When home and away games are played in the same city, it means a derby.

Derbies tend to smell of gunpowder, and fans on both sides can become calculating, such as fans of Milan's two teams, who deliberately refer to the same stadium as San Siro and Meazza Stadium. Of course, most derbies won't be the same stadium, like Madrid, like London, like Manchester.

Compared to Manchester City's somewhat popular city stadium, Old Trafford has become one of the symbols of English football. Due to Manchester United, when people think of English stadiums, the first thing that comes to mind is not the luxurious Wembley Stadium, but the stadium known as the "Theatre of Dreams".

Old Trafford has been expanded several times over the past two decades and is now the second largest stadium in England after Wembley Stadium and one of three five-star stadiums in England. But modernity isn't just the main label of the stadium, history is the most striking part of the stadium, with the famous bronze statue of Matt Busby, the memorial Munich clock, which represents a painful memory, and the museum that symbolizes countless honors...... It's all about the 100-year history of the course.

This is undoubtedly a special course. Moreover, with a special host.

Sitting in the dugout at Old Trafford, Linson felt like he had been sent to the stands, because the dugout at Old Trafford was designed in the stands. It is precisely because of this design that the image of Ferguson rushing down from the stands with his hands raised when Manchester United scored has become a classic image of Old Trafford.

This kind of dugout design, objectively speaking, is more beneficial for the head coach because you can get a better perspective and be able to make a clearer judgment on the shape of the field. But subjectively, it is a kind of psychological pressure for the away team. Ferguson, as the owner, can certainly reach out and shake hands with the Manchester United fans behind him when he gets into the dugout. The scene is warm. But for Linson, when he was here, he was the manager of the sworn enemy, and behind his head stood a group of unfriendly United fans, almost within reach.

It's really exciting.

Lin Sen smiled bitterly in his heart. However, he also knows that most of these Manchester United die-hard fans behind the coach's bench belong to fans with season tickets, and most of them have been "screened" by Manchester United Club. After all, if there are extreme fans standing behind the away team's dugout, then if there is any accident, the most unlucky can only be the home team.

In every stadium, there will be a stand for die-hard fans, such as the North Stand in Meacha. The South Stand at San Siro, and at Old Trafford, it was the West Stand that was now on the left side of Linson's line of sight, which had become a sea of red. Due to its proximity to the town of Stretford, the stand is also known as the Stretford End, while the various banners hanging above it are also known as the Stretford End Flag. Before the game. The live footage of the game deliberately gave a close-up of the West Stand, ending their 33-year history without a title due to Manchester City's previous League Cup triumph. So the famous timekeeping banner here is now a thing of the past.

As Old Trafford is the largest stadium in the Premier League, the FA has given Manchester United special regulations on the allocation of away team tickets, that is, they do not need to allocate away team tickets according to the usual 15%, so there are about more than 8,000 Manchester City fans in the east stand in this game, which is actually equivalent to nearly half of Manchester City's home fans. Of course, numbers are never crucial between mortal enemies, and every season the Manchester derby is the busiest time for Manchester Police, and this year will be no exception.

The game was almost a replica of the Carabao Cup final between the two sides, and in addition to being dull, it was still dull, but Manchester City, who were playing away, still scored the goal.

And just like last time, it was still a corner kick. Only this time it was nowhere near as fine as the last one, with David Silva taking a corner and Adriano heading home.

Adriano, who scored the goal, raised his index finger, not to provoke the home fans, but to point high to the sky, thank God.

It was his seventh league goal of the season. Seventeen appearances, seven goals, not to mention reaching his peak, the efficiency can only be regarded as barely reaching his career average, but Adriano doesn't care, because he knows that Linson won't care, Manchester City has enough attackers, Adriano who can score goals is of course better, but Adriano who can score goals is not bad either.

When Adriano scored, Linson didn't run down from the stands, he just stood up and raised his arms high.

When visiting someone's home for the first time, you should always be polite.

Adriano's goal detonated the applause of the Manchester City fans in the east stand, but it did not dampen the enthusiasm of the Manchester City fans at home, the high singing and applause were never extinguished in the game, this is the theater of dreams, there is no shortage of magic here, even if they have lost twice this season to their rivals, they still believe that here, the team can give them a satisfactory answer.

Ferguson crossed his fingers between his legs and still looked at the pitch quietly.

Once again, the team is behind.

Manchester United's luck this season seems to have run out in the first half of the first leg of the match, and then Manchester United continued to be unlucky, the main central defender Rio Ferdinand and the main goalkeeper Van der Sar continued to suffer injuries, which made Manchester United's defense have been in a sub-healthy state, especially the goalkeeper position, which has been pitted many times this season, neither Kuzchak nor Ben Foster can replace the Dutch veterans.

In this game, Ferguson changed to 451, Berbatov was taken, Rooney singled arrow, midfielder Ferguson chose to trust the young Gibson, and the previous two games against Manchester City were excellent "Xuan Ming Er" Giggs and Scholes teamed up. This arrangement does give Manchester United some advantage in midfield.

Unfortunately, those advantages were slow to turn into goals.

Even Ferguson has to admit that in the first and second halfs, Manchester City's defense has improved significantly, in the first half, Manchester City has won 12 games, drawn 6 games, lost one, and the second half is now close to the end of the league, Manchester City has only drawn three games so far, and recently achieved an amazing round of eight consecutive league wins.

It's just the word great, how can it be that simple.

As the game entered the final ten minutes, both Ferguson and Linson had already played their final cards, Linsen replaced Adriano with Suarez, and Ferguson replaced Rooney with Berbatov.

Two of the same forward adjustments, but the substitutions are exactly the opposite.

Linsen wants speed, while Ferguson clearly wants height, which is in line with the current score and shape of both teams. Manchester City need to counter-attack, while Manchester United need brevity.

As the game continued, Linson began to have to force his urge to look at his watch, and his side still led 1-0, away from home, at Old Trafford.

If Manchester City can maintain the score until the end today, then, Manchester City has the absolute initiative to win the championship, because before the start of this game, the drama of falling out of the team continues, Arsenal lost 2-3 away to Wigan Athletic, it can almost be said that completely out of the title race, of course, the most happy thing for Manchester City fans is that Chelsea finally joined the ranks of the team, they lost 1-2 in the away game against Tottenham.

That means a win for City today, then City's lead will extend to five points. With only three rounds of the league remaining, this is undoubtedly a huge advantage.

The Manchester City fans in the stands have already stood up, clapping rhythmically and singing Manchester City's team song "Blue Moon", which used to be described as pathos, and now they seem to be particularly high-spirited. The referee is already looking at his watch and his whistle could blow at any moment and it will be United's last attack.

Vidic dribbled straight across the half-pitch and then fed the ball to Ryan Giggs on the left, but instead of retreating, he rushed straight into the opposition penalty area, and now, there was no point in defending.

Giggs glanced up at the penalty area, the Manchester City penalty area at this time, far from the chaos imagined, even at this time, Manchester City's defensive position is still clearly layered, if there is still time for the game, Giggs definitely does not mind organizing more at this time, but now, the time has run out of seconds, he is trying to force a cross, but at this time, a person rushed up from behind him.

Evra.

Giggs turned the arch of his foot and his cross from the inside of the foot turned into a flick of the outside of the foot.

The ball went to the baseline, just right.

Patrice Evra didn't stop the ball and crossed with his feet.

There seems to be no difference between the two passing actions, one true and one false, just a few seconds late, but for the defender, these seconds are very fatal. The originally well-layered Manchester City defence was shaken by Giggs, and a crack appeared.

Patrice Evra's passing quality is extremely high.

The ball flew straight over Kompany's head and then spun down quickly.

It landed in the open space between Kompany and Dunn's two centre-backs.

As in the last contest, De Jong lost Scholes again at the most crucial moment. Of course, it is not so much that De Jong is inattentive, but that Scholes has an impeccable grasp of the fighter at the crucial moment.

Scholes, who is 1.70 meters tall, is like a low-flying bomber.

Accurately found the landing point.

Then, the bombing was in the exact position.

At this moment, the Old Trafford stadium produced the best explosion for their hero, and Ferguson, who was already half-on when Patrice Evra's cross was crossed, rushed down the stands......

This is the Theater of Dreams! (To be continued......)