The ball reached Pique's feet, and Barcelona continued to control the ball, attracting Manchester United players to come and press.

Manchester United played actively and did not lose the least in momentum. Facing Barcelona who controls the ball, Manchester United continued to press with high pressure.

After the panic at the beginning, Barcelona gradually adapted to Manchester United's pressing rhythm, and the cross-cutting coordination in the backcourt became smoother, and the speed of passing through the midfield became faster and faster.

In the 6th minute, Barcelona broke Manchester United's frontcourt press and sent the ball to the frontcourt. Xavi passed the cross from the right, and Pedro suddenly started and threw Ferdinand away from 7 meters to shoot.

In the 10th minute, Iniesta passed the ball to Xavi, Xavi passed across the left rib, and Villa avoided Vidic's front defense and shot slightly missed the right post.

Two minutes later, Villa received a pass from Messi again, and his right foot shot from the edge of the penalty area was saved by Van der Sar.

Barcelona's three consecutive shots were all quickly passing the midfield. Then Manchester United's frontcourt pressed the players without time to return to defense, and Barcelona got the opportunity with a comparable number of players.

Ferguson feels bad, and Manchester United continues to press and is likely to be the first to break the goal by Barcelona.

In a strong dialogue, the first goal team has a huge advantage. In the 12 minutes of the game, Manchester United's chances through pressing were not as good as Barcelona, ​​so it would be not worth it to continue to take risks and attack.

Ferguson was very decisive in the on-the-spot command. He immediately called Rooney to retreat ten meters, gave up the oppression of Barcelona defender, and pressed Barcelona's midfield with all his might, so that Barcelona would not organize the offense.

Ferguson's tactical adjustment is very critical. Manchester United gathered heavy troops in the midfield to destroy Barcelona's pass and cut cooperation. With the space getting smaller and the number of people getting larger, Barcelona's pass success rate dropped rapidly, Messi and Iniesta's passing became difficult, and Xavi also found it difficult to send a fatal straight pass.

Rooney retreated and Manchester United fought hard for the midfield, reducing Barcelona's threat to its defense line and also keeping himself away from Barcelona's goal.

Manchester United's pass and cut ability is very different from Barcelona, ​​especially Scholes, Giggs, and Nani are not there. It is difficult for them to send the ball to the opponent's frontcourt like Barcelona. Therefore, Manchester United can only use a long pass to play behind Barcelona and use their speed to attack Barcelona's defense line.

With Scholes and Carrick not playing, only Ferdinand and Gao Xiaodong were able to provide accurate long passes by Manchester United.

Ferdinand is a central defender, and the attack distance is too far, so his long pass can only be done by chance. Manchester United can only rely on Gao Xiaodong to launch a long pass.

What Barcelona players fear most is Gao Xiaodong's scoring ability, and they do not attach much importance to Gao Xiaodong's long pass ability in the backcourt, and they do not think that Gao Xiaodong has the same long pass method as Scholes.

In the 15th minute of the game, Gao Xiaodong got the ball in the backcourt. He glanced at the front and accurately found Rooney who was rushing forward along the right side with a low 40-meter-long ball.

Rooney threw away the full-back Alves and passed the ball across the penalty area.

While Rooney was in front, Hernandez was also in front. He turned around quickly and Pique was thrown behind him far away.

Fortunately, Barcelona is a center-back who is high and fast. Mascherano kept up with Hernandez at this deadly moment. He pulled and pulled delayed Hernandez's forward speed. The ball difference flew past Hernandez's toes with a slight difference and flew out of another sideline.

Although Manchester United did not make a shot this time, the attacks of Gao Xiaodong, Rooney and Hernandez posed a huge threat to Barcelona's goal.

However, Manchester United's long pass attack did not arouse Barcelona's high alert. Barcelona's defense line was honest for only five minutes, and then continued to press forward, burning the war to the near-center circle.

Gao Xiaodong likes this offensive and defensive method very much. Before the game, he believed that Manchester United is not able to play against Barcelona. Even if Ferguson designed a high-pressing tactic, Gao Xiaodong was not optimistic, because he has played against Barcelona in the past two years and knows the horror of Barcelona's pass control. Almost no team in the world football can successfully press at high positions. If you want to win, you can only rely on defensive counterattack.

The reason why Ferguson designed such a tactic before the game was that Manchester United used an ugly defensive counterattack three years ago to eliminate Barcelona three years ago. This time he wanted to change his playing style. Of course, Ferguson did this but still did not think that Barcelona's strength was stronger than Manchester United. He felt that Manchester United could compete with Barcelona, ​​although the bookmakers and many media were optimistic about Barcelona's winning the championship.

However, the facts have proved that Barcelona's overall strength is stronger than Manchester United. Although Barcelona was forced into a hurry by Manchester United in the first five minutes of the game, after Barcelona adapted, Manchester United's high-pressure would not have much effect.

Ferguson did not want to change his tactical design, he was simply forced to do so. If Manchester United continues to press at a high position, he is likely to be broken by Barcelona.

The reason why Ferguson was able to achieve such great success was because he was not stubborn and could keep pace with the times. When he saw that his tactics were wrong, he immediately made changes.

In the 22nd minute of the game, Busques received the ball and shook Rooney's press, and passed it straight to find Harvey.

When Xavi received the ball, Gao Xiaodong quickly came over to steal. Xavi pulled and turned around, and then wanted to pass the ball to Messi in a diagonal way.

Xavi's round-rotation technique was almost 100%, because when he passed the ball, most of his opponents did not turn around and could not interfere with Xavi's passing.

However, this time Harvey was facing Gao Xiaodong, who was wearing black technology. Gao Xiaodong did not turn around completely, but his super glasses allowed him to see Harvey's movements.

The moment when Xavi passed the ball, Gao Xiaodong stretched out his leg behind him and intercepted Xavi's straight pass.

Harvey didn't expect the ball to be blocked. He rushed over and wanted to grab the ball again, but Gao Xiaodong rushed over and hit Harvey with his shoulder, and directly knocked Harvey to stagger.

Xavi lost the center of gravity and the ball was easily taken by Gao Xiaodong.

Gao Xiaodong saw the situation in the frontcourt before he got the ball. When he got the ball, he saw that Hernandez and Rooney had already started running alertly, especially Hernandez, which started when Gao Xiaodong knocked away Xavi.

Hernandez expressed his trust in Gao Xiaodong with his actions, and Gao Xiaodong did not disappoint him. Gao Xiaodong waved his legs hard and drew a long pass. The ball was very fast, and it flew through the midfield and the defender like lightning, landing between the defender and the goalkeeper.

Hernandez dodged past Pique and Mascherano, removed the ball with his instep on the penalty area line, and pushed the arch of Valdez's foot, and the ball rolled into the net from Valdez's armpit.

However, just as Hernandez raised his hand to celebrate, he found that the border throne had raised the flag.

This ball is offside!

Hernandez was very angry and rushed over to protest at the referee Kaushoi. He thought he was not offside, and he just watched the defender run.

Ferguson on the sidelines was also angry and yelled at the stadium. He also thought that Hernandez was not offside, which was a misjudgment.

But referee Kaushoi believed in his companion, waved at Ferguson, asked him to return to the coach's seat, and asked Barcelona goalkeeper Valdes to serve and continue the game.

Although Manchester United players were not satisfied, they had no choice but to go back and continue the game.
Chapter completed!