At half-time, Ferguson praised his players for their performance in the first half, mainly for their ability to execute tactics.

Foul tactics are such extreme tactics that they are able to execute meticulously on the court.

This actually reflects Ferguson's prestige and status in the Manchester United team from another aspect, and shows that he has successfully controlled this team.

Ferguson told his players not to think about anything else, just keep playing like this.

“…… As you can see, when we push the foul forward, City's threat to us plummets...... Rong also tried a few free kicks in the game, but none of them scored, why? We didn't have any free kicks from Wing because it was so far from goal, but based on the way we played in the first half, we could guess that Young's ideal range would be between 25 and 32 meters......," Ferguson gushed, drawing on the tactical blackboard as he spoke.

"So you guys keep playing like that, first of all, let the danger of conceding the ball away from us, and then we can think about the goal...... Keep provoking them, but be careful and don't do that with a yellow card...... Once the mentality of the whole Manchester City team is out of balance, that's our chance! ”

That's what Ferguson was going to do, he didn't want to play a whole game with foul play, that would be looking for death, and it was unrealistic.

On the one hand, the foul tactic is to avoid giving Glory too many chances to score, and on the other hand, it can provoke the opponent and make the opponent lose his composure, which may be more difficult to make Glory lose his cool - this is something that Ferguson and Cristiano Ronaldo tried before the last city derby, and it proved to be useless - but it is quite possible to make the rest of the City players lose their composure.

If there is a Manchester City player who has been on the urge to take revenge on the Manchester United players...... That's good, he's definitely going to be sent off.

When the time comes, there will be fewer people in the population, coupled with an imbalance in mentality...... What if United are one goal behind?

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Meanwhile, in another dressing room, Benitez grimaced his players and said, "...... Don't fall into the trap of Manchester United, don't fight them. They fouled, punish them as the referee's business, don't go up, the other side wants us to lose our cool, we must not let them get their wish...... If they keep playing like that, then we'll recycle the defense and then play the counter-attack, and it's us who is leading anyway. You have to have this psychological advantage......"

Although Glory scored from a free-kick, Benitez also had no intention of relying on Glory's free-kick. After all, free kicks are not only technical, but also have a lot of luck.

The free-kick goal rate is definitely not as high as everyone thinks, and it is not a penalty.

A player can hit 80 percent in training, and half of the shooting rate on the pitch may be gone.

Pinning your hopes of winning on a glorious free-kick is an insult to yourself as a manager.

So he didn't let the whole team cooperate with Glory's free kick, desperately fighting for the opportunity to be fouled in the opponent's frontcourt.

Anyway, Manchester City has a one-goal lead, so if they can't do it, they can still win this game if they hold on to their one-goal lead.

As for this, is there still any value to watch this game...... That's not what Benitez was thinking.

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At the start of the second half, everyone found that the situation was similar to the first half, and nothing fundamentally changed.

Alan Hansen rolled his eyes in the commentary box.

"It looks like the game is won or lost by one goal." He said.

As he spoke, the two sides were battling it out in the middle of the pitch.

Fletcher cut off Elano with a flying tackle, Elano was tackled to the ground by Fletcher, and the City players signalled for referee Fletcher to foul him, but the referee signalled for the game to continue.

Hamann then came up and knocked Fletcher to the ground, before the referee's whistle finally blew and awarded a free-kick to the Manchester City player for a foul.

The Manchester City players were also very dissatisfied and yelled at the referee, they thought that Fletcher's moment must have been a foul, and they should have blown Fletcher for a foul, how could they still be sentenced to a foul?

Benitez saw this scene from the sidelines, and his brow tightened.

His halftime advice didn't help......

As soon as they hit the pitch, the players are dominated by adrenaline......

If the referee's decision is slightly unsatisfactory, they can easily get carried away by anger. Hamann's foul just now was completely vindictive, he didn't intend to break the ball at all, he was going to bring down Fletcher......

He shook his head slightly.

If we continue like this...... It's hard to say what this game will look like......

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United took advantage of the free-kick in midfield to launch an attacking attack that not only allowed them to create a threat to the City goal, but also eliminated a potential threat to their own goal......

With one or the other, it looks like Manchester United are going to have the upper hand......

The Manchester United fans in the stands came alive, singing songs to cheer on the Manchester United soldiers.

Even Manchester United once again gave Manchester City a free-kick in front of the field, which did not make them stop singing.

When Manchester United fouled before, they would still boo, but now they can't even bother to boo. Anyway, Manchester United just need to win if they keep playing like this.

Manchester United's foul was also quite far from goal, with the figure given on live TV being 37 metres and the foul site being 37 metres from goal.

This position is already relatively far away, and generally a free kick so far away will not be shot directly, and it will pass the football out.

Glory had previously tried to take free-kicks from a similar distance, but none of them worked very well, which made the United players think it was safe to foul at this distance.

Hamann was holding the ball and was about to come up and take the free-kick.

But he looked at the glory at the penalty spot.

Glory was standing right on the spot where he was going to place the football, with his back to him and facing the United goal.

When he came, he didn't let him, so Haman reminded him: "Rong? ”

Glory turned around and saw Hamann, his eyes fell on the football in his hand again.

Then he said to Haman, "I'm sorry, Dietmar. I'll kick the ball. ”

Hamann didn't object, but simply gave him the football: "Good. ”

Rongguang must want to shoot directly, although this distance is a bit far, the success rate of the shot is very low, but even if it doesn't score, it doesn't matter, Manchester City is now in the lead, it doesn't matter if you waste a free kick opportunity, anyway, there are many more free kick opportunities......

After Rongguang took the football, he bent down and placed the football where he had stood.

Then instead of backing down, he got up and continued to look at the goal.

He's taking distances.

Thirty-seven meters, this is the number given by the TV broadcast, and he did not watch the live broadcast of the game, so he did not know the specific number.

But from where he was standing now, it was quite far away.

The goal of more than nine meters wide has become very small, and with the players of both sides, it is really difficult to shoot directly here.

At this distance, United didn't even do a good job of lining up the wall.

They had two people standing between the ball and the goal, with everyone else around the box, and apparently even the United players didn't think that a free-kick from that position could directly threaten their goal.

Glory has tried it before, and it's really hard.

His curling ball with his left foot was not enough to sustain such a long flight, and before he could reach the goal, he lost his strength and fell, not threatening Van der Sar's goal at all.

This distance is too far, and he has never practiced such a far free kick in his usual training, and this position belongs to the category of indirect free kicks.

He never thought he was going to take a free-kick here.

But today it was different, and he wanted to try.

If you can't curl with your left foot...... Then try a powerful volley with your right foot?

In Rongguang's view, a free kick in this position is a long-range shot......

As a free-kick, it's a bit of a distance, but if you look at it as a long-range shot, it's still within your own range.

When the soccer ball is well placed, it is also easier to control the position and accuracy of the kick. And no one came up to rush it, so I had plenty of time to prepare......

It's like practicing long-range shooting on the training ground.

Just ignore the wall and just send the ball into the goal.

Thinking of this, Glory stepped back.

He didn't stop after just two steps back like he had done in the previous goal, he kept going backwards and backwards.

It took five or six steps back, almost five meters from the football, before it stopped.

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When everyone saw this action of Glory, they all knew what he was going to do, he was going to shoot directly!

But no one took it seriously, because Glory had tried it before, but it didn't work well.

Glory was obviously not reconciled, so he had to try again.

Just try it, he won't be able to get in anyway.

Only Ferguson frowned when he saw the scene off the pitch.

This running distance doesn't look like a curved ball with your left foot......

But before Ferguson could figure it out, the referee's whistle sounded, so Ferguson didn't have time to continue thinking, what Rong Guang was going to do, just look at his actions.

The whistle blew, and Glory began to run, he was not fast, at least not comparable to the speed of his sprint with the ball.

But it was not the right foot to support the body, but the left foot to kick the ball. Instead, he stepped on the side of the football with his left foot, then picked up his right foot and kicked it hard!

Boom!

There was a muffled sound.

The soccer ball is like a cruise missile launch, rushing forward against the turf!

It looks like a low flat ball attached to the turf.

But...... With such a dense crowd in front of the goal, this kind of long-range shot against the turf can easily be blocked by someone with their legs stretched out, and there is no threat......

It seems that this kick of glory has failed again......