Chapter 680 Insidious
After Milito and Etoo fell, the ball was passed back to the front midfielder Gao Xiaodong. Seeing Manchester United players quickly pressing over the middle circle, Gao Xiaodong passed back to Cambiaso and quickly retreated to meet his defense line.
In Mourinho's tactical arrangement today, Gao Xiaodong's offense is the front midfielder and defense is the back midfielder.
Switch between the front and back midfields at any time. Although the two back midfielders are lined up, Inter Milan is actually two and a half back midfielders.
Rooney, Valencia, and Park Ji-sung are all players who are willing to do anything. Inter Milan players are back to the back line, and they quickly chase after them.
Manchester United's right forward Valencia has the fastest speed. As soon as Sanetti received the ball, Valencia rushed over. Rooney in the middle ran to the right tirelessly, cutting off the connection between Sanetti and the central defender. Scholes, who plays as a central defender, also ran towards Cambiaso with great momentum.
Manchester United's pressing was indeed fast. The ball was just passed to the defense line, and Sanetti's pass line was almost blocked.
Zanetti and Cambiaso are old teammates of the national team. With a tacit understanding, he immediately passed the ball to Cambiaso and quickly bypassed Valencia along the side.
Cambiaso understood it. He did not stop the ball, and passed it to the side, and fought with Sanetti in a wall-to-walk two-pass one-to-one cooperation.
This is a beautiful cooperation. As long as Cambiaso stops the ball, Scholes arrives. If Cambiaso wants to pass the ball out, it will be difficult to ensure that it will not be destroyed or cut off.
Ferguson started today with a tactic of fast fighting and slow fighting. If he wanted to make full use of the fast pace of the Premier League, he would naturally not be a three-step move.
Scholes has a strong ability to read the game. After Cambiaso passed the ball, he immediately got stuck between Cambiaso and Sanetti. Fletcher in the midfield quickly pulled the edge and cut off the connection between Zanetti and the full-back Pandev.
After receiving the ball, Zanetti suddenly found that both the front and back and left and right had become Manchester United, so he could only pass the ball to his center Milito.
On the court, the only route is definitely the route left to you by the opponent. With Milito's header ability, Sanetti's pass will probably be Ferdinand and Vidic.
Just as Sanetti was considering whether to make a long pass, he suddenly found Gao Xiaodong appeared in his sight, just between Scholes and Fletcher.
After Gao Xiaodong was promoted to the S-level professional, his awareness of each position was greatly improved. He returned to the backcourt and returned to the defense of ordinary front midfielders. His defensive awareness was very strong. He could guess the opponent's pressing and teammates' possible pass routes. When Sanetti ran forward and responded, he judged that Sanetti might be snatched and appeared on Sanetti's passing route in time.
Sanetti was overjoyed and immediately passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong and continued to step forward.
As soon as the game started, the full-back was so fierce that it didn't seem very reasonable, but this was due to Sanetti's trust in Gao Xiaodong. He believed that Gao Xiaodong could control the ball and would not be intercepted by his opponent to counterattack.
When Ferguson fought with Gao Xiaodong for the first time, he suffered a loss with man-tapping defense. This time, Ferguson gave up the man-tapping tactic and adopted the tactic of regional defense plus double-teaming.
After Gao Xiaodong got the ball, Scholes quickly came back and pressed, while Fletcher kept a certain distance from Gao Xiaodong to prevent Gao Xiaodong from dribbling the ball at high speed.
Although Gao Xiaodong was young, he was very experienced in advance. He did not take the ball forward like a naughty man, or directly looked for the forward. Seeing Valencia catching up with Zanetti, he easily turned around and passed the ball to Cambiaso.
At this moment, Manchester United's frontcourt players retreated. After Gao Xiaodong passed the ball back, the defense line was already very safe, and Cambiaso could pass it to any player at will.
When Ferguson saw this scene, his eyebrows were deeply locked. Although Gao Xiaodong only passed twice at the beginning, the two passes destroyed Manchester United's fast pressing. This performance also confirmed a bad judgment in Ferguson's mind, that is, Gao Xiaodong's football skills have indeed improved again. Although he is no longer as rampant as before and runs like he used to be, he has a better grasp of the rhythm and a better overall view. He can be fast or slow, which is obviously more difficult to play.
This kid is really a monster and is making progress all the time. If this continues, it will be no problem to catch up with Ronaldo and Messi. Ferguson thought in shock.
Manchester United pressed the ball, but the ball was still under Inter Milan's control. Manchester United was not discouraged and continued to press. However, this time Gao Xiaodong was still threading a needle in the middle, resolving Manchester United's press.
The two consecutive presses did not touch the ball hair, which was a bit hurting morale. Although Manchester United players continued to press, the applause and shouting of Manchester United fans was much smaller, and they were suppressed by Inter Milan fans.
Gao Xiaodong is obviously not satisfied with playing with Manchester United. Ball control is not a characteristic of Inter Milan. If there is any problem with passing, the trouble will be great.
When the ball was passed to Gao Xiaodong again, Gao Xiaodong stopped the ball and turned around, and dribbled the ball forward.
This was already an area controlled by Fletcher, and he quickly came over to force Gao Xiaodong.
Gao Xiaodong stopped the ball calmly and turned around, as if he was trying to protect the ball with his back, but his hand pointed to the side of the court, and it seemed to be passing back to the defender who was inserted. But at the moment of turning around, Gao Xiaodong suddenly knocked the ball with his support foot, and the ball rolled past Fletcher. Gao Xiaodong also turned around and attacked like lightning, and rushed past Fletcher quickly.
This time, from slow to extremely fast, the pace changes so quickly that even the opponents, even the teammates' eyes can't keep up.
Fletcher was fooled by Gao Xiaodong's gesture. When Gao Xiaodong accelerated, he had no time to stop him.
Gao Xiaodong threw Fletcher away and rushed forward quickly.
Carrick quickly moved sideways to intercept, but Gao Xiaodong was too fast. Before Carrick could move to Gao Xiaodong's path forward, Gao Xiaodong had already surpassed him and entered the 30-meter area.
After entering the range, Gao Xiaodong waved his hand again, as if directing his teammates to run, but after waving, Gao Xiaodong suddenly took a long shot, and the ball roared straight for the goal.
Just 50 seconds passed at this moment. Manchester United had not yet encountered the ball. Inter Milan made the first attempt to enter the 30-meter area, and Gao Xiaodong shot directly from a long shot.
This shot was definitely a cold shot, and the angle was tricky. He flew straight to the right post on the goal. Before the shot, Gao Xiaodong raised his hand despicablely and deceived him. He changed to a goalkeeper who was not experienced enough and had insufficient concentration, and he might have been deceived.
But Manchester United goalkeeper Van der Sar is already 40 years old, twice as old as Gao Xiaodong. He is more experienced than rich. He studied Gao Xiaodong very carefully before the game, knowing that this is a vulgar and despicable guy. He has not been deceived by Gao Xiaodong's fake moves, and he is all focused on Gao Xiaodong's feet. When Gao Xiaodong kicks up and shoots, he immediately makes a save reaction.
40-year-old Van derssa is a little old and his reaction is not as good as a young goalkeeper, but he is 1.97 meters tall and has a long arm span. Gao Xiaodong's tricky long shot was actually jumped up by Van derssa and gently slackened his ape's arms and rushed out.
Seeing the ball fly out of the bottom line, Gao Xiaodong shook his head and praised Van der Sar, "This old guy reacts so quickly!"
Van der Sar was scared and sweated in a cold sweat, calling Gao Xiaodong a sinister and despicable, and secretly glad that he was not fooled, otherwise he might have lost the ball.
Chapter completed!