Chapter 312: Manchester United driven by dual cores!

Although the score was tied, Sir Alex was not willing to accept the draw, because he could clearly feel that the morale and state of his team had improved, especially the 3R combination in the front court, which was getting better and better...

So Sir Alex naturally thought of Tevez on the bench. Let the four little swans play together and win the game!

So in the 64th minute, Sir Alex Ferguson replaced Scholes and Giggs, whose roles overlapped with Lizzie's, with Carrick and Tevez. Hargreaves and Carrick were responsible for protecting the midfield, and the frontcourt was completely left to the four little swans;

Manchester United's formation is similar to a 4-2-2-2, except that the four players in the front often change positions and have a large range of movement.

This time, Manchester United's speed almost broke Lyon's rhythm. For a while, the defense was in a panic, and for 10 minutes in a row, Lyon couldn't even pass the midfield.

The head coach of Lyon at that time was Alain Perrin, who had not yet taken charge of the Chinese men's national team. He obviously understood football and knew that if he did not make adjustments, he would be defeated by Manchester United's four little swans.

So in the 74th minute, Alain Perrin replaced Juninho, who was bullied by three tall central midfielders, Lizzie, Carrick and Hargreaves, with defensive midfielder Bodmer. He also replaced Clark, who could only run around the whole game, with talented winger Ben Arfa.

Perrin was unwilling to only get a draw at home, so while strengthening the defense in the middle, he also strengthened the running and attacking capabilities on the flanks, hoping to create an advantage in the second round through a genius shot from a talented player, just like the first goal.

However, in the last fifteen minutes of the game, Manchester United still firmly held the initiative on the field.

Although Ben Arfa's skills and dribbling are outstanding, he has no chance to touch the ball. Once Ben Arfa gets the ball, two or three people from Manchester United will immediately surround him and rob him. No matter how powerful you are, you will still end up on the grass...

As for the help from his teammates? Benzema couldn't run right after Perrin made the substitution. Benzema thought Ben Alfa was coming to replace him.

So after Li Qi set up another long shot for Ronaldo that hit the crossbar and flew out of the bottom line, Perrin had to play his last card and replaced Benzema, who was unable to run, with Brazilian striker Fred;

At least there needs to be a fulcrum to provide cover and cooperation with Ben Arfa, otherwise Perrin's substitution will be completely useless.

Sir Alex Ferguson was also making a desperate move. If he could not win the game when he had such an advantageous situation, he would be punished by God. So Manchester United also made the third substitution almost at the same time, replacing Evra with Anderson.

There is no need for a defensive full-back, as they are surrounding Lyon's defensive third zone anyway. It would be more appropriate to replace them with a midfielder who can run. Anderson happened to be in high spirits and faced Ben Alpha, and the two new players directly fought each other.

The game has only ten minutes left including the extra time, and the fight between the two sides has entered the final white-hot stage. It looks like either Manchester United will beat the home team Lyon to death, or Lyon will take advantage of Manchester United's massive pressure to counterattack and kill them!

It seems that a draw is not an option for either team, at least not for Manchester United.

In the 82nd minute, Tevez cut back from the left, Li Qi made a timely pass, and the two cooperated successfully to avoid offside!

But when Tevez broke into the penalty area and faced Coupe, he did not choose to pass the ball to Rooney who was outflanking in the middle, nor did he choose to pass the ball back to Ronaldo who was following up. Instead, he chose to shoot with an obviously lack of confidence...

The shot was weak and not enough to test the experienced Coupet, who easily caught the ball rolling from the middle. But there is no doubt that it was just Tevez's poor condition, and Lyon escaped a disaster.

Then, in the 86th minute, Li Qi, who switched positions with Tevez, took advantage of Rooney's cover and cooperated with Carrick to successfully break through to the left bottom line. This was a golden opportunity to score a decisive goal!

But when Li Qi was about to cut into Lyon's penalty area, he was knocked down by Revie from behind with a tactical foul!

Unfortunately, the referee thought the foul was on the penalty area line and did not give a penalty or a red card, but only a yellow card and a direct free kick.

Ronaldo was responsible for handling this free kick at a small angle on the left and chose to shoot directly!

The ball passed the two-man wall and went straight to the upper corner of the far post! But Coupe, who was concentrating, lifted the ball out of the bottom line with one hand! Lyon escaped again.

However, as the saying goes, three times the limit, in the 88th minute, Manchester United's corner kick once again tested Lyon's defense...

Under the impact of Manchester United's wave after wave of attacks, Lyon's defense was shaky and was facing tremendous defensive pressure. All Lyon players were gasping for breath and their nerves were tense at all times.

This time Manchester United chose to take a tactical corner kick, with Li Qi and Anderson cooperating. Then Li Qi went behind Anderson and went to the edge of the penalty area to send a left-footed cross!

The ball drew an arc and headed straight for Lyon's small penalty area...

C Ronaldo at the front point jumped high and headed the ball, slightly changing the direction of Li Qi's cross, but it felt like the ball would hit the post and go out of the bottom line.

However, Ronaldo's move was indeed sudden, and Li Qi's cross was not slow. In addition, Lyon's defense had been in a state of panic, so Lyon's backup striker Fred accidentally cleared the ball when he returned to the far post, and the ball was blocked back to the front post.

How to describe this ball? Rather than saying it was a missed clearance, it was more like Fred, who was returning to help, failed to dodge the cross ball that suddenly changed direction at the front point and was hit on the calf.

The Lyon striker blocked the ball subconsciously, and fortunately he did not activate the striker killer attribute to block the ball into the goal. However, the result was almost the same, because the ball bounced right in front of Tevez who was lying in ambush at the front post waiting for an opportunity!

The Argentine beast would not let this opportunity slip away! Unlike the weak performance of the last shot, this time he shot directly! The ball was fiercely volleyed into the Lyon goal from about 4 yards in front of the goal!

Faced with the ball changing direction twice in front of the goal, goalkeeper Coupe was unable to react at all and could only maintain a defensive posture, standing on the goal line...

Manchester United defeated Lyon in the last minute of the game! 2-1, Tevez's goal helped Manchester United secure the victory!

Although the referee gave the team 3 minutes of extra time, the wretched Li Qi stole the ball and played around the right corner flag of Lyon with Ronaldo and Rooney, wasting more than two minutes. He even almost took advantage of the carelessness of the Lyon defender to launch a sneak attack...

It was too late for Lyon to launch a full-scale attack after the goal kick. Manchester United eventually overtook the score away from home and defeated Lyon 2-1. While winning the game, they also got two valuable away goals that were crucial in the Champions League knockout stage!

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At the post-match press conference,

Lyon coach Alain Perrin was not in a good mood to talk, after all, they were defeated at home. Although the Champions League knockout rounds are a two-round system, Manchester United has two away goals, which is a big advantage.

So after Perrin praised and encouraged the team, he just followed the routine and made a tough statement: We will definitely reverse Manchester United away from home and advance to the next round!

But everyone knows that it is not easy to reverse Manchester United at Old Trafford. It is difficult to get out of this game unscathed, right? Of course, it is allowed to dream...

On the other hand, Sir Alex Ferguson, who won the game in the final period, was very pleased and talked enthusiastically. He first praised the performance of the whole team: Tevez scored a great goal, Ronaldo created many threats, Rooney played an obvious supporting role, Li Qi scored the equalizer, Scholes and Giggs set an example...

Of course, there were also some short-sighted reporters who brought up Ronaldo's abnormal performance in the early part of the first half.

But the shameless, oh no, it was the shrewd Sir Alex who responded calmly: "At the beginning of the first half, it was the team's tactical requirement to let Ronaldo and Rooney try to attack Lyon's defense to create chaos and make the opponent misjudge...

The subsequent game development was just as we expected, with the 3R combination gradually taking over the game. It was just that Benzema's goal was a little beyond our expectations. Manchester United's defense was not a problem, and it was indeed a flash of Benzema's personal ability.

He is a great player and he will become another great figure of French football after Zidane...

Fortunately, the four little swans combination we sent out later completely controlled the game, and Tevez successfully killed the opponent.

And originally, we had the chance to score more goals...

Oh! There is no problem for Li Qi and Ronaldo to coexist. They are very good friends in private. I heard that they often play football games together..."

Li Qi, who was watching the live broadcast of the press conference, had completely lost his mind about the name of the group "Four Little Swans": I'm tired, let's destroy it!

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Ricardo returned to the Manchester apartment almost at the same time as Sarafina. Due to the flight delay, Ricardo had no time to go to the train station to greet her.

But Sarafina is not a pretentious person, so she just makes a surprise inspection of Ricardo's apartment.

But Sarafina still underestimated the caution of the scumbag Li...

However, the scumbag Li has not had time to make trouble recently. First, he has been entrusted with the important task of being the tactical core of the team. Although on the surface he is still the deputy of the Red Devils' absolute leader Cristiano Ronaldo, Ricardo believes in his heart that he is the real boss behind the scenes!

In addition, just two days after Ricardo returned from an away game in the Champions League, he will face the 07th round of the 08/27 English Premier League, and he will have to go on an away game again, this time to Newcastle in the northeast of England.

However, before the start of the 27th round of the Premier League, on the same day as Manchester United's away game, but only half an hour earlier, English football welcomed the first heavyweight championship of the season, the 0708 English League Cup!

2008年2月24日下午15时，07/08赛季联赛杯决赛在温布利大球场展开争夺，由白衣白裤的托特纳姆热刺对阵蓝衣军团切尔西。

Drogba scored the first goal with a free kick, then Berbatov equalized the game with a penalty kick, and then Woodgate scored a header in extra time to help Tottenham win the League Cup for the fourth time in history!

Li Qi, who only hurriedly learned the result of the game, had no time to sigh at the magic of Tottenham and the ill-fated fate of Chelsea this season. Then at 24:17 in the afternoon of the 15th, just after the extra time of the League Cup final ended, there was not even time for the award ceremony;

The game between Manchester United, the Red Devils in red shirts and white pants, and Newcastle, who are wearing their traditional home uniforms - black and white striped shirts, kicked off at another stadium - St. James' Park!

曼联近13次对阵纽卡斯尔取得11胜2平保持不败，其中近6次做客圣詹姆斯公园取得5胜1平。

Newcastle's last win was a 2001-9 home win over Manchester United in September 4.

双方在英超交锋29场，曼联17胜9平3负占据上风，其中客场7胜4平3负。双方历史交锋147场，纽卡斯尔39胜34平74负处于下风。

Manchester United has an absolute psychological advantage.

Compared with the Champions League in the middle of the week, Carrick, Fletcher and Tevez replaced Hargreaves, Scholes and Giggs, especially Giggs who was absent due to a knee injury in the pre-match training.

Sir Alex Ferguson deployed a traditional parallel 4-4-2 formation.

The goalkeeper is No. 1 Van der Sar;

The back line from right to left is No. 6 Wes Brown, No. 15 Vidic, No. 5 Ferdinand and No. 3 Evra;

The midfield quartet is No. 7 Cristiano Ronaldo, No. 16 Carrick, No. 24 Fletcher and No. 17 Li Qi;

The two forwards are No. 32 Tevez and No. 10 Rooney.

In this game, although he continued to be entrusted by Sir Alex Ferguson as the second tactical core, Li Qi returned to his familiar left midfielder position.

First of all, Giggs is injured and may be out for a while, and Anderson is still in the process of adapting to this position, so we need a multi-purpose, multi-functional player who is good at attacking and defending and is familiar with moving bricks to take over first.

Secondly, because of Fletcher's excellent performance in the FA Cup match last weekend, he can play both forward and backward, attack and defend well, and his interaction with Li Qi is very good. Sir Alex wants to continue to try the combination of the two on the wing and in the middle.

In addition, Tevez, who had rested for two rounds, returned to play as the main striker. This was because in the Champions League match in the middle of the week, the Argentine striker scored the winning goal and his condition had obviously improved. It would be a waste to leave him on the bench.

In addition, Sir Alex Ferguson actually wants to try to put one of Manchester United's two offensive core engines on each of the left and right wings - this is a compromise solution in which Li Qi does not encroach on Ronaldo's space and ball possession in the middle.

Of course, he will still have the ball. After all, Li Qi continues to play the tactical core. Although Ronaldo is still the first choice for attack, Li Qi, who has a wider range of activities and can retreat deeper, is bound to get more ball possession.

However, Li Qi's move to the side can, firstly, continue to imitate Ronaldinho's playing style that he learned in Barcelona and launch the attack from the left wing. Secondly, he can make room in the middle for Ronaldo to cut inside, Tevez to retreat, and Fletcher to advance...

Of course, Li Qi can also decide whether to cut inside, the main thing is not to collide with each other.

No matter what, it sounds like a solution that kills two birds with one stone. It just needs to be tested in actual combat!

On the home team side, Newcastle also fielded all their main players, with midfielder Butt and striker Alan Smith starting against their old club, while N'Zogbia, who was released from suspension, and Faye, who recovered from injury, both returned;

After all, their opponent Manchester United played a Champions League match in the middle of the week, and they were playing away. Their physical fitness was definitely not as good as that of the home team Magpies who were well-rested.

Therefore, Newcastle coach Kevin Keegan sent out what he believed to be the strongest formation, determined to snatch key relegation points from the Red Devils!

Newcastle also has a parallel 4-4-2:

The goalkeeper is No. 1 Given;

The back line from right to left is No. 21 Beye, No. 27 Steven Taylor, No. 25 Faye and No. 14 N'Zogbia;

The midfield quartet is No. 22 Butt, No. 7 Barton, No. 16 Milner and No. 11 Duff;

The two forwards are No. 17 Alan Smith and No. 10 Irving.

Kevin Keegan, as always, likes offensive players with running ability, as can be seen from the fact that he chose N'Zogbia, who is more suitable as a winger, as the left back.

In addition, Keegan used the young Milner in the midfield to take advantage of the tireless running and tough defensive ability of the English Leeds tough guy, most likely to deal with Li Qi, who was the same age;

However, Keegan did not expect that Li Qi, who had played well in the middle in recent games, was arranged to the wing by Sir Alex Ferguson in this game.

But it doesn't matter, Milner can also switch to the middle, and the double Ba combination - Butt and Barton playing as double defensive midfielders in the middle is also their forte.

Newcastle can be said to be well prepared for this game against Manchester United!

Therefore, the game entered a fierce and intense competition from the first minute...

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