Porto's counterattack was very sudden. When Hulk stepped forward, fullback fusile didn't catch up. After the ball bounced out, it was taken by Manchester United left back Evra. Evra took advantage of Hulk's shot and was shoved down by Carrick and didn't return to his position, so he quickly launched a counterattack.
United's counterattack speed is amazing. Evra passes to Giggs, and he rushes to the bottom line. Porto midfield dare not let Giggs go. Giggs makes a wall pass to Evra, and Evra successfully passes through fusile.
At the moment, Manchester United are surrounded by players in the front, middle and back points. Giggs is a bit slow in the front point. Ronaldo doesn't know when he has been in the middle of the penalty area. He and Berbatov jump high to grab the header, but Evra's pass is a bit high, and neither Ronaldo nor Berbatov can reach it.
However, Manchester United counterattack point is very much, after the point of Rooney high jump, volley side hook, hit the ball to the left side of the goal.
Porto goalkeeper Helton was a bit late in the save, but Rooney hit the ball on the side net.
Manchester United and Porto fans who are not in a good position still think the ball is in, some scream and some cheer.
The speed of United's counterattack this time and the number of players who are outflanked make Porto's players a little scared. Although Rooney missed the ball this time, it may not be missed next time.
When Helton serves the goal ball, Ferreira on the court also presses his palm down to let the players play more steadily, slower and don't worry.
Porto captain Alves has discussed with Gao Xiaodong and Helton. He also thinks that if he is attacked by a team like Manchester United, he will die. Now it's just a goal gap, and there are two away goals. As long as he scores one goal, he can eliminate Manchester United, so he decides to play steadily.
Helton didn't kick off and passed the ball to captain Alves. Porto controlled the ball in the middle and back court and slowed down the pace of the game.
Manchester United took the lead of one goal, and they were also afraid of Porto's counterattack. They didn't press as hard as they did at the beginning. Porto's players didn't pass the ball through the midfield, they just like a symbolic snatch. Once Porto passed the ball to the half court, Manchester United immediately carried out fierce encirclement and snatch, and then fought back.
The slow-paced game lasted from 20 minutes to 35 minutes. The two sides mainly controlled the ball in their own backcourt and fought in the middle of the field. They rarely hit the opponent's penalty area.
Looking at the end of the first half with 10 minutes to go, Gao Xiaodong, after passing Anderson in the middle circle, suddenly accelerated and drove straight into Manchester United's penalty area.
Seeing Gao Xiaodong's sudden acceleration, Hulk, Falcao and Rodriguez immediately stepped forward to meet Gao Xiaodong.
Gao Xiaodong's speed is very fast, and a few breaths approach the 30 meter area of Manchester United.
Anderson and Rooney rush back and Carrick comes to intercept.
Gao Xiaodong, facing Michael Carrick, didn't break through by force. He gave the ball to Rodriguez and ran to the side without slowing down.
Gao Xiaodong's speed is too fast for Anderson to keep up. Carrick is worried that Gao Xiaodong and Rodriguez will attack O'Shea and has to follow Gao Xiaodong to the side.
Although Rodriguez is a big match, he said he would pass the ball to Gao Xiaodong last time. This time, he really kept his promise. Seeing Gao Xiaodong coming, he passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong. He ran to the bottom line quickly and wanted to cooperate with Gao Xiaodong.
Gao Xiaodong looked back at the middle of the road before taking the ball, and found that meileles was in front of him. As soon as he stopped, he hit his heel and just passed the ball to meileles' passing line.
Melese pushed the ball forward, from Anderson's side into the 30 meter area of Manchester United, and without waiting for the Manchester United defender to block it, he fired furiously.
Meileles is also a good long-range shooter, but Gao Xiaodong and Hu Erke have strong long-range ability, meileles's long-range shot is ignored.
Meleres's shot was very fast, almost 70 kilometers per hour, but the angle was not so tricky. Goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar fell down in a hurry and the ball flew to the forbidden area.
At this time, Falcao and Ferdinand had already arrived quickly. Although Ferdinand was a little slow, he cleverly reached out and pushed Falcao. Falcao's supplementary shot was a bit off target and the ball flew out of the baseline.
Porto's attack was very tiresome. The Porto fans in the stands were depressed by the bland game just now. Now they all stood up and applauded.
The right to the ball to the United side, was hit by Porto this wave, Manchester United players feel face is not very good, immediately launched an attack, want to get back this face.
Manchester United's formation, the strongest is the back line and the front line, in the middle whether Anderson, Carrick or Giggs are not good at organization and scheduling, the ball in the midfield transition, immediately passed to Ronaldo, let Ronaldo use his personal ability to create opportunities.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the World Footballer of the year. He has always been targeted by Porto.
The ball reached Ronaldo's feet, Rodriguez immediately close to him, staring at Ronaldo.
Ronaldo made a false left, then a false right, then suddenly turned from the left and threw Rodriguez away.
However, with a little delay, Gao Xiaodong has quickly come back from the front court and is ready to steal Ronaldo's ball from behind.But c Luo already felt someone approaching, he stopped in a hurry, swayed past Gao Xiaodong, and wanted to change to the middle road.
But where is Gao Xiaodong so easy to pass? When he rushes past Ronaldo, Gao Xiaodong still reaches out and drags Ronaldo's Jersey.
Gao Xiaodong drags and loosens, but c Luo falls to the ground and wants to earn a yellow card.
But Gao Xiaodong complained first, and immediately complained to the referee busaka that Ronaldo had dived.
50000 fans in the stands immediately chanted: "Ronaldo diving!" "Dive!"
One side is the World Footballer of the year, and the other side is backed by 50000 fans. The chief referee, busaka, simply won't offend anyone. He gave Manchester United a free kick but didn't give Gao Xiaodong a yellow card.
Carrick came to serve the free kick and Gao Xiaodong came to mark Ronaldo himself.
Carrick passes the ball to Ronaldo, Gao Xiaodong clings to his back, grabs his shirt in one hand and pushes his waist in the other.
C Luo also wanted to turn around, was pushed to the sideline by Gao Xiaodong.
Ronaldo had no choice but to pass the ball to Anderson, but as soon as he raised his foot, he was pushed by Gao Xiaodong and staggered. He wanted to dive down, but Gao Xiaodong grabbed his shirt.
At this time Rodriguez took the opportunity to steal the ball from Ronaldo's feet.
Rodriguez took the ball and pushed quickly along the side.
At this time O'Shea has come up, wide open, Rodriguez kick the ball to the bottom line, forced to break through from the outside.
Vidic saw Rodriguez kick the ball a little bit big, rushed to the edge of the field at high speed and shoved the ball out of the sideline.
Rodriguez made a quick stop and ran to get ready to serve out of bounds.
Porto's caddie knows the ball very well and knows that Porto is on the fast break. He picks up the ball with the fastest speed and throws it to Rodriguez.
Rodriguez serves quickly and throws it to Gao Xiaodong who runs to receive the ball.
Gao Xiaodong saw Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar move to the right side of the goal. He stopped the ball on his chest and didn't wait for the ball to land. Regardless of 3721, he half turned his left foot to shoot the ball from the instep of his foot. The ball drew a strange arc and flew to the goal.