"Beautiful pass! Ribery and Toure's exquisite two-on-two combination has broken through Sheffield United's defense! There are no defenders in front of Ribery!" Lineker exclaimed.

really.

At this point, Ribery was no longer facing any defenders except the goalkeeper.

The Sheffield United center-back Jagielka, who was closest to him, was at least two or three meters away from Ribery. Even if he immediately started running towards him, he could only stretch his leg out at most.

Ribery first looked up to observe goalkeeper Kenny's position and found that he was relatively close to the near corner of the goal.

He immediately abandoned the idea of ​​taking another step forward before shooting, and directly unleashed a left-footed shot, aiming for the far post of the Sheffield United goal!

Ribery prefers to kick the ball with his right foot rather than his left.

So he didn't actually put much force into that shot, and the ball wasn't flying very fast toward the goal.

Under these circumstances, Kenny, who was in excellent form today, reacted immediately, quickly extending his left hand to try to intercept the ball from the air.

Kenny's left hand did indeed touch the soccer ball.

Even though Ribery's shot wasn't very powerful, Kenny's more hasty save wasn't enough to completely change the direction of the ball.

After the ball touched Kenny's hand, it still slowly flew towards the goal, eventually hitting the far post and bouncing into the net!

1:0!

After nearly forty minutes of siege, Ribery finally helped Leeds United break the deadlock!

Ribery was very excited after scoring the goal.

He didn't even think about coming over to hug Ibrahimovic.

Instead, he turned and ran all the way to the bench, where he hugged Li Shiguang, who was also celebrating wildly with his fists clenched.

They then pulled Li Shiguang along the sideline and ran towards the Leeds United goal, with the other Leeds United players following behind them aimlessly.

After arriving at the south stand, Ribery grabbed the corner of his jersey and tried to lift it up.

Fortunately, Li Shiguang reacted quickly and firmly pressed down on his hands.

He certainly didn't want his star right winger to get a yellow card in the first half for celebrating a goal!

Meanwhile, the most loyal Leeds United fans in the South Stand also noticed Ribery and Lee Shiguang's actions.

As the fans responded to Ribery's celebration with enthusiastic cheers, they took off their shirts and threw them at Ribery, who had already crossed the advertising boards.

Regardless of gender...

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When Ribery took the shot, Lineker had already slightly crouched down from his seat, his ten toes instinctively gripping the soles of his shoes.

When the ball finally hit the post and bounced into Sheffield United's goal.

Lineker finally couldn't hold back and jumped up from his seat, yelling loudly.

"Goooooooooooooooooool! Ribery!! Frank Ribery!! He helped Leeds United break the deadlock!! Leeds United are now 1-0 up against Sheffield United at home!! They have once again gained the upper hand in the title race!!"

Patting his excited partner, Jon smiled broadly after seeing Leeds United score, and couldn't help but praise, "What a beautiful combination! Ribery spotted the weakness in Sheffield United's defense. I just said that letting Ribery and Bale carry the ball so deep was bound to cause trouble sooner or later!"

"I was so nervous." Lineker wiped the sweat from his brow after sitting down. "Thank goodness Leeds United scored in the first half, otherwise I don't know how I would have been able to wait through the 15-minute halftime break..."

Jon smiled; he understood his partner's feelings as a Leeds United fan.

But now that goal has been scored, the person who's nervous is probably Ferguson at Old Trafford.

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"Alex, Leeds United have scored too," Mike Phelan whispered in Ferguson's ear, his expression not looking too pleased.

About a minute after Leeds United took the lead, Mike Phelan, who was watching the game intently from the bench, felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. He took it out, glanced at it, and immediately relayed the news to Ferguson, who was sitting next to him.

After learning this news.

Sir Alex Ferguson merely glanced at Mike Phelan without saying a word.

Mike Phelan was about to give Ferguson a thumbs up for his composure.

But the next second...

He saw Ferguson suddenly stand up from his seat, put his hands in his pockets, and walk to the side of the field.

At that moment, Ronaldo had just taken a shot from outside the penalty area, but it went too high and flew over the crossbar of the Sunderland goal.

Immediately afterwards, Ferguson's roar reached Mike Phelan's ears.

"Cristiano, if you don't want to play, get down here!! Wayne is right in the middle waiting for you to pass the ball!! You can't see this huge open space, can you!?"

"And Wayne! Can't you even move your tiny steps a couple of paces over here? You're standing so far away! How is Cristiano supposed to pass the ball?"

Ferguson's voice was very loud, and his two roars could be heard clearly by almost everyone on the Manchester United bench.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney seemed to have heard it too; both of them looked a little confused and turned to look at Ferguson.

As for whether he heard Ferguson clearly.

Mike Phelan, however, would not know...

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Elland Road Stadium.

Referee Atkinson had a great deal of trouble to stop the Leeds United players from celebrating excessively.

Under the threat of his yellow card, Li Shiguang, who was the first to calm down, worked with Atkinson to push each of Leeds United's starting players back onto the field one by one.

Afterwards, staff members were arranged to collect and store the clothes thrown down by the fans so that they could be claimed by the fans after the event.

After everything was done.

Atkinson blew the whistle to restart the game once both teams' players had returned to their positions.

At this point, the first half of the game had reached the 39th minute.

Sheffield United, after restarting the game, tried to mount an attack and launch a counter-attack, but the high-spirited Leeds United did not give them that opportunity.

After four minutes of added time, Atkinson blew his whistle again.

Leeds United went into halftime with a 1-0 lead...