They arrived in Manchester four days before the start of the second leg of this year's Champions League quarter-finals, and before that they had a league game in the grave this week, Manchester United at home to Fulham.

In preparation for the second leg of the Champions League in midweek, Manchester United made a massive rotation in this league game, but even so, Manchester United still won 2-0 at home to Fulham. Now Manchester United's lineup, in fact, there is no difference between the main team and the substitute, at least, the strength of the main lineup and the substitute lineup is not much different.

Manchester United then began to prepare for the showdown with Porto.

Before the start of the game, Porto's manager, known as the madman, Jose Mourinho, was surprisingly low-key, which was completely different from his performance before the first leg.

"Although we won the first leg, I have to say that they are the strongest team in world football today, and we were lucky to draw against Barcelona, really bad, but we will give it our all......" Mourinho's eyes were a little erratic when facing the camera and the microphone, obviously he didn't have the confidence to say this.

Mourinho's attitude has taken the media all over Europe by surprise. You know, when Manchester United visited Porto two weeks ago, he insisted that they could beat Manchester United and reach the next round of the Champions League. And, at home to Porto, they did beat Manchester United, becoming the first team to beat Manchester United this season.

However, the media soon came as no surprise. Because Manchester United this season is indeed too strong. All the media believed that while Porto won the first leg, they only won 2-1, with United losing just one goal and also getting a away goal. Now they only need a narrow score of 1-0 at home to qualify. As a result, the game between Porto and Manchester United has lost its suspense, and Manchester United have really drawn a good draw this time, and although they lost the first leg, they still have no problem progressing to the quarter-finals.

In fact, this is also the consensus of the whole of Europe - Manchester United is now in full swing. If nothing else, they will definitely make it all the way to the final. As for the first leg, they lost only because they underbeat them.

Then the Manchester media really believed it.

A photo of Jose Mourinho's interview appeared in a Manchester newspaper with the headline: "We were out of luck with Manchester United."

The quote is Mourinho's original words, which makes Manchester United fans see that it is really cool, from the outside to the inside, and then to the bone marrow, in short, Manchester United fans see the opponent's manager say so. It's true that my heart is very cool.

The opponent has been timid before fighting, and it is estimated that when the game comes, he will surrender without a fight.

Then Manchester United can make it to the quarter-finals without blood. Waiting for their opponents.

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Ferguson also saw Mourinho's remarks, and he was very confused. Although he doesn't know much about Mourinho, he knows that Mourinho is definitely not an easy figure to deal with, because his stubborn character of never admitting defeat is destined to not admit defeat to any opponent. Like before the first leg, didn't Mourinho have been provoking Manchester United? Now that they have the advantage of winning one game, Mourinho has no reason to throw in the towel.

But. Now why did Mourinho say that? You know, it wasn't the speculation of the media, it was Mourinho at a press conference.

Ferguson couldn't figure out which one Mourinho was doing now.

Just when Ferguson was puzzled, Jiang Feng came to the door. Jiang Feng told the old man very clearly that Mourinho was setting off a smokescreen in order to make Manchester United relax his vigilance, so that he would have a chance.

For Jiang Feng's words. Ferguson still believes it very much, and Jiang Feng is reasonable, Ferguson is sure that Mourinho is really setting off a smokescreen.

The old man after learning about Mourinho's plans. also has his own calculations. He did not come forward to debunk Mourinho's ruse, but cooperated with Mourinho, making the world feel that Manchester United believed Mourinho's words and relaxed. However, in private, the old man is strict with the players of Manchester United, and the vaccination is repeated again and again.

In this way, before the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final between Manchester United and Porto, there was a very strange situation in public opinion: Mourinho's Porto tried to say how good Manchester United is, and Manchester United was very useful for these touts, and some players also said that Manchester United did not take Porto seriously at all.

It was Mourinho's work to make Manchester United despise them. But as a head coach, he can't expect to eat on this kind of zinc collar food.

Therefore, if you want to wrestle with Manchester United away from home, you have to work on both strategy and tactics.

Strategically, it's what Porto want to achieve on the road. Is it a guest kitchen ball? Or is it a victory? Or is it a draw? Or is it an acceptable failure?

The first thing is to determine the strategy, and then the tactics.

Strategically speaking, no matter how arrogant Mourinho is, no matter how arrogant he is, he will not be so arrogant as to say that he wants to beat Manchester United at Old Trafford. So the goal he set for the team was a draw, not an acceptable defeat.

Then there's the away goal, and if Porto can get on the scoresheet, it would be even better because they had already won the first leg at home to Manchester United and now they have a lot more options.

Once the strategy is decided, it's time for tactics.

Facing a strong team, and away again, Porto certainly can't choose to play against Manchester United at Old Trafford, so there is no suspense, Porto will play a defensive counterattack.

The line-up was fine-tuned from 433 to 4312, with central midfielder Jose Mourinho deploying three midfielders to defend United. In this formation, it can be said that Porto have almost abandoned the wings, and the purpose of this is to wrestle with Manchester United in the middle of the midfield.

Of course, Manchester United have Ronaldinho and Keane in the middle, Cristiano. Ronaldo also cuts in a lot, but they are just as good on the wings, so what to do? Mourinho's strategy was to open up the flanks in midfield, but when it came to the 30-metre area, he was on guard.

There is a limit to working hard from defense, although Porto is good at defense, but even if they defend at Old Trafford, it is estimated that it is impossible not to concede goals, so the solution to the problem has to fall on the attack.

Porto have an extremely strong attacking force, with four men, Deco, McCarthy, Delle and Alberto, making up Porto's attacking lineup.

Considering that he will probably be in a defensive position most of the time, Mourinho also asked the striker to drop back aggressively, pick up his team-mates and keep a reasonable distance from the midfield.

This retracement is not as simple as turning around and running back, and then turning and running forward. Therefore, this requires a high level of running ability for the striker, not only to have physical strength, but also to be able to run to the right position.

That's Mourinho's wishful thinking.

It's just that this wishful thinking didn't work, because he didn't really deceive Ferguson. Manchester United, although they appear to be flattering to Porto, have not let their guard down at all.

Of course, this has to do not only with Ferguson's repeated use of the hair dryer, but also with money.

At the Christmas dinner last year, Jiang Feng said that there was a prize of 10 million pounds for winning the Champions League trophy. That's the average amount of money on everyone in the team, and that's about 400,000 pounds, but it's a huge amount of money that can't be ignored.

However, they are now on the verge of losing the million-pound sum as they lost the first leg on the road. The youngsters have to win, and preferably by a big one, or the £10 million prize money is likely to pass them by.

And after the first fifteen minutes of the game, the United players have determined that the opponent's pre-match performance is really just to tease them.

The Manchester United players who figured this out were very angry, and although they were not really deceived, they were still very angry.

And with anger came anger of course, and they poured their anger on Porto.

"Manchester United's Ryan Giggs kicks the ball down the wing...... Here we go again."

In attack, Cristiano Ronaldo and Ryan Giggs will still revert to their role as wingers, pulling up wide to get the ball up, just like Giggs is doing now.

With the commentator's exclamation, the ball was kicked into the air by Ryan Giggs before Ferreira and flew straight towards the goal

And what about Drogba in the middle?

He followed the football with his arms outstretched and flew up

Yes, it was flew, not jumped.

Carvalho jumped up with him, but was still crushed by Drogba.

In terms of jumping ability alone, Carvalho is not as good as Drogba.

"Hell......" Seeing that the other party was above him again, Carvalho was so angry in his heart

This is the second time that he has been pressed under the opponent during the battle for the top

Ten minutes into the game, United had already had a chance to head in the ball when Didier Drogba pressured him to jump for the top and the ball flew just over the crossbar.

This time, here it is again, and he also loses again......

"Header to the top"

With a loud shout from the commentator, Drogba pushed the ball towards the goal

This time it was goalkeeper Baya who saved the team, who flew up and lifted the ball over the crossbar with one palm

"Uhhhh

Drogba, who landed on the ground, clenched his fists with both hands and swung them in front of his chest, his face full of chagrin.

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