December 9, 2004, Istanbul, Turkey.

"Dong, you need more involvement and running, and try to give Rooneyla more shot space."

"Ronaldo, the midfielder reduces dribbling and improves offensive speed, but near the penalty area, you can show off your slutty work."

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In this game, Dong Fangzhuo was positioned as a winger by Ferguson, mainly paving the way for Rooney's goal.

In the away game to Fenerbahce, Manchester United only needs a draw to ensure that they qualify as the first in the group. Even if Lyon in the same group wins the last Sparta Prague at home, they can only rank second in the group unless Manchester United loses this game.

Judging from the odds given by Spinach before the game, it is almost impossible for Manchester United to lose away games. Spinach is optimistic that Manchester United will get points away games.

Even if Fenerbahce wins Manchester United, they will not be able to get the qualifying place in the Champions League group. Even if they add three points, they will not be able to catch up with Manchester United and Lyon. However, they are only a three-pointer away from Sparta Prague, the last place in the group. If they lose to Manchester United at home and Sparta Prague wins Lyon away, they will not even be eligible to participate in the UEFA Cup and will be counterattacked by Sparta Prague.

So Fenerbahce actually needs at least one draw.

The best result is naturally a tie.

But both sides can't play tacitly, so naturally they can only do the main players. Ferguson made another adjustment in the starting lineup, and this adjustment is completely different from before.

In training, he had tried to change the traditional 442 to the 433 formation, but he had not taken action. This time he really put the 433 formation into the game.

It was a very disadvantage for Dong Fangzhuo, because he played the left winger position rather than the middle lane. Some of them were like Smith's previous position. In the 442-large formation, although Smith was theoretically a wing forward, he appeared more as a winger. Now Dong Fangzhuo has been forcibly transformed by Ferguson.

Of course, Dong Fangzhuo's left winger is just a cover. Unlike Smith, he is not fixed in that position. In fact, Rooney and Dong Fangzhuo are still ahead, but he needs to pull to the side frequently.

The most important guy in this formation is actually Ronaldo and Ferguson wanted to fully liberate Ronaldo and changed the formation. He had discovered long ago that the closer Ronaldo is to the goal, the greater the threat.

This also triggered a change in the midfield personnel. In the midfield position, Ferguson ranked Fletcher this time, Kleberson and Scholes Fletcher were on the right, Scholes was in the center, and Cleberson was on the left. This was definitely a bold change of formation.

"This formation change is very dangerous. After all, it has not been used in actual combat." Reinkell expressed concern. "Sir, who is very skilled and brave. Changing the formation in such an important game is trust in the first three boys. Of course, Giggs sat on the bench. Once he found that the formation change was not good, he would immediately change back to his original formation."

"Ferguson also seemed to have reached some kind of agreement with Vanny, summoning Vanny back, and not allowing him to go on vacation like Smith. Vanny is still sitting on the bench, and his expression seems to be much calmer today. You should know that Vanny is currently the top scorer in the Champions League, and Ferguson cannot really abandon him."

Although Dong Fangzhuo's position is a bit of a disadvantage, his flexibility is quite high. He can pull the edges or pull it to the middle, and if necessary, he can also switch positions with Ronaldo. This is a brand new position.

But for Dong Fangzhuo, it is also full of challenges, because his shortcomings are too obvious, his feet are not skilled enough, and his breakthrough ability is weak, so if he performs well, he will naturally not need much. If he does not perform well, his shortcomings will be fully revealed.

Of course, Rooney is the one who benefits the most. He is in the middle, so his offensive points are all coming to him, especially the interaction with Ronaldo, where they can play a high-level cooperation.

Of course, Dong Fangzhuo is not without benefits. Although he lost more opportunities to get close to the goal and created space for Rooney, this thing is relative. Rooney and Ronaldo attracted most of the firepower. He also had the opportunity to take advantage of the left side and occasionally he could pass long lines with Ronaldo. At least in training, the effect was good.

At the beginning, Rooney seemed very excited. You should know that Rooney's debut for Manchester United was against Fenerbahce at home, and Rooney scored a hat-trick. Now on the away game, Rooney naturally wanted to continue to play his brave state in the first round.

But he has now become a thorn in the eyes of Fenerbahce players, and he will definitely not let Rooney humiliate them again. So after the opening, Rooney was stared tightly by the opponent's two players at noon. Rooney basically has no chance to get the ball. At a young age, he was attacked by two central defenders. This is definitely a supreme honor.

On the contrary, Dong Fangzhuo was on the left, but was only defended by the opponent's right back, and there was no pressure like Rooney in the middle. However, when the ball reached his feet, he basically passed the ball to his teammates as soon as possible, and he chose to go ahead without the ball. He always believed that technical breakthrough was always the second option.

Fenerbahce is not easy to mess with. In order to avenge the 2-6 away defeat, they tried their best. Rooney and Dong Fangzhuo were always stuck to death by their defenders. Only Rooney was still active. He kept moving closer to the middle and relied on cooperation with Scholes and Fletcher to tear Fenerbahce's midfield defense repeatedly. However, when he broke into the front of the penalty area, he had no way to start. The defense was too dense, and the strength of a person was not enough. After trying to shoot two shots in front of the penalty area, Rooney changed his mind and still sought cooperation between Rooney and Dong Fangzhuo.

But the ball cannot be passed.

It was far from enough to have only one Ronaldo. Fenerbahce held them tightly, and if Giggs were on the left, the effect might be much better.

But now the opening is only about ten minutes, and Ferguson cannot make adjustments now. It can only be said that Claiberson and Dong Fangzhuo on the left need to make an argument on the offense.

The right and middle lanes were blocked, and Scholes had to try to mobilize the attack to the left.

Even though he knew that Dong Fangzhuo did not have Giggs' strong breakthrough ability on the left, Scholes pushed the ball to him.

Dong Fangzhuo was not afraid of breaking through with the ball, but he just reduced such entanglements before.

Facing Scholes' oblique plug, Dong Fangzhuo didn't play complicated things, just one move -

Running along the ball, he added force forward when he received the ball with his left foot, kicking the ball more than two meters ahead, and then relying on his powerful explosive power to instantly get rid of the opponent's entanglement. When he chased the ball again, he directly made a cross with his left foot.

He doesn't have that many tricks. If he can use one action to kill his opponent, he will never use the extra second action.

Not good-looking, but very practical.

lob!

The ball roared and flew through Fenerbahce's penalty area in a high arc.

It seems that the force is too strong! Everyone thinks so.

Everyone's eyes follow the flying route of the ball.

"What a fool pass."

"The feet are extremely smelly!"

The crossing ball was not passed to the penalty area, but through the penalty area, so naturally no one would like it.

But the next moment, everyone was stunned!

Dong Fangzhuo's cross was not a big pass, but was deliberately passed like this. Because Ronaldo on the right instantly got rid of the entanglement of Fenerbahce's left-back and rushed directly. Dong Fangzhuo's over-top cross turned out to be with enough purpose, and he was just looking for Ronaldo!

The two of them formed a good tacit understanding, which was not aimless at all.

Ronaldo successfully removed the ball, and when the left back of Fenerbahce arrived, he hit the right foot with just the right tap and the left back lost.

At this moment, Dong Fangzhuo was already running back in the back triangle on the left! Rooney led two central defenders to the small penalty area.

Ronaldo's left foot pushed the earth into the middle.

At this moment, no one followed Dong Fangzhuo. The closest to him was Fenerbahce's two midfielders, but no one could catch up with Dong Fangzhuo's shooting posture.

Bang--

His right foot was accurately pulled on the ball, and the ball roared towards the upper left corner of the goal.

But at this time, a central defender who was originally guarding Rooney jumped to the left and flew to block the gun hole!

Unfortunately, the ball hit the opponent's left thigh and popped out of the penalty area.

The petite Scholes didn't wait for the ball to land outside the penalty area, and aimed at the opportunity of the ball falling, and shot directly in the air with his left foot, which tasted like the flying fairy kicked by Qi Zu in 2002.

call--

This time, the ball changed direction and flew to the other side.

However, Zizu's shot was suppressed, and Scholes's shot finally spun upwards into the sky, all of whom were midfield masters, but Scholes was still a piece short of Zidane.

However, during the flight of the ball, it seemed that it encountered the opponent's defender and was lucky to be awarded a corner kick.

Scholes shook his head, feeling very sorry for his shot, and ran to the corner flag.

He looked up at the penalty area. Manchester United had not invested much offensive force, and only four people were cruising in the penalty area.

He didn't think much about it, and he just took the ball and started the front point.

Dong Fangzhuo struggled in the middle lane for a moment, instantly got rid of the entanglement, rushed to the front point, aimed at the landing point of the ball, and looked back at the moon with one move!

He successfully hit the back point of the ball.

Seeing the ball roaring, Rooney poked his head out at the back point with all his strength, but he was still half a beat slower and didn't touch the ball!

The ball went out of the bottom line...

"Dong is everywhere!"

"What a pity that these three opportunities..."
Chapter completed!