host must win

Chapter 305 Ruud and Ronaldo

After Ferguson swears unhappily, he shouted at the players. He called Keane over and explained the opportunity face to face.His tactics are very straightforward, continue to defend, the goal has already been conceded, don't be upset, don't think about it.

The goal now is not to concede any more goals and keep the 1:1 half-time score.

To be honest, Ferguson was angry when he was equalized by Arsenal, but he was not as frustrated as the commentator imagined.

1:0 ended the first half of the game, which was the best result.However, 1:1 is not unacceptable.

It is impossible for Arsenal to accept the result of being tied by Manchester United at home, 1:1 at halftime, and Arsenal will inevitably attack desperately in the second half of the game.

1:0和1:1, 起到的效果差不多。当然，弗格森还是喜欢1:0。

In the end, in the remaining few minutes of the game, Arsenal hoped to make persistent efforts and take advantage of the momentum to score another goal to overtake the score.But Manchester United's defense was very successful. Despite some embarrassment, they finally managed to defend the 1:1 draw.

The camera captured that when the referee blew the whistle to end the first half, the Manchester United coach breathed a sigh of relief and even smiled.

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During the half-time break, in the visiting team's dressing room at Highbury Stadium, Ferguson made a confusing decision: "In the second half, Cristiano came on and replaced Ruud."

The players were amazed.

Someone looked at Ronaldo and found that Ronaldo was also surprised.

Someone also looked at Fanny, Fanny looked stunned, and then lowered his head.

Ferguson added: "Ryan's position is withdrawn to the midfielder, and Cristiano's position is the center forward."

The players were even more surprised. Is this a 4411 formation?It seems that the old man is planning to carry the dog's way to the end at Highbury Stadium.

Although the players understood what Ferguson meant, they were unavoidably surprised. Ronaldo used to play on both sides. He could play either as a left or right midfielder or as a winger, but he never played as a center forward.

"Yin, your position is slightly retreated, and Cristiano is at the front." Ferguson said to Yin Jun, "We need to use Cristiano's speed."

"If you have a chance to counterattack, pass the ball to Cristiano," Ferguson said.

Yin Jun nodded. He is the offensive organizer of this Manchester United team. Ferguson is reminding him to pass the ball more to Ronaldo.

"Cristiano, your task is to stay in front, use your speed advantage, and fight Arsenal's counterattack!"

"Go and score!"

"Break the Arsenal goal!"

"Okay, coach!" Ronaldo said loudly.

Although the head coach arranged for him to play the center forward position that he had never played before, according to the coach's tone, he was entrusted with the task of scoring goals, which also made Ronaldo very excited.

In the first half, when he saw Yin Jun and Henry scoring goals against each other on the field, he couldn't help but wanted to play.I didn't expect the opportunity to come so quickly, and I could play at halftime.

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Compared to Ronaldo's excitement, Van Nistelrooy, who was replaced, was very unhappy, even a little angry.

As the core of Manchester United's offense in the past few years, he is almost Manchester United's trump card.However, starting this season, Van Nistelrooy has a growing sense of crisis, that is, his position in Ferguson's mind is getting lighter and lighter.

In the first half of the game, although he worked very hard in the game, he was unable to score a goal and helped the team lead the score.Not only that, he also witnessed the outstanding performance of Yin Jun and Henry.

Thinking of last season, I was still fighting Henry for the Premier League Golden Boot and the best player.But so far this season, he has almost been eliminated early in the competition for these two items.

In the scorer list, he has only scored 16 goals so far, and Yin Jun, who is behind the leader of the list, has more than 10 goals. Compared with Henry, he has 6 goals less, and there is almost no hope of catching up.

As a striker, so far behind in the goalscoring table, there is no possibility of competing for the best player at all.

Thinking of the beginning of the season, when Yin Jun said that he would compete for the Premier League Golden Boot this season, and even said that he would score 30 league goals in the season, although he didn't say it, he felt a little disapproving in his heart.

However, so far in the season, Yin Jun has scored 27 goals, and it is almost no surprise to complete the goal of 30 goals in the season.

Yin Jun performed well, and it's nothing more than stealing the spotlight, so what's the right of that Portuguese kid?
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The 15-minute half-time break will soon be over, and the players begin to return to the court.Ferguson called to stop Ruud.

Fanny was sullen and obviously in a bad mood.

"Relax, I replaced you, not because of your poor performance." Ferguson said.

Van Nistelrooy looked up at Ferguson. He had been sulking just now and was replaced at halftime. Generally speaking, it was because the head coach was not satisfied with the performance of the players.And Ruud felt that he was working hard and his performance was not bad, so he was even more depressed.

"You were replaced because of tactical choices." Ferguson didn't explain too much, "I didn't need to explain anything, but why did I ask you to talk about this, do you know?"

Fanny shook his head, but he was in a much better mood.

"Because you are a player I value, and I don't want your enthusiasm to be dampened." Ferguson said with a smile, and patted Van Nistelrooy on the shoulder, "Go."

After such an outburst, Fonny, who was still depressed just now, felt a little better and returned to the bench.

Before the start of the second half, Manchester United requested a substitution. No. 10 Ruud van Nistelrooy was replaced and No. [-] Cristiano Ronaldo played.

Wenger rested his chin. He didn't expect Ferguson to make personnel adjustments so early, and he didn't expect Ferguson to replace Ruud van Nistelrooy, who performed well in the first half.

Ronaldo's technical characteristics began to emerge in Wenger's mind. Well, for this, Wenger's brain was full of information, and he immediately took a seat.

Cristiano Ronaldo was also a young talent he was very optimistic about at the beginning, but it was a pity that he finally joined Manchester United.And after joining Manchester United, this kid has also performed well. Although he can't keep up with another monster in the Manchester United team, he can definitely be said to have performed well.

However, Ronaldo usually appears on the wing in Manchester United, sometimes on the left, sometimes on the right, sometimes in midfield, sometimes as a winger, and they all performed well.

It's just that after Wenger thought about it, Ronaldo didn't seem to have played a center forward.

What the hell is this old guy doing?

Wenger was a little confused, and he glanced at the coaching bench of the visiting team.He didn't think that Ferguson was in a daze and made this substitution adjustment.

Having competed with Ferguson in the Premier League for many years, Wenger is too aware of Ferguson's ability.

What does this substitution mean?

(End of this chapter)