Chapter 49: Tiger Shot
Dai Zhiwei dribbled the ball straight to the middle amid the exclamations of the fans at the Prince Abdullah Stadium.
Al Ahly's defenders only have two central defenders, Hamis and Kwon Kyung-won, who saw Dai Zhiwei coming in, and Khamis hurriedly stepped forward to block, while Kwon Kyung-won fell tightly in front of the goal, working with goalkeeper Mahmoud to prevent Dai Zhiwei from potentially bursting into the penalty area.
When Dai Zhiwei saw Hamis coming, he did not stop and wait for Elkeson, Goulart and other teammates to catch up, but decisively accelerated his right cut.
The reason why the green court always emphasizes the need to kick the ball is because once it is stalled or delayed, the fighter will disappear in an instant, so Dai Zhiwei has always been very decisive on the field - although sometimes he does not necessarily make the right choice.
Khamis saw that Dai Zhiwei had already reached the point where he was about to break into the penalty area with 2 more steps, how dare he let him break in with the ball again, and hurriedly stepped forward to intercept, preparing to use his body to block Dai Zhiwei's breakthrough route.
Even if it is to give Evergrande a free kick in a very good position, Khamis will not hesitate to do it.
When he was still 2 meters away from Hamis, Dai Zhiwei slowed down slightly, adjusted his pace, and ran towards the football in small steps, his whole body was like a longbow that was pulled out!
After Dai Zhiwei adjusted slightly, before Khamis ran over, his right foot was supported, twisted his body, and his left leg quickly swung up, slamming into the lower part of the ball.
"Tiger Shot!" Dai Zhiwei let out a low roar and shouted out the name of the skill very much.
There was a muffled sound of "bang", and Khamis only felt that a black shadow flashed in front of him, and he didn't even have time to subconsciously dodge.
The ball was like a bullet, without the slightest arc, extremely fast, sticking to Hamis's waist and heading straight for the far corner of the goal.
Dai Zhiwei's twisted body, fully stretched thighs, and backward swinging arms, all of which had not been withdrawn, the football had already flown in front of the goal.
Mahmoud in front of the goal was still in the position of commanding Kwon Jingyuan, and after seeing Dai Zhiwei's action of getting up, he was ready to see the ball clearly and make a save.
However, Mahmoud had barely bent his knee when the football was already behind him......
There was at least a distance of more than 20 meters from the position of Dai Zhiwei's shot to the goal line, but Mahmoud didn't even have time to react!
"The ball is in! The Evergrande team scored again, and Dai Zhiwei took the lead for Evergrande again, great, great! In the 19th minute of the second half, Dai Zhiwei scored from outside the penalty area, which was unbelievable and incredible! If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time in Dai Zhiwei's career that he has scored a rerun from outside the box! Wow! Could it be that Dai Zhiwei has already made up for his few defects? He Wei in the live broadcast room roared with an incredible look.
"Whew!" At the same time, there was an exclamation near the commentary seat, and then a huge wave of sound swept through the audience-
"Dai Zhiwei!"
"Dai Zhiwei!"
"Dai Zhiwei!"
Dai Zhiwei clenched his right fist, rushed to the front of the Evergrande fans with an excited face, raised his arms and shouted, and scored two goals on a big stage like the AFC Champions League final, and his mood was naturally extremely happy.
"Zhiwei, the speed of this ball is amazing!"
"Shoot beautifully!"
"Lao Tie, it's amazing!" Teammates came up and praised one after another.
"Haha! Mere trifle! Dai Zhiwei laughed openly.
However, Dai Zhiwei quickly calmed down and reflected: "I still don't have a good grasp of the Tiger shot, the kicking time is too long, and if the opposing defender defends at close range, I don't have a chance to kick at all." ”
"Alas, I still have to practice when I go back......"
For this goal, Evergrande's teammates felt a little surprised, after all, even in training, Dai Zhiwei's violent long-range shot from outside the penalty area is rare.
In their eyes, Dai Zhiwei has been making continuous progress every day at a speed visible to the naked eye in just half a year, from a lone wolf who can only break through the sideline, to a goal-scoring goal, and then to a head seeking master who is good at high-altitude bombing, it is not surprising that he seems to have an earth-shattering long-range shot.
However, Al Ahly's coaches and players were different, almost everyone was taken aback by Dai Zhiwei's sudden heavy bombardment, and Al Ahly's head coach jumped up at once.
In the games they watched before, most of Dai Zhiwei's choices outside the penalty area were passes or breakthroughs, and the threat of long-range shots was not great, so no matter whether his earth-shattering long-range shot was blinded or not, Al Ahly's defensive strategy for Dai Zhiwei must be greatly changed, and he can no longer let Dai Zhiwei easily receive the ball outside the penalty area like before, and there is space to shoot with his feet.
Al Ahly didn't dare to bet on whether Dai Zhiwei's next long-range shot would penetrate the goal again like this one.
After a delay of more than a minute, the game restarted.
Al Ahly's players were not affected by Dai Zhiwei's goal just now, and their high football literacy made them quickly adjust their mentality and immediately launch a fierce attack.
The two sides fought in the midfield, and Evergrande's defensive moves were getting bigger and bigger.
Evergrande's midfielders Paulinho and Huang Bowen are like two meat grinders constantly "strangling" Al Ahly's midfield, Hassan and others have become very difficult to organize attacks, and at the same time, Zheng Zhi and Goulart are also struggling to defend.
However, on the pitch in West Asia, the chance of wanting the referee not to favor the home team is very small, and soon, the referee told Evergrande with 2 yellow cards that if you want to continue to rely on "strangulation tactics" to block Al Ahly's attack, you must be mentally prepared to be sent off.
With the help of the referee, Al Ahly used his ground cooperation to launch a flowing offensive, frequently using the two wings and Xiao Ge's large-scale runs to pull Evergrande's defense.
With the addition of SH Karl and other players who were inserted behind, Al Ahli's offensive was as fierce as a tide.
And Evergrande is not inferior, the super personal impact of the midfield, stirring up Al Ahly is also a big mess in the backline, Goulart and Dai Zhiwei's breakthrough has created a lot of threats to Khamis and Quan Jingyuan, coupled with Elkeson's deterrence in the middle, such as a fish in the throat, Evergrande's counterattack is also impressive.
At this time, the head coaches of both sides have also been staring at the court, watching the players on the field come and go, attacking like a tide, and being nervous.
At this stage of the game, the coaches of both sides are not top coaches, and they are powerless to do anything about the trend on the field, and can only rely on the players' own performance.
In the 71st minute, Hekal's free kick from 25 yards on the right was directly high and he missed a good chance to score.
In the 74th minute, Abbas, who had just come on as a substitute, passed the ball, and Ezedi, who was also a substitute, shot wide from 10 yards on the right side of the penalty area.
In the 77th minute, Esseidi returned the pass, Abbas's powerful shot from 25 yards hit Paulinho's shoulder and went wide, and then Abbas drove a corner from the right, and Hamis's header from 12 yards was easily confiscated by Zeng Cheng.
Soon the game entered the last fifteen minutes, because of physical strength, at this time the offensive of the two sides began to weaken, and Evergrande once they got the ball will consume the game time through thin inverted feet.
At this time, he didn't care about his demeanor, and even once Dai Zhiwei got the ball in the front court, he would rely on his excellent dribbling and speed to bring the ball to the corner flag to consume the little time left in the game.
In the second half, there were not too many episodes, and the referee team actually gave up to 5 minutes of injury time, which also made Cannavaro and other Evergrande coaching staff very dissatisfied and complained about the practice.
Fortunately, the Evergrande players were calm enough on the field and defused the home team's attacks again and again.
"3 minutes to go, hold on, hold on!"
Cannavaro also unbuttoned the top two buttons of his shirt at this time, and all three cards on his bench had been played, and he could only rely on the efforts of the players on the field at this time.
In the 95th minute of the game, in Al Ahly's last throw-in attack, goalkeeper Mahmoud also rushed into the Evergrande penalty area, trying to stage a miracle of the goalkeeper's goal to equalize the game.
Unfortunately, miracles are called miracles because the probability of them happening is so small!
In the end, as Liu Jian kicked the ball out of the penalty area, the referee finally blew the final whistle, and Evergrande won the first leg of the AFC Champions League final with a score of 2:1!
Bringing home one win and two away goals, this result is enough for Evergrande to be satisfied.
And just a one-goal deficit in the big score is not unacceptable for Al Ahly.
All in all, the suspense of this season's AFC Champions League championship still exists!