Chapter 288: Controversy
After Shen Peng shook Stones, Manchester City's goalkeeper Bravo also rushed out - if he didn't rush out to block, Shen Peng would be brought into the goal.
Bravo faced Shen Peng, and the whole person pounced sideways, which is also a skill for the goalkeeper to defend this situation, try to keep his body sideways, so that he can block the opponent's shooting route as much as possible.
Bravo's hands pounced on the ball as John Stones chased after him and Otamendi came in a short distance to form a three-man attack.
But at this moment, Shen Peng kept calm, looked at the gap between Bravo's hands, and suddenly poked his toes, and the ball passed through Bravo's hands!
Then he jumped lightly and completely past Bravo, and when he touched the ball again, he was faced with only an empty goal, and he was less than two meters from the goal line!
In this case, if you don't score again, you're going to get into the highlights, of course, funny highlights.
So, under the gaze of everyone in the Manchester City defense, Shen Peng gently pushed the ball into the goal, and then ran to the front of the audience along the bottom line to greet the cheers of the fans.
Ibrahimovic smiled and shook his head at the sight, he was also worried that his speed would affect the goal, which seemed to be completely redundant.
However, he looked at Shen Peng's celebration on the sidelines, and suddenly a thought came to him, this kid's celebration is really earthy!
It seems that it is time for him to think of a better celebration for himself, otherwise, the celebration may not be as good as the manager......
Ibrahimovic thought and looked back at Jose Mourinho, a manager who can skate on his knees when he's excited.
Mourinho was as excited as he expected, after all, the team equalised shortly after falling behind, which was a morale boost.
On the other hand, Guardiola could only touch his head helplessly - after Ibrahimovic saw it, he felt so happy.
Shen Peng had already run back from the side at this time and returned to the center circle, and the Manchester City players had already set the ball and waited to serve.
Shen Peng's goal did hurt their morale a little, in addition to the equalizer they had just scored, there was also Shen Peng's personal breakthrough, a person was brought to the goal from the middle, and even the goalkeeper passed, which made them have a sense of despair in their hearts, that is, they couldn't prevent it.
After serving, it was obvious that Manchester City's attack was not as sharp as before, and there was a slight feeling of restraint.
The game lasted about half an hour, and the score was still 1-1 at this time, and the tactics of both sides were also aimed at each other, so there were no good chances.
United seized a chance at this point, Juan Mata brought the ball up front on the right flank and played a very good pass to Ibrahimovic, who was about to shoot when he received the ball, but Fernandinho was defending with a little more force at his feet, tripping Ibrahimovic to the ground, and the whistle sounded.
Both sides immediately raised their hands, with Ibrahimovic signalling for a foul and Fernandinho signaling Ibrahimovic to fake a fall – an instinct that has become part of the player's body.
Clattenburg came running and pulled out a yellow card, but it was not for Fernandinho, but for Ibrahimovic, who apparently he thought had faked a fall.
Ibrahimovic was a little confused at the time, but he quickly reacted and immediately explained, but Clattenberg just pouted and waved his hand.
Fernandinho, who was next to him, let out a sigh of relief and showed an expression of escape.
When Mourinho saw this, he immediately rushed to the fourth official to explain.
However, the fourth official shook his head at him as well, and then asked him to return to his place.
Of course, Mourinho will not give up, this should be Manchester United's free kick opportunity, with Shen Peng's free kick level, maybe this is a goal, and Ibrahimovic now has a yellow card, and if there is a yellow card later, he will be sent off, Manchester United will face a situation where there are fewer people and more people, which is very bad for Manchester United.
However, the fourth official ignored this, in fact, from his point of view, it should have been a foul by Fernandinho, but since the referee awarded Ibrahimovic a yellow card, he could only do so.
So, he gave Mourinho a warning.
Mourinho calmed down a bit, shrugged his shoulders and returned to his position, the game was still going on and his command was still needed.
At this point, the ball on the pitch was again under the control of the Manchester City players, who patiently looked for opportunities.
After Shen Peng saw Clattenberg's performance just now, he sighed in his heart that he was unlucky, and at the same time became careful.
The last time he remembered Clattenburg was when he was in Bochum, watching Bayern Munich's Champions League quarter-final with Juventus, and Clattenburg's decision could only be described as bad.
Later, he also checked the history of this person and found that he was on the list of many bad rankings related to referees.
But the good thing is that he is different from some other referees who maliciously give penalties, others are specialized in pit or help a certain team, while Clattenburg is purely a matter of the level of law enforcement, in the words of some people, he is "depending on the mood of the day, randomly pit a team".
Manchester United has also been "taken care of" in previous games against Clattenburg, and of course, it has also been pitted.
And now, Manchester United happened to be unlucky and were cheated by him.
So Shen Peng was secretly careful, don't foul or be fouled, otherwise there will be a one-in-a-half chance of being whistled for a foul - even if he himself tries to avoid fouls.
After experiencing this incident, coupled with the fact that it was originally a derby match, the smell of gunpowder on the field gradually became stronger, and there were continuous fouls, and the fluency of the game also decreased significantly.
At the end of the first half, the two sides were still tied to one.
Fifteen minutes later, the second half officially began.
After the break and adjustment at halftime, the players on both sides were obviously more restrained than at the end of the first half, and after tactical adjustments, both sides played more targeted.
For example, Manchester City's defense on the right side is stronger, and they are afraid that Shen Peng will come again like in the first half; Manchester United, on the other hand, also put the defensive focus on the right side to limit the opponent's attack.
In the 54th minute, Rooney passed the ball back to Pogba under the pressure of Fernandinho, and after Pogba controlled the ball, he found an opportunity and passed the ball directly to Shen Peng.
Because De Bruyne was a little far away from Shen Peng at this time, he wanted to run over to defend Shen Peng, and this gave Shen Peng a chance, Shen Peng picked it up at his feet, turned around again, and picked the ball over!
With a very simple move, he shook De Bruyne, and then Shen Peng immediately took the ball and attacked at high speed!