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Chapter 1031 Underdog Attack

After a brief break, Manchester United and Blackpool players came out of the locker room under the referee's leadership.

Seeing the captain's armband on Van der Sar's arm, Manchester United fans at the scene were surprised and puzzled because Van der Sar was not even the vice captain.

However, the live commentator quickly revealed the mystery. It turned out that after the end of this season, 41-year-old Van dersar will retire. In order to show respect for the veteran, Ferguson asked Van dersar to represent Manchester United in his last league game as the captain.

After shaking hands and exchanging team flags and logos, the game officially kicked off, and the visiting team Blackpool started.

Although Blackpool's strength is one level lower than Manchester United and is playing away, they are not conservative at all today. They actively pressed forward at the beginning, and the three forwards in the front pressed Manchester United's defense.

Blackpool ranks second to last, with Birmingham and Birmingham having 39 points, and the fifth-last Wolves are only 1 point more than Blackpool. If Blackpool wants to relegate, he must win.

According to Blackpool's situation, Blackpool will definitely not defend the game in this game, but Manchester United players would not have expected Blackpool to be so brave and dare to press in the frontcourt. And it was not a pressing of one or two people, but the whole team pressing.

Weak teams are not without the full-game pressing tactics when fighting against strong teams, but the risk is very high. Once they are hit by strong teams, there is so much space behind, with Manchester United's ability to seize opportunities, they will almost hit each other accurately.

Are Blackpool tired of living?

This idea almost arises in the minds of Manchester United players and fans.

Manchester United is an experienced team. When they see Blackpool attacking, they are not in a hurry, so they fight to the midfield and wait to fight Blackpool's counterattack.

Blackpool's strength cannot be compared with Manchester United. He pressed for five minutes. Although he also cut off Manchester United's goal in the midfield and frontcourt, Manchester United's defense is very strong, and Blackpool's two attacks were resolved by Manchester United.

In the 6th minute of the game, Gao Xiaodong retreated to the front of his penalty area to assist his teammates in controlling the ball. He used his speed to escape the pressing of two Blackpool players in succession and passed the ball to Scholes.

Scholes saw Rooneyla penetrated behind the defender and immediately passed him behind the defender.

This long pass was very accurate, and Rooney easily got the ball before it flew out of the baseline.

Before the defender could catch up, Rooney glanced at the penalty area and passed the ball across the front of the penalty area.

Rooney's kick was not passed to Berbatov, but to Gao Xiaodong who was in the penalty area.

However, Blackpool's players were very tightly guarding Gao Xiaodong. Seeing Rooney's cross, Charlie stood in front of Gao Xiaodong, forcing Gao Xiaodong to detour.

The points in front of the penalty area were racing against time. After Gao Xiaodong took a roundabout way, the ball flew past him.

Gao Xiaodong subconsciously stretched out his feet to reach it, but he was unable to touch the ball.

However, Manchester United invested a lot of troops in counterattack. At this time, defender Raphael also arrived. He shot with an angry shot.

The defender's footwork is very different from the forward. Raphael's judgment of the ball's landing point is very accurate, but his footwork is not used well, so the ball flew directly into the air.

Manchester United fought back twice in seven or eight minutes. Although it did not create too much threat, it also penetrated Blackpool's entire defense line. Normally, Blackpool should recycle it to relieve the pressure on the defense line.

But now Blackpool urgently needs three-pointers. Even though they know that playing like this is very dangerous, they cannot stop attacking. They only hope to score a goal ahead of Manchester United and take the initiative in the game.

Blackpool has a good idea, but their strength is limited. Even if they grab the ball and launch an attack directly in the frontcourt, they still can't pass the level of Ferdinand and Vidic.

In the 13th minute, Manchester United, who was originally in a defensive state, suddenly broke out. They launched fierce pressing in the midfield and frontcourt. Blackpool never thought that Manchester United would suddenly attack and was caught off guard. The defender was a little confused when passing the ball, and Gao Xiaodong judged the passing line and snatched the ball.

The success rate of attacks in the midfield and front court is much higher than that of attacks slowly launched from the backcourt.

After Manchester United grabbed the ball this time, Gao Xiaodong quickly dribbled the ball and went straight into Blackpool's penalty area.

Gao Xiaodong was fast and had a good vision. He took advantage of the situation and avoided Blackpool's interception continuously and took the ball to the 30-meter area of ​​Blackpool, but he was forced to deviate from the middle lane and was almost on the wing lane.

Obviously, if Gao Xiaodong continues to dribble the ball, he will delay the fighter plane. He must pass the ball out, or directly pass it to his frontcourt player.

However, Manchester United midfielder Scholes was caught and Nani didn't kill him. Gao Xiaodong had no choice but to risk a pass and pass the ball to Manchester United's home court at the front of the penalty area.

Gao Xiaodong actually had the opportunity to pass it to other players, but Blackpool has a large number of people in the backcourt and the distance between people is short. Gao Xiaodong is worried that others will not be able to handle this ball well, so only Berbatov's skills are more trustworthy.

Berbatov has been wandering on Blackpool's defense line, but he never got a good chance. This time, Gao Xiaodong passed the ball over, and Berbatov was very happy. He stopped the ball on the penalty area line and turned around and passed Evat. Without waiting for other players to pounce, he shot with his left foot.

Although Berbatov's stop was quick and his movements were also very hidden, Blackpool's goalkeeper Gilkes became excited today. Facing Berbatov's shot, Kirks fell to the ground and saved the ball.

The ball was grabbed by Blackpool's defender, and he passed the ball to Charlie Adam, quickly forwarded himself and cooperated with Campbell on the side to quickly break Manchester United's counter-attack and hit the ball to Manchester United's 30-meter area.

Although Blackpool's ranking and strength are very poor, they mainly have poor defense and their offense is really good. After they cooperated continuously in front of the penalty area, they attracted Manchester United's troops from the front of the penalty area. Campbell saw that there was no one on the left side of the penalty area, and he quickly passed by his full-back Kleini.

Kleini was overjoyed. He drove the ball into the penalty area and broke into the penalty area, forming a situation where he faced the goalkeeper alone.

If Kleini dribbles the ball, he can shoot directly after entering the penalty area. However, when Kleini enters the penalty area, he will adjust and shoot again.

It was a little bigger, and Kleini was slow to shoot again. Gao Xiaodong quickly caught up from behind, fell to the ground and put the anti-spawn, and shoveled the ball out of the baseline before Kleini.

Blackpool got a corner kick opportunity, which is very important to Blackpool. The deadlock has never been broken. When serving a corner kick, Blackpool's attackers all came to the penalty area to compete for the header.

Wohan, who served the corner kick, made a cross to the goal to find his teammates.
Chapter completed!
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