The game was a bit unpleasant, but there was something else that made him even more unhappy.

The game came to the 17th minute. In the previous games, Ronaldo had suffered several losses, so this time when he saw Maicon and the other two surrounded him on the right, he did not force a breakthrough and kicked the ball back to Carrick in advance. Carrick passed the ball to Giggs on the left.

Giggs knew that if he competed purely in speed, he would definitely not be able to compete with his compatriot Bale.

So after he got the ball, he played a two-on-one match with Scholes who had already approached. He ran without the ball to shake off Bale, and continued to dribble forward after receiving the ball passed back by Scholes.

After passing Bale, he met Lahm who was trying to steal the ball. The Welsh veteran immediately passed the ball to Berbatov who was waiting for the ball nearby, and then he accelerated to the baseline, waiting for Berbatov to pass it to him.

However, Berbatov did not choose to pass the ball to Giggs, because when he received the ball, he saw Cannavaro running towards his passing route, so Berbatov had to re-select the passing direction, and Ronaldo who had already entered the right side of the penalty area became his new passing target.

So he kicked the lower half of the football with a little force on his right foot, trying to pass a half-high ball, but by chance, the football hit the arm of Mascherano who had already approached!

Berbatov was unhappy, and immediately raised his hand to report to the referee that his former teammate had committed a handball foul, and raised his hand above his head to indicate that the referee should take out a card.

The referee did stop the game, but Mascherano rushed to the referee immediately, with a very aggrieved expression on his face, and used his hands and mouth to indicate to the referee that his hands were tightly pressed against his body and not open at all, which should not be considered a handball.

The referee ignored Mascherano's explanation, but did not play a card, but only indicated that Manchester United should take a free kick.

This penalty immediately caused Ferguson's dissatisfaction. He immediately jumped up from the coaching seat and rushed to the fourth official in two or three seconds, holding his head and yelling: "This is a handball! Such an obvious handball, no card? What do you referees think?"

The fourth official first communicated with the referee in the headset, then turned to face Ferguson, pressed his hands down, and signaled him to calm down: "Alex, calm down, the referee saw it clearly, the No. 6 player of the white team just didn't open his arms, you can get a free kick is already an advantage."

But obviously Ferguson was unwilling to accept this statement, and still pestered the fourth official.

Li Shiguang, who was standing next to him, turned his head and joked: "Alex, this is Elland Road, can't we have a little home advantage? Hahaha."

Hearing Li Shiguang's words, the fourth official's face darkened and he looked at the two coaches: "Watch your words, Li, our referee team is fair and impartial, there is no such thing as home advantage! And you, Alex, if you keep insisting here, I may notify the referee to send both of you to the stands!"

Hearing that they would be sent to the stands, the two coaches looked at each other and stopped talking tactfully, and refocused their attention on the court.

However, the photographers now should have noticed this detail and gave close-up shots to the two coaches.

Ferguson's face flushed with anger and the smile on Li Shiguang's mouth formed a sharp contrast.

In the end, Scholes took the free kick, but fired a cannon directly. Neuer just symbolically stretched out his hands, looked up at the football that was high above the goal, and jumped on the spot.

But Manchester United's series of attacks did not end. Not long after, they made a comeback. Ronaldo finally made a breakthrough on the right side, but Kompany, who came up to defend, shoveled the ball out of the bottom line and Manchester United got a corner kick.

It must be said that even in the away game, Manchester United still had enough pressure on Leeds United after the opening. The ball was at their feet most of the time, and there were more shots threatening the goal than Leeds United.

Li Shiguang also knew that if the first two years were considered to be Ferguson's hiding his strength, training players, and running-in the lineup, then this year was the year for Manchester United to take off again.

What he didn't expect was that Berbatov actually integrated into Ferguson's tactical system in such a short time.

Ronaldo was restricted by Maicon and Ribery on the wing

After that, Berbatov was very smart to retreat and took the role of connecting in the midfield with Scholes. Several threatening passes came from his feet in the past few minutes, and he also had two threatening shots outside the Leeds United penalty area.

Giggs took the corner kick. In addition to Ronaldo and Rooney, several tall players on the Manchester United back line had already come to the Leeds United penalty area. But he did not kick the ball into the penalty area, but sent the ball outside the penalty area. Looking at the flight trajectory of the ball, the destination is the top of the arc of the left penalty area of ​​Leeds United.

And Berbatov was waiting there!

Mascherano, who was defending Ferdinand in the penalty area, reacted quickly. When he saw the trajectory of the ball, he immediately guessed Manchester United's intention, so he quickly gave up Ferdinand and rushed to Berbatov, who had already drawn his bow and arrow and leaned to the right to prepare for a shot.

But perhaps because he forgot that his former teammate's dominant foot was his right foot in a panic, Mascherano just threw his center of gravity away to block Berbatov's shooting angle, and then he saw Berbatov retract his shooting posture, cushion the ball with his left foot, and lightly lifted the football.

So in everyone's vision, the football flew over Mascherano's head!

"Wow! Beautiful lob, very imaginative! Berbatov is in good shape today!" Lineker's tone was full of praise.

After the football flew over Mascherano's head, Berbatov easily dodged Mascherano who rushed over, changed his supporting leg to his left foot, and swung his right foot back! Without waiting for the football to land, he directly hit the football.

Bang!

This sound was clearly heard by Li Shiguang who was standing on the sidelines, which shows how powerful this shot was!

With the loud noise, the football flew straight to the upper left corner of the Leeds United goal without any rotation.

Neuer's reaction was quite quick. He was already in position when Berbatov passed Mascherano.

After the football left Berbatov's feet, he quickly determined the direction of the shot, moved his feet quickly to the left, then jumped up, stretched his arms to the extreme, and he also touched the football.

But unfortunately, the power of this shot was really too great. Even though Neuer had touched the ball, he only slightly changed the flight trajectory of the ball and did not completely lift the ball out of the goal frame.

Finally, under everyone's gaze, the football broke through Neuer's ten fingers and rubbed the goal post into the Leeds United goal!

0:1, Berbatov's wonderful world wave helped Manchester United lead his old club away from home!

After Berbatov's wonderful world wave shot into the net, Ferguson was so happy that he rushed out of the coaching hall and waved his fist vigorously on the sidelines to celebrate.

At the same time, he was thinking in his heart.

This Li Shiguang finally didn't sell me a rip-off~

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