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Chapter 644 The Champions League belongs to you, I want the rest!
On the evening of April 29, at Old Trafford.

When the referee Herbert Fadell from Germany blew the whistle for the end of the game, there was a tsunami-like frenzy at Old Trafford, and Manchester United fans were scrambling to celebrate.

Although, in terms of score, they didn't win!

The scoreboard shows the time of the game, 120 minutes, and the score is still zero to zero.

Yes, this game went to overtime, but it was still impossible to tell the winner.

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This is the second leg of the Champions League semi-final, Manchester United vs Liverpool at home.

The first leg match between the two sides took place at Anfield Stadium a week ago, and the final result was zero to zero.

After the game, it aroused heated discussions among the media and fans all over the world, and Ferguson's team encountered huge accusations.

Because Manchester United adopted the tactic of defending and counterattacking in the away game, pulling almost all the players on the field back to defending in their own half, and finally succeeded in freezing Liverpool's offense.

After the game, the Liverpool Echo satirized Manchester United, thinking that Ferguson's team adopted a [-] or even [-] formation and successfully won a draw from the away game.

Liverpool scored 21 shots in the audience, but they still failed to break through Manchester United's goal.

The double central defenders composed of Vidic and Ferdinand, together with Edwin van der Sar behind them, have made Manchester United's defense impregnable, and it can be called the team with the strongest defensive ability in European football this season.

In the face of the wolf-like Liverpool, Ferguson's away game is understandable.

After all, at Anfield, a team as strong as Barcelona would lose [-]-[-]. Who wouldn't be afraid?
But what no one expected was that after returning to the home court, Manchester United still adopted a strict defensive tactic. Except for Cristiano Ronaldo, everyone else retreated across the board.

Manchester United had only a handful of five shots in the whole game, one shot was on target, three shots were missed, and one was blocked.

The ball possession rate is only 30.00% [-], which is two percentage points more than the first round.

In the whole game, 50.00% of the football time at [-] was played in Manchester United's half.

In contrast, Liverpool took [-] shots, but only [-] shots were really threatening and were blocked [-] times.

Among them, there was a controversy in the first half and the second half.

In the first half, it was a penalty kick. At that time, Yang Yang dribbled the ball into the penalty area, but was fouled by Manchester United midfielder Carrick from the side. Through slow motion playback, the foul should be within the penalty area line, which should be a penalty.

But referee Herbert Fadell gave a yellow card and a free kick.

Another time in the second half, Yang Yang scored a single-handed goal, but the line referee raised the flag to signal offside, blowing off the goal, but the slow-motion playback showed that this was a very beautiful anti-offside.

Twice escaped, United finally managed to hold the score 120-[-] after [-] minutes.

The two sides played two rounds and played a total of 210 minutes, but they didn't score a single goal.

The game was abruptly dragged into a penalty shootout.

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Compared with the tragedy of Liverpool and Manchester United, another semi-final matchup was also tragic.

Arsenal drew with Chelsea [-]-[-] at home, but in the second round, they lost to the Blues [-]-[-] in extra time, and finally stopped in the semi-finals and missed the final Champions League final.

Grant's Chelsea team was really lucky. They entered the semi-finals with almost guaranteed draw luck all the way, and the opponent was Arsenal. The luck is also good. The Premier League civil war knows each other well.

But even so, in the three away games of the three knockout rounds, Chelsea had two draws and one loss, and you must know that in addition to Arsenal, the other two opponents are Olympiacos and Fenerbahce.

Although Grant led Liverpool to a breakthrough in the Champions League, judging from his formation along the way, it is impossible for him to stay in the team this summer, because his coaching ability is really bad and he has repeatedly made serious mistakes.

It can even be said that if the opponent is not too weak, it is impossible for Grant to lead the team to the semi-finals.

But in football, sometimes luck is more important than anything else.

It's like Liverpool this season.

The group stage is relatively better, starting from the knockout stage, Inter Milan, Barcelona, ​​Manchester United...

All the way to the top European teams, stumbled to the semi-finals, but was abruptly dragged into a penalty shootout by Manchester United.

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The penalty shootout is the most suspenseful, brutal and dramatic part of the football field.

According to the official data given by FIFA, the penalty kick rate is 70.00%.

But in fact, the hit rate is useless. Anyone who stands on the penalty spot and faces the goal will always worry about the 20.00%, because that is the key to winning.

Former England national team coach Hoddle once said that even if he kicks a thousand or ten thousand times, the penalty kick skills in key battles cannot be practiced, because the pressure in reality cannot be restored.

Some research institutes have shown that the key to winning a penalty kick is not the penalty kick skill, 80.00% to 90.00% is due to psychological factors, while [-] to [-]% is due to physiological factors, which have nothing to do with penalty kick skills.

Some people say that penalties are the perfect test of resilience.

In the real penalty shootout, many players are very resistant to the first penalty kick, and the pressure is too great.

The first and fifth, this is what most players try to avoid.

But sometimes some people just have to stand up and stand up.

Yang Yang took the initiative to ask for the penalty, and chose the first to take the penalty, and the captain Gerrard was the last.

Manchester United's first player to take the penalty was Tevez, the Argentine beast. His mental quality has always been quite excellent, so he was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by Ferguson, and he was the first to stand up and take a penalty kick.

And Tevez did not live up to Ferguson's trust and calmly scored a penalty.

This time, all the pressure is on Liverpool.

Yang Yang was the first player in the Liverpool team to take a penalty kick, and he took all the pressure.

When he stood at the penalty spot, facing Van der Sar, he was silently thinking about it.

In the past few penalty kicks, he always pushed straight to the middle, but this time...

"The ball has been scored!!!"

"Yang Yang was very clean and neat. He directly pushed into the lower right corner of the goal. His speed was very fast. Van der Sar thought Yang Yang would push the middle again, but he didn't expect Yang Yang to change his strategy this time."

"Liverpool chose Yang Yang as the first penalty shooter, obviously also valued his strong ability to resist pressure, and Yang Yang did not live up to the expectations of the outside world, and calmly took the penalty."

"His performance in this game is also very good. If it weren't for referee Van der's two misjudgments, I believe the game would not be dragged into a penalty shootout."

"No matter what the final result is, after scoring this penalty, Yang Yang can leave Old Trafford proudly."

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After Yang Yang, in the second round of penalty kicks between Manchester United and Liverpool, Carrick and Aurelio also calmly took the penalty.

In the third round, Cristiano Ronaldo missed a penalty kick, but Harvey Alonso calmly hit it.

This suddenly made Liverpool seem to see hope.

Subsequently, Hargreaves also made a penalty kick in the fourth round, but Crouch made a mistake when taking a penalty kick.

After Nani and Gerrard, Anderson and Dirk also hit successively.

Until the seventh round, Giggs made a penalty and Carragher made a mistake.

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When Carragher kicked the ball away, Liverpool's vice-captain already knew it was over.

He knelt down on the penalty spot, crying with his head in his arms.

Too much pressure!
At this critical moment, no one will blame Carragher.

On the contrary, Yang Yang and Gerrard walked to Carragher's side one after another, hugged the vice-captain forcefully, and other Liverpool players also surrounded him one after another.

Many people's eyes were filled with tears, and their hearts were filled with unwillingness.

Liverpool performed very well, but encountered a strict defense of Manchester United, coupled with the referee's misjudgment, was finally dragged into a cruel penalty shootout, and lost the chance to enter the Champions League final again.

Regardless of whether it is Liverpool or Manchester United, whoever enters the final will be the champion.

But it is a pity that Liverpool has no chance to defend the Champions League.

The Liverpool players on the bench also ran into the stadium one after another, and everyone surrounded Carragher. No one tried to persuade him, because it might be better for him to cry bitterly at this time.

In terms of performance, it is an honor for Liverpool to stop in the Champions League semi-finals in this way, but who doesn't want to win?
Many players, including Benayoun and Lucas Leiva, wept unwillingly.

They all came to Liverpool last summer. God knows when will their next chance to see the Champions League final be?
It is even possible that they will never have another chance in this lifetime.

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The Manchester United players were celebrating.

Eliminated Liverpool, they entered the final and basically won the Champions League.

They have such confidence and confidence.

Of course, this doesn't mean they can be careless.

Cristiano Ronaldo was upset as he missed a penalty.

As the team's third penalty shooter, he did not independently provoke the team's burden like Yang Yang, and stepped forward, which in itself made him weaker.

Unexpectedly, he even missed the penalty.

This annoyed the Portuguese.

Manchester United won, but he lost!

But even so, he finally calmed down quickly and walked towards Yang Yang.

Many Manchester United players appreciate Yang Yang very much, such as Scholes, Giggs, Carrick and others, they all came to shake hands with Yang Yang and Gerrard one after another.

When Ronaldinho walked in front of Yang Yang, the Portuguese suddenly didn't know what to say.

On the contrary, Yang Yang looked very calm, "Congratulations, you have entered the finals, and you must win this championship."

Yang Yang smiled and congratulated him.

Xiao Luo's heart stabilized, he squeezed out a smile, nodded and said: "Don't worry, I will try my best."

The two shook hands vigorously.

"The Champions League belongs to you, I want the rest!" Yang Yang said confidently.

　Woohoo, please forgive me!I had something to do yesterday. After the update, I really didn’t have time to code the words. After typing the words in the morning, I revised it in the afternoon, and it’s now. Chapter 2 is scheduled at 18 o'clock.Be on time tomorrow!
　　
　
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