Football career: From winning the championship to becoming a legend

Even though it wasn't a world-class goal scored by Scholes himself, it was still exciting to watch the replay of this goal on TV, let alone the immersive experience of watching it live. It was really exciting!

This kind of ball is the kind of thought that all boys have had: "If I can ejaculate this, I'd be willing to lose ten years of my life..."

After scoring the goal, Manchester United's morale was boosted, and they suppressed Barcelona, ​​who wanted to counterattack after conceding the goal but had some doubts about their own tactics, and created several threatening attacks in succession.

In the 16th minute, Li Qi was brought down by Yaya Toure again, and Manchester United got a set piece in the front court. Ronaldo took the free kick from the right near the bottom line and passed it low in front of the goal. Valdes missed the ball, but Puyol got there first and cleared it in time before Tevez could make a flying tackle.

Manchester United almost extended the lead again in the 21st minute. This time, Ronaldo broke through on the left and made a back pass. With the cover of Li Qi, Park Ji-sung inserted behind Yaya Toure and shot from the edge of the penalty area. Unfortunately, the ball hit the right post and went out of the bottom line.

In the 24th minute, Manchester United made a comeback again. This time, Carrick assisted from the right with a corner kick. After receiving Li Qi's quick tactical corner kick, he decisively made a 45-degree cross. Wes Brown, who was advancing into the penalty area, headed the ball from 11 yards far away.

Unfortunately, the ball didn't hit hard enough and also shook Ronaldo who was in a better position behind him...

Barcelona, ​​which was trailing, failed to organize a strong counterattack until the first half hour of the game. Instead, they frequently lost the ball and made mistakes in the backcourt.

In the 30th minute, Tevez snatched a rare header from Li Qi at the edge of the penalty area, and then the former decisively sent a cross to the small penalty area.

The ball was pushed out by Valdes with one hand, and then when Puyol returned to defense and headed the ball away, he collided with Gabi Milito who was also returning to defense to clear the ball.

Mars hit the Earth, and the flood washed away the Dragon King Temple. Fortunately, the two people who were slightly dizzy were fine. The team doctor treated them briefly and they both returned to the game. Otherwise, Tevez would have made an unprecedented contribution. A cross made two main central defenders of the opponent...

However, after this collision, the entire Barcelona team seemed to come to their senses and finally began to organize an effective counterattack.

In the 31st minute, Gabi Milito suddenly moved forward, bypassed Tevez's defense and passed the ball. Messi received the ball from the midfield and dribbled all the way to the front of the penalty area and shot with his left foot into the far corner, but was saved by Van der Sar.

In the 34th minute, Eto'o set up the shot and Deco's long shot from 22 yards in the middle was slightly higher than the crossbar.

Barcelona then gradually regained their form and launched a wave of attacks in a short period of time, with a chance to equalize the score.

In the 37th minute, Eto'o and Messi made a series of short passes in the middle. Finally, Messi pretended to pass the ball, fooled the sticky Park Sam-fei, and set up the shot for Deco in the middle again.

Deco met Messi's cross pass with a powerful right-foot shot at the edge of Manchester United's penalty area. Fortunately, the ball hit the left post and went wide.

One minute later, Messi broke through Park Ji-sung again on the left and made a cross before Hargreaves arrived at the defense.

The high-speed and powerful low cross was missed by Van der Sar, but Eto'o, who followed up, failed to get the chance as Ferdinand cleared the ball first.

But after Manchester United began to close its formation and was no longer in a hurry to counterattack, Barcelona's offensive stagnated. Instead, Manchester United, who slowed down, had some opportunities before the end of the first half.

The little chicken thief played very depressed in today's game. Yaya Toure kept harassing him and he didn't have many good shots in the whole first half.

Although Park Sam-Fei's sticky method is so annoying, this Ivorian player is taller and heavier than Li Qi, and his skills and reactions are not bad. He just keeps driving Li Qi to the side, but his speed is a little slow...

Oh, yes! The speed was a bit slow, so Li Qi thought of retreating deep and then moving forward. He didn't believe that Yaya would dare to leave the defensive midfielder position too far!

So Li Qi was pleasantly surprised to find that in the Manchester United half, there was another person responsible for marking and harassing him, and that was his old friend Iniesta.

But Li Qi didn't believe that Barcelona's division of labor was a result of long-term practice. He was just a little Karami before, unlike Messi or Ronaldo, and it was definitely not worth it for Barcelona's tactical team to arrange defensive tactics for him.

In that case, this kind of zone combined with man-to-man defense will definitely have areas of confusion over responsibilities and defensive blind spots!

Sure enough, Li Qi found it after a little try. It was the situation near the center line and the two side lanes. Iniesta and Yaya didn't want to get too close to the side and lose their position, but Xiaobai would usually pay more attention to them at this time.

When Xiaobai gets close to him, Yaya Toure will feel more at ease to attack Ronaldo and Scholes who just scored a magical goal...

This is the Chicken Club! The cunning Li Qi is getting cocky again.

In the 42nd minute, Li Qi retreated to the right side near the center line to receive a pass from Hargreaves. Under the double-team of Abidal and Iniesta, he made short passes with Park Ji-sung and Scholes.

Scholes then passed the ball to Park Ji-sung, who dribbled the ball towards Ronaldo on the left, trying to move to the other side from the densely defended area.

Messi was temporarily handed over to Hargreaves and Li Qi, while Xavi and Yaya also went over to deal with the sudden attacks of Park Ji-sung and Ronaldo.

But at this moment, Li Qi took advantage of the blind spot behind Yaya Toure and suddenly accelerated towards Barcelona's penalty area...

Iniesta was unable to catch up, and Li Qi knew that Xiaobai was a relatively introverted person and did not like to shout on the court; sure enough, Xiaobai did not loudly remind Yaya Toure at the first time.

Then it's Li Qi's turn to give a loud reminder to Ronaldo and Park Ji-sung!

But before Li Qi could shout out, he met the eyes of Park Ji-sung, who ran a big diagonal line and followed Ronaldo to the left side for observation: Okay, that's easy, no need to shout.

Park Ji-sung was also simple and without any nonsense, he directly made a cross from a 45-degree angle, looking for the middle of Barcelona's penalty area, where Li Qi was making a forward run.

Right between Puyol and Gabi Milito, Li Qi, who was not marked, made a high jump from behind and headed the ball sideways from 8 yards in front of the goal!

"Got it!" Li Qi, who had headed the ball, felt that the ball was a sure thing. The angle and strength were perfect, and there was no chance of offside. Li Qi was even ready to run over to celebrate the goal with Park Ji-sung...

But it was because of Li Qi's relaxation that he missed the fleeting opportunity of the first shot.

Valdes seemed to be possessed by a god. At the moment when the ball went into the upper left corner of Barcelona's goal, he jumped into the air, stretched to the extreme, and blocked Li Qi's powerful header!

This was definitely a great save! Although it still couldn't save Scholes's amazing shot, it did save Li Qi's header from a similar angle!

This person is different from others...

Then, Puyol took the lead and kicked the ball away in front of the goal line. Barcelona escaped!

Rijkaard on the sidelines whistled and loudly reminded Yaya Toure to do his job...

Li Qi, who was in mourning, said: Damn! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Isn't this save too good? It can be one of the top ten goals of the quarter, but I'm in the background!

Not long after that, both teams had a few tentative shots before entering the halftime break.

In the second half, both sides slightly adjusted their formations and playing styles, but did not make any personnel adjustments.

Barcelona's formation pressed higher, giving Messi more opportunities to move and hold the ball and attack; while Manchester United retreated further back and contracted the middle, allowing Barcelona to pass the ball from the wing, but Scholes assisted Park Sam-Fei to guard Messi tightly!

So the second half lasted for more than 15 minutes of offensive and defensive play. The game had already lasted more than an hour. Including the overtime, there were only 30 minutes left in the two rounds.

On defense, Manchester United gave Barcelona almost no chances. The rare opportunities in the first half did not appear in the second half. Most of them were hasty shots outside the penalty area, which did not test Van der Sar at all.

Messi also did not have any one-on-one opportunities. As soon as he got the ball, there was one person defending him and one person assisting him. Of course, most of his opponents were Park Ji-sung, who also played very excitedly today, flying up and down tirelessly.

In this season's La Liga, Barcelona is afraid of teams with dense defense. They can still control the ball, but after Ronaldinho and Eto'o disagreed and their form declined at the same time, Barcelona no longer has the penetrating power of its peak period. It is obviously not enough to rely on Messi alone.

In addition, it should be pointed out that Barcelona's utilization of set pieces is shockingly low.

As of the first half of the second leg, Barcelona had a total of 12 corner kicks and 11 free kicks in the frontcourt, but none of them created any scoring opportunities or threatened Manchester United's goal!

As for high-altitude crosses and long passes? Except for Yaya Toure's abuse of Li Qi in the backcourt, Barcelona's airspace was basically occupied by Manchester United in all aspects...

Sir Alex Ferguson's strategy in the second round was to prioritize defense and concentrate troops, taking advantage of the problem that the opponent had control of the ball but lacked sharp explosive points and strong high points.

In the counterattack, Manchester United created more threats than Barcelona; after all, it was a counterattack, and it was easier to cut into the penalty area and create opportunities.

However, with Scholes' world-class goal and a two-goal advantage, it was not a big problem for Ronaldo and Tevez to miss opportunities in front of the goal.

Most people are no longer optimistic about Barcelona's ability to deal with Manchester United's defense. Now it just depends on when Manchester United can score another goal through a counterattack and completely kill the game.

However, our protagonist, Li Qi, was still in a depressed state of having no ball to play after being more closely marked by Yaya Toure in the second half: I am afraid that this game will just end in a mere vain effort?

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