After the Guardian's usual pre-season interview with Ferguson, he laughed and teased Ferguson, saying that even a blind person could see that Ferguson was smoking

This is an exaggeration, but it really describes the predicament that Ferguson faced.

Manchester United are now in a very bad situation, and even Ferguson feels that if it is not handled well, it will be a catastrophe for Manchester United, and the new season of the Premier League title will also be useless.

There are objective factors that have caused Manchester United's current embarrassing situation, but there are also internal reasons for Manchester United.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer suffered a knee injury last season and had surgery for five months, but he didn't expect that he had another knee operation in early August this year, which was very critical to determine whether Ole Gunnar Solskjaer could continue his career, but at least until October, Ole Gunnar Solsk has no way to play again.

The same is true for Saha, the French striker who entered Old Trafford at a high price during last year's winter break and was expected by Alex Ferguson, but what he didn't expect was that he sprained his knee in a warm-up game and was bound to miss a period of time, and he may not be able to return to Stamford Bridge in the first round of the league.

If Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Saha are natural disasters, then Ruud van Nistelrooy's tragedy is man-made.

Ruud van Nistelrooy has been injured before, and after returning to the training ground, Ferguson and the coaching staff hope that he can make it to the third round of Champions League qualifiers, after all, these are definitely the two most important games before the season for Manchester United, and it is absolutely impossible to miss Manchester United in the Champions League this season.

In order to allow Ruud van Nistelrooy to appear in the third round of the Champions League qualifiers in a better state, Ferguson and the coaching staff drew up a high-intensity training + plan for him, hoping to help him adjust his condition and rhythm as soon as possible, but what he didn't expect was that Van Nistelrooy, who had just returned from injury, persevered for a few days and was injured again and had to undergo hernia surgery.

After Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Saha and Ruud van Nistelrooy fell, Uruguayan striker Forlan, who had never been used at Manchester United, accepted Villarreal's offer and announced his switch to La Liga, while Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo went against Ferguson's wishes after playing the European Championship and went directly to the Portuguese Olympic team to play in the Athens Olympics.

Coupled with the introduction of Heinze and Rooney, Ferguson is now facing a very serious situation, if not very embarrassing, because in the next two weeks, Manchester United will face a strong Chelsea in the Community Shield and the league, and also face two Champions League third-round qualifiers, against Romanian side, who are not bad.

There are a total of 8 injured players, almost all of the main attackers are exempt, and now Ferguson has no available striker at all, and even at the back, he can only put out a cold combination such as Fuqiong, Silvestre, O'Shea and Gary Neville, with Ryan Giggs, Dembba, Keane and Belion in midfield, Paul Scholes playing in midfield, and Alan Smith in front.

Compared to United's humble half of the bench line-up, Chelsea are fully in the main line-up.

Goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, Patrice Evra, Cannavaro, John Terry and McCone at the back, Deco and Makelele at the back, Ronaldinho, Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney in attack, and Drogba as the single striker.

The two sets of lineups are put together, Manchester United's momentum has been a lot shorter from the beginning, but Ferguson is also a person who can afford to put it down, and he did not hesitate at all, and directly put on a stubborn defensive position, and even Alan Smith on the forward line actively participated in the defense, and the whole team almost shrank in their own half, waiting for opportunities.

The first half ended in a 00-00 draw, and Chelsea's overall form was not ideal, and the pace of the game was slow, especially Ronaldinho, although the Brazilian played well and created a lot of chances, but it seems that there is still a certain gap between his average level, which always makes people feel that he is missing something.

For example, in the 3l minute, Rooney broke through Fuqiong on the right side and knocked back, Lampard volleyed in front of goal, the ball was saved by Howard's single fist, and Ronaldinho followed up with a push, there were no defenders in front of him, and even the goalkeeper had fallen to the ground, but the Brazilian's push went straight to the side netting.

After experiencing the America's Cup, I missed the pre-season training camp and! Preparing for the game, Ronaldinho's state has obviously been affected by some factors, Ye Qiu also gave understanding of this, but it is the new young player Rooney, who has been performing very well recently.

In this game, Fuqiong focused on his own opposite Rooney, but the England kid did not seem to be restrained at all because of Fuqiong's marking, he hit the crossbar with a powerful shot in the first half, I believe this shot made Ferguson's heartbeat accelerate, and then he got a header and a chance to grab a point in front of goal, but they missed the goal by mistake.

The situation in the first half was that Chelsea had the advantage but could not score, and Ye Qiu also decided to make adjustments at half-time, but this time he did not play the best 12th man Franck Ribery.

As Ferguson and assistant coach Queiroz counted the number of Chelsea players as they walked out of the tunnel, they soon discovered that Ronaldinho was on the bench and Joe Cole was given the start.

"What the hell?" Queiroz muttered.

Ferguson frowned, he has always had a very unique sense of tactics and game situation, his own, indescribable sense of smell, this is the experience and experience accumulated in his years of coaching career, and at this moment, seeing Joe Cole on, Ronaldinho down, a game comes to his mind.

Shortly after the knockout round of the European Championship, Portugal vs England, Rui Costa came on as a substitute.

is also a substitution under the advantage, and it is also a counterpoint substitution, Ye Qiu replaced Ronaldinho, who was obviously not in good shape, and replaced Joe Cole, which is obviously the last pass to strengthen the team.

"Gary" Ferguson walked to the sidelines, waved at Gary Neville, and pointed at Joe Cole.

After Gary Neville received Ferguson's instructions, he nodded, indicating that he understood and would watch the kid carefully.

As a teammate of the national team, Gary Neville is no stranger to Joe Cole and he is well aware of Joe Cole's strength.

With the referee's whistle, Drogba kicked the ball to Rooney, who made his debut for Chelsea for the first time in an official game, and Rooney did not look at all frightened.

Don't underestimate this ball protection, this is also one of the routines that Ye Qiu focuses on, because when Rooney protects the ball, Chelsea can press forward smoothly, including the back line, and when Terry receives Rooney's knockback, Chelsea's front court has obviously entered Manchester United's 30-meter area.

Of course, if it weren't for Ye Qiu's confidence in Rooney's ability, he wouldn't have taken such a risk, because once the ball was broken and he counterattacked directly, it would be very dangerous behind him.

After Terry got the ball, he didn't wait for Alan Smith to get closer, and passed straight forward to the retreating Makelele.

One of the most interesting things is the positioning and movement of Makelele and Deco.

Anyone who has ever played the ball knows that the hardest part of pushing the ball forward when you are defending tightly is that it's easier to pick up and take the ball with your back to the attack, because there's no threat, and the real challenge is how you get the ball head-on.

Without the ball head-on, it is impossible to complete the advance and there is no way to pose a threat.

And there are two ways to do this, one is teamwork, and the other is the individual ability of the players.

How to coordinate at this point, which is crucial for controlling the team's ball advancement and offensive and defensive transitions, is also crucial, so at the moment when Terry is about to pass the ball, if you freeze the game screen, you can see that Makelele's position is higher than Deco's, and the two are very interesting in that Makelele is running back, with his back to the attacker, and Deco is facing the attacker

When Makelele ran back from front to catch the ball, Scholes, who was marking Deco, was obviously affected, and he immediately wanted to go over to complete the bag and press, but Makelele did not let the ball linger at his feet, but passed diagonally to the place behind Scholes, in front of Deco.

When Scholes wanted to press Makelele, Deco had already cut in from behind him for the first time, and after winning the ball, he was directly facing the direction of attack, and Chelsea's attack was also forced by Manchester United, and successfully completed the transition from facing away from the goal to facing the goal with two touches, and Deco dribbled the ball back and forth, successfully threatening the 30-meter area.

Facing the attacking side, Deco has a lot of options, and any of his choices will obviously affect Manchester United's defense, so Manchester United's defenders are staring at him as if they are facing a big enemy, and this time he chose to cross diagonally to the left to find Joe Cole.

Joe Cole pulled to the left touchline, Deco's pass was gently unloaded by his left foot, good guy, the ball was like lead, stuck to his instep and did not move, Gary Neville chose to keep close to Joe Cole for the first time, but at the same time, Lampard was quickly diagonally from the middle behind Gary Neville, Keane subconsciously followed Lampard.

Frank Lampard's move pulled Keane away, and Joe Cole protected the ball and dribbled sideways from the left along the line of the box to the middle, all in the blink of an eye, without giving the United players the slightest breathing and thinking.

Gary Neville followed Joe Cole, but the latter was at the top of the arc of the penalty area, grabbed before Djemba got close, and made a diagonal pass to Manchester United's right rib, Rooney pulled to the middle of Manchester United's left-back Foqiong and left central defender Silvestre, and after winning the ball, he quickly rushed to the bottom line and directly broke through the snatching Silvestre.

It's not that the Frenchman was reckless, but in that moment, it was absolutely impossible for him to let Rooney get the ball in the penalty area, otherwise, he would just shoot with his feet, so whatever choice he made at that time, it was very risky.

But Sylvester is not a wreck, when he was broken through by Rooney, he followed Rooney to the death, not giving Rooney the slightest pause to face the goal and kick up, this is the benefit of experience, he let you break through, but don't let you pause, don't stop, you can't get up, if you hurry up your feet, it's difficult to hit the right part and force.

However, Rooney can also be regarded as having a brute strength, he can't get up, so Yu Crisp doesn't come by himself, and directly uses his speed advantage to highlight a gap and then pick up the ball and pass to the back point, which is also where the England kid is smart.

Sylvester raised his foot to intercept, but the ball was obviously higher than the foot he raised, how to stop?

To say that O'Shea's height is indeed not short, l 9 meters I is not without the ability to resist in the face of Drogba, but the rarest thing about Drogba, a giant elephant, is that he has to be tall, explosive, sensitive, and most importantly, his physical confrontation is absolutely perverted.

O'Shea, under the ravages and shadows of Drogba, didn't even have a chance to jump, when he saw the Ivorian leap lightly and directly put Rooney's pass into the close United goal, 0

Even Drogba himself didn't expect the goal opportunity to fall on him, he was as always pulling out the defense for his teammates, originally he thought that Rooney would hit the goal by himself, but he didn't expect that Rooney couldn't get rid of Silvestre, he could only pass.

After the goal, Drogba was obviously so excited that he didn't know what to say, and after rushing to the sidelines, he muttered all the way, no one could hear what he wanted to say, but the only thing that was certain was that he was crazy

Chelsea's first attack in the second half scored a goal, and Ferguson on the sidelines shook his head, not by chance, but Chelsea used non-stop passes to tear apart United's defence, in which Joe Cole cut in from the left and cut in laterally, and keenly found Rooney on the right rib, which was definitely a brilliant stroke.

Sometimes the game is like this, the ball is passed well, it is a goal, the ball is passed even a little bit worse, it can make the goal fail, Ronaldinho seemed to be good in the first half, but in fact it was a little bit worse.

The goal was another wake-up call for Alex Ferguson, who could no longer support United's midfield alone.

As Arsenal and Chelsea become more and more adept at playing two ribs, the protection of the defensive line by a single back can be said to have been greatly challenged.

Play a weak team, you can, because the strength of the two wing offensive players of the weak team will be relatively weak, and the echo is not obvious, but to play strong teams like Chelsea and Arsenal, the echo of their two ribs is very high, Ronaldinho's most famous offensive routine in Chelsea is actually to cut inside with the ball on the left side and pass diagonally to the right rib, which can be said to be tried and tested.

Sometimes, a lot of things are predestined

With Joe Cole opening the second half, Chelsea opened the scoring for Manchester United, and Ferguson immediately made a change, replacing Fletcher and Phil Neville for Fortune and Demba, with Ferguson clearly unhappy with the performances of the two players.

Substitutions still can't change the beaten situation and stop Chelsea's attack.

In the 54th minute, Silvestre and O'Shea made a mistake under Chelsea's strong attacking pressure, and O'Shea's big kick clearance was kicked off the rails and kicked directly in front of Lampard, who was standing near the penalty spot, Lampard naturally did not miss this golden opportunity, and went straight to the top left corner, 0

The situation turned around, and in the first half, Manchester United held on well, but in the second half it was suddenly defeated.

In the 58th minute, Chelsea launched another wave of attacks, Joe Cole was on the verge of cutting inside after receiving a pass on the left, but it was suddenly distributed to Patrice Evra, who was cut in from behind, and the French left-back won the ball and quickly went down the bottom line.

Drogba still firmly occupied the commanding heights in the penalty area this time, but under the joint efforts of O'Shea and Silvestre, the Ivorian could not get a chance, so he could only choose to ferry the header, and with a light rub, the ball fell to the back point, Rooney shook off Phil Neville, quickly inserted, and poked the incoming ball, and the ball went straight to the bottom of the net, 0

Just 13 minutes into the game, Chelsea went down three games in a row, and the Chelsea fans in the stands at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff were all overjoyed, chanting the team's anthem and chanting the names of the players.

This can't be helped, although this game is a Community Shield, a bit similar to the Super Cup of other leagues, but in fact it has little impact, at least from the attendance of the Cardiff Millennium Stadium, it is estimated that 3 of the L is empty.

In fact, this is also a problem that has existed since Wembley Stadium was rebuilt and all the finals were moved to the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, that is, the attendance has always been difficult to satisfy, if it is the League Cup and FA Cup finals, it is a little better, after all, these two competitions are still somewhat influential, but the attendance of other competitions is very bad.

Although this game is played by Chelsea and Manchester United, the attendance is only about 3%.

It is estimated that this also has something to do with Cardiff's distance from London.

After winning 0, Chelsea did not have the idea of quitting because of this, the team still kept attacking Manchester United, and seeing that the team had no hope of turning around, Ferguson replaced four young players in one go, basically some of whom were unknown, obviously to stay in the Champions League in midweek.

The Community Shield is not a strict game, but a charity game, so there are no more restrictions on the number of substitutions, especially before the game, Manchester United shouted that they would play the Community Shield with all substitutes, but the FA was very dissatisfied, and finally made a compromise, promising to let the opposing sides bring 7 substitutes, but they can go to U.

At the end of the day, this tournament is just a more official warm-up game for all teams.

But Chelsea still hit the back of the net in the 8l minute when a shot from Deco hit Silvestre and found Howard's goal, 40

This goal made Ye Qiu on the sidelines obviously excited, and as soon as the whistle blew at the end of the game, he couldn't wait to walk in front of Ferguson, and said something to Ferguson, whose face was gloomy and scary, that made him almost jump.

"40 is good"

"I really hope you can scold us again before the league starts, conservative, ugly or something, it's okay, but don't boast, I will definitely repay you"