Green Journey

Chapter 521 False hope, suspense of the end!
After scoring the goal, the Dortmund players became excited.

Shortly after the re-kick-off, in the 52nd minute of the game, Dortmund took possession of the ball continuously, but they couldn't penetrate Manchester City's defense on the right, and the ball continued to pass back along the ribs.

Papastathopoulos quickly moved forward and leaned towards the center after taking the ball on the left rib at the top of his own arc.

Entering the 30-meter area in the middle, seeing Aguero approaching, he quickly scored the ball to the right.

After Pischek took the ball in the right rib area of ​​the middle circle, he quickly dribbled the ball to the outside.

Crossing the center line and taking the ball to the right, seeing that Dembele, who is in the middle of Otamendi and Clichy, has started to speed up to the outside of the penalty area, Piszczek immediately sent a kick along the sideline. A through ball with strong spin.

In a blink of an eye, the ball passed in front of Clichy on the outside line on the right side of Dembele.

Seeing the ball circled in front of him, Dembele turned on his horsepower and once again ate Clichy raw with speed.

In the upper corner of the penalty area on the right, Dembele received the ball smoothly and met the ball that turned into the penalty area.

But at the same time, Otamendi also quickly leaned across from his left side, just blocking Dembele.

Behind the two, Chrissy originally wanted to take advantage of the situation and make up for Otamendi.

But after turning his head to the left and back, he found that Dortmund followed up with Aubameyang in this attack.

So Clichy took advantage of the opportunity to hang on the left side behind Otamendi, preventing Dembele from suddenly smashing the ball back or cutting inward along the end line of the penalty area.

His choice is correct.

For Dembele, after discovering that Clichy blocked the inside line, he had no choice.

So in the next second, Dembele decisively slid the ball to the bottom, preparing to pass back in an inverted triangle and point out Aubameyang who outflanked him.

But Otamendi is in very good form today. He quickly leaned over the moment Dembele waded the ball out and completely cut off Dembele's cross pass.

In a short distance of three or four meters, Dembele raised his foot three times in a row, but finally failed to pass the ball.

Before the two rushed to the bottom line, Otamendi approached again, so Dembele, who hesitated again and again, finally took the ball out of the bottom line.

croquet.

In the stands, seeing Otamendi's wonderful defense this time, Manchester City fans applauded and cheered in unison.

But at the same time, they also want Guardiola to do something.

Not to mention continuing to make progress on the offensive end, at least on the defensive end, we must limit Dortmund's offense on the right.

After a while, taking advantage of a dead ball opportunity, Guardiola took the opportunity to have a brief exchange with Chu Zheng who ran to the sidelines, and then the positions of Manchester City's players changed again.

In the off-ball defense stage, Manchester City still played in a 4411 formation.

But Chu Zheng's position was raised to the front midfielder position, and Sane, who was originally in this position, returned to the position of the left midfielder.

Seeing the change in the positions of the two, the Manchester City fans were so angry that they wanted to vomit blood.

Because they couldn't understand Guardiola's intention for this position adjustment at all.

Manchester City fans do not understand this.

Obviously the team's defense on the left was already in jeopardy under the impact of Dembele. As a result, at this time, Chu Zheng was transferred from the left half to the center, and Sane, a winger with little defensive ability, was replaced by Chu. Zheng, isn't this changing direction and weakening the defense on the left to help Dembele reduce the pressure?

But soon the doubts in the hearts of Manchester City fans were explained. Guardiola's small position swap adjustment had a huge effect.

In the 58th minute of the game, Guerrero dribbled the ball up the left rib.

But at the front of the 30-meter area of ​​​​the ribs, De Bruyne and Sterling jointly blocked the way.

So Guerrero, who couldn't continue to move forward, decisively moved forward to split the side.

The ball passed between Sterling and the turf in front of him.

De Bruyne and Sterling stretched out their feet to intercept at the same time, but the ball rolled impartially along the established route to Schmelzer on the wing.

Sterling turned quickly and headed straight for Schmelzer.

Stones, who guarded Royce with Kompany before receiving the upper corner of the penalty area, quickly pushed out horizontally, and Sterling, who returned to the defense, sandwiched Schmelzer back and forth.

Schmelzer didn't last more than three seconds before the ball was poked back by Stones behind him along the wing.

On the right side of the middle circle, Chu Zheng quickly ran across his ribs and got the ball.

But at this time Guerrero followed behind him.

Seeing that Sterling had started a high-speed forward drive along the side from the backcourt, Guerrero subconsciously leaned to Chu Zheng's left back to prevent Chu Zheng from pushing the ball to Sterling, and he would not be able to follow up immediately. .

But when Sterling rushed past Chu Zheng, what Guerrero was worried about did not happen.

Chu Zheng didn't pass the ball, but turned to the right with his right foot and turned his back to Dortmund for half the court.

In the next second, Chu Zheng faced Schmelzer who was chasing back.

Facing Schmelzer's fierce attack, Chu Zheng turned his right foot to the left at the moment Schmelzer stretched his foot, and pushed forward with his left foot, which directly made a high-frequency fried ball, followed by Wiped over from Schmelzer's left.

After bringing back half a meter away, seeing Royce rushing in front of him, Chu Zheng quickly turned to the right.

Immediately after a mid-strength waving ball, it ejected and started, causing Royce and Schmelzer, who were trying to pinch Chu Zheng from the left and right sides, to almost collide.

However, Chu Zheng's troubles were not over yet.

He had just left Royce behind and entered the ribs, and Guerrero came up from his right front again, cutting off the passing line between him and Sane in the central circle area.

On the sidelines, Tuchel breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Guerrero's actions.

If Chu Zheng were to pass the ball across to Sane's feet at this time, then their empty right half would have to be pierced by Sane's speed in an instant.

Beside, Guardiola's eyes are full of regret.

Sane didn't choose this position well. He shouldn't be in the middle circle, but should withdraw a little bit to form a parallel position with Chu Zheng.

In this way, Guerrero will not be able to completely block this cross pass line in the first place.

Chu Zheng can also quickly switch to his left foot to complete the lateral pass.

At this moment, Chu Zheng on the field gave an excellent answer again.

Since you have blocked my line, then I will bypass you and send it again.

Facing Guerrero in front of him, Chu Zheng suddenly slowed down after catching up with the ball.

At this moment, Chu Zheng's back and left and right sides were already surrounded. Schmelzer, Royce and Guerrero were trying to put him in like a hole.

At this time, Shinji Kagawa rushing over from Chu Zheng's left front side was a Japanese brand cover.

Once Kagawa Shinji also rushed to Chu Zheng, he would be surrounded by all sides.

However, in the next second, Shinji Kagawa hadn't arrived yet, and the referee Skomina ran to Chu Zheng's left front first.

Seeing the referee in blue and black trousers, Chu Zheng immediately fell in love with Skomina.

The next second, Chu Zheng suddenly pushed the ball forward with his right foot, kicked hard with his right foot, and followed the ball toward Skomina.

Immediately afterwards, Shinji Kagawa ran, but he was blocked by the referee.

At this moment, Shinji Kagawa wished he could kick Skomina straight away. Damn, this position runs better than the players.

At the same time, when Guerrero, Royce, and Schmelzer saw Chu Zheng's actions, it was like drying peppercorns at the neighbor's door and numb the neighbors.

Countless fans saw that Chu Zheng even used the referee, everyone's eyes widened, and they were once again shocked by Chu Zheng's golf quotient.

LeTV studio, BBC studio, BTsport studio, Zhang Lu, Klopp, Neville and others were also dazzled.

Tuchel on the sidelines was also stunned, using the referee as a breakthrough, what kind of fairy brain circuit is this.

Even Guardiola was dumbfounded.

On the field, Guerrero quickly realized that Chu Zheng was going to run, so he went up to grab it very simply.

Just as he stretched out his feet, Chu Zheng's left and right feet quickly connected with a deep-fried ball, and his left foot sent the ball forward, and he started to speed again instantly.

Seeing that Chu Zheng was about to slip away in front of him, Grillo took advantage of the opportunity to put down the shovel, and stretched out his right foot to trip Chu Zheng's right foot, which was kicking back, an extremely obvious tactical foul.

On the left side of Chu Zheng, Skomina, who stood on tiptoe to draw in his belly, pushed his butt backwards and brushed past Chu Zheng, was about to blow his whistle, but Chu Zheng didn't fall down.

After Chu Zheng's right toe hooked on Guerrero's outstretched foot, his center of gravity leaned forward very obviously, and he was about to fall.

As a result, Chu Zheng bent over, put his hands on the ground for a while, staggered for a few steps, and then quickly straightened up.

After taking the ball again, Chu Zheng quickly turned right and went straight to the middle circle area.

At this time, behind the center line, although the four defenders of Dortmund have collectively settled down, they have built a defense line.

But there are also quite a few people on Manchester City's side, and there is even one more.

Manchester City's right rib and right flank in the center circle, De Bruyne and Sterling started straight forward at the same time.

Aguero, who was also in the middle circle area ahead of Sane, also went straight to the top of the arc.

When Sane saw Chu Zheng running over, he quickly stabbed obliquely in the front left side of his ribs, giving Chu Zheng the center.

So a five-on-four situation emerged.

When Chu Zheng quickly took the ball across the center line from the penalty spot, the four of De Bruyne were also constantly tearing apart the defense formed by the four of Papa.

But before Papa and the others pushed to the top of the arc, Chu Zheng passed the ball.

While running, the instep of Chu Zheng's left foot suddenly hit the ball in front of him, and the ball went straight to Aguero in front of him.

At this time Aguero was caught between Papa and Gentle.

Seeing Chu Zheng pass the ball at this time, he was shocked.

Because according to Chu Zheng's ability, it is impossible to choose this bad timing to pass the ball to him.

Therefore, Aguero believes that there is only one possibility, and that is that the ball was not given to him.

So the moment the ball came in front of him, Aguero missed the ball directly.

Immediately afterwards, the ball that rolled behind Aguero began to turn, and went around in front of Papa.

At the same time, Sane on the left flank advanced at full speed.

Piszczek, who was returning to the defense at full speed from the outside of the ribs, couldn't bear it anymore, and could only watch helplessly as he was pulled away by Sane a little bit.

Outside the court, seeing Chu Zheng's extremely exaggerated through ball, everyone was not calm.

The Manchester City fans in the stands even subconsciously held their breath, waiting for today's third goal.

In the major studios, a group of commentators were also looking at this perfect through ball sent by Chu Zheng with artistic eyes.

"God, an artistic pass!" In the BTsport studio, Gary Neville exclaimed, and Martin Taylor beside him was also amazed.

In the BBC studio, Klopp was also dumbfounded after seeing the perfect arc sent by Chu Zheng.

Previously, after seeing Dortmund's four defensemen withdraw gradually and orderly, and did not let De Bruyne and others break the defense line like pulling a rubber band, Klopp thought that Manchester City's attack might be broken. Being delayed, it eventually turned into a tough battle.

It turned out that Dortmund's seemingly extremely strong defense line was easily penetrated by Chu Zheng's instep.

Of course, Aguero is also responsible for this. He and Chu Zheng have a good understanding, and this clever compromise is too crucial.

On the field, Sane entered the left rib of the top of the arc and took the ball away from him.

Dribbling the ball across the end line of the penalty area, seeing the goalkeeper Burki attacking, he pushed the ball to the right without saying a word.

In the next second, De Bruyne, who entered the penalty area from the other rib, rushed to the upper corner of the small penalty area and directly pushed the empty goal.

"Boom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" In an instant, Ittihad was ignited again and became an erupting fire.

In the footage of the live broadcast room, the on-site director is also constantly playing Chu Zheng's perfect through ball.

Zhan Jun laughed and said, "Aguero gave the ball too quickly. He guessed exactly Chu Zheng's intention!"

"Well, the last thing is that he suddenly slowed down, which made Papa and Gentle on both sides of him mistakenly think that it was going to retreat to catch the ball, and subconsciously leaned over, but he let the ball pass , beat Dortmund's defense Papa and others by surprise!"

Zhan Jun nodded cheerfully, changed the subject, and said, "Manchester City's goal has almost killed the suspense of promotion!"

"Now the score is 3-1, the total score is 6-3!"

"If Dortmund want to eliminate Manchester City, they need to score three goals in a row in the next 30 minutes, so that it is possible to turn the defeat into victory by relying on the advantage of away goals."

Hearing this, Zhang Lu shook her head with a smile.

Although it cannot be said that this is completely impossible, it is a small probability event.

It would be a miracle if it happened, but miracles don't happen that easily.

What's more, after being scored this goal, whether Dortmund's players can maintain the spirit before the goal is hard to say, maybe they just collapsed.

Manchester City fans feel the same way, they think that Dortmund should almost give up.

However, the next game was just the opposite.

In the 62nd minute of the game, Tuchel made another move.

He replaced Guerrero with Pulisic, changed his formation again, and played a single midfielder 4141 formation.

The intention of this adjustment is self-evident, Tuhar stud, he gambled everything, just to seek that slight possibility of promotion.

But this time Guardiola didn't just sit back and watch.

In the 64th minute of the game, Guardiola made the first substitution adjustment.

Fernando replaces Sterling.

And Guardiola adjusted the position of the players again.

Chu Zheng returned to the position of the left midfielder, with Fernando and Fernandinho in the middle, and De Bruyne as the right midfielder.

So Shinji Kagawa and Dembele, who often came to the middle of the road, were directly stared to death by Guardiola's fourth midfielder.

In addition, Aubameyang, who was stared at by Kompany and Otamendi in turn today, caused Dortmund's offense, which is very dependent on the two wings, to be completely misfired.

Although Pulisic was as active as in the first round after playing, he faced Stones, who has a certain speed and turns faster today.

And there is De Bruyne on the side to help defend, so it is also difficult for Dortmund's left wing to fly.

On the contrary, Manchester City took advantage of the opportunity of Dortmund to press forward frantically, frequently stealing the ball and playing a threatening counterattack.

Especially Chu Zheng and Sane, they were frantic, staring at Piszczek on the right side of Dortmund repeatedly.

In the end, Piszczek exhausted his physical energy and fell to the ground with cramps in the 82nd minute of the game.

With the paralysis of Dortmund's right, the game basically came to an end.

In the 92nd minute of the game, Manchester City made another victory.

But this goal has nothing to do with Chu Zheng. He was replaced by Foden by Guardiola as early as the 86th minute.

When the full game whistle sounded, Ittihad once again fell into wild cheers.

On the field, Guardiola, Chu Zheng and others on the bench also rushed to the field at the same time to celebrate the team's promotion.

(End of this chapter)