Chapter 978: Shooting Midfielder

It is almost impossible to score three goals for Manchester United in thirty minutes, let alone Schalke 04, even if Bayern comes to play, it will be useless.

After Gao Xiaodong scored, Schalke 04 could only fight for honor.

Veltins is a stadium with a glorious history. The Champions League final has been held here. FIFA President Blatter praised: "The design of this stadium has set an example for the world."

Even in order to defend the glory of their home court, Schalke 04 could not slack off at all. Head coach Rangnick made substitution adjustments. Iranian forward Karimi came on the bench again. He replaced midfielder Baumjohn.

Rangnick's substitution intention is very clear, which is to attack and score goals.

Manchester United endured for 45 minutes in the first half in order to avoid the spirit of Schalke 04 and consume the physical energy of Schalke 04 players. Now that they have achieved their goal and scored a goal, they are not prepared to be polite to Schalke 04. Schalke 04 replaced the striker, and Ferguson immediately responded by replacing Berbatov with Valencia, and moved Rooney to the center to speed up the counterattack on the two wings.

In the 65th minute of the game, Schalke 04 defender Atsuto Uchida intercepted Evra's ball and quickly passed the ball behind Evra.

Karimi quickly moved forward, unloaded Atsuto Uchida's pass, and relied on his physical advantage to penetrate Manchester United's bottom line at high speed.

At this moment, Manchester United's defensive midfielder Fletcher was back, but Scholes was not able to come back. Fletcher quickly moved to the side to cover, but exposed the gap in the middle. Karimi quickly passed the ball across the middle and found it. Jurado.

Jurado dribbled the ball quickly forward and approached center defender Vidic. Raul ran towards the center, attracting another center defender Ferdinand.

When Jurado pressed Vidic to the penalty area line, he suddenly passed the ball and handed the ball to Papadopoulos, another midfielder who intervened.

Papadopoulos had a chance to shoot directly, but he felt that his two teammates had separated the two central defenders and he could enter the penalty area. He moved the ball forward and rushed into the penalty area.

Papadopoulos obviously underestimated Manchester United's two world-class defenders. If he hit the goal directly, Vidic and Ferdinand had nothing to do, but he dribbled the ball into the penalty area, which gave Vidic a chance.

Vidic gave up Jurado's quick lateral movement, fell directly to the ground and shoveled the ball out at the feet of Papadopoulos, who was also brought to the ground.

Vidic's tackle scared the Manchester United fans into a cold sweat, because the ball was a penalty kick if it slowed to the front line.

The on-site commentator sighed: "Is Vidic big-hearted or bold? An ordinary defender would really not dare to make a move."

The Schalke 04 players had no chance to regret, because Vidic destroyed the ball to the feet of full-back Rafael, who quickly took the ball and launched a counterattack from the wing.

Rafael pushed the ball near the center circle, and there were already more defensive players. Since Gao Xiaodong retreated deeper than Scholes, during the counterattack, Scholes was in front and Gao Xiaodong was behind.

Rafael passed the ball to Scholes and continued to advance, seeking cooperation with Valencia.

Scholes passed the ball to Valencia, and Valencia and Rafael formed a two-on-one favorable situation on the wing.

Valencia passed the ball, and Rafael passed through Schalke 04 left back Sarpe and passed the ball across the penalty area from the bottom line.

Rooney is physically strong, but lacks height. He is very aware of his weaknesses, so he does not compete with the central defender for points, but quickly moves forward to compete for points.

Rooney was at his peak, with excellent speed and strength. Schalke 04 defender Metzelder failed to block Rooney. Rooney got ahead of him and swung his head towards the back corner of the goal.

Neuer was indeed powerful. He had already moved towards the near corner, but Rooney's beautiful header still failed to pass through his fingers. He jumped up and hit the ball with one hand. The ball originally flew to the far corner. , but now changed direction and ran towards the sideline.

However, Manchester United invested a lot of troops in the attack in the second half.

The ball just flew out of the penalty area and was grabbed by Nani. Nani saw that Neuer had not gotten up yet. After stopping the ball, Nani directly lobbed the goal from a small angle.

However, after Neuer was scored by Gao Xiaodong, he became so angry that he seemed to be cheating. The moment Nani stopped the ball, he got up again, flew and threw the ball away again.

Manchester United failed to attack twice in a row. At this time, Gao Xiaodong had already inserted into Schalke 04's penalty area from his own penalty area. The ball saved by Neuer was originally flying towards Metzelder. It was a half-high ball. Metzel Facing the goal, Ed didn't know what was going on behind him. He didn't dare to be careless and wanted to lean over and knock the ball out.

However, before Metzelder could reach the ball, Gao Xiaodong flew over from behind and headed the ball towards the goal.

The ball was too fast. As soon as Neuer fell to the ground, the ball flew over again. Now Neuer had no power to recover. He could only watch the ball fly into the net.

2:1

Gao Xiaodong scored twice to take the lead and the total score expanded to 7:3.

After scoring, Gao Xiaodong playfully raised two fingers to Neuer and shouted: "If you want to score a clean sheet for me, come to Manchester United." After saying that, he turned around and ran to the stands to celebrate with the fans.

Neuer did not expect that he could not escape the fate of being scored after two great saves. He was so annoyed that he slammed his fist on the turf and shouted at Gao Xiaodong's back: "I will give you a clean sheet if I don't go to Manchester United." !”

Gao Xiaodong ran away after saying that, but he didn't expect that his words had the opposite effect, making the competitive Neuer completely give up the idea of ​​going to Manchester United.

Schalke 04 was silent at the scene and could not even boo. After Gao Xiaodong scored the first goal, they gave up their dream of promotion and just wanted to score to save some face. After all, this was theirs. At home, I didn't expect this wish to be a luxury. In front of Manchester United, or in front of Gao Xiaodong, it is very difficult for a weak team to maintain a little self-esteem.

The German commentator at the scene sighed: "Gao's scoring ability is too strong. He is now the top scorer in the Champions League and the top scorer in the league. When I see him, I think of our bomber Muller, but Gao Xiaodong is still a goal scorer." Midfielder, this is really weird, is he a shooting midfielder?"

Ferguson was completely relaxed. There was no suspense about promotion. The following time was garbage time. Ferguson called Anderson over to warm up and prepare to replace veteran Scholes.

Young people need to exercise, but veterans will still be useful in the future. Ferguson does not want Scholes to waste all his physical energy in garbage time.

There was no suspense in the game, and Rangnick was desperate. He looked at Hao Jun on the sidelines and decided to let this Chinese player go up and give it a try. After all, there is a huge market behind this Chinese player, and the boss has always said that he will give him a chance. It's just that Hao Jun's strength is limited, so Rangnick rarely gives him a chance.

"Hao, you go and warm up."

Hao Jun never expected that he would have the chance to play. He was overjoyed and hurried to the sidelines to warm up.

Seeing Hao Jun warming up, there were warm cheers from the stands, and the Chinese fans were in high spirits. They had always hoped to see the Chinese Derby in the Champions League, and now this dream is about to come true.