I just wanted to play football, but I became a Hollywood god

When Scholes came on the field, all the Manchester United fans in the stands stood up and applauded Scholes.

This 37-year-old world-class midfield master who is about to hang up his boots and retire was supposed to come on the field and play casually in the second half after Manchester United took an overwhelming lead. As a result...

Scholes, like before, appeared when Manchester United needed him most.

In the 40th minute, which was the second minute after Scholes came on the field, Southampton's quick counterattack shot was blocked by Van der Sar. Van der Sar directly kicked the ball to Scholes, who was slightly forward. ers.

Scholes immediately took the ball forward!

Mikel reached out to pull Scholes, but because Mikel had already received a yellow card and Mikel also maintained respect for Scholes, Mikel's pulling action was not too serious. big.

Scholes took the opportunity to speed up and get rid of Mikel's entanglement!

Gu Ran immediately retreated and sprinted to intercept, while Fletcher firmly pulled Gu Ran's arm.

Scholes saw the opportunity and sent a straight through ball at the top of the penalty area!

Rooney knocked away Fonte and Jaidi who were marking him, and after taking the ball, he fired a powerful shot!

Davis made the save——

This shot is too fast! From a through pass to a shot, everything is so fast that no one has time to react!

Davis tried his best, but still couldn't touch the football!

The football explodes into the net!

The referee also gestured to the center circle to indicate that the goal was valid!

The Manchester United fans in the stands suddenly cheered crazily!

Scholes, the soul of their team, has assists when he comes off the bench!

Rooney, who scored twice, happily threw himself at Scholes and hugged him with open arms, while Scholes rubbed Rooney's not too much hair dotingly.

You know, Rooney's hair is absolutely untouchable, and only a veteran team spirit like Scholes can rub Rooney's dwindling hair.

The score on the big screen at Wembley Stadium was immediately changed to Manchester United 2:1 Southampton!

Manchester United reversed the score after conceding 1 goal first!

Manchester United fans sang the Manchester United anthem happily!

The Southampton fans sighed helplessly and shook their heads.

I have to say that Manchester United is indeed much stronger than Southampton.

Southampton is obviously a defensive counterattack team, but Southampton's defense is almost like a layer of brittle paper in front of Manchester United.

And this is despite Manchester United not using all their main players.

The game continues.

The Southampton team, which was 1 goal behind, did not have an unbalanced mentality. Instead, it continued to play steadily and maintained a shrinking defensive formation, leaving only Gu Ran and Lallana active in the midfield.

In this game, although Gu Ran's position was as a defensive midfielder, he was more of a central midfielder/forward midfielder.

Being behind in the score is a common thing for Southampton. The last time they played against Liverpool, Southampton first led by 1 goal, and then was chased by Liverpool for 3 goals in a row. In the end, it was not relying on Gu. Did it beat Liverpool?

Therefore, falling behind by 1 goal in the first half, Southampton was not nervous at all.

The two sides engaged in close combat on both wings.

Gu Ran and Mikel both received yellow cards, which indeed greatly reduced the hardness of Southampton's backcourt. Fortunately, Southampton's iron barrel formation was well drilled, even under Manchester United's strong attack. It always looked shaky, but in the last few minutes of the first half, Southampton still withstood Manchester United's onslaughts one after another. Southampton even had two good counterattacks, but unfortunately neither Chamberlain nor Lallana could seize the opportunity to score.

With the referee's long whistle, the first half of the FA Cup final ended, and the score was temporarily fixed at Manchester United 2:1 Southampton.

To be honest, it is difficult for Manchester United fans to be satisfied with this half-time score.

Although Manchester United immediately overtook the score after Scholes came on the scene and completed the reversal of the score, but to use the word "reversal" when playing against a team of Southampton's level is in itself a disservice to Manchester United. insult.

Ferguson was not very satisfied with this score either.

According to Ferguson's pre-match assumptions, Southampton should have been defeated by Manchester United in the first half of this game. Even Liverpool could score Southampton 3 goals in the first half, so Manchester United should at least also score. It would have been right to score 4 goals against Southampton in the first half.

But now, Manchester United is only 1 goal ahead of Southampton, and Park Ji-sung, who played a very important role in this game, was also injured and left the field. Scholes came on early, which will undoubtedly be a challenge for Scholes' physical fitness. A big test.

Players from both sides returned to their respective locker rooms amid cheers from fans on both sides.

Southampton's players sat around in the locker room, wiping sweat, taking a large amount of electrolyte sweet root water, inhaling oxygen, or stuffing snus cream into their noses.

Head coach Adkins first cheered for the players, and then fine-tuned the formation and movement on the tactical whiteboard.

Coach Adkins told everyone that if they continue playing like this, Southampton still has a great chance of winning the second FA Cup trophy in the club's history.

Southampton's players are also full of confidence!

In the home team's locker room on the other side, coach Ferguson started hair dryer mode.

With Manchester United's strength, it would be a big no-no to not defeat Southampton quickly!

Manchester United must save some physical strength and energy to deal with the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals three days later, so they must break through the Southampton team as soon as possible, leaving Southampton unable to fight back.

Ferguson said that a team like Southampton has no tactics at all. They just rely on Gu Ran, so they adopted a shrinking tactic in the early stage and used physical confrontation to defeat Manchester United's physical fitness and patience, while waiting for Manchester United's physical fitness and patience. When their patience was exhausted, Gu Ran launched a fatal counterattack.

Ferguson had already seen through this tactic.

But the problem is that some tactics are not conspiracy, but conspiracy. Conspiracy is easy to break, and conspiracy relies entirely on hard power competition.

If the conspiracy is seen through, it will be useless, but if the conspiracy is seen through, you still have to use hard power.

The current Southampton team is not afraid of being seen through, so Gu Ran's position is getting closer and closer to the center and further forward.

From top to bottom of the Manchester United team, no one could restrain Gu Ran.

Even Park Ji-sung was not eliminated by Gu Ran, Park Ji-sung could not restrain Gu Ran in the second half.

Therefore, Ferguson understood very well that the score in the first half really didn't mean anything. If Gu Ran's sudden outburst could not be restrained in the second half, everything would be over.

Ferguson's new strategy is to ask Fletcher to give up everything and stare at Gu Ran. At the same time, Scholes must also help defend Fletcher to the best of his ability.

After the 15-minute intermission, players from both sides appeared again, changing sides and fighting again!

...(End of chapter)