Chapter 940: 18 Archery Techniques

Valencia hadn't played in a game for more than half a year. After coming on as a substitute, he was very active. Here Manchester United counterattacked. He ran faster than Hernandez, who was the center, and moved to the front.

Scholes also trusted him very much and accurately found Valencia with a long pass.

Valencia has very distinctive characteristics. He is not good at cutting inside and his passing skills are average, but he is extremely fast and he is also very self-aware. Facing the 30-year-old full-back Chivu, he does not play tricks and moves inside. With a feint, he moved the ball toward the baseline and quickly started rushing toward the baseline.

If Chivu was young, he wouldn't be afraid of this kind of pure speed, but now that Chivu is old, facing this kind of impact, he has no choice but to foul in advance or stand guard near the baseline.

Chivu chose a vicious foul, hoping to intimidate Valencia who had broken his leg again.

However, Valencia was in good condition today. They avoided Chivu's flying tackle one step ahead, sprinted to the baseline and passed the ball to the penalty area.

After buying more than 20 shooting skills in the system, Gao Xiaodong almost completely gave up defense. When Scholes passed the ball to Valencia, Gao Xiaodong pressed forward. When Valencia passed the ball, Gao Xiaodong has already rushed into the penalty area with Hernandez.

Gao Xiaodong rushed in at high speed, like a speeding tank. Ranocchia was already stuck in position and was ready to head the ball to clear the siege, but under the impact of Gao Xiaodong, he was knocked aside and could only watch Gao Xiaodong's header. Attack the goal.

Ranocchia is also a strong defender. Although Gao Xiaodong used the momentum of his running to knock him away, he also lost his aim when heading the ball, and the ball went high over the crossbar.

After the rush, Gao Xiaodong lay on the grass in the small penalty area with a look of regret on his face. His low-level shooting skills were still a little bit behind. After losing his balance in the collision, his shooting accuracy was much worse, and he was unable to reach the goal.

Gao Xiaodong was still complaining about his poor heading skills, but the Inter Milan players were so frightened by Gao Xiaodong's header just now that their hearts almost jumped out of their chests. As long as the ball just hit the goal frame, Cesar estimated that Just surrendered the gun.

Obviously, this was just the beginning. After Ferguson sent the old Giggs to play, the Manchester United players understood the coach's intention. Afterwards, everyone began to boldly press forward, crazy forward, and launched a fierce attack on Inter Milan. attack.

There was not much time left. Inter Milan had the advantage, so they did not attack Manchester United. Instead, they chose to defend intensively, hoping to hold on to the advantage of away goals and advance.

In the 85th minute of the game, Gao Xiaodong, Giggs, Scholes, and Hernandez cooperated continuously in the middle.

Gao Xiaodong reached the edge of the penalty area and suddenly took a shot.

Gao Xiaodong's shot didn't move much, but it was fast and the angle was tricky. Inter Milan goalkeeper Cesar was on full alert before he saved the ball.

When the ball flew to the wing, Rooney got it. Rooney made a cross pass to the penalty area. The ball was passed a bit high and no one in the penalty area touched it. It flew to the other side and was grabbed by Valencia.

Valencia moved the ball towards the baseline and once again used speed to beat Chivu.

Chivu saw that he was very close to the bottom line and thought that he would not be thrown away by Valencia. He followed Valencia closely.

But if Chivu had just come on the field, he might really be able to keep up with Valencia in such a short distance. But now Chivu has played for more than 80 minutes, and Valencia only came on in the second half. The physical gap is huge. At a distance of ten meters, Chivu was still pulled out to a distance of nearly two meters, and he could only watch Chivu pass the ball into the penalty area.

When Valencia passed the ball, the ball was already halfway on the baseline. Valencia passed the ball a little far from the goal, and both Gao Xiaodong and Hernandez ran past it.

Hernandez didn't react, but Gao Xiaodong subconsciously lifted his right leg back, swung his tail like a scorpion, and hooked the ball towards the goal.

Goalkeeper Cesar was completely unprepared. When the ball flew in front of him, he thought of reaching out to block it, but he was already a step too slow. The ball flew from between his hands to the goal behind him.

The Manchester United fans were delighted when they saw Gao Xiaodong's unconventional shooting action. When they saw that goalkeeper Cesar did not pounce, they all opened their mouths to cheer, but the ball hit the crossbar and bounced back.

"Ah! The beam!"

"God! It's the beam again!"

"What a waste of such a wonderful shot!"

"The scorpion is wagging its tail!"

"What a pity!"

"that's too regretful!"

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Manchester United fans are so sad! Such a beautiful shot! Such a good chance to kill was unexpectedly blocked by the crossbar.

Ferguson looked up to the sky and sighed, does God really not want Manchester United to advance? Such superb shooting skills can't even score a goal?

Leonardo was also frightened. He had done in-depth research on Gao Xiaodong during the Milan Derby. He felt that although Gao Xiaodong scored many goals, he was more like a midfielder. But today he discovered that Gao Xiaodong has the attributes of a striker. Even more intense, he has all kinds of shooting skills. The pure forward Hernandez didn't even think of the scorpion tail swing just now, but Gao Xiaodong subconsciously used it, which shows how proficient Gao Xiaodong is in shooting.

Seeing that Manchester United had a striker with comprehensive shooting skills like Gao Xiaodong, Leonardo was very worried about whether his iron barrel formation could be defended. He felt that the wretched delaying method was the best. He did not let the new Japanese defender Yu Nagatomo After they were all warmed up, he was sent directly onto the field, replacing left back Chivu.

Manchester United had several consecutive chances to break through from Chivu. Yuto Nagatomo, a new force, might be able to keep up with Valencia, or at least delay it a little.

Everyone was marveling at Gao Xiaodong's kaleidoscope-like shooting skills, but Gao Xiaodong was still complaining that the system's low-level shooting skills were just fancy, and he failed to score a goal in two good opportunities.

Gao Xiaodong is now very eager to be promoted to an S-level star as soon as possible so that he can buy high-level skills.

Nagatomo Yu, who is only 1.7 meters tall, is very fast and is not bad in confrontation. He restricted Valencia when he came on the field. However, after Gao Xiaodong's two consecutive threatening shots, Manchester United's morale was greatly boosted and the offensive was already on the rise. The attack from Valencia's side is not completely needed. Rooney on the other side also began to gain an advantage over Maicon.

In the 89th minute of the game, Rooney used his body to carry Maicon from the wing to the baseline. Maicon was almost exhausted and could not hold on. Rooney stepped out of the way and passed the ball to the penalty area.

Rooney's wing attack was a little slow, and the ball was kicked out by Lucio at the front point.

The ball fell in front of the old demon Giggs. Giggs stopped the ball and dribbled the ball horizontally. When he saw Gao Xiaodong advancing, he pushed the arch of his foot and wanted to pass it straight to Gao Xiaodong.

However, there were many people in the penalty area of ​​Inter Milan. The ball was blocked by Thiago Motta and then changed the line and fell in front of Hernandez. Hernandez faced the attacking Cesar and shot with the instep, but the ball But it was slightly higher than the goal.

This was another great opportunity, but Hernandez squandered it.

At this time, the fourth official raised the stoppage time sign. Because a lot of time was wasted in the middle, the referee gave 5 minutes of stoppage time.

These five minutes are also Manchester United's last five minutes. If they still cannot score, then the defending champion Inter Milan will advance to the top 8.