Manchester United did not take Derby's attack to heart, because Derby County did not attack many times and did not pose any threat, and most of their players were still defending at the back, so Manchester United were able to push steadily and continue to look for opportunities around the Derby half.

But United didn't find much of a good opportunity.

Manchester United's attack continued, but there was no threat to the ball, and the Manchester United players on the field soon found that every time they dribbled the ball in the front court, they would be intercepted by at least two players, if it was only 1v1, they were confident that they could at least protect the ball, but the two defenders were a little difficult, after all, the strength of the players on the Derby County side was not too bad, and they could not break through the opponent at will.

As a result, Manchester United conceded goals in front of the pitch in a row, and the attack was inexplicably stopped again and again.

For more than 20 minutes in a row, many people were surprised to find that Manchester United did not even have a threatening shot on goal, most of their attacks ended outside the penalty area, and several passes to the ball in the box were also quickly cleared by Derby County, and did not pose any threat.

This situation is surprising.

Just twenty minutes without a threatening shot is already surprising, think about it, this is a game between Manchester United and Derby County, the latter is a First Division team, even if they are the champions of the First Division this season, but they have not yet left the circle of the First Division, and Manchester United is a giant team in the top league, one of the strongest teams in the world, the difference in strength between the two teams is very large, in the imagination of many people, this should be Manchester United without suspense to suppress Derby County and win the game, but the current situation is, United pressed but didn't threaten the ball as Derby County held the back of the net.

The reporters in the media gallery were amazed.

They didn't expect the game to start like this, in their impression, to talk about attack, Derby County really did a good job, but defensive? Derby County didn't defend very strongly. They haven't seen a few times in a season when they've been defensively better.

That's what surprised them, because on the pitch right now, Derby County's energy is on defense, and they're doing a pretty good job defensively - you know, they're against Manchester United, how many teams in the world can keep United without a good chance for nearly 30 minutes by defending?

Handful!

It's pretty good to be able to do that!

Fans in the audience at the Millennium Stadium also saw the Derby County table, and for Welsh fans, Manchester United and Derby County are not teams they support, but Manchester United are more famous and know more stars. So in the warm-up and at the start of the game, they will cheer for Manchester United, but in reality, most people have sympathy for the underdogs, and on the one hand, they also hope that Derby County can show that they can do well and create a miracle to beat Manchester United.

So when they saw Derby's solid defense, many fans also cheered for Derby.

Along with these sounds, cheers for Derby County rang out from the stands, which made the Derby County players very happy, after all, this is not Pride Stadium. It's faraway Wales, where there are plenty of neutral fans cheering them on in such big games, and many of them are coming across it for the first time. As a result, they were more combative and defence-oriented, and United's attack felt much tougher.

At the same time, the commentators also took advantage of the gap in the game and began to summarize the first 30 minutes of the game.

This summary is counted on jù. The reason why they made a summary is because the number of previous matches is a bit staggering, "Let's see. Manchester United have had a staggering 74 per cent possession so far and Derby County are a third of them, 26 per cent, although United have only had four shots, 0 threats and 0 goals, and so far both teams have not scored. ”

'If you look at Derby, Derby County is still focused on defence, but they had six shots, five of them from the edge of the box, one from the edge of the box, and they didn't threaten the ball either, but they had more shots on goal than Manchester United'.

Surprisingly at this point, neither team threatened to shoot on goal, but Derby County had more shots on goal than Manchester United.

It's weird.

But considering that Derby County have all five of their long-range shots, this number seems normal, but Manchester United have a staggering 74% possession, but only 4 shots on goal in 30 minutes, and have not threatened the ball, which means that Manchester United have the advantage, but they have not been able to play to it, in other words, Manchester United have not found a way to break through the Derby County defence.

This is also indicative of Derby's defensive success.

And so it is.

This is the most obvious feeling of the players on the field of Manchester United, they attack again and again, but for a long time, it is difficult to hit the ball into the penalty area, because as soon as the football reaches the opponent's half, they feel that they will always be forced to rob, but often not one person, at least two, in this case, forcing them to pass the ball more, which is nothing, but the opposing players, the tackling ability seems to be excellent, as long as their passing is a little wrong, it often means that the football will be broken.

Time and time again, the Manchester United players are a little out of confidence.

They didn't expect this to be the case before the game, they all felt that there was no problem with winning this game, after all, the opponent was only a League One team, and Manchester United were very lucky to meet a League One team in the FA Cup final.

In their opinion, the FA Cup winner has already been bagged early and all they need to do is play 90 minutes normally and then celebrate the victory.

But the current situation is different from what was imagined, they have achieved suppression, but they have been blocked out of the opponent's defense, and the failure of the attack again and again has frustrated their confidence again and again, in this case, they all don't know how to play, some players get the ball in the front court, and the first time will be careful whether there will be more than two defenders around suddenly.

With this mentality, the performance of some players has been affected, and as a result, the Derby County defense has become more solid.

Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson, who was sitting in the dugout, also frowned.

By this time, the Scots were able to see the game clearly and had a general understanding of Derby's tactics.

As an experienced manager, he can see a lot of things in 30 minutes, such as the Derby method, where they rely on all the players to run around to increase the intensity of their defence, and in addition, their defence has almost no gaps, because they use zone defense? What an old word, when this word comes to mind. Ferguson can't even believe it, because that kind of defense has long been eliminated by modern football, but now the Derby County on the field, the defensive tactics used, must be related to the zone defense, they seem to be very chaotic in defense, in fact, every player will not leave a certain range, the defense will never cross positions, the full-back is the full-back. The midfielder is the midfielder, the central defender is the central defender, the overall defensive formation seems to be chaotic, but in fact, the position of each player is very clear, and they use the method of expanding the defensive area and increasing the running to make up for the lack of zone defense.

This tactic is really obvious to the strong team, and it is also very targeted, at least it is difficult for their own players on the field to play their individual abilities, they can only play more passes to find opportunities.

Manchester United can also play well in terms of coordination. But at this time, many players on the field were not very comfortable with the defense of Derby County, so their performance was not good, and the current situation will appear.

Ferguson saw it clearly, but it was also difficult to make a change.

He can only take advantage of the game. Find captain Roy Keane and tell him to tell the whole team to, "Be more cooperative!" ”

With multiple passes, you can naturally create gaps through guò cooperation. Even if the Derby County players are all running, the human movement will definitely not be able to keep up with the ball, as long as they play well together. This situation, which is difficult to find opportunities, will naturally be solved.

When Ferguson made a move, Wan Sheng had already seen it, and he naturally knew what this defensive tactic was most afraid of, that is, the opponent would cooperate more, if he met the future Barcelona 'Dream Three' team, the kind of team that is all one-foot passes, this kind of defensive tactics will be as vulnerable as paper paste.

Fortunately, Manchester United is Manchester United, not a Spanish team, let alone a 'Barcelona Dream III' team, and their cooperation is also good, but it is actually very average, Manchester United's English football characteristics are still very strong - they rely more on the performance of the stars, rather than the cooperation of the whole team.

Still, if they play together, they can easily penetrate the team's defence.

But there is no way to win, any defensive tactics are loopholes, there can be no perfect tactics, and at the same time, the tactics are different for different teams, Derby County has so much strength, and it is quite good that the game can be played like this.

What Wansheng wants to see is that the team can take advantage of the fact that United have not yet adjusted, carry out some appropriate attacks, and if they can score a goal in the first half, even if the second half becomes passive, there is still a chance of victory.

At this time, the players on the field of Derby County are also working hard.

Before the game, Wan Sheng explained a qiē, they also know that the team's tactics are very sudden, if Manchester United understand their tactics and adapt to this kind of defense, the effect of the tactics will naturally deteriorate, it is difficult for them to defend the whole game, so they must attack.

They know what to do.

Especially now that Manchester United are not doing well on the field, they took the opportunity to push a few times to look for opportunities, and in the next few minutes, Derby County played several waves of advances.

Although they won't go too far forward, they can still do it with a long-range shot from front of the box.

United thought that a shot on goal would be as dangerous as passing the ball to Manchester United, but as the number of shots increased, United soon fell out of that way.

In the 35th minute, Lee Morris completed a volley in front of the goal, and the football almost flew out of bounds against the post, startling the Manchester United people in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, the ball didn't go in.

There was some rejoicing at Manchester United.

"Derby County midfielder Lee Morris from distance! Almost got in! It was also the most dangerous shot on goal since the start of the game! Morris is a veteran of Derby County, he has been with Derby County for more than four seasons and is one of the absolute mainstays of Derby County.

The on-site narrator began to introduce Lee Morris.

At this time, Manchester United had already sent a goal kick, but Howard's big foot was not very accurate, and the ball drove to the feet of Ribery on the wing, Ribery got the ball in a hurry to get ahead, and when Scholes grabbed back, he slowed down, and then he passed the ball to Morris.

Morris had just finished a brilliant shot and was a little annoyed that he couldn't score, but he had readjusted his mentality and glanced at the direction of the United penalty area, intending to find a chance again, but at this time Manchester United's defence was solid and no team-mate was too far forward, so Morris passed back to Ribery.

Ribery regained the ball, still had to face Scholes's defense, he did not make any pause, because another player, Manchester United full-back C-Ronaldo, also followed, so Ribery passed to Morris, the two fell to their feet several times, seeing that his teammates could not break the ball, Manchester United central defender Silvestre couldn't help but press up.

At this moment, Morris suddenly pushed the ball towards the right side!

It was the edge of the penalty area, more than 25 meters from the goal, it was still safe from such a distance, the United players were a little confused, and then they saw another player, a young full-back from Derby County, who followed up and raised his right foot without hesitation!

Boom!

Another long-range shot from the edge of the box!

The Manchester United players are a little used to it, and to be honest, it's hard to stop this kind of shot, because they can't still set up a dense defense so far in front of the penalty area, and the opponent shoots directly at this position, and they can't do much to limit it.

But they didn't take it to heart.

Derby County have had many similar shots before, and only one of them has posed a threat, and the other shots are almost all similar to giving the ball back to Manchester United, so it's really hard to create a threat with such a shot, and they still think that the opponent can't break down the Manchester United defence, so they can only use this method.

But that's just the thinking of seeing Layton Bynes shoot.

When many Manchester United players turned their heads to look at their own goal in the direction of the football, their thoughts immediately changed, because the speed of the football was too fast, and the angle was very tricky, and Howard in front of the goal seemed to be a little slower?

Layton-Baines finished the shot and stood still.

The United players looked back at their goal.

The ball goes straight to the bottom right corner of the goal!

Goalkeeper Howard flew to save, but his hands were still some distance from the football, and the illustrations made for a complete picture, and the next moment the clock passed, the football rushed into the United goal!

Correspondingly, there were even indifferent expressions on the faces of some of the United players, as if to say 'it doesn't matter if you score', and Leighton Baines, who had completed the shot, had already raised his arms in front of him and shouted excitedly.

The ball seems to have gone in?

Many Manchester United players are finally reacting at this point (to be continued......