In the second half, United were much more orderly in attack.

They changed the confusion of the first half, and the table was relatively better, and with home advantage, United managed to get some pressure on the opening of the second half. Liverpool adopts a defensive counterattack style of play, and seeks the initiative on the field with a quick counterattack that converts attack and defense.

It's conservative, but it's effective.

Although Manchester United has the advantage, they have more possession, and they attack more, but often overall, Liverpool has no fewer chances than Manchester United, and every time they counterattack, they create a lot of threats to Manchester United, and Manchester United's attack has to face the defense of the whole Liverpool team, and it is very difficult to break through the Liverpool defense.

Despite this, United have no choice.

They have to attack, and if they change and look for opportunities, Liverpool will certainly want them to do so, and then the two teams will consume each other's time, and it will be Manchester United who can't afford it.

With two goals down, United had to take the initiative.

At the beginning of the second half, when Ferguson saw Liverpool retreating to defense, he scolded Benitez half to death in his heart, and the old jazz naturally saw at a glance what Liverpool was going to do, the key is that he really can't help it, if it were him, he would do the same, of course, the old jazz at this time would not think so much, seeing that Liverpool was going to play defensive counterattack, he didn't know how many words about 'mean' and 'utilitarian' flowed in his heart.

But that obviously won't do anything for Liverpool.

Their tactics are still the same, with a solid defense to resist Manchester United's attack, using counterattacks again and again to create a threat to Manchester United, Manchester United play well in attack, they are very skillful and tacit, attacking on the left and right in the middle of the three back and forth. It also made the attack look a lot better, but the most dazzling thing was still Liverpool's counterattack.

Zhang Tiehan!

Even if Manchester United takes the initiative to attack, no one in the whole stadium will ignore Zhang Tiehan, in fact, he is still the most noticeable, and Zhang Tiehan is indispensable to Liverpool's every attack.

But compared to the first half. He's a little more in trouble now.

This comes from Manchester United's full-back, the experienced Gary Neville.

Gary Neville is a pure Manchester United, having started his football career at Manchester United and has played for them throughout his career.

A member of the Golden Generation in 1992, Gary Neville has been an indispensable defender at the back since making his debut for Manchester United, helping them to the treble in 1998/99.

He was also a key member of the England national team, representing the team at three European Championships and two World Cups.

Last month, it made some sense to Gary Neville.

Due to the quarrel between Roy Keane and Ferguson. After leaving the Scottish Premiership, he took over Roy Keane's captain's armband and became the captain of Manchester United.

Many people were a little surprised when they learned about this, but in fact, Gary Neville was the kind of person who was not very conspicuous in Manchester United's 92 golden generation.

Before 2003, Manchester United's most eye-catching man was David Beckham. It wasn't until Beckham left that Giggs, Scholes and others came to the fore. The great Ryan Giggs, the ever-trustworthy centre-back Paul Scholes, Manchester United's ironman Roy Keane and many more...... Gary Neville? Who's that?

Now Gary Neville has become the captain of Manchester United, and it is only then that more people have noticed him, Gary Neville, another Manchester United defensive general, iron man!

The era when Roy Keane was the captain of Manchester United, thought of the Iron Man. Roy Keane will always come to mind, but in fact, Gary Neville is also quite 'iron', he is a Manchester United defensive stalwart and has a rather tough style of play. It's just that Neville is a full-back, and there are not many times when he really needs to defend hard, and Manchester United's attack also needs his support.

Now Gary Neville is coming to defend Zhang Tiehan.

Manchester United's blockade of Zhang Tiehan is extremely tight, what can be described as crazy, there is Ferdinand who is directly close to the defense, Gary Neville is not on the side, he directly and Ferdinand closely mark Zhang Tiehan, coupled with Brown's assistance defense, it can be said that as long as Zhang Tiehan gets the ball, or even may get the ball, he will face the defense of three people.

Ferdinand, Gary Neville combined is pretty scary.

Gary Neville is 1.78 meters tall and weighs 75 kilograms, his body is quite strong, and Ferdinand is a big man of 1.9 meters.

It worked.

Manchester United attacked very forward, the field was pressing Liverpool to play, Liverpool played well, they chose to defend and counterattack, many times Liverpool teammates used to pass the football to Zhang Tiehan, and then Zhang Tiehan started to break out, then Manchester United came to a foul, and even a big move pulled, Zhang Tiehan was greatly affected, he couldn't not care about the actions of the opponent's hand and continue to move forward.

Then the counterattack was blocked again and again.

But the price to pay for the Reds was not small, Gary Neville was warned by the referee for defending twice, and Rio Ferdinand was also given a yellow card, but they still did it, which is also a defensive tactic.

For Manchester United now, the most important thing in defense is to stop Zhang Tiehan, Zhang Tiehan's strength table is not for the time being, he is Liverpool's center forward, the only center forward, he is always the most threatening when counterattacking, defending Zhang Tiehan, even if other Liverpool players are allowed to counterattack, there is no way - they can't completely restrict the Liverpool players.

They did a very good job of targeting Zhang Tiehan.

In fact, Liverpool's counterattack can't put many people, after all, it is a counterattack, not a positive advancement, but Liverpool quickly realized this, when Zhang Tiehan was fouled again and again, Manchester United made a 'desperate' and did not let Zhang Tiehan have a posture of showing Xiàn, Liverpool knew that it was too difficult to score goals by counterattacking alone.

Zhang Tiehan is just a player after all.

He's good-looking, he's strong, but he doesn't have much to do in the face of foul defence at all costs, and United don't hesitate to foul at all, and they have a reason to do so. Because this is the League Cup, it is a cup competition, even if they are sent off with a red card, it will not affect the league, and the price of losing is elimination, compared to the latter they are not afraid of fouls at all.

In this way, Manchester United used this kind of defense and the attack that was suppressed all over the field to gain an advantage on the field for a while.

In the sixty-third minute. Manchester United played a good ball, C-Ronaldo broke through to the bottom line on the wing, passed the ball straight to the middle, Scholes cut in the high ball, Alan Smith rushed out and volleyed straight up.

The ball went in.

With Alan Smith's brilliant goal, United pulled one back.

Old Trafford was in cheers for the first time, with United fans perhaps waiting too long for a goal, and Liverpool were so good that they were utterly disappointed in the first half. In the second half, Manchester United's table was very good, with this goal, they were only one goal behind, and they still have hope of equalizing or even overtaking the score.

Manchester United fans see hope.

After the restart, Liverpool began to look for a solid attack, and they also found themselves only playing counter-attacks, relying on Zhang Tiehan alone. It's really hard to get a goal, it's not Manchester United in the first half. If they have been passive defensively, they could well be overtaken by Manchester United.

They must be proactive in looking for opportunities.

However, steady progress also means that it is not easy to find opportunities in the face of the counterattack of the whole Manchester United team, and Liverpool's firepower is still focused on Zhang Tiehan.

Since the second half, Zhang Tiehan's attack has been repeatedly frustrated.

They were very annoyed with Rio Ferdinand and Gary Neville defensively, and that was in the league. He just fought hard with them head-on, Manchester United will definitely not be able to withstand it, they can't defend him, or even say that they have to eat a few red cards for a game victory, then they definitely have to try. But it was the Carabao Cup and United had no scruples, so he was very angry.

The opponent kept stopping him with fouls.

And Zhang Tiehan is quite eager to score, but if he wants to have a good chance to shoot, he must get rid of the defense of Gary Neville and Ferdinand, which is difficult, so Zhang Tiehan can only let his teammates pass more high-altitude balls into the penalty area, compared to receiving the ball to get rid of the defense and find opportunities, the chance of heading is greater, and in the penalty area, the two will not take the initiative to foul.

Soon, Liverpool frequently began to use high-altitude balls to create opportunities for Zhang Tiehan.

With this kind of attack, the United goal looks precarious, and those who are optimistic are starting to worry about the goal, and if Liverpool score another goal at this point, the United can hardly say that there is almost no hope of victory.

Finally in the 78th minute, Garcia's pass on the wing gave Zhang Tiehan the best chance.

It was a lobbed pass from near the corner flagstick.

The ball was quite far away, and Garcia played it quite well, and the ball arced through the air and hoisted directly to the right, where Zhang Tiehan was.

At this time, Zhang Tiehan carried Ferdinand and jumped up on the spot.

All eyes were on the audience.

"Zhang!" The narrator shouted.

Zhang Tiehan and Ferdinand jumped on the ground almost at the same time, the two squeezed each other, and as a result, Ferdinand lost to Zhang Tiehan, and his body turned to the side to lose some opportunities to catch the ball, but Zhang Tiehan also lost the header to almost hit the goal, so he used his chest to unload the ball to listen to the ball.

On the other side, Gary Neville only rushed over.

The football hit Zhang Tiehan's chest, fell to the grass and bounced upwards on the spot, Zhang Tiehan also landed at the same time, turned around and swung out his right leg on the spot.

"Zhang's shot!" Almost all the narrators blurted out.

Ferdinand was squeezed by Zhang Tiehan and had lost the opportunity to stop Zhang Tiehan, while Gary Neville was on the side, and he waved his foot almost at the same time as Zhang Tiehan.

The hearts of everyone in the audience were tugging.

The right foot waved with the sound of the wind, and the surface of the foot was directly pumped on the jumping football, Zhang Tiehan took the lead in kicking the ball, and the football turned sharply towards the goal. At the same time, another foot also rushed over from the front and kicked directly on Zhang Tiehan's bare foot.

Gary Neville's toes and Zhang Tiehan's feet were bare together.

Zhang Tiehan immediately stood unsteadily, fell headlong on the grass, and Gary Neville was also brought down by Zhang Tiehan's force.

In front of the Manchester United goal, Van der Sar was ready to make a save.

But when the football really shot out from Zhang Tiehan's feet, he still had no reaction, and could only watch the football fly into the goal, for Zhang Tiehan's shot, the ball was too close, too easy, as long as he didn't rush into the goalkeeper's arms, almost no goalkeeper could save it.

The ball went in.

Liverpool fans cheered, and various commentators also excitedly talked about Zhang Tiehan's goal, plus this goal, Zhang Tiehan completed a hat-trick at Old Trafford, which is definitely something worth talking about.

But the cheers didn't last long, and soon everyone noticed Zhang Tiehan and Gary Neville who fell to the ground.

Zhang Tiehan covered his right leg and bared his teeth, and on the other side, Gary Neville was no better, he clenched his right foot, and the sweat on his face dripped down his cheeks, and it could be seen that both of them were quite sad.

Soon the team doctors of both sides carried stretchers on the field.

Zhang Tiehan and Jia Neville were both carried off on stretchers, and it didn't take long for Manchester United and Liverpool to ask for substitutions respectively, Zhang Tiehan and Gary Neville were replaced, and it was obvious that both of them were injured lightly.

For those fans who care about Zhang Tiehan, the game doesn't seem to matter anymore. (To be continued......)