Rooney kept waving his long arms to celebrate his goal.
"du~"
However, the referee indicated that the goal was invalid. Because the linesman standing on the sidelines raised his flag.
If this ball had been passed directly to Rooney by Solskjaer before, it would have been a good goal. But after Ronaldinho's kick, it was offside.
Rooney was half a body ahead of Woodgate at the moment Ronaldinho passed the ball.
Often the more talented and powerful a person is, the more unique their personality is.
Ronaldinho and Rooney chased the referee, saying that they were not offside and the goal should be valid.
Ferguson spread his hands and argued with the fourth official off the field.
As for Leeds United here.
Van der Sar narrowly escaped death and patted his chest, then went to the goal to take out the ball.
Several guards began to communicate with each other with eyes and nods, regardless of whether the other party understood the meaning of the action or not. Anyway, the general meaning was to be more vigilant and not to let the opponent hit like this.
And Leeds United’s coaching staff.
George Lee, Kidd, Casper and McGee all picked up a bottle of mineral water, unscrewed the cap and drank while looking at Ferguson who was roaring loudly.
After the red-faced Ferguson protested to no avail, he saw this scene from the opponent's coaching staff. He turned away angrily and walked to his seat, spitting out the chewing gum in his mouth.
"Bah~"
It seems that Leeds United's coaching staff is calm now, but in fact it was completely different before the referee blew the whistle just now.
"Missed someone!"
"Fxxk!"
"Don't come in!"
"It's over, we were overtaken."
"The save... was a rebound ball."
When several people saw Rooney jumping up, they had already hugged each other, grabbing each other's clothes and so on.
Only George Li thought it was offside and started walking towards the fourth official. But halfway there, he saw the referee put the whistle in his mouth, and then signaled that the goal was invalid.
^^^
Morale is a wonderful thing.
After the start of the second half, Manchester United showed an astonishing fighting spirit because they were scolded by Ferguson at midfield.
After scoring a goal, morale is high.
Suppressing all aspects of Leeds United, making Leeds United's defense always feel threatened.
Later, another goal was scored. Logically speaking, it should be a good opportunity for morale to be high and to take advantage of the opportunity to expand the advantage.
But because of the referee's whistle, the goal was deemed invalid.
So for a period of time after that, Manchester United lost all hope and began to make mistakes one after another.
The rhythm is back on Leeds' side.
In the 61st minute, Leeds United seized on Richardson's mistake on the left of Manchester United. Mills launched a long pass and found Milner who had already appeared on the left.
Because Mills was in front of Gravesen, Milner began to move to the other side.
Mills also spotted Milner and moved the ball to the left.
Neville was in a bit of a dilemma, because Smith had already run behind him, still close to the side. Milner came towards him with the ball.
Rob?
Not grabbing?
When Neville hesitated, Milner made the choice for him.
Stopped the ball and made a move to pass the ball directly to the penalty area.
Neville was even more embarrassed at this time.
You can't just let him pass the ball and pounce on it.
Milner saw United's defensive movement and there were no long passes. Instead, he passed the ball to Davis, who had just exited the penalty area.
Kevin Davis bumped into Ferdinand hard before taking the ball, and then went to catch the ball.
Ferdinand, who had suffered a bit of a loss, quickly followed up, thinking of getting the situation back.
But this played right into Davis' hands.
Without stopping, he passed the ball diagonally behind where no one was.
Smith, who had just got rid of Neville, ran right in.
The Leeds captain came to the penalty area just like in the first half.
No one is watching!
Is it going to be like the first half again?
Just when everyone thought Smith was going to hit the goal, he chose to pass the ball.
Give up one-on-one opportunities and push the ball to the center.
Davis, who originally had a bad chance, simply made a shovel shot, but he didn't touch the ball.
Coincidentally, this action deceived Robinson.
Robinson made the save.
This allowed Kuyt behind him to easily get an opportunity to shoot an empty goal.
The Dutch forward completed this final blow brilliantly, even though the shot had no technical content at all.
But his movement before the goal was unsolvable.
After seeing Milner receiving the ball on the left, he began to run to the right, trying to pull Heinze to his side. If Heinze cannot come over, he will continue to move forward without going offside.
However, after he saw Mills following up, he left the wing to him and began to go towards the center penalty area to receive the ball.
First, he moved a few steps to the left. When he saw that Heinze was continuing to defend himself, he stopped and waited until Mills reached the position and completely attracted Heinze before he continued to advance.
As soon as he saw Smith catch the ball, he knew he needed to speed up.
Sure enough, Smith's pass was followed up by Davis and the ball came to Kuyt.
2 to 1.
Leeds United took the lead again.
Because it was a forward goal, there was no such thing as offside. After seeing the ball go in, Kuyt went to Smith and Davis to celebrate together.
Lee George was also very happy after Leeds United scored.
While he was happy, he also saw something else.
Before Van Persie came back, Leeds United had problems with their offense and could not score goals.
After Van Persie returned in December, the team's offense began to improve, but the focus of the offense was on Van Persie, and Van Persie also repaid the team and Lee George by scoring goals non-stop.
Now that Robin van Persie is gone, Leeds United no longer have the same embarrassment of not being able to score goals.
Several frontcourt players have found ways to attack and feel like scoring goals.
Especially after Smith offered to continue playing on the left, the team's offense blossomed more.
Milner's role as central midfielder today is another bold attempt by Lee.
George Li understood that the previous problem was that he had always attributed the lack of offensive power to the lack of speedy wingers. He always wanted to solve this problem and constantly substituted players to make up for this problem.
It’s different now. Now George Li’s thinking has changed to: Since I don’t have a speedy winger, I will use another way of thinking to solve the problem.
I have found the kind of George Li who dares to think, use and try again.
Thinking about it before, it was like a newborn calf not afraid of tigers. I am a relegation team, I dare to play against strong teams, and I dare to fight against each other.
Now that the team's performance has improved, I am afraid of doing anything.
This is not advisable. George Li decided to boldly try various new tactics and new ideas in the next games while ensuring victory.
In the end, Leeds United maintained the 2-1 score in the next 20 minutes.
The battle for top spot ended with Lee George's Leeds United winning.
