Chapter 981

More than 60000 football fans are staring at the field, with one or two deafening applause and cheers from time to time.

The blue team flag and banners of different sizes almost cover the whole stand, and one of them is nearly ten meters long and several meters wide.

This banner says: create a miracle! We have awakened all the energy! Schalke will win

The support of the fans is the best stimulant. After returning to the home court, with the support of more than 60000 fans, the players of Schalke 04 really seem to have been awakened to all their energy and are rubbing against Manchester United in the half court at home.

The game has been played for 30 minutes, facing the momentum of Schalke 04, Manchester United shot a few opportunities, more in their own half defense.

However, Manchester United manager Ferguson is still in the coach's seat with a relaxed expression. He is three goals ahead at home. Although he is very passive now, he has not lost a goal. The initiative and psychological advantage of promotion are still on Manchester United's side.

Known as the German Bundesliga Professor, shalke 04 coach lannick is contrary to the usual calm and calm, he constantly dances to the field of command, but also from time to time shouting a few times.

For lannick, he doesn't want the scene to look good now. What he needs is goals. He must score one in the first half, so that there will be hope in the second half. If he can't score in the first half, Schalke will have no hope in the second half.

In a VIP box in the stands, Bayern coach margat and chairman Rummenigge are also watching the match between Manchester United and Schalke 04.

Bayern and Manchester United are divided into a half area. In the first leg, Manchester United beat Schalke 04 5-2, while Bayern beat Chelsea 1-0 away. Manchester United and Bayern have the greatest hope of advancing to the final four. Therefore, magate came to fairings to watch the match between Manchester United and Schalke 04, prepare first-hand materials and prepare for the semi-final.

Seeing that Manchester United were beaten by Schalke 04 in the first half, magate looked dignified and said: "Ferguson is really an old fox. He has such a big advantage and is still so low-key. He is willing to let a team like Schalke 04 beat him."

Rummenigge a Leng, way: "you mean Ferguson is intentional?"

Magate said: "it should be that Schalke 04 ranks 14th in the Bundesliga and is a relegation team. Manchester United also have the ability to press Schalke to attack away, but Manchester United did not do so."

Rummenigge sighed: "when you are old, you want stability. That's not the case with Ferguson who took the Champions League from us."

Magate said: "Manchester United are very difficult to play, they are very strong in three lines, their weakness is that some positions are aging and it is difficult to withstand repeated attacks from opponents. "

Rummenigge said:" what do we do with them? "

magart said:" it's hard to predict the outcome. "

Magath saw where Manchester United's weaknesses are, and Professor lannick saw them.

United left back Evra, centre back Ferdinand, midfield Scholes and centre forward Berbatov are all over 30 years old. Their form and strength can not be compared with the peak period, but they all play a very important role in the United team.

Now lannick's goal is to attack these four positions and try to use his physical strength to defeat Manchester United's defence.

If a year ago, lannick's tactical design had no problem at all, because at that time, Scholes played an irreplaceable role in organizing and dispatching in the middle. But after Gao Xiaodong was bought with a lot of money in summer, the all-round Gao Xiaodong could completely replace Scholes in organizing and dispatching, so Scholes often rotated this season. In this game, Manchester United is based on defense. Gao Xiaodong's main task is to defend. Most of the organization and scheduling are handed over to Scholes. But now Schalke 04 is pressing for Scholes, and Scholes is not allowed to take the ball. In addition, Scholes is in a bit of a mess under the continuous pressure of the opponent. Gao Xiaodong starts to take over the team's offensive task and put pressure on Schalke 04.

Scholes now and Gao Xiaodong's cooperation is also increasingly tacit understanding, Gao Xiaodong premise, he immediately back to help Fletcher defense.

Gao Xiaodong's premise is no problem. Manchester United are seeking stability in the first half today, but it doesn't mean that they don't need to attack. Even if they are in the iron barrel formation, they must have a certain counter attack ability. Otherwise, no matter how good the defence is, they will not be able to stop the opponent's continuous attack.

Although Gao Xiaodong can not only organize and dispatch, but also forward and long-range, which is more dangerous, Schalke 04 has no way out at the moment. Even if Manchester United attack more severely, they have to attack, or even attack more fiercely.

Under shalke 04's deadly attack, Scholes's defensive strength and speed are not as good as Gao Xiaodong's, which gives shalke 04's attacking players not enough pressure. Raul, edu and others gradually get better shooting opportunities.

This time, Ferguson was a little worried. With less than 10 minutes left in the first half, Ferguson would rather not score than lose a goal in these 10 minutes.

Ferguson told Gao Xiaodong when he was shooting out of bounds, let him cut back on the front, come back to defend, hold the first half first, and then fight back in the second half.

Seeing that the opponent's attack is fierce, Scholes and Evra can't stand it. Gao Xiaodong has no choice but to retreat, assist the back line defense, and change the way of counterattack to long pass to Berbatov.After Gao Xiaodong's withdrawal, Manchester United have become three backs covering the front of the restricted area, almost with the iron barrel formation. Schalke 04 wing has the chance to take off the ball, but it is very difficult for the midfield to forward attack. The attack is basically an itch between the boots, which is not a qualitative threat to Manchester United's goal.

The first half of the game soon came to an end, no one on both sides scored, the referee gave a minute of stoppage time, generally speaking, this minute of stoppage time does not play any role, Manchester United players want to finish as soon as possible, go back to rest, in the second half to get back the bad temper and face they had in the first half.

But the players of Schalke 04 don't think so. They are in urgent need of goals. They don't want to go back to the dressing room with three goals behind.

When the stoppage time was about to pass and the referee put the whistle in his mouth, Manchester United's defenders relaxed a little and felt that the game was almost finished.

But at this time, the players of Schalke 04 didn't think about the time. When the referee wanted to whistle, they not only didn't relax, but stepped up the attack.

Schalke 04 made a sudden effort, and Manchester United's players were a little absent-minded. As a result, the tragedy happened.

Shalke 04's midfield baumjan suddenly pulled the side when he received the ball. He quickly turned to the bottom line with the ball.

Evra and Nani both came to defend, but baumjohn gave up the bottom and passed directly from the right side of the side. Hulado passed straight from the middle, and the ball penetrated the two defense lines of Manchester United. Raul didn't know where he suddenly came from. He faced van der Sar 8 meters away from the door on the right side and shot into the net obliquely with his right foot.

1-0!

Raul scored the 71st goal in the Champions League, breaking the individual goal record of the Champions League, helping Schalke to lead by one goal at home in 2004. Meanwhile, he tied Shevchenko with 18 goals in the knockout of the Champions League.