Chapter 0138: Sudden Change in the Wind and Cloud (Third Update)
Both sides have big changes in personnel compared to the league at the weekend.
Manchester United rotated six men, in the goalkeeper position, Romero replaced De Gea, on the back line, Darmian, who came on as a substitute in the last round, returned to the bench again because he performed too badly in the limited time he played, and Valencia, who returned from injury, appeared at right-back; In the double midfield position, it is a combination to resume the first leg, with Herrera and Fellaini partnered; Rooney, who also returned from injury, replaced Mata in the forward midfield position; Up front, Depay replaced Jesse Lingard.
Compared to the midweek game against Tottenham, Manchester United are left with five positions: Blind, Smalling, Marco, Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford.
Compared to Manchester United, Dortmund's squad has undoubtedly changed more, and they have made a number of eight personnel changes. Reus, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Mkhitaryan and other attacking mainstays are back in the starting line-up.
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Dortmund's determination turned into an advantage on the field soon after the start of the game.
In the third minute of the game, Dortmund took the lead against the hosts. They sent the ball on the right side of the field, and the centre-back Papastathopoulos completed a through ball, and the striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang received the ball near the top of the arc of the penalty area, and before Blind came up to block, he scrambled to hit the goal, the ball curled into the far corner of the goal, Romero was a little ill-prepared and did not save on the football, but luckily, the ball went slightly wide of the far post.
Manchester United opened the goal, and after the transmission, the football came to the right side of Manchester United, but when it approached the Dortmund penalty area, it was caught in a struggle with Dortmund.
Rooney saw that the situation was not good, and decisively chose to transfer, Rojo, who played as a left-back, received a pass from Rooney on the left wing, and Rojo immediately passed the ball to Depay, but Depay was surrounded by Dortmund players and had to choose to pass back.
However, Depay's passing intentions were understood by Mkhitaryan, who snatched the ball before dribbling the ball into United's half.
Mkhitaryan's dribbling was so good that Rojo couldn't keep up with his pace and couldn't clear the ball, allowing Mkhitaryan to calmly pass the ball to the feet of former Manchester United player Shinji Kagawa after crossing the halfway line.
Shinji Kagawa's experience at Manchester United was not a success, but after returning to Dortmund, he became the core again.
On the counter-attack, Shinji Kagawa observed that there was a problem in United's defence, and sent a diagonal pass in the opposite direction to find Castro in the gap at the top of the arc of the penalty area.
Marcos Rojo stepped forward to defend Castro, but Castro took the lead and picked the ball past the United defence, and Aubameyang's volley in front of the six-yard box was narrowly saved by Romero, but Mkhitaryan found an opportunity to shoot into the net from close range.
In the fourth minute of the game, Dortmund led 1:0 away and also tied the aggregate score to 2:3!
Dortmund was thrilled to score the goal, the players gathered around to celebrate wildly, the manager Tuchel also rushed to the sidelines, constantly chanting, as for the Hornets fans who went to Old Trafford, they were boiling in an instant, only six or seven thousand people, and they completely overwhelmed the home team fans who were nearly ten times their number in momentum.
In this conceded goal, Manchester United's two central defenders, Blind had a poor confrontation, and Smalling's shortcomings of slow reaction and slow turning were exposed. Blind had a poor confrontation and allowed Aubameyang to get a kick in the box; Smalling was slow to react and turn slowly, allowing Mkhitaryan to finish before he did.
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The first goal was scored by the visitors, and the Manchester United fans who were playing at home naturally stopped doing it, and the players on the pitch had to make some responses.
After the restart, the ball quickly found its way to Depay on the left. The United winger looked very excited, he first forced Mkhitaryan, and then formed a breakthrough under the pinch of Shinji Kagawa and Piszczek, but at this time Depay was also at the end of the mountain - after his breakthrough, his body actually rushed directly out of the bottom line, as for the ball, it was Piszczek on the bottom line to clear the left touchline.
Although Depay's breakthrough did not pose any threat, it still won a cheer from the home fans and overwhelmed the visiting fans again.
However, on the pitch, Manchester United did not overwhelm Dortmund in momentum. The Dortmund players, who took the lead in scoring and pulling the score back to one point, were like chickens, frantically forcing Manchester United's ball-handling players, so that Manchester United could not play a smooth coordination at all, let alone play an effective attack.
For such a high-intensity pressing by Dortmund, Manchester United players were a little unprepared mentally, in addition to passive mistakes under the pressing, there were even a lot of active mistakes.
As a result, before United could even equalise on the scoreline, they conceded again.
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In the 9th minute of the game, Wayne Rooney was tackled by Dortmund when he was dribbling the ball in front, and Reus dribbled the ball to the front of the pitch and found that United's defence had become a huge hole due to the sudden switch between attack and defense - a large gap between the last two central defenders.
His team-mate Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, on the other hand, appeared on the right side of his side and on the left side of Manchester United. Instead of splitting the side, Reus sent the ball through a huge gap between Smalling and Blind and into the United box.
As for Aubameyang's speed, Reus has absolute confidence that he can completely blow up the tall and bulky Smalling.
Sure enough, Aubameyang got ahead of Smalling and got the ball on the edge of the penalty area.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang burst into the box with the ball and fired into the near corner from 10 yards out on the right side of the box before Chris Smalling could block it.
Borussia Dortmund led the home team Manchester United 2-0 away and also made the aggregate score 3-3!
Although Dortmund is still in danger of going out of the game due to the lack of away goals, they still have enough time to continue to rewrite the score in the next 80 minutes.
On the contrary, Manchester United, which is fighting as the home team, has the meaning of being in a desperate situation for a while. For a while, the Manchester United players on the field were depressed, and the Manchester United fans in the stands were also silent.
It was Aubameyang's eighth goal in 10 competitive Europa League games and he is now second in the Europa League scorers' charts behind Marcus Rashford, who has scored 11 goals.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was so excited after the goal that he celebrated the goal with his trademark backflip.
Tuchel was just as excited as he yelled and jumped on the sidelines, in stark contrast to Louis van Gaal, the Dutchman's face was so grim that he seemed to hear the bell again. I want to talk about "The British Emperor" with more like-minded people, "Chat with more book friends about your favorite books."
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