Sign In at the Stadium and Become Invincible
Chapter 174

Remember, don't go to the bathroom when the first and second halves start

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Wan-Bissaka's tackle, Bruno Fernandes's long pass, Pogba's cross, Greenwood's grabbing point.

From stealing to grabbing the point, the Manchester United team's counterattack took less than five seconds in total.

Greenwood's grab put Manchester City's goalkeeper Ederson beyond his reach. He watched the football slide past him, but he was helpless.

1:2, Manchester United team regained a point with difficulty.

At this moment, Wembley Stadium turned into a sea of red, as red as a flame, and began to burn blazingly in the stands of the stadium.

In England, the Manchester United team is the well-deserved king. It has won the Premier League league championship 13 times, accounting for almost half of the championships since the establishment of the Premier League league.

With these championships, Team Manchester United has a large number of fans in England and even around the world.

Even though the Manchester United team has been in poor shape in recent years, there are still countless fans who love them deeply and will never abandon them.

After seeing the Manchester United team score a goal, the fans of the Manchester United team began to celebrate passionately.

This goal also showed the determination of Manchester United team's offense and sounded the alarm for Manchester City.

This long-passing style of play is not outdated, it just depends on how it is used.

Li Mingyu looked at the Manchester United players celebrating crazily and couldn't help but smile. This is what happened. If it was a one-sided game, it would be too boring. After all, the opponent is the Manchester United team!

What Li Mingyu didn't know was that his "evil" smile was caught on camera and was interpreted in various ways by many commentators.

Gabriel Jesus kicked the ball to Li Mingyu, Manchester City took the kick again.

After the Manchester United team scored, their morale was high and they continued to struggle with Manchester City in the midfield.

Since Guardiola became the head coach of Manchester City in 2016, he has been committed to building this team into a team that focuses on teamwork.

After all, the tiki-taka blood of Barcelona has always been flowing in his blood.

The style of the head coach determines the style of a team.

Manchester City has always been the leader among Premier League with its strong team fighting ability.

However, after the arrival of Li Mingyu this season, this team finally has a helmsman. After a summer of running-in, Li Mingyu has completely integrated into this Manchester City.

Among Manchester City, Li Mingyu feels that it has the same style as Barcelona but is different.

After all, Barcelona is the founder of pure tiki-taka, and there are many teammates who came from La Masia Training Camp in the team, so on the court, everyone does not need to think too much, passing the ball and running will come naturally.

But Manchester City is not the same. Although it looks like tiki-taka, at its core it is the clean passing and control of the Premier League team. It is almost not like Barcelona, which has a 70% ball possession rate and thousands of passes in a game.

After several transitions, Li Mingyu passed the ball to Sterling on the wing.

Sterling, who opened up the defense, used his excellent speed and ability to beat the opponent's full-back and then made a cross.

Gabriel Jesus in the middle tried his best but couldn't grab this point. The football was easily obtained by De Gea who attacked.

This is the offensive and defensive speed of the Premier League league.

They rarely let the football pass continuously in the backcourt. They would rather go to the frontcourt to fight for an offensive opportunity.

De Gea looked at the frontcourt and found that there was no good opportunity. He made a gesture to press the rhythm. After waiting for Manchester City's players to leave the penalty area, De Gea threw the football to the full-back Wan-Bissaka.

The Manchester United team slowly advanced forward, but Manchester City's frontcourt press made Wan-Bissaka afraid to pass the ball forward and could only continue to pass it back to goalkeeper De Gea.

Li Mingyu was less than five meters in front of the penalty area. Seeing this return pass, Li Mingyu immediately ran over, trying to force De Gea, hoping that he would make a big move forward.

But I don't know what De Gea was thinking. When he saw Li Mingyu rushing over, he actually wanted to use a fake move to shake Li Mingyu.

Li Mingyu judged De Gea's movements very accurately and directly grabbed the ball and knocked the football out from De Gea's feet.

The football rolled towards the goal. De Gea was frightened for a while. He pulled Li Mingyu's jersey with his hand and turned around and rushed towards the goal.

How could Li Mingyu give up such a good scoring opportunity and squeeze De Gea with his body? The difference in stature between the two was quite obvious, but what surprised everyone was that the tall De Gea was no match for Li Mingyu.

When he was about to reach the goal, De Gea pounced forward, preparing to shoot the decelerated football away with his right hand.

Li Mingyu also threw his body out and hit the football first with his right foot.

The football was poked by Li Mingyu's toe, accelerated a little, and rolled lightly into the gate of team Manchester United.

Li Mingyu stood up in a flash, opened his arms, rushed to the side stands, and made a hug gesture toward the blue ocean on the stand.

All the Blue Moon fans at the scene stood up and cheered crazily towards the young man below.

The fans of Manchester United let out huge boos. Of course, this boo was for De Gea who made a low-level mistake.

The famous commentator of the distant China and Premier League league live broadcast used the word "huge, huge, huge mistake" to describe De Gea's behavior.

Solskjaer's face was livid off the court. He did not expect that De Gea would make such a low-level mistake at this time, which simply suppressed the morale of the Manchester United team that was just about to start.

The players of team Manchester United on the field looked helplessly at De Gea who was lying in front of the goal and did not dare to stand up for a long time.

Damn it, a mouse is a bridesmaid to a cat, are you crazy?

After a while, a frustrated De Gea stood up, picked up the football from the goal, and threw it hard into the center circle.

Li Mingyu looked at De Gea and shook his head.

De Gea's performance in the past few years is really unacceptable. Even Spain National Team's main position has been taken away, which shows that his current state is really worrying.

If De Gea has not improved this season, then it will be difficult for World Cup and De Gea to have a chance to play at the end of the year.

After this World Cup, it is estimated that De Gea will completely stay away from the position of national team goalkeeper.

Because now there are several good goalkeepers in Spain National Team, all of whom have the ability to start.

In the 20th minute of the first half, Manchester City led the Manchester United team 3:1.

In the following game, players from both sides tested each other, but neither team had a better chance.

Li Mingyu was firmly restricted by the opponent's midfield, but Gundogan stepped forward and took over control of the midfield from Li Mingyu, causing a lot of trouble for the Manchester United team.

After one minute of injury time, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half.

Back in the locker room, Guardiola praised everyone's performance in the first half and was very satisfied with Li Mingyu's first performance.

I can't be dissatisfied. In the first official game, I passed the ball and shot twice. This is not satisfactory. What else do you want!

As for the tactics of the second half, Guardiola believed that defensive counterattacks should be the main focus. With a two-goal lead, Manchester City was not the one who was anxious.

This is indeed the case. As soon as the second half started, the Manchester United team launched a powerful offensive against the Manchester City backcourt.

And Manchester City had already taken precautions. Even center Gabriel Jesus had already returned to the front of the penalty area.

However, what is unexpected is that Greenwood, who was dribbling the ball laterally in the penalty area and had no room to kick his feet, Gabriel Jesus, who was eager to defend, blindly stretched his foot and kicked Greenwood's calf in the penalty area.

Greenwood was worried about not having a chance to shoot when he felt his calf being kicked. He immediately let out a scream, his legs softened, and he fell into the penalty area of Manchester City.

Gabriel Jesus looked at Greenwood in confusion, while the other defensive players of Manchester City looked at Gabriel Jesus in confusion.

Brother, what are you doing? Four or five of us are surrounding him. He has no chance to shoot. What are you doing?

The referee was in a very good position. Standing four or five meters away, he really saw Gabriel Jesus kick Greenwood in the calf.

Although Greenwood's actions are a bit exaggerated, who told you to give others a chance?

The referee decisively awarded the penalty kick.

Not even a minute into the second half, team Manchester United got a penalty kick opportunity.

Guardiola's mouth twitched slightly, wanting to curse Spain, but he finally held it back.

After all, Gabriel Jesus still has a good attitude and is willing to defend, but the results are not satisfactory.

The three-time Premier League best player of the Manchester United team stepped up.

Bruno Fernandes is going to take this penalty kick.

The referee blew the whistle, and Bruno Fernandes pushed the ball into the goalkeeper's right lower corner.

Manchester City Goalkeeper Ederson judged the right direction and his finger had already touched the football, but because the ball was too fast, he was unable to change the direction of the football.

3:2, Manchester United team struggled to get the score close again.

After Bruno Fernandes scored, he rushed to the sidelines and performed a handsome kneeling slide.

The passionate celebration also boosted the morale of the Manchester United team again.

Guardiola, who was sitting firmly on Diaoyutai, couldn't help but stand up, came to the sidelines, and shouted something loudly to the players.

Solskjaer sat back in his seat, chewing gum in his mouth, with a smile on his face, and talking about something with his assistant coach.

In the last two halves, goals were scored at the beginning, which made the fans who took advantage of the game break to go to the toilet and smoke couldn't help but feel resentful.

Damn it, I won't go to the toilet again!

Damn it, I won't smoke anymore!

I didn't see the wonderful goal, which was so disappointing.

After the restart, Manchester City's offense did not start directly. Li Mingyu passed the football steadily in its own half, attracting the Manchester United team's formation that was eager to equalize the score and continued to press forward.

However, Manchester City is not Barcelona after all. The players on the back line do not have the accuracy and speed to shoot the ball.

Li Mingyu can only make himself a receiver who keeps running. After passing the ball, he keeps running to find a better catching point.

Guardiola on the sidelines couldn't help but touch his bald head. Li Mingyu's running was too active. He used his active running to make the passing of Manchester City's midfield and backcourt smoother.

The Manchester United team also did a very good job in the frontcourt. Five players in red jerseys stood in the backcourt of Manchester City, always threatening the door of Manchester City.

If there is a passing error, the Manchester United team will have a chance to counterattack very quickly.

Li Mingyu made almost no forward passes in three minutes. Under the high pressure of the Manchester United team, Li Mingyu's passes were almost all back passes, and there were very few cross passes.

However, during Manchester City's backcourt move, the Manchester United team's formation unknowingly moved closer to the midfield.

The opportunity has come.

After Li Mingyu passed the ball back, he quickly looked back at the formation of team Manchester United, and his eyes lit up. Sure enough, team Manchester United couldn't wait any longer.

This time, Li Mingyu received a direct pass from the goalkeeper in the middle.

According to the previous action of Li Mingyu, this ball must be passed to the stretched center back.

Even Bruno Fernandes behind him thought so, so he did not quickly get behind Li Mingyu.

Li Mingyu felt happy that there was no pressure behind him before he caught the ball.

At the moment when the arch of his foot was about to push the ball, Li Mingyu's right foot gently moved back. The football that was supposed to be pushed out was stopped at his feet.

Li Mingyu quickly turned around, surprising Bruno Fernandes behind him, and quickly stepped forward to intercept.

But it was too late. Li Mingyu, who turned around, did not dribble the ball, but directly made a long pass at an angle of 45 degrees, directly finding Mahrez who had already inserted it at high speed.

In the first half, Mahrez had almost no performance, and the football was generally at the feet of Gabriel Jesus and Sterling.

But no matter whether the ball is passed to him or not, when he sees an open space, he will still spare no effort to sprint.

This time, the opportunity has come.

When Li Mingyu turned around, Mahrez had already begun to rush forward, and there was an open space in front of him.

Li Mingyu's pass was very accurate and landed directly in front of Mahrez. Mahrez stretched out his foot and lightly touched it. The football continued to roll forward, but Mahrez's speed did not slow down at all.

Mahrez feels that this is the most comfortable stop he has ever made.

Mahrez quickly took the ball and rushed towards the penalty area of team Manchester United.

The Manchester United team's defense retreated crazily, but Mahrez, which had already rushed at full speed, kept the Manchester United team's defense behind.

De Gea had already abandoned the goal before Mahrez rushed into the penalty area, hoping to slow down Mahrez and block his shooting angle.

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