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"Friends from the audience, hello everyone, welcome to the live broadcast brought by China TV Sports Channel. I am the host Huang Jianxiang. Sitting next to me is the very familiar director Zhang Luzhang. Today I bring you the 2001 Up to the 2002 UEFA Champions League semi-final Kaiserslautern away game against Manchester United, and now players from both sides have appeared in front of the camera, I would like to invite Director Zhang to introduce the lineups of both sides." Huang Jianxiang said in the Beijing studio.

"Fans and friends, hello everyone. I am very happy to explain this game for you. Let me introduce the starting lineups of both sides. Kaiserslautern's starting lineup today is goalkeeper Petr Cech, left and right sides The defenders are Philippe Lahm and Alves. The two central defenders are the familiar Coloccini and Metzelder. The defensive midfielders are still De Rossi and Gattuso. The attacking midfielder Kaka , left winger Cristiano Ronaldo, right winger Quaresma, center Ibrahimovic, and Jiang Feng's lineup should not surprise everyone. This lineup can almost be regarded as Kaiserslautern's main lineup this season. Yes, the same lineup has also withstood the test of Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Juventus, and Real Madrid. I don’t know if it can withstand the test of Manchester United at Manchester United’s home court today.” Zhang Lu first introduced Kai Seeslautern's starting XI.

"Let's look at Manchester United again, goalkeeper Barthez, from right to left on the back line are Gary Neville, Laurent Blanc, Wes Brown, Sylvester, and in midfield are Beckham, Keith. En, Veron, Giggs, Scholes, forward Van Nistelrooy. From Manchester United's starting lineup, we can still see that Ferguson is still very cautious about today's opponent. Manchester United sent a 451 We all know that Manchester United have basically used the 442 formation in the league this season." Zhang Lu continued to introduce Manchester United's starting lineup after introducing Kaiserslautern's starting lineup.

"Yes, from this 451 formation, we can see that Ferguson is indeed cautious about this game today. Well, now we see through the front camera that the starting players of both sides have already entered the field. Insert a commercial below, and then we officially enter the game."

When the commentators in the studios of hundreds of live TV stations were discussing the game, the starting players of both sides walked into the field under the leadership of the referee team. When the players of the two teams appeared on the camera At that moment, the atmosphere in the stadium reached its peak all of a sudden, and the fans on both sides wanted to use all their strength to cheer for the team they supported.

After a brief ceremony, Collina organized the two captains Beckham and De Rossi to guess the side, and Kaiserslautern got the kick-off.

Players from both sides took their positions and waited for Collina to blow the whistle to start the game.

"Viewers and friends, welcome to watch the 2001-2002 UEFA Champions League semi-final match brought to you by Huaxia TV. Kaiserslautern played away against Manchester United. With the whistle of the referee Corina from Italy , the game officially started, the Kaiserslautern team is attacking from left to right wearing blue jerseys, and the home team Manchester United is wearing red jerseys."

With Collina's whistle, the game officially kicked off.

"Quaresma received Kaka's pass on the right, beautiful, a beautiful stop and change direction, Quaresma turned and got rid of Sylvester, and passed directly!"

"Brown's reaction was very fast. He grabbed the ball in front of Ibrahimovic and cleared the ball in time. Kaka stopped the ball steadily in the midfield, but failed to find a chance, and knocked back to De Rossi behind him. Kaiserslautern reorganized the attack." Huang Jianxiang explained excitedly following Kaiserslautern's attack in the domestic studio.

The fans of Kaiserslautern, who were completely at a disadvantage in Old Trafford, also launched a wave of noise following this attack, and the fans shouted hoarsely one by one.

From the beginning of the game, Jiang Feng stood on the sidelines with his hands in his trouser pockets and watched the game on the field. Beside him, David, Mochiz and Lutz also stood there and stared at the game attentively.

After the opening, the contest between the two sides entered a fierce stage without any temptation or buffer. From the first minute of the game, the two sides launched a fierce confrontation. Kaiserslautern had a slight upper hand. After all, it was Kaisers Lautern had the kick-off right, so Kaiserslautern took the offensive initiative after the game started, while Manchester United defended steadily.

"Wow!" The game went to the 14th minute, and with the referee Corina's whistle, the game was interrupted.

After receiving a pass from Kaka, De Rossi was directly tackled to the ground by Kean. Although Collina awarded a free kick to Kaiserslautern, the free kick was far from the goal. De Rossi, who was standing in front of the football, handed the ball to Ronaldo on the wing, wanting to play a counterattack from the wing, but Manchester United's defense was already ready and waiting for their arrival.

"Kean has a wide range of activities! It seems that he is targeting Kaka," Jiang Feng said in a low voice to Mochiz and Lutz beside him.

Jiang Feng nodded and did not speak. After the game started, he also discovered that under the arrangement of Manchester United in Ferguson, Keane's range of activities was much larger than in the usual Manchester United games, while Scholes' position was instead After a bit of delay, he played a role similar to that of a defensive midfielder and a central midfielder. Through this discovery, Jiang Feng knew why Ferguson made such an arrangement. Keane came here specifically to target Kaka, and Skoll Si is responsible for organizing Manchester United's second attack at the back, and is also responsible for certain defensive tasks, while Veron is a midfielder.

And so far in the game, Beckham on the right side of Manchester United has hardly advanced, just helping Scholes sort out the midfield, and actively assisting Neville to do a good job of defending the wing.

When Keane dealt with Kaka, he also adopted a very ruthless countermeasure, that is, defend if he can, and foul if he can't.

"I'm afraid it's not an option to continue like this! After Keane's range of activities has expanded, for us, if he wants to complete a steal, we can directly launch a counterattack," Lutz said.

"This old guy thinks really well. Fortunately, I have been guarding against him for a long time. Now many people encounter us and start to try to play double midfielders. They just saw the importance of Riccardo to us. , but it's one thing to see it, and another to see if it's useful." Jiang Feng looked at the evenly matched situation on the field and said with a sneer.