Although the ball was blocked, it was difficult to pass.

Such a good opportunity in the frontcourt, but Brandt was still a little young at the moment!

Looking at Ruben Dias who was constantly approaching him, Brandt gradually faced defensive pressure.

He began to hesitate in his handling, wanting to pass and break through!

As the defensive party, Ruben Dias would definitely not leave Brandt enough time to think. Seizing the opportunity of his hesitation, Dias had successfully defended in place!

Looking at Dias who was already in place, Brandt suddenly figured it out and pushed the ball forward with his right foot, trying to force a breakthrough.

But Dias, who had already occupied the defensive position, was not inferior to Brandt at all at this time.

Immediately started to basically block all of Brandt's inverted triangle pass routes, and constantly pressed Brandt towards the baseline.

The space for Brandt to handle the ball became smaller and smaller.

And the other Manchester City defensive players also took this opportunity to quickly gather in their own penalty area.

Rodri, who had knocked down Lin Jie, rushed to his own penalty area as soon as possible and filled in the position that Dias was supposed to stand in the penalty area.

And the original left-back Cancelo also ran towards Brandt at a high speed, about to form a siege with Dias.

Originally, it was a frontcourt opportunity for Dortmund, but Brandt had lost the initiative while he hesitated, and lost this excellent opportunity!

However, just when Brandt was about to be forced into a desperate situation, he heard Xia Yu, who was like a life-saving straw.

"Pass it to me!"

Lin Jie had quickly climbed up from the grass and rushed to the top of the Manchester City penalty area to meet Brandt's ball.

Only Lin Jie could reach this ball. Haaland, who was deep in the penalty area, was surrounded by Laporte and Rodri. Even if he took the initiative to receive the ball, he would most likely be cleared by Manchester City.

Reus, who was advancing on the left, was trying to open up space, and chose the direction of overlapping, so that Brandt would have more choices when passing the ball.

This also led to Brandt being surrounded, and Reus could not get there in the first time.

Of the remaining two midfielders, Witsel did not choose to advance at all. As a defensive midfielder, he chose to stay in place after seeing the opportunity in the front court, guarding against Manchester City's possible counterattack.

Although Bellingham also wanted to advance, his position was a little behind because Manchester City pressed too hard before.

And his position was also on the left side of Dortmund, so it was too late to support and receive the ball.

So the only one who could arrive in time was Lin Jie, who was knocked down after completing the pass.

Lin Jie heard his skill [Iron Man] triggered immediately after being hit by Rodri, which protected Lin Jie's body to a certain extent in this confrontation.

Reduce the risk of Lin Jie's injury in this confrontation, but Rodri's force of collision is still there. Originally, Lin Jie wanted to lie on the grass for a while to slow down.

But when he saw Brandt slowing down and hesitating after getting the ball, Lin Jie realized that something was wrong.

He quickly gritted his teeth and got up, and ran quickly towards Manchester City's penalty area behind Rodri.

Finally, he successfully rushed to the top of Manchester City's penalty area before Manchester City completed the encirclement of Brandt, and then Lin Jie also hurriedly shouted at Brandt who was holding the ball at the bottom line.

And Brandt also quickly got rid of Diaz's pounce, and passed the ball back to Lin Jie at the front of the penalty area before Cancelo arrived behind him!

At this time, Rodri reacted immediately and gave up the fight with Haaland in the deep of the penalty area and wanted to rush out to defend Lin Jie.

But after feeling his physical condition, Lin Jie also felt that it was not very good.

Although Lin Jie avoided some of the risk of injury by relying on the skill of [Iron Man] when Rodri charged head-on before.

But that collision still made Lin Jie feel uncomfortable, and he gritted his teeth and insisted on running half the field to support.

The adrenaline that surged before has begun to slowly decline, and Lin Jie's body, which did not feel much pain at first, has also begun to feel uncomfortable, and the pain has slowly risen.

Lin Jie knew that although the chance of this ball was not very good, it would be better to pass it again, but there was not much time left for him to handle the ball!

So there was no way Lin Jie looked at the rolling football and took two steps forward to run up, and chose to shoot directly from a distance!

But this

Lin Jie chose to use his right foot to rub a curved ball to the near corner of the goal!

Instead of the previous strong volley from the instep to the far corner!

Because he had seen Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson moving towards the far corner, Lin Jie realized that if he still shot the ball to the far corner, it would most likely be saved!

You should know that Lin Jie's long-range shot is mainly powerful and fast!

But Ederson had already moved in advance for this ball, obviously to prevent Lin Jie's kick.

So Lin Jie also changed his choice of shooting, but this time Lin Jie's luck was not very good and he did not activate the skill.

This time it can be said that Lin Jie's choice was the most correct choice. First, facing Rodri who rushed out to block Lin Jie, he immediately reacted after seeing Lin Jie's run-up.

He directly chose to slide to block, trying his best to expand the cross-section of his block, and blocked all the routes of Lin Jie's ground cut at once!

Obviously, Manchester City had made sufficient preparations before the game, and had studied Lin Jie's long-range shooting habits thoroughly!

If Lin Jie still chose to shoot with the instep of his foot as before, then Lin Jie would have to shoot close to the corner.

So Rodri's handling of this move was also quite decisive and wise.

But Lin Jie chose to shoot with a flick!

It was with height!

Instead of the instep shot that Rodri expected!

Rodri, who had already lowered his body, could only watch the football fly over his face.

In the physical sense, it flew over the top of his face!

As a goalkeeper, Ederson originally followed the direction of Brandt, the ball holder, to block the close corner.

But after he saw that Brandt's return pass was to Lin Jie at the top of the arc, he decisively chose to move to the far corner.

As mentioned before, Manchester City's research on Lin Jie before the game was quite thorough!

There was naturally a detailed plan for Lin Jie's long-range shot, and this was the original plan!

The near corner was blocked by the defender, and the far corner was given to the goalkeeper!

But Lin Jie's shot caught Manchester City off guard.

Ederson, who was moving towards the far corner, could only turn his head blankly and watch the ball fly into his own goal.

GOOOOOOAL! ! !

2:1!

"World wave! World wave! It's Lin Jie again! It's Lin Jie again!"

"In the 34th minute of the first half! Lin Jie knocked on Manchester City's door again with a world wave!"

"Dortmund leads Manchester City again 2:1!"

"In two consecutive Champions League group matches, Lin Jie has scored and assisted! What an excellent player!"

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