Chapter 139 Dilemma (Part 2)

Hearing Tang En's last words, the fourth official walked up. Tang En glanced at the other party and turned back to the coach's seat. Seeing Tang En walk back, the fourth official also turned back to his position, and had no intention of delving into this issue. He knew very well what kind of coach Tony Tang En was, and this has spread in the referee circle. Sometimes it is better to have less things than more things.

The referee stopped the game obviously because Roy Keane had just fouled against Wood - raised his foot too high.  A little further up, you can kick Wood's chin...

But the Nottingham Forest players were even more dissatisfied than the foul. Manchester United players seized the time to run back to defend. Forest team captain Dmitrio Albertini stood in front of the referee and expressed his doubts about his previous call: "Sir, that's our offense. According to the principle of favorability, you can't..."

The referee shook his head: "I have my own standards, and the Manchester United captain's foul must be punished." At this point, he waved his hand and called Roy Keane over, then raised his hand and gave him a yellow card.

Keane turned around and ran back without defending himself. The kick he just now was intentional, because before that, he saw the situation around him. Gary Neville was a bit far away and Ronaldo was still near the baseline. If he didn't receive the ball, it would definitely cause a counterattack from the opponent. It would be better to take the initiative to foul and buy time for the team to return to defense.

It's too cost-effective to get a yellow card to get an opponent's fast attack miscarriage.

Wood was also incomprehensible about this kind of punishment. It is logical that the referee called the other party foul to protect his own interests, but why was the last result of the other party's interests protected? He pointed to his arm and said to Albertini: "I'm fine, why should I stop blowing?"

Albertini looked at Wood and smiled bitterly: "Because we are away. You did a good job, George."

The scene of the foul just now was replaying on the TV. Wood jumped up toward Keane. He could not see Keane's legs swinging, but he did not hide, but raised his head and pushed the ball out. Keane also confiscated his feet, stopped his right foot in the air, waiting for Wood to hit him.

"Kean raised his foot too high! He had no intention of closing his foot at all..." the commentator shook his head. This was Roy Kean's style.

After the game started again, because Manchester United reclaimed their defense, the attack launched by Forest in the backcourt was not threatening. When they were trapped in positional battles, Forest had fewer ways because they lacked a purely organized midfielder. After all, Albertini was just a midfielder and sometimes he could not completely replace the front midfielder.

The Forest's offense ended in vain.

Twenty minutes ago, Forests could still compete with Manchester United, but with Keane's goal, the initiative in the game fell completely into the hands of Manchester United. Their offensive was thunderous, suppressing Forest's attack. Nottingham Forest could only defend for a long time. Occasionally, several sneak attacks could not pose any great threat to the defense line led by Rio Ferdinand.

Ribery, who had been performing stably in the first two months, almost disappeared during the offensive field because he was competing with Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Portuguese felt good about himself today because the opponent in front of him was really not very good and could allow him to break through.

This time is no exception.

Ribery is not good at defense. She just relies on her unyielding spirit to get involved with Ronaldo. But after all, defense cannot be achieved by just one force.

Ribery learned his lesson this time. When Ronaldo kept making fake moves, he did not rush to make a move, but followed the opponent's pace. He only looked at Ronaldo and forgot that he had retreated to the penalty area line.

Ronaldo, who was driving the ball, found that Ribery was still focusing all his attention on the ball under his feet. He smiled again. He raised his foot and swayed it on the ball, looking like he wanted to push the ball towards the bottom line, and then forcibly break through or cross from the outside.

If the speed is compared, Ribery is not afraid of the Portuguese at all. He starts immediately, hoping to kick the football out in front of Ronaldo.

Ronaldo made a crossing move, Ribery stretched out his leg to block, completely blocking Ronaldo's passing route. The price was that he lost all his focus.

The Portuguese boy was waiting for the moment when Ribery lost his patience. Seeing Ribery fly out to block his pass, his ankle trembled, and turned the pass into a buckle, and knocked the ball from behind Ribery.

He thought he had deceived Ribery, but he didn't expect that he had been deceived by Ribery!

It seemed that Ribery threw out the center of gravity of her body. There should be no way to face the ball. Unexpectedly, after Ronaldo dunked the ball over, he found that Ribery had one leg behind! The football hit his foot. He deviated from the route he had expected. He could no longer control the ball under his feet.

It's so damn!

Ronaldo saw Ribery's legs without any hesitation. Change direction. Turn around, break through... hanging his legs up, then rushed forward and pounced on the penalty area!

The referee's whistle sounded amid the huge booing and cheers of Old Trafford. He ran to the penalty area and pointed at the penalty spot!

"Punishment! Ribery tripped Ronaldo!"

When Ribery heard the referee's whistle, his first reaction was that Ronaldo was faked to fall, but when he turned around and saw the referee pointing his hand at the penalty spot, he jumped up from the ground and rushed towards the referee. Fortunately, Matthew Epson was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and stopped the impulsive guy, otherwise the lightest yellow card would not be able to escape.

Not everyone was as calm as Epson. Ashley Young rushed to the front of the referee and loudly questioned him about the penalty. He thought Ronaldo was a fake fall and should give Ronaldo a yellow card. What did he get? A yellow card.

Albertini pushed out all his teammates who planned to come to the referee to "theory".  He should be the captain who defended the referee.   Although he didn't see it clearly just now, based on experience, he thought Ronaldo fell a bit exaggerated.

The referee shook his head and insisted on his own judgment. He stood by the penalty spot, raised his right arm, and signaled Manchester United to come and give the penalty.

Ronaldo and his teammates hugged each other to celebrate the penalty.

Ribery bit her lip and stared at the cheerful Portuguese.

Tang En on the sidelines was also very dissatisfied with the penalty. He angrily roared to the fourth official: "Firstly, he ignored the principle of favorable attack, and now he has made a fake fall a penalty!"

"Mr. Tang En, please calm down." The fourth official had a stern face and was not afraid of Tang En's saliva.

"I'm very calm!" Tang En knew that the result could not be changed, but he just couldn't accept the reality of falling behind Manchester United 0:2 in the first half.

Angry, he turned around and walked back, stood on the sidelines, watching Van Nistruy send the penalty into the goal guarded by Darren Ward, and then another huge cheer sounded at Old Trafford Stadium.
Chapter completed!