roccoschili Chapter 206 Portsmouth
Chapter 206 Portsmouth
Chapter 206 Portsmouth
On August 8, the second round of the Premier League began.
Manchester United, a guest at Fratton Park, against Portsmouth.
In this game, Rooney, Giggs and others were injured, and Manchester United made some adjustments to the starting lineup.
Manchester United still uses a 4-3-3 formation.
In the goalkeeper position, Van der Sar still starts.
On the back line, Rio Ferdinand and Vidic continued to partner at the center back, while Evra and Wes Brown served as both side backs.
The midfield trio is Scholes, Carrick, and Sun Qi.
On the front line, Ronaldo and David Silva are separated on both sides, and Ivica Olić starts the game.
Against Portsmouth, Manchester United almost stumbled against Portsmouth in the critical stage of last season's league championship. This time, Manchester United also did not underestimate this tenacious Pompeii team. Ranked the current strongest lineup.
However, Rooney and Giggs were absent due to injuries, and new aids Ivica Olic and David Silva replaced the starters. How effective it is remains to be tested in the game.
Portsmouth, on the other hand, adopted a 4-3-2-1 formation.
The goalkeeper position, David James is irreplaceable.
At the back line, Martin Clooney and Sylvani Distin served as the starting central defenders, while Noah Parmalot and Herman Herman Heredason were separated as full-backs.
The midfield trio is Pedro Mendes, Shawn Davis, and Ali Muntari.
The two shadow forwards are played by John Utaka and Benjani Mwaruwari.
These two players from Africa have both speed and body, can shoot well, and have good physical strength. They are the key points in the Portsmouth team lineup. They are responsible for finding opportunities to score and contain Manchester United as much as possible. Defensive line to ease the pressure on Portsmouth's defense.
The single arrow at the top is Duff Nugent.
In the Premier League last season, after a strong reversal by Ferguson's team, Portsmouth coach Harry Redknapp attached great importance to this game.
Now is the beginning of the season. He has seen the fierce attacking firepower of the defending champion Manchester United from the last round of the league. He really does not want Portsmouth to be swept away by Manchester United.
In order to stabilize the defense and limit Manchester United's midfielders, Harry Redknapp arranged a three-midfielder, plus two shadow forwards, hoping to compete with Manchester United's three-midfielder.
At least, Harry Redknapp hopes, this formation can limit Scholes, and Carrick.
As for Sun Qi, Harry Redknapp has seen that he is strong and extremely difficult to defend. He can only hope that Ali Muntari and Sean Davis are as energetic, active in running, and defensive. A strong midfielder can bring certain restrictions to Sun Qi.
Wanting to completely guard against Sun Qi, Harry Redknapp has not found a better way for the time being, and can only hope that the midfielder will actively run, defend hard, and cut off Sun Qi from the rest of the Manchester United team as much as possible. The connection between players, let Sun Qi get the ball as little as possible.
After all, Sun Qi with the ball is too much of a threat.
Since it is difficult to prevent Sun Qi's breakthrough and pass, he can only think one step ahead, so that Sun Qi can't get the pass so easily, and cut off the connection between Sun Qi and other Manchester United players as much as possible. .
This should be the most effective way to defend Sun Qi.
It's a pity that Portsmouth's defensive core, Sol Campbell, suffered a groin strain and was unable to play. It still made Portsmouth's defense some uncertain factors, and it also made Harry Redknapp unable to help. worried.
Speaking of which, when he played against Manchester United in the league last season, Sol Campbell suddenly developed a high fever before the game and was not able to play the game.
I really don't know, is it Sol Campbell's nightmare against Manchester United? Why do you always encounter injuries?
None of the players on the field knew about Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp's thoughts.
At this moment, the game started, and the two sides had already launched a battle in the midfield.
Manchester United kicked off first, and Scholes passed it to Sun Qi.
Sun Qi took the ball forward by himself.
Seeing Benjani Mwaluwari and Ali Muntari come to defend aggressively, Sun Qi did not stick the ball, but chose to cross the ball to Carrick.
Carrick controlled the tempo and crossed the ball to Wes Brown on the right.
Wes Brown took a few steps forward, and then passed straight to Ronaldo in front.
Cristiano Ronaldo held the ball and swayed his upper body, tricking Sean Davis into shifting his center of gravity, but Ronaldo knocked the ball to the side, turned around neatly, and passed Sean Davis in one fell swoop.
When there is space, Ronaldo drives the ball forward by himself.
But soon, Herman Herradson came to make up the defense, and Ronaldo immediately stepped on his bicycle.
Seeing this, Herman Heradesson didn't dare to make a move easily, but stepped back in small steps, and was ready at any time, looking for opportunities to intercept.
At the same time, Pedro Mendes and Sean Davis also surrounded Ronaldo.
Seeing that the breakthrough space was compressed, Ronaldo chose to hit Scholes in the middle to support him.
Scholes took the ball, turned, got rid of Ali Muntari and slid the ball straight to the left.
David Silva made a quick start, deftly avoiding Noah Palmalot's entanglement, and successfully received Scholes's pass, and took the opportunity to slam into the Portsmouth box.
Realizing that something was wrong, central defender Martin Clooney hurried over to defend.
However, with Martin Clonney's run, there was an empty space in the middle of the penalty area for the Portsmouth team.
Capturing this opportunity, David Silva immediately flicked the ball to the center, and the ball quickly passed Martin Clooney's side and fell into Ivica Olic near the center penalty spot. Not far ahead.
Ivica Olic started quickly, throwing Pedro Mendes aside in one fell swoop, running out of space and volleying towards the ball.
But this time, David James reacted quickly, pounced sideways, and blocked Ivica Olic's shot from the bottom line.
Corner chance, taken by David Silva.
There are many header masters in the lineups of both sides. When fighting for positions, it is inevitable that there will be some physical conflicts, which are very common.
Among them, Vidic fought fiercely with Dave Nugent, pushing and shoving each other, their movements were a bit big, and their anger also surged.
Referee Ben Knight noticed the situation and rushed over to separate the pair, giving each a verbal warning.
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