Chapter 1057: Something Evil!

Gao Xiaodong opened the Road to Superstar system, entered the app store, and bought a luck point with special points.

Buying luck points is like having an extra life-saving talisman. When Gao Xiaodong was confidently preparing to launch a general attack on Barcelona, ​​he found that his teammates were frightened by Barcelona's counterattack. They shrank during the attack and did not dare to devote all their efforts. . This is especially true for the two full-backs. Neither Evra nor Fabio dare to push past the center circle easily. Once the ball is lost, the first thought is not to help teammates press in the high position, but to retreat quickly to prevent Barcelona from getting behind them. of space.

The advantage of such caution is to reduce the risk of conceding the ball, but the disadvantage is also obvious. When Manchester United counterattacks in the frontcourt or takes advantage of Barcelona's mistakes to win the ball, there are too few people attacking in the frontcourt to deal a fatal blow to Barcelona. .

Now Manchester United is behind, with only thirty minutes left. What Manchester United needs most at this time is to score goals, not not to concede goals.

Gao Xiaodong was very anxious. He just bought a lot of luck points. He couldn't use them all to protect his goal from being breached by his opponents. He quickly called on his teammates to attack and not put too much energy on defense.

Before Scholes came on the field, Gao Xiaodong was very helpful. The players in the frontcourt listened to him and the ball was in his hands. But after Scholes came on the field, Gao Xiaodong became a The person who attacks the penalty area, the organizer becomes Scholes. At this time, it is impossible for Fletcher and Scholes to do what Gao Xiaodong wants, and full-back Evra, center back Ferdinand and Wei Diqi was also not someone Gao Xiaodong could command, and Gao Xiaodong's greetings did not have much effect.

Manchester United did not put too much pressure on Barcelona offensively, and Barcelona's offense became more and more sharp.

In the 63rd minute of the game, Barcelona passed seven or eight balls in the backcourt, waiting for Manchester United players to come up and press, but the Manchester United players did not fall for the trick. Only Rooney and Hernandez symbolically pressed.

Soon, Barcelona's tactic of boiling frogs in warm water paid off. During the backcourt turnover, Villa and Messi in the frontcourt suddenly switched positions. Messi attracted the attention of most Manchester United defensive players. Haha Wima sent a long through ball past Manchester United's two layers of defense and into the ribs of Manchester United's penalty area.

Villa moved forward at high speed and stopped the ball with his chest into Manchester United's penalty area.

Harvey's pass was so thief that neither the center back nor the full back had time to defend Villa.

Goalkeeper Van der Sar was very focused. He immediately rushed to block Villa's shot. However, Van der Sar was older now and his attack speed was a bit slow, giving Villa space to shoot.

Villa swayed his upper body and made a move to pass the goalkeeper, taking advantage of the time difference when Van der Sar was slightly stunned.

Almost at the same time, he lifted the ball up with the instep of his foot, and the ball flew just over Van der Sar's head and towards the goal behind him.

Van der Sar raised his hands in a hurry to block Villa's shot, but his reaction was indeed slow. Before he could raise his hands, the ball flew over his head.

Originally, everything was calm on the court, and the fans in the stands did not think that the situation on the court would suddenly change. Unexpectedly, Villa suddenly faced the goalkeeper and took a shot.

Fans from both sides were stunned for a moment. Everyone watched with wide eyes as the ball slowly fell towards the goal.

Bang!

Just when the Barcelona fans were about to celebrate, the ball hit the crossbar hard and then bounced to the top of the net.

"God! Crossbar!"

"Another missed opportunity!"

"Villa wasted Xavi's pass!"

"Might as well pass it to Messi!"

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Villa missed two consecutive scoring opportunities, and Barcelona fans were a little dissatisfied.

Guardiola on the sidelines had already raised his arms to celebrate, but now he could only hold his head tightly, feeling extremely sorry for this shot.

Sky Sports on-site commentator Andy Gray said something fair, "Villa's shot was good enough, but he was a little unlucky."

When Villa shot over Van der Sar's head, Ferguson almost broke out in a cold sweat. Before, his thoughts were similar to Gao Xiaodong's, and he was ready to let the players continue to press forward. But after Villa's shot, Ferguson was shocked and confused. I was afraid and gave up the idea.

Van der Sar took the goal kick and the game continued.

Although he lacked the support of his teammates in the backcourt, Gao Xiaodong still led his younger brothers and friends in the frontcourt to attack Barcelona's defense.

After leading 2:1, Barcelona's formation also began to shrink, with many more troops deployed in the rear than before. Pedro and Messi also came back to defend. Although Messi only returned to the center circle, Pedro returned to defend. He retreated deeper, almost to his own restricted area.

Faced with such a large number of defenders and a narrow space, it would be difficult for Manchester United, who are not good at small-scale cooperation, to penetrate Barcelona's defense.

In the 68th minute of the game, Manchester United made a mistake in passing in the frontcourt, and the ball was broken by Busques stretching out his long leg.

Rooney counterattacked on the spot, and Busques slowly pushed and pulled, easily shaking Rooney behind him.

Busques then passed the ball to Xavi, who passed his foot and sent it to Iniesta's feet.

Iniesta passed the ball to Messi. Messi picked up the ball, passed Fletcher, turned around, and quickly headed towards Manchester United's penalty area.

Scholes, Vidic and full-back Fabio came together to block Messi from taking the ball.

Messi is not a blind player. He has good vision. He saw Pedro's intervention when the Manchester United players were blocking him. Messi timely moved the ball to the side and quickly inserted himself into the penalty area.

Pedro reached the bottom at high speed. Because there was no one to defend him, Pedro did not pass the ball. He dunked the ball and headed towards Manchester United's penalty area along the baseline.

Fabio just came over to guard Gao Xiaodong and was out of position. He couldn't go back. Ferdinand could only go over and block Pedro's passing line.

After Pedro entered the penalty area, he saw Ferdinand coming to block it. He did not cross the penalty area to find Rooney, Gao Xiaodong and Hernandez who had inserted into the penalty area. He passed the ball back in an inverted triangle and looked for Mei. West of this point.

Ferdinand thought about Pedro crossing the ball, also thought about Pedro passing to the front of the penalty area, and even thought about Pedro shooting directly, but he didn't expect him to find Messi in an inverted triangle.

Barcelona has quite a lot of tactical routines. They have practiced a lot of tactics where the bottom player looks for Messi in an inverted triangle. Messi was not surprised at all. He ran forward at full speed, pushed the ball with the arch of his foot before Vidic, and pushed the ball towards the goal. , he was also knocked to the ground by Vidic.

Even with such an extremely fast goal, Messi was very tricky in hitting the goal, and the ball went straight to the lower left corner of the goal.

Goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar had already moved to the right post, but Messi hit the ball in the opposite direction. Van der Sar's body couldn't react at all, and he could only watch the ball fly towards the goal.

Bang!

The ball bounced off the post again, and this time Ferdinand came into his own, kicking the ball wide of the touchline.

The sure shot actually hit the goalpost. Messi couldn't help but lay on the turf with his head in his arms.

"It's the goalpost again! This is so unscientific!"

"No one else has such luck!"

"Messi also hit the goal post! What's wrong with Barcelona!"

"Have all the Barcelona strikers lost their shooting boots?"

"Did this kick a big cup away?"

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Barcelona fans looked helpless. Their sharpshooter Messi couldn't score the ball. They didn't know what to say.

"It's really evil!" Guardiola scratched his head repeatedly, and he didn't know what to do about this situation.

Gao Xiaodong knew that his luck had taken effect. He was very happy and shouted to his teammates: Press on! Press! Don't let them serve easily!

Gao Xiaodong was not afraid at all and called on his teammates to attack, but he was hit on the goalpost continuously. The Manchester United players were even more frightened and worried, as they did not have the courage to press for another attack.

Ferguson was happy and scared on the sidelines. He didn't know how long this good luck would last. However, more than 30 years of coaching experience told him that when the opponent hits the goalpost continuously, it is the easiest time for his side to score goals. At this time, Ferguson's courage came up. The old coach rushed to the sidelines and shouted to the players: "Press up! Attack! Don't be afraid! Press up!"