Chapter 868
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The Luzhniki Stadium ushered in the second half of the Champions League final between Real Madrid and Manchester United.
The Red Devils did not appear with the momentum of mourning soldiers when they appeared. They seemed to show an unyielding demonic nature.
After the referee blew the whistle, the second half of the game began.
Manchester United sped up the pace of the game as soon as they came up. The players passed and cut extremely quickly and ran harder. They did not seem to care about the consumption of physical strength.
In the 46th minute of the game, Rooney moved to the left side of the front field to receive Evra's backfield pass. He switched positions with Ronaldo. As a result, Ramos' defensive attention was disturbed and Rooney easily dribbled the ball to the side on the flank.
When the Real Madrid players thought that Manchester United would continue to focus on passing tactics, they found that Evra, who was suppressed in the first half, also did not care about his defensive position to assist.
Rooney knocked the ball back to Evra, who was unmarked. The latter dribbled the ball and cut inside. Diarra immediately went to block, but he passed the ball to Scholes.
Scholes rushed forward with the ball and came to the front of the penalty area. Real Madrid's rear defensive line was already a little flustered.
The starting point of the fluster was Ronaldo and Rooney switching positions. At this time, Ronaldo slanted into the right area of the goal and Scholes picked the ball in front of the penalty area.
Cannavaro was unable to defend in time and Ronaldo got a chance to head the ball on the right side of the goal.
At this moment, the Real Madrid fans witnessed this scene and were frightened!
Just as Ronaldo jumped high and pressed the ball hard to head the ball towards Real Madrid's goal, Casillas was already standing a meter in front of him. Casillas also jumped.
The two men almost instantly staged the shocking scene of Ronaldo's header and Casillas holding the football with one hand!
The football bounced out and Ronaldo staggered when he landed. Casillas was also unsteady and almost fell to the ground.
The bounced football was saved by Cannavaro's big foot in the direction of his own goal and almost created an own goal.
Cannavaro had no choice. Tevez was right next to him. He could not make any other moves to help, so he could only take a risk.
Manchester United had an opportunity to attack from the corner.
Carrick went to kick a corner kick, and Rooney nodded from behind the penalty area to head the ball out of the end line.
Real Madrid's crisis was alleviated at the start of the second half.
It was Real Madrid's turn to attack.
After the steady passing of the ball in the middle and back field, the offense advanced to the front field.
The Manchester United defenders charged wildly like crazy demons.
The smoke-filled Red Devil's half had fallen into a chaotic battle.
When Qin Xiong passed the ball to Robben, Evra directly knocked Robben to the ground.
This caused Robben to be extremely dissatisfied, and he scolded, ridiculed, and humiliated Evra.
The Manchester United generals could not tolerate Robben's rude remarks. Ferdinand rushed up to teach Robben a lesson.
What Manchester United wanted was a breath of fresh air!
If they could not contain Real Madrid tactically, then they had to completely suppress Real Madrid in terms of momentum!
The referee and the assistant referee ran over to mediate. The referee showed a yellow card to Evra and also showed a yellow card to Robben, indicating that the players of both teams should restrain their emotions to prevent the game from getting out of control.
Qin Xiong took the free kick from the flank of the front field. He stuffed the ball straight to the flank and passed the ball back to Qin Xiong after Ramos plugged in from the back. As a result, Qin Xiong had just gotten rid of Scholes' charge in place, but he was stopped by Scholes' pulling action.
The referee's whistle sounded again. This time, he awarded Real Madrid a better free kick, but did not show a yellow card to Scholes.
Qin Xiong walked away. Robben had a higher success rate in taking the free kick from this position. It was far better for him to shoot with his left foot than for Qin Xiong to use his foot.
Robben glanced at the position of the Manchester United's human wall and then shot a curveball over the human wall.
But the football eventually went over the crossbar.
Real Madrid's offense began to encounter Manchester United's frantic encirclement and foul tactics.
Manchester United's offense did have a new change.
Rooney looked like he had been sacrificed.
Ronaldo and Tevez were more like the two strikers, and Rooney would pull to the side to support.
It also showed how much Ferguson liked Ronaldo.
When van Nistelrooy was there, van Nistelrooy was sacrificed. Now, between Ronaldo and Rooney, Ferguson clearly favored Ronaldo.
When Ronaldo got closer to the penalty area, Real Madrid's defense was bound to take some time to adapt.
In the 49th minute of the game, Scholes did not continue forward after crossing the halfway line. Manchester United's running stamina had entered a high-intensity stage. They could not only rely on one player to plug in from the midfield to attack, so Scholes cleverly covered for Carrick. After passing the left side of the midfield and attracting Real Madrid's defensive line to move slightly to this side, he immediately passed the ball to Carrick on the other side.
Carrick ran up and passed the ball straight to the penalty area the moment he touched the ball.
Cristiano Ronaldo ran horizontally on the penalty area line. When Cannavaro was about to defend against him, the football just rolled past Cristiano Ronaldo. Cannavaro barely saw what Cristiano Ronaldo did before he realized that the football was rolling towards Tevez!
Ronaldo used his heel to knock the ball towards Tevez in the middle of the penalty area in front of the penalty area.
The Argentine beast, Tevez, received the ball and directly shot out!
The football flew straight to the bottom left corner of Real Madrid's goal. Casillas made a world-class save. After he narrowly blocked the ball with one palm, Ramos cleared the ball in front of the end line with a big kick.
"After the start of the second half, Manchester United's offense improved. They continued to threaten Real Madrid's goal, and even had a golden opportunity to almost break the goal! Real Madrid was a little unaccustomed to the opponent's pressing and foul tactics, and now the situation is beginning to tilt towards the Red Devils and Manchester United! "
The Real Madrid players certainly did not agree with the commentator.
They had long been accustomed to the opponent's foul tactics. How could they be frightened by Manchester United?
When dealing with the Red Devils' frantic pressing and foul tactics, the Real Madrid players just did not adapt to the opponent's sudden speed at the beginning of the game.
When they recovered, they could make a comeback.
Real Madrid first shrank their formation slightly. After the distance between the teammates was shortened, it achieved two effects. One was a higher success rate of short passes, and the other was to shorten the time for the football to roll. It could prevent the Manchester United players from getting close to their teammates when they received the ball, because Real Madrid was good at one-shot passes.
Manchester United's response to Real Madrid's adjustment was also very direct. Real Madrid shrank their formation and the players were close, so they also shrank in their defense, compressing Real Madrid's passing space and cutting Real Madrid's offensive formation.
However, they might not have thought that this adjustment was actually a kind of momentum building in Real Madrid's strategy!
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