcing a foot cross, and the ball was blocked by Avannzini with a flying tackle.

Rafael's cross, although it didn't result in a cross, did force a corner, and Ferguson applauded his performance from the sidelines.

Manchester United then whipped in a corner, but their two centre-backs, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic, couldn't find the spot, and the corner was punched wide of the touchline by Cecarelli.

In the 53rd minute of the game, Evra inserted an assist from the left side, he made a combination with Shinji Kagawa, passed the ball back to Nani, and then continued to step forward, bringing away Gosau's right-back Gugelman, Nani got the ball just past the midfield, before Sampedro pounced, he sent a 45-degree diagonal long pass directly to the edge of the penalty area, Rooney turned his back to Salihovic and gave the ball to Van Persie with a header, Van Persie did not stop the ball and volleyed directly, playing very threatening, However, Ceccarelli was very focused, moving early and then soaring into the air to lift the shot over the crossbar with one hand.

Vidic then snatched the spot from a corner but his header was deflected wide of the left-hand post by Antunovic and did not pose much of a threat to Cicarelly's goal.

At the start of the second half, the Reds were awarded two corners and two shots in succession within four minutes as their attacking momentum finally picked up, much to the delight of the more than 70,000 United fans who came to Old Trafford, who sang even harder from the stands to cheer on their home side.

Xiao Yang still sat firmly on the Diaoyutai with a relaxed look. He didn't look like he was completely pretending, now Manchester United's attack seems to be fierce, but in fact it does not pose a lethal threat to the goal of the Gosau team, the Gosau team is very intact at the back, there are no mistakes, and there is no absolute chance for the Manchester United team.

Gosau's midfield duo played very well, and Manchester United's penetration in the middle couldn't get into it at all, so they can now only rely on the wide attack, playing the cross tactics from the wing, but this attacking method is not very efficient. Because Manchester United's two strikers, Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie, are not strong centre-forwards, and rely more on their foot skills to solve the battle, so grabbing a header in the box may be their weakest link, and being able to force Manchester United to this point is already considered a defensive success for the Gossau team.

Rooney is only about 1.80 meters tall, and as he gets older, he is getting further and further back, becoming more of a playmaker and defensive striker, and even in some games he has returned to the midfield position; Although Van Persie's height has reached 1.86 meters, the Dutchman, who has reached the peak of his career in recent seasons, is a typical technical striker, with average physical fitness and not strong confrontation ability. Therefore, it is completely unrealistic to expect these two men to fight Gosau for headers in the penalty area against two strong, wolf-like centre-backs.

Ferguson frowned again on the sidelines, he also saw the problem, Manchester United is now completely short of his own strengths, attacking the enemy's strengths, but he has nothing to do for the time being, Gosau's defense is indeed very good, especially in the case of their current very defensive focus, no team can easily break their defense, the same way, Manchester United is also difficult.

Unless Gossau makes a mistake or a Manchester United player suddenly breaks out, it will be possible to break the deadlock, Ferguson thought, at this time he suddenly remembered the old English center forwards of the past, they were strong and strong, and their heading ability was excellent, although the other abilities were mediocre, such a center forward has been eliminated by modern football, but in the current situation, if such a center forward exists, it will still be useful.

Of course, Manchester United does not have such a centre-forward at the moment, so Ferguson can only hope that any player can suddenly break out. If no player can break out, Ferguson intends to make a substitution in a little while.

In the 63rd minute of the game, Xiao Yang made the first substitution, he replaced the more physically exerted Tobinski with full-back Cecaroni, and then pushed Avandzini to the left winger position.

Avandzini was freed from his left-back position and immediately threatened on a counter-attack. In the 67th minute, Manchester United's centre-back Rio Ferdinand launched an attack with a long pass directly from the back, and he tried to pass an overhead ball to right winger Cleverley, but the ball was headed over by Antunovic to Sampedro next to him, who quickly passed the ball to Avandini.

At this time, Manchester United's right-back Rafael inserted an assist and did not come back, Avandzini was in an unguarded state, he dribbled the ball down at high speed, after shaking off Carrick who came up to make up for the defense, burst into the penalty area, and then knocked the ball horizontally to the middle, followed by the outflanked Eggman and pushed the ball directly into the far corner, but under Vidic's desperate close interference, his shot did not hit the power, the ball speed was relatively slow, and after being flicked by Manchester United's goalkeeper De Gea with his fingertips, he hit the right post of the goal, and then popped off the bottom line.

After Avandzini received the ball, Ferguson and Xiao Yang nervously walked to the sideline at the same time, and when Eggman's shot was saved by De Gea and hit the post, Ferguson let out a long sigh of relief.

Xiao Yang glanced at Ferguson, and the old man also looked at him at the same time, and after the two had a silent exchange with their eyes, they each sat back in their coaches' seats.

More than 70,000 United fans in the stadium took a breath of relief and then gave David De Gea a warm applause for making the brilliant save.

De Gea now has no time to pay attention to the enthusiasm of the fans, he is nervously directing his teammates to stand in a defensive position, Gosau's corner kicks give him a strong sense of pressure, Eggman, Kautinhovic, Salihovic, Chivali, Antunovic and others are all about 1.9 meters tall, these big men are standing in the Manchester United penalty area ready to fight for the top, the kind of pressure on the goalkeeper is not what ordinary people can imagine.

When Avazini took a corner, Egerman jumped high after a sprint, a powerful header rushed to the top, hit the ball, the ball flew straight to the upper right corner of the goal, a header at such a bad angle, although De Gea made a save, but it was already beyond the reach of the whip, but at this time Manchester United player Nani made a meritorious service, he happened to stand next to the right post of the goal, saw the ball flying over, he subconsciously jumped up, and pushed the ball out, just when Coldinhoe wanted to make up the shot, Carrick took the first kick to drive the ball out of the bottom line.

Egerman's strike sent the United players and fans in a cold sweat as De Gea got up from the ground, walked over to Nani and slapped him on the back to thank him for the rescue.

Seeing Avazini go to the other side to take the corner, De Gea returned to the middle of the net and began to direct his players to take defensive positions again.

Avandzini's second corner was snatched by Ferdinand, but he only managed to get the ball in the middle of the game with Cottinhoe, and the ball changed direction and flew off the other sideline.

Avazini continued to take the corner, this time it was Salihovic who grabbed the header and hit the goal, this ball was very powerful, but because the angle was too positive, it was directly obtained by De Gea, De Gea made a forward pounce, pressed the ball under him, and then got up from the ground after a while, and did not immediately get up from the ground and throw the ball to launch a counterattack, it seems that he also has some lingering feelings about the successive attacks of the Gosau team.

Ferguson walked to the pitch and yelled at his protégés, looking unhappy that Gosau had threatened the United goal in a row, and he told his players to concentrate their attention.

After yelling, Ferguson returned to his seat. In fact, he is not really angry, the current situation requires Manchester United to press the attack, but pressing too much will inevitably leave Gosau a chance to counterattack, which is inevitable, and Ferguson's yelling is just to put some pressure on his disciples to perform better in the later games.

In the games that followed, United's attack did not improve much, always thundering loudly and raining little, and most of their crosses were headed out by Salihovic and Chivali, who did not pose much of a threat. United now have more than 60 per cent possession, but have only seven shots on goal, including only two on target, both of which were just outside the box and did not pose much of a threat to Cicarelly.

Gosau didn't get any better counter-attacking opportunities after threatening the United goal a few times in a row, and the two full-backs never provided assists at the same time, they always kept at least one man at the back, and Carrick easily left the assists, so the United defence was basically intact.

The stalemate made Ferguson hesitate, he hoped to break the balance on the field by substitutions, and in the current situation, it is difficult to break through the defense of the Gosho team if he does not increase the number of offensive troops, but if he increases the attacking players, he is very afraid of the Gosho team's counterattack.

In fact, in Ferguson's heart, if the home team can play 0:0 with the Gosho team, it is not an unacceptable result, at least it fails to let the Gosau team score away goals, then in the next round of the away game against the Gosau team, Manchester United only needs to get a draw of more than 1:1 to advance.

Ferguson doesn't believe that Xiao Yang will play a defensive counter-attack when he returns to home, and if Gosau takes the initiative to press and attack, Manchester United will definitely have a chance to score.

Just when Ferguson hesitated, the game had reached the 75th minute of the second half, the players on the bench of Manchester United were called up by the assistant coach to warm up on the sidelines, Ferguson glanced at the substitutes and made up his mind, he decided not to change his tactics, but to change a few people on the offensive line, maybe the new ones have better footwork.

Ferguson replaced Cleverley with Ryan Giggs, Rooney with Welbeck and Shinji Kagawa with Hernandez, and he dropped Van Persie back to a central midfield position, allowing Welbeck to partner Hernandez "Little Pea" in attack.

Ryan Giggs is a 40-year-old veteran who has been in good form and has featured a number of games for United this season, mostly as a substitute, but has often excelled.

Welbeck is also a young centre-forward that Ferguson has high hopes for, his header ability is the best among Manchester United's strikers, although he is still frizzy and has average shooting skills, but he may play a bigger role than Rooney in this situation, not to mention that he is also a lucky player, often playing as a substitute.

Hernandez, on the other hand, is a very flexible and skilled striker with a high scoring rate, often scoring from the bench, and Ferguson hopes that his flexibility and positivity will disrupt Gosau's tight defence.

Ferguson's substitutions had an effect, with Ryan Giggs coming on and being very active, and although he was at the end of his career, he was very experienced, and when he unleashed all his energy in the space of fifteen minutes, he was still very threatening. He came on and switched positions with Nani and played as a left winger, with a couple of crosses down the left flank.

And Welbeck, a player who is 1.85m tall and has very good physical fitness, did not fall behind in the confrontation with Gossau central defender Chevali who marked him, his presence gave Manchester United a clear target in his wide crosses, and he also fought for two headers, one to Van Persie at the edge of the penalty area, giving Van Persie a long-range opportunity, forcing Carreli to make a wonderful save, which made the Gossau players break out in a cold sweat.

Another time, Welbeck gave the ball to Hernandez on the other side, "Little Pea" received the ball and burst into the penalty area, he wanted to get rid of Salihovic, who was marking him, to get a chance to shoot, but Salishhovic has been clinging to Hernandez, never let him find a chance to shoot, and finally Hernandez forced to accelerate the ball to the bottom line, Salihovic decisively fell to the ground and tackled, shoveled the ball out of the bottom line, Hernandez's foot also tripped on Salihovic's body, he fell in the penalty area.

Hernandez lay on the ground and looked at the referee Roki, and raised his hand to signal Salihovic to tackle him, it was a penalty, but Rocchi ignored him, Hernandez received the ball when Roki had run nearby, he saw very clearly, Salihovic's tackle was very clean, and his feet were not raised when he tackled, he was tightly attached to the ground to shovel over, Hernandez was completely unable to hold his feet before he was tripped, he didn't blow Hernandez fake fall is already very interesting.

In the end, Manchester United won a corner, and Hernandez saw that referee Rocchi ignored his protests, so he had to get up from the ground and prepare to participate in the corner kick attack.

Manchester United's corner kick was pushed out of the penalty area by Egerman, who returned to the defense, and after Sampedro won the ball, he directly passed the ball to the feet of Avandini on the left, but due to the lack of strength of the Gosau team to put in the counterattack, Avandzini took the ball to the front and was cut off by Carrick and Evra.

United then launched a counter-attack, with Ryan Giggs cutting inside on the left and firing a long-range shot from the edge of the box, which cut a strange arc in the air before hitting the left-hand post of the Gossau goal and bounced off the line.

The shot also sent Cicarelli out in a cold sweat and was United's most dangerous shot of the game.

Xiao Yang frowned, he didn't expect the 40-year-old Giggs to be such a big threat. He looked at the time, and it was already 80 minutes and he immediately replaced Kautingho with Silva and Horensten with Cabanas.

Silva played as a trailing centre-back in the box and his experience could fill the void in the last line of defence, while Cabanas formed a back pair with Antunovic and Alex Sampedro was moved to the right wing-back position to mark Ryan Giggs.

Xiao Yang's adjustment was immediate, although Giggs is very capable, but after all, he is already a veteran over forty years old, and his physical fitness is not as good as it was at the beginning, Sampedro's speed and confrontation ability are stronger than him, and after focusing on him, his performance immediately dimmed.

And Silva is very experienced, with him to fill the holes in Gosau's defence, Hernandez is more and more flexible, he has less and less space to use, and with Hernandez's physical confrontation ability, he is also quickly useless.

The end of the game was fast approaching, and United were unable to break down Gosau's defence, and Avazini and Egerman were always roaming the backfield of United, which also kept Ferguson unable to make a desperate gamble to put all his players on the attack.

In the end, the game ended in Ferguson's hesitation, and the two teams played 90 minutes of play with a 0-0 score.

When Rocchi blew the whistle at the end of the game, Ferguson also let out a long breath, although Manchester United failed to take advantage of the home victory over Gosau, but also did not force Gosau to draw 2-2 at home like Real Madrid, allowing Gosau to get two away goals, and was at a disadvantage before the second leg of the away game began.

This result is still barely acceptable to Ferguson, and it is a big deal to play defensive counterattack in the next round of away games.

Xiao Yang walked towards Ferguson with a smile on his face and stretched out his right hand to the old man. Ferguson shook Xiao Yang's hand angrily and said, "You little fox, you must be very satisfied with this result, right?" Is it hard for me to be an old man? ”

Xiao Yang smiled and said, "Old man, this result is not bad for you." If I really let you, you'll look down on me, right? ”

Ferguson laughed and said, "That's a good thing you said, it's very good for my appetite." What do you think? Would you be interested in going to my house for a drink or two? I still have a good bottle of wine, '82 Lafite. ”