Stamford Bridge was silent.
The silence this time was heavier and more complete than when the first goal was scored.
More than 20,000 Chelsea fans were sitting in their seats, some with their heads in their hands, and some just staring blankly at the red No. 33 smiling among their teammates on the field.
In the 60th minute, after the game restarted, Ramires tackled Zhang Kuang behind the midfielder, and Mallenco was shown a yellow card.
Chelsea's players already had anxious looks on their faces.
Essien was arguing with the referee about something, but was pulled away by Lampard.
In the 66th minute, Chelsea almost narrowed the score again.
Essien steals the pass from Valencia and quickly passes it to Lampard.
England midfielder passed the ball through the middle of Manchester United. Torres succeeded in countering offside and dribbled the ball into the penalty area!
Drogba is plugged in at high speed on the right side, and the position is better than Torres.
As long as Torres crosses the ball, Drogba will face the empty goal alone.
But Torres chose to shoot by himself.
The ball missed the left post and went out of the baseline.
Torres knelt on the turf and covered his face with his hands.
Stamford Bridge burst into loud boos, and this time the boos were directed at Torres.
"Torres... he should have passed it." Martin's voice was full of regret, "Drogba was in a better position than himself, so the pass was an empty goal.
But he chose to hit it by himself and missed. This may be Chelsea's last chance to regain the score."
Neville said bluntly, "Actually, there is no way to blame Torres for this kind of goal. As a forward, as a forward who urgently needs to score goals, why not shoot it himself when there is a chance to score?"
Of course, if you don't score the goal, you will face greater pressure. Everyone will scold you and say that you are not in shape now, so don't shoot wildly. But, how can he find his status if he doesn't shoot?"
Martin: "Neville, maybe you are right, from the perspective of Torres, but from the perspective of the Chelsea team, everyone will definitely blame you. You must first ensure the interests of the team, and then talk about the personal situation of the players when the interests of the team are sufficient."
Neville: "Haha, Martin, what you said is right, and I agree with it. But, I suddenly thought of something that has nothing to do with football.
When some people talk about collectivism, they will be criticized for not paying attention to personal development.
But don't you find it strange? Why on the football field, players must be required to be collectivist first and ensure the interests of the team before talking about individuals? I suddenly thought of this and thought it was so funny.
Martin: "Neville, this is a football program, your thinking is too divergent."
Neville: "Sorry, viewers, it's just my first time doing a show and I suddenly thought too much. Let's continue watching the game..."
He Wei also shook his head. "Torres handled the ball too quickly. Drogba was completely empty on the right side. It was a one-shot pass.
But he chose to shoot by himself, and it missed the post. The boos from the Chelsea fans said it all: their patience with Torres has been exhausted."
Xu Yang also sighed, "The pressure of fifty million pounds is really great. He wants to prove himself too much, but it hurts the team."
In the 70th minute, Ancelotti made two substitutions.
Zhirkov exits and Malouda appears.
Drogba exits and Anelka appears.
Martin: "Ancelotti replaced the hero Drogba? Fans probably want to replace Torres the most, right? This means giving up high-altitude bombing and switching to speed impact.
Anelka is faster than Drogba, Malouda strengthens the left attack."
Neville: "Substituting Drogba may make Chelsea fans dissatisfied. After all, Drogba scored a goal today and is in good form. But Ancelotti needs changes, and he must take a gamble."
When Drogba came off the field, he put the captain's armband on Lampard's arm. He walked to the sidelines and clapped his hands with Ancelotti. His face didn't look good.
In the 76th minute, Lampard took a long shot from outside the penalty area and the ball hit Van der Sar.
In the 78th minute, Bosingwa came off the field and Mikel came on.
Ancelotti gave up attacking on the right and switched to a three-man midfield, focusing on the left.
In the 79th minute, Ferguson also made a substitution. Hernández came off and Berbatov came on.
Ferguson's purpose is very clear: control the ball to waste time and defend the score of 1:3.
In the 84th minute, Chelsea almost scored.
Malouda broke through from the left, passed Valencia and then made a cross.
The ball drew an arc and flew near the penalty spot. Torres jumped high and headed the ball towards the goal!
Van der Sar flew to save and lifted the ball over the baseline with his fingertips!
Torres looked up to the sky and sighed after landing.
Martin: "Van der Sar! It's Van der Sar again! The forty-year-old Netherlands used a world-class save to save Manchester United's two-goal advantage! Torres actually headed the ball very well, but Van der Sar's save was even better!"
Neville: "Torres ah Torres, he, he is really unlucky today. If this goal is scored, 2:3, Chelsea still has a chance, and And his personal pressure will decrease sharply, but Van der Sar appears in the right position every time. Van der Sar becomes Hero, and Torres becomes a tragic figure."
Martin: "Ha, sad Torres? This can be done, indeed ha! Today Van der Sar performed great saves many times, but Torres failed to score several times. Hey, interesting, interesting."
In the 85th minute, Chelsea corner kick.
Ramires opened, and there was chaos in the penalty area.
Ferdinand headed the ball to clear the ball, but the ball fell at the feet of Lampard outside the penalty area.
Lampard took a volley, and the ball hit Anelka's leg and bounced off the baseline.
Chelsea Such luck... Abramovich in the box kicked over the coffee table so hard that even he was very angry.
In the 89th minute, Carrick received a pass from Ferdinand and passed it to Giggs.
Giggs found Berbatov with a through ball. The Bulgarian forward took the ball with his back and was unable to turn around, so he knocked back Zhang Kuang on the left.
Just as Zhang Kuang was about to start, Essien rushed up from the side, tightly wrapped his arms around Zhang Kuang's waist, and made a heavy weight drop.
Zhang Kuang dragged Essien for a full meter, but ultimately failed to catch the ball.
Ramires rushed over and destroyed the ball out of the sideline.
Zhang Kuang looked back at Essien with a helpless expression.
Essien raised his hands to indicate that he did not commit a foul.
Mallenco blew the whistle and gave Essien a verbal warning.
He didn't play a card, so he let Essien go, because if he played another card, Essien would turn two yellows into one red.
Zhang Kuang glared at the referee and muttered something.
"Essien's action... is actually enough to call a card." Tyler said, "Mallenco showed mercy, Chelsea really wants to thank him. Essien already has a yellow card, and he will go down after giving him another one."
Neville: "But Zhang Kuang got a free kick, and it was 40 meters away on the left. This distance is a bit far, but Zhang Kuang had scored a free kick before in West Ham's game. Who knows what kind of goal he would kick?"
In the 90th minute, Zhang Kuang stood in front of the free kick.
Forty meters to the left, far away from the goal, there are five people lined up on the human wall.
Čech stood on the goal line and nervously directed the position of the wall.
Terry shouted twice to Čech in the human wall, then lowered his head and covered the key parts.
Zhang Kuang glanced at the wall of people, then at Čech's position, and then took a deep breath.
The referee's whistle blows.
Zhang Kuang takes two steps and touches the ball with the inner instep of his right foot.
The ball flew into the air, drew a strange arc, and first spun towards the upper right corner of the goal!!
Čech moved one step to the right!
But the ball suddenly turned in the air and hit the left side of the goal quickly and urgently!
He Wei: "Oh my God, Zhang Kuang made an S curve ball. This time it will be scored..."
Before He Wei finished speaking, Čech reacted extremely quickly. His whole body turned back like a spring and lifted the ball over the crossbar with one hand!
"Ah, Čech made a great save, this was such a great save, Zhang Kuang's free kick was so tricky! The ball made an S-turn in the air, and the ball speed was very fast and sharp after the turn. If it were another goalkeeper, the ball would have gone in." Martin·Tyler said with regret.
Neville: "When did Zhang Kuang practice free kicks? He scored one at Hong Kong Team, another at West Ham, and now he kicks such a weird arc at UEFA Champions League... I, his former teammate, don't even know."
MyScore comments section is happy:
"Damn this free kick!!! It's a corner!!!"
"Čech was almost cheated!! Fortunately he reacted quickly enough!!"
"Zhang Kuang When did you practice this free kick technique? He obviously couldn't take free kicks before."
"Have you forgotten? He said he had practiced. The question is... how long has he practiced? How many days? Is this a fucking human being?"
"I just scored a free kick four days ago, and I played at this level again today. Is Zhang Kuang's learning speed as fast as a human can achieve?"
"I suspect he's cheating."
"There is no doubt that he is cheating."
"..."
In the 93rd minute, Chelsea made the last attack.
Ramires broke into the restricted area and was tripped to the ground by Evra.
Torres also fell to the ground on the other side at the same time.
Mallenco's whistle did not sound.
Torres got up from the ground and kicked the ball, but it missed.
The ball rolled out of the baseline.
Chelsea fans in the audience burst into loud boos, and this time the boos were directed at the referee.
"This ball...Evra did hit Ramires." Tyler's tone became cautious, "Mallenco did not award a penalty kick. This penalty may become the focus of controversy after the game."
Neville was silent for a moment, and then said, "Looking at the slow motion, Evra's leg did touch Ramires."
But Torres also fell down in the penalty area at the same time. Ramires's falling action was a bit exaggerated. The referee may have weighed it and believed that the contact was not enough to constitute a penalty kick."
In injury time, Torres received a cross from Malouda and shot from close range and hit the outside of the post. He knelt on the ground and held his head in his hands.
For the third time, he was only a few centimeters away from scoring.
Martin: "Alas, the tragedy of Torres continues. God always targets the unlucky people, just like the most honest people are bullied by the children in the community."
Neville: "This may be a test from God to Torres, or it may be a punishment for him. I wonder if he did any bad things outside of football and did not go to church to buy indulgences!"
"Beep! Beep! Beep--"
The full-time whistle sounded.
1:3.
Manchester United defeated Chelsea in an away game and scored three away goals.
Chelsea The whole team is sad, Manchester United The whole team is celebrating.
This scene... I wonder what the players of Manchester United will think when Manchester United declines in a few years and such sad dramas often occur?
Zhang Kuang still remembers that since 2014, Manchester United has ended in tragedy again and again. The great Manchester United has since slipped into a period of decline, and this slide has lasted for more than ten years.
Manchester United at that time is so similar to Chelsea now. There are also big-name stars in the team, the bench is full of talents, and the coaching team is top-notch in the world...
Hey, why did you suddenly think of those things? None of his Zhang Kuang business?
He exchanged jerseys with Torres, and he felt that the most tragic jersey of Torres today is worth collecting!
Torres may not have known that he was already very unlucky, but he didn't expect that his misfortune would be collected and commemorated by others!
This, fucking God!
The MyScore comment area is completely boiling:
"3:1 in the away game, Manchester United has one foot in the semi-finals!"
"Zhang Kuang scored twice! I can blow that ball that passed five people in a row a hundred times!"
"Ugh, bah, get lost, I'm a man and I like women."
"Torres really carried him home today. He opposed the pillars, beams, Van der Sar saves... everything was against him."
"Alas, today's Torres may be the most tragic man in football!"
"With 50 million pounds played like this, Chelsea fans are really going to be pissed off."
"Ancelotti The countdown to the end of get out of class has begun, right?"
"Don't rush to say it. There is still a chance in the second round at Old Trafford, Chelsea. Anything can happen on the football field."
"Is there a chance? Concede three goals at home and go to Old Trafford to make a comeback? You haven't woken up from the dream yet. If there is no Zhang Kuang, maybe you can still imagine. With Zhang Kuang here, what fantasy does Chelsea have?"
"Manchester United won this game too hard. Zhang Kuang took down Chelsea's defense all by himself."
"I announce that Zhang Kuang is now the first person to be UEFA Champions League."
"Don't give me milk, don't give me milk. I haven't won the championship yet, and I haven't taken Messi powder yet."
"..."
After the game, Zhang Kuang was officially named the best in the game by UEFA.
He smiled broadly during the interview, "The whole team played very well today. I was lucky with the first ball and Čech missed it. The second ball... my teammates opened up the space and I just had to rush forward."
And today's teammates performed very well, especially Van der Sar, who is forty years old and has made many heroic saves, so today God is on Manchester United's side."
The reporter asked him if the goal that passed five people in a row was deliberately to show his football art to some people?
Zhang Kuang: "The court is changing so fast. Who has time to deliberately score a goal? It's not a set kick. When I received the ball, I saw a lot of people in front of me, but I didn't want to stop. So I kept pushing forward."
The reporter asked, "What do you mean about that set piece? You made an S-shaped turn. Is this the result of training during this period?"
Zhang Kuang nodded. "Well, almost. It's a pity that such a beautiful arc was saved in the end. Today's Čech's performance was also world-class."
"..."
When Neville watched this interview on the show, he happily said to Tyler, "What he said, 'God is on our side' means that today's Chelsea was abandoned by God, haha!
This is rubbing salt into Chelsea's wounds, it's really hurtful, but what he said is the truth."
After Martin·Tyler finished laughing, he asked Neville: "Gary, did the S-shaped turning free kick he mentioned really come from his training? Why did the script I heard say that Zhang Kuang is very perfunctory in normal training and never trains seriously?"
"That's right," Neville touched his chin and said mysteriously, "He is the player we least understand. They say Messi relies on talent, but everyone can still see Messi training seriously.
But Zhang Kuang's training... is really not as diligent as those kids in the youth team. He doesn't want to waste time on training, he has other things to do.
Neville: "I don't know what you're talking about, hehe!"
--
At the post-match press conference, Ancelotti made a speech and then left.
His original words were. "I feel that God was unfair to us with today's result. We obviously kicked more threatening goals, but we fell behind in the score.
Without Zhang Kuang today, it would be difficult to predict the outcome of this game. Zhang Kuang is now not only Premier League, but also the most difficult person to guard against in Europe and even in global football.
But he kicked a very exciting goal today. Even as the opponent's head coach, I admire him very much. I really hope to coach a player like Zhang Kuang one day.
I won't say much else. Don't worry about my dismissal. If Chelsea loses all four clubs this season, you may only be able to see me in other clubs next season.
Finally, regarding Torres, the reason why I didn't replace him was because I wanted to give him a chance to get rid of the pressure.
But the result is that God only focused on Zhang Kuang today. Torres is also a child he needs to take care of. I hope God can take a look at Torres in the next game."
After Ancelotti left, Ferguson came over.
He said, "Today we had the last laugh in the strong dialogue. Manchester United's momentum is still as strong as ever. Our glory continues, so UEFA Champions League champion, we are ready."
Because in our team, we have Hero, God of War, good luck, and God!"
Reporters: "Haha..."
Reporter: "Sir Ferguson, what do you mean by God?"
Ferguson: "To be honest, I was originally going to be happy for Manchester United who won today, but I felt sorry for the kid Torres inexplicably. So, I can only say, I We have God, victory belongs to Manchester United, failure goes to Chelsea, God of War goes to Zhang Kuang, and sadness goes to Torres!"