The score was 2-0 and Derby County at Old Trafford added another goal just before half-time to extend their lead to two.

"Rafael van der Vaart! He outflanked the back point and found an opportunity! This is a fatal blow to Manchester United! The Sky TV commentator said.

As the commentator said, this goal was indeed deadly!

The blank faces of many Manchester United fans on the TV screen and the way they stared at the pitch were sympathetic, but in fact, United fans didn't know how to accept this harsh reality.

Just now it was Manchester United, and this is Old Trafford, so what if the opponent scores a goal first? They believe the team will be able to recover it in no time. But in the blink of an eye, Manchester United failed to equalize the score, and the opponent scored again, the opposite result left them at a loss, helpless, and in no mood to even pay attention to how arrogant the Derby County fans were celebrating.

It's not just Manchester United fans, it's also hard for Manchester United players and coaches to accept.

Whether it was Rio Ferdinand, Paul Scholes, or Ryan Giggs or Ruud van Nistelrooy, everyone in the front and back of the field stood in place, stunned as they watched Derbyshire's celebrations, looking dejected and depressed.

The first half was about to end, and the score was 0:2, which was unexpected, almost unacceptable.

Perhaps for Manchester United, the score is acceptable in reverse

They thought before the game that the game might be difficult to play, and they also thought about the possibility of draws and losses, but even the most pessimistic Manchester United players did not think about falling behind by two goals in the first half!

They couldn't imagine it, and now they felt dazed - is this true? We're 0:2 behind? What's next? How do you face Mr. Alex Ferguson at half-time?

All sorts of emotions are in the minds of the Manchester United players, who even wish that time would stop in this moment and never move forward again, so that they would not have to face the harsh reality.

The Derby players are in a completely different mood than the Manchester United players.

They were unbridled in their joy of scoring goals. The excitement of leading by two goals and the urgency to potentially win the trophy are enough for them to vent now.

Wan Sheng, along with the substitutes and colleagues, also celebrated the goal in the coach's box.

After seeing Van der Vaart score, Wan Sheng was very calm, he just clenched his fists excitedly, and Diamares and others couldn't help but pounce and hug and celebrate.

Before the start of the game, the whole team was planning to take the title at Old Trafford.

It's not Wansheng's idea alone, it's the expectation of everyone up and down in Derby. It's not easy to beat Manchester United at Old Trafford, but it's for Derby County right now. It's not that it can't be done, and this game is the penultimate round of the league, if you can't beat Manchester United to win the league title, there is still a suspense for Derby County to win the championship, and in the final round, who can be sure what the situation is? So beating Manchester United to win the title is the safest.

Plus, winning at Old Trafford is an honour for any other English team and no one doesn't want it. Now that Derby County can go for it, the whole team is looking forward to beating Manchester United.

Because of this, the whole team is very active in the preparation for this game. Some of the 'unassigned' staff even started to prepare for the championship celebrations, but everyone in the team was looking forward to beating Manchester United to take the title.

So before the game, Wan Sheng said 'take away the championship', not only for him, he said it on behalf of the entire Derby County club.

Wan Sheng said sonorously and powerfully!

Now the whole of Derby County are confident of victory. Because they are two goals ahead of Manchester United, with this kind of score advantage, everyone has plenty of confidence in Derby County to win!

In the Premier League this season. In fact, not to mention two goals behind, even if it is one goal ahead, no team dares to say that it will be able to beat Derby County, there are games in which Derby County are tied, but there has never been a game in which the opponent turned the tables and lost, and there has never been one this season.

Can Manchester United equalize or even overtake the score now?

Even some Manchester United fans don't believe it, because they also know Derby's record, and in the first half of the game, they also saw Derby's strength, which is not weaker than Manchester United's table at all, how difficult is it for Manchester United to recover two goals in a row?

That's a miracle!

So many Manchester United fans are silently chanting the names of God and Jesus, and at this moment, they have become faithful believers, hoping that the gods will save Manchester United, although many of them are even atheists, but that does not affect their expectation that the gods will bless the miracle in the second half

In the Manchester United dugout, coach Alex Ferguson watched the game with a complicated expression.

Derby County is no longer the Derby County it once was, they are already a strong team in the Premier League, and Manchester United and Derby County have played each other twice, and they are generally at a disadvantage, so Ferguson will not be careless about the game, in fact, in order to win against Derby County, Ferguson has made a lot of preparations and let the team train for the game.

Even Chelsea and Arsenal failed to get Manchester United to take it seriously, but Derby County did, perhaps because of the key to this game - Manchester United not only want to fight for third place in the league, they will not allow any team to take the league title at Old Trafford!

For Manchester United, the latter is even more severe than the former!

But now Manchester United is still two goals behind, Ferguson looked at the field, turned his head and swept over the Derby County bench, the young Chinese coach figure, unconsciously more complicated.

This young man is hateful, but he is really capable!

Three years ago, Ferguson first met Wan Sheng at the Carrington training base, when Wan Sheng was leading Manchester United's junior team in a game, and his vigorous shouting and scolding made a bad impression on Ferguson, and Wan Sheng was soon dismissed by McGuinness.

After that, Ferguson simply ignored a series of events.

But Ferguson did not expect to see the young Chinese again one day, at a reception hosted by the Referees Association a year later, when the opponent was already the head coach of Derby County.

Even though it wasn't a good memory. But Ferguson was angry at McGuinness's stupidity, and he didn't pay attention to Wan Sheng, after all, the other party was just a second-tier league small club head coach, and he was not famous at all, and this kind of small ball club coach would not put it in his heart at all.

The next time the two met was at the draw for the FA Cup semi-finals, when Ferguson knew he had to pay more attention to the young Chinese, but he ended up losing in the 'carelessness', and what was supposed to be an easy final turned into a frustrating defeat countless times.

Manchester United have lost an FA Cup.

This fight made Ferguson remember Wan Sheng to death. Perhaps it was also at this moment that Ferguson really regarded Wansheng as an opponent.

But no matter how much Ferguson attached importance to Wan Sheng, he never imagined that just a year later, the shape of the two teams meeting again would become like this - Derby County is the first in the league, Manchester United is fourth in the league, and Derby County can win the championship in advance and take away the league championship trophy if they win at Old Trafford!

Looking at the current score, even Ferguson must admit a fact - this 'very annoying' young Chinese. He was indeed capable, and it took him just two seasons to transform a second-tier team into a top-flight team. A strong team that can have the same strength as Manchester United.

Why hasn't he been at Manchester United?

Ferguson secretly regretted it, maybe the old man always likes to reminisce about the past, loves to lament some things, and he is thinking about it at this time. If he had kept this young man in China at that time, his life in the past two years would have been different, and perhaps he had already been appreciated by himself. Became an assistant coach for Manchester United? Should he be a helper by his side, not hostile to him, and then when he announces his retirement, he will take over Manchester United and take over his own success to lead Manchester United to continue to succeed?

Thinking of this, Ferguson's eyes were even more complicated.

But Ferguson is Ferguson, although he is old, he still has the consciousness of not admitting defeat, he quickly cheered up, ready to compete with Derby County again, and at the same time firmly thought in his heart, "This season, Manchester United lost, but in a month, the club will be stable, and Manchester United will still be strong next season." We lost this year, but next year, the year after, the league will definitely be back in the hands of Manchester United! And I can continue to hold on for a few more years! ”

The first half was over.

When Van der Vaart scored, there was not much time left in the game, and when the referee urged for a restart, it was already three and a half minutes of stoppage time, and the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half as soon as United had just kicked off.

The game went into halftime.

At this time, there are still many Manchester United fans who don't believe the score they saw, 0:2! Manchester United are two goals behind! Is this true!? Maybe we're mistaken, or maybe we've just had a nightmare!

Of course, this self-soothing thought will not lead to anything.

And in the Derby County dressing room, Wan Sheng solemnly reminded everyone to be calm and must keep working until the last minute of the game.

At this time, Wan Sheng was already glad to come.

When he was on the pitch, he was letting out his excitement but he was only able to do that after scoring a goal because he was the manager, he was the conductor of the team, he was the centre of the team and he needed to be calm at all times.

With a two-goal lead in the first half, the situation was pretty good.

Although it is a reminder to insist on playing seriously and not to be careless because of the score, Wan Sheng still praised everyone's table, which can be regarded as a recognition of the team's efforts, "Everyone's table is very good!" We had a two-goal advantage and it was the result of the whole team's efforts! ”

Next, Wan Sheng also specially pointed out Ribery, Morris and other outstanding players, and praised their table xiàn encouragingly, so that several people smiled happily, and then Wan Sheng reminded everyone to continue to work hard calmly, otherwise Manchester United may still achieve a reversal.

Wan Sheng knew that he needed to pour cold water on him at this time, because the championship had not yet been obtained.

"Two balls, not an unbridgeable gap! They still have a chance! If you think you're sure of victory, you're in real trouble! It's not time for us to celebrate, there are still 45 minutes to go, anything can happen at half-time, especially since this is Old Trafford, Manchester United's stadium, and they have a reason to win! ”

"Don't despise any opponent, even if they despise you!"

"We need to hold on until the last minute of the game!" Wan Sheng said to each player seriously, hearing the coach's reminder, everyone's mentality was also a lot calmer, "Next, let's talk about how to play in the second half"

Speaking of tactics, Wan Sheng's face showed seriousness, and at the same time, there was a touch of confidence.

But listening to the tactical play style from the coach's mouth, the mood of the Derby County players is not confident, serious or anything, but the most emotion is a trace of sympathy for Manchester United

"Poor Manchester United"

"Poor Derbyshire"

The cries at Old Trafford were so powerful that they even drowned out the live broadcast, but the slightest hint of sympathy could still be heard in most parts of the audience.

"Poor Derby, they've been under siege by Manchester United for five minutes" is perhaps a better description of schadenfreude.

Manchester United fans don't sympathize with Derby County at all, although as the commentator said, Derby's goal has been besieged for five minutes, but the score is still 0:2, home and away, Derby County who came to challenge is still two goals ahead.

So Manchester United fans expect Manchester United's goals more, and as for Derby's 'pitiful', they don't care at all.

In fact, from the start of the second half, the two teams played like this.

Manchester United are on the attack, Derby County are on the defensive!

Until now, in the 53rd minute of the whole game, 8 minutes into the second half, Manchester United is still attacking, and Derby County is defending.

After the start of the second half, Manchester United changed the depression of the first half and pressed towards Derby County with all the pressure, and they were full of momentum and put on a must-score appearance.

It also makes Derby County look very passive.

As Manchester United attacked again and again, threatening the Derby County defence, the Manchester United supporters also became very excited, and the on-site commentator even shouted, "Look at it! This is Manchester United! Derby County are in for a good time, the game has just begun! ”

"Two goals are nothing! We'll be able to get it back in no time! (To be continued......)