Green Journey

Chapter 487 One goal short!

Jardim moved very quickly, replacing Germain with Jiang Lai in an instant.

This substitution is clearly intended to attack Kolarov and Fernandinho.

Taking advantage of the substitution time, Chu Zheng quickly ran to the sidelines to communicate with Guardiola.

Chu Zheng knew very well that once Mbappe and Jiang Lai stared at Fernandinho and Kolarov, it would be difficult for them to withstand the explosion with their individual explosion-proof capabilities.

"Head, should we change our formation!" Chu Zheng squeezed his saliva, and then asked panting.

"No need!!!" Guardiola rebuffed, "Offense is the best defense, we have no choice now!"

"I know what to do, head!" Chu Zheng nodded, then immediately dropped the water bottle and turned to run to the field.

Chu Zheng actually agrees with Guardiola's strategy in this game.

Defending is impossible, so we have to play against Monaco and continue to support the total score.

After a few minutes, Jardim's substitutions began to pay off.

In the 71st minute of the game, Jiang Lai was blocked by Kolarov on the left side of Manchester City's penalty area, and the two sides confronted each other.

Facing Kolarov, who was bent over and lowered his center of gravity, Jiang Lai acted as if no one was around. He swayed the ball back and forth quickly with his feet, then suddenly smashed the ball to the right and went to the bottom line. Kolarov wiped away.

But before crossing the sideline of the penalty area and before the bottom line, Otamendi slapped his horse and blocked Jiang Lai's way.

However, Jiang Lai was very decisive. After catching up with the ball, he quickly made an inverted triangle pass with his left foot.

The ball line is in the small penalty area.

Near the post, Ederson quickly fell to the right and reached for the ball but missed.

The ball rubbed against his fingertips and rolled back against the turf.

Before the upper corner of the small penalty area, Mbappe followed up and hit directly with his right foot sideways.

Fernandinho, right in front of him, stretched out his foot quickly, just in time to rub the bottom of the ball, and then the ball flew into the stands.

"Ho! Very good starting speed. Is this player Chu's national teammate?" In the BBC live broadcast room, Lineker saw that Jiang Lai passed Kolarov cleanly and sent such a beautiful and precise kick Inverted triangle pass, he looked very surprised.

With the development of football techniques and tactics in recent years, full-backs have begun to frequently participate in the offense, and wingers have become full-backs.

Nowadays, wing players like Robben and Ribery are becoming less and less common in world football, and more of them are full-backs.

"Jiang is very flexible, and the first few steps are very fast. This kind of player is the natural enemy of our defender!" Fernandi also commented with a smile.

On the sidelines, seeing Mbappe miss the goal, Jardim rubbed his cheeks vigorously with his hands, but this successful side blast also gave him hope.

He was not mistaken, the two full-backs of Manchester City were indeed their biggest weaknesses.

Soon, the picture Jardim wanted to see appeared again.

In the 74th minute of the game, at the front of the middle of the 30-meter area of ​​Monaco's half, De Bruyne got the ball and was surrounded by Fabinho and Bakayoko.

Relying on his strong physical fitness, De Bruyne held Fabinho behind him, and quickly sent the ball to the left rib before Bakayoko in front of him came over.

But the ball was still rubbed by Bakayoko's toes, and there was a small change in the line. The ball that was originally in front of Yaya Toure's ribs turned into a ball behind him

When Toure completed his turn backwards, the ball had rolled sideways to the side.

And Jiang Lai, who was not far away, had already started rushing ahead of time.

Yaya Toure wanted to keep Jiang Laika behind him.

But Jiang Lai was very vigilant, and walked around from the outside line, not even giving Toure a chance to pull people.

After crossing the center line, Jiang Lai completely got rid of Yaya Toure.

At the same time, Fernandinho quickly leaned over from the ribs.

But two seconds later, the positions of him and Jiang Lai were getting bigger and bigger.

There is no way, Jiang Lai's speed has been fully raised at this time.

Seeing that Jiang Lai turned on the drag racing mode, the audience immediately cheered louder and louder. Every Monaco fan stretched their necks, looking forward to the goal.

In a blink of an eye, Jiang Lai walked along the sidewalk to the upper corner of the restricted area.

At this time, in the inner rib area, Otamendi has returned to the front of the penalty area ahead of time.

Before the free throw arc in the middle, Kolarov was also in place in time, following Mbappe on the right side of him.

At this moment, Jiang Lai, who was two meters in front of the upper corner of the penalty area, suddenly sent an arc cross with the instep of his right foot while moving at high speed.

The ball went around in front of Otamendi.

Seeing the ball coming, Mbappe sped up with a two-stage jet, and instantly threw Kolarov on the left half of his body, and continued to distance himself.

On the right side of the penalty spot, Mbappe followed up and raised his right foot to push directly to the far lower corner of the goal without any interference.

"shoot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Killian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The crowd shouted, the voice was deafening.

"Crossover is coming!!!"

"Mbappe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Amidst the high-pitched and loud exclamations of the commentators from various countries, Mbappe's shot successfully escaped the interception of Ederson's long legs and got into Manchester City's goal again.

3-1!

The total score is 7 to 6!

"Mbappe! Twice! Incredible young Frenchman!!"

In the LeTV live broadcast room, Zhan Jun's voice became higher and higher, and his originally stable mood was completely overwhelmed by Jiang Lai's excellent performance in this long-distance attack and assist.

"Mbappe's acceleration ability is terrible, and he got rid of Kolarov at once!" Zhang Lu laughed.

"Now the total ratio is 7 to 6. As long as Monaco scores another goal and guarantees that Manchester City cannot score again, then they will eliminate Manchester City!"

On the sidelines, at the moment of the goal, everyone on the coach bench and the bench of Monaco rushed out again and hugged Jardim.

This goal rekindled the fire of hope in the hearts of everyone in Monaco.

Next to it, Guardiola quickly called Zabaleta and Clichy to him and told them one by one.

In a blink of an eye, the fourth official on the sidelines continuously raised the sign for substitutions, and Fernandinho and Kolarov were replaced.

Guardiola's substitution actually didn't have much intention, it was simply to replenish physical fitness for the team's defense, and he had no other choice other than that.

In the LeTV live broadcast room, Zhang Lu saw Guardiola's two substitutions, he shook his head and didn't say much.

He actually thought that it would be better for Guardiola to stick to the bus at this time.

Although it may not be possible to hold it, what if it is held?

But at the same time, he can also understand Guardiola's choice. Between initiative and passivity, Guardiola chose the former and took the initiative to control his destiny.

Soon, the game restarted and the decisive moment came.

Monaco, united as one, is looking for another goal to equalize on aggregate so that they can knock out City on away goals.

The same is true for Manchester City.

As long as they score one more goal, they can kill the suspense of promotion. At that time, Monaco, which has little physical fitness left, will be disintegrated both mentally and physically.

So the next game went completely out of control, and the situation became open and closed, completely a situation of mutual explosion.

In the 78th minute of the game, Manchester City circled the right rib in the middle of the half, and Stones retreated to receive a cross from Sabaletta on the right.

Turning around, he saw Mbappe quickly crossing to the line between him and Riya Toure in the middle circle, so he played the ball straight forward.

Yaya Toure ran to the right to get the ball outside the arc of the center circle.

When he completed his turn, Bakayoko also rushed to his front right.

But Yaya Toure didn't hesitate at all, and he made a long pass with his right foot directly over the top.

At the moment of the long pass, in the left area of ​​the center, on the Monaco defense line, Chu Zheng, between Raj and Sidibe, succeeded in anti-offside.

But Toure's ball was too weak, so Chu Zheng had to slow down, turn around, run back, and wait for the ball to come over.

In a blink of an eye, at the front of the top of the arc in the middle, Raj rushed back.

Seeing Raj approaching from the right, Chu Zheng slammed his left rib and left foot at the top of the arc and passed Raj who was grabbing up.

After entering the penalty area, Chu Zheng still couldn't hit the door, because Remelsson blocked his route to the far corner.

But Chu Zheng has other options.

Seeing that the penalty area on the right was completely empty, Chu Zheng directly passed the ball across.

In the next second, Aguero stepped in from the right side of the top of the arc to get the ball, stepped forward with his left foot, followed up and hit it directly with his right foot.

It's pretty much a one-shot.

However, Subasic saw through Aguero's intentions in advance and stretched out his foot in time to block Aguero's close-angle shot from the bottom line.

"Hey!!"

"Aguero, missed a golden opportunity to kill the suspense of promotion!!"

On the sidelines, Guardiola was so angry that he turned his back and kept shaking his head, while Jardim next to him was scared to death.

But it's not over yet.

In the 80th minute of the game, Manchester City came again.

In the penalty area, Edson retreated to the left baseline to take the ball. Seeing Stones enter the penalty area from the top right rib of the arc and raised his hand to ask for the ball, he raised his foot and passed it.

After getting the ball, Stones strode forward and dribbled the ball forward again.

Mbappe turned from the top of the arc in the middle, but defense is really not his job, and he was stuck behind him all the way and couldn't make an inch.

A few seconds later, Stones turned from his ribs into the center circle of Manchester City's half and was blocked by Bakayoko and Fabinho.

Seeing that Chu Zheng quickly retreated to the left rib area of ​​the center circle, Stones immediately passed the ball across.

In an instant, Monaco's midfield defense was broken again.

After taking the ball, Chu Zheng quickly pushed forward along his ribs.

At this time, Chu Zheng was on the left front side, and Sane quickly leaned over and moved forward behind Sidibe.

Seeing that Sidibe and Raj in the ribs didn't close the passing line of the ribs immediately, how could Chu Zheng miss this opportunity, and he raised his foot and thrust a scalpel straight in.

At the moment of passing the ball, Sane and Chu Zheng formed a perfect passing and running tacit understanding, without offside.

After entering the Monaco penalty area from the upper corner of the penalty area, seeing that the connection with Aguero in the middle was cut off by Remelsson, Sane kicked his foot in the rib of the penalty area.

However, this time Subasic made another miracle.

He came out quickly, largely compressing the space in front of Sane, while sealing off the far corner.

Sane had no choice but to force a close corner, but the ball rolled past Subasic and hit the side netting.

Manchester City missed another chance.

At this moment, the Monaco fans are extremely anxious in the stands.

There is not much time left in the game, but they were suppressed by Manchester City again during this time period.

At the thought of being eliminated, many Monaco fans were so depressed that they couldn't breathe, and their hearts were extremely tormented.

(End of this chapter)