Stoke are still on the defensive at the start of extra time and intend to defend until the penalty shoot out, but Manchester United have shown their aggressive momentum and confidence to win.
When the ball reached Gao Xiaodong's feet, Gao Xiaodong drove straight into the 30 meter area, shook away the blocking of stoke players, raised his foot and shot.
Gao Xiaodong had a small tonic pill, and his energy and physical strength were comparable to those when he just came on the court. This shot was full of strength. After the ball flew out, it brought out the wind.
Seeing that Gao Xiaodong's shooting power is so fierce, stoke goalkeeper Sorensen is secretly shocked. This boy has played overtime, and his strength is still so strong!
Sorensen didn't dare to be careless. He jumped up and hit the ball to the sideline with both fists.
Although Gao Xiaodong's shot was saved, his resolute shot won a burst of applause from the fans.
Manchester United's players were also inspired and became extremely determined in the next attack.
Manchester United players know that the last 30 minutes are the decisive 30 minutes. In these 30 minutes, Manchester United have the strength advantage. After 30 minutes, Manchester United's advantage will be gone. They have to go all out and give full play to their strength.
After the ball was saved from the sideline, Nani quickly sent the ball out of bounds and threw it to Gao Xiaodong.
At the moment, a large number of troops have been concentrated on the left, and Stoke's formation is also leaning right. Gao Xiaodong doesn't want to entangle with his opponents here. He crosses to the middle and finds Scholes.
Scholes overall view is better than Gao Xiaodong, the ball to his feet, he did not stop, a foot to the right Giggs.
Giggs played in extra time, is entrusted by the mentor Ferguson, his task is to use his experience and technology to tear open Stoke City's defense.
After 90 minutes of fierce competition, the players of both sides are very tired. It's the right time for Giggs to appear on the court. His strength reaction is not as good as that of his youth, but his experience and skills are getting more and more strange. When the opponent's physical fitness and attention are declining, he can play more incisively and vividly.
Gao Xiaodong and Scholes moved very fast. When Giggs received the ball, Stoke City's full back was not in place.
Giggs broke through to the bottom line with the fastest speed. Although Wilson moved to the side, he didn't stop Giggs at the bottom, just stopped Giggs's internal cutting line.
This is also one of Stoke's tactics today. They know that it is impossible to block Manchester United's cross on the side, so they put their main energy on sticking to the middle. As long as Giggs doesn't cut in, they can pass at will.
Giggs has been watching for 90 minutes off the field, and has also communicated with Ferguson for a long time. He knows that the effect of the bottom pass is not so good. After he goes down to the bottom line, he doesn't directly pass, but makes a fake pass, slams the ball, shakes Wilson, and then quickly cuts inside to Stoke City's restricted area.
Giggs's inside cut is still an illusion. With so many people in Stoke's penalty area, it's not a big threat to pass in. Giggs's real goal is to find his teammates in the inverted triangle.
Obviously stoke players are not prepared enough for Giggs. Although the past two people blocked the way forward for Giggs, no one blocked the return route for Giggs.
Giggs's position, vision is not good, he did not see Scholes's run, but did not hesitate to return the ball to the front of the penalty area.
The tacit understanding between Giggs and Scholes has come to the point that Giggs's ball has just arrived, Scholes immediately arrived, and the goal is a volley.
Back pass is not afraid of not hitting, but afraid of not holding down, but for a veteran like Giggs, this is not a problem at all. He not only held down, but also played a ball on the earth. The ball rebounded on the turf, just past the blocked player and flew to the goal.
Paul's running shot did not escape the eyes of goalkeeper Sorensen, but Sorensen did not expect that Paul played a ball on the earth, he has begun to fall to the ground, ready to pounce on the groundball, and the ball bounced.
Sorensen had no choice but to watch the ball fly over his head to the goal.
Sorensen had already accepted his fate and thought he had scored the goal. Unexpectedly, he was very lucky today. With a bang, the ball bounced back on the crossbar.
After Scholes shot, Manchester United fans thought that the goal had been won, the goalkeepers were all down, almost empty, but they didn't expect that it was another goalpost.
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Manchester United fans are so angry that one Buddha is promoted to heaven and two Buddhas are born. It's really a bad luck.
Although Stoke's iron barrel formation is very tight, it's not perfect. Stoke's luck is good. Manchester United didn't send the ball to the net after playing three goalposts. Even if they only scored once, the game was over long ago.
But at this time can not be discouraged, Scholes and Giggs loudly call team-mates to continue to attack, the opponent has been unable to hold up, add a hard, it is estimated that the goal.
Although Manchester United's players also know that it is not easy to score goals, with the encouragement of old players, everyone's confidence and morale can be maintained.The attack of Giggs and Scholes caused a great threat. Stoke had to tilt its forces to the left to prevent Giggs from breaking through.
Giggs is a good veteran, see the opponent focus on the defense side, he attracted defense, a foot to the middle, Scholes and then moved to the left, let Nani attack from the left.
United reached the most critical stage. At this time, Nani also became very brave. He took the ball from the side and broke through Wilkins' defense. He swept into Stoke's penalty area.
In extra time, Manchester United already had Berbatov, Rooney and Gao Xiaodong in the middle, which put a lot of pressure on Stoke City.
Nani's passing power is very strong. Anyone who touches it is easy to have problems. However, there are three Manchester United players in the penalty area, and stoke players dare not to break through. The players in the front didn't intercept. Shawcross in the middle tried to shove the ball to the bottom line, but the ball didn't run to the bottom line after touching his foot. Instead, it flew to the goal.
The ball flew to the line in the small restricted area, so close, the goalkeeper simply can't react.
But Sorensen was in a good position, the ball hit him in the leg and bounced out.
The ball just bounced out to Gao Xiaodong's feet. The ball was too unexpected. Gao Xiaodong was in the middle of a sprint. Before he had time to shoot, the ball was knocked out of the baseline by his leg.
It's another great chance, but Manchester United still haven't grasped it.
It took less than five minutes in extra time for Manchester United to break through the flanks in a row and have had three chances to score, which makes the United players' morale high. It took them nearly 100 minutes to really see the hope of scoring.