At this moment, the stadium is full of applause and cheers, which are given to their home team by Manchester United fans.
The visiting team did not deliberately boo. Manchester United fans firmly believe that thunderous clapping and cheering are enough to put enough pressure on the visiting Lazio players.
Then the captains of the two sides shook hands, exchanged team flags and picked sides …
After the ceremony, the game was over.
At the referee’s whistle, Manchester United’s starting striker Rooney stepped forward and gently rubbed the football into Lazio’s half-time game.
"Hello, audience friends, welcome to watch the live broadcast of the’ Earth Defence War’!" The commentator joked about the broadcast of the game.
"This game is called" the Defence of the Earth "by the media for a reason. Lazio has a strong season, whether in the national league or the Champions League and the national cup, including the first two super cups and the World Club Cup in the season … all official competitions have maintained a winning record! This performance has never been done by a team before! Generally speaking, it is not easy to remain unbeaten in a season’s league. Lazio has kept winning! Such amazing results make Lazio look like an alien planet. Their achievements are not what the earth team can do … "
"Manchester United lost 1-0 to Lazio in the first leg away from home. They are the most promising team to end Lazio’s victory at present. This game is also known as the’ Defence of the Earth’. So can Manchester United really successfully defend the earth? Let’s wipe our eyes! "
In this game, Manchester United’s tactics are offensive, but they are not the kind that ignore a crazy attack.
Still have to fear Lazio’s attack …
Lazio’s offensive power is the first in all European football.
If Manchester United really ignore everything and take advantage of their home court advantage to go crazy against Lazio at home, it will definitely die in the end. It’s crazy …
Ferguson still has a clear understanding of this.
Manchester United’s strategy is actually another kind of defensive counterattack.
The first is to defend actively to ensure that you don’t lose the ball first.
This is similar to Juventus’ tactical thinking in the match against Lazio.
Not concede a goal first is a prerequisite for beating Lazio.
Once Lazio score first, everything will be over.
In the defensive way, it is naturally a high position to force.
This is also Juventus’ choice
In fact, the best defensive way to deal with this kind of Lazio ball-control team is definitely not contraction defense, but high defense
For example, now in Europe, more teams have adopted high defense against Barcelona, and the effect is quite good. Although it may not be possible to beat Barcelona, Barcelona’s advantage in the game is not as great as before.
Defending Manchester United definitely refers to the tactics of many European teams.
Without conceding the goal first, then considering that the match between Lazio and Juventus will affect Lazio’s physical fitness more or less, Manchester United should deal with Lazio patiently and consume Lazio’s physical fitness as much as possible. Finally, when they are healthy, Manchester United will suddenly make efforts to score goals!
A goal can drag the game into overtime.
The 30-minute overtime is a severe test for both sides’ physical fitness, but this main lineup of Manchester United in the weekend league didn’t play physical strength. He was confident and took the lead
Lazio has rotated in a league round, but not all departments have rotated.
If the game goes into extra time, Manchester United will copy the first round. They will play away from home and drag the score to a penalty shoot-out and then fight Lazio on penalty kicks. Manchester United has specially practiced penalty kicks in the past six days.
Manchester United’s coaching staff also specially watched the video of Lazio kicking a penalty several times, from which the technical characteristics and habits of everyone when Lazio players kicked a penalty were studied and analyzed.
Then write it into the video analysis report and hand it over to the coaching staff for targeted training. If it is really time to take a penalty kick, Van der Sar will receive a note describing in detail the habit of each Lazio player taking a penalty kick.
According to this note, the United coaching staff is confident that the success rate of Van der Sar’s penalty kick will increase by 20%
This is a scary success rate …
Playing penalty against Lazio was inspired by Naples, which had planned to do so in the Italian Cup against Lazio, but they failed because of insufficient physical preparation in the end.
It can be seen that this Manchester United team was really influenced by the experience of many other teams and Lazio when preparing for Lazio. They referred to these examples and then summarized the strategies suitable for Manchester United.
It’s really a battle to defend the earth …
Manchester United, the director of many families, wants Lazio to have a peak matchup!
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In the first game, Manchester United took advantage of their first goal and launched a fierce grab for Lazio positions.
This kind of high-ranking grab has also created some troubles for Lazio.
Lazio players have to speed up the ball in the backcourt.
But the game just hasn’t entered the rhythm so easily.
Being robbed by Manchester United seems to be in a hurry.
It can be seen that Manchester United has indeed made very detailed and sufficient arrangements at their own home.
It is also reasonable for the media to be optimistic about them
By grabbing Manchester United from a high position, he took the initiative in the game.
In the first ten minutes of technical statistics, Manchester United surpassed Lazio in many key data.
Of course, when Manchester United achieved this result, this time no commentator was in a hurry to announce that Manchester United had suppressed Lazio and that Manchester United had praised it.
They have long understood the point of suppressing Lazio. If they can’t get the lead, this advantage will disappear.
Before Manchester United took the lead, these commentators dared not do so even if they wanted to praise them.
They are also afraid of "losing people" …
However, they didn’t hold back for long. In the twelfth minute, Manchester United forced chiellini to foul at the front of the penalty area through the high position in the frontcourt.
The referee gave Manchester United an Italian ball 23 meters from the goal.
Then Rooney got in front of the football.
Manchester United fans in the stands cheered for Rooney’s penalty kick.
Rooney is not Manchester United’s top scorer, but he does have a record of scoring by taking a penalty kick.
Moreover, because he doesn’t care too much about kicking the ball and his hands are not famous, the goalkeeper Handanovic doesn’t know much about the characteristics and route of his intentional kick, so it can really rely on reaction to achieve effective prediction.
It is so close …
Once the football bypasses the wall, it is very close to the goal!
The goalkeeper’s reaction at that time is often whether to come or not.
Of course, if the ball is too close to the goal, it is easy to master the strength and radian, which will lead to the football kicking.
So this position is beneficial to both offensive and defensive sides.
Lazio lined up a full six people on the wall to completely seal the near corner of the goal, and then Handanovic stood in the center of the goal at the edge of the wall.
This position will be slightly blocked from the line of sight, but it is close to both goalposts, and Rooney will react no matter which way he kicks.
The human wall was finally completely erected, and Rooney also set up the football.
Both sides are ready to wait for the referee to blow his whistle.
It had been noisy before, and old Trafford suddenly became quiet at this time-so everyone clearly heard the referee whistling!