The game was still going on, but the players were still busy.

Ferguson didn't notice that Li Shiguang was looking at him. He focused all his attention on the court.

The game was still going on, and Manchester United had reorganized the attack. Ferdinand kicked the ball directly to the right, and Ronaldo drove the ball straight into the penalty area. Finally, he passed the ball from the right side of the penalty area under the double-teaming of two people, and then Rooney in the middle inserted and shot, but Kompany, who came up to block the eye, blocked the ball with his thigh, and the football happened to fall at Mascherano's feet.

In a moment.

Attack and defense changed again. Mascherano immediately looked up and found Toure's position and passed the ball to him. But just like before, Scholes happened to appear on the passing route and destroyed the ball out of the sideline.

Seeing this scene, Li Shiguang was sure of his thoughts.

Ferguson pulled Scholes back. He wanted Scholes and Carrick to defend Toure together. And it seemed that Rooney's position also retreated. The person who took on the task of connecting in the midfield of Manchester United changed from Scholes to Rooney!

Should I adjust now? Li Shiguang touched his chin habitually.

After thinking for a while, Li Shiguang denied this idea.

In his opinion, Scholes was 32 years old after all. Scholes would definitely not be able to hold on to such a large-scale and high-intensity running for long. He had to wait until Ferguson made a move first before making adjustments.

As expected by Li Shiguang, when the game time came to the 63rd minute, Manchester United took the opportunity of a corner kick to make a substitution!

Park Ji-sung came on the court and replaced the veteran Scholes.

Li Shiguang, who was cunning, also took advantage of Manchester United's substitution time and immediately replaced Podolski with Rivaldo.

Seeing both sides make substitutions at the same time, Blackwell in the studio took the initiative to question for the first time today: "Well? Scholes seems to be too exhausted. I can understand Ferguson replacing him. But what does Leeds United mean by this substitution? Does it mean that Toure will withdraw to the defensive midfielder position to participate more in defense? Does Li want to keep this draw?"

Lineker on the side had a different opinion from him: "I think it is unlikely. Think about the League Cup final in the first half of the year. Li did not give up the attack even when he was one man less. In this situation, it makes no sense for him to actively seek a draw!"

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After both sides made substitutions, the game continued.

Giggs took the corner kick again. This time he chose to send the ball to the front point of the Leeds United goal.

After seeing Giggs serve, Ronaldo, who had been hiding behind, accelerated suddenly, shook off the interference of Maicon behind him, and then he jumped high, trying to head the ball.

But it should be that the position was not too accurate, the football did not fly to the goal, but flew to the back point at a very fast speed.

Rooney, who was not very tall, happened to be standing here. Seeing Ronaldo head the ball over, he immediately prepared to grab the second point.

But what surprised him was that Ronaldo wanted to attack the goal at first. Although the position was not accurate, the power was not bad at all.

So when the football hit the arch of Rooney's right foot, the football bounced out... and fell in front of him!

Ram, who thought he had lost his position, was quick-eyed and quick-handed. Seeing Rooney made a mistake, he immediately rushed out from behind Rooney, intending to destroy the football out of the penalty area first.

But Rooney naturally didn't want to give up this good opportunity, so he kicked the ground with his left foot and started immediately, and at the same time leaned his body to the right, trying his best to block between Lahm and the football.

Lahm still touched the football first, but he didn't use any strength under Rooney's interference, and just poked the football.

Seeing that the football was not kicked too far by Lahm, Rooney behind him increased his strength and wanted to squeeze past Lahm to control the football again.

But this was in the penalty area of ​​Leeds United, and the others were not standing stakes. The football had been stepped away by Toure who rushed out from the side.

When Rooney popped his head out from behind Lahm, Toure had almost taken the ball out of the penalty area.

Seeing this scene, Carrick, who followed Toure into the penalty area, immediately chased after him.

Soon, Toure brought the ball to a position close to the center circle, and at this time Park Ji-sung, who had just come on the court, also came over.

But Toure had no intention of passing Park Ji-sung at all.

Li Shiguang has engraved a deep concept in the players' minds during the usual training.

The pursuit of counterattack is the word "fast", and Toure, who has played for Leeds United for two years, is naturally well aware of this.

So when he was about 2 meters away from Park Ji-sung, Toure stopped and dribbled the ball to the left, and immediately passed the ball diagonally to the left side, where Leeds United's fastest arrow, Gareth Bale, was running towards Manchester United's penalty area.

At the same time, Toure did not stop after passing the ball, and he continued to rush into the penalty area.

"Here it comes, Leeds United's iconic counterattack is coming again~~~!!" Eddie Gray exclaimed. "Manchester United's players are desperately returning to defense! Park Ji-sung and Carrick followed Toure and did not dare to stay too far away from him. But behind the three people on the right, Rivaldo, who had just come on the field, followed closely behind."

Bale received Toure's pass outside the penalty area, and Toure also rushed to the top of Manchester United's penalty area, while Torres attracted Vidic's close defense in the penalty area.

Evra was still chasing hard behind. Ferdinand, who had no other choice, looked at Toure and Torres. After confirming that his teammates were watching them closely, he also rushed out of the penalty area. He had to go up to stop Bale's advance.

But Bale, who had been playing crazy today, didn't care about these things at all. He just broke into the penalty area and saw Ferdinand rushing towards him. Without a moment's hesitation, he directly pushed the ball to the left and shot first!

In the first half, Van der Sar saved a shot from Bale at a similar angle at this position, so this time when he saw Bale entering the penalty area, he had already stood in position and was ready to save.

However, this shot was different from the first half. Bale hit a half-high ball.

Van der Sar was very experienced. He knew that it was a bit difficult to lift this kind of ball directly over the crossbar or confiscate it directly, so he immediately clenched his palms into fists and hit the flying football with both fists, hitting the ball to the right side of the penalty area.

At this time, in the penalty area of ​​Manchester United, Ferdinand was stopping Bale's advance, Carrick and Park Ji-sung sandwiched Toure in the middle, and Vidic followed Torres.

So who was on the right side of Manchester United's penalty area?

Eddie Gray's roar told them the answer.

"Rivaldo!"

Under everyone's gaze, the Brazilian veteran who appeared in this position like a ghost seemed to have returned to the way he was in Barcelona.

His right foot was stretched straight, and then his body stretched to the maximum extent, and his left foot popped out from behind his body like lightning, hitting the football that had not yet landed.

"Bang!"

The football went straight to the left corner of Manchester United's goal. Van der Sar, who had just run to the middle of the goal, could only watch the football rub the post and fly into the goal...

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