Manchester United legend

Chapter 137 Manchester United Season Summary
For Manchester United, this season is extremely regrettable.The league, the FA Cup, the League Cup and the Champions League all lost, almost creating the worst record in all competitions, which made Ferguson feel extremely painful and put him under pressure.

Especially this season, he lost two games against Arsenal, and faced the loss of a team like Coventry, he actually lost 7 games throughout the season, which is even more unacceptable for him.The blow of losing the strong dialogue is the lesson of losing the champion in the end.

Ferguson must not have imagined that the team's absence of Cantona before the start of the season would cause such serious consequences.

Without the experience of the French, without the support of the French, Manchester United also lost their composure, and eventually lost enough domineering, enough tenacity, and a little bit of luck.

With the introduction of Sheringham and Cole's excellent form this season, Manchester United's offensive end is still very sharp.

This kind of firepower even surpassed when Cantona was still in the team last season.

So fundamentally speaking, the loss of Manchester United's loss of Cantona is not just a goal. In fact, what is more critical is the kind of domineering unparalleled domineering and unparalleled control of the game.

During Cantona's years at Manchester United, Manchester United's game can be fast or slow. When attacking, it can be uninterrupted and uninterrupted, or it can make a quick assault with a fatal move; when defending, it can stabilize the midfield and retreat slowly.

There are sudden changes between offense and defense, and there is no trace between speed and slowness. The key points are all in Cantona's leadership and scheduling, and it all lies in Cantona's command and coordination.

Suddenly, Manchester United couldn't find a similar core without Cantona, so they had to abandon the original main style of attack and control, and changed to an attack-based strong attack style.

Manchester United won 23 games this season, two more than last season. In fact, this is the main result of this aggressive style of play.

The idea of ​​exchanging offense for defense is simple, but Manchester United, which has lost Bruce and Jost has been absent for more than half a season, is actually very fragile.

At least defensively, they simply cannot withstand the offensive firepower of strong teams.

Ferguson used Butt, Johnson, McClair, etc. to play in the middle of the midfield, and once changed the lineup to 433, but the team's defensive pressure has never diminished.

Manchester United ushered in a bitter 7 defeats this season, and the problems on the defensive end have been extremely obvious.

Without Cantona, Manchester United's captain became Jost.And Schmeichel put forward a strong competition for the captaincy.To some extent, the locker room was not peaceful, and the signs of infighting made Manchester United players very hurt.

Jost hadn't yet become a truly tough boss who topped the league. Even in the Manchester United team, Schmeichel, who was older and had more championships, was not completely convinced of Jost's captaincy.

Jost was only 23 years old this year. He was still very young, and he still had to grow up with Manchester United. He was not as sophisticated as Arsenal Adams, and he had not yet established himself as the best midfielder in the Premier League.He still has a lot of room for improvement.

Generally speaking, although the 92 Xiaofu of the 7 golden generation are still trustworthy, the team still has many problems on both offensive and defensive ends. First of all, the huge gap left by Cantona's retirement made Manchester United have to adjust their play in the frontcourt.

Cantona's position is not what Sheringham can make up for, or even Sheringham + Solskjaer can make up for.

Manchester United needs to introduce more attackers in the summer and needs to continue to innovate in tactics to challenge Arsenal's throne.

In terms of defense, Manchester United lost too many games this season, which proves that the defense still needs to be strengthened, and the defensive tactics also need to be further polished.

For Ferguson, the cruel truth may not be that Manchester United does not have a strong 11-man lineup, but that the lineup is too thin to cope with the four-line battle.

Coupled with the serious injury blow, it is even more unexpected. It can be said that the injury is fiercer than a tiger!

First Solskjaer was injured in the summer, then Jost was seriously injured, Giggs was frequently injured, Pallister was injured, Irwin was injured, Schmeichel was injured... Player injuries in different periods made Ferguson's formation stretched. When the situation was the most serious, almost half of Manchester United's main players were lying in the hospital.

Back to Manchester United's tactical execution this season.In terms of execution, Manchester United players have no problems or doubts about the deployment and arrangement of Ferguson.

But many people didn't realize that Ferguson started a lot of unusual attempts in Manchester United.On the basis of the traditional 442 formation, Ferguson began to use the 433, a powerful attacking formation with three forwards, with Sheringham, Cole and Solskjaer lined up.

After Jost was injured and missed the game, in order to strengthen the defensive ability of the midfield, Ferguson actually tried to form a double defensive midfielder.Ferguson often tries the mid-lane combination of Butt and Scholes, but in fact such a combination is difficult to deal with the raids of strong teams in the mid-lane.

Of course, Ferguson also sent Johansen + Butt, and even tried the midfield combination of Butt + Beckham.In fact, that is the standard double midfielder configuration!
Ferguson took a fancy to Beckham's super running ability and long-distance accurate passing ability.

Of course, at that time, whether it was Bart, Beckham or Scholes, they all lacked skills and abilities in interception and defense, and they still couldn't keep up with Ferguson's requirements.

At the craziest time, Ferguson tried to throw Sheringham, Cole, Solskjaer, Giggs, Scholes and other attackers all at once, and transformed Pallister into a high center forward. At those times, Manchester United's scene would become 424, 415 or even 406, which also means that Ferguson started the final fight - attack!If you don't win in the attack, you will perish in the attack!
This is the occasional hideousness of Manchester United that season, and it is also the madness hidden in Ferguson's heart.

Thanks to Ferguson for his persistence and boldness, and thanks to Ferguson for the aggressiveness he instilled in the Red Devils. All of this will be rewarded in the future!
The eyes of the world are on France this summer as the 98 World Cup begins.

The 1998 World Cup returned to France, the father of the World Cup, the father of the World Cup, France. The French team, which was blocked from the finals for two consecutive World Cups, has cultivated a large number of world-class stars, including Zidane, Dejorkaeff, Thuram and Butters, and has become an emerging force in international football.But the French team has not passed the preliminaries, and the strength of their team is still unknown.

On the other hand, Brazil, the last champion, has produced a large number of talents after 94, among which Ronaldo, who won two World Footballer of the Year in Barcelona and Inter Milan, is the most eye-catching.

In addition, after the retirement of the Three Musketeers, the football superstars headed by Bergkamp and Ajax's 95 golden generation have basically completed the replacement of the old and new national teams. The amazing coach Guus Hiddink is about to take the first step of his incredible World Cup coaching career.

Although the German team won the European Cup in England two years ago, it is regrettable that most of the veterans who won the World Cup for the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990 are still mostly in the team, and they are considered to be Beckenbauer. After that, Germany's best free agent Sammer bid farewell to the World Cup due to a serious injury, which cast a shadow over the team's prospects.

The Italian team is full of talents. Baggio proved that he is still young in Bologna. He scored 30 goals in 22 games and became the local player with the most goals in Italy. Maldini also fulfilled his promise and brought Baggio to France.

Del Piero had just recovered from injury and his Juventus partner Inzaghi was in the limelight.

But it is a pity that their commander-in-chief Maldini Sr. is a famous obstinate person.

The Argentine team cleaned up a large number of dissidents after the young coach Passarella took office. He issued a new team rule that players in the team are not allowed to have long hair.

Florence's Mars Batistuta had to lose his hair for the World Cup.But there are also players who dare to openly disobey.These include Redondo and Caniggia, who stayed behind.

In 98, the England team consisted of the three giants of the Premier League, Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool, supplemented by the Premier League striker Wang Shearer. In the case of losing to Italy at home in the World Cup qualifiers, the England team beat the Italian team to qualify for the first place and forced Italy to the ice and snow Moscow for a life-and-death battle.

In addition, other teams are also star-studded. Spain's Raul, Denmark's Laudrup, Croatia's Suker, Chile's Shuangsa... are all famous generals.It can be said that this World Cup has brought together many stars and powerful teams.

The miraculous coach Milu took over Nigeria, and the independent Croatia appeared on the World Cup stage again after the European Cup. The curtain of the 1998 World Cup was slowly opened on June 1998, 6.

(End of this chapter)