Chapter 957: Evened!
Manchester City fans at the Etihad Stadium were pleasantly surprised to see that, with one man less than their arch-rivals, Manchester City were actually dominating Manchester United.
This was definitely an unbelievable scene for everyone.
Once upon a time, Manchester United was such a powerful and dominant team to Manchester City. But now, this former king has been beaten to the ground, barely surviving, and even being put in danger in front of the goal by Manchester City from time to time.
Since last season, Su Dong has led Manchester City to prove their strength to all fans time and time again, and has trampled Manchester United under their feet time and time again. This time, they obviously felt it more deeply.
This time, a player was sent off with a red card shortly after the start of the game, and a penalty was awarded. They were trailing 0-3 in the first half. If it were any other team, they would have probably fallen into despair at this time.
However, under such circumstances, Manchester City still tenaciously launched charges against Manchester United again and again and organized attacks again and again.
It would be impossible to achieve this without strong cohesion, tenacious willpower and the ambition to unite and forge ahead.
From now on, if anyone says that Manchester City are mercenaries, just throw them out of this game.
Have you ever seen mercenaries like this? If they were real mercenaries, they would have been in disarray and had lost their armor and weapons.
More importantly, Manchester City's strength was fully demonstrated in the second half.
Despite being one man less, Manchester City still controlled the situation and the ball. The two forwards, Sudon and Aguero, were at the forefront, while the midfield and backcourt kept creating opportunities for the frontcourt.
In the 55th minute, Ferguson replaced Nani with Scholes, apparently to strengthen the team's offense.
But Scholes had been away from the game for a long time after all. After he came on the court, Manchester City decisively intensified their pressure on him, especially Milner, who almost stuck to Scholes in the fight. This made Scholes, who had been away from the court for more than half a year and was arranged to play without even going through regular preparations, feel very uncomfortable.
In the 59th minute, when Scholes wanted to pass the ball after a stop, Milner intervened, intercepted the ball, and quickly passed it forward.
Aguero quickly moved forward to the right side of the penalty area, caught up with Milner's pass, glanced at the middle of the penalty area, and saw Su Dong following up quickly. Aguero faced Evra, made a flexible quick stop, then suddenly started and passed the ball to the right side of the penalty spot.
After Su Dong caught up, he blocked Ferdinand with his body. Without waiting for the ball to land, he swung his right foot and volleyed the ball directly towards the falling ball.
The ball flew out at an extremely fast speed and went into the right side of Manchester United's goal. Goalkeeper Lindegaard dived sideways, but it was too late.
Two to three! "GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"
"Manchester City scores another goal, 2-3!!!"
"My God, from the beginning of the second half until now, in 14 minutes, Manchester City has scored two goals in a row. This is really unbelievable."
“Is this still the Manchester derby we are familiar with?”
"Manchester City looked like a wolf in the second half. They pressed and pressed Manchester United to make mistakes. The Blue Moon seized the mistakes and created threats again and again."
"Look at the Manchester City players. After Su Dong scored, they all returned to their respective half-courts. They had no intention of celebrating. They were all waiting for Manchester United to restart. Obviously, they also hoped that the game would continue to go down at their current pace and momentum."
"If it was a basketball or volleyball game, head coach Ferguson should have called a timeout at this time to interrupt Manchester City's momentum and rhythm, but there is obviously no such pause button in a football game."
"Ferguson may have to make some substitutions. Anderson is running out to warm up and he could be substituted at any time."
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"Everyone!"
In Manchester City's half, Su Dong, wearing the captain's armband, called all the players over and gathered them together.
"Just play like this, keep up the momentum, don't give the opponent any chance to resist, rush them and knock them all down, we have to strive for at least two more goals, do you hear me?"
Su Dong made no secret of his fighting spirit and called out loudly, and even the Manchester United players on the other side of the field could hear it clearly.
"I heard it!" Manchester City teammates responded in unison.
Everyone huddled together, heads touching, forming a circle.
"Manchester City must win!!!" Su Dong shouted.
"Come on! Come on!!!" the teammates responded in unison.
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The game starts again.
Manchester City still adopted an oppressive style of play and continued to pursue Manchester United.
Ferguson quickly replaced Welbeck with Anderson, further weakening the attack and strengthening the team's midfield interception and defense.
This has to be said to be a very surprising and even strange thing.
Manchester United was ahead in the score and had the advantage in numbers, but ended up being in a one-sided and passive position on the field. Not only that, even head coach Ferguson, who had dared to attack when facing Barcelona, gave in and chose to strengthen defense.
When have you ever seen Manchester United in such a mess?
When have you ever seen such a bizarre scene? Even so, even if Manchester United strengthened their defense, they were still passive on the scene. Manchester City was like a tiger coming down the mountain, frantically launching an offensive towards Manchester United.
Now both sides are gambling.
Manchester City is trying their best to equalize the score or even reverse the situation in one go, which is not impossible.
Although there is one person missing, with Manchester City's strength, it is completely possible to do it, especially when Su Dong is also on the court.
Manchester United was determined to defend the third goal, stop Manchester City's attack at all costs, and try their best to defend the last bastion, because they knew very well that as long as Manchester City scored the third goal, they would likely concede the fourth goal.
Even if the fourth goal was not scored in this game, there is still a high probability that we will lose the next play-off.
Ferguson has extensive coaching experience, so he knows this better than anyone else. Because of this, he would rather give up his principles and strengthen defense to hold this last bottom line.
The two sides were in a tug-of-war, and it depended on who would give up first and be pulled across the line by the other side.
Guardiola did not make any substitutions, but patiently maintained the team's rhythm and momentum.
Time passed by minute by minute, and both sides were trying their best.
Sixty minutes...
Seventy minutes...
Eighty minutes...
Manchester City failed to score again, and Manchester United, with an extremely tenacious state, repeatedly blocked Manchester City's attack.
Blue Moon organized and planned offensives time and time again.
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Su Dong was subject to the most stringent defense by Manchester United.
Obviously, Ferguson was well aware of the threat posed by Su Dong. He even relaxed his defense against Aguero and instead focused on defending Su Dong.
The Red Devils godfather is obviously well aware that at such a critical and high-pressure moment, the test of the players' abilities is the most severe.
Whether in Atletico Madrid or in the Argentina national team, Aguero has never shown the ability to stand up at critical moments. He is indeed very strong, but he still lacks a lot of maturity to reach Su Dong's level.
This also put Su Dong under heavy defensive pressure, making it difficult for him to display his skills.
In the 83rd minute, Trippier made a 45-degree pass to the penalty area from outside the 30-meter area on the right, creating chaos in Manchester United's penalty area. Su Dong stood in the best landing point and wanted to head the ball, but he was sandwiched from both sides by Phil Jones and Ferdinand, and goalkeeper Lindegaard also abandoned the goal to attack.
As the saying goes, two fists are no match for four hands. Su Dong couldn't even jump up to compete for the header, and the ball was hit out by Lindegaard.
Manchester United's defender cleared the ball again, but just as it was out of the penalty area, Milner stopped the ball, adjusted it and passed it back into the penalty area.
It was still a contest between Su Dong and Lindegaard. The Manchester United goalkeeper hit the ball again with both hands. Aguero got the ball and headed it towards the goal, but it was cleared out of the penalty area by Smalling.
Busquets followed up and headed the ball towards Manchester United's penalty area, but it was snatched away by Anderson, who kicked it directly towards Manchester City.
This continuous wave of attacks made everyone in Manchester United break out in a cold sweat.
But before the ball fell, Pepe pressed forward decisively, and before Rooney, he stopped the ball in front of him with his chest, then moved forward with the ball himself, and after finding a direction, he quickly passed the ball to the right.
This time Trippier had rushed to the right side of Manchester United's penalty area, stopped Pepe's ball, made a slight adjustment, and passed the ball again with his right foot, directly into the penalty area, still looking for Su Dong.
Manchester City's attack is very determined, and they still want to attack Su Dong.
Su Dong saw Trippier's cross in the penalty area and felt that the ball was too high. There were defensive players all around him, who would not give him any chance to adjust. So he made a quick decision, watched where the ball would land, turned his back to the direction of attack, and hung upside down, kicking the ball towards the goal behind him with his right foot.
Lindegaard still wanted to kick the ball before Su Dong, which caused him to stand too far outside, and the goal behind him looked empty. Su Dong suddenly made a bicycle kick. Although Lindegaard reacted immediately and tried to block it, how could he block it?
The ball flew over Lindegaard's head and fell into the goal behind him.
Phil Jones chased back desperately, trying to clear the ball before it entered the goal, but failed.
The ball went into Manchester United's goal again.
At this moment, the entire Etihad Stadium, and even all the fans sitting in front of the TV watching the live broadcast of the game, were stunned.
They tied the game! They tied the game! After 40 minutes of hard work, Manchester City finally tied the score! And they were one man down from Manchester United!
Su Dong fell all over the floor, but soon he heard Chris Foy's whistle. He jumped up excitedly, turned around and rushed to the sidelines, screaming and roaring all the way.
This time he did not hide his excitement.
3-3! Manchester City finally tied the score! I'm not in a good state to write today, so I'll update one more chapter. There was an epidemic in Putian, which is very close to Quanzhou, and there are a lot of people coming and going. There have been confirmed cases and close contacts in the surrounding area, which made people panic. At noon, a neighbor who came back from a high-risk area in the community was sealed off. Fortunately, he just passed through the highway intersection, but he was still scared.
(End of this chapter)
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