Chapter 990 Su Dong's Personal Performance
After Manchester City scored a goal, both sides of the game seemed to be poured with a bucket of cold water, which made the players on both sides basically calm down and gradually slowed down the pace of the game from the fierce offensive battle at the beginning.
If both teams seemed a little impulsive at the beginning, now both sides have gradually calmed down.
Manchester City began to patiently control the ball and slow down the pace of the game through ball possession.
Real Madrid patiently organized its defense, not allowing Manchester City's passes to easily penetrate into their own territory and threaten their own goal. The investment in counterattacks was not as great as in the opening stage. After all, Real Madrid was also very worried about being penetrated by Manchester City, especially Su Dong.
It was under this attitude that both teams tacitly chose to remain calm.
As a result, the game entered a stalemate and no one was able to score against the other side.
The first half ended with a score of 2-1 and both sides returned to the locker room.
After the change of sides, Manchester City did not adjust its tactics, but continued to strengthen its passing and control of the ball, further putting pressure on Real Madrid's defense, while Real Madrid patiently consolidated its defense and waited for an opportunity to organize a counterattack.
As time passed, neither side was able to create a clear chance.
Manchester City was slow to make substitutions, and Real Madrid simply replaced Higuain, who was performing mediocrely, with Callejon.
After the substitution, Benzema was pushed to the front line and Callejon played as right winger.
Obviously, Pellegrini has not given up counterattacking and still wants to score a goal.
Both sides attached great importance to each other's ace players. Both Su Dong and Cristiano Ronaldo received special attention from the other side and did not get good opportunities.
But after 65 minutes, the physical strength of Real Madrid players declined significantly.
On the one hand, it was because the intensity of their players' pressing pressure had obviously weakened, and on the other hand, Pellegrini began to withdraw the defense line, obviously to shrink the defensive area and save the players' running energy.
As strong as Real Madrid is, the depth of its bench is actually not as strong as Manchester City's.
Currently, Manchester City has strong players like Hazard and Javi Martinez sitting on the bench, while there are basically no players on Real Madrid's bench who can replace the players on the field.
This is also the reason why Pellegrini did not continue to make substitutions.
The advantage of the passing and controlling ball system is that it can force the opponent to run more by taking advantage of the ball.
When Manchester City realized that Real Madrid's physical fitness began to decline, Su Dong and the Manchester City players on the field quickly reached a tacit understanding.
Manchester City immediately began to increase the pressure on Real Madrid.
Especially when the game entered the 75th minute, Manchester City's pressing was obviously more intense.
In the 77th minute, Ramos received a hand-thrown ball from Casillas in the backcourt. As soon as he turned around, he saw Su Dong, who had been retreating, suddenly accelerated and rushed towards him.
This surprised the Spanish center back, but he reacted quickly and passed the ball to Albiol.
As soon as Su Dong ran in front of Ramos, he changed direction and rushed towards Albiol. At the same time, he cut off the possibility of Albiol passing the ball to Ramos through his running route.
This immediately forced Albiol to face the left and pass the ball to Coentrao.
But at this time, Manchester City's right winger Sanchez had also rushed up and rushed directly towards Coentrao.
After the Portuguese left-back dribbled past Sanchez, he cut inside with the ball and passed it back to Albiol. The latter was disturbed by Su Dong and made a long pass to the frontcourt.
Benzema retreated and stopped the ball with his back, but due to the interference of Pepe behind him, he could not hold the ball. After stopping the ball too far, he passed it to Kaka. Kaka dribbled the ball from the middle and went diagonally to the left rib, trying to establish a connection with Cristiano Ronaldo.
Busquets ran over to intercept, trying to keep Kaka out of the defense line, and Toni Kroos also retreated to defend immediately. The two formed a horn and clamped Kaka.
After being blocked by Busquets, Kaka slowed down, but at this time Toni Kroos caught up from the side and rear, took the lead and kicked the ball away, tripping Kaka at the same time.
The Brazilian dived in front of Manchester City's penalty area, but Busquets got the ball in the first place.
The Real Madrid players around raised their hands to protest immediately, thinking it was a foul.
"The referee did not blow the whistle. It seems that he thought there was no foul in Manchester City's defense and Toni Kroos successfully intercepted the ball."
"Look at this counterattack from Manchester City, Busquets takes the ball and pushes forward."
Although Busquets has been lagging behind in the number four position, he actually has very good footwork and is very steady with the ball. Especially when there are no defensive players in front of him, he can dribble the ball directly across the center line and keep rushing forward.
After a back-and-forth pass with David Silva, Busquets had rushed to the front of Real Madrid's 30-meter area and quickly passed the ball to Su Dong who retreated to receive the ball.
Su Dong stopped the ball with his back to the goal and saw Busquets advancing on his side. He immediately passed the ball horizontally and turned around to sprint forward.
Busquets understood what he meant and did not stop the ball. Instead, he pushed the ball forward following Su Dong's cross pass.
The ball was passed diagonally behind Ramos and slid towards Su Dong's forward route. After Su Dong moved forward, he faced Albiol who was running over to block him, with Ramos chasing him closely behind him. As soon as he stopped the ball, he passed the ball behind Albiol's left side with his right foot, and then he suddenly accelerated and rushed from Albiol's right side.
Poor Albiol, he just ran over from the right side of the arc to block Su Dong, but he was passed by him and passed the ball back to the right side of the arc, into the penalty area, while Su Dong got rid of the two central defenders of Real Madrid in one breath.
"Nice pass!"
"Su Dong completed a wonderful individual performance."
After passing the ball to himself two seconds later, Su Dong caught up with his pass on the right side of Real Madrid's penalty area, turned around to face the goal, took a step forward with the ball, and without waiting for the defensive players behind him to catch up, or for Casillas to attack, he kicked straight forward.
As soon as Casillas reached the small penalty area, he saw Su Dong kicking the ball. He landed on the ground immediately, but the ball was faster and flew directly past his side, almost brushing the right post and shooting into Real Madrid's goal.
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLL!!!"
"In the 77th minute, in the 77th minute, Su Dong scored again, scoring twice and helping Manchester City successfully equalize the score, 2-2!"
"My God, Su Dong's performance was outstanding this time. He used a wonderful pass to break through the Real Madrid central defender defense, and when he had a one-on-one opportunity, he calmly seized the opportunity and scored another goal for Manchester City."
"Two to two, the two sides are back to a tie again, and the total score has expanded to six to three."
"This is a desperate score because Real Madrid can't equalize even if they score three more goals now, but need to score four goals to turn the situation around because Manchester City have two away goals."
"This is what we were talking about just now. Real Madrid's biggest problem now is that they can't stop Manchester City, especially the attack from Su Dong. The goal just now is definitely a masterpiece of Su Dong's personal ability."
"Real Madrid players protested to the referee, saying that Toni Kroos had fouled Kaka first and that Su Dong's goal should be disallowed, but the referee obviously disagreed."
"Let's replay it in slow motion. This is Manchester City's defense, which was caused by Toni Kroos."
“Very neat and tidy!”
"Toni Kroos touched the ball first and then the player. It was a very good defensive move."
"There is nothing wrong with the referee's enforcement this time."
Manchester City players rushed to the sidelines to celebrate frantically. Even many people in the visiting team's coaching and substitute benches rushed over and hugged Su Dong and his teammates on the sidelines.
Everyone knew that with Su Dong's goal, the game was completely over.
Real Madrid must then score four goals to reverse the situation. Otherwise, even if Real Madrid scores three more goals, it will be of no avail because Manchester City has one more away goal than Real Madrid.
Therefore, Su Dong's goal basically sentenced Real Madrid to death.
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The facts also confirm this.
Pellegrini then continued to strengthen the attack, but even after replacing players such as Granero, they failed to perform well.
The morale of Real Madrid's players was severely hit, and everyone even seemed a little bored.
This is normal because the situation is over.
Even at the beginning when they were full of energy, they couldn't score four goals against Manchester City without losing the ball, not to mention that their energy has been almost exhausted. At this time, what can they use to fight Manchester City?
Cristiano Ronaldo's desire to win was the strongest, and he even seemed a little impatient. He took two consecutive long shots from outside the penalty area, but failed to threaten Manchester City's goal.
He is just like that. Once he gets anxious, he becomes very unrestrained.
Real Madrid's morale was greatly reduced, while Manchester City continued to play steadily, controlling the ball while patiently wearing down their opponents.
After the game entered the 80th minute, Manchester City also created several good chances, but Ramos and Casillas performed well and prevented Manchester City from scoring again.
But at this time, Real Madrid was no longer able to prevent the team from losing.
In the last few minutes, both sides played tiredly and lazily, and no one organized an effective attack.
When the referee blew the whistle, the score finally settled at 2-2.
Manchester City successfully eliminated Real Madrid from the Champions League quarterfinals with a total score of 6-3 in two rounds and successfully advanced to the Champions League semi-finals.
This is undoubtedly the pinnacle moment in Manchester City's history.
This Premier League team, which participated in the Champions League for the first time in history, not only stood out from the group of death in the group stage, but also eliminated AC Milan and Real Madrid, two major Champions League champions, in the knockout stage and successfully reached the semi-finals.
The solid results have forced everyone to acknowledge Manchester City’s strength.
Real Madrid missed a powerful offensive in the first twenty minutes of the game, failed to seize the opportunity and expand the victory, and ultimately failed to create a miracle of reversal at home.
(End of this chapter)
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