Midfielder

Few people can make Ferguson feel frustrated about the game, but this away game against Porto really hurt the old man.

In a 90-minute football game, the anxiety from the bottom of his heart accompanied Ferguson throughout the second half, which made him helpless.

Counterattack, this is the slogan shouted by Ferguson in the locker room. The stubborn Scottish old man tried hard to incite the game emotions of his players.

Those tough Manchester United players did try to knock down their opponents, but what they got in return was only a more fierce counterattack from Porto.

This was the case throughout the second half of the game. As long as Manchester United pressed over the half court, Porto's counterattack would penetrate them at the fastest speed.

Those crazy people in Porto followed such a principle. If Manchester United chose to fight, then Porto would accompany them to the end.

That was a sentence Mourinho told them. In the Dragon Stadium, they should make themselves the one who dominates everything, no matter who the opponent is!

Ferguson observed the Porto bench more than once. The Portuguese man who was called uncle by Lin Yi always seemed very calm.

That was a kind of calmness with a plan in mind. At least Ferguson couldn't remember at this moment who could be so calm when meeting him at this age.

Even the French professor who was always calm would become a little impetuous when facing Ferguson, but the Portuguese man didn't.

There were not too many loud shouts. Even if he wanted to adjust the tactics, he would instruct the players close to him and always behave very calmly.

Looking at Mourinho's unhurried command style, there was even a moment when Ferguson felt that he was too old.

When such a guy appeared on the sidelines, Ferguson asked himself with doubt whether it was time for him to retire.

The experienced Ferguson had thought about changing the formation, and had used his own words and actions to motivate his players, but with little effect.

No matter how he changes, Porto clings to the lead, using their skilled techniques to tear Manchester United's defense with extreme patience.

Manchester United's poor defense is leaking everywhere on the wing and the middle, and Roy Keane, who finally pressed forward to participate in the attack, is always forced to retreat.

A clumsy Bart simply can't keep an eye on the slippery black-haired boy. Without Keane's help, he will be completely stunned by the opponent.

Bart is a good defensive player, but compared with Lin Yi, who is like a loach, he is not even as flexible as O'Shea who came on as a substitute.

Anyway, Lin Yi is in front of Bart, just flicking the football lightly with his feet, and then destroying the heart of this honest man again and again.

It is indeed very unkind to do this, but Lin Yi is happy to do such dirty things. As long as he can make his opponent miserable, he enjoys being a bad guy.

Even in the face of the double blockade of Keane and Butt, Lin Yi was still able to send out penetrating short passes many times under the double defense, creating enough shooting opportunities for his forwards. Manchester United's center has become chaotic because of his presence alone.

If it weren't for McCarthy's excessive physical consumption and failure to seize these shooting opportunities, perhaps Manchester United would become more desperate.

The commentators on the scene lamented that if these opportunities were left to Van Nistelrooy, the Dutch killer could at least perform two hat tricks.

Ferguson thought that this assumption was a reality. If that kid was really in his team, perhaps everything would become very simple.

Although Lin Yi's performance in front of Manchester United's penalty area made Ferguson, the old man, hate it, but it only made him want Lin Yi more.

The tactical arrangement of a front midfielder did not change the situation of Porto's main attack at all. Lin Yi alone could stir up the entire Manchester United's defense.

After Deco was pulled to the wing, his technical advantage also became Phil Neville's nightmare. In this pure one-on-one match, Deco basically won.

Because of these two guys and the constant charge on the left side, Porto always grasped the pulse of the game and led Manchester United step by step.

In the second half, Porto got a total of eleven shooting opportunities. Adding up the whole game, their number of shots has reached 26 times.

Manchester United's number of shots was not even half of theirs, including several long shots from Ronaldo and Giggs in the second half.

Compared with Porto's leisurely organization, all of Manchester United's shots in the second half came from long shots, because they could not find other ways to shoot.

The midfield connection point was completely strangled. Giggs and Ronaldo could only rely on single-handed efforts to find opportunities. Occasionally, they could only choose long shots.

But such long-distance shots can only really hit world waves, otherwise, it is too difficult to get past Baia's ten fingers.

After being idle for a long time, Baia finally got a chance to show off his skills in front of tens of thousands of fans at home. He made many difficult saves. When the saves were made in the air, he would save the ball in any way that looked beautiful. It was just a performance.

"That sultry guy is using the opportunity of the game to attract attention again." Brito muttered softly when he saw this scene.

However, those crazy fans didn't care whether it was a performance or not. Baia's saves brought them sensory stimulation.

Especially those female fans, they are shouting loudly, "Baiya, I love you!!!", and then Baiya will play more energetically.

Of course, Giggs and Ronaldo are the most pitiful pair of prop men, because their shooting is creating opportunities for Baiya to be cool.

Maybe now Ferguson regrets that he replaced Ruud van Nistelrooy so early. Ronaldo forced a breakthrough and won the cross, but no one answered it.

Don't expect Giggs to compete for headers with Carvalho and Costa in the penalty area. That's simply not the way he's good at shooting.

Cristiano Ronaldo was probably the best player in Manchester United in the second half. He won the victory with his own two feet in the battle with Valente.

Speed, technology, when these were combined, Valente was completely pushed back to the half court by the Portuguese boy, and became unable to move.

But what can one person's power change? When only he and Giggs can continue to attack in the frontcourt of Manchester United, even if Ronaldo can get rid of Valente's marking, he can only break through and pass the ball desperately, and then look at the Porto defender, Calm header clearance.

This is the only thing he can do for Ferguson. The stubborn old Sir Alex may really have the idea to kill the unfortunate South African who was sent off immediately.

If Fortune hadn't been sent off for a foul, perhaps Van Nistelrooy could have stood in the Porto penalty area and continued to threaten the opponent's goal.

But all this is just an assumption. God will not give anyone a chance to live again, even if he is the great Sir Alex Ferguson.

Although Ronaldo can make waves on the wing, the context of the game is always in the hands of the Porto team, especially the black-haired boy who is regarded as an opponent by Ronaldo. He occupies the center with his strong performance, two hopes Star's confrontation once again became Lin Yi's one-man show.

Regardless of how embarrassing the Manchester United team performed in the second half of the game, God finally did not abandon these unlucky red devils.

Porto set off a wild bombardment, but still failed to knock on Manchester United's goal. The damn score remained unchanged at the end of the game. The shouts of tens of thousands of people in the Dragon Stadium never stopped, but They're also complaining about why those damn shots didn't go in.

More than 20 shots only resulted in a score of 2:1. It may be Porto's turn to be unhappy now, but their luck is indeed very bad.

Except for McCarthy's shots, the others' shots failed to score smoothly. Although there was a surge of offensive on the field, there was no gain.

You can only say that the Almighty God didn't want to push the old man Ferguson to the edge of the cliff. Otherwise, Porto wouldn't have such an evil thing as the four goalposts, two of which were all hit. The intersection between the beam and the doorpost is an absolute blind spot in theory.

Mourinho was a little helpless about such a result, "This is football, you can never guess what will happen in the next second."

Maybe now this uncle also feels regretful that the overwhelming offensive failed to bring about a big victory. After all, a one-goal advantage is not very safe.

Everyone knows where Old Trafford is, that great theater of dreams, where the most frequently performed show is the Red Tide's counterattack.

Those Manchester United fans who had been on tenterhooks all night could finally breathe a sigh of relief at the end of the game. The imagined defeat did not occur.

However, the absolute disadvantage in that scene still made their faces clouded. They could not explain to them what happened in this damn game. Although they could retreat from Porto with an away goal, these Manchester United players now There were no smiles from the supporters.

"Winning Porto is as easy as going to the street to buy a bottle of milk." This sentence now seems like a slap in the face of Manchester United.

No matter what the past record of both sides is, at least on this night, Manchester United cannot afford the bottle of milk sold by Porto. The price is too expensive.

In the last twenty minutes of the game, basically only Cristiano Ronaldo could still stand near the center circle, waiting for possible counterattack opportunities.

During the siege, Porto poured all their firepower into Manchester United's penalty area at the last moment of the game. In addition to scoring goals, they had done everything. The entire Manchester United defense was completely torn apart. Even a decent defense could not be organized.

The 1:2 score gap could only be maintained by Manchester United's desperate defense. This was also thanks to the help of God and the goalpost. It was really a shameful game.

If Ferguson still had the idea to fight for a tie at the beginning of the second half, then in the final stage of the game, the old man just wanted to maintain the score.

Facing a second-rate team in Europe in the eyes of the English, the great Manchester United performed in such a miserable state that they even felt lucky to lose. I really don’t know if the stubborn Ferguson felt a sense of decadence at this moment. The Manchester United dynasty became shaky under the crazy torn apart by the opponent.

Defending an away goal, Manchester United achieved the lowest goal of the game, but the price they paid in the game was also very painful.

Fortune was sent off with a red card and is destined to miss the next game. I am afraid Ferguson has not thought about who to fill the gap at left back.

Right back Phil Neville also fell on the turf in pain before the end of the game. His already injured right ankle became ill again.

Looking at the stern expression on his team doctor's face, Ferguson knew that his right back was finished and his back line would be completely reorganized in the next game.

But the worst was not that. The most difficult thing for Ferguson to accept happened in the 88th minute of the game. At that moment, he went crazy.

Keane, who was the only one with a stable performance in the whole game, got into big trouble. At that time, Ronaldo grabbed a chance from the center, broke through with the ball and passed straight into the penalty area. Keane stepped in from the back row to grab the point, but Baia had already Attacking in advance to catch the ball, Keane used the "Lingbo Micro Step" to pass over Baya.

However, this Irishman must have not learned authentic Chinese Kung Fu, so his skills are obviously not good enough. After jumping, the Irishman did not cross Baiya, and stepped hard on Baiya's waist with both feet. When he fell, En's elbow seemed to accidentally hit Baiya's head.

At that time, there were only two people in the penalty area, Keane and Baia. All of this was clearly displayed on the big screen, and it was impossible for the referee to let go even if he wanted to.

The Norwegian referee showed the red card to Keane without any hesitation, even though the Irishman was already arguing loudly at him.

You can say that Keane's action was unintentional, but look at Baia rolling on the ground and listen to the roar of tens of thousands of people at the Dragon Stadium at the same time.

It is estimated that it will be difficult for the referee to take back his decision, not to mention that even Keane himself cannot guarantee whether his action was unintentional or intentional.

Even if all the players of the Manchester United team gathered around the referee and loudly defended Keane, it was impossible to change the decision of the red card.

In the last three minutes of the game, Manchester United was forced to fight with only nine players. If the Norwegian referee hadn't ended the game in time, who knows what would have happened. After Keane was sent off, even the usually calm player Buttou applied for a yellow card in a hurry.

There were two red cards and five yellow cards in the whole game. Manchester United's defensive midfielders and four defenders will be missing at least half of the next game.

Phil was injured, Fortune and Keane had to sit on the referee's chair, Gary Neville's calf swelled up after the game, and Ferguson was almost going crazy with anger.

Although the Norwegian referee did not make too many mistakes, this did not prevent Sir Alex from getting mad at the referee at the post-match press conference.

"That was a stupid penalty. It was a stampede that didn't exist. Baia's poor performance deceived everyone, including the referee."

Faced with such a potentially harmful foul, Ferguson, who had always had a close relationship with Keane, could only choose to protect his calf at this time.

Ferguson believed that Baea's false injury caused Keane to be sent off, because before the game he warned players to be careful of the Portuguese's diving. It's just that this old man is using this method to divert other people's attention and try not to draw too much attention to the news that Manchester United lost the game.

Anyway, this old Scottish man has no scruples at the moment. No matter who he faces, he dares to criticize the referee's unfair law enforcement with such a strong attitude.

It doesn't matter if this may result in a fine from UEFA, anyway, now he must attract the media's attention to himself.

"A cunning old man, he knows how to relieve pressure on his team. This is an old coach's survival skills in the football circle."

When Mourinho watched his opponent's performance at the press conference, he whispered to his old partner Brito.

"Compared with the experience accumulated in a hundred Champions League games, we are still too young." Brito responded with a shrug.

"But the winner this night is us, isn't it? Experience can't help him." Mourinho was still so calm when he spoke.

Although Ferguson can loudly reprimand the referee for his mistakes with such an angry expression, when he sees Mourinho again, he must keep a calm mind. At least in the battle between the coaches, he still Maintain the wisdom that an elder should have.

However, Mourinho didn't want his opponent to have any psychological advantage. He took the initiative to extend his hand and gave Ferguson a blessing.

"Congratulations to Manchester United for leaving the Dragon Stadium with an away goal. This makes the result of the game two weeks later a bit unpredictable."

Lin Yi had long said that that wretched uncle would always make people angry if he didn't speak, but this time Brito believed him.

Facing an old fox like Ferguson, he can calmly dominate his opponents. It is estimated that only Mourinho can do it.

Ferguson's eyes were not so sharp at the moment, but looked very calm, but Mourinho could see the anger of an old man in it.

"Yes, a good score. When Manchester United returns to Old Trafford, a 1-0 victory is enough for us to advance."

The hem of Ferguson's coat brushed against Mourinho's outstretched hand. An annoyed Ferguson selectively ignored this polite gesture.

The stubborn old Scottish man ignored the reporters who were still preparing to ask questions. After Mourinho arrived, he immediately got up and left the field.

"It's understandable. A top team should indeed perform better. No wonder he is angry, who asked me to ruin his 100-game anniversary."

Mourinho shrugged his shoulders at the reporters who watched this scene with their mouths open. His good mood about winning has not changed at all.

As for Ferguson's departure, he did not comment too much. That was the old Sir Alex's choice and had nothing to do with him. Anyway, the two had already agreed.

See you at Old Trafford in two weeks. Who will be the final winner? We will see then. . .

(Benitez, you are really the best gift God has given to AC Milan... Nerazzurri fans, I sympathize with you...)