Fifteen minutes of half-time were in a bad mood for the home fans at the Stadio Mineiro, with two goals conceded in the first half essentially meaning that the team they were backing had lost any hope of competing for the title. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

A winner-or-lose final may have the chance to make a magical comeback, but the 180-minute battle over two legs rarely happens, after all, the two-goal deficit happened on one's home turf......

The commentators in the commentary booth analyzed the past 45 minutes and guessed which direction the situation would have taken in the second half.

Will River Plate, with a two-goal lead, win the game, or will Cruzeiro, who are two goals behind, pull off a shocking comeback at home?

In this regard, the Argentine media and the Brazilian media are opposed, the former is optimistic that River Plate will win the game, and the latter is optimistic about Cruzeiro to win the reversal.

That speculation continued until the start of the second half, and they commented with their own expectations.

Coming two goals down at home would be a death for Cruzeiro so all they need to do is try to equalise and even reverse the score in the 45 minutes of the second half.

There is no other way than to increase the investment of offensive forces.

Simeone was well prepared and made a targeted deployment after the half-time training session, changing the formation from a very strategic 433 formation to a 4231 formation, with Bonanott and Augusto Fernandez shrinking to two flanks to assist in the defence, leaving only one Falcao in front.

Facing River Plate, where the defensive line is quite solid, Cruzeiro who is playing at home really has no good way.

Ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and Cruzeiro only had the advantage of possession and did not threaten the real attack of the River Plate goal.

Batista reluctantly turned to look at the bench, he shook his head, the lack of depth on the bench limited his tactical changes, which meant that he could only hope for eleven players on the pitch now.

Ramirez has been working hard since the start of the second half, but his footwork is not particularly delicate, and it is tantamount to talk about delivering a through ball as precise as a scalpel like a midfielder.

So after dodging the gap, Ramirez decisively tried to shoot from a distance, Tang Zheng's blocking action was half a beat slower, and the football grazed his pants and flew towards the goal.

Tang Zheng's gaze did not leave the football, he turned his head to look at it as the football was running.

The ball didn't spin in mid-air and Musacchio jumped to clear the ball with his head, but couldn't reach the ......

Goalkeeper Daniel Bega moved his feet and kicked hard, and the whole person took off into the air, and his body was very stretched, but the congenital disadvantage of height made it impossible for his arms to be extended longer.

"Bang-"

Before Daniel Bega could rejoice, a tsunami of cheers erupted over the Mineiro Stadium.

"It's in, it's in!" shouted Bueno, a commentator on Globo Brasil, excitedly: "Ramirez's long-range shot bounced into the goal on the inside of the right post, and his goal helped Cruzeiro make it 1-2 at home!"

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"Hey, that's a shame. Abel Claudio shook his head and said: "Since Juan Carrizo left the Apennines, there has been no reliable goalkeeper in front of River Plate, Daniel Vega has good reflexes and bounces, but his height and reach have always been a big obstacle to becoming a top goalkeeper. ”

Tang Zheng has a certain responsibility for the goal conceded, but he knew that the goal had become a fact, so he slapped his palms vigorously a few times and reminded his teammates loudly: "We are fighting away, and the goal is expected, don't forget that we are still one goal ahead now!" Don't be discouraged, we must win!"

At this time, Tang Zheng had fully entered the role of captain, and he stood up when his teammates' moods changed subtly and performed the duties of captain.

Simeone was very relieved to see this scene, as if he saw himself back then.

Twelve minutes into the second half, the home side narrowed the lead with a long-range shot, which boosted morale.

The home fans in the stands also found a reason to fight, and their hysterical chanting echoed throughout the Mineiro stadium.

The score was reduced, and Batista made a decisive substitution, replacing Paulista with Thiago Ribeiro to strengthen the attack.

With cheers erupting at the Mineiro Stadium, the home team unleashed a bombardment pattern towards River Plate's half-court defensive hinterland.

It's better to kill the wrong one than to let it go!

Ramirez was inspired by the world's goal and tried to shoot from distance whenever he was in range.

But world waves are hard to come by, how can it be so easy?

His attempt made River Plate's defence much easier, with only the need to pay attention to the distribution of the ball on both flanks and the protection of the edge of the box.

As the game entered the 65th minute, the visiting River Plate also made a substitution, and he replaced Bonanot, who was no longer very useful defensively, with Ortega.

Tang Zheng saw the captain Ortega coming off the bench, he jogged over, ready to hand over the captain's armband to the other party, but Ortega pressed Tang Zheng's right hand, and said, "It's okay, you wear it, now you are more like the captain." ”

After speaking, he ran to his position without waiting for Tang Zheng's reaction, and at the same time explained the adjustment of Falcao and Augusto Fernandez's positioning.

Tang Zheng was not pretentious at all, his shoulders shrugged, and he pulled the captain's armband up with his right hand, and the tightness struck again, and he also woke up his spirit.

Cruzeiro's back-to-back attacks didn't pose another threat, and Tang Zheng went from being the best player of the first half to a rescue hero, appearing wherever the team was in danger.

So much so that Bueno, the commentator of Brazil's Globo TV, praised Tang Zheng's defensive awareness: "Tang is worthy of being the strongest treasure of River Plate! If he did not exist in this game, I believe that Cruzeiro who was fighting at home would have taken the lead in the score! He not only played an obvious role in the offensive end, but also had a divine help on the defensive end." ”

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After Tang Zheng's many rescues, the River Plate back line finally stabilized its position, and after becoming familiar with Cruzeiro's offensive rhythm, it became no longer flustered, and the number of counterattacks and positional offensive opportunities also increased.

The game time has also reached the physical critical point of 75 minutes, and the rhythm has reached the lowest point since the start of the game.

Tang Zheng's position slowly moved forward with the removal of the defensive crisis, and came to the position of the central midfielder, organizing the team's attack in an orderly manner.

Now Ramirez, who has the best physical fitness in the Cruzeiro team, is gasping for breath, so looking at Tang Zheng, who is still walking like a fly, they are all complaining in their hearts: What a pervert!

Having abundant physical fitness, the advantages that manifest themselves at this time are obvious.

Tang Zheng directly accelerated with an unreasonable change of direction to erase Wagner, Ramirez had to rush to Tang Zheng from gritting his teeth, and now his physical fitness is not very optimistic, so he chose to foul in the front court.

Anyway, under normal circumstances, as long as the action is not particularly large, the referee will not take out the card.

Ramirez rushed towards Tang Zheng with a small arc from the side, but what he didn't expect was that Tang Zheng had already prepared.

Tang Zheng, who had already picked up the speed, took a big step forward with his left foot during the run, stepped on the football and pulled it back, and then pulled the ball in the offensive direction on the right **, completing a 360-degree turn.

“wooooooow――”

Marseille maneuver!

An exclamation erupted in the sky above the Mineiro Stadium.

In the face of Tang Zheng's flowing Marseille maneuver, Ramirez's outstretched right foot was like a player pressing the pause button.

By the time he reacted, Tang Zheng was already facing the direction of the attack, but he didn't give up, turned around and started chasing.

Parana stepped forward to break the ball, Tang Zheng pushed the arch of his right foot, and the football was handed to Ortega, who was receiving laterally.

"Pretty two-over-one!"

When Ortega knocked the ball back to Tang Zheng, Abel Claudio shouted.

With both midfielders out of position, Magelang, who was closer to the full-back, naturally shouldered the responsibility of defending Tang Zheng, but the latter flicked the outside of his right foot, and the football reached the feet of Augusto Fernandez, and Magelang had to turn back.

Augusto Fernandez passed the ball to Tang Zheng again, and Magelang approached Tang Zheng like a string-pulling doll.

At the moment when Magelang turned around, he saw Ramirez approaching Tang Zheng at high speed, and he immediately turned a small corner and returned to the defense.

Seeing that Tang Zheng was about to cross the middle line, central defender Eleno came out to defend Tang Zheng.

His defensive strategy is different from Parana and Magelang, he didn't blindly go up, and he saw that Ramirez, who was in the top three of the team, was chasing back at high speed, so what he had to do was to slow down Tang Zheng's advance.

However, Tang Zheng knocked the ball horizontally to Falcao who suddenly stopped on the spot at the same time as Eleno came up, and then accelerated to the left rib of the defense, which is the space between Eleno and Magelang.

This is...... It's going to be a two-by-two rhythm!

Really!

Falcao made a big pass without stopping, and the ball rolled from Cruzeiro to the right rib of River Plate.

Elenor's rich experience in the game made him make an instant decision, that is, to use his body to stop Tang Zheng from moving forward!

However, Eleno didn't expect Tang Zheng's explosiveness to be so strong at this time period, resulting in a misjudgment of his foul.

Moreover, Tang Zheng also used the left elbow that was erected to flash half a meter to the right front with the help of the force pressed by Eleno's body, and did not fall as the home fans wanted to see.

Tang Zheng only stumbled under his feet when he landed, while Elenor fell to the ground because of his lack of center of gravity.

Goalkeeper Fabio hesitated as soon as he rushed to the line of the penalty area, and he chose to respond to the situation unchanged.

Ramirez only had Tang Zheng in his eyes, so he didn't notice Elenor who stole chickens and couldn't make rice......

"shit-shit!!"

Batista saw Ramirez, who was chasing back at high speed, collide with Eleno, and he pointed his fingers at the sky and rarely burst into a foul mouth.

Another centre-back, Leonardo Silva, was afraid of the distance between them and the presence of Falcao, so he chose to block Tang Zheng's passing angle.

"--Single-handed!"

Abel Claudio saw Tang Zheng push the ball forward, and his speed was raised again, and his voice suddenly increased an octave because of this.

(To be continued.) )