Lin Feng Returns, Manchester United Recalls the Fear of Being Dominated

Inside the locker room, Mourinho unusually did not lose his temper.

Marcelo and the others, who had been waiting to be chewed out, were utterly confused:

This isn't how the script is supposed to go, is it?

Under normal circumstances, they would have already been torn to shreds!

"Alright, stop thinking about the first half. Focus now—the second half is what matters!"

Mourinho held the tactics board in his hands and rearranged the red and blue magnetic markers representing the players on both sides. Using the blue markers representing Real Madrid, he laid out an attacking formation and said to the gathered Real Madrid players:

"I'll bring Lin Feng on in the second half. Once he's on, we'll play like this..."

Inside Manchester United's locker room, Ferguson did not hurriedly explain tactics to the players as Mourinho had. Instead, he lavished them with praise, especially Cristiano Ronaldo, who had performed brilliantly in the first half and scored the crucial goal. Ferguson practically praised him to the skies.

"You did very well in the first half. The current situation is very favorable for us, but we cannot let that make us careless. There have been plenty of cases in the Champions League where teams took the lead, grew complacent, underestimated their opponents, and ended up being overturned. We cannot become another cautionary tale."

Whenever this was mentioned, Ferguson could not help thinking of a certain team that also liked wearing red shirts.

Although he deeply despised those people and had sworn to drag them down from their throne, he had to admit that what Liverpool had done in that Champions League Final had been truly remarkable.

Even if Manchester United had been put in Liverpool's position, they probably would not have been able to replicate that miracle.

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