Chapter 341: The Performance of Chinese Players
It was only after the shot that Casillas pounced on Aubameyang's side, but it was too late.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang looked up and watched the ball fly into the goal, and after confirming his goal, he ran excitedly towards the corner flag with open arms.
It was his first Champions League final and he scored in his first appearance.
And it was such a crucial goal.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang feels like he's reached the top of his career.
"It was Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's goal, but we can't forget the credit of the two Chinese players!" He Ping certainly had to praise his compatriots, and their performance really deserves praise. After Zhou Yi stole Real Madrid's pass, he directly launched a counterattack and sent the football to Yan Min's feet. Yan Min, with his speed and nimble stops, connected two Real Madrid defenders, and was not greedy, quickly passing the football to Aubameyang, creating a good opportunity for Aubameyang to shoot...... We are not surprised by Zhou Yi's performance, but Yan Min has always surprised us this season...... Can you imagine? This is his first season in Europe, his first season! He can play like this in his first season, and his progress is simply amazing! A young player who has nothing special in China has come to Europe and turned into a dragon! It's like a fairy tale......
The TV was replaying Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's goal, not the last shot, of course.
Although this goal was scored by Aubameyang, the essence was almost all on Yan Min.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's credit is arguably minimal.
It was not easy for Yan Min to receive this ball, and then he forced a breakthrough with speed, and then a series of emergency stops and changes of direction, all of which brought his personal ability into full play. The moment he made a quick stop to get rid of Varane was a stroke of genius, and no one expected that he could force a sudden stop and turn around even when he sprinted with all his might......
"Awesome......" In front of the TV, a player from the national team couldn't help but mutter.
Some of them are people who have not played abroad for various reasons, some are not strong enough to meet the standards for playing abroad, and some have had the opportunity to play abroad, but they have not been able to go because the club does not let them go. There was also the experience of playing abroad and coming back......
Now seeing Yan Min's performance in the Champions League final, they can't help but sigh.
It's all human, why is the gap in fate so big?
Yan Min was valued by Dortmund because of his outstanding performance in the warm-up match against Dortmund and took him to Europe. Originally, everyone thought that it would be good for him to play as a substitute, but they didn't expect him to become the team's starter in less than half a season. Now there is such an amazing performance in the Champions League final, and the future is limitless......
The five people who went abroad before were collectively called the "Five Little Dragons" because of their outstanding performance in the club, and now it seems that this group is going to expand...... Yan Min will squeeze into this group that symbolizes the strongest force in Chinese football with his own strength.
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Everyone went up to hug Aubameyang to celebrate the goal, and after the celebration, they ran back to their own box.
Zhou Yi grabbed Yan Min and ran back side by side with him.
"Well done. He said to Yan Min. "It's amazing to be able to catch that ball. ”
Yan Min smiled: "I ran ahead of time, I guess you will definitely try to pass as big as possible, so that you can be more threatening." ”
Zhou Yi gave him a thumbs up: "Clever." ”
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On Real Madrid's side, Carlo Ancelotti is ready to make adjustments.
Now that the score has been levelised, Real Madrid must continue to strengthen their attack.
Marcelo has been called back from the warm-up area and is ready to be substituted.
In addition, Isco and Morata were also called to warm up, ready to play at any time.
When the game resumed, Real Madrid made their first substitution of the game, replacing Coentrão with Marcelo.
It looks like a substitution at left wing-back, but it's actually Ancelotti's attacking adjustments. In attack, Marcelo is clearly better than Coentrão.
Not long after Marcelo came on, Real Madrid made another substitution, this time replacing Benzema with Morat.
Benzema really didn't feel good enough in front of goal in this game, as a striker, in addition to shooting, he also had the task of responding to his teammates, which made him have to pull to the side many times in the game, wasting his striker attributes.
When I was leading in the score before, it was okay to play like this, no problem.
But now that Real Madrid have equalised, they need to create a breakthrough, and when they need to score, Benzema's characteristics are a little less than what they need.
Replaced by a more pure striker Morata than him, and at the same time Morata also has excellent header scoring ability, and when he needs to fight DPS in the end, he chooses a simple and rough side cross, and a header in the middle, Morata can also play his header advantage.
Changing two people in a row is an increase in attack, and it can be seen that Ancelotti is indeed in a hurry.
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Real Madrid, who made two substitutions in a row, did put a lot of pressure on Dortmund in attack.
Real Madrid has played against Dortmund many times, especially in the 1:4 away loss to Dortmund, so they are mentally prepared for being scored by Dortmund.
With this mentality in mind, this Real Madrid team continued to attack, launching wave after wave of attacks towards the Dortmund goal.
At this point, they only need to score one more goal to regain the advantage again.
In the face of Real Madrid's offensive, Dortmund is not intimidating, they are already against a strong team, Real Madrid wants to attack, they also attack.
The two sides went crazy in the last twenty minutes of the game. You come and go, and the rhythm of attack and defense changes very quickly.
Here, Real Madrid's Bale came with a burst shot from outside the box and was played out by Weidenfeller.
Dortmund took advantage of the situation and launched a counter-attack, and Reus's stab shot in the box went just wide.
You went back and forth for several rounds, and the game time had reached seventy-five minutes, and there was not much time left for both sides.
The score is still 2:2, no change.
Although it seemed to be changing several times, it didn't really succeed in the end......
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Although Khedira was in charge of defending Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi didn't take him to heart. Zhou Yi feels very good about himself in this final, he is in good shape, running all over the field, Khedira can't always follow him, as Real Madrid's only defensive midfielder in this game, he also has huge limitations, and his position is fixed.
If Real Madrid had one more midfielder to defend in this game, I am afraid it would not be like this.
But on the one hand, Real Madrid don't have any extra defensive midfielders. On the other hand, Xavi Alonso is suspended, otherwise Real Madrid's midfield should be more balanced if he is available.
Now...... When Alonso was suspended, many people thought about his impact on Real Madrid's attack, but perhaps not many people could have imagined that he also had irreparable damage to Real Madrid's defense, and it was not a small loss.
When Zhou Yi was not in the Khedira defense zone with frequent runs, Khedira was also helpless. He can't really keep up, he can only hand over Zhou Yi to his teammates......
For Zhou Yi, being defended by someone or something is like commonplace, as long as he is not a player with particularly strong defensive ability, close defense basically doesn't care much to him.
Instead of focusing on the Real Madrid players who were defending him, he focused on organising the attack.
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In the 77th minute, when he passed the football to Yan Min on the left side, he did not run to meet him, but ran in the opposite direction, towards the back post in the penalty area.
Khedira was following him.
Now that he has entered the 30-meter zone of Real Madrid, wherever he goes, there will be Real Madrid players with him, he doesn't really care about these Real Madrid players who defend him closely, but if he runs to pick up Yan Min, he will bring at least one Real Madrid player, making the already crowded space even narrower.
That would not be conducive to Yan Min's actions.
So he did the opposite, and sure enough, Khedira was pulled away by him.
In this way, there is a gap in the middle lane.
However, this time Yan Min did not pass the football to the middle of the penalty area.
He opted for a direct cross to Mark and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in front of goal.
But he passed the ball a little bit higher......
Neither Marc nor Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had the ball on the ball, and none of the Real Madrid defenders had the ball.
The ball flew over their heads and went straight to the back post.
As a result, it fell in front of Zhou Yi, who had just run to the back point.
This was an unexpected situation, and Zhou Yi's reaction was also very fast, and he immediately used his chest to pad the football that flew over!
At the same time, Khedira rushed over, and he wanted to break the ball.
As a result, Zhou Yi's cushion just allowed the football to bypass the head of Khedira who rushed up, and at the same time, after Zhou Yi cushioned the ball with his chest, he also took a step back in front of the impact and unloaded the power of the impact.
And this step back also happened to flash the rushing Khedira.
Khedira couldn't stop the car and rushed directly in front of Zhou Yi.
Zhou Yi's job now was simple, he aimed at the football falling from the air, and then picked up his right foot on the spot.
Bang, the outside instep of the right foot shaved the football.
The ball arced right past Casillas' fingers and headed straight for the far corner of the goal behind him!
It then hit the inside of the far post...... Finally flew into the goal!10