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Chapter 157 Fighting wits and courage

The second half of the game officially started with a whistle from Collina.

After the start of the second half, Manchester United launched a counterattack immediately as Jiang Feng expected. At this time, Kaiserslautern narrowed their defense line slightly according to Jiang Feng's arrangement in the midfield, and the midfield immediately expanded. Although the formation was slightly retracted, compared with the first half, Kaiserslautern's three lines on the field remained quite compact under this arrangement, and they firmly controlled the midfield. The two decisive defensive actions of Rossi and Gattuso also made Manchester United's midfield attack extremely difficult.

However, this is also a head-to-head defensive method, which will be more expensive for the Kaiserslautern players.

However, Jiang Feng also believes that it is impossible for Manchester United to maintain such an offensive intensity throughout the 45 minutes of the second half, so at this time, the two sides are more willing to fight. Mascherano, Schweinsteiger and others have been warming up on the sidelines since the start of the second half.

The unsuccessful attacks after the opening once again made Ferguson walk out of the coaching bench, standing on the sidelines and shouting at the Manchester United players on the field from time to time, and behind him, some players on the Manchester United bench Get up and start warming up. Obviously, Ferguson has also started to make adjustments to the lineup on the field.

"Our current situation on the court is a bit troublesome!" Ferguson's assistant coach Mullenstin reminded him standing beside Ferguson.

Now when Kaiserslautern is defending on the field, the high-position press of the offensive four-man team in the frontcourt makes it very difficult for Manchester United to pass and receive the ball. Once the ball reaches Kaiserslautern's backcourt, Kaiserslautern Another set of defensive tactics, basically does not let you have a very comfortable passing line, forces you to keep moving forward and then get stuck in the dead corner and lose the chance to pass the ball.

On the other hand, Manchester United is a little impatient to attack, but this is also understandable. After all, Manchester United is now on the backward side, and Kaiserslautern has played more and more patiently as time goes by. The result is that Kaiserslautern is trying to slow down the rhythm, while Manchester United wants to increase the rhythm.

But Kaiserslautern is not blindly slow. When a counterattack opportunity is found, Kaiserslautern's counterattack speed will be very fast. This kind of fast and slow switching is very skillful.

"Let Ole warm up!" Ferguson said to Mullenstein.

On the other side, Jiang Feng saw Solskjaer standing up on the bench at Manchester United and began to walk to the sidelines to warm up. Jiang Feng knew that the final battle was coming. Ferguson played the card of Solskjaer, which represented the start of Manchester United. To give it a go.

Solskjaer is a very comprehensive player, and what is even more commendable is that he can excel in any position.

In the 69th minute of the game, Manchester United chose to make a substitution. What Jiang Feng didn't expect was that Solskjaer actually replaced Veron.

What Jiang Feng didn't expect was that Solskjaer helped Manchester United create a very good opportunity as soon as he played.

After Keane snatched the ball from De Rossi with a ferocious tackle from the back, he passed the ball directly to Beckham, who took the ball and found Scholes with a big diagonal pass. The player takes the ball directly to face Gattuso's defense.

At this time, it is reasonable that Solskjaer should retreat to meet Scholes, and De Rossi is also ready to help defend, but to everyone's surprise, Solskjaer did not choose this way, but directly Rush towards Kaiserslautern's defense.

This time trouble came, and De Rossi could only chase Solskjaer back. At this time, Ruud van Nistelrooy, who was at the front of the penalty area, suddenly made a reverse run, which directly caused a slight loophole in Kaiserslautern's defense.

When Jiang Feng on the sidelines saw Solskjaer and Ruud van Nistelrooy running forward and backward at the front of the penalty area, he was shocked immediately, because Jiang Feng also saw the pass from Scholes who had the ball. So Jiang Feng knew what was going to happen next.

Solskjaer picked the ball directly over Coloccini's head with a non-stop pick, and then wiped Coloccini and it was a volley.

Manchester United's attack was very fast from passing to shooting, which also made the Kaiserslautern players on the back line a little unresponsive.

At the critical moment, Cech, who had been highly focused, lived up to Jiang Feng's trust in him. Facing Solskjaer's shot, Cech swung the ball across the baseline with one hand.

At the moment when Cech blocked the ball from the bottom line, there was an exclamation and a sigh in the stands of Old Trafford almost at the same time. The sigh was the Manchester United fans, and the exclamation was Kaiserslaw Ten fans.

Manchester United corner.

Beckham came to the corner and there was chaos in the penalty area of ​​Kaiserslautern.

Beckham took the corner kick in an attempt to find Ruud van Nistelrooy. Metzelder was very steady this time, and after getting stuck in a favorable position, he made a timely clearance with his big foot, resolving the crisis this time.

Seeing that Manchester United's attack failed again, Jiang Feng was also relieved, and then immediately chose to make a substitution.

In the 74th minute of the game, Kaiserslautern made a substitution and Mascherano replaced Gattuso, who was physically exhausted. Following closely beside Solskjaer, Jiang Feng's intentions were very obvious. Aren't you a gold medal substitute?I'll just keep an eye on you.

Seeing that Solskjaer, whom he had just replaced, was immediately entangled by the opponent on the field, Ferguson on the sidelines also felt a little uncomfortable.

"What the hell, why is this bastard so difficult to deal with? It seems that he has studied us seriously!" Mullenstein said to Ferguson angrily.

In the 79th minute of the game, Manchester United chose to substitute again. Andy Cole replaced Giggs. Manchester United returned to the 442 formation again. Solskjaer came to the left. Jiang Feng knew that Manchester United began to make a final fight up.

The meaning is very clear, that is, to strengthen the offense.

Then Jiang Feng also made personnel adjustments almost at the same time. Iniesta replaced Kaka, and Schweinsteiger replaced De Rossi.

Although Kaka did not score a goal in this game, it can be said that he has made great contributions in sorting out the team's overall offense, so his physical strength is also relatively large, and the same is true for De Rossi. Jiang Feng's matchup The substitution also hopes to maintain the advantage in the midfield.