i am beckham

Chapter 240 Lectra Dortmund
Manchester United consolidated their lead in the standings with an away win over Liverpool.

On the other side, Arsenal were tied 1-1 by Coventry at home.After this campaign, Manchester United played one game less to lead Arsenal by 4 points and Liverpool by 6 points, occupying a huge advantage in the championship battle.

Even with Liverpool, the league title is already very promising for Manchester United.

This made Ferguson ready to let go of his hands and feet and point his troops to the European continent.

Manchester United's ambition is naturally to climb to the top of Europe and restore its former glory.

After all, under Ferguson's hands, Manchester United has achieved the goal of three Premier League titles in four years, completed the suppression of Blackburn and Newcastle, and firmly suppressed Liverpool and Arsenal.

Ferguson has established the red Manchester United era in the Premier League. Manchester United can be said to have stood at the top of football in the British Isles.

If they can successfully win the championship this season, Manchester United will take away 80% of the championships since the establishment of the Premier League. Just ask other teams if they are afraid?
Seeing that the domineering is about to overflow!
What makes Ferguson most proud is that his team was neither formed by great prestige, nor by pounding pounds, but by catching dolls and Taobao.

Although this kind of team building method is not high-style, it is very scientific and difficult to be contained.

Relying on prestige to build a team is not easy for English football. After a hundred years of accumulation, English football has formed a deep foundation, and prestige does not necessarily mean that you can buy your favorite players.

Shearer would rather go back to Newcastle without winning the championship. What can you do?
Look at Beckham again, he was born in London, and in other leagues, Tottenham will have no problem getting him.

If Tottenham are too arrogant, West Ham United is only half an hour away from his home, and he is in London's pocket.

But Beckham's father likes Manchester United, which completely eliminates the possibility of Liverpool, Manchester City and Leeds United introducing him.

The relationship between English professional clubs is so intricate that it is sometimes impossible to get a player.

For example, Ferguson later asked Owen and Gerrard affectionately if they wanted to come to Manchester United, but they were both ruthlessly rejected.

Every Premier League team has a deadly enemy, and it is difficult for "enemies" to appear in the city where the deadly enemy is located.

The difficulty of spending money on the team is that it cannot last long, and if the club's coffee position does not improve, it can only be bought from low-end players.

If you want to leapfrog to get your favorite player, you have to double his salary.

The condition for this kind of play is that people are stupid and please be more. Those European businessmen who are careful and budget-minded can't stick to it.

After several years of exploration, Ferguson's team building strategy gradually became clear, that is, to hold on to England's basic set, to take advantage of the club's prestige in other parts of England, and to spread the scouting system throughout Europe.

Without these actions, how did Johansen and Solskjaer get here?

Ferguson's signing philosophy is very clear: only buy the right ones, not expensive ones.

After eliminating Porto, Manchester United met Dortmund in the Bundesliga in the semi-finals.

Seeing this opponent in the semi-finals, the Manchester United fans' emotions suddenly rose. This opponent does not seem to be very scary.

Three days after the game against Liverpool, Manchester United went to North Rhine-West for the first week to challenge Dortmund at home.

Before the start of the semi-finals, the duel between Manchester United and Dortmund was considered to be a [-]-[-] split, provided that Ferguson had the courage to exert his strength in the Premier League and the Champions League at the same time.

Although he has shown enough interest in conquering Europe, he even took the European war into consideration next season's signings.

But the problem is that there are still four rounds of the Premier League. Even if Manchester United leads No. 24 points with one less game, it should be no problem to focus on winning the Premier League at this time.

The problem is that even he doesn't know if his team is mastering two fronts at the same time.

Unlike the FA Cup, the intensity of the Champions Cup is obviously at least one level stronger. Can Manchester United's half lineup withstand such pressure in a short period of time?
Ferguson wasn't sure.

The bigger problem is that Juventus is too strong for Manchester United now.

Even if Manchester United beat Dortmund on the same level, they will have little chance of winning in the Champions League final.

Ferguson was a little hesitant when the basic set was not in hand.

This is not the era of the Triple Crown two years later. Manchester United's "Class of 92" has grown into the mainstay of the club, with high-level players and sufficient reserves in all three lines.

The current Manchester United team can't even put two players of similar level in one position. Once the main players can't play, the combat effectiveness of that position will decline in a visible trend.

But no matter what, the semi-finals have already been stuck on the face, and a perfect plan must be come up with.

So in the expectation of the fans and the cold eyes of the opponent, Ferguson adopted a compromise method.

Giggs, Irwin and Keane were all put on the bench, and the four midfielders were Poboski, Butt, Beckham and Cruyff from right to left.

Poborski and Cruyff haven't gotten a chance to play for a long time, and Beckham feels that the old man wants to sacrifice these two people.

Manchester United's two strikers are Cantona and Cole.

Now that the game has been played, Ferguson has summed up two extremely important rules. The first one is that the "King" is like a nuclear weapon button in front of the opponent. Even if it is just placed on the ground, it will make people uneasy.

The second rule is that as long as Beckham doesn't run himself to death, let him run to death. Anyway, this kid plunges into football, and young people should use it more while they are young.

Of course, Manchester United's tactics are also very pragmatic. First, we will deal with Dortmund in the away game. Once there is hope, we will fight them at home.

Before the game, Ferguson also chatted with the Dutch and the Czechs for a while.

From Beckham's point of view, the old man is a face-saving person, and it is impossible for him to admit that he is trying his luck with a substitute.

According to Beckham's understanding of Ferguson, he will definitely recognize the growth of the two people during the conversation, and then tell them: "I have seen your growth, so I decided to let you take on this difficult task. You are no worse than ... in the position of ...!"

The success rate of brainwashing this routine can basically reach 100%. Even if Cruyff and Poborski cannot play the main force for the time being, they will never admit that they are inferior to their competitors, because men cannot say no.

Otherwise, the head coach's vision is not good, and in their view, this conversation can basically be regarded as the head coach's approval and compromise.

Dortmund has formed the most popular 3-5-2 formation at the moment. They use five midfielders to restrain the half-attack and half-meat combination of Beckham and Bart.

But what they didn't expect was that the four midfielders of the Manchester United team were full of fighting power, especially the two guys on the wing who hadn't started for a long time, they were simply suffocated.

When Beckham was still lamenting the 8 attendance and the huge pressure at the Westfield Stadium, Poborski had already slammed Dortmund's Heinrich.

And Cruyff also tackled Paul Sousa in midfield.

Manchester United played well in midfield, but the team did not overwhelm the opponent.

Seeing that the championship situation is heating up, Manchester United needs to continue to fight fiercely with their opponents for the championship. It is unwise to play against Dortmund in an away game.

Manchester United's family background is not strong, Ferguson racked his brains for two-line battles, even when he was sleeping, he was thinking about how to piece together a lineup that can fight and be durable.

For Manchester United and Dortmund, this is an encounter. Manchester United played impressively in the away game and was very confident. The scene was no worse than their opponents. The scene is often in a stalemate.

Dortmund scored the first goal by chance, and their center Heilrich's wave shot hit Pallister's shoulder and flew into the goal by a ghost.

Unexpectedly, their goal angered Cruyff. After conceding a goal, he almost became Keane, breaking the ball and doing it when he saw it.

In the 34th minute, Cruyff met his feet continuously, breaking in and out to the edge of the penalty area.

Seeing that his temperament was possessed by Daddy Smoker again, Dortmund quickly shrank.

Just when they were about to siege the son of the famous general, Cruyff, who seemed to have lost his mind just now, suddenly passed the ball behind him.

The defender saw that it was too late for Beckham to come up, the heartthrob had plenty of time to prepare in the penalty area, and he slammed the ball hard into the upper right corner of the goal.

What surprises the Germans is still to come. Poborski's fighting power today is so strong that it is probably because the defeat in the European Cup made him tired of the Germans, and the hatred in his heart is still playing a role.

In the 44th minute, he passed consecutively to Cantona on the right, and kicked suddenly at an angle that seemed unlikely to shoot. The Dortmund goalkeeper was not prepared enough, and the Czech scored for Manchester United.

The Germans were completely dumbfounded. They didn't expect Manchester United to be alive and well in a double match a week.

And just when they thought the first half was like this, Cole scored again!

After receiving a pass in the penalty area, he scored a burst shot and Manchester United led the opponent 3-1 at the end of the first half.

To be honest, this lineup can play Dortmund three times in away games, even Ferguson himself was a little surprised.

He only hopes that Manchester United can entangle their opponents in terms of scores. It is not too bad to lose a goal, and they can still play vigorously at home.

3 to 1 was a bit beyond his expectations.

Facing the fruits of victory, the Manchester United coach was not dazzled. He knew exactly what the team's physical fitness was. Regardless of their running well in the first half, they were actually overdrawing their physical fitness in the second half.

There is only so much physical fitness in total. In the first half, everyone seemed to have taken medicine, but in the second half, they had to face the refractory period.

So the entire Manchester United team played defensive counterattacks throughout the second half, and even devoted themselves to defense at the last moment.

Ferguson used up three substitutions, but Manchester United's physical fitness was still unsustainable, allowing Dortmund to ride on them and beat them up.

At the last moment of the game, Dortmund pulled back a goal and Manchester United defeated their opponents 3-2.

Beckham almost lay down all the way home for a week of double races, with an average running distance of more than 12500 meters. Anyone who changed it would have to be exhausted.

Manchester United's schedule is still tight, and they will play an away game against Leicester City in 4 days, which is another tough battle.

Thinking of the black iron pillar named Husky, the three central defenders of the Manchester United team all had headaches.

(End of this chapter)