The strongest winger

Chapter 553 The Exclamation of Old Trafford ([-]rd)

Ferguson stood at the coaching area of ​​the home team with his arms folded, his body straight, and he kept moving his mouth and chewing gum. From his profile, we can see his calmness and composure, as well as his strategy for the game.

In the 25th minute of the second half of the game, Manchester United was leading the field, 2:1, and the number of people on the field still had an advantage. Thinking of the humiliating record against the damn Portuguese Mourinho in the past, he couldn't find any reason to let them go at this time.

Take advantage of his illness to kill him!

Ferguson waved his hand on the sidelines, signaling the players on the field to continue to strengthen their offense!
With the acceleration of Manchester United's offensive rhythm, Chelsea's defense began to be jittery, but fortunately, their adjustment ability is first-class. After learning from the loss just now, they quickly made self-adjustments, allowing Manchester United to play in two ways, but not allowed to cut in close to the goal.

Because Manchester United's two forwards, Rooney and Tevez, are not the kind of strong point-grabbing forwards, it is very difficult to grab a header under the double-team of Terry and Ben Haim.

Chelsea's two wingers, Ashley Cole and Ferreira, both stick to their defense's rib space when defending, and give up the two lanes to Cristiano Ronaldo and Giggs to give them space to pass the ball.

Of course, the quality of the cross is not in this ranks, but the probability is still too low after all.

Now that Chelsea's penalty area is full of players inside and out, where is the space they need?

Therefore, Manchester United also changed their offensive thinking. Instead of blindly crossing from the side, they used the combination of the side and the center. If there was a chance, Carrick and Stearns would try their luck in the middle.

But... the result was not good.

In the blink of an eye, it was the 80th minute of the game. The situation on the field was still biased towards the home team. After all, there was one more player on the field, which meant that there was one more route when passing and receiving the ball.

And this advantage becomes more obvious in defense, because Chelsea used wingers to replace midfielders in order to make up for the loophole of Mikel being sent off, so it is destined that they will not invest too much force in offense.

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Mourinho looked up at the big screen above the stadium. The time had reached the 81st minute of the game. Then he turned his head to look at the situation on the field. Manchester United still took the initiative on the field. Even the two central defenders, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic, had already passed the center line. The two full-backs Brown and Evra even acted as wingers. This...

Seeing this, Mourinho seems to see the hope of equalizing the score, because Manchester United suppressed Chelsea for a long time, which led to a psychological relaxation of defense, so that two ribs were left open when they switched from offense to defense.

Of course, Ferguson also saw such an obvious space in the ribs, but because of the team's long-term suppression, he also selectively ignored it, because Manchester United has put pressure on Chelsea's defense for more than 5 minutes in a row.

And for nearly half an hour in the second half, Chelsea didn't hit a few counterattacks, and they were basically strangled in the cradle by the players on the field. Aiello, known as the greatest threat to Manchester United's defense, didn't even touch the football a few times, so... Ferguson is also a bit careless.

Mourinho quickly turned around and shouted at his assistant, Boas: "Call Claudio and Salomon to get ready to play!"

what?
Boas was taken aback subconsciously, and replaced two forwards to strengthen the attack when he was under pressure in the away game?Is this... crazy?

This is not like the Jose Mourinho he remembers.

Today... seems even crazier!
"Is there a problem?" Mourinho asked when he saw Boas in a daze.

"Ah? No, no, no..." After recovering, Boas shrugged and ran to the warm-up area to call Pizarro and Kalu.

Mourinho looked at Boas's back and shook his head, then turned his head and continued to look at the court.

Two minutes later, Pizarro and Kalou stood next to the fourth official, waiting to play.

Since there is no dead ball on the field, the only way to change is to wait for the next dead ball.

The director at Old Trafford reacted quickly. It was Carrick who got the ball on the field. He was about 35 meters away from Chelsea's goal, so he switched a scene and gave it to the fourth official on the sidelines.

The change of this shot immediately aroused the analysis of the narrators from various countries in the studio.

"Is Mourinho finally ready for the last fight? But that's right, one goal behind in the away game. Losing one goal is a loss, and losing two goals is also a loss. Why not replace two defensive players to strengthen the attack? Maybe if you are lucky, you can score two more. In short, everything is possible!"

"Pissaro and Kalu are both ready to play at the same time? This... this is an obvious signal to strengthen the offense, but... which two players will be replaced? Will they remove two defensive players and replace them with two forwards to change the pattern on the field, or is it not adjusted?... But in this case, their overall defensive ability will inevitably be weakened."

"Chelsea will make personnel adjustments. Which two players should be replaced? It is impossible for Aiello to replace him, because he is the most deterrent, and he is not in a state of physical fitness, and he can still make a charge. Then... Shevchenko? This is very possible. After all, he has been too mediocre in these 10 minutes. Pizarro replaced Shevchenko, so... What about Kalu? Replace the unreliable full-back Ferreira?"

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The commentators are making various speculations about Chelsea's upcoming substitution adjustments.

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The Manchester United players on the field also seemed to want to know how Chelsea's substitution adjustments were going to be, so Scholes directly chose to shoot from [-] yards in the middle. Although it looked a bit blind, the quality of the ball was really good, and it was only two balls away from the goal post.

Then the referee blew his whistle and made a substitution on the sidelines.

As a result, Joe Cole and Shevchenko went down, Pizarro and Kalu replaced a center forward and a midfielder with two forwards to strengthen the offensive numbers in the frontcourt.

"Do you want to fight to the death?" Ferguson saw the substitution, and there was an obvious arc at the corner of his mouth, obviously full of ridicule at Mourinho's substitution.

Mourinho's substitution will inevitably change Chelsea's formation from the previous four-three-two to the current four-two-three, which means that as the game progresses, Chelsea's frontcourt position will be out of touch.

However, Mourinho obviously thought it through carefully, and never thought of passing through the midfield at all. Instead, he directly launched a long pass from the backcourt to counterattack, reducing the time for football to pass through the midfield.

After all, Aiello, Pizarro, and Kalu are all over 1.8 meters tall. In addition to the slight disadvantage in the header competition in the middle, the header competition from the two wings still has an advantage, especially on the left side where Aiello is.

The following game was inconsistent with the views of many commentators on the scene, because as Chelsea’s tactics changed from complex to simple, the threat became greater and the division of labor became clearer. The offense was handed over to Aiello, Pizarro and Kalou, while the defense was handed over to four defenders and two midfielders.

Instead, the threat of attack has increased dramatically.

Aiello's combat effectiveness also gradually showed, and he became quiet after the first goal, and he began to slowly show his worth in Old Trafford.

First, he overwhelmed Brown to head the ball to Pizarro. The latter kept shaking the outside of his instep, and then he took a long shot 30 meters away from the goal. If Van der Sar hadn't made a wonderful save, Chelsea would have equalized the score.

Immediately afterwards, in the corner kick attack, he used his abnormal jumping ability and judgment to grab the ball to the goal before Vidic and Rio Ferdinand. This time it was Van der Sar's wonderful save and saved the ball.

No one expected that at the end of the game, Chelsea would turn away from the host with one less player!
In the 87th minute, Terry overwhelmed Cristiano Ronaldo in the penalty area and pushed the ball out of the penalty area. Makelele, who was at the front of the penalty area, was stuck in his position, making Scholes unable to move forward, and then passed the ball to Sidwell, who was out of space.

Brown, who has gradually given up his career as a winger, is tense all over his body, and he is retreating with Ai Luo, preparing to compete for the top goal.

Of course, during the process of retreating, his right hand secretly grabbed Ai Luo's back jersey. As long as he made a slight movement, he would mercilessly pull it to the ground. If there is a foul in this place, the referee will not show the card at all, and will not even give a warning.

Brown slowly backed away with this thought, but Aiello's next move caught him off guard a bit, as Aiello stopped abruptly in the process of slowly backing up, leaning his back against Brown and looking up at the ball.

This change made Brown depressed, but he also looked up at the football flying in the air, which was too high.

Are you really so confident in your jumping ability?Even if you have the current jumping ability and Yao Ming's height, you can't match football, right?

But Ai Luo's next action made him suddenly enlightened.

Ai Luo leaned against Brown, looked up at the football in the air, and seemed to be about to jump and head the ball, but... then he suddenly dodged to the right.

Brown was going to interfere with Ai Luo's take-off, but Ai Luo's sudden dodge just now made him subconsciously slam into Ai Luo, but is Ai Luo so easily knocked away?

The answer is naturally no.

Brown's collision not only failed to knock Aiello to the ground, but also made the rhythm of his feet chaotic, and everything was developing in an unpredictable direction.

In addition to Ailuo's own balance ability of 84 and flexibility of 88, at this time it fully shows its due effect.

Seeing that he was about to lose his center of gravity, Brown realized the consequences of Ai Luo rushing forward, so he squeezed his entire body weight on Ai Luo, trying to knock the latter to the ground, but he ignored Ai Luo's explosive power.

Especially the burst of energy in a short period of time is quite astonishing. Ai Luo pressed his right elbow close to his body, resisting Brown's impact and accelerating forward.

As Ai Luo moved forward, Brown's center of gravity gradually shifted, and finally... what awaited him was to fall to the ground.

Suddenly, there was a burst of exclamation from the stands.

(End of this chapter)