380. Overtake the lead
At the beginning of the second half, both sides immediately entered the state. After the intermission, everyone recovered a lot of energy, and the defenses on both sides became busy again.
The two head coaches, Wensheng and Ferguson, kept walking around the sidelines to direct the team's offense.
Their ideas are similar.
Everyone wants to take the initiative.
Although Ferguson felt that a draw would not kill him, he would never want to attack from the second half. If he could score first, he might get a win.
Wensheng thought so too.
The delay is behind others everywhere, and it is not a good feeling to be a chaser. As time goes by, physical fitness declines. Putting your hopes on substitution adjustments and the next twenty minutes is not a good choice.
We played back and forth for more than ten minutes, and both sides had few shots, and they rarely made mistakes on the defense line. Even Evans, a big colander on Manchester United, seemed to be quite steady today.
Seeing that the team's running ability decreased again, Wen Sheng quickly shouted loudly from the sidelines, "Control! Control! Control the ball!"
The team needs to stabilize the pace, and it is impossible to continue to attack the opponent as hard as the first half!
When the running ability is reduced, the team cannot maintain the compactness of the formation. There will definitely be a lot of problems in the offense and defense conversion, and it will be miserable if it is used by the opponent.
Of course, you can also continue to keep the team in the first half of the impact. Maybe the opponent may not collapse before you, but Wensheng does not need such an assumption. The assumption he is more willing to make is that he may collapse first and cannot maintain vitality on defense.
Wensheng directed the team to change its strategy, but Ferguson did not.
Ferguson hesitated for a moment, but it turned out to be a big mistake.
When Crystal Palace was deliberately making a fuss in the backcourt, Manchester United players seemed to see the opponent's weakness and kept trying to force their opponents. This was what they did in the first half, and the effect was average. At this moment, Crystal Palace wanted to control it again. Manchester United players all remembered Sir's instructions, "Crystal Palace cannot let it play its own rhythm!", so they pressed forward one after another to force Crystal Palace to quickly shoot the ball.
Then in the 62nd minute, Manchester United's bad luck came. Due to the pressure of the formation, Smalling was not focused and wanted to support Valencia. Who knew that in just a few seconds, after Crystal Palace intercepted the ball in the backcourt, Stroman made a long pass and accurately found Mertens on the right.
Mertens reached the corner of the penalty area, shook Evans, and then faced Ferdinand, who had been famous for a long time, was not at all nervous. He relied on Vardy's cover, made a fake pass, and shot at a small angle from the bottom. De Gea knelt down, his movements were very fast, but Mertens's shot was faster and his luck was quite good. The ball drilled De Gea's wicket and refracted into the net.
2:1!
Crystal Palace, who played away, came from behind and overtook the score!
Wensheng and the fans of Crystal Palace all jumped up!
Lawrence and the others rushed to Wensheng and hugged each other in a group.
"Damn, Dris's shot is so fucking beautiful!"
Everyone was excited and praised Mertens!
Mertens happily rode his short legs and rushed to the corner kick area to celebrate.
The players ran towards Mertens in a swarm, and Mertens was quickly submerged in the crowd.
"Oh yeah! Niu Bi!" Shushan Guest Zhang Liang yelled in the group.
"Niu Bi!"
"Even Ferdinand suffered a loss! Awesome!"
The fans in the group issued exclamation marks.
Not many people dare to play big swords in front of Ferdinand. This veteran Manchester United is their decisive defensive and calm mind. But it was Mertens who played him at this moment.
Fans who are familiar with Crystal Palace should know that Mertens does not often use dribbling. Under Wen Sheng's guidance, Mertens basically develops according to the style in Wen Sheng's memory, is good at teamwork, is good at running position, is accurate in shooting skills, and will occasionally make some flying immortals from the sky.
But this does not mean that Mertens will not be able to dribble the ball. He is extremely fast and his combination of man and ball is also great. His weakness is that his physical confrontation is more disadvantageous. Wensheng asked him to reduce dribbling and pay more attention to team cooperation and running positioning. This is also the reason.
In the Premier League, a player who is not considered a super-selling skill like Mertens, is at a disadvantage. If you let him dribble the ball and pass the ball, it will not only kill his talent in running and shooting skills, but also often easily be eaten by his opponents, which is completely unprofitable.
There is no shortage of strikers with small and very good skills in the history of the Premier League, such as Zora and later Hazard, and Mertens is not as high as theirs.
Zora has very good skills and is capable of getting rid of it on the spot. Hazard is the same. Their sense of balance is better than Mertens.
Wen Sheng used Mertens and Ferguson to use Ronaldo back then. When Ronaldo first debuted, he was fancy and passed the ball well, but what is his greatest talent? He is still a shooter. Ferguson transformed Ronaldo, and Ronaldo became a machine that scored goals.
The essence of football competition is to send the ball into the opponent's goal. Who cares about dribbling with a goal?!
The moment Mertens scored, Ferguson chewed gum much faster.
The old Lord wants to call Smalling a pig, and Evans is the mud that can't help but he can't help him!
During the break, Sir Alexander looked at Crystal Palace's goal several times, and had to admit that the lack of tacit understanding between De Gea and Smalling was the real reason for Manchester United's conceding, not a collision between Benatian.
At this moment, Smalling looked at the ball without caring about her butts.
He didn't know how many times he emphasized it, so he must focus on his attention during the game, especially the defender.
But this kid is too young, and it seems that he has not changed much.
Is Mertens that hard to keep an eye on?!
The Lord doesn't think so. If you are more focused, you won't be penetrated by someone with a long pass?!
As for Evans, Sir Alexander thought he had given the young players a lot of opportunities to play, but compared to the group of naughty young people in Crystal Palace, Sir Alexander began to doubt his vision. Comparing people with people is so angry that Evans is not a little bit away from that Benatia.
Evans is a little better, after all, he has made up for defense, but the defense is like a wooden stake.
"He doesn't concentrate, and he doesn't feel good about playing fullback! It's not the first time I missed Mertens, Smalling has to bear a lot of responsibility!" Reinkell was not very polite to the British Emperor Star, "Using him to hit the right back is simply a disaster!"
Ferguson also wants to replace people, who should I use?!
No one has changed the Lord, but unfortunately he is not Van Gaal. Master Van loves to transform players. Later, when he went to Manchester United, he transformed Valencia and Ashley Young into full-backs.
The lead of one goal did not defeat the morale of Manchester United. They were behind and launched a counterattack with a fierce attitude.
Crystal Palace received Wen Sheng's order. After scoring the goal, the formation immediately adjusted to 451, and An Anxin began to fight a defensive counterattack.
Wen Sheng’s intention in the second half was like this. If you can be ahead, you will play a defensive counterattack, which will make Manchester United anxious!
Ferguson actually had the same idea, but now Crystal Palace is leading, Ferguson can only ask Manchester United to attack.
A goal seemed to wake Manchester United up, their formation moved forward even further, but they did a very good job of restricting several key characters in Crystal Palace. Stroman played several effective long passes in this game, and Sir Jones also began to notice him. Carrick was getting closer and closer to him. As for De Bruyne, it seemed that his physical fitness had declined, and Phil Jones finally blocked him.
Wen Sheng's anticipated counterattack was not made at all, but it didn't matter. Manchester United's offensive was fierce and his shots increased, but there was still no absolute chance.
Sir Joe made a substitution in the 67th minute. Giggs played in the game and replaced Nani. Nani performed well, but he also played in the Champions League in the middle of the week. He collided with Ma Qiao at the beginning of the second half of the game. His ankle was a little sprained and his running was not so straightforward. Sir Joe's substitution was also considered by injury factors. He is the same as Wensheng, and he can't afford to be injured at all now.
Wen Sheng did not move, and he did not dare to take risks. The team's offense is not outstanding at the moment, but the defense is relatively stable, so he is afraid that the substitution adjustment will backfire.
Chapter completed!