Chapter 0109 Advance to the Champions League knockout
On Wednesday night, Manchester United ushered in a key battle to qualify for the Champions League group.
In the first three rounds of group stages, Manchester United, which won three consecutive games, had at least 5 points more than the other three teams. Especially the three consecutive games, the Israeli team Tel Aviv Maccabi was 9 points behind Manchester United.
In this case, as long as Manchester United wins the fourth round of the group stage with Dynamo Kiev, they will qualify for the first two rounds in advance.
Even if Porto had some problems in the match against Maccabi Tel Aviv, Manchester United could lock in the first place in the group two rounds ahead of schedule.
Therefore, for such a key game, Ye Su sent his most trusted starting group.
Goalkeeper De Gea, Kyle Walker, Maguire, Van Dijk and Luke Shaw form the defense line, Kante and Carrick partner with double midfielder, De Bruyne single midfielder, Vardy, Rooney and Martial form the forward trident.
After the game started, Manchester United played very strongly at home, almost hitting Dynamo Kiev.
In the third minute, Manchester United won the first corner kick in the game. Luke Shaw's corner kick was passed to the penalty area, but Dynamo Kiev scored a landing point and cleared the penalty area.
Even though Manchester United has a lot of high offense, Dynamo Kiev is not afraid of Manchester United at all in this regard. After all, there are quite a few big men in their team.
De Bruyne controlled the landing point outside the penalty area, but his long shot was not solid enough and he missed the post.
Two minutes later, Manchester United made a comeback, Valdy made a cross, De Bruyne came up and shot from a long time, the ball hit Dragovic's body and slowed down the ball, and Schovkovsky hugged the ball.
In the 7th minute, Kyle Walker made a cross from the right, and Martial's turn-over shot was too straight, and Schovkowsky hugged the ball.
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After the warm-up 10 minutes before the opening, Manchester United players' game condition gradually improved. In the 12th minute, Manchester United finally broke through Dynamo Kiev's goal.
Manchester United got a free kick opportunity to go to the right in the middle. De Bruyne sent the back point, Rooney headed the ball back and followed Martial and easily sent the ball into Dynamo Kiev's goal.
1:0, Manchester United took the lead early.
At the same time, Martial also scored his first goal in the Champions League in his career!
On Friday, the 2015 European Golden Boy Awards 40 candidates will be announced. In the previous reports, Martial has a very high voice and is one of the biggest favorites in the European Golden Boy Awards this year.
This is due to Martial's continued highlights after transferring to Manchester United. Before this game, Martial had scored 7 goals in the Premier League and League Cup matches, and another assist.
In this game, he also scored in the Champions League, which undoubtedly helped him to compete for this year's European Golden Boy Award.
After scoring the goal, Martial seemed very excited and ran to the sidelines to celebrate the goal. A bright smile appeared on the black face of the poker face.
While Ye Su applauded Martial, he also sighed in his heart. This kid's career at Manchester United is undoubtedly one of the best representatives of opening high and closing low. After an extremely amazing start, his subsequent development is not good.
Of course, this may also be related to another space-time, Manchester United's overall poor performance in the next few years. I just don't know if the development status of this guy in this space-time will change.
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The game continued to begin, and Manchester United still controlled the situation on the court.
When the game reached the 33rd minute, Dynamo Kiev's city gate was declared lost again, and it was their own goal.
Vardy made a cross from the bottom from the right, and Dynamo Kiev defender Dragovic took the risk of choosing to jump and head the ball to clear the ball under the pressure of Rooney. Unexpectedly, he accidentally pushed the ball into his own goal!
Manchester United unexpectedly took a two-goal lead.
In the subsequent games in the first half, neither side was able to score again. During the injury time in the first half, Rooney fell to the ground in the penalty area of Dynamo Kiev in a confrontation with Kiev defensive players. The referee did not express any expression, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the home team fans and responded with fierce booing to the referee.
After the second half of the game started, the Dynamo Kiev players fell to the ground similar to Rooney, and the referee also did not make any statement, which made the Dynamo Kiev players protest around the referee.
Manchester United then controlled the situation on the field again and pushed the visiting team to attack fiercely.
In the 51st minute, Rooney made a cross from the left rib, and Vardy did not jump in a hurry, and headed the ball on the spot. The speed and angle of the ball were not good, and Schovkovsky hugged the ball.
Two minutes later, Manchester United had a free kick opportunity on the right, De Bruyne took the opportunity, Van Dijk shot in the penalty area, and the ball slightly missed the post.
In the 64th minute, Kyle Walker dribbled the ball from the right to the right side of the penalty area, then directly pulled the ball, and the ball went out; 1 minute later, Martial suddenly shot a cold arrow in the penalty area, and the ball was hit by the Morton Kiev with one hand and was hit out of the baseline by Dyna Morton Kyiv.
In the 67th minute, Manchester United got a corner kick opportunity. Luke Shaw made a cross and Maguire rubbed the front point, and the ball was blocked by Cacheridian with his hips and out of the baseline.
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During the rapid offensive and defensive transition, the game quickly passed 80 minutes.
Manchester United finally scored the third goal of the game. Manchester United had a free kick opportunity on the left, Rooney took the penalty, and the ball drew a wonderful arc and slapped straight into the upper left corner of the goal.
This is Rooney's sixth goal in the Champions League this season, continuing to lead the Champions League scorer list.
Manchester United also completely secured the victory of the game with this goal.
At the last moment of the game, Manchester United had the chance to score the fourth goal. Manchester United quickly sent a free kick. After receiving the ball, Martial dribbled the ball and broke through to the left of the penalty area and then shot. The ball hit the side net.
At that time, many home Manchester United fans jumped up to celebrate the goal, but they didn't expect that the ball just hit the side net and lifted the net, and did not score.
In the end, Manchester United beat Dynamo Kiev 3-0 at home.
In another game in the same group, Porto defeated Tel Aviv Maccabi 3-1 away.
In this way, Manchester United achieved his wish to advance to the Champions League knockout stage two rounds ahead of schedule after winning four consecutive victories. However, because Porto's points reached 7 points, Manchester United was unable to secure the first place in the group.
But this is just a matter of time. As long as Manchester United visits Maccabi Tel Aviv in the fifth round of the group stage and scores at least 1 point, they can lock in the first place in the group.
This requirement is obviously not a harsh condition for Manchester United.
In this case, Manchester United can slightly focus on the Premier League, hoping to gain as many points as possible before the Champions League knockout stage begins.
Chapter completed!