Chapter 1071

After Giggs came on, the focus of United's attack remained on the left, but Giggs's brain was much more flexible than Nani's. He didn't deliberately break through to Barcelona's restricted area. Once he attracted Barcelona's defensive forces, he immediately moved to the middle or right, fully attacking Barcelona's weak defensive areas.

It has to be said that Giggs is an experienced and intelligent veteran. Although he doesn't have Nani's explosive power and speed, he sometimes breaks through and sometimes passes the ball, which makes Puyol and Mascherano confused and makes defense very difficult.

In the 105th minute of the game, which is the last minute of the first half of extra time, Manchester United hit back and Giggs hit the right side of Barcelona with the ball. At the moment, Puyol has not come back, and Giggs went straight into the rib of Barcelona's restricted area with the ball.

Mascherano saw Giggs pounce fiercely and came to make up for it.

Giggs seems to be aggressive, but in fact is to attract Barcelona's defense. After Mascherano arrived, Giggs suddenly slowed down and hit another side with a long pass to find his teammate Valencia.

Valencia stopped the ball and quickly dived into Barcelona's baseline.

Manchester United quickly shifted the attack line, Barcelona did not have time to form a block on Valencia at the first time, Valencia immediately crossed to the forbidden area of Barcelona after reaching the bottom line.

Valencia passed the ball quickly and decisively. Barcelona's back line didn't have time to intercept the ball outside the penalty area, and the ball flew towards Barcelona's goal at high speed.

It's very dangerous to pass a ball like this. Fortunately, Rooney, who is a steal from Manchester United, is not tall. Pique thinks it's difficult for Rooney to get the head ball. He gives up the pass and just uses his body to get to the position of Caroni.

Rooney couldn't jump up under the interference of pique and didn't get the landing point. Gao Xiaodong came from the outside of the restricted area at a high speed and slowed down a step. The ball swept from the forbidden area of Barcelona and flew to the sideline.

However, the ball did not go out of bounds. The old demon Giggs has rich experience. When Mascherano and Puyol rushed to the penalty area to help, he quietly came to the sideline to wait for the leak, and the ball was intercepted by him on the sideline.

Giggs glanced inside and outside Barcelona's penalty area and found that only Gao Xiaodong and Rooney were in the area, while Puyol, Mascherano, busks and pike were in the area. There was no threat for him to cross again, while Harvey and Iniesta came back at the front of the area. Scholes and Fletcher didn't have the chance to shoot from a long distance.

At this time, full back Evra also assists to the half of Barcelona. Seeing that Giggs doesn't pass the ball immediately, he glances at the restricted area and immediately understands Giggs' intention. He immediately gives up the side and runs to the rib of the restricted area.

Giggs was overjoyed. It was a temporarily unguarded area. He immediately crossed the ball to Evra, who was in front of his rib.

Barcelona's players were just in a hurry. When Giggs passed the ball, they found that it was a gap again, and Mascherano went up for the first time.

Evra got to the ball and swung his thigh to shoot.

Evra is not good at long-range shooting. It's easy for him to get the chance to shoot. He wanted to make a contribution too much and made too much effort. As a result, his foot didn't hold down and the ball flew directly into the sky. Evra also slipped and fell directly.

Evra's action and image is very funny, but Barcelona fans and players are not in the mood to laugh, because Evra's long-range shot opportunity is very good, if you change to Gao Xiaodong, Scholes or Rooney, it will pose a great threat to Barcelona's goal. In fact, there are loopholes in the defense.

After United's attack, the first half of extra time was over. After the two sides exchanged venues, they continued the second half of extra time.

In the first and second half of the extra time, only the exchange of venues did not rest. Manchester United, with more than one man, did not keep a conservative attitude. They pushed the defense to the middle of the field and tried to eliminate Barcelona's attack beyond the 30 meter area. At the same time, they resolutely played Barcelona's counter attack after breaking the ball.

Barcelona are one less player. After 105 minutes, they are tired, but now they are behind. They have to fight for the final victory.

At this time, Barcelona has no way out, Guardiola also decisively made tactical adjustments, pike top to the center position, leaving only three defenders in the back line.

Pike is more than 1.9 meters tall. He is rooted in Manchester United's penalty area. Barcelona's two flanks finally have a reliable passing point. They no longer rely entirely on short passing penetration, and the threat of attack is growing.

In the 108th minute, peck received Harvey's long pass and tapped. After Iniesta received the ball, he threw two fried balls away from Scholes and Fletcher in succession, then crossed to villa, who entered the restricted area and crossed the rib to peck.

At the moment, pique and Manchester United's two centre backs have already run, pique alert with the heel knock, the ball from van der Sar's side flew to the goal.

With such a close distance and such a hidden shot, van der Sar has no time to go down to the ground, so there is no way to do it.

Fortunately, Fabio's quick reaction, a big fork in his gymnastics blocked the ball on the goal line.

Barcelona fans and players did not expect such a ball can be blocked out, pike hands covered his face, Harvey, Iniesta, villa also showed a look of despair.Fabio although completed a fatal break, but his action range is too big, too violent, thigh muscle was pulled, had to go off the court for treatment.

Manchester United have too few defenders this time. There is only a 22-year-old smollen. He is 1.94 meters tall. He is still playing at centre back. Playing at full back will make him a pile.

Ferguson's adaptability is very strong. He replaced Fabio with Anderson, who has strong running ability, and let Gao Xiaodong play right back instead, ready to hold the last ten minutes.

Seeing Gao Xiaodong playing at full back, the United fans are sighing that it's good to have Gao Xiaodong, who can make up for any position he lacks. Chinese fans even joked that money is not everything, Gao Xiaodong is everything. Gao Xiaodong is a brick of Manchester United, where you need to move.

But let the fans play in the position of Gao Dong and Xiao Dong.

Seeing Gao Xiaodong playing at right back, Barcelona's players are very happy. In United's attack lineup, what Barcelona fear most is Gao Xiaodong, followed by Wayne Rooney. Now Gao Xiaodong is playing at back. It's not a threat to rely on Wayne Rooney alone. Barcelona, with one less player, begins to attack with confidence and boldness.

Barcelona are very talented in attack. Even if they play one less man, because of the high point of pique, they still play a wonderful attack in the half of Manchester United.

In the 111th minute, Puyol beat Evra on the wing and crossed the ball to the front of the penalty area. As pique, Pedro and villa pressed United's defense into the penalty area, Harvey easily gained space in the front of the penalty area and shot straight to the right side of the goal.

Van der Sar was in a good position this time. He flew to save the ball from the bottom line.

Barca serve a corner, pique and Vidic fight for the ball, who did not head to the ball, Puyol head to the top of the ball hit the defender.

After the ball bounced out, it fell at the foot of busx again. Busx, Pedro and Harvey made short passes in succession. Picra took away a defender. Then Pedro came back in the middle and Iniesta shot hard from 25 meters away, but the ball angle was held by van der Sar directly.

Van der Sar saw that Pedro didn't return to the side when he was in the middle. Gao Xiaodong was empty on the side. He immediately threw the ball to Gao Xiaodong, the full back.