heir to the red devil

Chapter 118 A Big Victory

In the No.11 round of the Premier League on November 24, Manchester United challenged Cardiff City away.Just 12 minutes into the game, Manchester United scored 20-2 and took the lead. For this game, the victory is almost sealed.

Seeing that Cardiff City fell behind in the score, their formation gradually came out. Cardiff City's center forward is Fraser Campbell. He is also a young player who came out of Manchester United's youth academy. In January 2009, he moved to Cardiff City.In the following half of the season, he scored 2013 key goals for Cardiff City, helping the team to successfully advance to the Premier League with a good score of No.1 in the standings.In this game, he will destroy the city for Cardiff City.

Although Cardiff City is full of tenacity, how can a team that was still playing in the English Championship last season be an opponent of the mighty Manchester United.Smalling on Manchester United's defense line was marking Campbell so tightly that he had no chance at all.

Seeing Smalling's state in this game, Kintag nodded secretly: Smalling performed well today.

Last season's main central defenders, Ferdinand and Vidic, played very stably, but this season, the two took turns to get injured, and almost never played at the same time.In view of this situation, Kintag took advantage of the opportunity to straighten Smalling and made him the main central defender.In order to strengthen Smalling, Kintag put his bought defensive star Van Dijk on the bench.At the beginning, Smalling was always very frizzy when playing football, but after six months of training, he has gradually matured. When facing the opponent's striker, Smalling also handled the ball much more steadily.

Although Smalling is gradually growing, Kintag knows very well that with Smalling's talent and aptitude, it will be difficult to reach the level of a world-class central defender in the future. Not to mention Vidic and Ferdinand, when Van Dijk plays with the team After cooperating better with the team in the last one or two years, it is estimated that Smalling's starting position should be lost.Moreover, there is a younger and more aggressive Jones in the first team, and the talented Bailey in the youth team. Smalling's future will definitely be difficult.

Smalling himself is also very clear that the only thing he can do is to train hard, use hard work to make up for his lack of talent, and play every game seriously.Although he is not a player who came out of Manchester United's youth training, he has a deep affection for Manchester United, which is definitely not inferior to a native of Manchester.

Kintag is also very pleased that the team not only needs strong main players like De Gea, Kanter, and Van Persie, but also needs hard-working substitute players, such as Smalling and Valencia.In a giant like Manchester United who has to fight on the third and fourth lines every year, the depth of the bench can often determine the final trend of the team at critical moments.

At the end of the first half, Manchester United scored again.It was Smalling, who performed well in the first half, who scored the goal this time.

United won a corner in the frontcourt, Nani passed the ball into the penalty area, Smalling headed up the goal, the ball smashed into the net, and Manchester United led 3-0.

This is the first goal Smalling scored this season. After the goal, Smalling was very excited. He ran to the sidelines and hugged Kintag, who also congratulated him happily.

The first half is over.

The atmosphere in the locker room today is very relaxed. The team changed its previous losing streak in the league. The last game was a lore against Arsenal, and this game is in sight. The players were chatting and laughing in the locker room, and the atmosphere was very good.

Kim Teg praised the team's performance, and he let the team continue to attack in the second half.

But in the second half, Kintag discovered that Cardiff City had changed their formation. They removed a midfielder and replaced them with a central defender to strengthen their defense.Although behind by 3 goals, Cardiff City found that they had no hope of winning or tying at all, so their goal in the second half was to concede fewer goals.After all, they have just been promoted to the Premier League this season, and it is normal to lose to the defending champion in this game.

Therefore, Cardiff City lost face. Although the score was behind, they still played a defensive counterattack in front of the home fans.

When Jin Taige saw the situation, he was not only not anxious, but happy.This time his team has already led 3-0, the three points have already been scored, there is no worry, and Cardiff City now has a bus in front of the goal, and Jin Taige is just letting the team adapt to the new style of play and the new formation.

Jin Taige considered for a moment, and immediately made tactical adjustments.He replaced Ryan Giggs with Carrick, and then let Carrick's position slightly back, and Rooney retreated to the midfielder's position.In this way, although the formation is still 4-4-2 on the field, it has actually become 4-2-3-1 when attacking.Regardless of the loss of a striker and the addition of a midfielder, Manchester United's offensive power has not declined, and their tactics have become more three-dimensional.After Carrick came on the field, he broke out very quickly. Carrick was not a player like Giggs who can advance in front of the opponent's penalty area. Carrick's greatest strengths are long passes and organization. Waist, a healthy Carrick can definitely rank in the forefront of international football.

In the 65th minute of the game, Carrick made a long pass in the backcourt and found Mahrez on the left. Mahrez, who returned from injury, appropriately reduced the number of dribbling breakthroughs in this game, and more crosses to find Mahrez. forward.This time he received the ball, took two steps, and passed the ball directly to Van Persie in the penalty area. Van Persie continued his excellent form in the previous game. Hit the near corner.

Manchester United lead 4-0!

After the formation change, Rooney also found the feeling of scoring goals. After his position was retreated, although he was far away from the goal, he had more opportunities to get the ball, or split the ball to the side, or stuff the ball into the penalty area. , or break through by himself, or shoot directly from long range, Rooney has more choices, and his degree of freedom is much higher than before.

In fact, in the last game against Arsenal, Rooney got a lot of opportunities at that time, but Rooney felt a little uncomfortable at the time, so he missed a few excellent opportunities.

After Rooney retreated in this game, he got chances in a row. Now he is the core of the offense. All attacks are organized and dispatched from Carrick. Rooney makes the final decision whether to pass or shoot. It all depends on Rooney. of.

In the 78th minute of the game, Rooney received the ball at the top of the arc in the penalty area. He looked up at the position of his teammates. There were all defensive players marking him, so there was no good opportunity.Rooney didn't hesitate, he took a long shot directly, goalkeeper Marshall tried his best to save, but the save was still too late and the ball went into the net.

Manchester United lead 5-0!

(End of this chapter)