Chapter 365: Half a foot into the semifinals
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"Wow! Your friend is really amazing!" Seeing Gao Xiaodong score a goal, Wu Lei's girlfriend Yingnan clapped her hands and shouted. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
However, Wu Lei was hugging and shouting tightly with the monkey, and he didn't hear his girlfriend's voice at all.
However, Xiao Le was so excited that he couldn't find anyone, so he opened his arms and hugged Yingnan, desperately afraid of fighting, and cheered.
Ferreira was so excited, at this moment he remembered that five years ago, Porto equalized and eliminated Manchester United in the last minute, and finally won the championship miraculously, is this God's will?
Ferreira couldn't suppress his emotions, this old and serious man actually ran and came to a slippery kneeling!
At this moment, not only the Porto fans at Old Trafford, but also the Porto fans waiting in front of the TV and computers all over the world are going crazy, and in this moment, almost everyone who knows the history of Porto remembers the magical scene five years ago.
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The stoppage time has passed and the Porto players are still celebrating wildly.
Seeing this familiar scene, Manchester United fans, who are a little bit older, immediately remembered the Champions League quarter-finals five years ago.
At that time, Manchester United's opponent was also Porto, Manchester United lost 1:2 away, returned to the home field with a one-goal lead, until the 90th minute, Manchester United was still ahead, but in the 90th minute, Porto scored, the score was 1:1, Manchester United was killed.
Later, Porto became the biggest dark horse, winning the Champions League, which should have belonged to Manchester United.
Older Manchester United fans then remembered the miracle of Manchester United's treble in 10 years, scoring two goals in three minutes of stoppage time to win the title against Bayern.
Then, the Red Devils in the Old Trafford West Stand were the first to wake up, and they roared at the pitch:
"There's still time!
"Hard work will work wonders!"
"Take the last chance!"
"Fight!"
"Red Devils up!
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Led by the West Stand diehards, more than 70,000 Red Devils fans began to roar and cheer the United players to stand up and fight!
The sound was deafening, and no other sound could be heard from the whole stadium facing each other, only the words "fight!"
After the initial disappointment, the experienced players quickly made their way to the centre circle and waited to serve, with Ryan Giggs and Fletcher rushing over to the referee to ask him to stop Porto from celebrating and resume play.
Referee Platz looked at his watch and went over to call for the Porto players to come back to play.
At this time, Emmanuel, an assistant coach who had experienced the elimination of Manchester United five years ago, shouted at Gao Xiaodong in the field: "Xiaodong, consume time! Don't be careless! Consume time! You can do a lot in one minute! Say hello to your teammates." ā
Gao Xiaodong was also extremely excited after scoring the goal, his mind was blank, Emmanuel shouted, only to remember that the opponent was the giant Manchester United, and quickly called his teammates to come back and defend well.
After the kick-off in the center circle, Manchester United pressed all over the line, and goalkeeper Van der Sar ran to the center circle to launch a desperate attack on Porto.
Porto didn't bother to counter-attack, with all players retreating to the 30-metre zone.
For only a minute, Giggs didn't go down after taking the ball, and directly hit a long ball into the penalty area.
In the penalty area, you scramble for people to turn over, and the ball was pushed back and forth in the penalty area, but goalkeeper Helton made a key attack, and he pressed Rooney to hold the ball tightly in his arms.
Helton wanted to kick the ball big, but Gao Xiaodong hurriedly stopped him, he returned to the fullback position, let Helton pass to himself, and beckoned Hulk to come over to protect the ball together.
Gao Xiaodong discussed kick-off with Helton, but was regarded as a delay by Plautz and showed a yellow card warning to Helton.
Almost every player in Porto has Manchester United players around him, the ball was passed to Gao Xiaodong, Gao Xiaodong received the ball and ran to the sideline, Manchester United's forwards Tevez and Giggs came to force it, Gao Xiaodong stood in front of the sideline and stretched out his arms to protect the ball, Hulk hurriedly stood on Gao Xiaodong's side to prevent Manchester United players from grabbing the ball from one side.
Tevez was furious and pushed Gao Xiaodong behind his back.
Gao Xiaodong waited for this push, he immediately threw himself on the ball, and let Tevez and Giggs kick around, but he couldn't hold it down.
Referee Plautz blew the whistle to stop the players on both sides and let Porto continue to serve, this time Gao Xiaodong was even more obscene, and called Falcao over, and the three strong men formed a circle and moved forward to protect the ball.
"What kind of tactic is this?"
"Circle ball protection tactics!"
"Oh my God!
"Bastard!"
"Lewd!"
"Shameless!"
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70,000 Manchester United fans angrily denounced Gao Xiaodong, Hulk and Falcao.
The irascible Rooney couldn't help it, and he angrily ran over from the middle to shovel Gao Xiaodong.
Gao Xiaodong pretended not to see, did not move to protect the ball, and after being shoveled, he immediately fell to the ground and rolled all over the ground.
Commentator Paddy said angrily: "That Huaguo fat man faked another fall!"
Another commentator said: "He was really shoveled, and in order to protect the ball, he also fought hard." ā
Referee Plautz was decisive enough to show Rooney a yellow card and continue to allow Porto to deliver a free-kick.
At this time, it was almost five minutes of stoppage time, and after Gao Xiaodong passed to Hulk, Plautz finally blew the whistle.
Two short and one long, the game is over!
"Oh oh oh!"
"Long live Gao Xiaodong!"
"Porto champion!"
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Porto players and fans celebrated wildly at Old Trafford, while Manchester United fans who were ready to celebrate had to leave the stadium in anger and frustration.
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson shook Ferreira's hand in a gentlemanly manner, but without saying a word of congratulations to Ferreira, he walked back to the dressing room with a cold face.
After the Porto players celebrated, hundreds of reporters gathered around to interview the Porto players.
Gao Xiaodong was even more surrounded by reporters, and the microphones almost surrounded him.
'How did you feel about scoring the equaliser at Old Trafford?'
Faced with this old-fashioned question from reporters, Gao Xiaodong said very cooperatively: "I am very happy! Scoring at Old Trafford is worth remembering for a lifetime." ā
"What did you think before you scored?"
"I didn't think much of it, but the game wasn't over yet, so we had to try to find a way to score. ā
"Isn't your last ball guard a little too ungentlemanly?" was a question from a reporter from The Sun.
"Is it illegal? Is it illegal? What kind of football is a gentleman coming to play, playing golf and snooker. It's a man's sport. Gao Xiaodong rolled his eyes and said.
"How did you manage to draw against a strong Manchester United?"
"Together, fighting, never giving up, and in addition, we caught their weaknesses. ā
"What is the weakness?"
"The weakness is that they don't take us to heart. ā
"Now Porto can fantasize about the final, Porto won the title after knocking out Manchester United in '04. ā
"I only dare to think of the second leg of the quarter-finals, I can't even think of the semi-finals, Manchester United is a great team. ā
"Manchester United have never won at the Dragons Stadium before, and a team that played 2-2 at home in the first leg has only a 10 per cent chance of progressing. ā
"That's the past, and who knows what the future holds. But I hope that history will repeat itself. Okay, that's all for the interview, I'm going back to the shower. ā
Gao Xiaodong waved to the reporter and went back to the locker room.
Ten minutes later
Press conference hall at Old Trafford
Ferguson was making his post-match speech with a cold face.
'We only had two days off after beating Aston Villa 3-2 in the Premier League last round and there was a general fatigue from the players, but it was also a lack of concentration that led to the goal conceded at the end. When you're 2-1 up with 2 minutes left, you really should keep the advantage until the end of the game. ā
'We can only blame ourselves, scoring late in the game was normal for us, but the goal we conceded was absolutely bad. You can't say it was a brilliant goal, but we're really making some mistakes at this stage. ā
'Porto didn't expect it, they played fantastic football, they were courageous and they didn't give up. ā
"The Champions League is the best league and countless teams are fighting hard in the Champions League, and countless teams are going to lose halfway. There are only two teams that can reach the final of the Champions League, and there is only one final king, and I believe Manchester United will be the last one. ā
"One reporter said that the probability of Manchester United advancing is less than 10 per cent, and there are only 90 minutes left for Manchester United, and yes, no English team has won at the Porto Dragons Stadium, so it will definitely be difficult. But we're used to being the first and we need to be the first again because we have to win!"
Ferreira couldn't hide his joy and in the face of Ferguson's challenge, he said-for-tat: "We played completely well tonight. Scoring two away goals was crucial, especially the late goal from the last minute, which gave us a lot of confidence and encouragement. ā
"A reporter just told me that in the history of the Champions League, the team that played 2:2 away in the first leg has a probability of 90 percent, and we have half a foot in the last four, but I think the probability is not important, football is round, what matters is whether you play well or not, just like this game, before the game we thought we would lose because we never won in England, but we didn't lose. ā
"In the second leg, we only had to play 0-0 or 1-1 to qualify, but we would like to say that it was completely different at the Dragons, it was our home stadium. We're not going to be conservative, we're going to try to win the game. ā