Chapter 1130

Hawthorn stadium

the last English stadium built in the 19th century is also the highest home for all 92 league teams in England.

The stadium is small and can only accommodate more than 26000 people. Due to the poor performance of West Bromwich, there are few full seats except for a few key relegation battles. But in the first game of the season, hawthorn sold all its tickets.

The popularity of the market is mainly due to the unexpected results of the previous games, which gives West Bromwich fans the illusion that their team may beat or draw with Manchester United.

West Bromwich players and coaches of course have this idea, but Hodgson is resourceful, and did not show his intention, he is very low-key in the home row of a 451 formation, steady defense, waiting for Manchester United to make mistakes.

West Brom's starting list is: 1 - foster; 12 - Reid, 30 - Tamas, 3 - Olsen, 20 - shawley; 11 - Brent, 33 - shalner, 21 - murumba, 7 - Morrison, 5 - trejoy; 9 - long

Ferguson didn't take West Brom seriously in this game, he discharged a 4-4-2 formation: 1 - dehya; 12 - Smalling, 5 - feddy Nande, 15 Vidic, 20 Fabio; 17 Nani, 16 Carrick, 8 Anderson, 10 Gao Xiaodong; 10 Rooney, 9 Berbatov.

Manchester United have won 7-2 in the last nine matches and remain unbeaten. They have won 12-2 in the last 14 league matches, including 8-2 in the Premier League. West Brom's last victory over Manchester United was in the third round of the 2003 Carling Cup, and the last was in 1984.

In the face of such opponents, Manchester United are full of confidence. After the opening, they turned away from home and put full pressure on West Brom.

In the second minute, Gao Xiaodong caught the ball from the middle and made a breakthrough to the left. Gao Xiaodong had received the ball and passed it before, and suddenly switched to the single combat mode. The players of West Brom didn't react as well. When both players came to intercept, Gao Xiaodong passed. Shalna came and pulled Gao Xiaodong down from behind.

The referee immediately whistled, verbally warned shalner and awarded Manchester United a free kick.

After Scholes retired, free kicks were basically taken by Gao Xiaodong.

The left free kick was not far from the penalty area, but the angle was too wide for direct shooting. United's two centre backs Ferdinand and Vidic came to the penalty area to fight for the header.

Gao Xiaodong stood in front of the free kick and observed the wall and goalkeeper. West Brom goalkeeper foster is a former Manchester United goalkeeper who is very familiar with Manchester United players and tactics. Gao Xiaodong decided to shoot directly.

During the community shield cup competition, Gao Xiaodong used up the "ball skill bonus" of the expendable skill awarded by the red envelope. However, after winning the community shield cup, the system rewarded a "three-level fallen leaf chopping" skill. Gao Xiaodong wanted to try how powerful this fallen leaf chopping skill is.

After the referee whistled, Gao Xiaodong made a small run-up with his right leg and lower leg to pull the center of the ball. At the moment of touching the ball, he quickly lifted his leg up.

If the ball is hit hard, it spins forward and flies out, and flits to the top right corner of the goal.

With other goalkeepers, Gao Xiaodong will jump to the upper right corner when he starts, but West Brom's goalkeeper is foster.

Since 2007, foster has been playing for Manchester United. He is very familiar with former Manchester United superstar Ronaldo, and he is often the training opponent of Ronaldo. Foster is very familiar with the playing method and flight track of the defoliation ball. Instead of rushing to the upper right corner, he has gone to the lower right corner.

Foster's judgment is very accurate. It seems that the ball that flies to the upper corner suddenly falls, goes straight to the lower right corner of the goal, and is attacked by foster.

Although foster pounced, but Gao Xiaodong's strength is no less than c Luo, foster did not hold this, the ball out.

Berbatov was close to the ball, but he was too slow. As soon as he took a step, foster got up quickly and made another dive to catch the ball.

Gao Xiaodong is very surprised. He has already used the skill of three-level leaf cutting, but he was rushed out by foster. It seems that Manchester United's substitute goalkeeper is also very good.

Gao Xiaodong gave Forster a thumbs up to express his appreciation.

West Brom's players were also startled by Gao Xiaodong's free kick. Several players came to touch Foster's head.

West Brom's head coach Hodgson touched his forehead and whispered that he was hanging. Gao Xiaodong is really strong and his skills are constantly improving. If this goes on, there will be no suspense for the first man in the world.

Ferguson called it a pity that he understood Foster's ability. If he wasn't familiar with this kind of cutting off the leaves, he would have scored the goal. It can only be said that Gao Xiaodong had a bad luck and met the goalkeeper who is most familiar with Manchester United.

Although the beautiful shot was thrown, Gao Xiaodong didn't care. He just gave Forster a thumbs up, turned around and clapped his teammates with ease to encourage them not to worry and continue to attack.

Although Gao Xiaodong's practice is somewhat deliberate, it still won the favor of the fans. They think that this is the style of the captain.Gao Xiaodong didn't get a free kick, but United's attack didn't stop. They continued to besiege West Brom, which made it almost impossible for West Brom to cross the half court.

It was not until the eighth minute that West Brom got his first shot.

West Brom counterattacked quickly. Right back Reid led the ball along the side to the 30 meter area of Manchester United. West Brom midfield shalner was greedy. After receiving the ball, he shot directly from 30 meters away, and the ball missed the post by more than five meters and flew to the stands.

Although he didn't hit within the frame, the offensive of West Brom improved. Two minutes later, West Brom's Cross was blocked by Smalling, and West Brom got a corner.

Murumba sent out a corner and tejoy started to shoot on the left side of the penalty area in the scuffle, but Ferdinand blocked the bottom line with his body.

West Brom continued to serve corners.

West Brom was careless when he got attack opportunities in succession. After murumba's corner kick, the ball was pushed out by Ferdinand. Gao Xiaodong, who was waiting outside the restricted area, killed quickly and grabbed the ball before the opponent got it.

At the moment, the players of West Brom are inside and outside the penalty area. As long as they break through the first layer of defensive circle of West Brom outside the Manchester United penalty area, there is an open area where they can gallop.

Gao Xiaodong stood in the first line of the counterattack. He had no one to pass in front of him, so he had to fight alone and hit West Brom's half with the ball.

West Brom's two backwarders, shawley and Brent, try their best to catch up with Gao Xiaodong and drive him to the side to prevent him from shooting directly after reaching the 30 meter area.

Under the pressure of the West Brom players, Gao Xiaodong does not have the time and energy to observe the situation behind him and around him, because he may be robbed if he is a little distracted.

But this does not affect Gao Xiaodong's understanding of the surrounding situation through his super glasses. When Gao Xiaodong rushed to the 40 meter area, he found that Rooney caught up with him. Gao Xiaodong was very happy. He suddenly knocked with the ball and passed it to Rooney, who was inserted in the middle of the road at high speed.