Chapter 1054: Divine Pounce

Veterans such as Scholes, Berbatov, and Giggs did not play. Gao Xiaodong has absolute charisma and control in the midfield and frontcourt.

Hernandez, Park Ji-sung, and Valencia all regard Gao Xiaodong as their core. Rooney and Gao Xiaodong are good friends. With these four people as helpers, even if Fletcher has his own opinions, he cannot affect Gao Xiaodong's decision.

In the 40th minute of the game, Gao Xiaodong communicated with Hernandez, Park Ji-sung, Valencia, and Rooney in the frontcourt. At the 42nd minute of the game, Gao Xiaodong suddenly asked the Barcelona point guard A press was initiated.

After ten minutes of pressing at the beginning, following Barcelona's several quick counterattacks, Manchester United began to shrink and play long passes and lobs. They continued to play for 40 minutes without changing their tactics. Barcelona also did not expect that Manchester United could do what Ferguson did not do. He suddenly changed his style of play when given instructions, and was immediately robbed by Manchester United.

After the ball passed difficultly between Pique, Abidal and goalkeeper Valdes, Valdes saw Park Ji-sung pressing towards Alves, and he still passed the ball to Alves.

Valdes felt that Alves could get rid of Park Ji-sung with his ability, or at least make a big save.

But Park Ji-sung rushed up very quickly and pounced on Alves without any effort. When Alves was smashing the ball, Park Ji-sung's foot touched the ball, and the ball was farther away from Alves' body.

When Park Ji-sung pressed for the ball, Gao Xiaodong was also moving towards Alves, but Gao Xiaodong was not moving fast. He was observing whether Alves would get rid of, pass the ball or clear the ball, and then make a decision.

Seeing Alves smashing the ball a little far away from his body, Gao Xiaodong decisively accelerated and rushed over.

Alves hurriedly chose to fall to the ground to make a tackle, but Gao Xiaodong was half a step faster than him, flicked the ball before Alves, and then quickly jumped up to avoid Alves' legs.

Gao Xiaodong's steal and avoidance caused a burst of exclamations from the fans.

In the fans' impression, Gao Xiaodong is a strong and fast player. They did not expect that Gao Xiaodong was so flexible. He could complete the two actions of picking up the ball and jumping up in an instant. This agility and his strong body are really amazing. Not quite a match.

After stealing the ball in the frontcourt, Gao Xiaodong quickly passed the ball diagonally to Park Ji-sung and inserted himself diagonally into the ribs of the penalty area.

Alves hasn't gotten up yet, and Park Ji-sung has no one to defend him. Barcelona center back Mascherano quickly approaches Gao Xiaodong to prevent Park Ji-sung from passing the ball to Gao Xiaodong.

Midfielders Busques and Pique rushed to defend Hernandez and Rooney.

Prevent Park Ji-sung from crossing the penalty area.

Gao Xiaodong suddenly stopped suddenly while driving forward at high speed, and then cut across to the front of the penalty area.

Gao Xiaodong suddenly stopped and turned, shaking Mascherano. By the time he stopped and turned to chase Gao Xiaodong, Park Ji-sung had already passed the ball to the edge of the penalty area.

Under normal circumstances, when the ball rolls over, Gao Xiaodong will directly hit the goal. He has the skill of volleying.

But after being promoted to the star level, Gao Xiaodong's skills and awareness have improved to a higher level, and his handling of the ball is also very different from before.

When the ball rolled over, Gao Xiaodong knocked the ball in the opposite direction, took a step back, and just passed Mascherano who was chasing after him.

Gao Xiaodong was fast and strong. Mascherano had already used his fastest speed to catch up with Gao Xiaodong. When Gao Xiaodong stopped the ball and stepped back, Mascherano was knocked to the ground.

If Busquets and Xavi were fast, they should have arrived when Gao Xiaodong twice teased Mascherano, but these two are not fast players. When Gao Xiaodong got the ball again, Busquets Si was still almost two meters away from Gao Xiaodong.

Gao Xiaodong fired furiously, but Busquez fell to the ground to intercept.

Busques came late. Before his feet could reach the ball, the ball flew out and went straight to the left side of the goal.

Gao Xiaodong was unguarded and aimed at the goal. It was difficult for any goalkeeper to block it.

But today Gao Xiaodong met Valdez, Barcelona's crazy knife. Not only did this guy have a thorough study of Gao Xiaodong, he was also very courageous. When Gao Xiaodong was about to shoot, he had a premonition that Gao Xiaodong might hit him on the counterattack. direction, so the move is made in advance.

Just these two steps in advance allowed Valdez to complete a wonderful save. He hit the ball over the baseline with one hand in a thrilling way.

After completing this save, Valdez got up and pumped his fists in excitement to vent his nervousness.

Barcelona's players also understood how difficult this save was, and they came over to thank Valdez for his wonderful performance.

Gao Xiaodong was very upset. After the ball was kicked out, he felt that it was there. Unexpectedly, the 1.83-meter-tall Valdez saved it.

However, this attack was very morale-inducing, and Gao Xiaodong couldn't show his disappointment. He hurried to the corner flag area and prepared to take the corner kick.

The sudden attack by Gao Xiaodong, Rooney and others just now startled Ferguson. He did not arrange for the players to press at the high position again. The players acted on their own initiative. Ferguson, who has always had a strong personality, was a little angry. He believed that this must be It was Gao Xiaodong's idea because Rooney didn't have the brains and other players didn't have the guts.

However, seeing that the effect was good and Gao Xiaodong's shot almost scored, Ferguson sighed and thought to himself, this guy is brave and has a flexible mind, but he is too difficult to control. If he retires, the coaches behind him will not know. Can you control him?

Manchester United has never created any chances in positional battles. Rooney's goal was also created by a corner kick. The set kick is Manchester United's best scoring opportunity. Even if the first half is almost over, Manchester United's two central defenders Ferdinand and Vidic are still there. Came to the penalty area and fought for the landing spot.

Manchester United had used a tactical corner kick before and scored a goal. This time Barcelona deliberately sent a player closer to Gao Xiaodong to prevent Gao Xiaodong from taking a tactical corner kick again.

However, this time Manchester United's corner kick tactics changed again. Gao Xiaodong sent a low corner kick, and Ferdinand suddenly went around to the front point to compete for the header.

This change caught Barcelona a bit off guard. It was Alves who protected the front point. Alves was unable to compete with Ferdinand in the air, and Ferdinand easily rubbed the ball to the back point.

In order to complete this tactical corner kick, Manchester United ambushed two players at the back point, one was full-back Valencia and the other was Little Pea Hernandez. Barcelona protected Abidal at the back point.

Abidal had a high header and there was no problem in protecting the back point, but Manchester United had two players. Hernandez blocked Abidal. Valencia rushed to the top at high speed and headed the ball towards the lower left corner of the goal.

Valdes had just pounced on Gao Xiaodong's kick to score a goal, and he was in great condition. This time he moved to the left again, risking hitting the goalpost, and flew the ball out of the baseline.