Chapter 35: A Sudden Goal

C-Ronaldo didn't know that Manchester City would target his own way, and wanted to use this way as a breakthrough to find opportunities, maybe for him, the reverse is almost the same, many teams will defend against him when they meet Manchester United, and he has not considered Manchester United's approach at all.

If C-Ronaldo knew what Wan Sheng had explained before the game, he would definitely be annoyed - when did his own way become a breakthrough for the opponent's attack?

Maybe he's already annoyed.

The words of the opposing young coach before the game made him feel contemptible, so he had already planned to work hard to prove himself, and at the same time let the other party know that he is not easy to mess with, he is a real big star, and there is a price to pay for annoying himself.

From the very beginning of the game, Cristiano Ronaldo did the same.

His passes, dribbles and outbursts are very sharp, and he has threatened Manchester City's defense on a few occasions, and whenever he plays a threatening attack, the Manchester United fans in the audience will cheer for his performance, which is an affirmation for C-Ronaldo, so he is more motivated to play, the only pity is that the opponent does not perform much, their attack is good, and the speed of return is too fast, and the result is that the attack again and again cannot find a real opportunity at all.

But Cristiano Ronaldo believes that sooner or later he will have a chance, because Manchester United are much better than Manchester City, and Manchester City's defense will not be able to be solid for 90 minutes.

After many failed attacks, C-Ronaldo was still thinking about how to break through the defense and did not retreat at the first time. Every time he attacked, he had to attack very far forward, and when the attack was intercepted, he ran back quickly. The physical exertion is a bit large, so C-Ronaldo's approach is to slowly retreat and run back to participate in the defense. Perhaps the one who supports his idea is O'Shea, who has an experienced defender behind him.

A few years ago, when O'Shea first became a professional footballer and joined Manchester United, he spent two seasons on loan for Bournemouth and Real Antwerp, where he performed very well and has been in a stable position since his return to Manchester United.

O'Shea can play in every position at the back. It is the panacea of Manchester United's backfield, and after two years of stability at Manchester United, he also got the main position.

For a jack-of-all-trades player. It wasn't easy to get a regular position, but O'Shea did, and he was also able to play as a centre-back and full-back, so he has a lot of experience defending. At Manchester United, he succeeded Rio Ferdinand. The most solid backfield player in the starting line, which even Gary Neville and Silvester can't match.

This shows O'Shea's ability.

It is precisely because of O'Shea behind him that C-Ronaldo is a little slack in defense, because this trustworthy teammate can always ensure the stability of the defense Of course, in fact, there is a premise that the opponent did not attack him all the way.

At this time, C-Ronaldo was very angry.

Just now he also retreated to defend, but saw the opposing player running parallel to him. There is no acceleration run, but it must be admired. The opponent's pass was very accurate and the coordination was very tacit, and the opposing player rushed up to the front to get the ball first.

That's it.

Anyway, his defense is not so good, and the opponent reacts first to grab the ball and grab the ball.

C-Ronaldo doesn't care very much, but the guy in front of him not only grabbed the ball first, but also made a provocative look and movement 'by the way', as if he was laughing at him.

No one can stand this kind of provocation!

"Bastard!"

C-Ronaldo cursed secretly and tried his best to catch up quickly, but what he didn't expect was that the opponent's foot skills were very good, although he couldn't catch up with him, but it wouldn't be too bad, especially now that he was on the defensive side, but when he saw the opponent pull the ball, he stretched out his foot to hook the ball almost without thinking about it, and then he was easily deceived.

Seeing this scene, the commentator at Old Trafford Autumn Stadium was a little nervous and said, "Ronaldo has been deceived"

Manchester City fans were shouting Joey Barton's name with gusto

Wan Sheng was not surprised to see the scene of Joey Barton deceiving C. Ronaldo, and nodded with satisfaction.

Joey Barton is a very nerve-wracking player, but his overall strength is very good, the most rare thing is that his 'dribbling' attribute potential is only lower than Anelka and David Silva in the whole team, and his 'dribbling' current ability evaluation has 88 points, this data is high anyway, in the Premier League, it is definitely a player with superior skills.

In addition, Joey Barton does not have any technical strength, he has a very comprehensive personal ability, and his physical condition is quite good, and he is a player who is worth developing.

So in Joey Barton's personal training, Wansheng specially arranged some 'dribbling' ability training, Joey Barton is not the kind of player who is very diligent, in fact, he can be said to be a little lazy, but with a one-month gap, Joey Barton still completed a round of tasks, and his 'dribbling' ability has also risen to 89 points, and his ability has improved slightly.

C-Ronaldo, who was opposite Joey Barton just now, is of course quite good in terms of technique, he is completely a purple superstar player, although he can't see the specific attributes, but Wansheng believes that C-Ronaldo's 'dribbling' ability evaluation is at least about 95, and speed and explosiveness are also his personal ability advantages, but C-Ronaldo's ability is more reflected in the offense.

Defensively, there is a gap in his ability.

Although his speed and explosiveness are very strong, he does not use them defensively, so he was easily deceived when facing Joey Barton's dribbling, which may have something to do with Joey Barton's skills, but it is definitely directly related to Cristiano Ronaldo's lack of attention to defensive ability.

It is precisely because of this that Wansheng wants to make a breakthrough from C-Ronaldo.

This may be the balance of the two teams.

C-Ronaldo's journey is definitely a strong road for Manchester United. But being strong is the strength in attack, not in defence, and maybe it's hard for other teams playing against United to think of that. Because they played against Manchester United, they were the suppressed side, what qualifications did the suppressed side have to think that Manchester United's 'flaws' were bigger? Even if they knew, they wouldn't be able to play against Manchester United, or rather, they would be pretty good defensively.

Manchester City is different now.

Manchester City were not suppressed in the situation, but somewhat suppressed Manchester United. They use constant passing and can find opportunities to penetrate every position and know where United's defence is weak. It's quite useful for them.

If City can exploit the weaknesses they have found to break through and close to the threat, they will naturally find good opportunities to score, and vice versa. Manchester City have been in control. has been cooperating, or it can be said that it has been attacking, and if it can't be attacked for a long time, it will definitely affect the morale of the whole team, and it may be an opportunity for Manchester United at that time.

In short, whether you can score first or not is likely to be a watershed moment in the game, so it is still quite important to fight for the first goal.

At the same time that Wan Sheng was thinking about it, the Manchester City players were also thinking about it.

They think differently.

Like Joey Barton, who was thinking about the feeling of shaking Cristiano Ronaldo just now. It's wonderful, especially when you think they're the biggest stars at Manchester United and the prodigies of Portugal. Joey Barton was even more satisfied.

At the same time, he also found out that the coach was right before the game.

C-Ronaldo's attack is very strong on this road, but the corresponding defense is not very strong, and it is definitely weak compared to the other way.

United's starting wing-back on the left is youngster Fletcher, a result of the Manchester United Academy who has been promoted to the first team, and with Ryan Giggs not fully recovering from his injury, Fletcher has been given the chance to start.

It stands to reason that such a young player without much experience is likely to be a breakthrough in Manchester City's attack, but this is not the case, Fletcher does not have a dazzling performance in attack, but he is very cautious in the game, he can always retreat to defend at the first time.

In the game, in fact, as long as you can guarantee the retreat defense, there is nothing at all with less experience.

Fletcher, along with Gary Neville, is still solid on the left flank and it will be difficult to find opportunities in that direction.

Therefore, C-Ronaldo's way may really be a weakness in Manchester United's defense.

Thinking of this, Joey Barton has to admire Wansheng, you know, that's C-Ronaldo! Even if he is not convinced, how to look at C-Ronaldo is unhappy, but he must also admit that C-Ronaldo is a very strong player, his skills are definitely not worse than his own, and his body is quite strong, he can almost be said to be a natural star, such a player will become a threat to every opponent, but Wansheng regards him as a breakthrough in attack, just like this, how many people rush to think? What's more, now it's really like the coach said, C-Ronaldo's defense is really a bit weak.

Thinking of this, Joey Barton's confidence became abundant.

The other Manchester City players also thought about it, and just now they saw Joey Barton take the initiative to play Cristiano Ronaldo all the way, and they knew what he was going to do, and the result surprised them, although they did not score this time, they found a good opportunity.

They found that Cristiano Ronaldo's defense was really a bit weak.

So next, let's play this way according to the coach's arrangement!? As long as we keep going like this, we can definitely score goals and even win!

In the next game, Manchester City began to deliberately attack C-Ronaldo.

They used constant running and passing to move Rio Ferdinand and Robbie Keane away again and again, and then they could attack the flanks without hindrance, even if it was only for a split second, as long as they passed the ball, and then Musampa plus the support of Joey Barton, Morris, Andy Cole and others could keep Manchester United busy on the wings.

After a few times, Manchester United also knew to strengthen the defense of C-Ronaldo.

But the defensive effect is not very good, because Manchester United also has to take into account the attack of this way, Fletcher's left side must not be counted on, they only have C-Ronaldo's support on the side, if there is no C-Ronaldo, Manchester United is almost equivalent to losing two wings, then just relying on the middle to advance, it is almost impossible to find opportunities, then they will only get bigger and more passive, so they must rely on C-Ronaldo to lead the attack.

But C-Ronaldo leads the attack, and there will be a problem, that is, the defensive retreat may not be timely.

This makes it easier for City to find opportunities.

The logic of this game, many players with good tactical awareness will think about it, but thinking about it does not mean what they will do, in fact, they don't have time to do anything, and when they realize that something is not good, they are simply powerless.

This time, United's attack was intercepted up front, and then City launched a fast attack.

For C-Ronaldo, these few minutes are very difficult, every time he attacks after the ball is converted, he will find the emptiness of the defense, and then he has to run back quickly, but often this kind of running has no effect at all, and when he runs to the position, Manchester City's attacking threat goal is threatened, and the player who does not threaten the player is basically over, in short, he wasted his energy in vain, and the defense did not play any role. But he had to drop back to defend again, after all, he was not a striker, or rather, even striker Wayne Rooney had the task of dropping back to defending, how could he be in front of the front as a wing-back?

After Manchester City's counterattack this time, C-Ronaldo also tried his best to run to the backfield, although he knew that his retreat might have no effect, but he still did it, but he never thought that the young Belgian player who was opposite him and didn't look at it very much would suddenly plug in and surpass him?

Leto Ziegler!? It seems to be the name.

Why did this guy plug in all of a sudden, and so fast!?

C-Ronaldo was quite surprised, especially when he saw the opponent running forward desperately, it was not easy for him to catch up, you know, the opponent is a fullback, the fullback is to supplement the attack, what are you doing so fast?

It didn't take long for him to find out.

Because he saw the opposing wing-back Musampa pass back the ball, and then Leto Ziegler happened to run to meet the ball, C-Ronaldo was a little annoyed that he should have retreated faster, maybe he could directly destroy the ball first, but he didn't have time to think about anything, because he saw the Belgian youngster who cut in - kicked the ball high into the box.

Is this a cross!?

Just now, the football was still at the feet of Musampa on the wing, he had been restricted by O'Shea, and it was impossible to pass the ball to the middle, so the Manchester United players were still very relieved, but they never expected that Musampa would suddenly pass back, and then a full-back would insert and pass the ball over, and when they reacted, the football had appeared in the penalty area, and at this time there was even only one central defender in the penalty area, Rio Ferdinand!

"Good chance!"

"Danger!"

Two words with opposite meanings, but expressing the same situation, Manchester United quickly passed the football back.

Anelka runs into the box!

"Ziegler's hanging pass! Anelka! Golden opportunity! The pro-City commentators applauded.

It wasn't a clever pass, but it was well timed and the important thing was that City's defence in the box was so weak that it was impossible for Rio Ferdinand to contain the entire box alone, and even when he was in the opposite direction, he couldn't stop Anelka, and then he could only watch Anelka run into position.

Anelka didn't expect to get such an easy opportunity to face the goal.

The Manchester United players were also stunned, they didn't expect the opponent to find the space so easily, and face the goal, they hoped that the opponent could play nervously, but unfortunately Anelka knew what to do.

Now, the most important thing to do is shoot! He raised his right foot high and kicked it the falling football!

It's a powerful volley!

The football was blasted out by him like a cannonball, Manchester United goalkeeper Van der Sar struggled to pounce, he tried to stretch his arms in the air as much as possible, but unfortunately the ball was so fast that he had just stretched out his arms before the ball had already rushed over in a domineering posture and drilled into the net! (To be continued......)