In the 21st round of the 2008-2009 English Premier League, Manchester United hosted Chelsea in the battle of King Mountain, which was played at Old Trafford.

The battle of Tianwang Mountain, which attracted the attention of the world, kicked off at 7pm local time in the UK on time, and as usual, Iello and Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney talked and laughed before the game.

For this league, both sides have been preparing for a long time, and they have their strongest lineups.

It is worth mentioning that the visiting team Chelsea did not play their usual four-three-three formation, but a relatively more offensively balanced four-four-two formation.

The goalkeeper is still Petr Cech, with Ashley Cole, John Terry, Carvalho and Branislav Ivanovic in the back four, Essien, Frank Lampard, Ballack and Luka Modric in midfield, and Airo partnering Drogba in the forwards.

If Manchester United really thought that Chelsea were slacking off in order to ensure the balance between attack and defence, then it would be a defeat to meet them!

Although Iroh is standing in the forward line, his position is not fixed, and the entire front court is his area of activity, and he is very mobile.

Chelsea's four-man midfield duo is muscular, but with the flexibility of his feet, and all four have a talent for organising attacks, ready to feed Arlo and Didier Drogba at any time, and if Alex Ferguson is ready to put his side in midfield with Chelsea, there is a good chance that they will lose the initiative.

The home team Manchester United's formation is still the usual 442 formation.

The goalkeeper is veteran Van der Sar, the back four are Patrice Evra, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic and Hargreaves, the four midfielders are Cristiano Ronaldo, Fletcher, Carrick and Park Ji-sung, and the forward line is Rooney and Berbatov.

With a whistle from referee Webb, the game officially began.

"CCTV, CCTV, is now broadcasting for you the 2008-2009 English Premier League 21st round of the highlight match, Manchester United hosts Chelsea, the home team that kicks off first, they wear traditional red shirts and white shorts, attacking from the right side of the screen, while the away team Chelsea wears their traditional blue jersey and blue pants, attacking from the left side of the screen to the right side......"

Zhan Jun, the commentator of CCTV's Premier League, began to make a unified opening statement.

Although the game was played at two o'clock in the morning Beijing time, it still did not affect the enthusiasm of domestic fans. It's just that their hearts are still entangled, and they don't know whether to support Chelsea, where Iroh is located, or support the Red Devils Manchester United, who have been in love for a long time......

It's hard to choose.

After the start of the game, both sides played very carefully, slowly advancing from the back, not daring to attack in one go, and had to go through a wave of tentative attacks to test the opponent's defensive level.

There were no surprises, both sides of the game focused on defense, supplemented by offense, and only after solving the problem of defense did they slowly participate in the attack.

The first shot was scored by Manchester United at home, when Cristiano Ronaldo used his super-fast cadence to shake off the defence of Luka Modric and Essien before suddenly taking a long-range shot from about 25 yards out, but it was not of good quality and went over the crossbar under the interference of Terry's high block.

Immediately, Chelsea also organised a wave of attacks, and returned the color.

Frank Lampard swooped up a long ball from around 45 yards down the middle and Drogba got past Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic to get the ball back in the air, and Iroh poked the ball forward before Fletcher and then shot from distance before Evra stepped up, the quality was much better than Cristiano Ronaldo's previous long-range shot, but Van der Sar was focused and single-handedly deflected the ball off the line.

"In less than five minutes of the game, both sides of the game contributed a wave of wonderful attacks for us, and I believe that there will be countless wonderful shots in this game!" BBC commentator Lineker changed his voice and said: "Judging from the first five minutes, there is a clear gap in the state of the core players of the two sides, Ai can fully guarantee the crosshairs of the shot under the interference of Evra, while Cristiano Ronaldo has put the anti-aircraft gun under the interference of Terry!" This shows the essential gap between the two of them......"

Frank Lampard's corner was headed out of the box by Nemanja Vidic to ease the pressure on the defence.

The players on the pitch were very involved in the game, and the coaches on both sides were also figuring out how to break the deadlock and put the ball into the opponent's goal, after all, a draw was a last resort.

The first choice is to win!

And...... And to win!!

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"Both sides focused on defending rather than attacking, something we didn't expect before the game, because before the game the players and the manager expressed confidence in the game, but what we didn't expect was that both sides put smoke bombs on each other, and sure enough, ...... The key time is to be reliable in defense! ”

The neutral commentator said lightly.

Before you know it, the game has been going on for twenty minutes, and the main focus of both sides is still on defense.

Mourinho, who was standing on the field, turned his head to look at the old coach Ferguson, who was still in good spirits, and sneered in his heart: "Defense first? Then I'll see how long you'll have to endure! ”

A draw is not an unacceptable outcome for Chelsea, who are away from home.

However, the result of the draw is completely unacceptable for Manchester United, who have already lost to Chelsea away from home, and a draw at home will definitely affect the team's energy for the rest of the game, which will not be conducive to their contention for the league title, because for the big teams, the most important thing is often the Champions League.

At this point, Carrick suddenly got up in the centre circle and played a long ball behind the right side of the Chelsea defence, and the centre-forward Berbatov, who was pulled out on the left, took advantage of his height to head the ball back to Cristiano Ronaldo, who was cut in behind.

Whether it is Carvalho or Essien or Modric, they all subconsciously get nervous, and focus all their attention on Cristiano Ronaldo, after a few seasons of fighting, I have long known how powerful this bicycle kid has become now, as long as you don't pay attention to it, it will be absolutely doomed!

However, Cristiano Ronaldo did not choose to dribble the ball himself, but flicked the ball directly to the defensive ribs between Carvalho and Ivanovic.

Whew-w

Immediately, a burst of shouts erupted from the stands.

Berbatov followed up at high speed, then took advantage of the situation to lead the ball in the direction of the penalty area, and cut inside!

Terry, who was defending his team-mate Wayne Rooney in the middle, had to lean over to defend Berbatov, so there was a fatal hole in Chelsea's defence!

Dimitar Berbatov was not greedy, seeing John Terry step forward to defend and pass the ball back with the outside of his right foot, which was an undefended area of Chelsea's large penalty arc.

All of Chelsea's defenders were stunned.

It stands to reason that Berbatov's pass should have been to pass the ball to Rooney, who was temporarily unmarked, but chose to pass it outside the box?

In fact, such a choice is the wisest choice.

As a world-class centre-back, John Terry naturally knows the consequences of leaving the defensive zone, so he focuses most of his attention on Berbatov's passing lanes, and as long as he dares to pass, he is absolutely 100 per cent sure that he will destroy the ball.

Berbatov chose to pass the ball to the arc of the big penalty area because of the pre-game drill, coupled with the inertial thinking of the defenders, when the attacker enters the penalty area, the defenders will always have a temporary short circuit in their minds, only know to run into the penalty area, and ignore the area of the arc of the big penalty area that passed by before.

- Cristiano Ronaldo!!

The camera pans to Chelsea's big penalty arc, and the local commentator in Manchester shouts fiercely.

Mourinho's eyes in the command area of the away team are about to pop out, as a top coach, it is impossible not to know the danger factor of leakage in this position, especially if the leakage is still the most dangerous person in the Manchester United team - Cristiano Ronaldo!

Ballack's consciousness from the penalty spot followed, but his body could not switch at the first time, and he watched as Cristiano Ronaldo picked up his right foot at the edge of the penalty area.

The soccer ball flies like a cannonball into the upper right corner of the goal, which is the far corner of the goal.

Barak jumped to the side in a hurry, but was still half a beat slower.

Terry stretched his leg and again did not touch the football.

Cech reacted quickly and was in fact ready to save at the same time that Cristiano Ronaldro picked up his right foot, giving him a big advantage when it came to making a save.

But this time...... When he threw himself on his side to the point of exhaustion, he found that he had a deep sense of powerlessness.

The height and angle of the flight of the football are excellent, Cech can fly from the near corner to the far corner is already rare, if it can also cover the angle of the upper right corner, it cannot be called a goalkeeper, it can only be said - goalkeeper!

'Huh'

The ball slammed into the snow-white net before it stopped its forward momentum and fell on the turf.

Immediately afterward, the sky over Old Trafford erupted with tremendous energy that swept across the pitch.

“gooooooooooooooooooooooal――”

The MUTV commentator in the live studio shouted hoarsely.

After the goal, Cristiano Ronaldo was very emotional and emotional, and he ran directly to the right corner, raising his arms and shouting.

"Berbatov passed beautifully, Cristiano Ronaldo shot even better!! His goal helped United take a one-goal lead over Chelsea at home, and now the pressure is on the visiting team...... "BBC commentator Lineker changed his voice when he saw the camera on Elo's face: "Cristiano Ronaldo has fulfilled his promise, then Ai in the camera must respond in the shortest possible time!" ”