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Until the end of the first half, Liverpool relied on Milito's goal to lead Manchester United 1-0.However, throughout the first half, Liverpool did not find any decent opportunities again to expand the score.

Manchester United's defense is indeed quite good. Zhao Yaning met them several times, but was greatly restricted by the tightness and decisiveness of their defensive system.These guys don't have Essien's body and Makelele's anticipation, but they have an excellent defensive positioning system, as well as familiarity with the Premier League rules, timely fouls, and complementary set-piece defensive skills to limit Every opportunity for Zhao Yaning.

When facing them, they always fouled more than others, but they were able to grasp their proportions better, and it was very troublesome for Zhao Yaning to deal with them.

It's just that although Zhao Yaning is dealing with Manchester United's defensive troubles, he is still on the offensive anyway.Manchester United had only one shot in the entire first half. Compared with Liverpool, it was completely out of control in the midfield.

"After the second half, they shouldn't have changed their tactics, right?" Zhao Yaning was also thinking in his heart, "This is the first time in this game that Manchester United has been suppressed so deadly."

The several confrontations with Manchester United did not go smoothly, which also made Zhao Yaning still a little afraid of Manchester United.And in this game, he was able to establish an advantage early in the first half, and he was quite happy in his heart.

After the start of the second half, Manchester United made adjustments.Saha was replaced by Ruud van Nistelrooy and they brought in the feared striker.

"Manchester United have brought Van Nistelrooy in again now... this is really incomprehensible behavior. If you want Van Nistelrooy to play, why don't you let him start? If you don't want him to play, why let him play again? What was Ferguson thinking?"

In fact, Ferguson's thinking at this time was very simple: Tactically speaking, Van Nistelrooy really did not meet Manchester United's needs.But this group of young people is immature, and it is very likely that Manchester United will lose the game.In other games, Manchester United can sacrifice some to let them grow, but Ferguson wants to win this kind of game no matter what.

In Ferguson's heart, after all, he still regards Liverpool as his biggest enemy.In his opinion, Chelsea's defending title in time is not as threatening as Liverpool's recovery.

Manchester United's current problem is actually a problem: tactics and stars, which one to choose.

If you choose tactics, you should give up Van Nistelrooy.An excellent shooter can indeed score goals, but such a center forward who only pays attention to shooting skills has been gradually eliminated by the times. The winger cuts in and disrupts the defense of the backcourt better. Coordination and anti-grabbing, these are the trends in football development.The striker that modern football needs is a striker who has a wide range of activities, can cooperate more with teammates, has excellent assault ability, and at the same time has not weak counter-attack ability.And Van Nistelrooy obviously does not meet this requirement.Manchester United knows this, and they chose to go on that path. The introduction and training of Rooney and Ronaldinho have always followed this path.

But the problem is that Manchester United has an exceptionally good shooter Ruud van Nistelrooy.His efficiency is indeed hard to let go, especially when Ronaldinho and Rooney have not fully grown up, Van Nistelrooy can guarantee that Manchester United's performance will not drop too much.For Manchester United, he is like a dose of drugs. Although he knows that his existence has a great destructive effect on the integrity and tactics of Manchester United, the wonderful moment of scoring makes people unable to extricate themselves.

But this kind of forward-looking and backward-looking mentality is also delaying each other's reading of the full text of the counterfeit big fool.When Ruud van Nistelrooy was at Manchester United, when he met a strong team, he was often unable to play at an excellent level. It doesn't matter if he is out of touch with this kind of tactics.In the era of Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manchester United's performance has always been poor, and it has also been affected.

But in this game, obviously, Manchester United still needs Ruud van Nistelrooy to save.

Several times the three attacks were blocked by Liverpool, which also made Manchester United no longer consider relying on the breakthroughs of Giggs and Ronaldinho to create opportunities.Liverpool attaches great importance to defense, and they are extremely careful when playing against Manchester United. Even the excellent wingers like Robben and Duff are suppressed when they meet Liverpool. Manchester United's current winger is not as good as Chelsea , Forcibly breaking through is of little significance.

At this time, Manchester United made another choice.Several times in a row, Manchester United began to make long passes to Ruud van Nistelrooy in the penalty area to solve the problem.

Such a pass is not good enough-looking at Manchester United's pass, Zhao Yaning was still thinking in his heart.It is true that Manchester United's players are not bad at long passing skills, but in this game, their passing choices are not good.Too impatient, too fast delivery, can't create too good opportunities.

However, even so, Manchester United are insisting on doing so, and the reason is very simple. They have Ruud van Nistelrooy, a good striker who can turn a lot of unreliable half goals into chances.

The role of a star is often extremely huge.Liverpool relied on Zhao Yaning to rampage in the midfield, while Manchester United relied on Ruud van Nistelrooy to make the game extremely simple.As long as it is passed to the penalty area, Van Nistelrooy can do it by himself.

It's just that at this time, Manchester United's attack is also very gambling in nature.The battle between the giants has been reduced to relying on the individual ability of the stars instead of the overall team. This is already half of the loss.

Moreover, Liverpool's defense is not bad at all.The defense of Hyypia and Carragher did not give Van Nistelrooy too many opportunities. Until nearly 10 minutes, Manchester United still had no chance to shoot.

However, the turning point came at this time.

After Giggs passed the ball again, Ruud van Nistelrooy went straight out of the penalty area and received the ball.With his back in front of the penalty area, he withstood Hyypia who was grabbing up, his shoulders swaying slightly, looking for opportunities for himself. [

Hypia didn't dare to relax at all.He knew very well that although Van Nistelrooy was a point shooter, his physical confrontation and technique were not bad at all.Let him have a chance, but it is very troublesome.

But Fanny moved anyway.With a sudden turn to the right, Van Nistelrooy held Hypia's pressure. Although he couldn't face the penalty area completely, and he didn't almost kick his feet, he still squeezed Hypia away and ran towards the left front.But at this time, Carragher was also in front of him, and he almost had no chance at all.

But this time, Van Nistelrooy kicked the ball to the right, stabilized himself, and then chased after him.Carragher's interception failed, but at this time, Hyypia had already rushed to the position of the ball.To give Hyypia a head start, Carragher reached out and tugged on Ruud's jersey.

And it was this foul that caused Van Nistelrooy to fall directly on his back and fell into the penalty area!

"Penalty!"

The surrounding fans roared, the referee ran over and pointed to the penalty spot.

penalty.

The place where Ruud van Nistelrooy fell was indeed inside the penalty area, and Carragher did have a pulling movement that shouldn't have happened.But even so, the ball still made Carragher furious, because he really couldn't imagine that Ruud van Nistelrooy would play this game in such a way.

"Are you a bitch? You can't even hold down my three-year-old son!" Carragher couldn't help but yelled at Ruud Van Nistelrooy, "Derby is a man's game, what kind of play is this? ?”

His roar made both Rooney and Ronaldinho rush forward.On the Liverpool side, Riise and Harman also rushed back, and the referee pulled the crowd away again and again, but even with such a fierce conflict, the audience boos everywhere.The referee gave Carragher and Rooney a yellow card each before quieting both of them.

At this time, we can no longer add fuel to the fire.

"The referee's penalty is questionable. This penalty cannot be said to be a mistake. Carragher did foul, but such a penalty that affects the trend of the game can be reconsidered..." Martin Taylor still sighed, " But Liverpool's luck is also good, Carragher got the card. If I remember correctly, both Gerrard and Alonso have accumulated four yellow cards. Whoever they are, if they get another yellow card, they will be suspended. This is also the reason why Gerrard didn't have a past just now, Liverpool can't afford this blow..."

In six 10 minutes of the game, Manchester United had only one chance to shoot.In such a game, it can be said that Manchester United has completely lost control of the scene.At a time like this, if it wasn't Old Trafford, Manchester United wasn't playing, and Ruud van Nistelrooy wasn't the one who fell, it's very likely that the penalty would not be awarded.The underdog team wants to tie the game with a penalty kick. This kind of thing is not always successful.

However, Manchester United's influence, Van Nistelrooy's status, Old Trafford's home effect, these things add up, this penalty must be awarded.

Hypia pulled Carragher away. At this time, he didn't know what to say.He has suffered from Van Nistelrooy's losses. During the 03-04 season, a fall by Van Nistelrooy made him end in red. Whether it was a flop or not is still a matter of controversy.On the issue of Van Nistelrooy and flopping, Vieira has always been a firm Van Nistelrooy. Even in Serie A, he has already cleared up his suspicions about Keane, but when it comes to Van Nistelrooy, he still puts Van Nistelrooy on the line. Ni called a liar.

Van Nistelrooy is tall and powerful, which makes many people have an illusion that he is an outstanding tall and powerful center forward. Even players who are very familiar with him will involuntarily think of him when confronting him. his stature and strength.But people often forget that Van Nistelrooy relies on his excellent sense of smell, first-class shooting skills, and excellent agility that does not match his figure to play football.It is true that he has the ability to fight, but it has never been his characteristic to fight against the strong opponent.And this kind of illusion makes it easy for the defender to move too much, and it also makes the referee often willing to believe that he really fell, which makes it easier for him to get a penalty kick.

But in the eyes of people like Vieira and Carragher, if they are so tall and strong, they should play football with strength, so they will have a bad impression of him.

Van Nistelrooy put the ball on the penalty spot, and this crucial penalty was naturally taken by him.

Since this season, he has had fewer and fewer opportunities.Because Ronaldinho's technical characteristics tend to cut in and shoot too much, and he can't play with Ruud van Nistelrooy. Therefore, Ferguson is already using more young players who can be pulled out in many games. Saha and Ronaldinho cooperated, and Ruud van Nistelrooy's current main position is already in jeopardy.That is, in this game, against a team like Liverpool, Ferguson did not dare to put all his hopes on Ronaldinho, so he had to use him again.

However, since given the opportunity, Van Nistelrooy never let the opportunity slip away.

Lift your foot and shoot!

"Gooool!!! Ruud van Nistelrooy scored a penalty kick, Manchester United pulled back the score!!!"[

Carragher still stared at Van Nistelrooy unconvinced. In his opinion, such a fall is no different from a flop.What made him even more angry was himself. It's not that he didn't know about his own rashness in playing football, but he just couldn't control it.The last time Liverpool lost to Manchester United at home, he scored two own goals in a row, causing Liverpool to lose 2-3. This season is when he won the championship, and he made mistakes again and again. First, he scored an own goal against Chelsea. He gave another penalty kick in the next game, and he really couldn't forgive himself.

"Jimmy, don't worry." Zhao Yaning patted him. "Such a goal is nothing special. They have no other way. This shows that we are strong. Don't worry, we can win."

Since Manchester United have exhausted their means in this game, and they have to rely on penalty kicks to score goals, it is enough to show that their strength is indeed not good.That being the case, Zhao Yaning also began to figure out how to rely on his own attack to score another goal and completely defeat Manchester United.