Chapter 263: A Busy Holiday (Part II)
"Tick!"
Di Maria put Nemanja Matic on the ground, and then didn't bother with the referee's decision at all, and turned around and walked back, who let this guy always harass around him.
"Tick!"
It wasn't long before the referee blew the whistle again, but this time it was a foul on a Manchester United player, and Nemanja Matic made a ferocious move to knock Di Maria, who had run to the wing, into the back of the billboard.
At this time, he doesn't care about any defensive range, as long as he only reaches his own half of the ball, he will quickly appear in front of the opponent and show his spikes fiercely.
And that's why Di Maria almost disappeared in the first half.
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Time passed slowly bit by bit, all the fans who were looking forward to the appearance of a wonderful counteroffensive scene, were disappointed, in front of the crazy Manchester United players, the Paris Saint-Germain players who took out all their strength, did not take advantage of the slightest advantage, often the football just passed the opponent's half, and immediately someone was extremely fierce pasted over.
Just when everyone was waiting for the time to run out in the first half, the situation on the field suddenly changed.
After a few fruitless attacks, the United players finally felt tired and began to deliberately play with the ball.
Seeing that the momentum of Manchester United players has dropped a little, Paris Saint-Germain's players are definitely not willing to give up a great opportunity like this, and decided to take advantage of the last moments of the first half to launch a powerful counterattack.
Throughout the first half, Paris Saint-Germain's players basically did not get close to Manchester United's penalty area, let alone make shots that allowed De Gea to save, especially Mbappe, who has shone in the past year, was "invisible" under the clamp of Bailly and Maguire.
Just as the first half looked to be over, Kroos faced Marquinhos' uplink and sent the ball to the feet of Eric Bailly.
Seeing Bailly in front of him get the football, Mbappe felt that his chance had finally come, immediately shook off his legs, and rushed towards Bailly.
As soon as he stopped the football under his feet, he saw Mbappe rushing in front of him like a gust of wind, Bailly was shocked, and hurriedly knocked awkwardly, and quickly sent the football to the feet of Maguire, who came to pick it up.
Maguire didn't dare to play with fire at the edge of the penalty area, and without waiting for Mbappe to twist his body, he directly knocked back the football to De Gea in the box.
Although the opportunity has slipped away, Mbappe is not willing to give up like this, and rushes towards De Gea in the penalty area in the direction, hoping to use his ferocious momentum to make the opponent's goalkeeper make a mistake.
Paris Saint-Germain's threatening attacks are few and far between, and De Gea in front of goal has become the most boring person on the field.
When he was bored, he suddenly saw the football flying towards him, and De Gea naturally didn't want to let himself be ruined by the opportunity he had finally encountered.
Ignoring Mbappe, who pounced like a mad dog, he took two big strides and kicked the ball to the opposite side as much as possible.
The ball flew high and flew almost straight towards the Paris Saint-Germain penalty area.
Several defenders of Paris Saint-Germain did not expect that the football was still in the half of Manchester United just now, and they flew back to their penalty area in an instant, and could only retreat back to their penalty area in a hurry.
Joining PSG's defenders were Dai Zhiwei and Marcus Rashford.
Watching the football fall rapidly, five or six people flocked at the same time, almost all of them wanted to master the first landing point of the football.
Seeing that the opponent's four defenders came at the same time, Dai Zhiwei, who was running, suddenly slowed down his pace and went to compete with the opponent's tall defender for the header, he was not arrogant enough to think that he could absolutely win the football.
There is only one football, but there are at least five people to fight for, and looking at the posture in front of them, several people's attention is on the football in the air, only Thiago Silva and Rashford are pushing each other's positions, while Kimpembe, Alves and Correll are all eyeing the football, watching the football fall above their heads.
A large number of people is an advantage, but in the same way, if there are many people, it is full of variables and chaos.
Seeing that the other party actually surrounded one of them, and the only helper, Dai Zhiwei, chose to stand far away, Rashford swept a few big men around him, and couldn't help but be a little discouraged.
Since there is no hope of winning the ball, Rashford glanced at Thiago Silva, who was on the verge of a big enemy, and suddenly his heart moved, and when the football fell above the heads of the two, he just resisted Thiago Silva with his shoulders and made a scramble posture.
But when it came time to really fight, Thiago Silva, who jumped high, found that Rashford, who was standing on the ground next to him, did not move at all, and he was the only one who jumped easily.
"Huh? What about people? ”
In the moments when Thiago Silva was stunned, the ball went over his head.
He's on top!
In the stunned shock of everyone, the football flew directly from the left side of the penalty area to Dai Zhiwei on the right.
Standing at the front of the forbidden area, Dai Zhiwei originally had a plan to fish in troubled waters, but he never thought that because of Thiago Silva's mistake, he would give himself such a big gift.
Seeing the football flying straight in front of him, Dai Zhiwei was stunned for a moment.
Kimpembe was the first Parisian player to react, and almost as soon as the ball flew over Thiago Silva's head, he turned his body around and ran from the top of the arc towards Dai Zhiwei on the other side.
And Kimpembe's movement also made Dai Zhiwei quickly sober up, looking at the flying football, and the Kimpemby that followed behind the football, he didn't think much about it at all, and gave up the idea of continuing to move forward with the ball.
There are still three defenders on the other side, plus Kimpembe, who is running over, in such a small space in the penalty area, it is very likely that he will continue to break through with the ball and be destroyed.
Since there is little hope of entering the forbidden area, it is better to take a gamble, and after making a decision in the blink of an eye, Dai Zhiwei quickly picked up his right leg and pumped towards the football that flew in front of him.
All eyes of the audience were glued to Dai Zhiwei's heavy bombardment, because everyone knew that once this goal was scored, then Paris Saint-Germain would be 3 goals behind at halftime!
But
"Poof!" Dai Zhiwei's shot that was determined to win turned out to be a kick, but he was about to send a shot head-on, but he only touched the bottom side of the football with the tip of his shoe.
Buffon pounced on Dai Zhiwei as soon as he was ready to kick up, trying to expand his body's defensive area in mid-air, and did his job to the extreme.
However, no one expected that Dai Zhiwei kicked the ball, and the football jumped over Buffon who was dancing in mid-air in a strange arc, and then slowly fell into the net!
As the saying goes, it's wrong!
30!
“! Dai Zhiwei scored a brace!! The commentator at Old Trafford jumped up quickly, immediately ripped his voice open, and immediately roared into the microphone like a hungry beast.
"Boom!"
In the next moment, the Manchester United fans who were already ready to use halftime to go to the bathroom were like boiling volcanoes, and immediately burst into a magma-like enthusiasm!
"Oops, something seems wrong!"
Suddenly, the commentator at Old Trafford stopped roaring excitedly, "Dai Zhiwei seems to have strained his right leg." ”
At this time, the camera also focused on Dai Zhiwei, who was lying in front of the Paris Saint-Germain gate, and saw him sitting on the ground, holding his right calf with both hands, and a grinning expression of pain on his face.
Marcus Rashford, who was closest to him, hurriedly stepped forward to ask a few questions, and then anxiously made a substitution gesture to the team doctor on the sidelines.
"Hurry! Go ahead! Originally, Mourinho was still waving his fists in celebration, and the score of 30 made him feel that this round of knockout matches had been stabilized, but now the image of Dai Zhiwei falling to the ground made him dizzy.
Without Mourinho's urging, Manchester United's team doctor had already rushed into the stadium and was already at Dai Zhiwei's side in the blink of an eye.
After the team doctor simply treated it with spray, Dai Zhiwei limped to the sidelines with the support of the team doctor.
Just now, he kicked with a volley of all his strength, causing him to strain his thigh muscles.
He saw from the first page of the "Soccer Player System" that his health rating was "5", which means that the injury is not too serious, and according to the normal situation, it will take 23 weeks to recuperate.
However, with the ability to systematically speed up the recovery from the injury, he will be able to heal from his injury in almost 5 days, and he will be able to play normally, which will be able to catch up with the national derby with Liverpool a week later.
However, what he was thinking about now was not his own injury at all, but the embarrassment of his volley kick.
"Niang Xipi, go back and find out if there are any shooting skills in the system to strengthen the volley ability, you can't be so embarrassed anymore."
"Don't think about it so much." Mourinho waited until Dai Zhiwei walked to the sideline and hugged him, thinking that the other party was worried that his injury might lead to missing the team's important battle, and comforted him: "Don't worry, rest well, and the rest will be handed over to us." ”
"Well, I believe." Dai Zhiwei nodded, and then went directly to the locker room with the team doctor for follow-up treatment.
Thankfully, at Old Trafford, there's no shortage of equipment to minimise injuries as much as possible.
"Alas" It wasn't until Dai Zhiwei walked into the players' tunnel that Mourinho let out a sigh.
They lost the team's number one star at the beginning of this devilish schedule, and they didn't know if they could survive it, but fortunately, the team doctor reported that the injury was not serious.
Mourinho was not ready to attack after seeing 30, and directly replaced Dai Zhiwei with the young player Pereira, Manchester United changed to 4231 on the field, leaving only Rashford as a striker, and there were as many as 4 midfield players, obviously to keep the score.
Because Dai Zhiwei was injured and delayed some time, the referee rarely gave 2 minutes of injury time in the first half.
However, this extra minute, Paris Saint-Germain did not cherish it, Di Maria's blind long-range shot flew out of the bottom line, and the game entered the halftime break.
In the second half, perhaps it was Dai Zhiwei's unexpected loss of courage that gave them a strong attack at the start of the second half.
In the 56th minute, Verratti curled the ball over and Di Maria's long-range shot went just wide of the right post.
Two minutes later, Draxler delivered a through ball and Mbappe burst into the box to face David De Gea, but the ball went just wide of the right post.
United were not without chances to score, in the 62nd minute, Rashford shook Kimpembe's low cross from the right flank, the ball was bravely blocked by Buffon, Ozil followed up and tried to make up the shot, and the football was saved by Buffon again.
Facts have proved that the 41-year-old Buffon is old and strong, and he is still the world's top door god!
Seeing Buffon's performance, De Gea was also unwilling to let the old-timers specialize in beauty.
In the 68th minute, Paris Saint-Germain launched a counterattack, Mbappe burst into the right wing of the penalty area, and then his volley thought he was safe, but it was blocked by De Gea on the goal line.
One minute later, Paris Saint-Germain made a comeback, Mbappe split the ball, and Bernat burst into the left wing of the penalty area and the goal was saved by De Gea again.
After saving 2 must-have goals from Paris Saint-Germain in a row, De Gea also roared at the opponent's half, as if he was provoking Buffon!
You're strong, but I'm not weak either!
Subsequently, the two sides got entangled in the midfield, and neither got too good a chance.
Jose Mourinho and Thomas Tuchel have been training their players, one for defending and the other for valuable away goals.
30 and 31 in the first leg were just one more goal for the visitors, and there was a huge difference.
After the game entered the final 10 minutes, Paris Saint-Germain's offensive rose again, especially the Red Devils veteran Di Maria, who was simply back at the top.
In the 83rd minute, Ashley Young couldn't bear to knock Di Maria off the field in a scramble, which caused a skirmish between the players of the two teams, and Di Maria also fell to the ground and was injured.
This time, Ashley Young fouled Paris Saint-Germain's free kick in a good position, and if it was a free kick master like Dai Zhiwei to take the penalty, it would be nine times out of ten.
However, PSG did not have such talent, with Alves' shot just over the crossbar.
After that, PSG, although they looked to be in the driver's seat, did not shoot at goal.
Unfortunately, Matic fouled Alves in the 91st minute and was sent off with two yellow cards, laying a hidden danger for the next round.
In the end, Manchester United beat Paris Saint-Germain 30 at home.
After the game, the Red Devils got another piece of good news: after an MRI examination, Dai Zhiwei's leg injury was not serious, and it is expected that it will only take about a week to recover.
However, this week, Manchester United still have an FA Cup clash with Chelsea!