Chapter 941 Final World Wave
It is well known that many football players like to play golf.
For example, the Soviet idol Ronaldo, the football king Maradona, the English superstar Beckham, his teammate Kahn in the Bayern period, the legendary Dutch center Van Basten, Real Madrid player Guti and so on.
Among them, Ronaldo is the best at playing golf.
It can be seen that the Brazilian genius is very good whether using his feet or his hands.
Once, he told Su Dong a very interesting thing while chatting.
He said that there is a saying circulating in the golf circle: If you want to beat your opponent, praise him before he tees off, praise him hard, and don't praise him for anything else, just praise his long driving distance.
There is no doubt that Su Dong puts everything on football. He doesn't even understand the rules of golf, so naturally he doesn't understand what this means.
Ronaldo smiled and explained, "When you praise him for his long driving distance, he may appear calm on the surface, but deep down he will be agitated. When he is driving the ball, he will subconsciously think about how to hit the ball farther, which will make him lose his concentration when playing, and then cause the direction of the ball to deviate."
The Brazilian smiled in a particularly cunning way and said that this trick had always worked for him.
This made Su Dong determined that he would never learn to play golf from the Brazilians again.
But this interesting story also left a deep impression on him and reminded him of football.
That was the war of words before the game.
Many times, the head coach praises the opponent before the game, but in fact he wants to paralyze the opponent and make him make mistakes during the game. This has been a tried and tested method in world football, and Ferguson is one of the best.
Just like what Ronaldo said, the purpose of the war of words is to distract the players and make them unable to stay focused.
There is another situation that can cause players to lose focus, and that is the trend of the game.
Just like Manchester City's game at Anfield.
Liverpool maintained absolute concentration from the beginning to the end, and their defense was excellent, without even making any major mistakes. Even Daniel Agger and Skrtel restricted Su Dong.
This kept the score of the game at zero to zero.
But as the game approached and the defense had been solid for more than eighty minutes, they began to have some new ideas.
After all, they were playing at home, and they were somewhat dissatisfied with the score of 0-0.
Liverpool is not ranked high now. If they can beat Manchester City at home, it will undoubtedly lay a very solid foundation for them to break into the top four of the league. Moreover, they are playing at home, so they won't have to stick to a score of 0-0, right?
Besides, Manchester City had been attacking for more than 80 minutes and had not yet broken Liverpool's goal. What did this mean? There were only a few minutes left in the game. It shouldn't be too much to try harder and try to score a goal. So, some players in the Liverpool team began to try to counterattack.
If a few players want to launch a counterattack, it will naturally lead the entire team to follow suit.
As Ronaldo said, it is difficult to stay focused when there are other extra thoughts in one's mind.
By the same token, when Liverpool players started thinking about counterattacking and scoring goals, their defense could not be focused, so at the last minute of the game, the first major mistake of the game finally occurred.
That was in the second minute of stoppage time. Liverpool seized the opportunity to launch a quick counterattack after a steal, but when they reached the front of Manchester City's penalty area, Pepe successfully intercepted the ball and launched a counterattack with a long pass on the spot.
At this time, Liverpool's defense was pressed too far forward, resulting in a gap behind them.
Su Dong, Daniel Agger and Skrtel chased after the ball at the same time.
First, Daniel Agger determined the landing point of the ball and wanted to control it, but Su Dong came from behind and caught up with him. He used his body to push Daniel Agger away and stopped the ball first.
Agger was knocked down by Su Dong and couldn't stop running. He ran forward and lost his best defensive position, but Skrtel made up for it in the first time and quickly got close to Su Dong.
After Su Dong knocked Daniel Agger away, he immediately kicked the ball to stop it, turned around to block Skrtel, and hit the Liverpool center back with his back, forcing Skrtel to take a small step back.
It was this small step that allowed Su Dong to seize the opportunity. He stopped the ball and turned around, without even looking at the penalty area, and shot directly with his left foot.
The shot was more than twenty meters away from the goal.
When Spanish goalkeeper Reina made a long pass from Manchester City and Su Dong counterattacked, he stood relatively outside, ready to attack at any time.
When Su Dong squeezed away Agger and leaned against Skrtel, Reina did not retreat, for fear that the two central defenders would be passed by Su Dong. Moreover, Su Dong was facing the direction of attack and the distance was too far, so he was more at ease.
Unexpectedly, after stopping the ball, Su Dong suddenly turned around and kicked the ball without hesitation. It felt as if he had eyes on the back of his head and could see Reina's position clearly.
After seeing Su Dong kick the ball, Reina immediately judged the direction of the ball and started to retreat.
Su Dong's shot came very quickly. His famous skill was this sudden heavy artillery attack, so Reina had no way to retreat and could only jump up and try to stop the ball as much as possible.
But his hand was still a little lower.
The football passed over his hands and went under the crossbar like lightning into the upper right corner of the goal.
Blind spot!!!
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"
After Su Dong completed the shot, he opened his arms and let out an angry roar. He didn't even want to run out to celebrate, but celebrated directly on the sidelines.
Finally, Su Dong raised his head and looked at the dazzling lights, feeling refreshed.
This game was so difficult!
Manchester City players also chased up frantically, surrounded him, and celebrated the winning goal at the last minute of the game.
"Su Dong, it's still Su Dong!"
"Every time Manchester City reached a critical moment, it was Su Dong who stepped forward and saved the team with his goals and performances."
"People always comment on who is the core player and who is indispensable, but we can only say, look at Manchester City's Su Dong, he is the real core and truly indispensable."
"In the 92nd minute, Manchester City scored a world-class goal from Su Dong, breaking Liverpool's goal."
Dalglish was furious on the sidelines.
He had just repeatedly reminded the players to pay attention to their backs, especially the back line, and to pay close attention to their positions, but what happened? They still blindly pressed forward, exposing the space behind them.
In addition to the fact that Su Dong was too strong, another reason for the goal was that Liverpool's defense pressed too high, giving Manchester City the opportunity to counterattack. Su Dong was able to take on two players at once and eliminate Daniel Agger and Skrtel one by one.
If it were in the previous eighty minutes, it would have been difficult for Su Dong to get such an opportunity.
"Dalglish has every reason to be dissatisfied with the result, but he has to accept it because Liverpool did not focus enough in the last few minutes of the game. They paid the most painful price for it, and the efforts and perseverance in the previous 90 minutes were completely in vain."
"This is the cruelty of football!"
"In a 90-minute match, you must stay absolutely focused from the beginning to the end and not slack off for even a moment, otherwise you will be defeated."
"Of course, Manchester City fans should thank their star player Su Dong. Without Su Dong's amazing performance, it would be difficult for Manchester City to leave Anfield with three points tonight."
"Su Dong saved Manchester City's three points and also preserved Manchester City's 13th consecutive victory so far."
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When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, the scene was filled with cheers from Liverpool fans and the song "You'll Never Walk Alone", which was a gift from Anfield fans to the home team players.
Win or lose, they will never walk alone.
Su Dong actually likes this kind of club culture, it is really charming, so he respects Liverpool.
Su Dong also showed respect for Liverpool players.
Daniel Agger and Skrtel have performed very well this season. The two central defenders combined to almost freeze Su Dong. It was only in the last minute of the game that they made defensive mistakes due to the pressure of the defense line.
But overall, their performance is remarkable.
The defensive midfielders Lucas and Charlie Adam also performed very well.
In this game, Manchester City had a ball possession rate of over 70 percent, but the entire midfield had little chance to pass the ball forward. The reason was that Liverpool's double defensive midfielders performed too well, blocking Manchester City's forward passing channel.
So, Lucas was elected the best player of the game.
Su Dong has never been stingy in giving praise and affirmation to his opponents, so after the game he walked up to the Liverpool players one by one, especially those players he admired the most, and shook hands and hugged them one by one.
On the contrary, Jordan Henderson, the local midfielder once selected by Guardiola, performed very poorly in this game and hardly created any threat, which was very disappointing.
This also reflects the bottleneck of English local players from another perspective.
The first person who took the initiative to ask Su Dong to exchange jerseys was the Uruguayan striker, the biting Luis Suarez.
Liverpool's offense is very poor, but Suarez is an exception. He is very capable and performs well, but he is dragged down by the team. If he is paired with a good enough partner, I believe his performance will improve by leaps and bounds.
Suarez was full of praise for Sudon's world-class shot at the last minute. He was able to quickly insert himself from behind in the final stage, use his body to push Daniel Agger and Skrtel away, and then turn around and score a world-class shot without looking back. Suarez asked himself if he could do such a thing.
But because of this, he admired Su Dong even more.
"Keep up your efforts! Believe me, you can do better!"
When exchanging jerseys, Su Dong patted Suarez on the shoulder and encouraged him.
(End of this chapter)
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