PS: After a decadent week and a half, I finally got up on the keyboard again...... I feel very sorry for everyone, I don't have the face to say anything, bury my head in the code, write until 12 o'clock today, write a few chapters if I can, and I have the right to atone for my sins.

The referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half when Rio Ferdinand was carried off the pitch with a lot of anger at Descartes and Robin van Persie, and although Arsenal had the upper hand for some time to come, they were unable to break down United's fortified goal.

It's just that the expressions of the players on both sides who walked off the field at the same time are very interesting, the backward Arsenal is relaxed on the one hand, everyone's pace seems very light, but the leading Manchester United players are all dignified, Arsenal's stormy offensive in the second half has put them on their backs extremely heavy psychological pressure, if Ferguson can not make appropriate adjustments in the midfield, no one will doubt that Manchester United will be reversed or even overtaken.

After returning to the dressing room, the Manchester United players still could not show a relaxed expression, although they are currently leading by one goal, but in the face of the situation on the field, it is self-evident what kind of expression Lord Ferguson will make, no one knows the power of the hair dryer better than them, Arsenal is no other opponent, Manchester United consciousness and confidence under their strong attack to hold on for another 45 minutes.

However, this time Ferguson's performance greatly surprised everyone, because the first thing he said after entering the dressing room was not to express his displeasure to everyone, but to frown and ask Ferdinand: "Leo, how are you, are you sure you can still hold on in the second half?" ”

Ferdinand unconsciously grabbed his little brother. He vaguely seemed to feel that there was still a yin pain there, so he grinned and said to Lord Fu, "Wait for me to check." ”

In fact, when he left the game, the team doctor had already preemptively examined him, but when he thought that the old man with crooked melons and cracked dates would turn over his little brother with his hands, Ferdinand only felt a chill, so he refused the team doctor's detailed examination, insisting that he was fine, just a small blow, and that Ferdinand Jr. was as strong as himself and would never fall down because of this "small" blow.

Although the mouth is very strong. But deep down. Rio Ferdinand is still a little worried, there is no shortage of players in English football who have been injured for life because of their weaknesses, and the striker of League Two side Greenham United, Wildel, was tackled by a defender of Crowley during the game and his scrotum was torn after the game. The testicles are all exposed. It's just miserable.

If this is just a small episode of an unknown club. There is no shortage of such precedents in the international arena: in the match between our national football team and Belgium that year, Belgian player Pocconioli was kicked by Tan Wangsong in the 53rd minute, and the testicle was ruptured after the game. The other side even appealed directly to the international tribunal!

Of course, the kick of "Tan Kicking" went directly to the crotch of others, Ferdinand's kick was only passed indirectly by the ball, and it was not so serious, but this kick has planted a deep shadow in Ferdinand's heart, football is just a job, and he almost lost the sexual happiness of the rest of his life for work, and no one can afford it!

So Ferdinand simply got up and went directly to the bathroom in order to be sure, he was going to check it in person, revenge is important, in order to take revenge and lose the ability to inherit the ancestors, then it is really shameless to face the ancestors and ancestors under the spring.

However, Ferdinand seemed to have been hiding in the bathroom for a little too long, a large group of Manchester United players, including Lord Ferdinand, waited for him outside for about five or six minutes, and did not see him come out, everyone had a puzzled expression on their faces, and at the signal of Lord Ferdinand, the deputy Giggs got up and walked into the bathroom.

The floor of the bathroom was a mess, because some players had used water before, so the ground was slightly slippery, and Arsenal did not pay much attention to the decoration of the away team's dressing room, and the lights were a little dim, so Giggs also squinted his eyes slightly to see the situation inside, but he saw a scene that stunned him, Ferdinand was hiding in the corner of the bathroom, silently chanting words against the wall, and at the same time one hand was shaking desperately underneath......

"Ahem!" Giggs coughed embarrassedly and signaled to Ferdinand that someone had come in, Ferdinand was full of excitement, but he did not quickly lift the waistband of his trousers as Wang Laoji expected, but turned his head to Giggs with a little crying and asked: "Ryan, my thing doesn't seem to work, what should I do?" ”

Ryan Giggs almost fainted, but he still kindly comforted Ferdinand: "Leo, if it really doesn't work, you can get off the field, go to the hospital for a check-up first, and the coach here will make arrangements." ”

Ferdinand thought for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "No, I must take revenge on this, I will not let go of any of those guys who cut me off!" ”

Giggs was dumbfounded, he didn't expect this guy's revenge to be so heavy, and he secretly wondered in his heart, fortunately he hadn't offended him before, otherwise he would have hated him, even if he cut off his children and grandchildren, he would have to retaliate back, and this revenge would really be big!

With unease and anger, Ferdinand followed Giggs back to the dressing room, and as soon as he walked out of the door, Ferdinand asked Lord Ferdinand to fight violently: "Boss, let me go, I must take revenge!" ”

Ferguson didn't know why Ferdinand's eyes were so inspiring hatred, but he could see that the pigtail's desire to fight was very strong at the moment, which was a good sign, and of course he would not stop it, so he nodded and said to the others: "Then let's discuss how to deal with Arsenal's strong ...... in the middle."

In contrast to the hatred that pervades Manchester United's dressing room, Arsenal's dressing room is deserted as their two souls, Arsene Wenger and Descartes, are not in the room.

Descartes had just returned to the locker room when Wenger called him away, and the professor's expression was very tangled, and the brows that had been twisted together for many years were wrinkled deeper this time. In other words, to describe a woman, she almost wrung out the water.

Calling Descartes to a no-man's corner alone, Wenger stopped talking, and after thinking for a long time before hesitating to ask: "Descartes, is it your idea to change the formation on the field?" ”

Although Descartes was very smart, he was not a scheming person, and he didn't even think about why Wenger asked such a secret question, but just nodded and replied: "Yes sir, I made them retreat." ”

"Why are you doing this?" Wenger looked closely into Descartes' eyes and found that there was no emotion in them except for a piece of clarity. It made him feel a little better. Seemingly, this is not a harbinger of rebellion?

"For victory." Descartes' expression was completely resolute, and there was nothing to hide: "If we don't change the formation, I'm afraid we won't be able to beat Manchester United." ”

Wenger let out a long sigh. Squatted for a moment. Cautiously asked: "So can you now secure a win over Manchester United?" ”

Descartes looked at him in surprise. There was finally a bit of confusion in my heart, who can guarantee victory on the football field? He doesn't like to be scheming, though. But after all, he was smart, and now he finally came to his senses, and he changed the manager's arrangement before the game without authorization, which is a provocation to his authority for any coach, Wenger is okay, he just communicated with himself in private, and if he changes the coach with a little temper, he can directly press him on the bench.

Thinking of this, Descartes finally came back to his senses, bowed to Wenger with some apologies: "I'm sorry sir, I changed your decision without permission, but I didn't mean to ......."

"Alright." Arsene Wenger waved his hand and asked with a thoughtful expression: "I just wanted to ask, can we win by playing like this?" ”

Descartes hesitated, but finally replied in the affirmative, "Yes!" ”

Wenger met his eyes again, this time Wenger's eyes were so deep that Descartes couldn't see his thoughts in his eyes, but they were so intense that Descartes had to look away for a moment to avoid them.

Wenger's eyes seemed to fall on Descartes's face, but it seemed to drift far away, and after a long time, he let out a long breath, and his eyes returned to his former calmness, and he said to himself in a rather dejected manner: "Is it wrong for me to let the team play 433 instead?" ”

Descartes raised his eyebrows and stopped talking, but Wenger noticed his movements, and immediately asked: "What's the matter, Descartes, if you have anything to say, I also want to know, what is our problem?" ”

"Awareness, sir, is the awareness of defense." As a member of the court, Descartes is actually more intuitive about the changes and problems of the team as a whole than Wenger, and he said categorically: "We don't have a sense of planning overall defense and active defense at all, although everyone seems to be aggressive in the front court, but everyone is not connected to each other, most of the time they are still doing one-on-one defense. ”

This is the biggest difference between Wenger's 433 and Guardiola's 433, the front court oppressive defense, but it does not mean that your front court players follow the ball like a defender to chase wildly, you must be like a defender to consciously intercept the ball through the overall defense, the so-called overall defense, that is, everyone's defense is purposeful, organized, someone is pressing, someone is stuck, someone is assisting in defense, someone is waiting for the opportunity to break the ball, these things, are the defenders usually practice hard, But the strikers and midfielders have not done targeted exercises, Arsenal's so-called front-court pressing, in fact, is that the players in the front court chase the ball and run around, where the ball is kicked, everyone runs to where, it seems to work hard and fight very actively, but the actual effect is not good, because they are unorganized and undisciplined, just a blind run; Barcelona is different from him, their forward pressing is planned and purposeful, as said before, Guardiola is very tough and asks the whole team to keep an extremely demanding distance, why is that? This is to allow everyone to quickly find their position when defending, crocheting an impermeable defensive net, this kind of tactics and awareness, by no means can be imitated after a month or two of closed training, it requires years of accumulation and constant persistence.

Arsene Wenger saw the goodness of 433, but he didn't see the price to pay, he built a structure that was very similar to Barcelona, but he didn't do it at all in terms of the essence.

Having said that, an experienced man as Arsene Wenger is of course quick to understand his problem. Descartes' bloody answer made his whole body quickly slump, and he couldn't imagine that a new set of formations that he had painstakingly constructed was so vulnerable, which made Wenge, who claimed to be a god operator, embarrassed!

Compared with Wenger's discouragement, Descartes is now full of confidence, and he turned around to comfort Wenger: "Sir, you don't have to be discouraged, I think we are playing very well now, we only almost equalized in the first half, and we continue to play like this." We still have a chance. ”

"You mean......" Wenger's eyes suddenly lit up. Thoughtfully replied, "Let's play 451 instead?" ”

"It doesn't matter, sir." Descartes shrugged: "For me, we can use whatever formation wins. ”

Wenger was stunned for a moment. Then he laughed dumbly. Descartes was not clear. How much his words inspired and shocked Wenger, yes, the art of war is cloudy: the impermanence of soldiers. Water is impermanent. Being able to change their position according to the different opponents is indeed the highest level of confrontation between the two armies, but everyone knows very well that if a team does not have a fixed formation and style of play, it will go all out for every opponent, how tiring it will be, Liverpool is the best column, Bei Bald always uses the method of playing cup games to play the league team, it seems that they may be eliminated in every game, the result is that Liverpool is always soaring in the first half of the season, and the second half of the season is exhausted. They are like frosted eggplants, listless, everyone says that Arsenal like to collapse in the second half of the season the most, in fact, Liverpool have never collapsed faster than Arsenal.

The most important thing is the players. Not every player can adapt to all formations without obstacles, Forlan played like shit under Manchester United's off-ball running system, but after Villarreal became the European Golden Boot award, is this because he was not enlightened when he was at Manchester United? Obviously not, the most fundamental reason is that he is not suitable for Manchester United's tactical system, not allowing him to attack with the ball, just like asking Jordan to be a positioning pitcher, not only is it a violent thing, but it is also a waste of his innate instinct.

In Wenger's more than 20 years of coaching career, so far, he has only encountered such a monster as Descartes, he seems to be able to integrate effortlessly into any formation, he can be one of the two strikers when playing 442, he can also be any of the "3" in the front court when playing 433, even playing 451, he can also play well in the "1" position without hindrance, the most important thing is that he can not only perform well in various positions, but also perform better than everyone, Just like today's game, Didier Drogba, who is Chelsea, probably can't do better than him in the "1" position.

This is the treasure of Arsenal's town team! Wenger let out a long sigh in his heart, and after the knot in his heart was gone, his wrinkled brow finally relaxed, patted Descartes on the shoulder and said: "Okay, just play as you want, but can you still hold on in the second half?" ”

This time it is finally Descartes' turn to be undecided, to be honest, although he plays in the forward position of 451, but this is also at the cost of crazy running and physical receiving, in exchange for other players with good health, it is estimated that he will be out of breath after running half the court, which is even more troublesome for Descartes, who has always been a bottleneck in physical strength, in fact, he is already feeling very tired now.

But considering that the team was still behind, and Arsenal had been in control at the end of the first half, Descartes felt that as captain, it was his responsibility to lead everyone to continue to fight, so he gritted his teeth and said to Arsene Wenger: "Play another 20 minutes and see, if it doesn't work, make a substitution." ”

"20 minutes?" Arsene Wenger pinched his chin and was a little worried, Manchester United's defence is one of the best in the Premier League and even the world, who can guarantee that Arsenal can recover or even overtake the score within 20 minutes?

"If only he hadn't gotten that damn anemia." Wenger thought of this and felt a pity in his heart, people say that God is fair, before opening a window for you, he will definitely close the door for you, Descartes is like this, he has extraordinary talent, but he does not have the body of even an ordinary person, is this the so-called jealous talent?

With their own thoughts, the two silently walked back to the dressing room, and after seeing the two bigwigs in the team come back together, the Arsenal players quickly stopped their previous whispers. Let's look to Arsene Wenger and hear what the manager will do in midfield.

'You played really well in the first half. Arsene Wenger calmed the players' worries as soon as he spoke, and whoever returned to the dressing room with a 1-0 score would never expect the coach to praise them.

'But we'll make a little bit of a change in the second half.' Arsene Wenger went on to say his adjustment: "Pereira (Denilson), you take a break in the second half, we need a professional sapper, Alexander (Song), in the second half you go up, your main responsibility is to be responsible for creating a barrier in midfield, you can't let Manchester United play in our middle anymore. Can you do it? ”

Alexander. Song adheres to the nature of Africans who are not afraid of heaven and earth. Immediately puffed up his chest and replied vigorously: "No problem, boss!" ”

"Good." Arsene Wenger nodded, then asked Arshavin: "Andre, are you used to playing in the middle?" ”

Arshavin hesitated for a moment, then replied honestly, "Sir." I'm not good at this kind of passing. So ......"

"Hmm." Wenger groaned for a moment. Then he looked up and said: "Robin [Robin van Persie], you need to sacrifice a little bit in this game, we have to look at the new formation of the team. Then you go back to the bench first, and we will move Andre to the left, as for the middle......" He looked around for a moment, and suddenly pointed to Ramsey, who was looking at him with a hazy face: "Aaron, you come and play in the middle of the second half!" ”

"Huh?" Not only were the Arsenal players taken aback, but even Ramsey himself widened his eyes in disbelief.

In the 451 formation, although the most important thing is always the "1" in front, which requires an almost all-round player who can take the ball, protect the ball, divide the ball, and score at critical moments, but this position of the midfielder must not be underestimated, because this position belongs to the blade hidden behind the "1", in this formation, he is the closest player to the opponent's goal after the striker, he needs to do more than just organize the team's attack, The more important function is to suddenly insert the goal after the striker attracts the opponent's firepower, it can be said that in the 451 formation, the striker is equivalent to a cover, the real killer move, in fact, lies in this front midfield, but where the team that plays 451 (including the 4231 Christmas tree formation of the Ancelotti variant), which forward is not famous, full of halo? Chelsea's Frank Lampard, Milan's Kaka, a superstar-level player who scores double-doubles every season and assists a lot, is just a 17-year-old Ramsey, how can He De sit in this position?

However, Wenger did not give Ramsey time to doubt himself, he pointed at Ramsey firmly and said: "Yes Aaron, it's you, I've always been optimistic about you, don't let me down!" ”

Ramsey only felt that his tongue seemed to tremble, and he replied with a trembling voice: "Yes boss, I, I will definitely do my best......"

"Hey!" At this time, Descartes next to him patted him on the back coldly, and said in an impassioned tone: "Aaron, don't be like a, this is a good opportunity for you to become famous, you must not let it go!" ”

Ramsay's eyes instantly burst into a blazing light, and the dazzling eagerness even made Walcoat and the others seem to have returned to the time when they first heard that they could play the main force, and Ramsay's momentum also recovered in the blink of an eye, his voice no longer trembled, and he puffed up his chest with confidence and said: "No problem boss, I will definitely complete the task!" ”

The whole dressing room erupted in a violent heckling and the unscrupulous Arsenal team-mates laughed good-natured at Ramsey, a naïve and easily seditious little guy.

The 15 minutes of the break passed quickly, and when both teams made simple tactical changes, the 22 players who came out of the pitch once again saw that Arsenal had made two changes in midfield, with Robin van Persie and Denilson returning to the bench and replacing them with Alexander. Song and Ramsay, who had just turned 17.

For Manchester United, they removed Valencia, who had not been a bright first half, and Nani returned to the right flank, with their veteran Paul Scholes up front. It's just that Scholes, although people have the impression of being a forward or even a shadow striker, but after the start of the second half of this game, he appeared in the midfield position solidly, and together with Carrick, they jointly built another barrier in front of Manchester United's defense.

What kind of sparks will the young and vigorous Ramsey collide with Scholes, who has become a master?

However, just before the game, no one noticed a small detail, Ferdinand ran to the team doctor sitting on the bench, and said to him mysteriously: "Swell, there seems to be something wrong with my thing, what should I do?" ”

Manchester United's veteran doctor Swell looked at the worried Rio Ferdinand and asked curiously: "How do you know it's not working?" ”

Ferdinand blushed, looked around like a thief, and then leaned close to his ear and whispered: "I just interviewed in the dressing room, and it can't even stand up in front of Stacey's bikini photo, Sver, will I not raise it?" ”

Mr. Swell's old face froze, and he couldn't laugh or cry. (To be continued.) )