Chapter 389: Saving Manchester United in a desperate situation
The second half of the game begins!
No one expected that just two minutes into the second half, Shakhtar Donetsk, who were 10 men in the game, suddenly changed the situation on the field!
In the 47th minute, Shakhtar Donetsk launched a counterattack after a successful interception in the midfield!
Stepanenko breaks the ball at the back. He slipped the ball straight to captain Marlos, who was in midfield. After receiving the ball, Marlos distributed the ball to Sergei on the wing.
Sergei is known as the first wide horse in the Ukrainian Premier League. He starts, accelerates, chases the ball, makes a big run of the ball, and breaks through the wings!
Valencia failed to intercept on the wing, Sergei broke through the old captain of Manchester United Valencia!
Sergei ran 20 meters down the flank, then crossed diagonally at 45 degrees and hoisted the ball into the box.
Luck has come for Shakhtar Donetsk!
The ball landed right in front of Shakhtar striker Tyson in the big box!
Tyson shoots at the ball! Meanwhile, Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea made a side-saving move.
However, the ball hit Manchester United's trailing centre-back Victor Lindelof, and the direction changed!
De Gea's prediction was on the left side of the goal. The ball changes back and flies to the right side of the goal!
The ball is in! 2οΌ2οΌ Shakhtar Donetsk, who conceded two goals first, actually scored two goals in a row with one less person, rewriting the score to 2:2!
The big-mouthed Dunphy in the commentary seat gasped: "The tenacious Shakhtar Donetsk actually caught Manchester United off guard in just 2 minutes of the second half!" Tyson's goal rewrote the score to 2:2. The aggregate score of the two legs is now 4:3! Shakhtar Donetsk has a one-goal lead. In terms of away goals, Manchester United have 1, while Shakhtar Donetsk have 2! In other words, if Manchester United want to reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League, they will have to score two more goals in the remaining 40 minutes or so, with the guarantee that they will not concede any more goals! β
Fat Bob answered, "That's right. The situation is very bad for Manchester United! Shakhtar Donetsk, on their side, I guess they will defy the 2-goal advantage in the remaining 40 minutes! Yes, although the aggregate score is 4:3, Shakhtar Donetsk is equal to a two-goal advantage! β
Tyson hugged his teammates after scoring the goal.
In a corner of the Theater of Dreams, thirty or forty Ukrainians were sitting.
These Ukrainians live in the UK, but they love their homeland. They showed a huge Ukrainian flag!
The fluttering Ukrainian yellow and blue flag reminded Liu Yun of the Ukrainian national anthem "Ukraine is still in the world".
Two goals down, one man sent off. Originally, the Donetsk miners had already fallen into a desperate situation. However, they didn't give up, and two goals full of luck pushed Manchester United into a corner!
Ukraine is still on earth! Shakhtar Donetsk is still alive!
Even if the home stadium was bombed into ruins, Shakhtar Donetsk still shined in the Champions League with tenacious spirit!
Liu Yun raised his head and glanced around at the Dream Theater.
The 80,000 Red Devils fans at the Theatre of Dreams are still enthusiastically cheering for the Red Devils after the team is in a desperate situation.
The singing of "Glory Glory Manunited~" came from the stands!
While the Shakhtar Donetsk players were celebrating wildly, Liu Yun made an astonishing move.
He motioned for the players to come around.
At Manchester United today, Valencia is the captain. Liu Yun only occasionally served as a vice president on the field. However, Liu Yun has used his goals one after another to establish supreme authority in the Manchester United team!
Seeing the gesture of the old lieutenant, the teammates ran to the arc of the middle circle and formed a circle shoulder to shoulder.
Liu Yun pointed his finger at the sky: "Listenγγγγγ β
The old lieutenant's teammates heard the resounding "Glory Glory Manunited" song in the sky.
Liu Yun said, "Did you hear that? It's the sound of the Theatre of Dreams, it's the sound of the city of Manchester! It's still too early for the game to end! Cheer up, 2 goals! In 40 minutes, as long as we score two goals, we are the last eight teams in this year's Champions League! β
The 10 United players on the pitch, except for David De Gea, folded their hands together: "Glory to Manchester United!" β
"Glory to Manchester United! Come on! β
As expected by the game commentator Fat Bob. The players on the Shakhtar Donetsk field are all back to their own half of the defense! And when they had 40 minutes left in the game, they used the word "drag"!
In the knockout rounds of football matches, there is nothing wrong with using the word "drag". This is not contrary to sportsmanship. It's a kind of pitch tactic.
Manchester United, while firmly in possession, have nowhere to say anything about Shakhtar Donetsk's bucket king.
Minutes and seconds passed. Shakhtar Donetsk's players survived 20 minutes with tenacious defense, ferocious pressing, and various means of delaying time.
The game was played in the 68th minute of the game.
If this situation continues, maybe Manchester United will really be kicked out of the last eight of the Champions League by Shakhtar Donetsk. Maybe Shakhtar Donetsk really want to create the biggest upset in this season's Champions League!
At the critical moment, it was the old lieutenant Liu Yun who stood up and saved the team!
Mkhitaryan won the ball down the middle and handed it to Romelu Lukaku on the wing.
Lukaku on the right suddenly diverted the ball widely, and gave the ball to Pogba, who had an assist on the left!
Pogba accelerated to get rid of Marlos's close defense and crossed the ball to the old lieutenant Liu Yun at the edge of the penalty area!
As soon as Liu Yun got the ball, Ilsinho, Aldetz, and Volowick immediately surrounded him! At this time, Liu Yun was a powerful artillery in the eyes of any opponent. No opponent wants to give the old lieutenant a chance to calmly get on his feet!
Liu Yun faced three defenders, stepped on the ball with his left foot, and then turned 180 degrees to pull the ball with his right foot! Directly with the interference of three defenders, he shook the angle of the shot with a Marseille spin!
On the line of the big forbidden area, Liu Yun got up!
The ball flew like a cannonball towards the top right corner of the Shakhtar Donetsk goal!
Shakhtar goalkeeper Kani Bolotsky leaps high, and the middle finger of his right hand even feels like it's touching the ball!
However, the powerful ball still flew into the net!
The ball is in! In the 68th minute, the score of this game was rewritten to 3:2! The aggregate score also became a 4:4 draw! As long as they score one more goal without conceding a goal, Manchester United will be in the last eight of the Champions League!
"Yay~~" In the stands of the Dream Theater, cheers rang out again.
Mourinho in the dugout knew it was time for a change! Replace Nemanja Matic and bring on JuanMarta. Replace a midfielder and replace an attacking midfielder, the intention of such a substitution is very obvious! With more than 20 minutes left in the game, Mu Shuai is going to give it a go!
The big-mouthed Dunphy on the commentary seat said excitedly: "Old lieutenant, old lieutenant again!" Stood up again and saved the team in a desperate situation! Facing the defense of 3 Shakhtar players, he used a gorgeous Marseille spin to shake the shot position, and finally the final word! Great old lieutenant! The King of the Theater of Dreams! β