Completely different from what he said in his pre-match press conference, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson was very "furious" in the dressing room.

He seemed excited, and every sentence was loud.

"We were perfect in the first round! Remember how you felt in that game, this game was our best chance! The revenge of being defeated by Lazio twice in a row before must be avenged in this game! People say that Lazio is invincible, almost invincible, but I don't believe such! There is no invincible team in this world, they must have weaknesses, you have to be calm in the game, don't be enthusiastic, just ignore everything. In the first leg, we were able to lose by only one goal because we were calm enough! ”

“…… This game is our home stadium and Old Trafford is not the place they can go wild! We're going to beat them here and knock them out! ”

Ferguson's face was flushed as he spoke, and his spit was flying.

You can see how excited he is.

It stands to reason that this veteran coach should rarely be so excited now.

His performance also illustrates the weight of Lazio in Ferguson's heart.

Since Lazio snatched his second Champions League title, Ferguson has not forgotten revenge for a moment.

So every time they play with Lazio, Manchester United is like a collective drug, very fierce.

This time was no exception.

That's because their boss, Alex Ferguson, is more like a drug than they are......

Ferguson dreamed of beating Lazio, not in the group stage, of course, but in the knockout round, or in the final.

Beat Lazio and win the Champions League. For him, this is the best revenge.

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While the players were waiting in the tunnel, the Old Trafford stadium radio was introducing the names of the players from both sides, and the stands erupted in applause and boos.

The applause was for the Manchester United players, and the boos were for the Lazio players, of course.

Sitting in the dugout, Chang Sheng's thought was that Old Trafford introduced the players from both sides separately. If this is staggered, Manchester United fans must not be schizophrenic?

In fact, there is really no need to boo Lazio so much...... The Lazio players have been trained for a long time, and this kind of boo can't interfere with them.

Instead, it will make the United fans shush their throats and be speechless the next day.

In order to watch the game, my voice can't get better for a week...... As for it?

Chang Sheng pouted.

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In the magnificent music of the Champions League theme song, players from both Lazio and Manchester United entered the stadium.

This moment. The stadium was filled with applause and cheers, which were given to their home team by Manchester United fans.

As for the visiting team, there is no need to deliberately boo. Manchester United fans are convinced that the thunderous applause and cheers will be enough to put enough pressure on the visiting Lazio players.

Then the captains of the two sides shook hands, exchanged team flags, and picked sides......

After this series of ceremonies, the competition begins.

The referee's whistle blew and Manchester United's starting striker Wayne Rooney stomped the ball forward and gently rubbed it forward. The football rolls into the Lazio half and the game is officially on!

"Hello viewers, welcome to the live broadcast of 'Earth Defense'!" The commentator started the broadcast of the game in a joking tone.

"There's a reason why this game has been dubbed the 'Battle for the Earth' by the media, and the strong Lazio season has been in the domestic league, the Champions League and the domestic cups. This includes the two pre-season Super Cups and the mid-season Club World Cup...... All official competitions, maintaining a record of total wins! No team has ever been able to do this before! Generally speaking, it is not easy to remain unbeaten in the league for a season. Lazio won all of them! Such an astonishing result makes Lazio seem to be from an alien planet, and their results are no longer possible for teams on Earth......"

"Manchester United in the first leg. Away 0:1 defeat to Lazio. They are currently the favourites to finish Lazio on a total victory, so this game has been dubbed the 'Battle for the Earth'. So can Manchester United really succeed in defending the planet? Let's wait and see! ”

In this game, Manchester United's tactics were attacking, but it was not the kind of crazy attack that didn't work together.

Still have to be afraid of Lazio's attack......

Lazio's attacking power is the best in all of European football.

If Manchester United really don't care about anything. Relying on his home advantage, he attacked Lazio madly at his home stadium. That's going to be crazy in the end......

Ferguson still has a clear understanding of this.

Manchester United's strategy is actually a counter-attack in another sense.

The first is to defend aggressively and make sure you don't concede the ball first.

This is very similar to the tactical thinking adopted by Utus in the match against Lazio.

Not conceding first is a prerequisite for beating Lazio.

Once Lazio has scored first, it's all over.

As for the way of defense, it is naturally a high pressing.

This is also the method chosen by Utus.

In fact, against this kind of Lazio possession team, the most effective way to defend is definitely not to shrink the defense, but to defend in the high post.

For example, in Europe now, there are more teams that use high defense against Barcelona, and the effect is quite good. While it may not necessarily be possible to beat Barcelona, Barcelona don't have as much of an advantage in the game as they once did.

Defensively, Manchester United definitely refers to the tactics of many European teams.

Without conceding the goal first, and then taking into account the match between Lazio and Utus, it will affect Lazio's fitness to some extent. Manchester United has to be patient with Lazio, try to consume as much Lazio's physical energy as possible, and finally take advantage of their physical decline, Manchester United suddenly exert force and score again!

A single goal can send the game to extra time.

The 30-minute extra-time match was a severe test of physical fitness for both sides, but in last weekend's league game, Manchester United's main squad was not played, so he had a slight advantage in terms of physical strength.

Although Lazio rotated in the last round of the league, not all of them were rotated.

If the game goes to extra time. Manchester United are looking to replicate the way they played away from home in the first leg, stretching the score to penalties and then going to Lazio on penalties. To that end, United have focused on penalties over the past six days.

Manchester United's coaching staff also watched countless videos of Lazio taking penalties, from which they studied and analyzed the technical characteristics and habits of each Lazio player when taking penalties, as well as Handanovic's habit of saving penalties.

It is then written into a video analysis report and handed over to the coaching staff, who conduct targeted training. If it does come time to take a penalty, Van der Sar will receive a note. The habits of every Lazio player to take penalties are described in detail above.

According to the note, the United coaching staff are confident that Van der Sar's penalty success rate will increase by 20 per cent.

That's a scary success rate......

The penalty kick against Lazio was inspired by Napoli. Napoli had intended to do so in their Coppa Italia match against Lazio. However, in the end, they failed due to insufficient physical preparation.

It can be seen that this Manchester United team is preparing for Lazio. It was a real influence from the experience of other teams and Lazio that they looked at these examples and then summarized the strategies that suited United to implement.

It's really a battle to defend the earth......

Manchester United, who have gathered the strengths of everyone, wants to have a peak duel with Lazio!

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At the start of the game, United took advantage of their first kick-off and launched a fierce press on Lazio's position.

This kind of high pressing has also caused some problems for Lazio.

Lazio's players had to speed up the pace of their passes at the back.

But the game has just started, and it's not so easy to get into the rhythm of the game.

So when he was forced to be robbed by Manchester United, he seemed a little scrambling.

You can see it. Manchester United have indeed made very meticulous and adequate arrangements on their home turf this time.

There is some reason why the media is optimistic about them.

By pressing high up, United took the initiative in the game.

In the first ten minutes of technical statistics, United surpassed Lazio in a number of key statistics.

Of course, when United reach that level. This time, there was no commentator rushing to announce that United had suppressed Lazio and began to sing the praises of Manchester United.

They also knew for a long time that there was no point in pressing Lazio on the pitch if they were not able to take the lead. This advantage will evaporate.

Until United don't have the lead, these commentators don't even dare to praise them.

They are also afraid of "losing character......

But they didn't hold back for long. In the twelfth minute, United forced Chiellini to foul on the edge of the box through a high press up front.

The referee awarded United a free-kick just 23 metres from goal.

Then Wayne Rooney stepped up to the front of the football.

The United fans in the stands began to cheer collectively for Rooney, who took the free-kick.

Wayne Rooney isn't United's top scorer from free-kicks, but he does have a record of scoring from free-kicks.

And because his free kicks are not too much, and he is not famous among free kick takers, goalkeeper Handanovic does not know much about the characteristics and routes of his free kicks, and he can't make effective predictions, so he can really only rely on reactions.

It's so close......

Once the football goes around the wall, it is very close to the goal!

It's often too late for the goalkeeper to react at that time.

Of course, a free kick that is too close to the goal is also easy to lose control of power and arc, causing the football to kick away.

So a free kick in this position is both good and bad for both the offensive and defensive sides.

Lazio waited for the wall, with a full six men lined up to completely seal the near corner of the goal, and then Handanovic was on the edge of the wall, guarding the middle of the goal.

It's a position that will be slightly blocked from view, but it's close to both posts, so no matter which way Rooney kicks, he'll still have time to react.

The human wall was finally completely erected, and Rooney set up the football.

Both sides are ready and just waiting for the referee to blow his whistle.

Old Trafford, which had been noisy before, suddenly quieted down at this time, so everyone clearly heard the referee's whistle!