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Chapter 990 Su Dong's Solo Performance

After Manchester City scored a goal, both sides of the game seemed to be poured a bucket of cold water, which basically calmed down the players on both sides, and gradually slowed down the rhythm of the game from the fierce confrontation at the beginning.

If it is said that the two teams at the beginning seemed a little impulsive, then now, both sides have gradually become rational.

Manchester City began to patiently control the ball and use the ball to slow down the rhythm of the game.

Real Madrid organized their defense patiently, preventing Manchester City's pass penetration from easily penetrating into their own hinterland and threatening their goal. The investment in counterattacks was not as large as in the opening stage. After all, Real Madrid is also very worried about being pierced by Manchester City, especially Su Dong.

It is under this attitude that the two teams have tacitly chosen to be calm.

As a result, this also brought the game into a stalemate at the beginning, and no one was able to break through the opponent's goal.

The first half ended temporarily with [-]-[-], and both sides returned to the locker room.

After the change of sides and another battle, Manchester City did not adjust their tactics, but continued to strengthen passing and possession, further putting pressure on Real Madrid's defense, while Real Madrid patiently consolidated their defense and waited for an opportunity to organize a counterattack.

As time passed, neither side was able to create absolute chances.

Manchester City has not changed for a long time, and Real Madrid only replaced Higuain with Callejon.

After the substitution, Benzema was pushed to the front line, and Callejon served as the right winger.

Obviously, Pellegrini still did not give up the counterattack, and still wanted to score a goal.

Both sides attach great importance to each other's ace players. Whether it is Su Dong or Cristiano Ronaldo, they have been taken care of by each other and have not received good opportunities.

But after entering 65 minutes, the physical fitness of the Real Madrid players dropped significantly.

On the one hand, it is because their players’ pressing force has been significantly weakened, and on the other hand, Pellegrini has begun to withdraw the defense line, obviously to shrink the defensive area and save the players’ running consumption.

As strong as Real Madrid, the thickness of the current bench is actually far less than that of Manchester City.

At present, there are still giants such as Hazard and Harvey Martinez sitting on the bench of Manchester City, while there are basically no players on the bench of Real Madrid who can replace players on the field.

This is why Pellegrini did not continue to make substitutions.

The advantage of the pass and control system is that it can force the opponent to consume more running by taking advantage of the ball.

When Manchester City realized that Real Madrid's physical fitness began to decline, Su Dong and the Manchester City players on the court quickly reached a tacit agreement.

Manchester City immediately began to increase the pressing pressure on Real Madrid.

Especially when the game entered No. 705 minutes, Manchester City's pressing was obviously stronger.

At No. 707 minutes, after Ramos received a throw from Casillas in the backcourt, as soon as he turned around, he saw Su Dong, who had originally retreated, suddenly accelerate and rushed towards him.

This surprised the Spanish central defender, but he reacted quickly and passed it to Albiol.

As soon as Su Dong ran in front of Ramos, he changed direction directly, turned around and rushed towards Albiol, and at the same time cut off the possibility of Albiol passing to Ramos through the running route.

This immediately forced Albiol to face to the left and pass it to Coentrao.

But at this time, Manchester City's right winger Sanchez has also rushed up, aiming directly at Coentrao and rushing over.

After the Portuguese left back dunked Sanchez, he dribbled the ball inward and passed it back to Albiol. The latter was interfered by Su Dong, and he directly passed the ball to the frontcourt with a long pass.

Benzema retreated and stopped the ball with his back, but under the interference of Pepe behind him, he couldn't hold the ball. After a big stop, he passed it to Kaka.

Busquets immediately ran over to intercept, trying to keep Kaka out of the line of defense, and Toni Kroos also retreated to defend immediately, and the two of them were like horns, clamping Kaka.

After being blocked by Busquets, Kaka slowed down, but at this time Toni Kroos caught up from the side and rear, took the first step, snatched the ball, and also tripped Kaka.

The Brazilian fell to the front of Manchester City's penalty area, but Busquets grabbed the ball immediately.

The surrounding Real Madrid players immediately raised their hands in protest, thinking it was a foul.

"The referee didn't blow his whistle. It seems that Manchester City's defense was not fouled and Toni Kroos intercepted successfully."

"Look at City's counterattack this time, Busquets took the ball and pushed forward."

Don't look at the fourth position that Busquets has been dragging behind, but in fact, his footwork is very good, and he dribbles the ball very steadily, especially when there is no defensive player in front.

After a back-and-forth pass with David Silva, Busquets has rushed to the front of Real Madrid's 30-meter area and quickly passed the ball to Su Dong who retreated to respond.

Su Dong stopped the ball with his back and saw Busquets cutting forward from his side. He immediately passed the ball across and turned around to sprint forward.

Busquets understood and didn't stop the ball, but directly followed Su Dong's cross and pushed the ball forward.

The ball was passed diagonally behind Ramos and slid towards Sudong's forward line. After Sudong advanced, he faced Albiol who was running to intercept him.

Poor Albiol, just ran over from the right side of the top of the arc to block Su Dong, but he passed the ball by himself, and he just passed the ball back to the right side of the top of the arc, falling into the penalty area, while Su Dong got rid of the two central defenders of Real Madrid in one go.

"Beautiful people pass the ball!"

"Su Dong completed a wonderful solo performance."

After passing the ball to himself two seconds later, Su Dong caught up with his pass on the right side of Real Madrid's penalty area, turned around to face the goal, took the ball forward and took a step forward.

As soon as Casillas hit the small penalty area, he saw Su Dong kicking his foot. He landed immediately, but the ball was faster and flew directly past his side, almost brushing the right post, and shot into Real Madrid's goal.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!"

"No. 707 minutes, No. 707 minutes, Su Dong scored another goal, scored twice, and helped Manchester City successfully equalize the score, two to two!"

"My God, Su Dong's performance this time is very good. He used a wonderful kick to break through Real Madrid's central defender defense, and when he was single-handedly, he calmly seized the opportunity and made another victory for Manchester City."

"Two to two, the two sides returned to a tie again, and the total score expanded to six to three."

"It's a desperate scoreline because Real Madrid can't even score three goals now and need four to turn things around because City have two away goals."

"This is what we were talking about just now. Real Madrid's biggest problem now is that they cannot block Manchester City's attack, especially from Su Dong. The goal just now is definitely a masterpiece of Su Dong's personal ability."

"Real Madrid players are protesting to the referee, thinking that Toni Kroos fouled Kaka earlier and Su Dong's goal should be invalidated, but the referee obviously does not agree with this statement."

"Let's take a look at it again in slow motion. Manchester City's defense was played by Toni Kroos."

“Very clean and tidy!”

"Toni Kroos hits the ball first, then the man, it was a fantastic defense."

"There is no problem with the referee's enforcement this time."

Manchester City's players frantically rushed to the sidelines to celebrate. Even many people on the coach's bench and the bench of the visiting team rushed over one after another, hugging Su Dong and his teammates together on the sidelines.

Everyone knew very well that with the birth of Su Dong's goal, the game was completely over.

Real Madrid must score four goals to reverse, otherwise, even if Real Madrid scored three more goals, it will not help, because Manchester City has one more away goal than Real Madrid.

Therefore, Su Dong's goal basically sentenced Real Madrid to death.

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The facts also confirm this point.

Pellegrini then continued to strengthen the offensive, but replaced players such as Granero and failed to perform well.

The morale of Real Madrid's players was hit hard, and everyone even seemed a little dispirited.

This is also normal, because the general trend is gone.

Even in the opening game with plenty of physical strength, they couldn't guarantee that they would not concede a goal by scoring four consecutive goals for Manchester City, not to mention that their physical fitness was almost exhausted. At this time, what would they use to smash Manchester City?

Cristiano Ronaldo's desire to win is the strongest. He even seemed a little impatient. He shot directly from the outside of the penalty area twice in a row, but failed to threaten Manchester City's goal.

That's how he is, once he gets anxious, his whole body becomes voluptuous.

Real Madrid's morale fell sharply, while Manchester City continued to play steadily, controlling the ball while patiently consuming their opponents.

After the game entered 10 minutes, Manchester City also created several good opportunities, but Ramos and Iker Casillas performed well and did not allow Manchester City to score again.

But at this time, Real Madrid was no longer able to prevent the team from losing.

In the last few minutes, both sides played a little tired and lazy, and no one organized an effective offensive.

When the referee blew the whistle, the score was finally fixed at two to two.

Manchester City successfully eliminated Real Madrid from the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a total score of [-]-[-] in the two rounds, and successfully advanced to the semi-finals of the Champions League.

This is undoubtedly the pinnacle moment in Manchester City's history.

This Premier League team, which participated in the UEFA Champions League for the first time in history, not only stood out from the group of death in the group stage, but also eliminated AC Milan and Real Madrid in the knockout stage, the two major Champions League champions, and successfully reached the semi-finals.

The real results make everyone have to admit the strength of Manchester City.

However, Real Madrid missed the powerful offensive more than 20 minutes before the start, failed to seize the opportunity, and after expanding the results, they finally failed to create a miracle of reversal at home.

(End of this chapter)