Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

England have a poor record against Spanish in European competition, with United losing to Serbia in the last 16 of the Champions League and Arsenal just losing to Atletico Madrid in the Europa League semi-finals.

Some people think that this is because of the characteristics of the team, Manchester United is a picturesque front and De Gea in the back, and Serbia, who is united to play the team's technical flow, is left behind. Arsenal's last warm and gorgeous football, when it met Atletico, naturally did not eat any good fruit.

And what are the technical characteristics of FC United? Many fans can't answer, saying that they defend against the counterattack, and sometimes they can play flowers in the front attack, saying that they advocate attack, and can shrink the defense in the back for 90 minutes.

If Lu Wei were to answer, his answer would be, "We play team winning football, we attack if we can win, and we defend if we can win." "

FC United's attack is also very characteristic, the core is two full-backs, and the full-back is also suitable for partnering with wingers, Robertson's wide cross is one of FC United's attacking methods, and his match St. Maximin is a right-footed player on the left wing, Taphnir will enter the box when he inserts an assist, with a Lozano who can go down, and Daniel and Sancho are also wingers who can play left and right, FC United's offensive routine is very changeable.

Atletico started out at a loss of unfamiliarity, with Tavernir and Lozano working together on the right flank, taking turns attacking Lucas, who was still a bit hectic for a while, he had just become a regular this season and could not cope with two attacking wing raiders.

And the two of them often switch positions, one moment I pull you inside, the next I cut you inside, Gabi had to leave the middle to help here to relieve the pressure on Lucas.

However, as soon as Gabi left the center, FC United's midfield was happy, Saul and Cork's defensive ability is not very strong, although they are already excellent under Simeone's tutelage, they are not full-time defensive players after all, Maddison and Matuidi dispatched back and forth in midfield, and quickly completed the second threatening shot.

It was Madison who shot on goal, Matuidi passed the ball forward to Giroud in the middle, Giroud leaned in front of Godin and returned the ball to Maddison, Maddison adjusted a little and went directly to the dead corner to shoot a long-range shot, but was caught by Oblak flying steadily.

Atletico were soon back in color, and in the 13th minute, Lucas crossed from the left and Diego. Costa's header was lifted off the crossbar by Edouard, followed by a corner Atletico who chose a short pass to Saul, which was finally cut off by Tarkovski in the box and cleared out of the box.

In the 18th minute, Correa went straight to the ribs, and Griezmann failed to face the goal under Tarkovski's defense, dunked the ball back and pulled it to pass the ball to Costa, who kept shooting straight over the crossbar.

FC United naturally will not make Atletico's back feel good, after entangled on the right and the center for a while, Maddison scored the ball to the left with a big foot, St. Maximin wanted to break through directly by speed after receiving the ball, Vrsalico did not dare to slack, and immediately got up and chased over.

But Saint-Maximin only took one step to dunk the ball back, swung the ball behind Vrsalico, and was about to cut inside, Vrsalíko twisted and turned, and instinctively stretched out a kick to poke the ball away, but he still did not go faster than Sainte-Maximin, the Frenchman's foot frequency was very fast, and the ball was pushed forward before Vrsalico stretched his foot, and Vrsalico's foot touched Saint-Maxim's calf.

The No. 7 of the Red Rebels fell down, not forgetting to deflect his body and roll on the grass, such an obvious physical contact The referee can of course see it clearly, and the football has always been controlled at the feet of FC United players, very decisively blowing the foul of Atletico players.

Vrsalico spread his hands to show innocence, it was his feet that touched by themselves, seeing the referee's face getting more and more ugly, Gabi hurriedly ran over and pulled Vrsalico away, just now the referee did not give a card, and this position is not good, even if they give a free kick is a cross, but if you argue again and give a yellow card, it is not worth the loss, now the game has just started more than 20 minutes, so early to get the card is not beneficial to the later game.

FC United won a free kick in front, this position is very close to the touchline, can only choose to pass into the box to grab a header, Maguire also rushed to the Atletico penalty area, Giroud and Maguire, two 1.9 meters tall directly attracted the attention of Atletico players, the tallest Atletico defenders Godin is only 1.87 meters, Gimenez is not the kind of strong man, Maguire feels bigger than the people around him when he stands inside.

Robertson and Maddison stood left and right in front of the ball, waiting for movement in the box, one left foot and one right foot, just in this position can pass crosses in different rotation directions, which will be difficult to defend. Godin and Gimenez have found FC United's two high points, Lucas is also on the sidelines, ready to wait for the ball to open and wrap together, Vrsalico followed Saint-Maximin, Kok and Gabi set their sights on Matuidi and Tafnir in the box respectively, and Saul was entangled with Lozano outside the box.

Kupes quickly blew off the game, because Maguire and Gimenez were about to move, he immediately signaled the two to separate a little, Maguire and Gimenez also immediately obediently raised their hands to show their innocence, Kupes also knew that this kind of thing was normal, while backing away while warning the players in the box to pay attention to the movement, seeing that his warning had no effect, he was also speechless, and directly blew the whistle that could be taken free throws.

Robertson began to run, it seemed that he still had to pass a more conventional free-kick on the wing, and the Atletico players in the box saw that Maguire and Giroud began to squeeze in the direction of the goal, and immediately put the referee's warning to the back of their minds and pulled Maguire's shirt to follow.

Robertson just ran a little, Maddison only ran a step and passed the ball, the ball flew into the box with internal rotation, this kind of ball makes it difficult for the goalkeeper to handle, a mistake in judgment will be taken off, and this kind of ball is also easy to cause an own goal, Oblak is also like a big enemy, observed that the ball path is not very close to the goal, decisively chose to wait in front of the goal line.

The cross was relatively fast, with Harry Maguire and Giroud running towards the ball in front and back, and the attention of the Atletico players was also on the tall man, as if they did not see a player in a red shirt sneaking around the back post.

Maguire didn't jump, he was just responsible for taking away Atletico's centre-back, Giroud jumped with Godin, but neither touched the ball, the football flew from the top of their heads to the back point, and it was about to fly out of the bottom line, and suddenly a figure wearing the number 21 red shirt flew out, and a horizontal kick hit the ball into the middle.

The visitor was Lozano, before the free kick he pretended to run forward, under the cover of Matuidi bypassed the encirclement of Atletico Madrid directly to the back post, in the original plan he was going to shoot directly, but he circled a little bigger, had missed the best opportunity to shoot, seeing that the football was about to fly out of the bottom line, Lozano directly stretched out his right foot to kick the ball back to the center.

"Damn, let's see who can grab this broken ball and score it."

That was Lozano's last thought before hitting the billboard.

The ball that Lozano kicked back was not picked up by his teammates, but hit Godin directly on the thigh, and Godin had just struggled with Giroud when he felt something hit his leg.

"This tactile ... It seems to be a ball! The

battle-hardened Godin immediately felt a little bad, this position is too dangerous if it forms a melee, and he must quickly free the ball and immediately turn back to find the position of the ball, but Godin can only see Oblak's funny saving posture and a helpless expression after turning around.