Chapter 967 Tile no more shooting

In the 67th minute of the game, the score was 1:2, Manchester United led by one goal but played one less person on the field.

In this situation, both sides have an advantage, and as for who can have the last laugh, they can only look at the last less than 30 minutes of play.

After Yaya Toure scored the penalty, Ferguson made a substitution, starting centre-forward Berbatov was replaced, and defensive midfielder Park Ji-sung was replaced.

This substitution is also a reasonable thing, originally Manchester City's strength is not much worse than Manchester United, and now Manchester United has been sent off, the strength is already weaker than Manchester City, and the defense must be strengthened to be able to hold the last 20 minutes.

As for why he changed to Park Ji-sung, the main reason is that Park Ji-sung can run and spares no effort, and now that he is older, it is still no problem to run for twenty or thirty minutes.

Manchester United replaced the strikers with defensive midfielders, and the signal was obvious, they wanted to defend and hold on to their one-goal advantage.

It's an FA Cup semi-final, win and qualify, lose and go home, and City have a numerical advantage and of course have to hold on to it.

Mancini also gave the order to attack with all his strength when Ferguson made a substitution, and at this time, Manchester City had no way out, even if they were killed by the opponent's counterattack, they had to attack.

City's attack is still from the wings, and unlike before Paul Scholes was sent off, City are now more active and bold in their wide assists, in addition to penetrating deeper in the middle.

Manchester United is almost dense defense at the moment, originally Manchester United disdained to do this, can't afford to lose that face, even if it is defending after the lead, Manchester United did not stay around the penalty area, more of a half-court defense, but now there is one less number, Manchester United can let go, shrink around their own penalty area when there is no ball, and do not give Manchester City space to attack.

City's repeated attacks were fruitless, and the ball was passed to Silva's feet.

Silva has once again shown his creativity. He went through Evra through the crotch after continuous shaking on the side, but this time Silva was not able to cut into the penalty area, after Park Ji-sung came on the field, the main thing was to defend Manchester City's most attacking threat Silva with Evra, seeing Silva past Evra, Park Ji-sung flew over and shoveled the ball out of the bottom line.

Silva played a tactical corner and the ball was passed to Zabaleta, who crossed and the ball was headed over by a defender.

Manchester City outnumbered Manchester United, and after the ball was cleared, the landing point was still controlled at the feet of the Manchester City players.

Kolarov, who got the ball this time, did not give the ball to Silva again, but passed it to Wright Jr. on the other side.

Wright Jr. continued to dribble Rafael with the ball, trying to break through to the bottom line, but at the moment Manchester United contracted very much, Rafael was on the side of the penalty area, and it was not easy for Wright Jr. to break through the fast and flexible Rafael in such a small space.

Two successive changes of speed and direction did not shake Rafael, and Wright Jr. had no choice but to pass the ball back to Kolarov.

Instead of blindly crossing, Korolav suddenly flicked the ball down the middle and cut across to the edge of the box.

The full-back cut cross, and Manchester United striker Valencia rushed to follow up to intercept and prevent Kolarov from hitting the goal.

Kolarov started a step quicker and fired a shot before Valenci and the ball flew straight to the left side of the goal.

Manchester City have always struggled to find a good way to attack, and Kolarov is also trying another way of attacking.

There were many people in the box, and Kolarov's shot bounced off the defender.

The ball popped up just as Gao Xiaodong grabbed it, but Manchester City's pressing was very fierce quickly, Gao Xiaodong just got the ball, De Jong pounced, looking at the momentum, he must have rather fouled than let Gao Xiaodong pass the ball out, let alone take it away.

Gao Xiaodong saw De Jong pounce, he did not move forward, but turned the ball to the direction of his goal, just avoiding De Jong's pounce.

Although De Jong did not grab the ball, it was a success to force Gao Xiaodong to turn around, after all, all he had to do was to delay Manchester United's attack and give his teammates a chance to defend.

But I never thought that Gao Xiaodong was wearing super glasses and had a very wide field of vision, and when he turned around to avoid De Jong's pressing, Gao Xiaodong had already observed Valencia's position, and this real young man ran forward when he saw Gao Xiaodong taking the ball.

Not only Valencia was running, but Park Ji-sung also ran forward, but Gao Xiaodong didn't see it.

Valencia's trust in Gao Xiaodong is incomparable, Gao Xiaodong will certainly not live up to his trust, after avoiding De Jong, Gao Xiaodong did not wait for De Jong to come up again, he half-turned and volleyed, and passed the ball to the side where Valencia was.

After Gao Xiaodong passed the ball, he wanted to run forward to meet Valencia, although the possibility of receiving it was very small, but Gao Xiaodong did not want to give up.

However, a dangerous figure like Gao Xiaodong, even without the ball, will not be let go by Manchester City's players, Gao Xiaodong has just started, De Jong stretched his leg unscrupulously and tripped Gao Xiaodong to the ground.

Fortunately, it was Valencia, and no Manchester United player on the field could catch up with Gao Xiaodong's volley-like pass.

But there is also the advantage of being fast, and when Valencia caught the ball near the baseline, none of City's players were within 10 meters, giving Valencia plenty of time to adjust.

But Valencia stopped the ball and looked at the box again, and none of his teammates followed, the closest being Nani, but Nani had not yet run to the edge of the box.

This is also normal, the main striker Berbatov went down, Manchester United is a dense defense, the top is the two wingers Valencia and Nani, and Gao Xiaodong in the middle is the main scorer who assists in the front, but Gao Xiaodong was tripped up, so no one inserted into the penalty area.

The Manchester United fans in the stands were very excited when Valencia caught up with the ball and felt that there was one, but seeing that only one Nani was outflanked and not yet in place, their hearts were half cold, and they felt that this counterattack was nothing to do.

It's normal for fans to think like this, because Valencia has a nickname Wa Bu Shot, which shows how low his desire to shoot is, and now that he has the ball, there is no forward player, and it is estimated that this goal may not even be able to shoot.

But it was also difficult for Valencia not to shoot today, if he waited for Nani to follow, the defenders were all back, and Valencia was not sure that the ball was accurately delivered to Nani's feet by a few defenders.

Valencia ducked onto the rack and he slid the ball quickly into the box and diagonally to find the right angle for his shot.

Seeing Valencia cut inside, goalkeeper Joe Hart quickly crossed to the near corner to prevent Valencia from hitting the near corner.

Kompany, who was back in action, also moved closer to Valencia as fast as he could, preventing him from continuing to the middle.

Kompany pressed closer, Valencia's passing line was narrower, and it was already difficult to see Nani running desperately.

Valencia finally got to his feet, and instead of passing, he shot with the arch of his foot into the top left corner of the goal.

Valencia's angle of the shot was awkward, and more suddenly, as the main player in the Manchester United squad. Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart has actually studied a lot of Valencia, and he also knows his nickname of not shooting, he didn't expect Valencia to shoot, or shoot into the back corner of the goal at such a small angle.

Joe Hart made a block and the ball went around his hand and bounced into the net on the inside of the post.

3:1

Valencia received a long pass from Gao Xiaodong and used a curling ball to break through the door of Manchester City for the third time and extend the score advantage.