The strongest waist king of the Red Devils

Chapter 17
英格兰当地时间4月10日，19时45分，欧洲冠军杯1/4决赛次回合，在老特拉福德球场举行。

Since 2002, Manchester United has been out of the semi-finals in the Champions League for several consecutive years, which made the head coach Ferguson extremely unwilling.

This season, Manchester United began to revive and rise. Ferguson, as well as Manchester United fans, hope that Manchester United can go further in the Champions League, and even win the championship trophy.

However, in the first round last week, Manchester United lost to Roma with a score of 1:2 away.

To make matters worse, the core midfielder Scholes accumulated two yellow cards and was sent off directly. He will also miss the second round of the home game against Roma.

Although Rooney's away goal saved some advantages, but in that game, Manchester United faced Roma, the team with the best defense in Serie A this season, and the scene did not have an advantage at all.

What's more, since 1984, Manchester United has lost in the first round five times in the European war, and failed to achieve a comeback in the end.

This experience has doubled the pressure on Manchester United.

Fortunately, in the last Premier League game, Manchester United finally achieved a big reversal after falling behind by two goals at Fratton Park, taking all three points, which gave Manchester United a lot of confidence.

In this game, in order to achieve a comeback at home and break these curses, Ferguson made a targeted change after careful study of Roma's tactics, hoping to overwhelm Roma and strive for more goals.

To this end, Manchester United put on a 4-2-3-1 formation.

1-Van der Sar/
22-O'Shea, 5-Leo Ferdinand, 6-Wes Brown, 4-Heinze/
16-Carrick, 24-Fletcher/
7-C Ronaldo, 8-Rooney, 11-Gigs/
14 - Alan Smith.

On the Roma side, they still use the classic 4-2-3-1 formation without a front.

32-Dorney/
77-Cassetti, 5-Mex, 13-Chivu, 4-Panucci/
7- Pizarro, 16- De Rossi/
4-Williamsson, 23-Vucinic, 30-Mancini/
10 - Totti.

Manchester United unexpectedly let Alan Smith start the game. This is Alan Smith's fourth start this season. Since he broke his leg at Anfield, he represented Manchester United again after 4 months. The starting game in the European war really surprised the Roma team.

However, when the Manchester United players entered the field, the fans at the scene gave the tough guy Alan Smith a warm applause and encouragement.

After all, he returned after suffering a severe leg break. Many people admired Alan Smith's strength.

Meanwhile, United started Darren Fletcher in place of the suspended Scholes, joining Carrick in midfield.

Fletcher's defensive range is very wide, his running is active, and his defensive ability is also very good. He can make up for the defensive problems of Manchester United's midfield as much as possible.

This is another change Ferguson made against Roma when Scholes was unable to play.

In addition, both Dong Fangxuan and Sun Qi entered the big list and sat on the bench.

Sun Qi's name is on Manchester United's B list. Due to his outstanding performance against Portsmouth in the last game, Ferguson also brought Sun Qi in this Champions League game, waiting for an opportunity on the bench.

Although Sun Qi is very young, but with that precise passing ability, he can play when the Manchester United team is not in a position to tear apart the Roma team's defense.

Sun Qi is one of Ferguson's replacements.

As for the Roma team, the situation is not so good.

Midfielder Taddei, who scored the first goal in the first round, suffered a knee injury during the warm-up before the game and was unable to keep playing.

This also cast a shadow over the away trip of the Roma team.

In desperation, the head coach of the Roma team, Spalletti, could only start with Vucinic instead of Taddei.

Such a change, and the lack of midfielder Perotta and winger Taddei, are also a big blow to the overall operation of the Roma team's formation.

It can be said that the unfavorable start caused a lot of problems in the tactical deployment of the Roma team.

At this time, sitting on the Manchester United bench, Sun Qi was not nervous.

He knows the result of this game. If there is no accident, Manchester United will achieve a big reversal in this game and beat Roma with a big score.

I believe that after a big lead, he should be able to get a chance to come off the bench.

Sun Qi is very satisfied to be able to play as a substitute.

After all, this is a Champions League match, and the levels are different.

As long as he can appear on the stage, he will unlock several achievements of the system again, get more points, which can be exchanged for more skills, so that he can better improve his abilities.

In this regard, Sun Qi is still looking forward to it.

……

Soon, the game officially started.

The Roma team, which came from afar, had a very good start. After getting the ball, they continued to shoot long shots from the outside in an attempt to suppress Manchester United and expand their lead.

However, Pizarro and Totti's shots failed to hit the target.

Vucinic's shot was outrageous.

On the other hand, Manchester United played steadily and steadily, and their formation was relatively low. They did not give Roma a chance to score easily, which made Roma play a little impetuously.

Moreover, because they have the advantage on the scene, the overall formation of the Roma team is also relatively high.

Roma's midfielder De Rossi, in particular, frequently stepped in and participated in the team's offense.

Because the Roma team has the advantage, it gives De Rossi a lot of room to play.

At the same time, Manchester United is not passively beaten.

Carrick's dispatch, Fletcher's sweep, and the counterattack of the frontcourt Gemini also played very clearly and firmly.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney, the frontcourt twin stars, together with the iron-blooded arrow Alan Smith, and the older and more bewitching Giggs, counterattacked quickly and threatened a lot, making the Roma team also in a state of confusion.

Such a situation seems to indicate the follow-up development of this game.

When the game came to the 11th minute, as Sun Qi expected, Manchester United finally took the lead.

This time, Ronaldo got the ball on the right side, used fake moves, pretended to make an accelerated breakthrough, swayed Mancini's defense, but chose to cross the middle at the first time.

There, Carrick, following up from the back row, adjusted as fast as he could and curled a right-footed shot.

Because Carrick's shot was very sudden and fast, Roma's goalkeeper Doni couldn't make a save in time and couldn't block Carrick's shot. He could only watch helplessly as the ball hit the right post. .

(End of this chapter)