Chapter 441 They Are Great!
AC Milan players are in good shape, they let go of the attack and don't impact Manchester City's defense.
In the 56th minute, AC Milan made a threat in front of Manchester City. After several consecutive attempts to pass the ball into the penalty area and found that it could not be passed, Pirlo chose to pass the ball back.
Seeing the return pass, Manchester City players were relieved, they thought AC Milan was planning to reorganize the attack.
But what I didn't expect was that Seedorf, who followed, shot from a long distance!
Like a precise cannonball, the football bypassed the crowd in the penalty area and flew straight to the goal!
"Danger!"
Ryan-John shouted.
Such a shot is very threatening, because goalkeepers are often blocked from sight. Fortunately, goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei responded very quickly, and he threw the ball out cleanly.
Wan Sheng couldn't help but applaud this save from the sidelines!
"King! King! King!"
Ryan-John called Wang Xiaolei by his name very powerfully, and he immediately praised, "Under the interference of the dense crowd in the penalty area, Wang made the most correct judgment. Come out, he has done a great job for Manchester City! This young Chinese goalkeeper has shown stability and excellence in the Champions League!"
AC Milan's offense is not over yet.
Pirlo sent a corner kick, Pato jumped up and rubbed the ball over his head, but Wang Xiaolei once again showed a steady performance. He rushed out of the crowd and jumped high, stretched out his arms, and steadily picked the ball in the air.
Wang Xiaolei relied on personal performance to help the team resolve the crisis in front of the goal.
After this wave of attack, AC Milan seemed to have a feeling. They frequently completed cooperation in front of Manchester City's penalty area and created a threat to Manchester City's goal. Manchester City's formation had to be pulled back to deal with the opponent's frequent offensive.
The situation on the field was once tilted towards AC Milan, and Manchester City was a bit passive in defense.
So the pressure on Manchester City's defense is great.
The most critical figures were Morris and Koppelle Ferreira. Ferreira kept running in the penalty area to respond to various positions. Morris also retreated to the penalty area line to resist AC Milan's offensive.
The most stressed is goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei.
Seedorf, Pato and Kaka, the three of them frequently attacked Manchester City's defense line. They would take a shot when they had the chance. The more they played, the better they were, and the threat to the goal was getting bigger and bigger. Wang Xiaolei concentrated on guarding the goal. Goal, AC Milan came close to scoring a few times.
Wang Xiaolei had no intention of thinking about other things at all. He concentrated on defending the goal and became the player who was mentioned the most by the commentator during this period of time.
"The king again! Wonderful save!"
"King! He held the ball tightly in his arms!"
"Seedorf's shot... Oh, it was blocked... Kaka shot again! Wang saved the ball! Nice job!"
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"According to the data, Wang is only 18 years and 3 months old. This young player is usually still in the youth team, but Wang has become one of the best performing teams in Europe. Lost the position of the former England goalkeeper James!"
"Now we see Wang's outstanding performance, and we know why. He is the Buffon of the Premier League! Buffon became Parma's main goalkeeper at the age of 20. Wang is much younger than Buffon at that time. Now He has already represented Manchester City in the quarter-finals of the Champions League!"
"It doesn't matter which team Manchester City or AC Milan can advance to the quarter-finals, but with the current performance, we are sure that Wang's future is limitless!"
In the praise of the commentator, Wang Xiaolei guarded cautiously in front of the goal. He didn't play very well in high reception and defense, but his performance was very stable. This stability also made Manchester City players feel at ease.
Seeing Wang Xiaolei like this, Wan Sheng felt very relieved.
It can be said that Wang Xiaolei was trained by him. As early as a few years ago, he brought Wang Xiaolei from Dalian to the United Kingdom. After that, Wansheng made a training plan for him, and then loaned him to the lower league to experience. I chose to follow Wansheng. In the more than two years in Manchester City, Wang Xiaolei has grown a lot. The most important thing is not the ability, but the experience and the mentality. For a goalkeeper who is under 19 years old, many times his performance will be affected. It is difficult to have a stable and outstanding performance. Most goalkeepers will gradually become the main force after the age of 25. For this reason, only those special talents can become the first choice goalkeeper of the top league teams early.
Undoubtedly, Wang Xiaolei is one of the geniuses.
His ability is not the most important thing. There are many capable goalkeepers, such as the former main goalkeeper David James. His ability is also good. Occasionally, he will perform quite well in the game, and those impossible saves can also be completed. But he has never had a stable mentality, and will be considered a 'butter hand' by fans.
Wang Xiaolei is different.
Compared with other top goalkeepers in the world, Wang Xiaolei's ability is not that outstanding. In fact, Wang Xiaolei's comprehensive ability evaluation is only '88' points. This data is not very good among top goalkeepers, but Wang Xiaolei has been able to play stable, the latter is the most important.
Seeing his performance, even Diamares said to Wansheng, "No wonder you don't hire a professional goalkeeper coach... I don't think other people can teach him at all. He has really matured."
Wan Sheng couldn't help laughing when he heard Diamares' compliment, he turned his head to look at the team's goal, and gave a thumbs up there.
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Although Wang Xiaolei performed well, Manchester City's game situation is not optimistic.
AC Milan's offensive is a bit too fierce, and Manchester City's defense line can't support it.
In the 71st minute, AC Milan found a good opportunity, and it should be said that AC Milan's star player Kaka found a feeling.
When Kaka got the ball in the middle, he tried to pass it to Pirlo. This action fooled Morris and made him shift his focus to the side, but Kaka took the opportunity to slam the football out, and then accelerated. !
Speed up again!
Straight line breakthrough!
After Kaka swayed Pirlo, he picked up the speed and dribbled the ball quite quickly. He quickly inserted into Manchester City's backcourt and quickly rushed into the penalty area.
"Great opportunity for AC Milan!"
"Kaka! Kaka!"
The Manchester City players were taken aback. The only one who could defend was Koppelle Ferreira, but Kaka was too fast. He ran over to Kaka and changed direction and was almost knocked over.
Koppelle Ferreira was worried about the goal, and anxiously made a back tackle... Kaka raised his hands high and fell directly into the penalty area.
Penalty!
no doubt.
The San Siro stadium was chanting, "Penalties! Penalties! Penalties..."
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"Koppelle Ferreira defended Kaka in the penalty area. It was an unsuspenseful penalty kick. Kaka fell to the ground... In front of the explosive Kaka, Ferreira had nothing to do. The speed of the card is too fast."
"It's a tactical foul, but it's also a serious foul..."
While the commentator was talking, the referee had already run over.
Ferreira was still arguing, but the referee blew his whistle to point to the penalty spot, after which the referee's hand fumbled in the back pocket of his ass, and... he held up a red card!
Ferreira was sent off!
"Manchester City are in danger! Not only were they awarded a penalty, the centre-back Ferreira was sent off..."
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"damn it!"
Wansheng directly kept the mineral water bottle in his hand on the ground, and then shouted to the fourth official, "Why is it a red card, a penalty has been awarded!"
Of course, this has no effect.
AC Milan is a lot more relaxed. Ancelotti smiled and stood up and applauded. He was worried about scoring just now. Unexpectedly, Kaka dribbled the ball to help the team get a penalty kick. The opponent's only central defender was also sent off. , the game suddenly turned in the team's favor.
Ancelotti expressed his approval of the referee's penalty with applause.
On the other side, Wan Sheng vented his anger and was also worried about the team situation. He didn't expect that just because of Kaka's one performance, the game would become like this. AC Milan scored a goal.
Ferreira was sent off...the next 20 minutes must have been extremely difficult.
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Just when AC Milan was about to take a penalty kick, Wansheng had already begun to consider substitutions.
Koppelle Ferreira is the only central defender on the field. In terms of defense, he is the only barrier in front of the goal and the most important player. When he is sent off, someone must replace him.
After some consideration, Wansheng chose to replace Torres.
Torres scored a goal and performed well, but the current team needs to defend. Torres has become unimportant. There are no strikers in front, and Darren Bent and Ozil can attack, as long as they control the center In the field, the team has an advantage, and there are still opportunities to score goals, but the premise is that the defense must be done well, so Wansheng replaced Torres.
Dunn was replaced.
Wansheng originally wanted Sun Jihai to play, but in this kind of game, Dunn is still the big one. After all, there is only one central defender, and the stability of the central defender has become the key.
Sun Jihai is also good, especially in one-on-one defense. He is even stronger than Dunn, but his running awareness is still slightly worse.
There is only one central defender, and Dunn will be relieved after all.
When Wansheng was considering substitutions and adjustments, Kaka had already taken a penalty. Even if Wansheng activates the "Strong Barrier" skill, which increases the reaction speed of goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei by 100%, it is impossible for the best goalkeeper to save against Kaka's fast and angled shot.
Under the cheers of the San Siro Stadium, AC Milan relied on recovering a goal and the score became 1:1.
AC Milan players piled together and celebrated their goals. From the first half to now, they have been lagging behind. Even if the offense played well, the game seemed too depressing.
Now that they are tied, the goal gave them confidence and fighting spirit and made them feel a lot easier.
At the same time, Manchester City players are also very unwilling.
Morris is the most unwilling one. Originally, he thought that this game would belong to him. He worked hard for a better performance, hoping to lead the team to defeat AC Milan.
This is the best chance to prove yourself!
But in the second half, the team was a little suppressed. He has been defending no chance at all. Now the whole court is cheering for AC Milan, and he feels very unwilling.
When AC Milan was celebrating the goal, Morris began to encourage his teammates, "They just scored a goal, it doesn't matter, there is still a chance!" After thinking about it, he asked Silva and Ozil to discuss , "For a while, when the game starts, they will definitely relax, let's go to attack."
The two nodded in understanding.
AC Milan didn't realize anything. They were still thinking about the goal just now, and thinking about the restart of the game and continuing to attack Manchester City's defense, so when Manchester City restarted the kick, Pato and Seedorf rushed across the center line, just in At this time, Morris, who was holding the ball, suddenly made a long pass, and the football flew high and rushed to the left front of the penalty area.
Many people's eyes followed the direction of the ball, only to see Ozil rushed there without knowing what to say.
It's too late for Kaladze to defend.
Ozil rushed to the squeeze first, jumped to the center of the ball.
Silva!
"Good chance! Silva!"
No one noticed Silva, he kicked off with Darren Bent and didn't touch the ball after that, but at this time Silva was on the penalty area line in front of the goal, and he stepped on the penalty area line and was about to finish touch the ball.
Nesta hurried over, but Silva did not stop the ball, but turned the ball a little to the right again.
Ivan Kru plugged in!
He was accompanied by the old AC Milan captain Paolo Maldini, but Maldini, who started a little slow, had a hard time stopping Ivan Crewe. Nesta could only give up the defense against Silva and ran over to make up the defense. Ivan Crewe passed the ball again and he kicked it to the left and back.
At this time, everyone realized that Morris had followed!
"Morris! He got the pass unguarded!"
Ryan - John shouted excitedly.
Morris did not choose to shoot directly, because this position is still outside the penalty area, the probability of scoring a goal is not large, and more importantly, there is no defense around him, so he can take two steps forward.
He did the same.
After receiving the pass, he moved the ball forward. Everyone thought it was a pass, but Morris started in a hurry and ran into the penalty area to catch the ball.
No one can stop him!
Nesta, Kaladze, Maldini, and the retreating Seedorf and Ambrosini all watched Maurice swing his right leg hard--
Big shot!
Zeliko Karachi stood cautiously in front of the door. He kept staring at Morris's movements. When he saw him swing his leg to shoot, he immediately had to judge the position, but when the football really rushed over, Karachi knew that he was thinking too much. .
The ball is going too fast!
He made a judgment, but his body couldn't keep up with the reaction, and he could only watch the football rush into the goal from the right side.
Karachi felt powerless at that moment.
“Goooooooooooooal!!!!!!”
"The ball is in!"
"Just as Kaka completed the penalty, in less than two minutes, Morris helped Manchester City regain the lead!"
"Nice job, 1-2, Manchester City lead again!"
In the excited shouts of Ryan-John, Wan Sheng clapped his hands excitedly, he turned his head to Diamares and said loudly, "It seems that we have nothing to worry about, they are much better on the court than I thought. !"
"Yeah! They're great!" Diamares nodded excitedly. (To be continued ~^~)