Star Card System

With two goals in hand, Manchester United is much more stable.

In the second half, Manchester United still has an absolute advantage.

If it weren't for the Spanish goalkeeper Diego Lopez's high and low blocks, I'm afraid Manchester United's goals would have doubled long ago.

At least doubled.

This 39-year-old goalkeeper is definitely a representative of old and strong, and the older he gets, the more he becomes.

When he was young, he was more efficient than AC Milan, Real Madrid and other top teams, with world-class strength and top experience.

Now that he is older, he has returned to Spain to join the Spaniard. He is definitely a technical poverty alleviation and a big father in defense.

It was not until the 81st minute of the game that Manchester United scored again.

This time, Drinkwater, who came on as a substitute, shot into the net and helped the team expand the lead again.

3-0, this is the final score of the game.

The Spanish fans were very disappointed to be completely defeated by Manchester United at home.

But this was also within their expectations, after all, the strength of the two sides was too different.

A Premier League leader and a La Liga deputy monitor, how to compare?

After the game, Wu Lei found Xia Xing and exchanged jerseys with him.

Xia Xing naturally agreed.

"Brother, I'll wait for you at Old Trafford!"

Looking at Wu Lei turning and leaving, Xia Xing was a little emotional.

Since the last era, since Dong Fangzhuo and Sun Jihai, no Chinese player has played at Old Trafford.

Now, it's finally time.

Although Manchester United arranged a rotation lineup for the weekend league, Solskjaer didn't even put Xia Xing in the big list.

Although Xia Xing is an iron man, Solskjaer is still very worried about him.

Especially now that they are fighting on two fronts, they can't just rely on Xia Xing.

So even if Xia Xing repeatedly said that he was fine, Solskjaer still excluded him from the big list.

Xia Xing can understand it, after all, the head coach is kind.

But he is still very worried about the game.

Sure enough, there was a mess in the weekend league.

It's not just Xia Xing who didn't play, there are also many main players.

In the absence of many people, Manchester United finally lost to Watford regretfully.

It should have been a sure win, and the opponent was not strong, but they just lost.

Without Xia Xing, Manchester United seemed to be missing soul and rules, and could only watch the opponent counterattack successfully.

In this game, Maguire, B Fee and Martial, the three players at the center, all tried very hard, but they were really powerless.

After this game, Liverpool was only one point away from Manchester United.

Manchester United is in danger.

On February 28, Old Trafford ushered in the second leg of the Europa League quarter-finals.

Facing the Spaniard, the whole Manchester United team has a great technical and psychological advantage.

The result of 3-0 in the last game was very gratifying, which was enough to lay the foundation for victory.

In this game, even if half of the strength is used, there will be no problem.

So today Solskjaer still tried to rotate some players to give young players a chance.

For example, young players such as Pereira and Chong Tahith all appeared on the field.

But even so, Manchester United still took the initiative.

In the 23rd minute of the first half, Xia Xing made a diagonal pass and found Pereira who was advancing.

Pereira and James made a wall pass and volleyed in the penalty area!

The ball hit the net!

1-0!

Manchester United scored the first goal!

At the end of the first half, Xia Xing made another successful defense, allowing Manchester United to switch from defense to offense in an instant.

The long pass was still to the right!

Still looking for James!

James was in good shape in this game, Xia Xing saw it!

Let this young fast horse play his talent well!

James, who received the ball, sprinted quickly and used his speed to shake off two defensive players!

Rushed into the penalty area and shot at a small angle!

The ball hit the net!

2-0!

Manchester United scored another goal!

At this point, the Spaniards had no hope at all.

No one thought they would score five goals in the next game and create a miracle.

That was not a miracle, but a fantasy.

And then, Manchester United played more freely.

If it weren't for the young players' slightly poor ability to seize opportunities and Diego Lopez's excellent form, I'm afraid the Spaniards would suffer another big defeat.

The score in the first half was fixed at 2-0, and Manchester United's attack continued in the second half.

At this time, the Spaniards had completely lost their fighting spirit. They directly used up two substitutions and replaced two midfielders.

Two young players, practice on the court, after all, opportunities in the Europa League are rare.

The third substitution was given to Wu Lei.

In the 70th minute of the game, Wu Lei came on as a substitute.

When Wu Lei came on, the Old Trafford stadium was filled with applause.

Looking at this Chinese face, they naturally thought of the captain Xia Xing, and a sense of closeness arose spontaneously.

After coming on as a substitute, Wu Lei was very active.

Two consecutive quick forward insertions actually created two extremely threatening scoring opportunities.

But in front of De Gea, his shots were still too tender, and all were blocked by the Manchester United goalkeeper.

In the 85th minute, Manchester United's attack ended and the Spaniards launched another counterattack.

A steady pass from the midfield, and a sudden through pass!

At this time, Wu Lei sprinted quickly and successfully countered the offside!

A single shot!

Bailly and Lindelof quickly chased back, but still couldn't keep up with Wu Lei's speed!

Outside the penalty area, Wu Lei made a slight adjustment and kicked decisively at the moment when De Gea attacked!

The ball went straight into the corner of the goal!

The ball went in!

2 to 1!

The Spaniards scored a goal back!

This goal made the Spaniards players very excited!

They hugged excitedly on the court!

Although this goal was irrelevant to the overall situation, it was exciting enough!

And it also showed that they did not give up the tenacious fighting spirit of the game!

At this time, even Xia Xing, who was not far away, kept nodding and praising.

Good job, Wu Lei!

Even if Owen returned to the court that year, this kind of running position would be no more than this, right?

Under the Chinese youth training system, it is not easy to have such a big picture and football IQ striker!

If he were five years younger, it would be great...

There were still five minutes left before the end of the game, and the Spaniards were still one goal behind.

Although there was no hope of advancing, they still looked forward to scoring another goal and equalizing the score.

In the second minute of injury time, Wu Lei ran out of a world-class opportunity again.

However, under the tight defense, he had no chance to shoot and chose to pass the ball.

He passed the ball to the middle of the penalty area, but was blocked by McTominay who came back to defend.

The Spaniard lost the last good opportunity.

In the end, Manchester United won the Spaniard 2-1 at home!

Although they lost the game, Manchester United fans still gave great encouragement to their opponents. The applause from the audience moved the Spaniard players.

This time, Xia Xing took the initiative to find Wu Lei to exchange jerseys.

"Brother, your goal is so cool!"

"It's mainly because my teammates passed it well."

"From now on, you will be famous. In the future, you can be called 'the Chinese man who broke through the Manchester United goal'!" (End of this chapter)