Chapter 160: Win-win FA Cup (Part 2)

The goal was lost first, and Ferguson stood up from his seat. He stood on the sidelines. Although he said nothing, the Manchester United players felt huge pressure - the name of "hair dryer" is not in vain. Without being a player in Manchester United, you cannot experience the terrifying feeling of being scolded by Ferguson at his nose.

Nottingham Forest after leading the way seems to have forgotten that their opponent is Manchester United, the "Red Devils" Manchester United led by Sir Alex Ferguson, the best coach of the Premier League for ten years.

They just scored twelve minutes later, Manchester United tied the score.

The goal was England's Golden Boy Wayne Rooney. This time he fully utilized his personal ability. After receiving a pass from Roy Keane outside the penalty area, he used his outstanding explosive power to suddenly throw away Pique, then entered the penalty area and shot a ball. The football rushed straight to the back corner of the goal against the turf. Van der Sar was powerless in the face of such a tricky shot, and could only watch the football fly past his fingertips, then hit the back post and bounced into the goal...

Rooney was very excited after scoring the goal. He grabbed the jersey on his chest and demonstrated to 27,000 Forest fans of the city stadium.

The last time the two sides fought, Rooney did not score a goal and did not perform much in the whole game. He was criticized after the game, believing that his sluggish state was the key to Manchester United not winning the Forest. In this game, he finally vented his resentment with a beautiful goal.

Tang En saw such a strange scene off the court: the future main goalkeeper of Manchester United in his impression was blown open by Manchester United's main striker in the game. He remembered that there were still two and a half years before he had traveled through time, and he could control less and less futures, so he had to hurry up... Tang En was just considering this issue, so he forgot to feel annoyed about the loss of the ball.

Roy Keane is the captain of Manchester United, but he was once the hope star of the Forest team, just like George Wood now. Donne favors George Wood. Clauve also favors Roy Keane. But thirteen years have passed, Clauve has gone to the Kingdom of Heaven to compete for the top spot with God. Roy Keane returns to Nottingham wearing Manchester United jerseys. Although they are all red jerseys, the badge on their chests is different.

At the moment before the game started, Keane was welcomed like a tsunami in the city court, but when the game started, his performance made people unable to see how much he was loved here.

In this game, Don't have any difference from the previous lineup. Arteta, who just joined the team, didn't even make the roster and became an audience in the stands.

Roy Keane's range of activities in the midfield was even larger than the last time the two teams met. When defending Forest players, he was fierce and never avoided physical confrontation.

What excited the commentator was... the last time the two teams met, Keane and Wood did not have much direct conversation, but this time, thirty minutes passed in the first half, and Don and Wood had face-to-face twice, twice when Wood defended Keane, and another time when Keane took the initiative to rush up to cut off Wood's earth.

The result was Keane defeated Wood 3:0. In front of the mature and experienced Keane, Wood was as young as a newborn baby.

In this game, Ferguson obviously strengthened his supervision of Wood, which can be seen from Keane's snatch. In the last game, Forest equalized the score at the last moment. In addition to Wood's unexpected tenacity, Manchester United Forest also did not pay enough attention. The reason for not being familiar is that. Ferguson made very meticulous and sufficient preparations in this game. After the last round of the league, he spent five days studying Nottingham Forest, just like when he studied Wenger and later Mourinho.

Nottingham Forest is already a place where we need to let Manchester United and Ferguson go all out to deal with the enemy.

In this game, Manchester United's midfielder completely controlled the situation. After being equalized, Forest's morale declined and he was suppressed and could only choose to defend.

Tang En sat motionless in the coaching seat. He admitted that he had no good way to solve this situation. The team was too incited by him and lost his calm mind. In addition, Ferguson did study his team very carefully, and every tactic was targeted.

He meditated on the schedule for February in his mind and made a decision - to give up this FA Cup game. The team itself is fighting on two fronts: the league and the League Cup. There is no need to add another FA Cup now.

This season, Forest’s goal is not to win a domestic cup championship. From a longer-term perspective, playing the league well is the fundamentals.

In the second half, Forest made adjustments, replaced Albertini with Gunnarson, replaced Viduca with Crouch, and finally replaced Ashley Young with Allen Lennon.

It seems that changing three people in one breath is like giving up the game - although it is actually - but the effect produced is indeed the players who have been replaced are extremely desperate, causing great trouble for Manchester United.

The score on the electronic scoreboard was frozen at 1:1 for about twenty minutes, and the two sides were in a stalemate. It seemed that Don En would get another unexpected surprise. It was just in the 21st minute. Manchester United scored a goal.

The goal this time was Giggs. The direct free kick was not enough, and Van der Sar failed to save. The football came into the net!

Since Beckham left, Manchester United's first free kick has become Giggs, and this is not the first time he has scored a direct free kick.

Seeing Manchester United players celebrating the goal at their own stadium, Don and David Chris Lack looked at each other, without saying anything, just shrugging.

Then Forest launched a counterattack, but under Manchester United's strict defense, Carol did not face much test. Returning to the city court, Roy Keane was in an amazing state of condition. When defending, he defended the front of the penalty area alone. Since the midfield that Donne replaced was purely defensive, Forest did not have many ways to attack, and could only play long passes and rush, allowing the two sides to attack in turn, lacking delicate frontcourt cooperation and imaginative passes. It was difficult to win the game against Manchester United.

The ninety-minute game ended soon, Nottingham Forest lost 1:2 to Manchester United at home and was eliminated in the FA Cup.

At the post-match press conference, Tang En could not see any annoyance or reluctance on his face, but instead felt relieved.

"We can put more energy into the league and the League Cup, congratulations to Manchester United."

Ferguson, who won the ball, praised his opponent with a smile, thinking that Forests was very tenacious. After all, Ferguson also saw how strong Chelsea is this season. Now the gap between Manchester United and Chelsea is eleven points in the league standings, and it is almost impossible to reverse. Compared to being empty-handed by the end of the season, it is also good to win a FA Cup championship. He is so happy that it makes sense.

After the press conference, Ferguson invited Donn to have a drink together, but Donnn did not refuse.

This should have been an invitation made by the home team coach. Now that Ferguson is so proactive, it can be seen that his good mood at the press conference is from the bottom of his heart.

Looking at the two head coaches who were smiling, the reporters really don’t know how to comment on the significance of this game to the two teams... Is this a win-win situation?
Chapter completed!