Old Trafford, Players' Tunnel.

An old man in a trench coat stands at the back of the team, where he chews gum.

And next to him, behind the other team, George Lee was also chewing something there.

Ferguson stared at Lee, and George Lee saw that Ferguson was looking at him, so he blew a bubble out of his mouth.

"Po~" The bubble bursts.

Several other members of the Leeds United coaching staff standing behind George Lee couldn't help but laugh.

"Stinky boy, no big or small." In the end, it was Ferguson who broke the silence between the two first, and the two had ignored each other since they came out of their respective dressing rooms.

"I just wanted to try what it was like to chew gum during the game."

"You call this gum?"

"No way, there was no chewing gum at home, so I asked Carl for two bubble gums."

After saying that, George Li spit out the chewing gum in his mouth and threw it into the trash can on the side.

"Why did you throw it up again?"

"It's boring, I don't know how you can chew the whole game, won't it be tasteless?"

"Hehe~" The old man smiled and ignored him.

"Old man, I heard you had a minor operation?"

"yes, there's a little thing, here." The old man pointed to his heart.

"You know what Chris told me in the dressing room just now?"

"What did he say?" The old man knew that his other disciple should not say anything good, so his tone was not very good.

'He asked me to bring a magnet and let me put it on your chest when I shook hands with you, so that Manchester United would have no manager today.'

Ferguson angrily looked at Chris Casper, who smiled and waved at Ferguson when he saw Ferguson looking at him.

Ferguson continued to scan the Leeds United coaching staff, looking at his former colleagues, disciples, and players, and couldn't help but sigh. The world is impermanent, and he didn't expect that this group of people would one day stand opposite him.

At the front of the line, Manchester United captain Gary Neville looked at Alan Smith as he gasped on the side.

"First time captain?"

Due to the retirement of Leeds United captain Radebe last season, the captain's armband has been worn by Mateo this season, who did not play today due to a muscle strain after the last game. Add to that the team's vice-captain, Gary Kelly, who didn't start today, so Smith will be the team's captain today.

"yes." Originally, it was the first time to be the captain, and Smith thought about whether he should be a little colder, but seeing that the other party was so enthusiastic, he replied politely.

Neville didn't say much when he heard Smith's answer, and continued to stand up straight, waiting to lead the team in.

Seeing that Neville didn't continue, Smith also learned to stand upright, waiting to enter.

"Sir, believe me, I really didn't say this, I'm innocent."

Suddenly, the voice of the team's coach Casper came from behind, and it was quite loud. Smith couldn't help but look back to see what had happened.

"Gone." Goalkeeper Paul Robinson, who was standing behind Smith, slapped Smith with a goalie glove.

Smith breathed a sigh of relief again and led the team into the arena.

^^^

Leeds United's starting XI today was unchanged from the previous games, the only change was due to a muscle strain at centre-back Matteo, so Mattheeson started in place of him, partnering Albuchesen at centre-back. On either side of them are still Hart and Mills, two of Leeds United's familiar friends. Because of his age, and George Lee's requirements for the team's full-backs are relatively high, so the position of the team's right full-back veteran Kelly has almost been completely replaced by Mills, who has only played twice in the final stages of the first two games, and basically has no special performance.

And Leeds United's midfield today is still a combination of Graveson, Davies and Smith, and Smith also wore the captain's armband today, which is also of great significance. In the first three games, Smith played well and fully lived up to Lee's pre-season expectations, scoring three goals in three games and scoring in each of them, and was in red-hot form. And this season, his position has dropped back, and who knows that not only has it not affected his attacking efficiency, but has also brought out his other potential, with the media in Leeds City and Yorkshire now almost singing the praises of Smith.

The two wingers are still Glenschal and Romedahl, and the positions of the two are not very fixed, and they often switch positions and cross runs, making it difficult for opponents to figure out. And the single striker is still the Dutchman that the team has spent 3.5 million pounds to bring in this year, Robin van Persie. Although Van Persie performed well in the first three rounds of the league, running, scrambling and pressing to the satisfaction of manager Lee, he just has not scored a goal yet. No matter how good a striker is, as long as he can't score goals, he can't be considered a good striker.

Defensive forward, that day in the bar, Smith made a joke about Van Persie. Mills, who went to the bar with him, also half-joked that Van Persie's pressing in the front court had saved him a lot of effort as a defensive player, and he wanted to give Van Persie a glass on behalf of the team's backline.

So Van Persie is under a lot of pressure right now and is keen to end his goal drought in today's game and get his first goal in the Premier League.

Manchester United, on the other hand, is not optimistic, with a large number of injuries in the squad. Rio Ferdinand, Brown, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Keane are all unavailable due to injury, while Wayne Rooney, the talented England player who was brought in from Everton this summer, is still recovering from an injury at the European Championship and is expected to make his debut for Manchester United in the next few games.

Manchester United fielded a 451 squad today, with Gary Neville, Silwest, O'Shea and Spiketor in goalkeeper Howard at the back. The middle trio in midfield is Fletcher, Kleberson, and Scholes, the two flanks are Ryan Giggs and Ronaldo, and the lone striker is Frenchman Saha.

After kick-off, Manchester United focused on the right side of the attack, allowing Ronaldo to take the initiative to attack on several occasions. However, due to George Lee's special arrangement before the game, the effect was not obvious.

Ronaldo's dazzling dribbling could not disrupt Leeds United's defence, but made frequent mistakes under the help of Graveson and Davies, and Ferguson also kept turning on the hair dryer on the sidelines, allowing Rodo's little to pass the ball and not go it alone.

In the 25th minute of the first half of the game, Xiao Xiaoluo chose to go it alone again, did not pass the ball to Scholes on the side, and stepped on two bicycles on the spot and tried to use his speed to eat Hart, but the person passed, but the ball was defended by Hart.

Hart counter-attacked immediately after stabbing the ball in a single defense, took two steps forward, saw Kleberson come up and passed to Davis, who received the ball and immediately passed it to Glen Charles on the left.

Glen Schal stopped the ball as he saw Neville block his forward lane and then flicked his right foot to make a gesture for the ball. At this time, Van Persie and Smith were both running forward, taking away most of United's defence. Glen Charles made a wide range of transfers, the ball was given to the feet of Romedahl on the right side, and Romedal stopped directly forward and began to start, so that the pasted Fletcher could not keep up at all, and after Fletcher, Romedahl began to kill in the penalty area, and met Manchester United's defender Spector when he was about to reach the corner of the penalty area. Romedale took a low cross straight from his feet and the ball went straight between the goalkeeper and the centre-back to the back post.

Van Persie, who had been waiting for a few games, finally got his chance, as both centre-backs were drawn to the front post by Smith, so he was completely unmarked at the back post and easily slotted his left-footed shot into the net.

Howard gave a symbolic flutter, completely out of reach.

"Roar~~~" Van Persie ran to the camera and roared, he finally vented after being suppressed for a long time.

After the celebration, he started running to the team's dugout again, and he stretched out his hand from afar. When he was about to run in front of Lee, Lee also stretched out his right hand.

"Smack~" The two of them high-fived hard.

“NICE!”“ Well done. "Good shot, Robin."

The rest of the coaching staff also celebrated with Van Persie.

Manchester United kicked off here, the ball was passed back to Scholes, and immediately two Leeds United players pressed over, and Scholes immediately passed back to Silwest.

As soon as Silvester stopped the ball, he saw Van Persie coming over as usual, and quickly passed to O'Shea. As a result, the pass was not good, Smith touched the ball before O'Shea, the ball rolled to the penalty area, Smith also ran to the penalty area, O'Shea quickly turned to chase.

Fortunately, Howard struck early and broke the ball.

"Shit, what are you doing?"

The old man's hair dryer rang again.

After scolding for two sentences, after calming down, I saw several pairs of eyes in the coach's seat next to him looking at him.

After chewing gum desperately twice, he asked the assistant coach to give up a seat for him to sit down, and after this series of actions, he didn't blush.

"As far as Manchester United's defense is concerned, it's not as good as us." George Lee saw that the Manchester United defense almost made a big mistake, and said a little stinky.

"You just bully people with a lot of injuries, if Vanney is on the field, do you dare to press like this." Cruyff Jr. said.

"Take advantage of his illness and kill him. Originally, I thought that if I didn't lose, I could get points, but now in this situation, I want to take 3 points away in the hands of the old man. ”

"Look!" Casper, who was next to him, pointed to the field.

On the pitch, Paul Scholes picked up the ball on the right side of the pitch, a cross that almost crossed the entire pitch, and handed the ball to Ryan Giggs on the left.

Giggs stopped the ball steadily, faced Mills' defense, and with a right-footed smash and a left-footed push, the ball went out. Giggs immediately sped up to chase, Mills pulled behind, and Giggs shook his hand, trying to shake off the unruly hand behind Mills, but it didn't work.

Finally the two men came to a stop near the penalty area, and Giggs didn't shake Mills off, so he slowed down to slow the ball down. Mills braked and stopped in front of Giggs.

When Giggs saw Mills stop, his left foot flicked over Mills' right, and Mills, who had stopped, was too late to chase after him.

Ryan Giggs got into the six-yard box and lifted his left foot to shoot.

Directly hit a near corner, and the momentum sank.

Robinson thought he was going to cross because he basically blocked the angle in front of goal, but he didn't expect Ryan Giggs to shoot and he was completely stunned.

When the ball flew into the net, it caused a white wave.

1 to 1.

Manchester United equalised immediately after conceding a goal.

Ryan Giggs lifted his shirt to cover his head and spread his hands out to face the crowd at Old Trafford.

"This chest hair is ugly."

George Lee complained and saw Ferguson shouting and jumping next door.

After the jump, Ferguson turned around and glanced at Lee triumphantly.

After seeing the Manchester United players celebrate, George Lee looked at his own players on the field.

Mills saw that the manager was looking at him, and Lee held out a finger in the direction of Giggs and tapped it twice.

Mills nodded quickly, knowing that the coach wanted him to keep an eye on Giggs.

In the first half of the next game, Leeds United was basically pressing Manchester United, and frequently used high pressure to put pressure on Manchester United. But Manchester United didn't make another mistake and have been relying on defence to break up Leeds United's attack. Manchester United also took advantage of Leeds United's heavy pressure and played a few counter-attacks, and several breakthroughs by Ronaldo were also quite threatening.

In the second half of the first half, the two sides went back and forth, but neither achieved anything.

In the end, the two sides remained on the same starting line 1-1 in the first half.