Midfielder

On the football field, those who have the courage to make changes are either fools or smart people.

Mourinho is not a fool, he knows what he is doing, so the change brought about by this substitution is that Chelsea began to completely hold down the pulse of Manchester United in the midfield, making the opponent unable to move.

Makelele is good at defense, but his offensive ability is almost negligible. Even when taking penalties, Mourinho sometimes does not arrange him, because his shooting and passing are too uncertain.

Although Essien does not have any beautiful footwork, his performance in forced breakthroughs and participating in offense is indeed much better than Makelele, and Makelele has a yellow card. Mourinho is also worried that this old guy will not let Manchester United go down again. Substituting Essien means exerting strength on both offense and defense.

Makelele has no doubts about such substitutions. Compared with the gloomy face when Van Nistelrooy was replaced, this guy seems very relaxed about being replaced. He knows what the team is going to do.

This guy was still shaking the towel in his hand on the bench, shouting loudly to his teammates on the field, "Hey, you guys, you must beat those red devils for me!"

This is Mourinho's command ability in the team. No one will question the adjustments he made.

In a strong confrontation, whoever takes the initiative first will become the master on the field. Ferguson and Mourinho both understand this, but at the beginning of the second half, it was Chelsea who took the initiative.

Their substitutions disrupted Manchester United's tactical deployment in the midfield, and Ferguson was a little melancholy.

Just like Manchester United could suppress Chelsea under Ferguson's shrewdness in the opening stage.

When Mourinho decided to attack hard in a ten-to-ten situation, he also took the initiative.

Ferguson used his sophisticated experience and flexible tactical arrangements to let Manchester United take the initiative in the opening stage, but now, Chelsea is attacking hard under the influence of Mourinho's strength.

It cannot be said that Chelsea is stronger than Manchester United, but in the competition in some positions, Manchester United is indeed at a disadvantage, especially their porous back line, which makes people shudder.

Ferguson rushed to attack at the beginning to make up for this loophole, but now it seems that after Sylvester left the field, their weakness is more obvious, and the three defenders plus the double defensive midfielder are not stable.

Neville returned from injury, but his form has not returned at all, let alone O'Shea. If there is a good substitute, Ferguson will never let him start. The only one who is assured is Ferdinand.

But Ferdinand alone may not be able to support Chelsea's offensive frenzy, not to mention that he has to keep an eye on Drogba. Although Chelsea is not flying on both wings, Lampard and Gerrard are also sure to take on O'Shea and Neville. Under this defensive pressure, Ferguson can only ask the midfield to retreat as much as possible.

It is not to give up the attack, but before considering their own offensive efficiency, they must defend the goal.

Essien's appearance completely broke the balance of the midfield. He pressed forward fiercely. This was what Mourinho had explained during the halftime break. He should have played earlier, but Ferreira's red card delayed the substitution. But it's not too late now. Lin Yi needs a strong helper to disrupt the opponent.

And not only Essien should provide help to Lin Yi as much as possible, Mourinho specifically warned Lampard and Gerrard in the midfield to attack Manchester United's three-back formation and use two ribs.

Both of them have strong personal abilities. As long as there is a chance, Mourinho needs them to get in from the weakest position of Manchester United's defense. The two ribs in the penalty area will be the opponent's fatal injury.

Manchester United's current wing forwards can't return to defense so quickly after the half-time impact.

And Ronaldo and Giggs are not the kind of wing forwards who can attack and defend. They are more inclined to attack.

It is to seize the gap of their slow retreat and attack the two ribs desperately. The two full-backs of the opponent will inevitably extend the entire defense line to be very open in order to take Chelsea's bottom line into consideration.

Open, it means that they can't take care of too much. Lin Yi's pass makes them cautious. The more the defense line is extended, the more prominent their loopholes will be. These two guys will have a lot of opportunities.

Mourinho is going to use such a gap to hit hard. Didn't the old Scottish man prepare such a three-back formation for himself? So now Chelsea is going to hit these three defenders hard!

Targeted attack, Mourinho has always been the kind of person who has a purpose. He either doesn't make adjustments, as long as he makes adjustments, then he must have seized a flaw of the opponent. Let this madman seize such a gap, can you still expect him to let you go? Isn't that dreaming?

Mourinho's tactical arrangement can be said to be immediate. Essien's insertion puts a lot of pressure on Manchester United's double defensive midfielder tactics. Can you ignore such a fierce guy? Obviously not, but if you use all your manpower to mark Essien, then there will inevitably be a gap in Lin Yi's defense.

This made Manchester United's defensive players very painful. Scholes even had to withdraw from the front court to coordinate the defense in the middle in order to distract Essien's attention, but this almost cut off the attack.

Without the support of the midfield, Ronaldo and Giggs can only stir up limited waves, and Lukaku is facing a situation where no one is delivering ammunition. Let him dribble and break through to find opportunities? That's really difficult.

Originally, Ferguson had specifically told his players in the midfield that if they didn't want to continue to be suppressed by the opponent in the second half, they must find a way to attack, at least to restore the usual offensive momentum.

But Ferguson's tactical arrangement had not yet been implemented, and Mourinho's substitution broke his idea. Mourinho's momentum of going all out to attack to the end forced Manchester United to give up the attack.

The opponent was suppressed in the first half, so there was no reason to give up this madness in the second half.

No matter how strong the defense is, there is a possibility of collapse. Mourinho was still worried that his defense would be broken by the opponent in the first half of the hour. Now it is Ferguson's turn to worry about this fatal problem.

Moreover, Chelsea's offense will not be weakened by Manchester United's defense. If they decide to attack, they will continue to attack to the end. Don't forget that there is a little madman in their midfield.

Ferguson will not forget who is the most dangerous. Essien came on the court just to release the offensive ability of that dangerous element, but the old man's loud reminder on the sidelines is not as fast as that kid's action.

From the moment Essien came on the field, Ferguson was worried that Chelsea's change of formation would cause trouble for him. He also thought about making substitutions, but his thin bench really didn't have a suitable candidate.

Maybe only Fletcher can play now, but he can only deal with it.

But to replace this guy, it is necessary to replace the offensive players. In that case, Manchester United's offense will become weaker. If they can't hurt the opponent, then he will definitely become the one who is hurt by the opponent.

Ferguson could only yell at his two wingers, asking Giggs and Ronaldo to take care of the two flanks as much as possible, and never let them become Chelsea's offensive corridor, but his reminder was not as fast as Chelsea's action. Manchester United was still trying to adjust the formation, but the opponent had suddenly started.

A standard time difference, when Manchester United was trying to make up for their gaps, Chelsea's several steel knives were accurately inserted into the most fatal place, and the Red Devils were defeated in an instant.

Less than three minutes into the second half, when the Manchester United players were still thinking about how to keep fighting with Chelsea, Lin Yi made a comeback. He suddenly started in the middle, completely disrupting Manchester United's defensive level. This time, Essien was helping him.

Originally, the Korean plaster and Keane were waiting to join forces to attack Lin Yi, but this time it was not Lin Yi who rushed up with the ball, but Essien, the strong African who suddenly started after getting the ball from the midfield.

The strong Essien got rid of Scholes's entanglement in a very direct way, but this time he was not as greedy as usual, and passed the ball to Lin Yi in time, and Lin Yi's foot was also very fast. He quickly knocked back Essien and then ran. The two guys played a standard two-on-two.

Extremely fast speed, accurate passing, and timely running. When these most basic things are connected together, it is a perfect attack. Two-on-two cooperation is very common, but it is not so accurate and fast.

Essien and Lin Yi had never played such a smooth cooperation during training, but today, under the leadership of Lin Yi, Essien, who has always been a bit rough, also played with the embroidery technique.

The Korean plaster was completely confused this time. Essien and Lin Yi, the two guys just swung in front of him, and Park Ji-sung found out very sadly that he didn't keep an eye on anyone this time.

Lin Yi slipped past him, and Essien broke through unreasonably. Keane's reaction was very fast, but facing the attack of two people, even if he was God, he could only keep an eye on one.

However, he chose his old enemy Lin Yi, and he knew very well that the boy was the most dangerous.

But this time Keane still miscalculated. When Lin Yi received the pass, he did not continue to dribble. He used a very concealed action to knock the ball directly behind him, and Essien sent a straight pass when he met the ball.

Everything happened so fast that neither Keane nor Park Ji-sung had time to stretch out his foot to intercept. Essien's pass had already torn through Manchester United's defense. If you watch the replay, you will find how fast it was, as if everything had been carefully rehearsed, and every move was perfectly connected.

"My God, Chelsea only used four passes to break through Manchester United's defense! What is going on! Where are our defenders? This damn pass has penetrated the defense in the middle!"

The commentator's shouting was loud enough. He was also reminding Manchester United's players that they had been penetrated, but such a reminder seemed to have no effect at this moment.

A perfect inverted triangle cooperation, but this time it was not completed after going down the wing. Lin Yi and Essien completed the cooperation in front of Manchester United's penalty area, and by the way, created an opportunity for Lampard to cut in from the ribs. O'Shea became the biggest tragedy this time, and he failed to make an offside.

It was also because Essien's pass was too fast that O'Shea had no time to react. By the time he came to his senses, Lampard had already cut into the penalty area and successfully received Essien's pass.

O'Shea became the tragic man who was dragged to the back and failed to create an offside. He could only watch Lampard challenge Van der Sar directly. Although the Dutch goalkeeper had already abandoned the goal at this moment, his open hands could only cover half of the goal and could not block all the gaps.

This is also thanks to Van der Sar's height of over 1.9 meters. If it had been anyone else, he probably wouldn't have been able to block even half of it.

For a guy like Lampard, who was among the top three scorers last season, such a one-on-one is not difficult. He even has the opportunity to choose the angle of the shot after cutting in, and he can also take aim.

Van der Sar had tried his best. Those Manchester United fans watching the game in the stands could see that the Dutchman stretched out his hands and tried his best to block Lampard's shooting angle, but it was in vain.

His blocking seemed very feeble in front of a shooting distance of only seven or eight meters, and even felt like a mantis trying to control the car. Although he judged the direction of Lampard's shot correctly, he was unable to stop the football.

Calmly pushing the accurate angle, in front of Lampard, the half-open goal was enough for him to change the score. The moment the football bypassed Van der Sar's fingertips and entered the net, Lampard Germany had already waved his fist and rushed towards his teammates. He was roaring crazily to celebrate the goal!

Not only Lampard was so excited, but Mourinho also raised his right hand high on the sidelines, extended his index finger, and pointed directly at the sky, while the Chelsea players hugged each other crazily and shouted loudly around them. , "We are the fucking strongest team! Did you see this goal!"

Such roars were not only heard on the field, but also by the Chelsea substitutes off the field. Although this was Old Trafford, at this moment, they were fearless.

Arrogant, provocative, every Chelsea player has a ferocious look on their face, they are a bunch of beasts.

They don't know how to respect tradition. In their eyes, only victory is the most practical, and the rest are just clouds. All the "dream theater" and the glory of the wealthy family should go to hell!

Now is Chelsea's time, and only those of us wearing blue uniforms are the strongest! see it? Scoring is the best counterattack for you! Stop expecting us to lose!

We have won fourteen games in a row! This is the fucking fifteenth game! Just watch it!

The Premier League winning streak will continue under Chelsea's name until you feel desperate!

One to zero, a score that stung Manchester United's pride enough. They should have been in control of this damn game, but now, they have become the lagging side. I really don't know how many people want to do that at this time. Sylvester was dragged out and beaten to vent his anger.

Anyway, Ferguson must have had this plan, but he couldn't act so rude in front of the camera, but many people dared to guarantee that Sylvester, that idiot, would definitely not have a good life.

When the game resumes, all Manchester United fans will find that they should not just be angry about the damn score, because those Chelsea animals have no intention of stopping there.

They need to keep the score going so these animals don't care whose home field it is.

As long as they can win, they are willing to do things that add insult to injury. What's more, this time they are facing an old enemy with an old grudge. It feels great to steal the victory at the opponent's home court.

When Chelsea led 1-0, they played more easily, intercepting the opponent in the midfield, and then counterattacking on the spot. This was the tactical arrangement Mourinho told them on the sidelines, how to counterattack. This kind of problem has never been It's not something Chelsea players need to consider because of Lin Yi.

As long as that little lunatic is there, Chelsea's forwards will always have a sufficient supply of ammunition. All they have to do is turn those accurate passes into fatal attacks and destroy their opponents as much as possible.

The balance on the field was torn apart, and the glory of Old Trafford became very fragile in the face of Chelsea's fierce attack. They wanted to counterattack, but Chelsea's fierce interception prevented Manchester United from counterattacking. Even though Ferguson has been trying to reverse this passive situation, he replaced Fletcher, replaced Scholes, let Giggs return to the center, and adopted a three-midfielder formation.

But all this seemed very futile in the face of Chelsea's offensive frenzy, and it even felt more like a final struggle. Substitutions, adjustments, and loud roars could not arouse Manchester United's bravery, which was like steel in Chelsea. In front of the strangulation, the last sniper has fallen.

The forty-five minutes of the second half was almost a scene dominated by Chelsea's offense. The only comfort for Manchester United fans was that their Red Devils were not defeated again.

The score of one to zero remained until the final whistle sounded. At that moment, many Manchester United fans felt not a sigh, but a sense of relief. They finally no longer had to worry about conceding goals.

But that group of lunatics wearing blue uniforms have already escaped from the Devils' home court with a record of 15 undefeated league wins. Can anyone stop these lunatics now? Just ask God.

It is estimated that only the old man who likes to watch the excitement can know what will happen in the future. At least on this night, in England, any team that can defeat these animals has been completely wiped out.

Maybe they can only wait for a team in the Champions League to stop their crazy winning streak, but these animals now look fearless. No matter who they are, they are confident of defeating them.

Such a team is absolutely terrifying. . .