Chapter 914 A Small Away Victory

Coutinho's goal brought confidence and courage to the Inter Milan players. After Manchester United kicked off from the center circle, the Inter Milan players finally changed their original caution and conservatism and began to attack Manchester United's penalty area.

Manchester United suppressed Inter Milan with only one shot in the first half, but it also cost a lot of physical energy. After 70 minutes, they could not suppress Inter Milan. Now seeing that Inter Milan's morale is high and their confidence is high, Manchester United is unwilling to face Inter Milan directly. The sharp edge began to shrink and play defense.

After Manchester United added Park Ji-sung and Anderson, they now have three players who can run and fight in the midfield. In addition, Rooney is very active in returning to defense. It is difficult for Inter Milan to cooperate in Manchester United's center and can only find breakthroughs from the two wings. Opportunity.

Previously, Inter Milan played a bit conservatively, and Manchester United's main offensive was also on the wing. Maicon and Chivu, including Zanetti in the second half, were tired of defense and did not have many opportunities to assist.

Now that Manchester United is strategically retreating, Maicon and Zanetti finally have a place to play, and they begin to press frequently and attack Manchester United's penalty area.

In the 84th minute of the game, Maicon came down from the wing. Facing Evra's pressing, Maicon swung left and dunked, trying to break through, but Evra followed closely and did not give Maicon the chance to break through. Chance.

Maicon But Maicon suddenly found that his team's main center back Lucio quickly stepped in.

Maicon knows Lucio's ability, and after Lucio intervenes, if he can dribble past several people as usual, he will definitely hope to break Manchester United's dense defense.

Maicon crossed the ball and found the fast forward center back Lucio.

Lucio strode forward. Anderson's interception was deflected by Lucio. Smalling hurried over to block it. Rooney was worried that Smallin couldn't guard Lucio, so he hurried over to help defend.

Lucio is also a talented and bold man. Smalling and Rooney came to defend him. Instead of passing the ball out, he flicked the ball and walked from Smalling's side to the wing.

Smalling failed to follow up, so Lucio took two steps and shot directly.

Lucio didn't care about the angle, he just aimed hard at the goal.

Van der Sar flew to save and wanted to throw the ball to the side, but the ball bounced off the ground and he missed it. The ball bounced up and hit him in the face.

When Lucio shot, Eto'o ran into the penalty area to prepare for a follow-up shot. Eto'o started quickly. Vidic, who had been following Eto'o, was a step slower and could only watch Eto'o stretch out. Shovel the ball towards the goal with your feet.

Eto'o watched the ball roll toward the goal.

He raised his hands to celebrate, but at this moment, a red figure rushed to the penalty area, kicked the ball away from the goal line.

"Didn't you get in?"

"Not even this!"

"Gao Xiaodong came just in time!"

"Is it God's will?"

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The Inter Milan fans in the stands sighed, even a little aggrieved.

"Gao Xiaodong!" Eto'o saw that his must-goal was kicked out by Gao Xiaodong. He was so angry that he yelled at Gao Xiaodong, "You are such a bastard! After you score the goal, you won't care about the rest of your life."

This attack by Inter Milan scared Ferguson into a cold sweat. He did not dare to neglect and quickly let Hernandez come on to replace the Indian center Berbatov.

Inter Milan coach Leonardo saw the ball approaching the goal and was saved by Gao Xiaodong. He was anxious and angry and smashed the mineral water bottle on the ground.

Inter Milan is just a little bit away from equalizing the score. Inter Milan still has one substitution place. If another offensive player is replaced, a miracle may be performed at the last moment.

But when Leonardo looked at the bench, there was only one Suazo. Leonardo simply gave up the substitution and used the players on the field to fight to the end.

Ferguson's last substitution was very appropriate. In order to avenge Inter Milan today, Berbatov really ran away. When he came off the field, he had run 10,000 meters. This is an amazing number. After two years in Manchester United, Berbatov There are very few times when Tove reaches this number in a game.

But because there was a lot of running in front, before Ferguson replaced Berbatov, Berbatov had almost stood like a tree in the frontcourt, motionless.

Hernandez is young, fast, and impactful. He constantly runs back and forth in Inter Milan's defense, and from time to time he can retreat to the midfield to help Manchester United defend.

What's more important is that Hernandez is fast. Once he succeeds in countering an offside move and has the opportunity to go to the meeting alone, neither Ranocchia nor Lucio can catch up.

Lucio didn't care much at first. He just rushed forward and wanted to equalize the score for Inter Milan.

However, within two minutes of Hernandez playing, Gao Xiaodong found Rooney with a mid-range pass. Rooney stopped the ball from the wing and pushed the ball to the front of the penalty area, behind the defender.

Hernandez started running towards the penalty area when Rooney passed the ball.

Neither Lucio nor Ranocchia could keep up, so Lucio had no choice but to reach out to Hernandez from behind.

The referee Kasai showed Lucio a yellow card and gave Manchester United a very threatening free kick.

Gao Xiaodong took the free kick, and Inter Milan set up a long wall to prevent Gao Xiaodong from shooting directly.

The ball was too close to the goal and there was no room for it to fall. Gao Xiaodong had no choice but to shoot hard, but the ball bounced off the wall.

Although Manchester United's counterattack did not score, it posed a great threat to Inter Milan. Then Lucio did not dare to attack easily. He and Ranocchia stayed by Hernandez's side to prevent Manchester United from attacking. behind them.

The game passed minute by minute, and Inter Milan tried hard to attack Manchester United's penalty area, but Manchester United's air defense capabilities were very good, but Inter Milan had no height, and the cross had no effect on Manchester United.

Inter Milan wanted to penetrate Manchester United's penalty area, but Ferguson used midfielders like Anderson, Park Ji-sung, and Gao Xiaodong who were good at running and fighting. The three of them were not tall, but they were very active in running. Inter Milan wanted to get behind them. It is too difficult to cooperate in front of me.

Inter Milan finally won absolute possession of the ball, but had almost no shooting opportunities.

After the game entered stoppage time, Inter Milan no longer had the confidence and patience to equalize. The players began to frequently hit long shots from the front of the penalty area or make long passes.

With Eto'o and Pandev on the forward line, long passes pose no threat to Inter Milan at all.

Every counterattack by Inter Milan can pose a huge threat. If the referee Kasai hadn't been merciful, Lucio might have received a second yellow card for his foul on Nani in the second minute of stoppage time. Down.

There were a total of 4 minutes of stoppage time. By the second minute, the Inter Milan fans in the stands were desperate. The fans left the field one after another. Even Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti left early.

After four minutes of stoppage time, the referee Kasai gave Inter Milan a chance to attack, but Inter Milan still failed to get a shot, and ultimately had to accept the fate of falling behind at home.