Chapter 553: Who Did You Provoke?
The Premier League title, which is likely to be the result of this season's Premier League title, was played at Old Trafford, the Theatre of Dreams, and the stadium was packed, with a fifteen-minute break at half-time as players from both sides slowly entered, some walking, some running, and of course standing still and praying to God......
Before the game had even begun, there was a small incident on the pitch when a fan wearing a Chelsea shirt burst onto the pitch and then kept fighting with the stadium security staff, who broke through the barriers and ran in front of Iro.
Then he hugged Ailo before he could react, and said behind his ear: "Come on, Ai, help us kill Manchester United!" ”
Belch......
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A pre-match vignette is always a vignette, but it can never be the main character.
The second half was restarted with a whistle from referee Dean and it was Manchester United who kicked off.
With Chelsea's midfielder Mikel being sent off half-hour into the game, Chelsea's strategy in the second half was to defend first and then counter-attack, and that was their Muslim defensive system, the legendary bus in front of goal.
As Mourinho's housekeeping skill, the most practiced tactic by Chelsea players is usually to defend against the counter-attack, especially after Arlo joined the team, the number of drills has become more and more, because he has speed and skill, as long as he finds space, then the goal clearance rate is very high.
However, before Chelsea can counterattack, it is still necessary to defuse Manchester United's attack, because the current Manchester United team has a very strong ability to penetrate the middle, and the midfielders are veterans Scholes and Carrick, both of whom have strong transmission and scheduling skills, and more importantly, they have an excellent long-range shooting kung fu, especially Scholes, who is old and fine.
This, combined with the breaking ability and passing ability of Cristiano Ronaldo and Ryan Giggs on the wing, is enough to disrupt Chelsea's entire backline.
But at this point, captain John Terry and the goalkeeper stepped up and stabilized the entire backline.
If they had scored at the start of the second half, they would have been able to figure out the result with their toes......
But luckily!
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For the first ten minutes of the second half, it was mostly the home team Manchester United who played around Chelsea, and even Iello returned to his own 30-metre area to assist in the defence, although he did not help the team defensively, more often than a spectator.
After dozens of minutes of pressing, Manchester United took the initiative to slow down the pace of attack.
As a team capable of winning the league and the Champions League, you have to keep the team's attacking rhythm diverse, and if you only play in one rhythm throughout the game, not only will you be uncomfortable, but the opponent will be easy to defend because ...... It didn't take long to get used to it.
After another five minutes of the game, after a rhythmic adjustment, United's attack began to pick up, and this speed did not mean the speed of the players individually, but the speed of the whole team.
Stels, who received the ball about 45 metres from the Chelsea goal, changed his previous habit of passing the ball horizontally, but suddenly stuffed the ball to the feet of Rooney, who retreated to receive it, and the attacking tempo suddenly moved from first to third, and there are signs of continuing to rise.
Cristiano Ronaldo was fully up and running down the left flank, and Rooney faced the ball from Paul Scholes and slotted the ball with the outside of his right foot with his back to the Chelsea goal, which Cristiano Ronaldo put on at high speed.
Ferreira once again faced the strongest attacker in the Manchester United team, Cristiano Ronaldo, he tried his best to accelerate, but the speed of the two was not on the same level, but no matter how much he accelerated, he could not catch up with the latter.
Cristiano Ronaldo suddenly picked up his left foot about 10 meters from the baseline, and right-back Ferreira subconsciously fell to the ground to block, hoping to intercept the ball or clear the sideline and the bottom line, buying time for the team to rearrange the backline.
The problem was that Cristiano Ronaldo's left foot was not crossed during the run, but instead habitually slammed the ball behind him with his left heel, so Ferreira's downed block became a fatal hole in Chelsea's defence.
Mourinho, who was standing in the command area of the away team, was very solid in the defense for the first quarter of an hour, but he didn't expect that Ferreira, who had always been steady, would completely throw his body out under the feints of Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Ferreira fell to the ground in the middle of the high speed to block, which also caused the maximum inertia, which means that he has lost his defensive position, and at the same time, the holes in his own back line have been infinitely magnified.
How can Cristiano Ronaldo ignore this fatal loophole? Instead of passing the ball out, he took it sideways and cut inside into the box!
Chelsea's entire backline did not expect Ferreira to defend so recklessly, and the defender Sidwell was the first to come to defend Cristiano Ronaldo, but he was soon shaken off by the latter's successive cycles, and just as he was about to reach out and hook Cristiano Ronaldo, he was keenly aware that it was in the box.
If the opponent fell, it would definitely be a penalty, so the left foot that had just been stretched out was retracted, but it was still slightly brought to Cristiano Ronaldo's heel, so Sidwell subconsciously raised his arms to show his innocence.
Cristiano Ronaldo did not take the opportunity to fall to the ground and ask for a penalty, but staggered two steps to continue to pass the ball sideways.
Ferreira and Sidwell were shaken off by Cristiano Ronaldo in quick succession, and captain Terry naturally made up for it, but he didn't expect Cristiano Ronaldo to shoot diagonally from the left side 16 meters from the goal.
So when Terry realised that Cristiano Ronaldo had the intention to shoot and was ready to make a block, it was too late because the latter's shot was so sudden.
The ball rolls towards the far corner of the goal.
Because Terry's blocking blocked Cech's view, it was too late for him to see the football, so he could only subconsciously turn his body and follow the ball into the net.
"gooooal-" The Old Trafford stadium broadcast erupted in startling chants at the same time.
Cristiano Ronaldo was very excited after the goal, it was a three-man goal! And this is a goal scored against Chelsea, who are swinging in front of the goal, and the goal is more significant!!
Ailo scored a goal in the first half, while he scored a goal in the second half, and the two can be said to be evenly matched, but with an assist in first-half injury time, then his own table is to overwhelm Iro.
As a superstar with big dreams, there will always be comparisons, so at this moment, he is very excited, remembering the two matches against Valencia, where Iello is in the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Champions League in the 05-06 season, he is even more excited, and he can finally press back.
He didn't think he would be able to pull the score back when he was on his home turf and Chelsea were one man less.
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Mourinho, who stood in the coach's command area of the away team, was very helpless about the goal conceded, and the defender on the right side was Paulo Ferreira, who was one of the most trusted players in his Porto era, but ...... Since coming to Chelsea, he has not been able to find his form.
The goal he conceded just now was that he blindly tackled because of too much pressure, only to be shaken by the aura Cristiano Ronaldo, and then made up one link after another, and finally took advantage of the rhythm difference in Terry's defense to hit the ball into the far corner.
I have to say, this goal is still quite beautiful!
The director of the Old Trafford stadium was very thief, and in the seconds after the home team scored, he did not give the camera to Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored the goal, and his partner who celebrated the goal, but to Mourinho, who looked depressed, and then used technical means to push the camera closer and give him a close-up of his face.
After about two seconds, the camera began to switch, but it was still not to the side where the home team was celebrating the goal, but to the side of the camera, to Iro, who was standing at the front of the penalty area, he was holding his hair with both hands, looking depressed, and then his depressed expression turned into rolling his eyes.
Why roll your eyes? It's not because he knows that the camera is on him, but after scoring the goal, Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated with Rooney for a short time, and then ran over with Rooney with a smirk on his face, raising his arms and shouting.
After rolling his eyes, Iroh was speechless.
Who are you provoking today?
Carlos Tevez roared at himself with a goal, and Cristiano Ronaldo joined in the fun after the goal, this time even more desperately, raising his arms and shouting in front of him.
For Cristiano Ronaldo's celebration in front of him, Iroh didn't have much feeling, but Sidwell, who was not very good-tempered, couldn't watch it, and shouted and went over to push Cristiano Ronaldo and Rooney, but fortunately, the referee Dean reacted quickly and separated the two who might have a conflict.
And this scene has also become a commentary for the national commentators in the studio in the next few minutes.
As the game went on, Manchester United, who had already taken the lead, did not start to defend solidly, and then waited for Chelsea to attack, and they continued to attack with numerical superiority, as if they were going to take advantage of your illness.
"Haha, it seems that Manchester United have a lot of ambition in this game, they should want to use the numerical advantage to continue to put pressure on the visiting team, and then expand the score on the field ......"
Manchester's local commentators were thrilled with Manchester United's lead and their numerical advantage and home advantage.
"I think Sir Alex Ferguson's idea is definitely not just to extend the score, but to ...... Take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to beat Chelsea at home and start the first shot for Manchester United to re-enter the title race! ”
His commentators stared at the big screen and talked eloquently.