When Candreva shot the football into Edwin van der Sar's goal, everyone at Manchester United was still a little confused. How did he show up?
Of course Candreva couldn't have jumped out of the soil, and he was not the father-in-law of the land.
He has always been on the court, but against the backdrop of his teammates, he appears unknown and inconspicuous.
Therefore, Manchester United has not paid much attention to him. Who would have thought that he would be Lazio's trump card?
Ferguson was originally sitting on the coaching bench with his legs crossed and chewing gum.
Now, he had appeared on the sidelines at some point, looking at the court with a stern expression.
When the total score was only one goal behind, Manchester United was still able to maintain confidence and morale.
Now trailing by two goals... What he was thinking more about was not how to equalize the score, but how to prevent the team's morale from declining.
After this goal, he clearly saw the expressions of the Manchester United players. They were stunned.
This is definitely not a good sign.
When Manchester United realize that it will be difficult for them to be two goals behind Lazio, their morale will be affected and damaged.
He finally spoke out and shouted loudly from the sidelines: "Calm down! Stay calm! We are at home!!"
For Manchester United, home court advantage may be the only advantage...
Then he shouted Ronaldo's name, indicating that he should be more free in the frontcourt and choose to do it by himself when he has the opportunity, and he does not necessarily have to cooperate with his teammates.
At this time, Ferguson chose to believe in the abilities of world-class stars.
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Lazio celebrated at Old Trafford, Manchester United's home ground, and were booed by Manchester United fans.
Finally, with the intervention of the referee, they returned to the court and restarted the game.
After the game restarted, Candreva got several more shooting opportunities, and most of his long-range shots hit the goal frame.
Although he didn't score a goal, he still caused some trouble for Manchester United.
Only then did Manchester United realize that Candreva's goal just now was not luck, but that he really has such strength!
If he had left things alone, maybe Candreva would have scored a second or third goal!
Manchester United adjusted their defense and sent people to mark Candreva.
But it didn't take long for Cazorla to get a chance in the penalty area!
Vidic's shot destroyed Cazorla's shot, but also knocked Cazorla to the ground.
Chang Sheng shouted on the sidelines: "This is definitely a foul!"
The Italian commentator was also shouting: "Vidic knocked down Cazorla... this is a foul!"
But the referee only gave Lazio a corner kick.
After getting up, Cazorla looked very angry. He raised his hands to protest to the referee, but the referee ignored him.
Manchester United escaped disaster.
But Ferguson was not happy. He couldn't tell whether Lazio's attack just now should have resulted in a penalty kick, so it was hard to say. But at least this attack showed that Manchester United's defense was somewhat stretched...
He discovered that in Lazio's midfield and frontcourt, everyone is the core, and everyone can organize offense and score.
If you have to defend one by one, Manchester United's defensive players will definitely not be enough.
Just like what happened just now, more manpower was sent to defend Candreva, but Cazorla lost his restrictions...
But if Candreva is ignored, then maybe Candreva’s previous goal will happen again...
Ferguson felt a headache.
Lazio's approach of breaking it into pieces made him find it difficult to deal with.
You will always miss someone...
Unless you pull all your players back to defend.
But in this case, is there still an attack?
We are already two goals behind in the total score. If we give up defense again...how can we play? Isn't that playing into Lazio's plan? They must be eager for Manchester United to give up offense.
I originally thought that after Lazio injured Modric, their offensive strength would be affected. But I didn't expect that this would make Lazio more flexible.
Everyone is the core of the organization, and everyone can organize and shoot.
This is even more difficult to defend than when Modric took over all the organizational responsibilities by himself!
Ferguson can only hope that Manchester United can equalize the score before Lazio scores more goals. If the total score is still only one goal short, there is still hope.
He looked at his watch.
The second half started fifteen minutes ago. There are still thirty minutes left...
At this time, it’s time to say more or less.
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Cristiano Ronaldo received the latest instructions from Ferguson, and it's exactly what he wanted to hear.
He gives himself the responsibility of scoring goals for the whole team and gives himself full freedom to play how he wants.
He quickly put Ferguson's instructions into action. He fired a long shot from outside the Lazio penalty area.
But his accuracy was a bit off.
But it reflects this trend.
At the same time, in order to cooperate with Cristiano Ronaldo, the entire Manchester United also made corresponding adjustments. In the end, the ball was passed to Ronaldo, and everyone also used movement to involve Lazio's defense and provide Cristiano Ronaldo with opportunities.
Manchester United also started to exert force.
Now they are two goals behind. If they don't work hard, they may really be dead.
Lazio's goal did not completely kill Manchester United, but instead angered the monster and made them even crazier.
At the same time, in order to regain the initiative in the game, Manchester United became more and more tough in defense, even... rough.
In the 66th minute, when Pavin was competing for a header with Ronaldo, he was picked up by Rooney when he landed. He sprained his foot and finally could no longer continue the game. He had to be replaced.
This is considered a passive substitution.
Chang Sheng let Chiellini come on and replaced Pavin while swearing.
He believed that Rooney should receive a yellow card for this action. This was Manchester United's home court and the referee did not mean this.
Then, Gotze also suffered a fierce tackle from Evra.
Although Evra received a yellow card, Gotze went off the field to receive some treatment and did not return to the game until three minutes later.
During these three minutes, Chang Sheng kept reminding him that he was afraid that Gotze would be injured again.
If Gotze is injured, he will really have no choice but to let Giroud play as a high forward... In that case, Manchester United will be comfortable.
Fortunately, Gotze quickly returned to the game.
Regarding Manchester United's repeated rough fouls, Chang Sheng kept yelling at the fourth official. But it had no effect. The referee could send off the head coach if he was unhappy, but the head coach could not tell the referee to leave because he was unhappy...
Of course, Laqiao also quickly avenged Gotze.
When Evra brought the ball up to assist, Candreva made a diagonal stab and scooped him out of the sideline with the ball.
The scene was filled with boos, and even the referee's whistle was drowned out.
The referee showed Candreva a yellow card, but Candreva didn't care at all!
He waited for Evra and ran back.
Although he is young, he is very clear about the unspoken rules on the football field.
If others are cruel to you, you should be even more cruel to others. Only in this way can you control the other person, otherwise the other person will think you are easy to bully.
Gotze may not be very good at taking revenge on people, after all, he is only seventeen years old, so Candreva can do it.
Sure enough, Evra was tackled and went to receive treatment, which can be regarded as retaliation.
Ferguson was dissatisfied with Candreva's foul. He rushed off the bench and put pressure on the referee.
Chang Sheng also rushed over immediately and went toe-to-toe with coach Ferguson.
"Afraid of Evra? Let's see what he did to my players before!" Chang Sheng shouted loudly to Ferguson. At this time, Ferguson was no longer his idol, but a damned enemy.
"Your foul is even worse! This should be a red card!" Ferguson pointed at the court and roared to Chang Sheng.
"In my opinion, if Evra had been sent off with a red card from the beginning, what happened after this would not have happened!" Chang Sheng countered without showing any weakness.
The fourth official had to persuade the head coaches of both teams to go back, both soft and hard.
"A quarrel broke out between the head coaches of both sides on the sidelines, and it was obvious that both of them were very excited... This game is indeed very important to both teams... No one wants to lose to the other... It's really a game
It’s not an exciting competition, but it’s definitely a fierce competition!”
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In this fierce confrontation, both sides are still looking for opportunities to score goals.
Cristiano Ronaldo tried three ways to score goals, including long shots from outside the penalty area, dribbling the ball himself, and outflanking the goal.
It looked like he was getting closer and closer to scoring a goal.
Even the Italian commentator believed that Lazio should shift the focus of the game to defense because they are now two goals ahead in the total score.
Just hold on to these two points of advantage.
"Cristiano Ronaldo's condition is also getting better and better. His shots are becoming more and more threatening, which should sound a warning to Chang! Lazio must defend immediately to limit Ronaldo's performance. The pace of the game is getting faster and faster now, and I think this is the right thing to do.
This is what Manchester United wants to see, and Lazio absolutely cannot get into such a rhythm! Because of the chaos, it is not good for Lazio!"
What the commentator said sounded quite reasonable, and many Lazio fans began to worry about the team's defense, fearing that Ronaldo would score a goal...
But Chang Sheng was unmoved. He stood on the sidelines and showed no intention of adjusting his tactics except for occasionally protesting against the big moves made by Manchester United players on defense.
It's a pity that he couldn't hear the commentator, otherwise he would have told the commentator:
A chaotic battle is exactly what I want!
Because only with chaos will there be many opportunities that are unlikely to occur in ordinary times.
It is Manchester United, which is two goals behind, that will be in chaos, not Lazio.
Lazio took advantage of the chaos and created scoring opportunities.
Because Lazio has a veteran oily Rocky who is good at catching opportunities in the penalty area and playing football like a ghost! (To be continued...)