After Ferdinand returned, Manchester United's defense strength increased greatly, and Valencia did not have any excellent header player. After Mata took the corner kick, the ball was pushed out of the penalty area by Vidic. Valencia's midfielder Alberda grabbed the landing point and shot from a long shot, and the ball was above the crossbar.

Manchester United goalkeeper Van der Sar kicked the ball, and he directly looked for his striker Berbatov.

Although Berbatov is tall, his heading ability is not very good. The ball was pushed back by Valencia's central defender.

While fighting in the midfield, Manchester United's crazy running and impact player had room to play, and the ball was grabbed by Park Ji-sung, who was very active in running.

Park Ji-sung is a functional player at Manchester United. He usually takes the ball to attacking players such as Scholes or Rooney. Now he is getting close to Gao Xiaodong, so the first choice to get the ball is of course to find Gao Xiaodong.

Park Ji-sung passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong and ran forward to the side, while Nani and Anderson also ran forward desperately to meet Gao Xiaodong.

In Manchester United's lineup today, Park Ji-sung, Anderson and Nani are all very close to Gao Xiaodong. Their forward insertion not only took away the defense, but also gave Gao Xiaodong more support points, giving Gao Xiaodong more choices to get the ball.

Today, facing a strong team like Valencia, who is the core of Manchester United's offense, Gao Xiaodong is very excited. After receiving the ball, he did not pass the ball, but used the space pulled by his teammates to quickly break forward.

Valencia attaches great importance to Gao Xiaodong's defense. After Gao Xiaodong took the ball, the midfielder Alberda and Costa quickly came up to double-team Gao Xiaodong, and the central defender Navarro also took two steps forward to block Gao Xiaodong's long-range shot space.

Gao Xiaodong didn't dare to break through forcibly, so he immediately distributed the ball to Nani and continued to run towards the middle of the penalty area.

Although Nani played with Gao Xiaodong today, because Manchester United's three back midfielders almost have no ability to attack from the wing, he always went to the wing and broke through from the wing.

Valencia also attached equal importance to Nani's defense. Before Nani could start speed, Pablo chased back and quickly snatched Nani from behind.

Nanila turned around and got rid of Pablo. When he turned around, Pablo and Miguel had become a clamping attack.

At this time, left-back Evra had assisted, Nani quickly dribbled the ball and cut inside, leaving Evra on the wing.

Pablo followed Nani, who passed the ball to Evra and asked Evra to attack Valencia's full-back Miguel.

Evra made two fake moves in a row to shake Miguel's center of gravity, but Miguel was experienced and was not fooled. Evra had to pass the ball to Gao Xiaodong.

At this moment, Gao Xiaodong returned to the front midfielder position, and Valencia did not relax at all when he was guarding him. Gao Xiaodong had just received the ball, and Alberda immediately quickly pressed him closely.

At this moment, Valencia's three lines had already fallen, and Gao Xiaodong did not blindly drive the ball. He passed the ball horizontally to Park Ji-sung, mobilizing the opponent to find the gap for the attack.

Park Ji-sung tried to push forward, and saw that there was no chance, so he passed it back to Gao Xiaodong.

Gao Xiaodong then passed the ball back to Fletcher and walked backwards himself, preparing to pull Valencia's formation outward.

However, after Fletcher passed the ball to Carrick, Carrick, who had been out of the game for a long time, hoped to prove that he had completely recovered in this strong conversation. After receiving the ball, he passed it to the front court to look for Berbatov.

Carrick passed the ball very accurately, but Valencia's single arrow marking against Berbatov was even tighter. Two central defenders, Navarro was staring at the man, and Maduro grabbed it. Under the attack of the two, Berbatov failed to stop the ball. The ball was grabbed by Costa and passed it to Mata.

Mata's skills are very good and is the No. 10 core of Valencia's offense. He catches the ball and drips Park Ji-sung, and quickly drives the ball forward.

Just now, Ferguson was very happy to see Gao Xiaodong patiently dispatching in the midfield. He was worried that Gao Xiaodong would be eager to perform, giving Valencia an opportunity to take advantage of it. Judging from his performance in the first ten minutes, Gao Xiaodong was still very mature, but the elderly Carrick was too impatient and gave the opponent a chance to counterattack.

Park Ji-sung chased after Mata, with Fletcher quickly pulling the side, and the full-back Raphael rushed forward to intercept, and the three of them came to attack Mata.

Mata passed the ball to Domingos and inserted himself into the middle between Fletcher and Rafael. Forward Soldado also quickly started and inserted into Manchester United's penalty area.

Mata and Soldado attracted Manchester United's defensive attention, but Domingos did not pass the ball to them. He took the ball and faced the goal, then turned around and passed the ball to Pablo on the other side.

Pablo ran very well without the ball. At this moment, he had already run to Nani in front of him without knowing it, and quickly got down from the bottom after receiving the ball.

At this moment, Evra had been attracted to the edge of the penalty area. Seeing Pablo receive the ball, Evra quickly made up for defense on the sideline to prevent Pablo from going down the bottom.

Valencia's forward attack and pass were very fast. Evra had just pulled the edge, and Pablo passed the ball back to Alberda, who was inserted into the ribs.

Carrick came to defend Alberda, who passed the ball to Mata who ran to the middle.

Mata kept the ball and passed the gap between Ferdinand and Vidic, looking for the forward Soldado who was slanting.

Valencia's counterattack was fast, with accurate running position, and tacit cooperation. She passed it to Manchester United's penalty area in just a few passes.

However, Vidic and Ferdinand cooperated for many years, and the tacit understanding between the two has reached the point where there is no need to talk. Seeing Mata pass straight, the two did not chase the ball back, but quickly got stuck, blocking Valencia and possibly intercepting the player.

Soldado was blocked by Vidic, and when he bypassed Vidic, Manchester United goalkeeper Van der Sar had already attacked and got the ball.

The game lasted about 10 minutes, and Valencia had not shot once, but they were very patient in the offense. Just like this attack, as long as Soldado got the ball, it could be a goal.

In the first game of the group stage, Valencia faced Türkiye's Bursa away game. He only scored 4 goals, which was so efficient that it was terrifying.

Van der Sar got the ball and threw the ball quickly and launched a quick counterattack for Gao Xiaodong.

When Gao Xiaodong got the ball, Valencia had at least five players near Manchester United's penalty area, which was a good opportunity to counterattack.

Gao Xiaodong showed his strong ability to read games at this time. He pushed forward as quickly as possible when he got the ball, not giving Valencia frontcourt players time to return to defense.

At this moment, Alberda, who is responsible for guarding Gao Xiaodong, is still behind Gao Xiaodong, and Mata and Pablo have not come back, and the only defensive players in the middle are Costa.

Costa quickly pushed up, trying to use a tactical foul to stop Gao Xiaodong from dribbling.

But Gao Xiaodong did not give Costa this opportunity. He took the ball and quickly passed it to Berbatov, who was facing away from the goal, hoping that Berbatov would make a wall for himself and use his speed to break through Costa.

However, Berbatov and Gao Xiaodong did not have a tacit understanding. He took the ball and turned around, trying to fight two central defenders one by one.

Central defender Navarro did not give Berbatov this opportunity, so he directly stretched out his foot to knock Berbatov down.

The referee blew the whistle and awarded Manchester United a free kick, but did not show Navarro a yellow card.

Berbatov protested to the referee, saying that he had a good chance and should give Navarro a yellow card, but the referee ignored it.

Seeing Berbatov get a free kick, Gao Xiaodong was very upset, as if he had eaten a Xiangwei ice cream.

If Berbatov just passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong, Gao Xiaodong could face the central defender and the central defender came to defend Gao Xiaodong, Berbatov could even get a single defender, or even a single-handed goalkeeper.
Chapter completed!