After the Guardian reporter conducted a regular pre-season interview with Ferguson, he laughed and teased Ferguson, saying that even the blind man could see smoke coming from Ferguson's head.

This is a bit exaggerated, but it can really describe the embarrassment Ferguson faces.

Manchester United is in a very bad situation now, and Ferguson even feels that if it is not handled well, it will be a disaster for Manchester United, and the Premier League champions in the new season will still be out of reach.

There are objective factors that cause Manchester United to be so embarrassed, but there are also internal reasons for Manchester United.

Solskjaer suffered a knee injury last season and had a five-month rest after surgery. However, he did not expect that he had another knee surgery in early August this year. This surgery was very critical and decided whether Solskjaer could continue his career. But at least before October, Solskjaer had no way to play football again.

The same situation also happened to Saha. The French striker who entered Old Trafford Stadium at a high price during the winter break last year was highly expected by Ferguson. However, what he did not expect was that in a warm-up match, Saha sprained his knee and was bound to be absent for a while. He may not be able to make a comeback even when he was a visit to Stamford Bridge in the first round of the league.

If Solskjaer and Saha were both natural disasters, then Fanny's tragedy was a man-made disaster.

Fanny had an injury before. After returning to the training ground, Ferguson and the coaching staff hoped that he could catch up with the third round of the Champions League qualifiers. After all, this is definitely the two most important games before the season, which determines that Manchester United's income of over 10 million in the Champions League this season is definitely not to be lost.

In order to allow Fanny to appear in the third round of the Champions League qualifiers in a better state, Ferguson and the coaching staff formulated a high-intensity training + stroke for him, hoping to help him adjust his condition and rhythm as soon as possible. However, unexpectedly, Fanny, who had just recovered from injury, persisted for a few days and was injured again and had to undergo hernia surgery.

In Solskjaer, Sach and Van Nie fell one after another. Uruguayan striker Fran, who was never valued at Manchester United, accepted Villarreal's offer and announced his transfer to La Liga. Portuguese rising star Cristiano Ronaldo disobeyed Ferguson's wishes and directly participated in the Portuguese national Olympic team to play in the Athens Olympics.

In addition to the missed introduction of Heinze and Rooney, the situation Ferguson is facing is very serious and even very embarrassing, because in the next two weeks, in addition to meeting the strong Chelsea in the Community Shield and the league, Manchester United will also usher in two third-round qualifiers in the Champions League. The opponent is a Romanian team and its strength is not bad.

There are 8 wounded people in total, and almost all the main offensive players are free of battle cards. Ferguson now has no available forwards. Even on the defense line, he can only ship a humble combination like Forjon, Sylvester, Osheim and Gary Neville. The midfielders are Giggs, Jemba, Keane and Belion, Scholes plays as the midfielder, and Alan Smith suddenly comes.

Compared with Manchester United's humble substitute lineup, Chelsea is playing completely as the main lineup.

Goalkeeper Van der Sar, the defense is Evra, Cannavaro, Terry and Macon, the double midfielder is Deco and Marklele, the attacking frontcourt is Ronaldinho, Lampard and Rooney, and the single forward is Drogba.

With the two sets of lineups together, Manchester United's momentum was much lower from the beginning, but Ferguson was also a person who could take it and let it go. He did not hesitate at all and directly set up a deadly defense. Even Alan Smith on the forward line actively participated in the defense. The whole team almost hurried to the half-time and waited for an opportunity.

The two sides tied a 00-draw in the first half, and Chelsea's overall condition seemed unsatisfactory and the pace of entering the game was slow, especially Ronaldinho. Although the Brazilian performed well and created many opportunities, it seemed that there was still a certain gap from his average level, which always made people feel that he was missing something.

For example, in the 31st minute, Rooney broke through Forjon on the right and knocked back. Lampard shot in front of the goal, and the ball was saved by Howard's single punch, while Ronaldinho followed closely behind. There was no defensive player in front, and even the goalkeeper had fallen to the ground, but the Brazilian's push shot hit the side net directly.

After experiencing the Copa America, I missed the pre-season training and! Preparation, Ronaldinho's condition has been obviously affected. Ye Qiu also gave him some consideration for this. On the contrary, the newly joined young player Rooney has performed very well recently.

In this game, Forqiong focused on his opponent Rooney, but the English boy seemed to have not restrained any of it because of Forqiong's control. In the first half, he hit the crossbar with a powerful and heavy shot. I believe that this shot will speed up Ferguson's heartbeat. Then he got a header and a chance to grab the point in front of the goal, but he missed the goal by mistake.

In the first half, Chelsea had the advantage but did not score. Ye Qiu also decided to make adjustments during the halftime break, but this time he failed to play Ribery, the best twelfth man.

When Chelsea players walked out of the player channel one after another, Ferguson and assistant coach Queiroz were counting the number of Chelsea players. They soon discovered that Ronaldinho was sitting on the bench and Joe Cole won the start.

"What the hell?" Queros muttered.

Ferguson frowned. He has always had a unique sense of tactics and game situations, his own and unspeakable sense of smell. This is his experience and experience accumulated in his years of coaching career. At this moment, when he saw Joe Cole on and Ronaldinho on his mind, a game appeared in his mind.

Not long after, in the European Cup knockout round, Portugal vs England, Rui Costa came on as a substitute.

The same substitution was the advantage, and the same counter-substitution was used. Ye Qiu replaced Ronaldinho in a very poor state and replaced Joe Cole, which obviously wanted to strengthen the team's last pass.

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

After receiving Ferguson's instructions, Gary Neville nodded, saying that he understood and would look at this kid carefully.

As a teammate of the national team, Gary Neville is not unfamiliar with Joe Cole, and he is very clear about Joe Cole's strength.

With the referee's whistle, Drogba kicked the ball to Rooney. Rooney, who made the first appearance for Chelsea in the official game, looked not frightened at all. Youdao is a newborn calf who is not afraid of the tiger. Rooney is powerful under Jemba's press, turned around to protect the ball, and waited for his teammates to press it up before knocking the ball back to Terry on the defense.

Don't underestimate this ball protection. This is also one of the routines Ye Qiu focused on, because when Rooney protects the ball, Chelsea can smoothly push forward, including the back line. When Terry received Rooney's knockback, Chelsea's frontcourt had clearly entered Manchester United's 30-meter area.

Of course, if Ye Qiu had not been confident in Rooney's ability, he would not have taken such a risk, because once the ball was cut off and directly counterattacked, it would be very dangerous behind him.

After Terry got the ball, he passed it forward to the retreating Marklele without waiting for Alan Smith to approach.

One interesting thing is the position and movements of Marklele and Deco.

All those who have played the ball know that when encountering a tight defense, the most difficult part of the ball is that it is easier to respond and get the ball from the back to the offensive direction, because there is no threat. The real difficulty lies in how you get the ball head-on.

Without taking the ball head-on, it is impossible to complete the advancement and it is impossible to pose a threat.

There are only two ways to achieve this step, one is team cooperation and the other is the player's personal abilities.

For the two back midfielders who are crucial to controlling the team's ball path advancement and offense and defense transformation, how to cooperate at this point is also crucial. So at the moment Terry wants to pass the ball, if the game picture is frozen, you can see that Marklele's position is more upside than Deco. What's interesting about the two is that Marklele is running back with his back to the offensive side, while Deco is facing the offensive side head-on

When Marklele ran back from the front to receive the ball, Scholes, who was guarding Deco, was obviously affected. He wanted to go over and complete double-teams and press, but Marklele did not let the ball stay at his feet, but passed the ball diagonally behind Scholes, in front of Deco.

When Scholes wanted to press Marklele, Deco had already inserted from behind him as soon as possible, and after getting the ball, he faced the attack direction directly. Chelsea's attack was also pressed by Manchester United. He successfully completed the transition from back-to-point goal to facing the goal by touching the ball with two feet. Deco dribbled the ball forward and back, successfully threatening the 30-meter area.

Facing the offensive side, Deco has many choices, and any of his choices obviously affects Manchester United's defense, so Manchester United's defensive players stare at him as if they were facing a big enemy. This time he chose to pass the diagonally on the left to find Joe Kerr.

Jokol pulled near the left line, and Deco's pass was gently removed by his left foot. Well, the ball was like a lead-filled ball, stuck to his instep. Gary Neville immediately chose to keep a close eye on Jokol, but at the same time, Lampard quickly inserted diagonally from the middle to behind Gary Neville, and Keane subconsciously followed Lampard.

Lampard's move directly pulled Keane away, while Joe Kear protected the ball and quickly dribbled the ball horizontally along the penalty area line from the left to cut into the middle. The whole process happened in the blink of an eye, giving Manchester United players no room for breathing or thinking.

Gary Neville followed Joe Kerr, but the latter was in the top of the penalty area, before Jemba approached, and passed the ball to Manchester United's right rib. Rooney went to the middle between Manchester United's left defender Forjon and left center defender Sylvester. After getting the ball, he rushed to the bottom line quickly and directly broke through Sylvester who was robbed.

It wasn't the French that he was reckless, but in that instant, he would never let Rooney catch the ball smoothly in the penalty area, otherwise he would just kick the ball, so no matter what choice he made at that time, the risk would be very high.

But Sylvester is not a coward. When he was broken through by Rooney, he followed Rooney tightly, not giving Rooney a chance to kick the ball in the goal. This is the benefit of experience. He allows you to break through, but he does not let you pause. If you don’t pause, you can’t kick the ball. If you rush to kick the ball, it will be difficult to hit the main part and exert force.

However, Rooney also has a brute force. He couldn't get up, so Yu Qian didn't do it himself. He directly used his speed advantage to highlight a gap, pick up the ball and pass the back point. This is also the cleverness of the English boy.

Sylvester raised his foot and wanted to intercept it, but the ball was obviously higher than the one he raised. How to block it?

If you say that Oshei is not short, l Mi9I is not without resistance against Drogba, but the most rare thing about Drogba's giant elephant is that he must be tall, explosive, sensitive, and most importantly, his physical confrontation is absolutely perverted.

Under Drogba's ravage and shadow, O'Shea didn't even have a chance to jump up. He saw the Ivorians jumping gently and directly pushed Rooney's pass into Manchester United's goal close to the close. 0

Even Drogba himself did not expect the goal opportunity to fall on him. He was as always trying to defend his teammates. He originally thought Rooney would shoot by himself, but he did not expect that Rooney could not get rid of Sylvester and could only pass the ball.

After scoring the goal, Drogba was so excited that he didn't know what to say. After rushing to the sidelines, he mumbled all the way. No one could hear clearly what he wanted to say, but the only thing that was certain was that he was crazy and happy.

Chelsea scored a goal in the first offense in the second half. Ferguson on the sidelines shook his head. This was not accidental, but Chelsea used constant passes to tear away Manchester United's defense. After Joe Kerr dribbled the ball from the left, he keenly found Rooney who was inserted into the right rib. This was definitely a wonderful move.

Sometimes the game is like this. If the ball is passed well, it is just a goal. Even if the ball is slightly worse, it may cause the goal to fail. Ronaldinho seemed to perform well in the first half, but in fact it is just a little worse.

This conceding also sounded another alarm for Ferguson, and Keane could no longer support Manchester United's midfielder.

As Arsenal and Chelsea become more and more good at playing the two-street tactics, the protection of the defense line by a single midfielder can be said to have been greatly challenged. How can you protect both left and right ribs at the same time as you are a midfielder?

You can play against weak teams, because the strength of the two wing-way offensive players of weak teams will be relatively weak and the response is not obvious. However, when playing against strong teams like Chelsea and Arsenal, their response strength is very high. Ronaldinho's most famous offensive routine at Chelsea is actually to cut in from the left and pass through the right rib in a diagonal way. It can be said that it has been tried and tested.

Sometimes, many things are destined

With Joe Cole Mall, Chelsea broke Manchester United's goal at the beginning of the second half. Ferguson immediately made an adjustment and replaced Forjon and Jemba with Fletcher and Phil Neville. Ferguson was obviously very dissatisfied with the performance of these two players.

However, the substitution still cannot change the passive beating situation, nor can it stop Chelsea's attack.

In the 54th minute, Sylvester and O'She made a mistake under the strong offensive pressure of Chelsea. O'She made a big kick and missed it. He kicked directly in front of Lampard. Lampard, who was standing near the penalty spot, would naturally not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He kicked the ball directly and entered the upper left corner. 0

The situation changed a lot, and Manchester United defended happily in the first half, but in the second half, they were suddenly defeated like a mountain.

In the 58th minute, Chelsea launched another attack. After Joe Kerr got the pass on the left, he made a move to cut in, but suddenly he gave it to Evra who was inserted behind. After getting the ball, the French left-back quickly went to the baseline to cross.

Drogba still firmly occupied the commanding heights in the penalty area this time, but under the double-team of Osheim and Sylvester, the Ivorians failed to get the opportunity and could only choose to head the ball and rub it gently, the ball fell to the back point. Rooney threw away Phil Neville, inserted it quickly, poked the ball towards the incoming ball, and the ball went straight to the bottom of the net, 0

Just 13 minutes after the opening, Chelsea won three games in a row, and the situation changed completely. The Chelsea fans in the stands of the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff were all so happy that they kept singing the team's songs and shouting the players' names. The scene was finally a bit lively.

There is nothing to do about this. Although this game is a Community Shield Cup, which is a bit similar to the Super Cup in other leagues, it actually has little influence. At least judging from the attendance rate of Cardiff Millennium Stadium, it is estimated that three of the ls are empty.

In fact, this is also a problem that has always existed since the rebuilding of Wembley Stadium and all final events have been transferred to Cardiff Millennium Stadium, that is, the attendance rate is always difficult to satisfy. If it is the finals of the League Cup and the FA Cup, it would be better. After all, these two events still have some influence, but the attendance rate of other events is very bad.

Although Chelsea and Manchester United are playing in this game, the attendance rate is only about 3.

It is estimated that this has something to do with Cardiff being too far from London.

After winning 0, Chelsea had no idea of ​​fighting because of this. The team still kept attacking Manchester United. Seeing that the team had no hope of turning around, Ferguson replaced four young players in one breath, basically all of whom didn't know them, obviously they wanted to stay in the mid-week Champions League.

The Community Shield is not a strict game, but a charitable game, so there are no more restrictions on substitutions, especially before the game, Manchester United called for a full substitute to play the Community Shield. As a result, the FA was very dissatisfied and finally made a compromise and agreed to let both sides lead 7 substitutes, but they could be on the U.S.

After all, this event is just a more official warm-up match for all teams.

But in the 81st minute, Chelsea still shot with Deco from behind, hit Sylvester and turned into Howard's goal, 40

This goal made Ye Qiu on the sidelines obviously excited. As soon as the whistle sounded at the end of the game, he couldn't wait to walk to Ferguson and laughed and said something to Ferguson, who was so gloomy and scary that he almost furious.

“40 is really good”
Chapter completed!