Chapter 053: FA Cup Final!

Manchester City beat Manchester United 4-3 in the Manchester derby and now lead the Reds in the table and win the game! [For the latest chapter, please go to $>>> cotton_._.flower_._.sugar_._.small_._.say_._..._.._

After the game, the Manchester Evening News bluntly said: Now, we can say that the champions have almost been locked in a safe by Manchester City.

The vast majority of the media in England agreed, with two games remaining in the league and Manchester City leading Manchester United to win this derby, and there was little suspense about the title.

City didn't let up after winning this important derby, and they didn't even have much time to rest, but instead became more urgent, because just this weekend, they will have an important game ahead of them, the 2011-2012 FA Cup final, against the Reds Liverpool.

This weekend's match in the 37th round of the English Premier League, Manchester City and Newcastle United, will also be rescheduled, with the match postponed to the middle of next week.

This game has attracted the attention of the whole world.

Sky TV rented a helicopter and was already in the air an hour before the game started.

From the air, it was Wembley Stadium, which had been caught in a frenzied atmosphere.

"This is London, this is over Wembley Stadium and half an hour before the 2011/2012 FA Cup final!

"Liverpool, Liverpool, we are champions, we are destined to be great Liverpool!"

"Let's talk about our standings!!"

"We are the king of England, Liverpool!"

"Continue to trample you under your feet today!"

"Oh, Yang Fan, that bastard!

"Are you scared? Are you worried that Yang Fan will slaughter you?"

"Go back!"

"****, who are you talking about?"

Such verbal provocations and battles take place in every corner of the pitch.

Soon, several fans were controlled by the police, stuffed into police cars, and drove away from the scene with police lights on.

This is what happened outside Wembley Stadium before Liverpool's FA Cup clash with Manchester City.

Countless fans gathered here, slogans roared, cursed and clashed, and the police were like enemies. Desperately maintain order on the spot.

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And at this time.

In the dressing room at Wembley Stadium, Roberto Mancini is making his pre-match speech.

"I don't need to say more, you all know what the night game is......" Mancini used as the opening sentence for tonight's battle mobilization.

At this time, captain Yang Fan first stood up and said, "Coach, we all understand the importance of this game, and" the captain's own teammates, "This game, we are high-spirited!"

Hearing the captain say this, there was a shout from below.

Mancini also smiled, rightly, in this game, Manchester City did not need to carry out pre-war mobilization at all, in fact, he believed that Liverpool was the same, there was no need for pre-war mobilization.

After a final explanation of today's game tactics.

In the locker room, there was some silence.

Two minutes later, assistant coach Soliano told the players, "It's almost time, get ready to play." ”

At this time, Wembley Stadium was already overcrowded.

"Go back to Manchester City!"

"Man city, you're finished!"

"Yang Fan! You shouldn't be here at the stadium, you should be put in prison!"

"Yang Fan, we will kill you!"

"Long live Liverpool!"

Most of the Wembley Stadium is such a banner, Liverpool fans now hate Manchester City and Yang Fan, and many Liverpool fans firmly believe that if it were not for Yang Fan leading Manchester City to give Liverpool three times and twice, Liverpool's current situation would definitely be much better than now...... However, then again, which team in the Premier League has not been abused by Yang Fan?!

Sky TV will broadcast the FA Cup final between Manchester City and Liverpool live across the UK.

At this time, the list of this game, they have already gotten.

Liverpool (4-4-2): 1-Reina/21-Johnson, 33-Agger, 3-Carragher, 28-Aurelio/4-Gerrard, 22-Maxi Rodriguez, 30-Lucas, 7-Kuyt/10-Suarez, 17-Carroll;

Manchester City (4-3-1-2): 16-Joe Hart/25-Zabaleta, 17-Lescott, 33-Kompany, 19-Sagna/8-De Jong, 21-Yaya Toure, - Gareth Barry, 10-David Silva/9-Dzeko, 10-Yang Fan;

Commentator John Morteson was briefing the fans in front of the TV about the game, "...... This game is an opportunity for Liverpool, they occupy a certain advantage, Colo Toure's old injury recurrence, for the sake of insurance, Mancini will hide Colo Toure, Manchester City's central defender partner is Lescott and Kompany, Aguero was injured in the Champions League match with Real Madrid, and this game is also absent, so to speak, this game, Yang Fan will take on a greater responsibility than before! Today, he is the attacking core of Manchester City! His performances up front, whether or not he can make Liverpool's goal feel threatened, are a help to the team's worrying backline. (”

Yang Fan and Dzeko stood in the center circle, waiting for the kickoff.

At this time, in the broadcast, the names of the two sides were being broadcast, and Yang Fan's name was read, and the entire stadium suddenly erupted in huge boos.

Many Liverpool fans are not clean in their mouths and curse.

The director also aimed the camera at the right time, those slogan banners that insulted and ridiculed Yang Fan and Manchester City.

The referee of the match is passing the headset and the fourth official on time.

Then he looked around.

With this movement, the wembley stadium gradually quieted down as if it had boiled a kettle.

The referee bowed his head and then gave a thumbs up to the fourth official on the sidelines, everything 0k. It's time to tee off.

"Toot"

City drove the ball out and Yang Fan kicked the ball to Dzeko, who passed it back.

After David Silva won the ball, he continued to pass back, and the ball was at the feet of Yaya Toure.

Yaya Toure continued to pass back, Gareth Barry kicked the ball to Zabaleta on the wing, and instead of continuing the pass back, Zabaleta kicked the ball to De Jong, who was diagonally in front of him.

De Jong handed over the football to Yaya Toure.

Yaya Toure didn't advance with the ball, but passed the ball out. Liverpool's defensive prowess in midfield is world-class. If one person has too much ball, it is easy to get caught in the encirclement of the opponent. Moreover, breaking through with the ball is not Yaya Toure's strong point, he is characterized by combing and organizing the team's attack, finding passing opportunities and openings in dense and complex situations.

After a small one-two with Gareth Barry, who came to pick up, Yaya Toure passed. He passed the football to David Silva.

After David Silva received the ball, he began to break through with the ball.

The Spanish international's skills at the feet have been perfected.

"Don't let him break through easily. "Ag is commanding the line.

Maxi Rodriguez immediately pounced on David Silva, and Aurerio was on the sidelines, ready to pounce at any moment.

After successfully attracting the attention of the Liverpool defence, David Silva immediately stepped out and passed the ball away.

A diagonal ball.

Football is back at Yaya Toure's feet once again.

City's attacking passing after kick-off was very accurate, and the overall movement and response were very skillful, which fully demonstrated their tacit understanding.

"Watch out for his crosses!" Liverpool's goalkeeper Reyna roared. Yatoure won the ball, and he was immediately alarmed.

Today's Manchester City striker is Yang Fan and Dzeko, Dzeko's grasp of the opportunity and his erratic running position are enough headaches, in addition, there is also a Yang Fan, this person's judgment of football landing point, as well as the ability to score in front of the goal, is more terrifying than Dzeko. This is a forward partner with two characteristics that have certain similarities, but there are great differences, and such a forward partner is even more terrifying.

With these two strikers, Yaya Toure's passing is even more useful. Reyna couldn't help but be nervous. He didn't dare to be careless and made everyone more vigilant.

Yaya Toure did pass the ball. But he didn't pass it to Dzeko, who was outflanking in the middle, and Yang Fan, who was ready to pick up on the right. He kicked the ball back. It was passed to David Silva, who came to pick him up.

David Silva received the ball and stopped it, but his stop slowed down the pace of the game.

Maxi Rodriguez and Aurelio immediately came up again to flick David Silva.

'City's attack quickly came to a stalemate, David Silva was surrounded and he couldn't get out of the ball in time and Liverpool's defence was very solid. ”

Yang Fan was originally in the penalty area, but at this time, he ran back and got out of the penalty area.

The sail retreated, and Carragher, who was in charge of guarding Yang Fan today, hesitated and did not follow. Instead, they remained in the restricted area. He was worried that he had fallen for Yang Fan's conspiracy to run and pull short.

Yang Fan just ran out, David Silva hit him in the crack, and immediately passed the football to Yang Fan, who came up to pick him up.

Yang Fan did not adjust after receiving the football. Without even observing, he kicked the football directly to Yaya Toure, who was waiting in the middle. He himself turned again and rushed into the penalty area.

Yaya Toure immediately crossed with his feet.

Yang Fan rushed to the penalty area and wanted to jump for the top, and this time he had a head-to-head confrontation with Carragher in front of goal. This time, he couldn't get to the ball, Carragher took the lead, the ball was on the top, and the ball was out of the touchline, it was a sideline ball, Carragher didn't even give a corner to Manchester City.

"Manchester City's first attack after the opening, but unfortunately Yang Fan was not able to form an attack. Carragher's defense of Yang Fan is reassuring!" The commentator gave praise to Liverpool's tall centre-back Carragher.

Liverpool fan Lage successfully defended Yang Fan and immediately cheered.

Frenkie de Jong throws the ball from the touchline.

David Silva received the ball, pulled up and turned, and suddenly passed a pass with a strange arc.

In the penalty area, Agger and Dzeko grabbed the point together, and for safety, Agger pushed the ball out of the bottom line, a corner.

Yaya Toure ran to the corner flag and prepared to take the corner.

"Ag's defense against Dzeko is still good, but compared to Carragher's defense against Yang Fan just now, his performance is slightly inferior............ Yang Fan must be under a lot of pressure today, after the first-leg stadium brawl between the two sides, he has become the least favorite person of Liverpool fans, and the boos on the pitch just now are dedicated to him as a danger!" Lineker suddenly shouted when he was chattering.

“…… Yaya Toure takes a corner...... Yang Fan's header hits the goal...... Unfortunately, the ball was saved by defender Johnson from the goal line, and City almost scored in the opening ......"

The ball was cleared by Johnson on the goal line, Yang Fan looked up to the sky and roared, just now his running deceived Carragher, when he was on the top of the ball, there was not a single Liverpool player around him, he thought that the goal would be scored, but he didn't expect to be cleared from the goal line, can you not be annoyed?;!

Yang Fan who roared in the sky, Carragher was in a cold sweat on his back, he was a little complacent after successfully defending Yang Fan that time, but he didn't expect that just a minute later, Yang Fan almost scored a goal with color.

'Johnson saved on the goal-line, he made a difference. The narrator shouted.

"Dalglish owes thanks to Johnson for saving Dalglish's heart. The commentator did not hesitate to praise Johnson's goal-line rescue.

Johnson almost tipped the ball over the crossbar on the goal line and City were awarded a corner.

Yaya Toure ran towards the corner.

After Manchester City's corner, Gareth Barry's header was directly picked up by Reina. Liverpool then launched a quick counter-attack.

Reyna tossed the ball and Gerrard received it and passed the ball to Kuyt, who in turn passed it to Suarez.

Liverpool's counter-attacks were also quick, as they quickly made their way through the midfield and did not entangle City too much in midfield, but went straight to the Yellow Dragon.

Dalglish White, Liverpool's midfielders, Gerrard Maxi, Rodriguez, Lucas and Kuyt, and Manchester City's midfielders De Jong Yaya Toure and Gareth Barry and David Silva are not as creative as the midfielders, and the only thing that may be comparable may be the ability to fight.

If there is too much entanglement with Manchester City in the midfield, it is definitely Liverpool who will lose in the end, so his tactic today is to ask the team to try not to entangle too much with the opponent in the midfield, and hand the football to Suarez as soon as possible at the first opportunity, and let the extraordinary Uruguayan striker plan the final blow.

After Suarez got the ball, he first made a beautiful aisle to Zabaleta, who was blindly stealing, and then came to a long-range shot amid the cheers of Liverpool's players at Wembley Stadium. He wanted to hit Joe Hart by surprise, but he didn't expect it to go wide of the goal.

Wembley briefly let out a sigh. It was immediately replaced by applause again.

"Both sides started with a good attack...... The quest for victory on both sides is strong. It's going to be a tough game...... "It's the narrator's wishes."

His desire was shattered by the relentless reality in the following matches.

In the ensuing game, Liverpool gradually grasped the initiative.

In the face of Liverpool's frantic attack, Manchester City was wise, they quickly chose defensive counter-attacking tactics, Liverpool faced Manchester City team to defend to the death, this world-famous battle, shortly after the start of the game, fell into a stalemate.

Manchester City's midfield has an advantage, they pass too much football through the midfield, Liverpool naturally will not let Manchester City get their way, and the two sides launched a fierce fight in the midfield.

Defense, turnovers, steals. That's all the key words of the game in the last ten minutes, after each side has dedicated one shot on goal. Their attack suddenly went silent.

In the twelfth minute of the game, the first yellow card of the game appeared, Maxi Rodriguez brutally shoveled Yang Fan to the ground in defense.

The referee showed Maxi Rodriguez a yellow card.

Liverpool are a tough team.

The two sides fought fiercely in midfield.

The midfield became the most intense area of the battle.

Most of the time, the football was in the middle of the field, one moment at the feet of Manchester City, and then another to Liverpool.

Because everybody's focused on the midfield. So the offensive side was inefficient, and the number of dangerous shots on goal did not exceed five combined.

'Well, this is the FA Cup final, and even though it's been so far, apart from the opening kick-off, it's all deadlocked, but, I gotta say, it's the rhythm we're used to, isn't it?' John Mottson said self-deprecatingly.

Wearing Liverpool's main red shirt, Dalglish rolled up his sleeves to his elbow and was waving his arms vigorously. Keep the team pressing. At the same time, he paced uneasily on the sidelines.

In this game, he gave the team a death order, that is, it must be won.

The team now has the upper hand, however, Dalglishchu, Manchester City's defence is methodical and there is no lethal threat. This makes Dalglish very nervous, he never dares to underestimate opponents, let alone strong opponents like Manchester City, he knows today's opponents, this is a very terrible team, don't Manchester City are passively beaten, but, perhaps, just a split second, this team can give them a fatal blow.

Therefore, Dalglish's most hope now is that his team can score first, and if he scores first, he will take the initiative first, and the hope of winning will be greatly increased.

Mancini, who was not far away, sat peacefully in the coach's seat, as if he was in the chest for today's game.

However, in the 15th minute of the game, Manchester City's backline suffered a major blow, and the main central defender, vice-captain Kompany, and England's tall center Carroll were injured after colliding and had to leave the field.

Mancini's face finally changed, and he was on the bench, which was also full of injured soldiers, and several players were on the bench with injuries.

Mancini asked Savage to warm up. Savage also has injuries on his body, but at this time, he can only play with minor injuries.

Manchester City's centre-back Vincent Kompany was replaced by Savage and Lescott formed City's new centre-back pairing, a pair of centre-backs that almost never partnered together, and with neither of the two centre-backs being reassuring, City's backline immediately became in jeopardy.

Dalglish, who is very experienced, immediately noticed the safety concerns at the back of the city's backline, and he shouted on the sidelines to his players to attack the city in the middle.

Mancini couldn't sit still, he walked to the sidelines, called De Jong to the sidelines, and asked De Jong and Gareth Barry to pay attention to protecting his middle, and it was clear that Mancini didn't know what to do with the temporary centre-back duo of Lescott and Zabaleta.

Liverpool stormed the middle of Manchester City, and it didn't take long to have an effect.

Lucas, after receiving a pass from Aurelio, took two steps and passed the ball to Gerrard.

Ladd breaks through with the ball. De Jong came to help.

Gerrard made a gesture to continue dribbling the ball, but suddenly made a sharp stop and passed the ball to Kuyt in the middle.

"Kuyt takes the ball. There are no Manchester City players around him for the time being...... He's going to shoot from a distance?!"

Kuyt made a long-range shot!

Itter looked like he was about to shoot from distance, but Zabaleta couldn't care about his own defensive zone and saved, just as he was just stepping forward. Kuyt got up and passed the ball!

Suarez dribbles the ball from Zabaleta's side. He wanted to stretch out his foot to stop it, but Suarez directly passed it with speed!

"Chance!"

"Zabaleta was easily passed!!"

"Liverpool's chance!"

Wembley Stadium set off a monstrous wave, countless Liverpool fans erupted in huge cheers, many people have already stood up, they are waiting for this moment to come!

"Suarez received the ball and there was no one around him...... This opportunity is almost a goal for Suarez!!"

In one scene, Dalglish was originally walking around on the sidelines, but at this time, he was no longer pacing, he leaned forward, and the goal of the city, once he scored, was ready to pop up to celebrate.

Suarez received the ball and turned around, and Joe Hart thought he was going to rush in, so he was ready to attack and intercept the ball.

Suarez suddenly got up and shot at the goal!

"Suarez!" the Wembley Stadium announcer let out a hysterical roar.

The sound Liverpool fans wanted to hear most was finally heard over Wembley.

Suarez received the football at the time. There was no defender of the Manchester City team around him, Zabaleta's blind rush was directly passed, causing a vacancy in this position, and Suarez keenly captured this vacancy, he was here before Savic was able to come over to make up for the defense, and when the goalkeeper hit halfway, he turned around and shot without hesitation.

At this moment, Wembley shook the mountains, and there were huge cheers, and the whole stadium seemed to erupt like a volcano, and red became the crazy hue of the whole stadium.

Yarez scored. Dalglish also started running, but he was soon hugged by his assistant coach to celebrate the long-awaited goal.

There was a roar of cheer in the Liverpool dugout and on the bench.

'Liverpool took the initiative on the pitch and their hard work finally paid off! Kuyt's pass tore through the Manchester City defence! Zabaleta's up-and-down caused an empty space in the ribs of the box! Zabaleta has an unshirkable responsibility for the goal conceded! 1-0! Suarez, scored for the team!"

"Finally scored! Suarez's goal broke the deadlock on the pitch and it was 1-0! Liverpool are ahead, they are off to a good start at the new Wembley!"

"Man City have conceded a goal, they are now 0-1 down! This is a big blow to their title winning career, of course, it is only more than 20 minutes into the first half, and the Manchester City people have plenty of time to save their own fate!"

Liverpool fans waved their thick arms in excitement and roared.

"Go back to the City bastards!"

"You can die!"

Yarez scored. In stark contrast to Liverpool's frenzied celebrations, there was a dead silence on Manchester City's side.

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