Old Trafford Away Dressing Room.

At halftime, the Roma players walked in outside the door, most of them were tired, they didn't have the interest to talk about the game, they were silently looking for a place to sit down and rest, and looking at the faces of everyone, they knew that they were really tired.

The first half was a bit tough for them.

The first goal was a fantastic start, but it was only the beginning, and when the game between the two teams was on track, every player could appreciate the difference between them and Manchester United, and that gap was absolute, and it was difficult to fight back in the away team.

This is the Champions League, this is the Champions League powerhouse.

Playing against Manchester United is much more difficult than playing against strong teams in the domestic league, such as AC Milan and other teams, facing strong domestic teams, Roma has a lot of experience, they know the strength of their opponents, and they also know their weaknesses, and the gap in strength will also make them passive, but there will be no situation where they have no power to fight back.

Manchester United is different.

Manchester United is an English team, and this is Manchester United's home stadium, they don't know what weaknesses Manchester United has, and they don't have much experience playing against English teams, so when the team is passive, many people don't know what to do, they can only try to defend and not let Manchester United calmly find good opportunities.

Blindly defending is also the reason for the fatigue of Roma players.

Not only physically, but also mentally exhausted, there were also people discussing the game, such as Zhang Tiehan, who was talking to Totti, "They are not good, we should take advantage of our feet." ”

Other people don't know Manchester United, but Zhang Tiehan knows very well, compared with Manchester United, the only advantage is that the overall skills of the team are more delicate, which is also the advantage of Italian football over English football, even if it is Manchester United. Their players, including stars such as Wayne Rooney, are not very delicate at their feet, such as Paul Scholes and others, and their skills are much worse than Totti, except for Portuguese players such as C-Ronaldo, of course.

Similarly, Rome had a special ...... For example, Zhang Tiehan himself, the technical aspect is not even more delicate.

In general, Rome is technically at the feet. There are still advantages, except for Totti, Montella, Mancini and others have good skills.

But how to take advantage of this, Zhang Tiehan is not clear, that is the coach's business, and he is just talking out of thin air......

Soon head coach Drinel also walked into the dressing room.

Everyone in the dressing room looked over and hoped that Drinel would tell them what to do in the second half.

……

In the home dressing room, the atmosphere of the Manchester United players was good.

Some of them were talking about the first half. Some sat on the sidelines to rest, but everyone was in good spirits, which was the opposite of the atmosphere in Rome.

Although the first half was 1-1, the situation of the two teams was completely different.

Manchester United attacked one half, Roma defended one half. Especially in the second half of the first half, Manchester United almost achieved a complete advantage in the situation, their defenders were attacking, and they were not afraid of Roma counterattacking at all. Rome couldn't have had a chance.

This situation made them very relaxed.

So even at halftime, they were happy. They all had confidence in the second half, confidence in the game.

There are also special ones, such as Cristiano Ronaldo.

The goal conceded in the first half had a lot to do with Cristiano Ronaldo, so he was a little apprehensive in his heart, and he was still very afraid of manager Alex Ferguson, who was worried that Ferguson would be dissatisfied with his appearance. Even put him off the field.

At this time, he was sitting alone in the corner, thinking about things.

It looked like he was isolated, but others didn't pay much attention to it, and for nearly two seasons, Cristiano Ronaldo didn't find any good friends at Manchester United, and his relationship with every Manchester United player was very average. A lot of the time he's on his own, and even if he works well with his teammates, the relationship is very average.

This may have something to do with his personality.

He is very arrogant, other people are very difficult to get along with him, and many times Ronaldo prefers to be alone, like the whole world is just him.

Alex Ferguson walked away and scored, and everyone immediately fell silent.

Ferguson had a faint smile on his face, looking that he was still in a good mood, and he opened his mouth to praise the players' performance in the first half of the game, but did not mention the goal conceded, nor did he criticize C-Ronaldo by name, which made the latter let out a long breath.

Then Ferguson started to set the task for the second half, he said a lot, but there was only one idea, which was to score as many goals as possible.

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In the away dressing room, Drinel is doing the same.

'In the second half, we have to continue to strengthen our defense. This is what Drinel emphasised in particular, and he also called for more counter-attacks and more players to get the ball forward with big feet, rather than counter-attacking with advanced passes.

These two requirements, the latter is fine, the former is difficult.

Fortify your defense?

Rome was almost on the defensive in the first half, and couldn't play the offensive routine of 4231 at all.

The players didn't understand it a bit.

Drinel explained the tactics of the second half, that is, to defend all the way, except for Zhang Tiehan, everyone must participate in the defense, and at the same time, it is necessary to compress the defensive formation and compress Manchester United's attacking space, so as to limit Manchester United's attack.

Although Roma's defensive ability is not good, as an Italian team, everyone still has a concept of defense, and they understand what Drinel means, that is, to limit Manchester United tactically, and compressing the formation means that the team retreats across the board, so that the defensive formation will be more solid, and it will be difficult for the opponent to get opportunities.

It's like...... Crowd tactics.

Most of us are crowded in front of the goal, and no matter how good you attack and play well, it's not easy to score.

This kind of defense is naturally very tight, but at the same time, it will also limit the team's offensive ability, and even the ability to counterattack.

Zhang Tiehan was left alone in the front court, and it was conceivable what kind of offense he could play by himself, so he knew that Drinel had probably given up attacking, and Zhang Tiehan was just a hope.

'We can't let them score more goals, we have to decide the outcome at the Stadio Olimpic!'

Everybody understood.

In the first half, United scored less than two goals in the second half, and if they concede more in the second half, they won't have another chance even if they return to the Olympic Stadium, so they have to limit United's goals.

As for the attack, it can only be handed over to Zhang Tiehan alone.

He's at the front, it's a bonus to be able to score, it doesn't matter if he can't, it's all up to him, everyone else has to be involved in defending and limiting United's goals.

For this, everyone also has a standard in their hearts, that is, one ball.

The current score is favorable to Roma, after all, this is an away game, Roma can play 1:1 with Manchester United, which is already quite good, even if Manchester United scores one more goal, the final result is 1:2 is acceptable, if the score is pulled away again, it will be difficult to return to the Olympic Stadium.

They are also confident in this.

If it is like in the first half, the defense is in a hurry, always thinking about attacking, to counterattack, and the result is that the offense and defense are not good, Manchester United naturally has a lot of opportunities, but if you are bent on defense, even if Manchester United has strong offensive ability, it is difficult to find good opportunities, after all, Roma is also a quasi-giant, they shrink the defense and return to the defense across the board, and it is not easy for Manchester United to score.

In short, Roma's tactical goal is to try to keep the goal.

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The half-time break passed in a flash, and soon the second half of the two teams began to meet.

At the beginning of the game, Rome served, and the football quickly reached the feet of Zhang Tiehan after a few passes in the backcourt, Zhang Tiehan broke forward with the ball, forcibly used his physical advantage to squeeze Scholes, and directly chose to shoot.

It was a long-range shot from 30 meters away.

This kind of long-range shot, even if Zhang Tiehan kicked it, it was difficult to have any threat, but the shot was not bad, which made a burst of exclamations at Old Trafford, in which Manchester United goalkeeper Carroll saved the ball.

"Zhang's shot!"

"It's a pity that I didn't get in! The ball was of high quality, but he seemed to be in a hurry, Roma's attack was just beginning, and he should have given the ball to his team-mates. ”

The narrator commented.

But in fact, he didn't notice that the two wings of Rome were behind Zhang Tiehan just now, and he didn't mean to plug in at all, even Totti was dragging behind in the midfield, just running forward two steps, when Zhang Tiehan received the ball, he could only kick the ball to the backfield if he wanted to pass it out, which was really dangerous.

Manchester United didn't quite understand why Zhang Tiehan would choose to shoot on his own for a while, but they didn't dwell too much on the problem and threw themselves into attacking.

Soon they learned a little bit.

Compared to the first half, Roma's defense was tighter, their formation was compressed, and even the midfield and backfield were close together, which looked like they were going to defend to the death.

This caused quite a bit of trouble for United's attack.

Their cooperation is very smooth, their attack is very threatening, but when the football arrives in front of the Roma penalty area, a bunch of Roma players in front of them are crowded together, no matter how good the cooperation is, it is useless to attack no matter how threatening it is, every time they can only pass back, otherwise the ball will be cut off directly.

Manchester United were not in a hurry.

They think that Roma will always attack, and when the football is at the feet of Roma, they will definitely attack, as long as the attack and defense will not be so dense...... But they were wrong, ten minutes passed, and the Roma backfield was still like that, the offensive side was a big foot to the front, handed over to the only player in the front field - Zhang Tiehan.

Zhang Tiehan dribbled the ball by himself, and it looked like he was going to single-handedly challenge the entire Manchester United backline.

Then the United players saw that there was no one on the Roma side at all, and a bunch of players were watching from the back, as if the attack had nothing to do with them.

What's going on?

In the United dugout, Ferguson's face darkened. (To be continued......)