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Aoi Akiho smiled, showing his snow-white and neat teeth, and said, "You are so humorous. Since you don't want to talk about this topic, Mr. Zhang Liang, let's change it. Do you think Manchester United will win tomorrow's game?"

Aoi Mingbu's teeth gave Zhang Liang a better impression, and his words were a little polite: "Santos is a strong team in the Brazilian League, and it seems to have won many championships. However, with me, they can't win, and I don't like to lose!"

Hearing this, Aoi Akiho didn't have time to continue asking, but was squeezed aside by another reporter.

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Santos is the champion of the Brazilian league and is also above most Premier League teams, plus the Manchester United players have been overworking lately.

So in this Club World Cup final, except for Zhang Liang, every Manchester United player did not play much.

Can't run!

So Ferguson's plan was to play a defensive counter-attack and drag the game to a penalty shootout!

For this game, Manchester United's lineup is 4-4-2.

Goalkeeper: Zhang Liang

Defenders: Evra, Nemanja Vidic, Jones, Fabio

Midfielders: Fletcher, Park Ji-sung, Valencia, Ryan Giggs

Forwards: Owen, Wayne Rooney

And Santos also uses a 4-4-2 formation,

Goalkeeper: Rafael

Defenders: Juan, Durva, De La Sena, Bruno Pérez

Central midfielders: Arouca, Adriano, Henrique

Forward: Felipe Anderson

Forwards: Nimar, Andre

In just five minutes of the opening game, Manchester United was in danger at the back due to fitness problems.

Fortunately, Manchester United's defenders have made meritorious contributions in these few times, and before Zhang Liang has made a shot, the attack has been dissolved invisibly.

Although he lacks fitness, he is a world-class defender with a lot of experience.

Santos doesn't know if it's because they didn't take Manchester United seriously, and they didn't have any tricks tactically at all.

Until now, all the offense has been the players.

They made it clear that they wanted to rely on strength to crush and eat the current Manchester United.

The Brazilian Serie A champions are different, similar to Barcelona's control-flow style of play, with small-scale and progressive attacks everywhere.

Ferguson took a deep look at the Santos players running on the pitch, full of envy and jealousy.

These guys are in really good shape.

Although several of their attacks were disrupted, Santos really controlled the tempo and situation on the field.

In almost 10 minutes, they were estimated to have 70% possession.

And Manchester United didn't even play a decent counter-attack, even the midfielder came back to defend.

However, Ferguson was not in a hurry at all, the situation of being suppressed was already expected by him, and he had done his homework for Santos before the game.

Of Santos' 42 goals in his last 20 games, 34 of them have come in the first half, compared to just eight in the second half.

On average, this means that Santos has failed to score in the second half of most of their games.

From these signs, Santos is a typical tiger cat-type team.

The tiger in the front, the cat in the back, as long as it withstands the pressure in the early stage, the strength of Santos in the later stage will definitely drop by more than half.

Therefore, Ferguson had already formulated a tactical policy before the game, and the first half was mainly defensive, except for Owen who was also placed in front to interfere with Santos's defenders, and other forwards such as Rooney also moved slightly back at the moment.

The defence looks to be working well now, with Santos' attacking style, but not creating a lethal threat.

Of course, even if it is created, are you sure it will be effective in front of Zhang Liang?

Before Ferguson could finish thinking about it, Santos' players couldn't wait to test his idea.

Just 14 minutes into the first half, Santos finally tore apart the United defence after a series of efforts.

Santos played an unusually beautiful combination in the middle and on the right, and after receiving a pass from a team-mate, Fappelli quickly ran in the same rhythm with his forward teammates Nimar and Andre.

And the three deliberately narrowed the distance during the run, and a very small triangle lineup with a side length of no more than 3 meters appeared in front of the Manchester United players.

Vidic and Joneston were not happy, so they quickly rushed over to interfere with the trio's cooperation.

It's just that this time the two didn't succeed in blocking the three's pass as at the beginning, and the dazzling one-kick pass appeared back and forth between the three, relying on this perfect cooperation, Fipelli finally advanced to the vicinity of the big penalty area, and the cross route was not blocked.

It was his favourite position, and the first few pushes were made thanks to the efforts of the United players to keep the trio on purpose.

And this time he wouldn't waste such a good opportunity.

Without hesitation, he picked up a pass, and the ball drew a beautiful arc in the air and went straight to the goal.

Nimar had already started running towards the goal when Fappelli received the ball for the last time, and it was a combination of the three of them that they had trained countless times in attack.

When he saw the direction of Fipelli's kick, he could probably know where the ball was landing.

Sure enough, in the crowd in front of the penalty area, he accurately found the flying football, and jumped high with a kick.

Then a header slams the ball towards the goal.

The right direction!

Nimalki watched intently in the direction the ball was flying, and on the way to the ground, he had already thought of a celebratory move.

Front roll, or back roll?

Do you want to slip and kneel?

Isn't that an exaggeration!

It's a Premier League giant, so I'm not so excited.

And then......

Then he couldn't get excited.

Because at this time, Zhang Liangzheng indifferently grabbed the football he pushed out in his hand.

"Oh, no..."

There was a wail in the stands, and the fans who came with Santos shouted regret that Nimar had played the ball very beautifully.

From the pass at the back to Nimar's header, every link was very crisp and not muddy in the slightest.

The final header was also very quality, with Nimar holding down a couple of United defenders to get the first spot, and the direction was very good.

It's just that I didn't expect the goal to be ruined by Manchester United's goalkeeper.

It's so uninteresting!

However, it is a pity that Santos fans still cheered for their team.

Especially Nimar, who just missed the goal, everyone did not hesitate to applaud.

One shot was held by the goalkeeper, no big deal.