After the start of the second half, the Madrid Kings clearly stepped up their attack.
In response to this situation, Manchester United launched a counterattack.
With the total score leading by one goal, they did have the confidence to counterattack.
If it were a normal counterattack, it would be a good tactic for Chen Xingyi to give full play to his speed.
But most of the time now, Chen Xingyi is paying attention to Meili's position and cannot devote himself to counterattack tactics.
Even if he follows the team's counterattack and presses forward, as long as the football is not developing on his side, he has to keep turning to look for Melli to determine the Argentine's position.
Then look back and focus on your own attack.
To be honest, playing like this is indeed more tiring. He has to constantly "do two things" during the game.
But in order to guard against Merry, he could only do this.
Of course, he could actually not go up and concentrate on waiting for Meili in the backcourt, but Chen Xingyi did not choose to do this.
Because he was lucky and felt that if there was a chance, he would still go up and help the team attack. A one-goal lead was really not safe...
Just doing this will make him very tired.
In the second half, the focus of the Madrid Kings' attack was almost entirely on Melly. Chen Xingyi had to ensure that the distance between himself and Melly was not too far, otherwise it would be difficult for him to catch up once the opponent launched an attack.
In order not to lose the opportunity, Chen Xingyi had to detect the possibility of failure in advance from his teammates' attacks, and then react first.
This actually tests your game reading ability.
Chen Xingyi didn't get it right every time, but this time he guessed it right.
Seeing that Ramon Cantero chose to force a breakthrough with the ball when being beaten two-on-one by the opponent, he guessed that he would most likely fail.
So before the results came out, he turned around and jogged back, approaching Merry.
At the same time, he also looked back to observe the situation on Cantero's side.
If Cantero didn't lose the ball, the worst he could do was run back.
Anyway, the football will not hit his side right away.
As he expected, Cantero's forced breakthrough failed.
The football was stopped by Kings Madrid left-back Russell Fonseca.
That is, at the same time that Fonseca stole the ball, Melly moved closer to the center.
Chen Xingyi also posted it immediately.
The football was not passed to Mellie, but to John Seter.
Melli saw Set receiving the ball and opened the angle again to respond.
Chen Xingyi doesn't care who gets the ball, he just follows Melli anyway.
As for whether the gap left behind by him following Merry around would be exploited by his opponents... he didn't care.
Coach Munster said that it is the responsibility of other Manchester United players to fill the gaps left by him. If the Madrid Kings use these gaps to score goals, it is not Chen Xingyi's responsibility.
Chen Xingyi followed Meili and ran back to his penalty area before Meili received the ball.
He bumped into Melli when he was catching the ball, trying to interfere with Melli when he was catching the ball, making him unable to stop the ball.
But the Argentinian superstar's top-notch ball sense played a crucial role at this time.
Although he staggered slightly after being hit by Chen Xingyi, he was still very stable with the ball at his feet and did not lose control of the football.
At the same time, he also used his body to protect the football, making it impossible for Chen Xingyi to steal the ball from behind.
Just like that, he carried Chen Xingyi and suddenly shot from outside the penalty area!
Manchester Athletic goalkeeper Dickinson jumped and pushed the football over the bottom line!
"Dickinson - great save!"
"Melli! Melli! Melli!! Oh! Dickinson made a wonderful save, otherwise Melli would have helped the team equalize the total score!"
"Under the double pressure of Chen's personal interference and Diediu's blocking, Melly's kick is still of high quality! The Madrid Kings now need a goal to stabilize the situation. As long as they can score a goal, they will
Can equalize the total score... It's a pity that there is no away goal advantage rule in the Champions League now, otherwise the King of Madrid would only need one goal to eliminate Manchester United!"
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Although there was no goal in this attack, commentators from various countries still praised Melli's performance in this attack.
Under Chen Xingyi's constant defense, he still shot a very high-quality shot, which is indeed worthy of praise.
That is to say, this shot did not score, otherwise, Melli would have been blown directly to the sky.
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The Kings of Madrid have launched attacks continuously. Although they have not scored a goal so far, many people feel that if they continue to play like this, the Kings of Madrid will score sooner or later.
Facing the King's aggressive offensive, Manchester United could only further shrink its defense and play more cautiously.
Sometimes, they were even trapped in their own half by the King and couldn't get out.
This scene is very similar to the first half of the two sides, except that the relationship between offense and defense has been reversed.
The situation will not change until the Madrid Kings attack hard for a while but fail to score.
The Kings will slow down their offensive pace and adjust their physical fitness.
And Manchester Athletic also got more counterattack opportunities.
If Manchester Athletic's counterattack fails to score a goal, then they will resume their defense to avoid being attacked by the Kings.
At this time, the king resumed the siege for a while.
In this alternating cycle, the game time came to the 70th minute.
The physical fitness of the players on both sides is gradually approaching their respective bottlenecks.
At this time, the King of Madrid pressed the attack again, and Manchester United chose to shrink its defense.
Everyone in the team retreats to their own half.
So when King Madrid's left-back Rafael Fonseca crossed the center line to pick up the ball, in front of him were three lines of defense lined up with eleven Manchester United players.
And because Chen Xingyi retreated to defend, Manchester Athletic's field formation changed from 433 to 442. There were fewer spaces and smaller gaps in front of Manchester Athletic's back line.
Seeing that there was not much space to pass the ball forward, Fonseca simply moved the football to the right.
He swung his left leg and passed the football diagonally to the right.
There was Melli stretched out to the edge - he ran forward along the sideline when Fonseca passed the ball.
Chen Xingyi rushed over with the football.
Either interfere with Melli's ball and make Melli make a stopping error, or simply destroy the football by himself.
The two of them chased the football at the same time.
Mellie ran along the sideline.
Chen Xingyi ran diagonally across the court.
If nothing else happens, they will eventually meet on the sideline.
Melli approached the landing point one step ahead of Chen Xingyi. He raised his right leg while running and made a gesture to stop the ball.
When Chen Xingyi saw this, he slowed down and prepared to pounce. He had to slow down - otherwise he would probably foul.
He doesn't have to worry about letting Melli go after he slows down, because the latter also has to slow down when stopping the ball, or even stop completely, otherwise he won't be able to stop the ball.
And when Merry slowed down and stopped, it was the machine he was attached to...
Eh?
Chen Xingyi's eyes widened when he saw Melli lift his right foot on the sideline, and the flying football was firmly stopped on his foot, and then was naturally sent forward as he swung his leg.
Others ran forward chasing the football.
The whole process didn't slow down at all!
Chen Xingyi, who had slowed down, was left behind by Meili...
He tried to catch up again, but it was too late. He could only watch as Melli swung the football diagonally and then passed Leandro Zapata, the Manchester Athletic left back who came up to help defend.
Huge screams and boos erupted from the shuttle field - clearly Manchester United fans were aware of the danger.
When Chen Xingyi restarted and caught up, Melli had already entered the penalty area, then raised his right leg to shoot.
Manchester Athletic centre-back Diediou, who came up to defend him, stretched out his foot to block, but was dunked by Melly - the shot was just a fake!
After shaking Diediu away, Melly swung his left leg again, but this time it was no longer a fake move!
"Melimelli meli meli meli—!!!"
Amid Sanchez's long roar, the ball was rubbed towards the back of the goal by Melly's left foot.
Goalkeeper Dickinson jumped into the air and stretched out his arm in the air, but failed to touch the ball!
The football roared into the upper back corner of the goal!
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!! GOLAZO! GOLAZO! GOLAZO! GOLAZO! GOLAZO! GOLAZO! GOLAZO! GOLAZO! GOLAZOOOOOOOO! Melli! It has to be Melli! He stood up at the critical moment! This ball is so crucial! He held the King of Madrid
Downward trend!”
Sanchez first screamed to the sky, and then spoke very fast like a machine gun and output wildly.
"Merry! Oh! This ball is so beautiful!"
Even Chinese commentator He Feng, after seeing the ball, first sighed with regret and then praised it.
In fact, his exclamation almost blurted out the moment Melly stopped and dribbled past the sideline. But he couldn't care less at the time, because Melly had already dribbled the ball towards the Manchester Athletic penalty area.
"It's really beautiful..." Yan Kang shook his head and sighed, "No one would have thought that Melli could handle this golf ball just right in such an extreme space... This is the world's top ball feel!"
Now that the goal has been conceded, bragging about Melli at this time will at least not make people angry at Chen Xingyi.
After all, it wasn't Chen Xingyi who made the mistake, but Melli was just too strong - this ball, let alone Chen Xingyi who was a guest defender, would be useless even if a player who specializes in defense was replaced.
Melli's handling of high-altitude balls on the sideline is really wonderful.
It wasn't just the two of them who praised Merry. At this moment, countless commentators around the world were praising Merry, pinning all the compliments they could think of on Merry.
Their praise was in stark contrast to the boos at the venue.
Amid huge boos, Melli, who had scored the goal, continued to run in the direction he had just cut in, across the field, and towards the corner flag area to celebrate.
Then he completely ignored the Manchester Athletic fans who were shaking their fists at him in the stands behind the corner flag, turned his back to them, and opened his arms to his teammates who rushed towards him.
"...Melli got a goal back in the 72nd minute of the game! As a result, the Kings of Madrid also tied Manchester United in the total score! The two sides were tied at 3:3! There were more than 20 minutes left in the game.
