Van Gaal sighed and stared intently at the pitch.

He tried hard to see through City's tactics so that he could find the flaws as soon as possible.

The sooner they see through their tactical weaknesses, the better it will be for United.

If it drags on like this, if the opponent scores, the game will not be easy to play.

However, missing out on those two chances did not affect City's morale.

In the 18th minute, Lin Quan staged an unresolved dribbling and broke through from the right side to the front of the penalty area with the ball all the way.

Manchester United defender Marcos Rojo was forced to make a tackle and send Lin Quan to the ground on the edge of the box.

The referee did not hesitate to show Rojo the first yellow card of the game, and the referee's decision in this game was obviously much better than the previous one.

This made Mansour, the big boss of Manchester City, who came to the stadium box and watched the game on the spot, nodded slightly.

If the FA dares to continue targeting Manchester City, he doesn't mind sending some interesting news to the reporters on Fleet Street.

This time the free kick was in a good position, and Lin Quan chose to take the penalty himself.

It's a pity that De Gea trained with him when he was in the national team and knows more about his free-kicks.

He predicted the right direction and saved Lin Quan's free kick dangerously.

If there was a different goalkeeper, I am afraid that there would not be such good luck.

Manchester City's attack was still not over, and in the 20th minute of the first half, Fernando made a long pass from the backfield, and Lin stopped the ball and singled out Rojo.

Rojo, who had a yellow card on his back, didn't dare to kick easily this time, and after he didn't dare to foul, his threat to Lin Quan dropped greatly.

Lin Quan used his excellent dribbling skills to make two consecutive stops to change direction, and after shaking off Rojo's defense, he burst to the right side of the small penalty area to complete a small-angle shot.

Or De Gea!

This time he chose a very good position, and after trying his best to expand the defensive area, he once again saved Lin Quan's shot very dangerously.

Seeing that De Gea saved the team again, whether it was the Manchester United fans who came to watch the game or the fans who watched the game at home, they couldn't help but shout De Gea in their hearts!

De Gea may not be good at attacking, but his saving skills in the six-yard box really don't have to be said.

A goalkeeper with obvious shortcomings can still sit in the starting position of a giant like Manchester United, which shows how terrifying his ability is in other aspects.

Seeing the opposing goalkeeper perform so well, Manchester City fans couldn't help but wail:

"This guy is like a wall of sighs, I can't get past him!"

"It's outrageous, Lin Huang's shots have been saved three times in a row, in today's football, there are few goalkeepers who can do this level, right?"

"Lin Huang has played against almost all the top goalkeepers in football, Buffon, Neuer, Cech, Casillas, and I have never seen anyone force Lin Huang to this extent!"

"De Gea is still a bit awesome, I don't know if he can sit in the starting position in Spain after Casillas retires!"

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Although the outside world and the fans at the scene are praising and lamenting De Gea's wonderful performance, De Gea, as the party concerned, only feels lucky in his heart.

Although he predicted these shots in advance, he still saved very reluctantly.

It can be seen how exaggerated Lin Quan's shooting ability is!

When he thought of this, De Gea didn't dare to be careless.

The position of goalkeeper does not tolerate any mistakes, and a mistake may erase all the previous credits, and may even become a sinner for the team!

He thinks he was lucky the first few times he got lucky to make a save.

When he faces Lin Quan next, he may not have such good luck!

Seeing that the opponent's goalkeeper was in hot condition, Lin Quan immediately changed his choice of attack.

In the 21st minute, Manchester City made a series of exquisite combinations, De Bruyne went straight into the penalty area in front of the penalty area, and Lin Quan picked up the ball very covertly after receiving the ball.

As the others moved forward, the football flew into the penalty area.

This time, he was given the opportunity to face the goalkeeper directly.

Lin Quan only glanced at the goal, raised his foot and shot, without the slightest hesitation.

De Gea's form in this game was really divine, and in the face of Lin Quan's shot, he used his body to block this must-have goal.

However, before the Manchester United fans raised their arms and shouted, the blocked football was also blocked into the goal by Lin Quan with his body.

He seemed to have expected his shot to be saved!

Rumble!

The Etihad Stadium erupted in an unimaginable loud noise, and countless Manchester City fans jumped up from their seats in excitement, frantically waving their fists and roaring angrily.

Finally a goal!

Finally kicked the ball into the opposing team's damn goal!

When De Gea used his body to block Lin Quan's shot, their hearts were half cold.

Fortunately, the goal went in in the end!

"Damn it!"

Van Gaal's face changed suddenly after seeing Manchester United concede the goal, and he couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

With only 20 minutes to play, United were behind.

The result was unexpected, and he couldn't help but worry about the rest of the game.

In this game, Manchester City's form was much stronger than he expected.

Especially the opponent's core player Lin Quan, he is extremely active in the frontcourt, and he can be seen in almost every attack.

It's not that Louis van Gaal hasn't laid out defensive tactics against Lin Quan, and Manchester United's players have tried hard.

But all these efforts failed!

One-on-one can't prevent this guy at all, and if there are multiple people, this guy is very smart and can always find a gap to pass the ball out.

And he's not as simple as passing the ball, his passing is more like organising the attack, and each pass creates a new threat.

This makes the United side of the defense very passive!

How can there be such a wicked player in football?

Manchester City has a lot of stars in the team, in addition to Lin Quan, there are also stars such as De Bruyne, David Silva and Yaya Toure on the field.

These stars have the ability to make a final decision!

If you don't defend hard, give them a chance and they can score.

This is still a weakened Manchester City, and if Manchester City don't have so many injuries, they will have more threat points and will only be more difficult to defend.

Thinking of this, Van Gaal couldn't help but beat a little drum in his heart:

Can his team still beat Manchester City in this state?

After scoring the goal, Lin Quan ran to the sidelines, took off his jersey in front of the camera, revealing his white vest.

On the big screen at the scene, a line on his vest was displayed: I hope the coach recovers soon!

In the hospital ward, Pellegrini, who insisted on watching the live broadcast of this game despite the opposition of his family, had a little pantothenic acid on his nose after seeing this scene:

"This kid can always give me some new tricks!"

Although he said so, he was still very moved in his heart.

Just thinking about his condition, he couldn't help but sigh.

According to the doctor, he will not be able to return to the team for a short time.

I can't bear these players, we still have a lot of work to do, and we don't want to give up halfway......

After taking the lead, City's offensive not only did not weaken, but further strengthened.

In the 25th minute, Zabaleta dribbled down and completed a cross with the outside of his left foot.

Lin Quan at the front point cleverly conceded the ball to Jovetic in the back.

The latter received the ball and calmly pushed it and tried to kick it into the bottom left corner of the goal.

However, De Gea, who doesn't like to attack, struck early this time and fell to the ground to seal the must-score.

Jovetic held his head in disbelief, as if he couldn't accept the result of such a shot being saved.

He finally felt the feeling of Lin Quan's shots being blocked by De Gea one after another the first few times!

Manchester United fans were applauded by David De Gea's brilliant performance, and their hearts began to worry.

The better the goalkeeper performs, the more unfavorable the situation on the pitch will be for them.

De Gea's performance alone is not enough, the rest of the squad has to stand up!

If they continue to do nothing and fail to pose a threat to Manchester City's goal, then Manchester United will lose!

However, after De Gea handed the ball to his team-mate, the ball was tackled by a Manchester City player before it could be passed a few times.

Di Maria, who had lost the ball, fell to the turf and did not get up immediately, but the Manchester City players ignored him and continued to attack the United goal.

Taking advantage of the fact that the focus of the opponent's defense was on Lin Quan and several teammates in the front court, Yaya Toure took the ball all the way forward after breaking the ball, and even wanted to enter the penalty area.

Blind was shown a yellow card by the referee for hooking Toure when he tackled Toure when he fell to the ground.

This is the second yellow card of the game for Manchester United!

This time, the free kick was also in a good position, but Lin Quan did not take the penalty himself, but conceded the ball to Yaya Toure.

This is an opportunity created by the other party himself, and Lin Quan intends to leave it to him to play by himself.

Yaya Toure was full of ambition and he saw De Gea's previous good performance, so he thought long before taking the penalty and intended to play as tricky as possible so that the opposition could not save.

Yaya Toure has a good idea, but his footwork doesn't seem to support his idea.

He was followed by a run-up and then kicked the ball away but failed to pose a threat to the United goal.

Seeing the ball fly into the stands, Yaya Toure himself was a little embarrassed.

After being besieged by Manchester City for half an hour in a row, United finally made a decent attack.

In the 30th minute, Luke Shaw broke down the left and Zabaleta hooked him to the ground while defending.

The referee verbally warned Zabaleta and awarded United a free-kick.

Van Persie took a free-kick to find Fellaini in the box, but the ball flew in the air and was cleared by Van Dijk.

United failed to capitalise on the counter-attack.

After holding back for half an hour, they played such a tiger-like attack, which made their players' mentality seem to become anxious.

As Keylor Navas was about to kick his feet, Smalling dangled in front of him a few times and was booked by the referee.

The latter scolded and retreated to his own half!

I didn't pick up the cheap and ate a yellow card, stealing chickens and rice.

However, Smalling's bad luck doesn't seem to be over.

In the 39th minute, Manchester City's attack once again hit the 30-metre zone of Manchester United.

Lin Quan dribbled the ball on the right and Smalling stepped up to intercept it.

Lin Quan didn't have any fancy performances, simply took advantage of the change of center of gravity, easily shook him, and had to cut inside to the front of the penalty area and then complete the shot.

Maybe it was because the referee's previous judgment made him hold a fire in his stomach, or maybe it was because Lin Quan passed it so neatly that he felt lost face.

Smalling didn't know what he was thinking, and after Lin Quan crossed half of his body, he put a shovel behind his back and shoveled Lin Quan to the ground.

The referee did not hesitate to warn him with a second yellow card, and then pulled out a red card to eject him from the game.

Generally speaking, for players with yellow cards, the referee will be more cautious when showing yellow cards.

But Smalling is so arrogant, such an obvious and vicious foul, if it is not blown, it will definitely cause countless arguments after the game.

In addition, the FA repeatedly stressed before the game that this game must be fair and impartial, and strictly follow the standards.

In that case, then we can only send Manchester United's iron guard to rest.

"Stupid!"

Seeing that Smalling took the initiative to apply for a red card, Van Gaal couldn't help but change his face and scolded angrily.

He hadn't felt so worried when the team had fallen behind.

But at this moment, when the team was sent off, Van Gaal's heart suddenly lifted.

Although Manchester City is not in its heyday at the moment, it is still too reluctant for Manchester United to play with 10 men.

The difference in numbers will make his tactical power unable to be brought into play, even if he sees through the opponent's weakness in the second half, I am afraid it will be difficult to make effective use of it!

Lin Quan was pulled up by his teammates, and he didn't look at Smalling, who took the initiative to apply for a red card, and came to the foul site with the football in his arms, ready to take a free kick.

The position of the ball was not very good, Lin Quan did not shoot directly, but hoisted the ball into the penalty area for his teammates to fight for the top.

It's a pity that neither Van Dijk nor Demichelis can grab the landing point, and the ball is cleared by Manchester United players.

United made quick changes to bring on Michael Carrick to keep the defence intact and replace Januzaj.

Michael Carrick made a cameo at centre-back and United changed to 432.

With the numerical advantage, the game was completely in the hands of Manchester City.

In the 42nd minute, Yaya Toure went straight to the penalty area, and when Lin Quan stopped the ball and turned to shoot, he was knocked down by Fellaini in the penalty area.

The referee decisively awarded a penalty.

Seeing Lin Quan standing at the penalty spot, De Gea was extremely nervous.

He has watched Lin Quan's penalty training, this guy will definitely choose to hit the dead corner of the goal!

But the question is, which side is he going to hit?

De Gea had no way to predict in advance, so he could only wait passively.

Sure enough, Lin Quan really chose to hit the dead corner, and it was the dead corner in the upper left corner.

But there was nothing De Gea could do about it, he could only watch the ball go into the net.

Before the end of the first half, Manchester City extended the score to 2:0.

Considering that the opponent is only 10 men, Manchester City, who have a two-goal lead, seems to have won this game!

However, it seems that United are not planning to surrender just like that.

At half-time, Louis van Gaal made changes to United's line-up.

At the start of the second half, the Reds were attacking much harder and the players were more active on the pitch.

It seems that after the slumber of the first half, they have finally woken up!

(End of chapter)