Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 931
The Manchester United fans and Liverpool fans at Old Trafford booed Zhang Yuan, and the Manchester United fans naturally booed Zhang Yuan, as well as those with the middle finger. Definitely entertain Zhang Yuan with booing, it's best to make him upset.

Liverpool fans naturally scolded Atkinson. According to their thinking, Fellaini has already left the field. This is obviously partial to the home team and is dissatisfied.

Amidst the boos, Zhang Yuan and Fellaini snorted and looked at each other, and the game continued!

"Strictly speaking, Fellaini's tackle action can get a yellow card!" Zhou Qiang said truthfully, "Atkinson is lucky that he didn't give him another yellow card! But Zhang Yuan's position has become more active. , Fellaini can't restrain Zhang Yuan very well, Liverpool's current offensive has improved a lot under the tandem of Zhang Yuan, at least the offensive quality after getting the ball has improved significantly!"

When Zhou Qiang explained this, he remembered one thing. Zhang Yuan is a serious striker, but before the national team, he also played in the midfield position many times. Zhang Yuan, who is scheduling and so on, naturally cannot be compared with the top midfielders, but fortunately, if his teammates respond in time, Zhang Yuan can play some of his strengths in the midfield position, such as breakthroughs.

This is where Manchester United suffers. Rooney's attitude is correct, but unfortunately it is impossible to count on him defensively. Manchester United's defense actually depends on Fellaini alone. Fellaini is restrained by Zhang Yuan. Coutinho and Sterling can get a lot of room for movement on the wing. I have to say that Van Gaal's transformation of Manchester United's three-back defensive system is not necessarily very effective. It is still a bit difficult to defend the agile Liverpool trio. Joe Allen Manchester United can only deal with it carefully.

Van Gaal's current method is to slow down the speed, use slow to control fast, let the team slow down the attacking rhythm, and carefully reach the feet on the periphery to avoid losing the ball. It is said that Liverpool's goal is the result of Manchester United's frontcourt attack. Caused.

In such a stalemate, the two sides finally waited for the whistle at the end of the first half. Manchester United and Liverpool were temporarily tied at home, but Manchester United fans were very worried. No matter how you look at this situation, it looks like Liverpool is going to win the game , Manchester United rarely has an advantage in several key statistics. On the contrary, Liverpool has an advantage in the away game. What is the use of having a slightly higher ball possession? !Manchester United is not Barcelona or the Netherlands!
Manchester United lacks a good player to break through in positional battles. Van Persie is not, and Wilson is not. Neither are Valencia and Ashley Young on the two wings. Barcelona is different. Barcelona has Neymar and Messi on the two wings. Facing dense defense At that time, like Zhang Yuan, he was able to use exquisite dribbling to tear apart the opponent's defense. The Dutch team has Robben. Without Robben, the Dutch team's 352 may not be so easy to achieve. Van Gaal is a tactical master but in this formation I'm afraid it's not as in-depth as Mazzarri and Conte.

Valencia and Ashley Young's range of activities is also relatively fixed. In fact, they both have speed and breakthrough ability, but they lack imagination and precision in passing. Manchester United's The tough battle can only look like a lot of thunder but little rain, but they are better than Liverpool in terms of shooting.

It turns out that outsiders may think that Liverpool players are not smooth enough, but it is not the case. It is really because of De Gea's existence. Most Liverpool players are more pursuing angles in shooting. See if the shot is on target, De Gea will It was a wonderful save to save the goal, otherwise Liverpool would not have only scored one goal!

This is the role of a good goalkeeper. Standing in front of the goal is a kind of deterrent to the opponent. No matter what, the striker will at least think whether I should pursue a little angle instead of blindly focusing on shooting. More shots on target does not mean scoring goals. More is useless, data is sometimes just an illusion.

Manchester United's shot will not have so many considerations. Jones is Liverpool's original substitute goalkeeper. The performance can only be described as mediocre.

The players of the two teams walked back to the locker room with a feeling of disappointment. Of course, it was a pity that Manchester United could not keep the score of 1:0 to the midfield, while Liverpool was more worried. Big, Zhang Yuan and the others regretted not being able to build up a good momentum to overtake the score.

Hyypia is by no means a rough guy. He cares about his heart. He knows that it is impossible for Manchester United to limit Liverpool's offense. Unless Manchester United decides to focus on defense, this is obviously impossible. First of all, this is At Old Trafford, Manchester United has not yet had a glorious tradition of being passive. Secondly, it is impossible for Van Gaal to let his team focus on defense. He wants three points!
Therefore, Hypia concluded that Manchester United's tactics in the second half will not be any different from those in the first half, and will definitely continue to strengthen ball possession. In this way, it can not only support the offense but also relieve the pressure on the weak defense line, so Hypia asked Liverpool. In the second half, the players continued to follow the tactics of the first half, strangling Manchester United in the midfield, and launched a quick counterattack when they seized the opportunity.

Sure enough, in the second half, Van Gaal's Manchester United was still the same, focused on fighting tough battles. Of course, Liverpool did not hesitate to chase and intercept them physically, so as not to let Manchester United find a space comfortably.

Manchester United's offense seemed to be quite strenuous, and Liverpool couldn't find any good counterattack opportunities for the time being, and the two sides seemed to be deadlocked as soon as they came up.

However, as time goes by, this situation is not good for Liverpool, because Liverpool has no advantage over Manchester United in terms of physical fitness. This kind of thing cannot be said to be useless if it is supported by will, but it will eventually fall behind.

Seeing that Liverpool's midfield interception strength continued to decline, Hyypia had to let his team recover and compress the formation, which could reduce the running distance of the midfielder up and down. This would undoubtedly put more pressure on the defense than Much bigger just now.

Van Gaal was also impolite, directing the Manchester United players to press forward, Zhang Yuan, Coutinho, Sterling, don't think too much, his team must score, must win this game.

"Liverpool has now shrunk their formation. In this game, they run more than Manchester United, which consumes a lot of energy. They have just experienced the Champions League group escape in the middle of the week. Obviously, they can't maintain it in the follow-up time before starting this game. The speed of running!" Zhou Qiang said truthfully.

This is the truth. The obvious example is Steven Gerrard. It is not unreasonable for Manchester United fans to ridicule him for focusing on walking for 30 years. As he gets older, his running can’t keep up. It was in place and gave Manchester United an opportunity. Unfortunately, they are still used to going around in circles. They missed the good opportunities. They couldn't see that they were the team that caught the counterattack in the first half!
Zhang Yuan also became depressed in the second half. This was his own active depression, because he knew that if he continued to fight like the first half, he would definitely not be able to persist in the midfield. He is huge, and he is no exception. Now he needs to allocate his physical energy reasonably, and find a suitable time to give Manchester United a fatal blow!
Hold on!Zhang Yuan silently encouraged the defensive players in his heart, but when he saw that Gerrard had shown a posture of not being able to run, Zhang Yuan began to feel that his team was a little dangerous.

His premonition was not wrong at all. In the 76th minute of the game, Manchester United launched a positional attack. Just like before, they only started to circle around the periphery until they couldn't go on, and finally made a pass. Ashley Young In crosses from the left side, the quality of his crosses is not very high.

Van Persie had to fight for the ball no matter what, Skrtel was very tight on him and successfully interfered with Van Persie. Van Persie barely touched the football with his scalp. The ball changed direction from above his head and fell to the back point. The tower headed the relay and the ball headed into the gate handled by Jones!
(End of this chapter)