Chapter 40 Responsibility for Loss

Hearing Wan Sheng's words, everyone in the locker room was stunned, it was already very quiet just now, but now no one spoke quietly, everyone looked at the young coach standing in the middle, and felt an incredible, "Isn't he still satisfied with 2:0?" ”

Everyone thought so, and suddenly felt a little ridiculous.

But it's 2:0!

Manchester derby, Manchester United hosts Manchester City, the result is half-time, Manchester City leads Manchester United 2:0, it's not satisfying him to be killed!?

But it seems to be a lot of fun!

After everyone digested it, Wan Sheng continued to ask, "Tell me now, how does it feel to be two goals ahead of Manchester United?" ”

"Good!"

"Great!"

"It's exciting!"

Many people rushed to answer, and the summary was basically these few meanings, Wan Sheng looked at everyone's appearance and nodded with satisfaction, and continued, "That's right! We played well and it felt wonderful to be ahead! But a lead is just a lead, and only a victory is more beautiful! It's the Manchester derby, what does it mean, I think many of you know better than me, we have two goals advantage and we have to win and we have to win to make the fans happy, but how do you make them more satisfied? Have you thought about it!? ”

"Maybe someone thought of it, yes, it's a big win! We don't just want to win, we have to score as many goals as we can, the Manchester derby is a do-or-die battle and we don't need to leave them any room because we are mortal enemies! ”

"That's probably what I should have said to the fans. But we have the hope of a lot of fans, they want us to do well, and we have to work hard for that. We're more ahead, so we don't have to worry about winning, but if our goal is just to win, then they still have a chance to tie, so we can't give them any chances! ”

Wan Sheng clenched his fists and said firmly.

Everyone understands this, and Wansheng is right. Manchester City and Manchester United are real rivals, with fans fighting to the death and the rivalry between the two clubs. It was also the most important game of the season, so if you have the chance, you have to score more goals, and it's not a matter of being satisfied.

Other than that. Two goals are not safe.

For a team like Manchester United. It's not surprising that they suddenly burst out and scored two in a row within a few minutes, so in fact, their victory is still not guaranteed, so how can they guarantee victory? Only score more goals!

Although everyone understands the final explanation, many people still like the previous explanation.

What is Manchester United!? We're just going to win, it's not enough for us to score two goals, we have to score more! We are the real mortal enemies, and the mortal enemies leave no room for error!

As a result, many players' reverence for Wansheng has also increased a few points

Compare that to the atmosphere in which Manchester City are relaxed to talk about big wins. The atmosphere in United's dressing room is much more solemn.

Before the game, Manchester United definitely did not expect to meet such a difficult Manchester City. Two goals will be conceded in the first half, but who is to blame? Many players turned their heads to look at C-Ronaldo, who was sitting in the corner silently, and both goals were initiated from C-Ronaldo, which must be inseparable from C-Ronaldo.

Of course, C-Ronaldo can't be blamed entirely.

To put it mildly, the reason is that Manchester City's tactics are too surprising, which makes them very uncomfortable, and because of this, Manchester City can find opportunities to score, and C-Ronaldo's defensive performance is just an introduction.

Even if it's really C-Ronaldo's reason, no one else will say anything.

In two seasons, C-Ronaldo has firmly occupied the main position in Manchester United, not only that, but he has also become the core player of the whole team, his way is always more worth looking forward to than Giggs, so even if he occasionally performs badly, it can be forgiven, after all, no one can guarantee that he will always perform well, not to mention, Manchester United's main attack on C-Ronaldo's way, anyone can see it, take Fletcher's left side, if Manchester City chooses to attack on the left side, who can guarantee that Fletcher can withstand the pressure!? This is not very clear to everyone, but no one really blames Cristiano Ronaldo.

But the question at hand is, how to play in the second half when two goals are down!?

Most of the United players were at a loss and didn't know how to play, which made the atmosphere in the dressing room even more dreary.

When Ferguson walked into the dressing room, he saw such a scene, and he sighed silently in his heart, thinking that the young Chinese was really amazing, and he directly took the league title at Derby County and came to Manchester City to give himself a problem.

How to deal with Manchester City's attack!?

This question must be answered by the entire coaching staff after watching the Manchester City game video over and over again, and understanding it very thoroughly, and a first-half observation must not draw any conclusions, even if Ferguson is extremely experienced in coaching, it is impossible to think of a coping strategy immediately, but he still has to make adjustments.

This is to give the whole team confidence, let them know that the manager has a way to deal with the opponent, and it is also a dead horse to be a dead horse, if you don't change the tactics, it will only be the same as in the first half, after making changes, the game will change a little, as long as it doesn't go in a bad direction, the situation will be better!?

Soon the second half of the game resumed.

Manchester United trailed by two goals in the first half, it is conceivable that they will attack in the second half, at halftime, many commentators, commentators, and various guests also analyzed it in this way, they analyzed it correctly, at the beginning of the second half, Manchester United attacked, and their offensive was obviously much stronger than the first half, especially in the middle and on the right, the attack led by Scholes and C. Ronaldo is still very threatening.

Many Manchester United fans began to expect Manchester United to perform better at half-time, preferably with a quick goal to equalise.

Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines, watching the game and laughing.

He had long guessed that United would do this. This is also their helpless choice, but in fact, what they are afraid of with this set of tactics is not how fierce the opponent's offensive is. In real terms, just like last year's Derby County, the team is now afraid of the opponent playing defensive counterattacks.

Defensive counter-attacks are always the nemesis of attacking football, and this is vividly reflected in the future confrontation between Mourinho's Real Madrid and Barcelona's 'Dream Three'.

Manchester City is still very immature now, but they will not be afraid of opponents playing against themselves, especially since the team still has a two-goal advantage. This is also the reason why Wan Sheng is very confident that he can win when he is two goals ahead.

Even the most daring Manchester City fan would not dare to imagine a big win over Manchester United at this time.

Manchester United have attacked, and they should pray that United don't score. Manchester City fans hate Manchester United though. But it's still very sensible, now that there is a two-goal advantage, many fans are thinking that the team should switch from offense to defense and use a steady defense to hold the advantage. Just drag it out until the last time. The game can be won.

As long as they can beat Manchester United, they will be extremely satisfied.

But there was no change in Manchester City's tactics on the field, Manchester City still maintained the formation suppression, but because Manchester United attacked, the formation as a whole was pulled back a little, and after a few attacks, everyone could see that Manchester City did not ease the attack at all. It's a complete look of fighting to the death with Manchester United.

At this time, many Manchester City fans are anxious, shouldn't they hold on to the two-goal advantage now? Why do you still go forward to attack?

Many commentators have also noticed this problem.

At halftime. Various TV commentators and guests have returned to discuss the game, their point of view is that Manchester United will definitely attack in the second half, but they don't think about Manchester City's problems at all, in their opinion, since Manchester United attacked, Manchester City will definitely become a lot more passive, maybe they will retreat directly, in order to keep the score advantage, but now they continue to keep the offensive, what is the situation?

George Woodgate wasn't too surprised, he was much calmer than other TV commentators.

Last season, he began to pay attention to Wansheng's Derby County, and he also knew that Derby's fast-break football, the kind of suppression of the opponent lasted the whole game, and now Wansheng has come to Manchester City, Manchester United has also played offensive football, and it is naturally possible to still maintain suppression, in his eyes, Wansheng is simply a representative of offensive football, and will not be conservative at all.

Of course, this must be that he doesn't know much about Wansheng

Wansheng pursues victory, the game is good-looking, just an additional pursuit, but everything is based on the premise of winning, such as Manchester City, a team like Manchester City, if you want to lead the team to compete for the championship in the first season, it is absolutely impossible to rely on defensive counterattack alone, pay attention to defense may make the results stable, or it is a steady rise, but it is only a steady rise, unless it is a team where all the giants are stars, Manchester City does this is equivalent to directly losing the opportunity to compete for the championship.

Therefore, Wansheng has to grasp the team's attack and score more goals than the opponent in each game, so that he can fight, at least not be helpless in terms of goals, so that he can achieve more victories.

This season, Manchester City has no European pressure, and can focus all their energy on domestic competitions and achieve more victories, which is even more important for the team, for Manchester City now, the domestic cup competition can even be abandoned, they only want the league position, just the European qualification for next season, only these two are what fans and clubs desire.

Wansheng also led the team towards this goal.

Now Manchester City is doing just that, and the first opponent is Manchester United, City's sworn rivals and the opponents Wansheng is looking forward to winning.

After seeing that Manchester City's attack continued and there was no retreat at all, George Woodgate also sighed and commented, "Manchester City is completely like a different team, they are full of confidence and Manchester United to attack, and the momentum is superior!" ”

In a VIP box at Old Trafford, two Manchester football heavyweights sat one is Manchester United's new chairman Glazer and the other is Manchester City's president Wald.

Since the start of the game, both of them have watched it carefully, but they have tacitly not talked about the game, but about things outside the game.

Glazer is feeling pretty good, he's been working hard all year last year to buy Manchester United, and now that goal has been achieved, he has the best club in England and he's become the chairman of the best club. And now that the team is going to play their first league game, or a meaningful Manchester derby, he will naturally come to watch.

Wald also came.

He brought ten thousand wins to Manchester City. This match is also a test of whether this decision is correct, but so far in the game, you can see the expression on his face, and the result of the test is very good.

He couldn't be dissatisfied!

2:0!

Manchester City leads Manchester United!

Thinking about the face of the other person who sat down with the American next to him, and the face of the other person, 'I am the president of the best club in England', Wald felt very angry, but now?

Huh, the best club in England!?

On the other side, Glazer's face darkened. He didn't expect the first game to be so tough, and in his mind, Manchester City couldn't be considered a rival to Manchester United. After all, they are just in the same city as Manchester United, and in the past 20 years, there is a very big gap between the strength and results of the two teams, so he can be so arrogant when he sees Wald.

He's the president of Manchester United!

What about the other party? Man City: What kind of team is that? England's powerhouse? He experienced the pride of being the chairman of a wealthy family!

But that arrogance just now has completely turned into stupidity. Because Manchester United on the field is two goals behind. Not only that, but they also failed to play the advantage in the second half, and looking at the game on the field, it seems that the situation is developing again in the first half - his Manchester United is gradually suppressed!

Glazer felt incredible, and at the same time he reacted, the opponent is completely unsparing!

He clenched his fists hard.

Waddell was in a good mood, and he glanced at the Glazer with a look of contempt in his eyes. What if this American becomes the chairman of Manchester United? After all, he's just an outsider. It is simply impossible to understand the century-old hatred between Manchester City and Manchester United, which has been imprinted in the bones. When it comes to the game, it is definitely not less than one more goal to score one more goal, and it will be all killed!? If you can do it, you will definitely do your best!

This is the mortal enemy of a hundred years!

Glazer didn't know what Waddell was thinking, but he knew that the game on the field was a little tricky.

He thought he was going to get off to a good start, after all, there were so many fans against him in the summer, but if he could bring them victory, they wouldn't be so opposed, right!? So he originally thought that this game would be a turning point - in the first game, he would win the same city rival, and there would always be less pressure from the fans, but he didn't expect the result of losing at all.

Then, now things are in trouble.

Maybe it's a little too early for him to feel the trouble, and the real trouble is just coming!

In the second half, Manchester City has been fighting with Manchester United in the midfield to fight for the initiative of the game, Manchester City does not have any advantage in scrambling, but the team's advantage is control, is to pass, when the football reaches the feet of Manchester City, it is not easy for Manchester United to snatch it back, just take advantage of this little advantage, Manchester City gradually played the situation of suppression.

Manchester United's attack did not achieve much effect, but was suppressed by Manchester City in less than 20 minutes.

After a series of combinations, the ball reached the feet of Morris, who did not choose to pass forward, although he had already made the pass, but still took two steps forward.

Immediately, he slammed the ball to the left!

This action left the defending Roy Keane completely unresponsive, and as a result, Morris broke through Keane directly and broke into the box with the ball.

Suddenly the Manchester City defense was in disarray!

At this moment, Morris, who was noticed and surrounded by many people, suddenly sent a second pass, and after he attracted enough attention, he sent the ball diagonally behind with his back heel, and following the direction of the football, a black player suddenly appeared in that position, and he rushed over and shot angrily!

Soccer balls rush into the goal like cannonballs!

"Andy Cole! Andy Cole! 3:0! ”

"Andy Cole is a former Manchester United star who was a big contributor to United's 99 treble and now he is not soft against his old club and he scored a third goal for Manchester City!"

"Maybe some Manchester United fans will feel complicated, after all, Andy Cole has made a lot of contributions to Manchester United, but football is like this, Andy Cole is now a Manchester City player, he deserves to play for Manchester City, this goal also shows Andy Cole's form, he is old, but his condition is not worse than that of a young man!"

"By now, I dare say it's over!"

"There are only 20 minutes left in the game. With City three goals ahead, United have little hope of recovering the scores, while they also have to juggle defence. Now it's a question of whether United will concede a goal or not."

“”

Andy Cole was so excited after the goal that he jumped up from where he was, ran around the pitch, and a group of team-mates behind him couldn't catch up with him, and only after running half the pitch did he sound and fell straight to his knees on the grass. Clenched fists in front of the United fans in the audience.

It was a goal that meant a lot to him.

The best part of his career has been spent at Manchester United, but anyone who comments on his career at Manchester United will say that United owe him a debt!

It was a tearful memory!

After a £7 million transfer to Manchester United. Andy Cole, who scored 12 goals in his first 18 Premier League games for Manchester United, became the Reds' regular striker the following year, but some United fans continued to disparage Kerr and publicly demanded that the 21-year-old replace him as Cantona's striker partner. However, Cole still helped the team regain the Premier League title. He also scored a fatal goal in the FA Cup final to help Manchester United beat Liverpool 1-0 and make Manchester United the first team to win the Double.

The following year, Cole's playing opportunities were limited by the arrival of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and he broke his foot in a development game, but Cole was still able to play 20 Premier League games and claim his second Premier League winner's medal.

Before the start of the season. Cole was used by Manchester United as a bargaining chip for Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers to Old Trafford for a total of £12 million. But Alan Shearer chose to join Newcastle United, where he was born, and the next season Cole tied Alan Shearer as the Premier League top scorer with 18 goals, but Manchester United once again had four empty goals this season, and as a result, Manchester United fans continued to belittle Cole, believing that Cole wasted too many golden chances to score, but the data shows that Cole scored goals per game and turned chances into goals was excellent, better than most goalscorers who were considered better.

In 1999, Cole was challenged by York, Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to win their first treble: the Premier League, FA Cup and European Champions League.

The following year, Cole scored 19 goals in 28 Premier League games and became United's top scorer again, winning a Premier League winner's medal for the fourth time in five years.

Cole's performances at Manchester United are still quite strong, he has played a total of 195 Premier League games for Manchester United, scoring 93 goals, which is definitely the top statistic, but Cole has been questioned at Manchester United until he left, and this doubt is over, so you can imagine how complicated Cole's feelings for Manchester United are.

On the one hand, Cole loves Manchester United, and Manchester United also has memories of the best days of his career.

On the other hand, he is also very conflicted about his feelings for Manchester United, always hoping to show himself and prove that he does not deserve so much doubt, but he was old when he left Manchester United, he thought that he would never have a chance again in his lifetime, but now he has broken the Manchester United goal.

His excitement can be imagined!

This time the Manchester City fans reacted quickly!

When Andy Cole hit the ball into the back of the net, they were already shouting and celebrating because they were prepared for it, and it should be said that they were surprised by City's performance before, but after the surprise, they felt that the goal was also a logical one.

But in fact, they were quite surprised!

They think 2:0 is already very good, and there is absolutely no luxury to think about 3:0, but now that it has come true?

That's a bit outrageous, right!?

3:0, it's not an ordinary league, it's not an ordinary opponent, it's a Manchester derby, their opponent is Manchester United! Manchester United, the Premier League supremacy who has suppressed the team for two decades!

The score was 3:0, leading Manchester City? It's incredible, but anyway, now is the time to take a 3-0 lead, so take advantage of the opportunity to cheer!

Old Trafford became a sea of cheers for Manchester City fans.

……

In the midst of the huge cheers, Ferguson could no longer be calm, he had already stood on the sidelines, frowning and watching the game.

He knew that there was no hope of victory.

He's already thinking further.

Someone has to stand up and take responsibility for losing the derby, even if there is no media to help find it, but who is responsible for this defeat?

C-Ronaldo?

No, no, no, Cristiano Ronaldo shouldn't step up and take responsibility, he's the same hope for Manchester United as Wayne Rooney, and after the defeat he needs encouragement, not pressure.

Other defenders? Like Ferdinand or Sylvester?

They were a good choice, but it was too far-fetched to say that it was their responsibility.

Ferguson frowned, and suddenly set his eyes on one player on the field, it was Manchester United captain Roy Keane. (To be continued......)