"Two goals are nothing! We'll be able to get it back soon! The on-site narrator emphasized the morale.

Manchester United's watch on the pitch seemed to confirm his words.

Manchester United's offensive waves continued, completely suppressing Derby County, wave after wave of attacks, making Derby County look powerless, only tired to deal with the attack, occasionally snatching the ball and quickly snatched back by Manchester United.

Manchester United is completely in a posture of 'not swearing to rest if you don't score'!

Now Manchester United are playing to their advantage, each of their players is playing well, coupled with the advantage of being at home, they have achieved absolute pressure on the field, although Derby County have a good defensive record, and the whole backfield defense is very solid, but their goal still looks shaky.

And in the 55th minute, Manchester United had a great chance and almost scored!

It's a chance created by midfielder Paul Scholes!

Giggs dribbled the ball into the corner of the box on the left and quickly passed the ball to O'Shea, who crossed Roy Keane, who then passed Rooney, who did his best to kick the ball past Scholes.

After a few passes, Derby's defense looked a little messy. Scholes took the opportunity to hoist the ball pinpoint in front of goal, and Van Nistelrooy grabbed the position and hit it straight at goal!

Unfortunately, luck seemed to be on the side of Derby, as the ball bounced off the post and bounced out of bounds.

It was also United's best chance since the start of the game.

"Van's shot! Ah, it's a pity that the ball hit the post and bounced out of bounds, and Derby County escaped."

The tone of the on-field commentator was very regrettable, this was the biggest threat to the Derby County goal since Manchester United started, and even a little more football was enough to turn it into a goal.

But unfortunately he couldn't score in the end.

The on-site commentator continued, "But it looks like it's only a matter of time before we score. We were still two goals behind, but if the game went on like this, we still had a good chance! ”

As if encouraging, the persuasion emphasized, "There is still plenty of time, we will definitely equalize!" ”

Manchester United have been bombarding the Derby County goal for 10 minutes, and after watching their own team's attack for 10 minutes, Manchester United fans also have a lot of confidence, and they also feel that the only thing the team lacks is to score, and they expect Manchester United to do their best to get a goal back.

As long as one goal is pulled back, will two goals be far away!?

In this mood. They shouted cheers for Manchester United, and the sound made the blood flow of everyone in it accelerate, "Come on!!" Manchester United!! Come on!! Manchester United!! ”

"The race has just begun, we still have time"

As the on-site commentator said, many Manchester United supporters saw the team suppressing Derby County playing, and they regained confidence in the game, including Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson.

In fact, now Manchester United is just letting go of their hands and attacking, which is almost equivalent to a last ditch fight.

Manchester United can't help it.

You can't even play an advantage in a normal game. The team was again two goals down and the only thing they could do was press all the way and let go of the attack so they could have a chance to equalise.

This is the tactical strategy developed by Ferguson. And the only option.

He believes that the team will be able to score the last goal, and there is no absolute certainty of equalizing, but as long as the first goal is scored, then the chances of scoring the second goal will be much greater.

Now it's up to the players on the pitch to play

Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines. Watch the game.

His expression was serious and focused, but there wasn't much worry on his face, actually. Now that Derby County were suppressed as he expected, in his mind, United could only let go of their hands and feet to attack aggressively in the second half to have a chance to equalise.

This is the only option for Manchester United.

Seeing through this, it is very easy to set up tactics, to go against Manchester United and fight to the death, which is definitely not a good choice because Derby County have two goal advantages.

We have two goal margins, so why fight Manchester United!? If you fight, the advantage of these two goals will be reduced by most, after all, if the two teams fight against each other, there will be more goals, and the advantage of the two goals will naturally be relatively small.

So Wansheng's choice is to defend solidly and seek a counterattack.

This is also the reason why the Derby County players have some pity for Manchester United - the team has a two-goal lead, in this case, the coach asked to try to defend as solidly, which is almost equivalent to killing the possibility of Manchester United to tie, because in the case of Derby County's full defense, no team dares to say that it can score two goals in 45 minutes, and Manchester United is no exception, so Manchester United, which has little chance, has now reduced its chances a lot.

They only have that glimmer of hope for a miracle!

It's like right now, United have been attacking for 10 minutes and scoring a lot of goals, but in reality, there aren't many times they really threaten the Derby goal, with the ball getting around from outside the box most of the time, and there was a good chance when Ruud van Nistelrooy hit the crossbar.

How can it be so easy to find such a good opportunity again!?

For a long time, Derby County still insisted on defending, and the number of counter-attacks was still very small, but 'one drum, then decline, three and exhaustion', this statement is absolutely true in football, as time passes, Manchester United's attack has not been able to break through the goal for a long time, they must slow down the tempo, otherwise not to mention morale or something, the players' energy and physical strength will not be able to keep up.

At this time, Derby's counter-offensive increased.

In the 62nd minute of the game, Derby County had a new move, and Wansheng made adjustments.

Just now Derby County withstood the offensive pressure of Manchester United, and by this time the defensive pressure had been much less, so Wan Sheng was ready to make a substitution, he asked assistant coach Diamares to call Ivan Crewe on the bench, and soon Crewe had already warmed up, at this time Wan Sheng intended to let Ivan Crewe play.

In this game, Wansheng sent three backs to play, in order to increase the intensity of the full-court pressing, in the second half, the three backs and midfielders also became the most important defense line of the team, but now Manchester United's offensive has slowed down, and the role of the three backs is not big, so he needs to be replaced.

What kind of person is the key. Ivan Crewe is a good choice with a balanced attack and defence and a strong set-piece ability.

Wan Sheng still likes the latter point.

The team uses defensive tactics on the field, and the offense mostly relies on counterattacks, even if it is actively promoted, there are not many players who plug in the front, so when it comes to the front court, many times the football is passed too far forward, and it is difficult to pass it to teammates, at this time the personal foot skills of the frontcourt players are quite important. In the face of a weak defence, they can use their skills to break through and then look for opportunities for themselves.

This is a very important means of the team's counter-attack at the moment.

However, relying on the individual performance of the stars is also very targeted, for example, Manchester United's defensive players are more aggressive and more decisive in defense, which is easy to make the team return again and again, but this will also increase the team's front-court set-piece opportunities, then. In case of a good chance, the role of Ivan Crewe coming off the bench comes out.

In short, Wansheng sent Crewe for set-pieces.

Take advantage of a deadball opportunity. The substitutions were made quickly, with Ivan Crewe stepping onto the pitch and the on-field commentator commenting, "Ivan Crewe is on the pitch. It was Osman who was replaced! ”

'Ivan Crewe is Derby's second-highest scorer and has scored fewer goals than Van der Vaart in the team, and the player is not strong on the wing. But he always threatens his opponent when he intervenes. ”

"But this substitution seems a bit unwise, now Derby County should be more defensive, Manchester United are very aggressive, and Ivan Crewe is obviously not as good as Osman, who is the absolute pillar of Derby's defence!"

For this substitution, the on-site commentator was indeed very surprised.

'If Ivan Crewe comes on for Peter Kennedy, it's nothing, it's just a normal change, but he's coming on with Osman, it's weird, Osman is a very important part of Derby County, and his defence has caused a lot of problems for United since the start of the second half.

After being puzzled, the commentator simply said, "But after all, Osman has been replaced, which is good news for us, it means that the Derby County defense is much weaker, and we will have a better chance."

The on-site commentator is not the kind of senior football person, he naturally does not know that Manchester United's attack has actually slowed down, and they need a certain amount of time to adjust before they can continue to attack, during this period, Derby's defense is still safe, that is to say, Derby's substitution is likely to pose a threat to Manchester United's defense.

Perhaps at this time, no one is thinking about Manchester United's defense.

If Manchester United can't score as many goals as possible, they won't have a chance at all, after all, Manchester United are two goals behind, and now if they care about the team's defense, then what is there to talk about equalising!

The commentary of the on-site commentator does not represent the complete truth, but it can increase the confidence of Manchester United fans, because his statement is biased towards Manchester United.

So Manchester United fans are thinking-

"Did the Derby County manager really make a mistake?"

'Now he's made a mistake and it's definitely a chance for Manchester United! Manchester United should take advantage of the opportunity to continue the offensive and try to score quickly! ”

"This could have been the turning point for Manchester United to win the game!"

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But no matter what the fans think, this is not a fantasy world, their ideas cannot be turned into the power of faith, in other words, no matter what they think, they can't affect the game.

The rest of the game was played according to the 'format'.

Manchester United's offensive had to slow down, and Derby County also began to launch frequent counter-attacks, although Manchester United was still suppressing on the field, but Derby's offensive threat should not be underestimated, because Manchester United's formation was pressed very forward, many times Derby County as long as they attacked the front, the threat to Manchester United's goal was great, so Manchester United defenders had to use fouls to intercept.

As a result, in the 74th minute of the game, Derby County had a great chance when Van der Vaart was brought to the ground by Ferdinand at the edge of the box, and he fell less than 25 metres from the goal, and it extended vertically to the baseline, almost against the right post, which means that the ball was directly facing the goal.

Seeing the location of this set-piece, many people are aware of the danger.

Even Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson couldn't help but stand on the sidelines, his face full of worry; On the other side, Wan Sheng looked expectantly in the direction of Manchester United's goal.

There was already a player in a white jersey standing in front of the ball.

Number 12.

"Ivan Crewe!" (To be continued......)