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Stoke City took the lead in teeing off.

Stoke City has given the highest respect to the powerful Manchester United. Their two strikers did not even advance after passing the ball in the middle circle and stayed in the middle circle to meet their own midfielders.

After a few passes of the ball in Stoke's midfielder, he immediately kicked the ball to Manchester United in the half and handed the ball to Manchester United.

Ferguson looked very speechless. He had long known that Stoke City would give the ball to Manchester United, playing defensive counterattacks, or even defending counterattacks, but he didn't expect Pulis to play so thoroughly after the opening game, even feigning attacks. Don't attack.

The on-site commentator He Hui joked: "It seems that Stoke City doesn't want to give Manchester United any more space. Manchester Lenovo's win depends on its ability to break the bus."

For Stoke's tactics, Manchester United was fully prepared in advance. After getting the ball, Manchester United immediately passed the ball to Nani and attacked from the side.

Attacking from the side, opening up the space, breaking through the middle, this is a conventional tactic for breaking dense defense.

Obviously, Stoke City was more fully prepared after Nani took the ball, full-back Pennant quickly withdrew and defended Nani with full-back Wilkins.

There was no space, and there were two defenders. Nani didn't dare to rush forward against the scalp. He took control of the ball and waited for his full-back Evra to assist to open the opponent's defense.

Evra saw the opponent's conservativeness and the assists came up quickly. He quickly cut forward, attracted Pennant's defense, and gave Wilkins to Nani.

Wilkins is not such a great defender. Nani is very confident in the face of him. He flicked the ball, swayed his upper body, and then buckled again, trying to shake Wilkins's center of gravity and rush into the penalty area.

However, Wilkins didn't care about his tactics at all. He started directly and pulled Nani to the ground with a jerk.

The referee immediately blew his whistle, pointed to the foul spot, and gave Manchester United a free kick.

Free kicks are also a good way to break the dense defense. Scholes takes a corner kick and all the players Manchester United can grab.

Stoke City made up his mind to defend, and did a good job of defending the set ball. Scholes kicked in and the ball was headed out by Stoke City defender Hut.

The second landing was still under Manchester United's control. Rafael passed the ball to Valencia, who then dangled into the penalty area.

There were a lot of players in Stoke's penalty area, but Huth grabbed the spot and went out.

The clearance was not so urgent this time, and Hut pushed the ball to the position of Jones in his frontcourt.

Jones grabbed the header in the fight with Gao Xiaodong, but he couldn't find a pass point around him, so he pushed directly out of the sideline.

This is a waste of time, but the time wasted from the first minute of the opening, which still caused the dissatisfaction of Manchester United fans.

"Just shrink, Nima is wasting time!"

"Is this going straight to 0:0?"

"This is the final! It is broadcast live worldwide, so it's too embarrassing to play like this."

"What's the shame, as long as Stoke City can win the championship, they are city heroes.

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The players of Manchester United are not in a hurry. The game has just begun. The players of Manchester United believe that they have a chance.

The out-of-bounds ball was sent and Manchester United continued to attack from the wing.

This time it was on Valencia's side.

Valencia's wing breakthrough does not have as many tricks as Nani, no matter how many opponents are on the wing, he takes the ball to the bottom line and eats it with speed.

This move is simple and straightforward. In addition to fouls, no defensive players can defend, but Stoke City left little room for Valencia. When Valencia overtook the ball, the ball went out of the baseline.

When Stoke City served the goal kick, the players still did not press forward, but symbolically pushed the two forwards over the center circle, and then waited for Manchester United to get the ball and continue to attack.

Manchester United is a team dominated by impact play. Stoke City sticks to the penalty area and does not even have the opportunity to attack. It just wants to defend to the end. Manchester United has no room to rush and cannot rush.

Manchester United has no choice but to patiently intersperse and cooperate in the center and the wing to find the flaws in Stoke City.

Stoke City has the title of Sky City in the Premier League, which means that their ball players are tall, excellent in confrontation and air defense, but this also causes their weakness to turn too slowly.

However, the Stoke City coach is also very clear about this, so he adopted the tiger's tactics of not coming out of the hole, using the advantage of numbers to make up for the weakness of the players not turning around quickly.

In the 8th minute, Manchester United passed the ball continuously, but could not penetrate the two defenses of Stoke City. The ball returned to Gao Xiaodong's feet again. Gao Xiaodong didn't want to pass it back and forth anymore. He took two horizontal passes. Directly bang the door vigorously.

For Gao Xiaodong's shot, Stoke's goalkeeper Sorensen had already prepared, he flew up and knocked the ball out with his fists.

The ball fell to Scholes' feet. Scholes found Rooney with a long pass in the chaos, but Rooney was hit behind him and almost fell and the ball was lost.

The Stoke City defender made a pass to find his striker. This pass was actually more like a relief, but it accurately passed to the feet of forward Jones. Jones also held the ball and made it to the midfield core. Esselington.

Seeing that his frontcourt was holding the ball and the core Esselington was holding the ball, Stoke City finally attacked.

Stoke City is a traditional British style of play, with fast wing breakthroughs, 45-degree diagonal passes, high-altitude bombings, double-high forwards Jones and Karuding are in the forefront. Their task is to wait for the wing pass in the penalty area. Hit the ball for a header shot. When the team is in a defensive state, they will retreat to the midfield to pick up other teammates or defend the high-altitude ball in their penalty area, and participate in the dribbling of the ball at the side of the midfield when they counterattack.

The two central midfielders are mainly responsible for the defense of the mid lane. They only make simple passes when attacking. They mainly pass the two side lanes diagonally to the two full midfielders, or occasionally when the opponent's defense line is pressed close, the two forwards can be directly inserted. The two core possessions are the two full-backs Esselington and Pennant. Their task is to use their personal skills to control the ball, and then take the ball to the penalty area to compete for the top of the team. When defending, they return to their midfielder and get closer. The mid lane and the two central midfielders compressed the space in the mid lane. The two full-backs basically did not assist today, so they stayed behind to defend.

After Esselington in the frontcourt took possession of the ball, two midfielders went up, leaving only one defense in the backcourt.

Esselington launched the attack very simply. He quickly moved forward along the wing, forcing Valencia to retreat, followed by a 45-degree cross to find the striker.

Manchester United's two centre-backs Ferdinand and Vidic are not vegetarians either. Vidic grabbed a header before the opponent to clear the ball and pushed the ball outside the penalty area.

Gao Xiaodong grabbed the second spot, stopped the ball in his chest, half-turned and hit the wing to find Valencia.

This pass from God's perspective won the voice of Manchester United fans.

Valencia finally found a breakthrough space, he used his speed to rush forward, penetrated Wilson's defense, and sent the ball into the penalty area with a kick from the baseline.

Valencia made a good jump, but the pass was bad, and the ball was directly confiscated by Sorensen.

Stoke City attacked once and left a defensive line in the backcourt, but the result was a counterattack.

After this time, Stoke City has been honest, shrinking in the backcourt, giving the opportunity to attack by up to four people, and resolutely defending 0:0.