Chapter 77: Absolute Peak
Before the game, no one expected that at Old Trafford, Real Madrid could actually suppress the home team Manchester United.
In their opinion, no matter how strong Real Madrid is, they should lie down at the home court and avoid their edge. As a result, they turned away and pushed Manchester United into their half and beaten them up.
On this side, Sneider had just made a long shot to test the quality of the crossbar. Then, Gago was not to be outdone and faced the defense of Vidic and Ferdinand in the penalty area, and rubbed a perfect arc with his left foot and hit the post.
Under such circumstances, Ferguson couldn't sit still. He believed that the strength between the two teams should not be so different. Even if Real Madrid had the advantage in terms of control, the two teams should be equal in terms of the number of shots.
But now half an hour has passed, Real Madrid has made a great effort. As for Manchester United, except for Ronaldo's two-foot long shot, Rooney only had a header. Unfortunately, he didn't hit the goal frame once, which means that Manchester United was suppressed by Real Madrid in both the scene and the essence.
Ferguson is naturally puzzled by this situation. In his opinion, his team's defensive ability is also a top player in the entire football world. However, when facing Real Madrid's offense, he is almost like a regular team.
After watching for a while, Ferguson's years of experience made him see the problem, that is, control.
The ball is difficult to be cut off at the feet of Gago, Robben and Silva. The cooperation between the three players in Real Madrid's frontcourt has reached a very high level. You can basically understand your teammates' thoughts without looking at each other.
When Silva or Robben was in a siege, you would definitely see Gago coming to pick him up not far away. If Gago was surrounded, then in addition to Silva and Robben, there was a Sneider waiting to serve him.
With Gago as the core, Real Madrid's frontcourt offense completely formed a whole. Higuain's absence not only did not damage Real Madrid's strength, but instead allowed Schuster to have the strongest trident in the entire football world.
In this formation, Gago fully demonstrated his ability and reached his peak state. Even when facing Manchester United, he dared to drive the ball to attack.
In the 37th minute, Real Madrid fans who had been suppressing for a long time finally cheered, Silva made a hidden pass, allowing Gago to get the ball in the penalty area, and then dodge two consecutive spikes to open the gap and face Van der Sar. This time, Gago did not give the Dutch goalkeeper another chance to save, and directly pulled the ball into the upper left corner of the goal.
"A pretty fake move, making a shot, which caused Ferdinand to knock the ball over when blocking it. The same move dunked Vidic, and the final shot was even more decisive, and the angle was tricky, and it was straight to the dead corner."
“gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
"Fernando Gago. The 14th goal in the Champions League tied the single-season goal record of AC Milan's legendary star Altafini. Even if Real Madrid failed to win the championship this time, Gago is already proud of himself based on just one record!"
The moment he saw the ball hitting the net, Gago ran out of the goal and came to the corner flag. He faced the three thousand fans who came with the team, one of them knelt on the ground and made a gesture of kissing, which caused the audience to scream, especially the girls.
When Gago scored, Schuster on the sidelines excitedly waved his fists. It was a big adventure for him to set up such a slightly conservative lineup away. It was okay to win the ball, but if he lost, he could imagine how the harsh Real Madrid fans would treat him.
Fortunately, from now on, he won the bet. Not only did the double midfielder lineup stabilize Real Madrid's defense line, but the frontcourt offensive combination led by Gago also took the lead in breaking Manchester United's goal.
The greatest confidence he made this decision was Gago's state. The Argentine King has completely shocked him recently. This invincible attitude of scoring goals like picking up grass reminded him of aliens at his peak!
This posture made Schuster clear about the fact that Gago has indeed entered his peak period.
Every player has his own peak period, and that period is the most perfect combination of the players' own consciousness and body.
However, many players can only reach this state after they are twenty-six years old. At that time, they have been working hard in football for nearly ten years, with enough consciousness and experience, and their bodies are also their most golden period. In that case, the perfect combination of the two can allow a player to play the most brilliant data in his career.
Gago is twenty-four years old this year. Although it can be said to be two or three years earlier than ordinary players, it is not Torres' uncontrollable outbreak at all. But the thin hair after accumulating to the extreme. Schuster can be said to have watched Gago grow up and reach the top one step every year.
And all this happened as if it were natural after he was pushed to the position of No. 9 and Half, at this position, Gago began the most glorious period of his career.
Schuster believes that as long as Gago can maintain this state until he is thirty, the title of King of Football after he retires is not a dream.
"I don't believe that now in football, who else can stop Fair!"
The German stood on the side of the court with confidence, wielding squarely, and directing the team to continue to attack with Gago as the core.
However, he forgot that in this football world, Gago is not a world-class player, and there are three players who can be compared with him, one of them is on the court as his opponent.
After Gago scored, Ronaldo was completely out of style. For him, he had been looking forward to this game for two years.
Kaka beat him three years ago, and this year he avenged his revenge with a 4:0 perfect 4 in Old Trafford.
Gago defeated him two years ago, and he was not convinced in those two rounds. The final total score between the two teams was the same, but Manchester United was eliminated with a goal difference. He believed that if the team that advanced was Manchester United, then he would also be confident that he could reach the final and eventually defeat Chelsea to win the championship!
Therefore, this game is when he proves himself and proves that he also has the strength to dominate the Champions League. However, the development of the game is completely different from what he expected. The assisted defense of Aveloa and Ramos has repeatedly frustrated. Among them, Ramos relies on his strong body to confront him head-on, while Aveloa uses precise positioning to block his breakthrough.
Every time he just tried his best to break through Ramos, Aveloa, who was lying on the side, always snatched the ball from him like a thief.
Moreover, as time goes by, it becomes more and more difficult for him to catch the ball. With his silence, Manchester United's situation becomes even more unbearable. All this made Ronaldo, who is not yet fully mature, become impatient. In order to catch the ball, he began to retreat, but found that he could no longer pass easily after getting the ball.
After Gago scored a goal, Ronaldo was completely restless. He was unwilling to accept it. The media hyped that this year would be his revenge journey. He believed that he was very reckless, especially after sweeping AC Milan 4-0 at home, he believed that he was the protagonist this year. Whether it was Gago or Messi, they were just a stepping stone on his revenge.
But when he found out that the truth of the matter was far from what he imagined, his mentality became a little unbalanced. Seeing that he could not enter Real Madrid's penalty area, he began to shoot indiscriminately!
Although one shot can always hit the goal frame after a few shots, Real Madrid's goalkeeper is Casillas, the number one goalkeeper in football after Buffon got old. For Saint Cassi, who has super-responsiveness, blocking Ronaldo's long shot is just a small task.
However, under this situation, Manchester United equalized the score with great luck. Although it was not Ronaldo who scored the goal, it had a lot to do with him.
Time was approaching the end of the first half. Ronaldo scored another long shot after getting the ball, but the ball was blocked by the brave Ramos on the way, and the route was deviated a lot. For the goalkeeper, this is the situation the most annoying.
Fortunately, Ramos did not block the ball into his own goal this time. After the ball hit him, he turned toward the post. If this trend follows, at most it would be a corner kick for Manchester United.
But under this situation, a man in the Manchester United camp who was ignored by everyone, including his teammates, stood up and easily stabbed the change-oriented ball into the goal.
"I scored...the goal went in!"
When Berbatov stabbed the ball into the goal, the commentators on the scene did not react. After a long time, the shouts of the fans on the scene made them react.
“gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
"With the first half about to end, Manchester United scored a goal to equalize by Berbatov. Unexpectedly, no one expected him. Real Madrid's defense made a mistake. No one was by his side, allowing him to easily enter the penalty area and complete the goal!"
Manchester United fans were naturally ecstatic about this goal. Hell and heaven were just between the front line. They originally thought they would enter the halftime break with a backward attitude, but they did not expect that Baba, who was denounced as a "parallel" by fans, would be so casual in such a critical game.
If you don’t move, you will be thunderous, and one blow will be fatal!
When Baba scored, even his own teammates didn't react, let alone Real Madrid players Gago.
"Why did you lose the ball?"
Faced with this question, the big screen on the scene answered his doubts very understandingly. He saw that when all Manchester United players were playing for Ronaldo, he followed Pepe slowly, as if he was careless, but he accelerated toward the small penalty area when the Portuguese shot Ramos from a long shot.
At this time, Rooney's forward insertion attracted Pepe's attention, so his progress did not attract anyone's attention. It was not until he scored the goal that the people reacted.
Why did he run there?...)
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