Chapter 752 Lightning Offensive
"In the Premier League, Manchester United is a fierce tiger, but that's for other teams, for us Tottenham, they're just paper tigers, remember how we beat them at Old Trafford 80?"
"Don't think too much, just remember one thing and beat it to death."
"As long as they dare to resist, we will strive to score goals. If one is not enough, two is not enough, three is not enough. We just want to score crazy goals, keep scoring goals. When they enter, they are afraid of surrendering with both hands, and when they completely collapse. When they see us, they dare not speak loudly. They hold their tails for me and restrain themselves.
"Walk onto the stadium and tell them who is the king of the Premier League now"
What Ye Qiu said when the players walked out of the locker room, even when the players were scattered on the court, standing in their positions, waiting for the two players Cavani and Messi in the penalty area to kick off, they were still coiling in their minds.
Hazard stood on the left side outside the middle circle, twisting his neck hard, waving his arms, jumping his legs, and moving his body. He noticed that what he encountered in front of him in this game was the right side where Raphael was.
In this game, Manchester United's starting lineup was 433 tactics, with goalkeepers de Gea, defenses were Evra, Vidic, Ferdinand and Rafael, midfielders were Giggs, Carrick and Scholes, and front tridents were Rooney, Benzema and Van Persie.
After sending Tevez to West Ham United, Manchester United introduced Dutch scorer Van Persie from Barcelona for a large sum of money to form a new offensive combination with a frontcourt trident. This is also the first time Van Persie has encountered his old club Tottenham Hotspur after returning to the Premier League.
Looking sideways towards the center circle, Hazard is patiently waiting for the kickoff. Today's head coach is Chris Fuva. This is his second time enforcing Manchester United's game this season. Interestingly, both games were held at Old Trafford Stadium. The last time was Manchester United beat Newcastle 21 and the home team won.
In addition, in the six games that Chris Fuva has enforced the law this season, the home team has won four wins and two draws, and two draws remain unbeaten. Two of the draws were Arsenal against the Black Cat Sunderland, and Norwich tied West Ham United at home 00, while those who won at home included Chelsea, Manchester City and West Bromwich.
Therefore, many media have hyped before the game. Chris Fuva is a friend of the home team. As long as it is a game where he enforces the law, he will at least remain unbeaten at home. However, some people think that this is a pure coincidence. With Tottenham Hotspur's strong attack power, it is hard to say whether Manchester United can stop Tottenham Hotspur from scoring a goal.
Chris Fuva stood in the middle circle, holding a whistle in his mouth, focusing on the movement of his watch, and was enlarged onto the large screen of Old Trafford Stadium. With a crisp whistle, Cavani kicked the ball out to Messi, officially sounding the horn of this highly anticipated focus battle.
At the beginning of the game, when Tottenham Hotspur passed the ball back, Manchester United did not start the tightening tactics in the frontcourt, but retreated the overall defense, obviously giving up the tightening pressure in the frontcourt and let Tottenham Hotspur attack.
Hazard rushed forward quickly after the game started, but he paid more attention to getting closer to the left line because he found that Manchester United's red jerseys were gathered throughout the middle. It was obvious that Manchester United should focus on the defense in the middle.
Soon, when Hazard ran to Manchester United's 30-meter area, he heard his teammates calling his name behind him.
The Belgian turned around and looked up. He saw that Pirlo had passed the ball from behind and had already arrived in front of him. So Hazad turned around, stopped the ball with his chest, and removed his right foot, and the ball fell steadily under his feet.
After stopping the ball, Hazard continued to lead forward, Scholes leaned over, and Raphael also stood near the left corner of the penalty area.
Hazard glanced at the eyes and found that Cavani and Messi were in place, so he directly speeded up.
I saw Hazard dribbling the ball through Scholes' defense area, suddenly accelerated and waded through Scholes. He encountered Raphael in the left corner of the penalty area. The Brazilian right-back was originally stuck in a good position, but he did not expect Hazard to pass Scholes' defense area so quickly.
One-on-one, just a look of eye contact. Hazard acted to go down the bottom, but suddenly hit the ball and dunked it from Raphael, turning it into an inward cut. At this time, the man had already reached the penalty area. Although Scholes appeared on Hazard's right, he did not dare to step on his feet easily.
This is the trouble of driving the ball in small steps. Unless Hazard makes a mistake in dribbling the ball by himself, in a place like the penalty area, defensive players will feel a headache to deal with such small steps and there is no effective way.
Moreover, Hazard handled the details very well this time without any flaws.
Ferdinand assisted in defense behind Raphael. After seeing Hazard passing Scholes and Raphael continuously, he made a prediction immediately and wanted to block Hazard's incisive position. But what he didn't expect was that the Belgian was not tall but his body was very flexible. The sudden change of speed and direction in this narrow range caught him off guard.
Hazard, who was originally cutting in, suddenly stopped and spiked another emergency stop, and turned into a bottom, and rushed straight to the bottom line from Ferdinand. At this time, Ferdinand couldn't react at all.
Just in the left corner of the penalty area, in a narrow range, he dribbled the ball and changed the speed and direction in a continuous small step. Hazard played three Manchester United defensive players in a row, and when he got down to the bottom line, he was going to compete with De Gea one-on-one.
But Hazard was not greedy for me this time. He saw that Vidic and Evra were driven by him. Messi at the back of the goal was no one to defend, so he gently raised his right foot, not to shoot, but to pass.
The ball gently crossed De Gea, who bent down and lowered the center of gravity, and fell to the back point of the goal. Messi followed up from behind and easily pushed the ball into the empty goal, 1:0
“Wow”
"The game has just started less than a minute, only forty-eight seconds. Oh my god, Tottenham Hotspur has scored a goal."
"The goal in the 48th second came from Hazard who passed three opponents in a row on the left and formed a single shot, but Hazard selflessly passed the back point and assisted his teammate Messi to score a goal, 1:0."
"It's too fast, Tottenham's offense is really too fast, Manchester United's defense is easily captured by the opponent, Ferguson's careful defense is easily broken."
"Faced with Tottenham Hotspur's rapid and sharp attack, we can only say, please, your target should not be the earth, but the sea of stars. Go back to your Mars, Tottenham Universe."
All Tottenham Hotspur players rushed out of the stadium excitedly and rushed to the corner flagpole. Messi hugged Hazard tightly. The two of them celebrated the goal together on the sidelines. Hazard's assist was indeed very selfless, because he had enough reason to kick himself. Even if the shooting angle was not large, hitting by himself was the selfishness that a scorer should have.
But he didn't, he assisted, which reflected his team consciousness.
Manchester United were obviously a little surprised at such a start. After seeing Messi score, Ferguson on the sidelines slapped his forehead hard. He felt that his disciples were still not focused enough, because he reminded them more than once before the game that Hazard on Tottenham Hotspur's left side has been in an outrageous state recently and must be careful.
Although you will give you a stunning performance with several consecutive players at the beginning, and it is indeed in a frightening state, your defensive players are not attentive enough, which also gives Hazard the opportunity and space to perform.
Who would have thought that if he was defending one of three players on the left, he would even break into the small penalty area. Can you say that there is something wrong with the defense?
However, the advantage is obviously no longer on Manchester United's side. Ferguson is now facing a very difficult choice. How can the game continue? Less than a minute after the opening game, the opponent knocked open the goal. How can you continue to play?
After the Manchester United players on the court re-telephoned, they obviously wanted to make up for the loophole just now, launch an attack against Tottenham Hotspur as soon as possible, score a goal, and bring the situation between the two sides back to the same starting line.
Ferguson didn't have a very effective method for a while, and he felt that at this time, the players could not stop their minds from getting hot. It would be best to let them suppress the morale and spirit of Tottenham Hotspur, otherwise how could they play in this game?
But what Ferguson did not expect was that after Manchester United conceding the ball, they launched three consecutive attacks, and once scored within the 30-meter area of Tottenham Hotspur, but failed to get a goal. Instead, in the fourth minute, Rooney had to go to Benzema after getting the ball, but Thiago Silva stabbed the ball away in advance.
The ball went to the right, and Kyle Walker rushed forward and cleared the ball with a big foot.
Messi pulled to the right line and stuck the position in advance. Evra was behind him. After the Argentine steadily removed the ball, he made a fake move to the bottom, but suddenly spiked the ball and turned half a circle on the spot and cut the ball. When Vidic was about to come to defend Evra, Messi suddenly passed by a cross.
I saw Cavani rushing up from behind, on the right side of the top of the penalty area, facing Messi's cross pass. As soon as he stopped with his left foot, he swung his right foot and shot a thunderous shot. The ball was like a lightning bolt.
De Gea reacted very quickly this time, flew over and made a save, blocking the ball, and he fell heavily on the turf. When he looked at the landing point of the ball, he saw that Ramsey had rushed into the penalty area at some point, and at the left of the penalty spot, he gently pushed the ball towards De Gea's saved.
The ball rolled quickly into Manchester United's goal line. Raphael, who was retreating rapidly, arrived at this time. He was so angry that he kicked the ball directly into the net, but it could no longer stop Chris Fuva from blowing the effective whistle of the goal. 20
"Three minutes, only three minutes after the last goal. It's less than four minutes since the opening game. Tottenham Hotspur leads with two goals. How do Manchester United play this game?"
The commentator of Sky TV was obviously shocked. Even after seeing Tottenham Hotspur scored two goals in a row, he couldn't help but want to ask, "Is Tottenham Hotspur going to re-show the previous massacre of Manchester United at Old Trafford Stadium? Does Ye Qiu want to give the old coach a shameful slap in the face this season when Ferguson announced his retirement?"
I believe that at this moment, not only the commentator has such concerns, but all the Red Devils fans in the stands have such concerns, and even all the Manchester United players on the court are in a daze. Many of them have experienced that game 2008. They have encountered overwhelming humiliation and booing from the media and fans after the game. They all know that it is a shame.
One time it was an accident, but if they came again, they didn't know what would happen
This is the shadow. When you encounter a certain dilemma or a certain unsatisfaction, it will make you feel scared and scared, and if you cannot suppress it well, it will swallow your soul.
Whether it would be the reappearance of 08, Ferguson didn't know, because the game had just begun, but he had already lost two goals. The situation was extremely unfavorable to him and Manchester United. What he was thinking about now was not even what to win the game or what to keep the draw, but how to make himself lose less miserably.
Of course, it's not that he has no hope of reversal. After all, the game has just begun, but if you want to reversal, you have to wait until you stabilize the situation before talking. If Tottenham continues to attack like this, it may be a shameful score.
Ferguson clenched his fists and stood in front of the home team's coaching seat with gritted teeth. Everyone only saw his red face, but no one knew his mood at this moment. Except for sitting behind Ferguson in the stands, he specially accepted his invitation to come to Old Trafford Stadium to watch the ball.
When he coached Barcelona and lost to Tottenham Hotspur in two rounds, Guardiola was in the same mood as Ferguson now. He was unwilling to give up, but he had no choice.
Sometimes the head coach can do very little, especially when you realize that your players are already scared and have lost their fighting spirit, even if you are unwilling to give up, there is no way, because you cannot play on the court to replace the players, and you cannot let the players rekindle their fighting spirit and fight desperately with their opponents in a short period of time.
The reason why reversal is often called a miracle is that it is hard to find.
The game has basically ended. This is Guardiola's analysis of the game, and it is actually their midfielder who loses the game. The midfielder composed of lineups such as Scholes, Carrick and Giggs cannot stop Tottenham Hotspur's crazy offensive.
After the opening, Manchester United's midfielder was almost ineffective in doing nothing. It is not difficult to understand that veterans always get slower into the state. They are very slow to warm up. AC Milan was the same. Although this group of veterans of Manchester United maintained good condition and had rich experience, they could perform well with the team's off-ball running system.
But the problem is that Tottenham's attack is like a wolf and tiger, leaving them exhausted and unable to resist.
From this point of view, Rasdiyala is the irreplaceable midfield defense of Manchester United today. Tevez and Rooney have a huge support role in the frontcourt, but Ferguson lets Tevez go and leaves Rooney for maximum salary, but sending Rasdiyala and Sneider away or throwing into the cold palace, which makes Manchester United's midfield lose its competitiveness
Modern football often tests a team, and it often depends on the midfield.
After Ye Qiu sent Yaya Toure, Fabregas and David Silva away, Vidal and Pirlo were introduced. Tottenham Hotspur's midfielder transformed and immediately became resilient. He could not only make tough attacks, but also had delicate technical changes. The offensive methods of the entire team became more diverse and changeable, making people unable to defend.
"Is it really the only one who can defeat Tottenham Hotspur?"
Although many people say that Pirlo's aging will cause some changes in Tottenham's entire tactics and bring some uncertainty, more people think that relatively speaking, Ye Qiu's departure may be the most painful blow to this team.
As early as the beginning of the season, media reported that Ye Qiu might announce his departure from the head coaching seat in 2014 and concentrate on moving into the team's management. After all, for people like him, coaching is just his hobby.
Four minutes, three attacks, two shots, and two goals, Tottenham's lightning offensive was fully reflected after the start of the game. If it was just fast, it would not be scary. What was scary is that they were fast and efficient.
In the end, Manchester United failed to pose too much threat to Tottenham Hotspur at home. Although Ferguson's team turned to defense after conceding two goals in a row and stabilized the situation, Tottenham Hotspur also defended Manchester United's counterattack, so they did not increase their offensive investment and ended with 02 in the first half.
In the second half, Tottenham Hotspur was Hazard and Marcelo hitting the wall with two consecutive passes on the left and they made a cross from the bottom. Cavani headed the ball to the back point, and Messi scored another goal, 30
The game ended with a score of 30, with Tottenham defeating the Red Devils and Manchester United again at Old Trafford.
At the moment when Chris Fuva blew the end of the game, more than 70,000 fans at the Old Trafford Stadium became silent. Perhaps the more than 90 minutes of the game had wiped out their passion and made them see clearly a fact that Manchester United does not have the strength to challenge Tottenham Hotspur today.
This can be seen clearly from the lineups of both sides.
But no one can question Ferguson, because without Ferguson as support, with Manchester United's current lineup configuration, they may not even be able to get the top four in the Premier League, so they must accept the reality.
However, as the commentator analyzed in the post-match summary, with Ferguson here, Manchester United can continue to make it into the top four with this set of residual teams, but Ferguson will retire after the end of this season. What should we do then? Who can take over this mess in Ferguson?
Many Manchester United fans have noticed Guardiola. Does Espanyol appear at Old Trafford Stadium mean anything?
In fact, after the game, Ferguson specially invited Ye Qiu and Guardiola to his office, saying it was a drink. In fact, the old fox's abacus was very smart.
Chapter completed!