In the end, Leeds United's best offensive opportunity of the first half was disallowed because Kuyt was offside.
George Li did not bother the referee too much about the whistle. He just checked with the fourth official on the sidelines and returned to his position.
"Wesley's passing is indeed good, but Manchester United's defense is also very good." Li George turned back to several of his assistants and said.
"That offside just now, if it were another team, we might not have been offside. But at the end just before Sneijder raised his foot to pass the ball, Ferdinand moved a little forward." Chris Casper turned the computer Come over, and within a short period of time, he intercepted the offside video from the TV broadcast just now and showed it to George Li.
In the video, it was indeed Ferdinand who took those two steps forward, which ultimately caused Leeds United to go offside.
"Leo is also smart. He is indeed the kind of central defender that all coaches like." Li George sat in his seat and continued to watch the game.
I've been standing in front for about ten minutes just now. It's time to come back and sit for a while.
"He's not the only great central defender." Brian Kidd, who was standing next to him, pointed at another central defender on the Manchester United field.
Following his finger, he saw a long pass from Leeds United backfielder Matthiessen, looking for Kuyt at the front. But Kuyt was firmly stuck by Vidic behind him and had no chance to take off. The ball was eventually pushed to the feet of Wes Brown on the edge by Vidic.
As soon as Brown got the ball, he immediately met Bell who rushed to press him.
The head coach of Leeds United, the "White Moonlight" in George Li's heart before, knew that his speed was definitely no match for Bell. He directly chose to give up the idea of passing Bell, and instead turned around to block the people behind him and wait for his teammates. Answer.
Bell came behind Brown and kept stretching his legs to kick the ball, but he never succeeded.
Instead, Brown used Bell to grab the ball, turned around in the opposite direction, got rid of Bell, and faced the direction of the attack again.
"I'm still anxious." Kidd said after seeing it off the court.
"Yes, although Hargreaves was in the past to respond, Alan had already gone up. If Gareth could stay a little longer, our chances would be better." George Li immediately took over Kidd's words and started express his opinion.
"George, should we find a defensive coach specifically? We did a good job with the high post pressure you proposed before. But now you see Kelly has retired, Hart has left, and the two Danes have also left. Almost all of our current wing players have been changed. Look at our two full-backs today. Both wingers are young players. Leyton is okay, and others like Gareth Jr. and Charlotte are both young players. JR has just arrived and hasn't played many first-team games, so they may not have enough understanding of high-position pressing."
After listening to Kidd's words, George Lee agreed, saying: "Although we didn't concede many goals this season, our offense did not do as well as I expected. I initially understood it as whether our main players were injured. Much, but it does make sense for you to bring it up now.”
Just like the ball just now, it was the Leeds United team from before. A winger must have immediately moved forward, and then Smith in the midfield would press the receiver. Not far behind Smith and the winger, there must have been a second line of pressing between the midfielder and the full-back. Even near the midfielder and full-back, there will definitely be a central defender and another midfielder to continue to form a system with them.
But just that time, there was a disconnect in the high-post press.
That is to say, Manchester United's main focus now is an efficient counterattack. If Manchester United can have one or two points in the backcourt that can play the ball, then Manchester United's terrifying counterattack can really be achieved.
In Li George's view, Ferdinand has this ability, but Ferguson has not designed a targeted tactical arrangement for this. The old man still prefers to take the ball out of the dangerous area through the wing first, and then pose a threat through the frontcourt players. attack.
Especially on Manchester United's right wing, compared to Evra on the left, Brown on the right still has more of a defensive task.
"Do you have any recommendations?" George Li asked Kidd.
"To be honest, no." Kidd also told the truth. After all, the head coach of Leeds United is the real developer of this novel tactic. You want to talk about those coaches who are used to total offense and total defense. For those people, the tactics are a bit outdated for George Lee.
"Since we can't find it outside, let's do it internally."
"internal?"
"Let John be responsible for this in the future and let him adapt slowly." The first thing that George Li thought of must be Eddie Howe, another coach of the team, but Howe is now more leading the team. Reserve team, and he likes the feeling of coaching the team. Therefore, George Lee could only settle for the next best thing and leave this task to John Sheridan.
Another advantage of this is that Sheridan has never thought about leaving Leeds United. He likes to be an ordinary coach of the team, rather than the kind of head coach who controls the overall situation.
"In that case, do we need to find a new team coach?" Kidd asked Lee George about adding members to the coaching staff.
"Try it, you know I have very high requirements for assistants."
After listening to George Li's words, Kidd turned to look at Casper aside. He always felt that what George Li said made sense, but not much.
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The first half of the game was over, and the players on both sides began to go to the locker room one after another.
George Li also started walking to the locker room, but halfway through, he saw Ferguson stopping.
The old man was chewing gum as if waiting for someone.
At this time, if you, the head coach, don't go back to arrange tactics, what are you doing here? George Li wanted to leave early, but was stopped by Ferguson.
"Hey, George." Ferguson called out to George Li, and even stretched out his hand to block George Li's path.
"What are you doing, old man? I'm in a hurry to arrange tactics." George Li didn't want to say anything more to Ferguson at this time. Who knows if the old man had any bad intentions.
"Let's talk as we walk." Ferguson pointed to the front and motioned for him to go first.
"Tell me, which player on my team do you like again?"
"Since you put Smith and Sneijder in the middle, now your team's defensive midfielder..."
"Get lost!" After George Li said that, he ran away directly.
In every match, George Lee found that Ferguson was trying to pry into his corner. He used to stare at Robin van Persie and Smith, but now he is staring at his midfielder Scott Parker.
Of course, George Lee knew that Ferguson was talking about Parker, because Barry had just joined Leeds United and was unlikely to leave immediately, so the one Ferguson could fancy was Parker.
It's just that it's impossible for George Lee to give away Parker, and he won't sell it to Manchester United if he really wants to sell it. What's more, George Lee doesn't feel the need to transfer Parker, and Parker himself has no intention of leaving. idea.
Not far away, George Lee turned around and gave Ferguson a disgusted look and said, "If you trade Rooney for me, I might think about it."
