i want to be king

Chapter 918

The first half ended with a one-to-zero lead, and at the beginning of the second half, Manchester City played a wave of fast-paced offensive.

First he steals the ball from the right and then instigates a counterattack. Zabaleta makes a diagonal pass from the right to the right of the center circle. Toni Kroos does not stop the ball and directly passes a ball behind him. Sanchez advances at a very fast speed.

The previous series of cooperation were very beautiful, but in the last pass, the ball was too close to the goal. Goalkeeper Weidenfeller attacked and grabbed the ball one step ahead of Su Dong.

After missing a good chance to score, Dortmund quickly played a quick counterattack.

After continuous passing cooperation, Lewandowski retreated to the outside of the penalty area to catch the ball, got rid of Busquets, and sent a through pass. Gross Kreutz inserted into the left rib of the penalty area and kicked the goal from a small angle.

Goalkeeper Courtois fell to the ground and held the ball firmly in his arms, without giving the Dortmund players the slightest chance.

The Belgian goalkeeper got up from the ground, still holding the ball firmly with both hands, and slowly walked towards the outside of the penalty area.

At this time, Manchester City's formation is rapidly pressing forward.

Courtois glanced ahead and landed on Su Dong naturally, and Su Dong was obviously ready.

The Belgian goalkeeper kicked the ball forward with a big kick near the penalty area line.

At the front of Dortmund's 30-meter zone, Su Dong was judging the ball's landing point. He accurately blocked the position, took a step ahead, jumped high, and headed the ball to the first point of impact. He hit back to Toni Kroos who came in from behind.

The German midfielder stopped the ball, made a dunk to the right, and then passed it with his right foot after adjustment.

It was still the same overhead pass as before.

Sanchez bolted all the way and once again got ahead of everyone and caught up to Toni Kroos' pass.

But this time, Schmelzer was back in his defensive position just in time.

The two were one-on-one, and Sanchez made a clever fake move. After deceiving the defender, he went straight to the bottom and made a pass.

Subotic took the lead, cleared with a header, and pushed out of the penalty area.

As soon as Sven Bender was about to stop the ball, he was entangled by Toni Kroos and stopped the ball first.

The ball was still at the feet of Manchester City, and it was passed back to Busquets to reorganize.

Busquets played forward to David Silva and the Spanish midfielder dribbled the ball forward before suddenly playing it to the left.

Marcelo plugged in from the back row. When catching the ball, he threw away Goetze who was chasing all the way back. He cut diagonally and attracted Shinji Kagawa's attention.

Su Dong, who had already been ready to go, plugged in at high speed, forced Subotic hard, and scored with a header.

The ball was directly blasted into Dortmund's goal by Su Dong, two to zero!
"Twice scored!!!"

"Su Dong scored twice!"

"Brilliant combination from Manchester City, Marcelo made a beautiful three-man pass."

"My God, the Brazilian left-back showed unbelievable footwork, three Dortmund defenders couldn't stop his breakthrough, it was simply breathtaking."

"Every one of Manchester City's players has good foot skills and superb pass and catch coordination."

When everyone rushed to the sidelines to celebrate the goal with Su Dong, Su Dong did not forget to raise Marcelo's hand high, and told the Manchester City fans in the audience that the number one contributor to the goal was actually the Brazilian left back.

So, all the players congratulated Marcelo again.

In fact, everyone in Manchester City has long known that Marcelo has the footwork and superb skills that are not lost to other players in the team, which is why Guardiola values ​​him so much.

How many full-backs are there in the world with skills comparable to wingers?

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With another goal from Su Dong, Manchester City took the lead [-]-[-].

This dealt a big blow to Dortmund.

Subsequently, Manchester City continued to control the advantage of passing and possession, and continued to organize waves of attacks against Dortmund.

No. 60 minutes, another long pass from the backcourt, Su Dong once again grabbed the first spot, and the header went to David Silva.

After missing a good scoring opportunity, Sanchez himself was annoyed.

Klopp quickly made substitutions, replacing Gross Kreutz with Perisic, and at the same time replacing the old captain Kyle with Gundogan. This is a very obvious signal to strengthen the team's offense.

After leading by two goals, the opponent changed two people in a row. Manchester City stabilized the rhythm a little bit and focused on stability. This allowed Dortmund to launch a wave of offensives, but failed to create opportunities.

On the contrary, in the No. 701 minute, Manchester City hit another counterattack. Su Dong received the pass from his teammate and passed the ball diagonally to the left. Di Maria inserted into the left side of the penalty area at the fastest speed.

Missing two single-handed goals in a row, the two wingers of Manchester City were so regretful that their intestines were green.

It was not until the No.707 minute that Manchester City made the first substitution.

No.806 minutes, seeing that the overall situation has been determined, Guardiola replaced Su Dong with Dzeko.

At this moment, more than 4 Manchester City fans in the entire stadium stood up and gave Su Dong the warmest applause and cheers.

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I don't know if it lost the pressure brought by Su Dong. At the last moment of the game, Dortmund launched a wave of violent offensive.

First, in the No.807 minute, with Perisic's corner kick created on the left, a scuffle in the Manchester City penalty area was created. Among the crowd, Subotic keenly seized the opportunity and shot from the small penalty area line.

At this moment, everyone in Manchester City was shocked into a cold sweat, and even Su Dong and others who were sitting on the bench stood up in fright.

At the critical moment, Courtois reacted amazingly. He fell to the ground and made a save at almost supernatural speed. Miraculously, he took the shot that was close at hand into his arms, and broke an inevitable goal for Dortmund.

Crazy cheers erupted from the entire Etihad Stadium.

Entering stoppage time, after Dortmund intercepted the ball in the backcourt, Subotic sent a long pass.

After Lewandowski blocked Kompany in the frontcourt, he quickly stepped in and won a precious single-handed opportunity.

But when the Polish center dribbled the ball into the penalty area, Courtois had already abandoned the goal and attacked. Near the penalty spot, just when Lewandowski was about to hit the goal, relying on his height and length, Courtois directly fell to the ground and blocked the ball.

No one thought that this inevitable chance to score was once again resolved by Courtois.

The ball was also kicked out of the boundary by Pepe, who returned to the defense in time.

The Etihad Stadium once again burst into warm applause.

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Su Dong was in the bench area, and he didn't sit back after standing up.

After seeing Courtois' outstanding performance, he also applauded vigorously like the fans in the audience.

Recently, he has felt that Courtois is becoming more and more confident and more general after the increase in the number of competitions he has participated in and the accumulation of experience.

In the case of Joe Hart's unsatisfactory performance, Courtois is gradually occupying the main position of the team.

If it is said that before the start of the season, he was more favored by Guardiola and was not convincing, then after this month's performance, Courtois has delivered a satisfactory, even amazing answer sheet.

With this performance, he suppressed Joe Hart and won the main position of Manchester City, which is convincing enough.

Especially in this battle tonight.

According to the original plan, Joe Hart should start tonight, but the England goalkeeper performed too much in the previous European Super Cup, so Guardiola temporarily adjusted to Courtois.

This is actually sending a signal, that is, if Courtois performs well, he will get more opportunities to play next, and even directly occupy the main position of the team.

If Courtois's performance is not satisfactory tonight, then Joe Hart will still have many opportunities, but judging from the current situation, Courtois can no longer be described very well.

You must know that although Dortmund's lineup is not as strong as Manchester City, after the outstanding performance last season, the level and value of the Hornet players are quite good.

For example, the talented midfielder Götze, who was seduced by Wenger this summer, is known as the best assister and the most dangerous player in Germany. He almost assisted Lewandowski in the opening game, which shows his strength.

In order to get him, Wenger even offered a sky-high price of 4000 million euros to poach this talent, but was rejected by Dortmund.

There is also Shinji Kagawa, he was the best player in the half of the Bundesliga last season, and his worth reached 2000 million euros.

In addition, like Gross Kreutz and Lewandowski, these two players are also worth more than 1000 million euros.

In other words, Dortmund's attack combination is worth as much as 8000 million euros. Even if you look at European football, except for the top giants, such an attack combination is actually quite luxurious.

And Manchester City can withstand Dortmund's counterattack test tonight. The defensive players headed by Pepe and Kompany performed well, and Courtois's performance is also crucial.

Without him, whether Manchester City can get three points tonight is still unknown.

Therefore, Su Dong can be very sure that after winning tonight's battle, Courtois's main position in Manchester City can be regarded as stable.

As long as he can maintain a stable performance in the future without making major mistakes or a sudden decline in his state, it may be difficult for Joe Hart to shake his position.

At least in terms of pass success rate, Courtois is improving every game, and now it has exceeded 80.00%.

This is much better than Joe Hart.

I believe that after tonight, everyone's expectations for Courtois will be earlier, and he will be the veritable goalkeeper of the next stop.

(End of this chapter)