Since the forward combination of Saha and Alan Smith is unable to pose a substantial threat to Tottenham's goal, as time goes by and the game progresses, Manchester United's defensive pressure begins to gradually increase. . Especially when the aging Roy Keane is unable to exert enough pressure on offensive players as before, and as his partner Carrick's frontal defensive ability is relatively lacking, Drogba and others can directly attack the lack of protection. Manchester United's defense caused frequent sirens in front of the Red Devils' goal. Roy Carroll was even more nervous, fearing that Tottenham would accidentally penetrate the door he was guarding!
Ferguson also felt helpless about the team's delay in opening up the situation on the offensive end. Although he made considerable preparations before the game and pointed out Tottenham's defensive weaknesses to the players, no matter how good the strategy is, it requires capable people to implement it. Judging from the current situation, Sir Alex Ferguson is obviously trusting someone else this time - the performance of Saha and Alan Smith in this game really lived up to Ferguson's expectations for them.
To be honest, regarding the abilities of Saha and Alan Smith, before the game started, Ferguson knew clearly that the forward line of Saha and Smith would not be able to cause much trouble to the central defender pairing of Vidic and Ledley King. of. The facts did not go beyond Sir Alex Ferguson's expectations. Saha and Alan Smith worked hard but lacked talent, and lacked sufficient tacit understanding between each other, which made it difficult for Manchester United to break apart Tottenham's defense.
It’s not that Sir Alex Ferguson doesn’t want to win this game, or that he wants to secretly help George and allow Tottenham to continue to overtake Chelsea in the standings, but because such a formation is what Ferguson has no choice but to do. For example - if the leading striker Ruud van Nistelrooy had not been injured due to injury, and Rooney was suspended by the Football Association for slapping Bolton defender Ben Haim in the game and could not play, Ferguson would not have been able to participate in this powerful dialogue. Let Saha and Alan Smith partner up front!
"It seems that the team still has a lot of areas that need to be strengthened and improved. It is far from the time when we can say that we are done." Looking at Drogba relying on his extraordinary strength to forcefully attack Sylvester, he almost exploded with a kick. After shooting through the door of his house, Ferguson thought to himself. Although the score on the field was still zero to zero, Sir Alex Ferguson had no expectations for this game.
The only question is which Tottenham player will step forward and score the record-breaking goal for the visiting team!
However, what Ferguson did not expect was that what really determined the direction of the game was not a certain Tottenham player he expected, but Manchester United's goalkeeper in this game. This season, he replaced Howard and Howard, who have made constant mistakes. The unexpectedly injured Cudicini becomes the Red Devils' main goalkeeper, Roy Carroll!
In the 43rd minute of the game, Cristiano Ronaldo dribbled the ball past Wes Brown and then hoisted the ball into the penalty area. Carroll, who chose to attack, did not intercept the cross. Under everyone's stunned gaze The ball slipped between the two gloves! Drogba, who came up from behind, seized the opportunity and directly headed the ball missed by Carroll into the empty goal, one to zero!
Seeing this scene, Ferguson was so angry that his vision suddenly went dark. After all, Carroll's mistake was too amateurish - his goalkeeper did not catch the ball when he intercepted the opponent's cross, and directly "assisted" the opponent to score. This made Sir Alex, who has always been extremely demanding, not catch the ball. How can I bear it? !
However, what made Ferguson even more desperate was that Carroll's "wonderful" performance did not end there. In the 70th minute, Carroll threw the ball to Heinze on the left but threw the ball directly to Villa's feet. Faced with such a gift, the Spaniard, who came on as a substitute for less than five minutes, was naturally happy to accept it. After passing Carroll who was trying to make up for the situation, he made a light push shot, rewriting the score to 2-0!
"What on earth is Carroll thinking?" After seeing Carroll score twice and assist Tottenham to score again, Ferguson's anger almost reached the sky, "Rene (Meulensten), Tell him for me that he must get out of here this summer and find his own next home! My Manchester United will never raise this kind of trash!"
If only the forward players are weak and Manchester United can rely on will and tactics to make up for this shortcoming, then coupled with a goalkeeper who makes endless low-level mistakes, the Red Devils can basically say goodbye to any championship honor!
A good goalkeeper can beat half the team. After witnessing the deceptive performances of many goalkeepers such as Taibbi, Howard, and Carroll, Ferguson can be said to have a profound understanding of this sentence, and at the same time he is more determined to bring a team to Manchester United this summer. The determination of a first-class goalkeeper!
Although Cudicini has good abilities, for some reason, the Italian has been recovering from injuries since joining from Chelsea. As a result, Ferguson can only choose from two cheaters, Howard and Carroll, when arranging the roster. Pick one to play, and then pray that the one who plays will never make a low-level mistake in the game, turning a game that Manchester United could have successfully won into a hard battle, and turning a game that had a chance to win into a defeat!
By the way, Tottenham had a chance to further expand the score to 3-0 before the end of the game. In stoppage time, Carroll, who had already sent two surprise gift packages in this game, made another low-level mistake. He made a mistake when he received the ball and actually missed Xabi Alonso's non-threatening lob shot from the center circle of the court directly into the goal!
Although out of goalkeeper instinct, Carroll immediately turned around and fished the ball out of the goal, the camera clearly showed that when Carroll fished the ball out, the entire ball had actually crossed the goal line!
However, I don't know if it was out of sympathy for Carroll, Bol did not declare Alonso's goal valid, but signaled the game to continue. Although Alonso was very dissatisfied with Bol's penalty, the Spaniard did not get too entangled with Bol on this matter now that Tottenham had secured the victory.
In this way, when the referee Graham Ball announced the end of the game, Tottenham easily defeated Manchester United with Carroll's super gift package and won a 2-0 draw at Old Trafford. Victory, continuing to overpower Chelsea, who captured Middlesbrough earlier today, leading the standings with a slight advantage of one point!
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