After Rooney couldn't open the situation in the front court, the balance of the game also slipped in Tottenham's side. Wayne Rooney is Manchester United's strongest point, he can't beat Tottenham's defence here, and it's even less possible elsewhere - not because Tottenham are stronger than Rooney in every link, but because Tottenham's tactical arrangement is more balanced, and Manchester United has made some local sacrifices in order to strengthen Rooney.

Manchester United, with Wayne Rooney as the core, has clearly slid towards Rooney. Ferguson is well aware of Rooney's problem: his big picture is true, his small skills are terrible, and he basically can't play too well in the forward midfield position. However, Ferguson put him in the center forward position: because Manchester United played 433, their attack was launched from the wing, so Rooney did not need to take the ball with his back, nor did he need to turn around, his sparse back skills were covered up, Rooney was in front, he did not need to make too many short passes, nor did he need to organize the scene, and his poor short passing skills were also disguised. In the last few friendlies, Rooney has played better and better, and his level has gotten higher and higher.

But at what cost? Because Rooney does not have the ability to break through with the ball too well, Nani needs to take the ball more, but because no one at Manchester United can keep up with his rhythm, Nani often can't find a connection point, and is even likely to be kicked down directly by the opponent. Wayne Rooney is up front, so there has to be a Paul Scholes in midfield who can control the tempo. But Scholes was too old to do much running, and in order to add energy to the midfield, the wide players had to keep sprinting and running back and forth. These problems determine that Rooney's good play is simply at the expense of the wing.

In fact, such sacrifices have been made before: in the 06 World Cup, Ribery was repeatedly impacted on the side road as an animal, even if he was at his peak, he could only last 75 minutes. What's more, Nani is different from Ribery, Ribery repeatedly impacted, activating Zidane, who basically never makes mistakes, but Nani kicked like this, and it was Rooney who activated!

Expect Rooney to have Zidane-level consciousness, which can't even be done by killing him.

High-level players, and players with slightly worse skills, can play very good football with the right tactical packaging. Cristiano Ronaldo can score more than 40 goals a season at Manchester United, and Rooney will not score much less than him. However, a player of Ronaldo's level, while playing well, he can also make his teammates look very good, and he can drive the three-headed monster in the front court to play brilliantly together, which makes people praise. And when Rooney himself plays well, he always makes his teammates look bad, and basically none of the teammates who cooperate with him are praised. Sadly, when they play like that, it always creates the illusion that he's saving the team by himself.

This is what Manchester United is facing now: because of Hargreaves' absence, only Fletcher has enough defensive ability in the Manchester United midfield, and it is difficult to defend against Di Maria's constant inward harassment, as well as Coentrão and Yaya Toure's repeated insertion, their defense has to shrink in order to be able to block Tottenham's attack. And, with too much movement on both flanks and a lot of physical exertion, United can't stand up to Tottenham right now, and they will be even more so as time goes on.

Looking at Coentrão opposite, Nani is also a little envious: he does not think that Li Bin's tactical ability is stronger than Ferguson, and as a Manchester United player, he still admires Ferguson very much. However, he could see that when Coentrão played, he had more cover from his teammates and more advantages in details. Li Bin designed the tactics for Coentrão, he did not sacrifice the interests of other players in order to highlight everyone and greatly strengthen one person, he did a bowl of water.

And such an approach is enough to make Nani envious.

The way Tottenham's players play is to make sure everybody has a little bit of attacking power, and none of them have the tactical position to sacrifice for themselves as a team, but each of them has a bit of sacrifice and has been helped, which is a better way of playing than Manchester United.

What must have gone wrong with Manchester United? But what's wrong?

Nani didn't understand, but Li Bin understood Ferguson's mistake very well: Ferguson got a lot of rewards for using Cristiano Ronaldo, and since then, he mistakenly thinks that he can get enough rewards by going all out to build a top player. It's a pity that Rooney doesn't have Ronaldo's ability to feed the whole team, and there is still a big gap between him and the top players, even if this is his prime, he can't do what Ferguson wants.

Li Bin knows very well that the requirements for Ronaldo are too high, Rooney can't do it, and none of the Tottenham players can do it. Not to mention that it can't be done now, it will be difficult to do it in the future, even if it is Bale at his peak, he can't do it to feed the whole team - so Tottenham's results have always been terrible in memory. And Suarez, who was at his peak, did give back to the whole team, but he sacrificed himself in exchange. One person leads the whole team, that is a very high level, it can be said to be the watershed of the world footballer of the year, the current Tottenham, who has that ability? But fortunately, the Tottenham players can't be packaged as the top strength in the world like Rooney, so Li Bin didn't think about packaging them, he just wants them to stick to playing overall football, which is the difference between him and Ferguson.

Ferguson is now carried away by Cristiano Ronaldo's high-priced transfer win, and he thinks Wayne Rooney can be packaged. Li Bin also believes that Ferguson can do this, but in this way, Manchester United's rebuilding is a detour.

On the field, the confrontation between the two teams is also further strengthened. After Manchester United's lineup began to retreat, Tottenham's attack came as promised.

'Manchester United have now given up on the offensive and Tottenham have the upper hand. However, this should have been expected by Manchester United, who made three changes at the back to see if their defensive ability could withstand the opposition's attack. ”

The commentator's judgment is not wrong, in this game, Ferguson did have a try-and-see attitude. After the loss of Cristiano Ronaldo, he is also aware of Nemanja Vidic's decline and wants to know if Evans can make up for it, and if United's backline can regain some resilience.

Tottenham, on the other hand, was the litmus test he chose for Manchester United.

Yaya Toure in midfield was the first link to launch the attack. As soon as he got the ball, he slid it to the left and slotted it himself forward. Beside him, Gustavo immediately made up for it, and at the back, Coentrão drove the ball past half-court and passed the ball forward to Di Maria, who made up for the central midfield.

The change in the position at the back has given Tottenham a better attacking position on the left flank, and they can involve Coentrão in the rotation of midfield, freeing up the attacking line up front. Di Maria, who rushed to the front with the ball, gradually got closer to Yaya Toure's running, and Raul in the front court also withdrew at the same time, and the three formed an attack triangle on the left side, and in the midfield, Tottenham's defense did not drop much, such a rotation made Tottenham's strength greatly increased.

Di Maria wanted to rush through the middle with the ball, but Fletcher and Carrick were in good positions and he didn't find a chance right away. However, this made Di Maria hesitate too much, he kicked the ball to Raul next to him, ran to the front, and rolled over from the bottom line on the left side, he knew that Raul could lead the attack, and what he needed to do was to distance himself and cooperate.

As the former captain of Real Madrid, Raul is very familiar with how to combine the wings and the center to form an attack. He's played on the wing, he's played in the middle, he's worked with all sorts of top wingers, he's very experienced, he knows how to bring out the best in his teammates, he can definitely do well in the ribs.

Manchester United's recovery is very timely, not only the two midfielders and three defenders, but even Park Ji-sung has been recovered into the penalty area. Seven people were gathered in the penalty area to defend, making Tottenham's attack already difficult.

Raul took the ball, took a look at the situation, and rushed towards the middle position. Fletcher immediately came over to steal, but Raul leaned on him for the first time and didn't give him any chance, and next to Fletcher, Carrick also grabbed it, and the two wanted to form a pinch-attack posture to stop Raul.

However, Raul missed a ball at his foot and kicked the ball to Yaya Toure behind him. Yaya Toure immediately cut in from Raul's right side, and Park Ji-sung also made up in front of him, trying to stop his long-range attempt. He had to come because Ferdinand and Patrice Evra had been drawn away by Cavani, who was running to the right, and he was the only one who could come and organize!

But Yaya Toure didn't choose to shoot from distance, he picked the ball and picked it up to the left wing!

The combination of Raul and Yaya Toure in the middle has reduced the pressure on Di Maria on the left flank. Because Raul and Yaya Toure have attracted a lot of Manchester United's defensive strength, Di Maria is surrounded by only Evans and O'Shea. Yaya Toure picked up the pass in time, so that Di Maria immediately took a step forward to respond, O'Shea next to him followed too closely, so that Di Maria was not offside, he received the ball, and under the attack of two people, he kicked the ball towards the middle!

Cavani's movement attracted the attention of Rio Ferdinand and Carrick who defended well, and Ferdinand did not play a role throughout the pass. The disconnection of the back line made Raul in front of him almost not be blocked, and rushed to the front of the football, he stood on the line of the small penalty area, faced the ball rolling on the ground, and directly shot and kicked the ball!

Foster, who was in goal, never imagined that Tottenham would penetrate Manchester United's defence like this. Manchester United's layers of defense were forcibly divided into three parts by the cooperation of Tottenham's four players, Cavani's involvement, Di Maria's breakthrough, and Raul's running position were all played to the fullest. And he didn't expect that Raul could kick such a beautiful shot, so close to the goal, this kick, but it went straight to the goal crossbar, he originally thought that this must be a ground ball, at this time his jump preparation was not enough, not enough to receive this ball!

He jumped still, but watched as the ball slid over his fingers. Foster watched in agony as the ball slid against the crossbar and into the back of the net as Tottenham took a 1-0 lead and Raul scored the first goal of the new season for Tottenham!

'Tottenham have scored! With a 1-0 lead, Raul scored for Tottenham! Beautiful penetration, Tottenham attacked with a ground ball and directly broke the door of Manchester United! Manchester United have paid the price for their youth, and at critical moments, veterans still play a greater role! ”