The September game is still fresh in mind, when United won 2-0 at home, when Dong Fangzhuo created a penalty and scored a goal to end Arsenal's 49-game unbeaten run in the league.

More than two months later, they met again.

On the players' tunnel, there was no communication between the two sides.

Arsene Wenger's expression was grim, and when he saw Ferguson, he deliberately chose to avoid it. Arsene Wenger doesn't have any good feelings about Manchester United right now, and he probably feels annoyed to see it.

Arsenal made a few changes to their starting line-up, with Lehmann in goalkeeper and Campbell replaced by Sandros in centre-back.

In the midfield position, Flamini partnered Patrick Vieira.

Reyes started in place of Andrea Pire at right-midfield, with Thierry Henry alongside the young Robin van Persie up front.

The mix of old and new makes perfect sense.

Manchester United's side is actually similar, Keane is injured, Fletcher is still the main midfielder, this is a relatively weak position of Manchester United, but it is the position of this back that is the most deadly, so Ferguson emphasizes more on the fast ball at the back.

In the forward line, Arsenal has Thierry Henry, but partners with the young Van Persie, while Manchester United has Ruud van Nistelrooy and Dong Fangzhuo, and on paper Arsenal must have the advantage. However, in the last match, Henry was watched by Ferdinand to death, without any performance, and his fame may not necessarily be able to score a goal.

Thierry Henry must have been holding his breath and trying to break down the door for Manchester United, but it was the ferocious Brown who had to deal with him today.

Brown has always been a good player, but his career has basically been ruined by injuries, his old problem is that he often has an ankle injury, and he has spent most of his career recuperating from injuries.

As soon as they walked out of the tunnel entrance, the Arsenal players were immediately booed by Old Trafford, who have been competing for supremacy with Manchester United and Arsenal all these years, and there will be no politeness between the fans.

"Hey, Patrick, are you ready with a napkin?"

"Remember, come here to get it when you cry."

Listening to these harsh words, Vieira was unmoved, and tried his best to restrain the restlessness in his heart. If you make another stupid mistake in this game, Arsenal will lose more than you gain, and it is impossible to be provoked by a few ugly words.

Despite being just a League Cup, it's a heavyweight matchup with Old Trafford as full as a Premier League game.

Spinach is still optimistic that Manchester United can win Arsenal at home, and the home team will draw half, and it seems that it will not be easy for Arsenal to get points.

"Both teams want to win, and whoever loses says goodbye to the Carabao Cup, but for both sides, neither wants to lose to the other. Arsenal, in particular, if they can win against Manchester United, they will be able to move on from their recent poor form. But Manchester United is not Manchester City, and Arsenal's elimination of Manchester City in the last round of the Carabao Cup does not mean that they can eliminate Manchester United. ”

The referee's expression in this game was also very serious, and before the game began, he actually called all the starters on both sides together and explained a few words.

The content is probably that his blowing penalty will be very strict, so I hope everyone will pay attention to the action during the game, and he will not let any player make excessive movements.

"Rookie!"

After the referee left, Gary Neville muttered that only the rookie referee would explain this to them before the game! Exposed his own thoughts in advance.

The process of the game is unpredictable, how can you control it?

So when he was cheering hand in hand with everyone in the middle circle, Neville explained, "Don't listen to that guy's nonsense, how you should kick and how you have to kick, don't let the other party jump!" ”

Jiang is still old and spicy, and the referee thought that giving the players a vaccination in advance could control the game, but he didn't think that Neville would not eat him at all.

The game begins.

Dong Fangzhuo immediately rushed into the hinterland of Arsenal.

Soon, a player came up to him to defend him.

Not Colo Toure, but young Sandros.

Sandros started in place of the injured Campbell and formed a central partnership with Colo Toure for Arsenal.

He is only one year older than Dong Fangzhuo.

Although Sandros is only 20 years old, it does not mean that he has little combat experience, and at the age of 17, he led the Swiss youth team to the European championship as captain, and then attracted the attention of major European giants, and finally came to Arsenal.

Campbell was injured at this time, and he was able to continue to start the game.

His task today is to keep an eye on the equally young Dong Fangzhuo, which must have been deliberately done by Arsene Wenger.

Like Manchester United's centre-back Brown, Sandros is also bald, a very fierce guy.

He is in excellent physical condition, especially with his headers, who can clear the ball when defending and help Arsenal score when attacking.

The Swiss defenders defensively fierce and resilient, but their skills were rough and they were a bit frizzy on the pitch.

Excellent positional awareness, good tackling ability, coupled with excellent speed, can be said to be a combination of speed and power of a very lethal central defender.

This is the investigation report of Sandros given by the coaching staff before the start of the game.

It can be said that Sandros is very capable and is a genius who became famous at a young age.

But Dong Fangzhuo is not concerned with his strengths, but on his shortcomings.

Sandros is a young, frizzy guy who likes to plug in assists, and that's enough for him......

Wenger asked Sandros to come to defend Dong Fangzhuo, that is, he took a fancy to his good position, fast speed, and fierce movements, and it seemed that it was enough to deal with Dong Fangzhuo.

However, what Wenger couldn't imagine was that Dong Fangzhuo was not a real teenager, he was actually an old fritter, very cunning, far more complicated than he imagined.

So against Sandros, Dong Fangzhuo was full of confidence.

There was a little tender melon behind him, no longer the Campbell he used to be, which made Dong Fangzhuo very comfortable.

For Dong Fangzhuo, Sandros is also a rookie, and it is too easy to deal with rookies.

Despite being tightly clinged to Sandros, Dong Fangzhuo's small movements continued, and he kept harassing Sandros without the ball.

When he was stuck in the position, he gently gave Sandros two elbow blows, which were not painful or conspicuous, and when he turned around, he grabbed the corner of Sandros's clothes and held on, and when he moved and ran the position, he had nothing to hook up with Sandros's big and small legs.

Anyway, Sandros didn't stop being by Dong Fangzhuo ten minutes before the opening.

Is this guy here to play football, or is he here to make trouble?

"Rookie, you're going to cry!"

Dong Fangzhuo had a lot of fun, remembering what the United fans said to Vieira at the entrance of the players' tunnel, and he moved to provoke Sandros as he was.

Fake.

Who exactly is a rookie?

Sandros thought it was hilarious, and it was ridiculous for this to come out of the mouth of a player younger than him.

"You wait, shameful rookie, I'll teach you how to be a man in a while, don't think that the little tricks in your hands can annoy me."

"You're going to die ugly."