Chapter 216: Halftime Arrangement
In the home dressing room, Reeves once again congratulated his friend. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Well done, Mathieu."
"Of course. John also scored, and our three musketeers are now one of you without a goal. Debich put his arm around Reeves' shoulders and smiled.
"John, that doesn't count, he didn't shoot at all, it's all the shit luck of the ball looking for him."
"Shit luck is luck! You're jealous! Cabaye rushed over and held Reeves to frolic.
There was a lot of laughter in the dressing room, and although they had an away goal, it was them who took the lead and they were confident enough to win the final victory.
Puel stood outside the door of the dressing room, did not disturb the players' celebration time, the team was able to score despite Reeves being suppressed, which made him happy, and it was also what he wanted to see, the Champions League is different from the league, Reeves alone will not go far, what is needed is the joint efforts of the whole team.
It wasn't until the locker room was quieter that Puel stepped inside, the door opening drawing everyone's attention and the locker room fell completely silent.
Puel summed up the first half, then praised Cabaye and Debichi, the goalscorers deserved, and then praised the performance of the whole team, conceding a goal, but the lead and the dominance of the game said it all. Finally, Reeves was encouraged, and although he did not score, he attracted a lot of Manchester United's defensive strength, and also made a request for Reaves to do better in the second half.
"I'll try in the second half." Reeves confidently made a statement to Puel that although the opponent is strong, it is impossible to be invulnerable throughout the game, just wait patiently for the opportunity to arise and seize that opportunity.
There was no such harmony in the away dressing room,
Cristiano Ronaldo walked to the locker and punched the metal door with a clanging sound, but the rest of the dressing room just glanced at it and went about their business, everyone knew that this was a proud guy, and he must have been dissatisfied with his first half to vent his dissatisfaction.
At this time, the door of the dressing room was pushed open, and an old man with gray hair walked in with a gloomy face, it was none other than Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson.
Everyone stopped what they were doing, and even Ronaldo didn't care about competing with himself.
Because they knew that the Ferguson brand oversized hair dryer was plugged in and working.
The 65-year-old Scotsman has been in charge of Manchester United for 20 years, and in those 20 years, he has won all the honours, including nine top-flight trophies and the European Champions Cup. One of his brilliant achievements is to awaken the morale of players by giving angry encouragement to underperforming players at half-time, which has been used as a hair dryer, Manchester United games often have a reversal in the second half and even in stoppage time, which is the effect of a hair dryer, but this is not a skill that everyone can use well, and the manager needs to have absolute control over the dressing room, otherwise it is likely that the dressing room will fall out of harmony, and the Chelsea players teaming up to do Jose Mourinho is a typical example.
"You guys are just a piece of shit, you should be ashamed to be played like this by a small team in Ligue 1, you should know that you garbage anyone takes more money than the highest earner on the other side, did you use the extra money to buy us to lose?"
Ferguson scolded while spitting on his head and face, while slapping the table with his hand, everyone was silent, even the most unruly Ronaldo obediently lowered his head and listened to the old man's reprimand, because he knew that once someone dared to refute Ferguson's words, there was only one way to leave the team, there were Paul Ince and Mark Hughes in the front, and then there were Stam, Xiaobei, Roy Keane and Vanney, etc., Ronaldo didn't want to be swept away like this, he also wanted to dominate the Premier League in Manchester United and become the first person in the Premier League, So Ronaldo continued to listen patiently to Ferguson's reprimand.
The whole blowing process lasted three minutes, and everyone in Ferguson sprayed it all over before unplugging the 65-year-old hair dryer.
"If I lose this game to a bunch of damn boys (Lille is a French education powerhouse, with a lot of universities, and this is a metaphor for the fact that Lille is full of young players), the worst performance, I must punish him for walking back to Manchester from Lens, and whoever dares to give him a shilling ride will cut his JJ!" (The shilling is the old unit of British coinage)
"Boss, we won't let you down in the second half, we will definitely bring you the victory!" Giggs has set an example as a veteran player, he was also named and criticized by Ferguson just now, playing under Ferguson for more than ten years, Giggs has become accustomed to Ferguson's anger, and every time he is sprayed, he envies his former teammate Cantona, Manchester United King Cantona is the only player who has not been sprayed by Ferguson. Once, Giggs and his teammates were wearing ties, the tie was not straight, Bart did not button the first button properly, and Ferguson squirted again. Then Cantona appeared, dressed in a white tuxedo with red sneakers on his feet, and Sir Alex turned to Giggs and said, "Look, that's the standard!" ”
Giggs did not dare to resist Ferguson, Ferguson has always been unforgiving to those who oppose him, far from it, the year before last Keane bombarded Ferguson in front of his teammates, accusing him of bringing his private life into the team (Keane's so-called private life is horse racing, several players in the team at that time had this hobby), Ferguson immediately called the team's CEO David Gill and asked the club to remove Keane, and after the season, Manchester United and the second greatest captain in the team's history were terminated.
Giggs is not Cantona and does not want to be Keane, so he can only honestly accept Ferguson's anger and make a statement to Ferguson.
Ferguson nodded, stopped stimulating the players, and began to lay out the tactics for the second half.
"Cristiano, in the second half, you have to push the ball and when everyone in front of you has their cards on them, you see that the game is much simpler."
Ronaldo's eyes lit up when he heard this, making fouls is indeed a good way, and after the opponent carries the cards, he will face less pressure.
"Wayne, in the second half, pay attention to help Cristiano attract firepower and create a one-on-one breakthrough environment for him."
Rooney wanted to refuse, but seeing Ferguson's unquestioning eyes, he nodded.
Ferguson then told Ferdinand to keep his attention, told Carrick to run more and Giggs to get more excited.
It wasn't until time ran out and the staff came to urge that Ferguson ended his tactical set-up.
"Alright, let's go to battle, I'll wait for you to return in triumph."