May 3, Manchester, UK.

Today is the second leg of the Champions League semi-final match between Manchester United and Atletico Madrid, at 7:45 pm local time.

Two hours before the game, Manchester United team took the team's bus from the Laurie Hotel on time.

When the players walked out of the hotel, Manchester United fans were already waiting at the entrance of the hotel. When they saw the players cheering, singing team songs, shouting the players' names, cheering for the team, hoping that they could beat Atletico Madrid tonight. But no one would come to the pool team because they all knew that the players before the game needed peace.

Every evening game is at the peak of Manchester's departure. Police cars will drive the lane for Manchester United's buses in front to ensure that the team arrives at Old Trafford Stadium on time as expected.

The players were on the bus without communication or speaking, and there was silence.

Wherever the bus passes, there will be groups of Manchester United fans from all over the world cheering on the roadside.

For Red Devils fans, after experiencing a brief downturn in the Moyes era after the retirement of the Sir Alexander, Manchester United, who entered Ye Su's era, has been a fantasy in the past two years.

In his first full season as Ye Su coached Manchester United, he led the team to the Premier League, League Cup and Europa League three-time champion.

Even in the Ferguson era, no season can match such a result except for the triple-champion in 1999 and the double-champion in 2008.

By this season, Manchester United has a trend of going up to the next level. At the end of February, they won the League Cup and then won the Premier League championship early in mid-April. Both championships are defending their titles, which is very rare.

More importantly, Manchester United reached the final of the FA Cup, the oldest event in football history, 10 days ago, nine years later.

Today, it is very likely to defeat Atletico Madrid and enter the Champions League final.

If Manchester United can win the FA Cup and the Champions League in the next month, it will be the most brilliant peak in Manchester United's team history for more than 100 years, a peak that surpassed the triple crown 17 years ago!

And the miracle is likely to start today!

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Pre-match training, locker room arrangement, waiting for appearance... The procedures before the game passed step by step, and finally it was time for both sides to appear.

The referee group of this game comes from Slovenia in Eastern Europe, and the referee is the famous international referee Scormina.

Speaking of the Slovenian referee, Ye Su is not familiar with it. However, he remembers that his first appearance in international competitions was at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He began a large number of heavyweight competitions in the 2011-2012 season. He enforced many focus games in the Champions League that season, including the match between Arsenal and AC Milan in the quarterfinals, and Atletico Madrid at home against Benfica.

In the 2012 European Cup in Poland and Ukraine, Skomina served as the referee of two group matches, including the key battle of England defeating Sweden 3-2 in Group D. In addition, Germany and Greece were also enforced by the Slovenians.

In the 2012 European Super Cup Atletico Madrid defeated Chelsea, UEFA arranged Scomina as the referee.

However, the referee did not have much intersection with Manchester United, and had never enforced the game of Manchester United coached by Ye Su.

But after the game started, Ye Su discovered that the referee's law enforcement was fair and there was no obvious behavior of favoring one party.

The game is also played at a normal pace.

After the first round, the head coaches of both sides said that they would play more proactively in the second round, but when the game really started, people found that the two were purely talking, and both sides were more conservative than the first round.

This is something that can’t be done. You can tolerate mistakes in the first round, after all, there is still a chance to change in the next round.

But if you make a mistake today, it means you are eliminated and there is no chance to correct your mistakes.

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In a somewhat dull game atmosphere, time passed quickly for half an hour.

The game looks a bit dull, but both sides are super strong teams in today's world football. The game is fierce, and the technical and tactical level shown in the confrontation is also amazing.

It is for those pseudo-fans to feel boring. Those who really understand the football know that it is this kind of dull game that is full of murderous intent anytime and anywhere.

For teams of Manchester United and Atletico Madrid, any opportunity may make them a final game!

In the 31st minute, Manchester United won a free kick opportunity.

When Martial received a diagonal pass from De Bruyne on the left side of the frontcourt, he drifted past Juan Fran and tried to cut in the middle. Before Gabby could get in place, Atletico Madrid centre-back Jose Jimenez, who was returning to defense, tackled him from the back, and the entire Old Trafford stadium booed the sky.

Referee Scormina immediately showed Jimenez the first yellow card of the game, and also awarded Manchester United a free kick opportunity on the left side of the frontcourt with a very good position.

At this time, Manchester United players also realized the arrival of the opportunity and started to stand according to the requirements of normal training of free kick tactics.

De Bruyne came forward, caught the ball that Rooney kicked, and put it on the foul according to the referee's request, slowly retreated three steps, preparing to wait for the referee to whistle and then send the ball into the penalty area.

Simeone was a little nervous. He had a very strange feeling, but he didn't understand what was going on. He instinctively felt that this frontcourt set-piece was quite dangerous, so his first reaction was to walk to the sidelines and call on Atletico Madrid players on the court to keep their attention and keep a close eye on several highs in Manchester United's penalty area.

"Don't miss someone!" Simeone clapped her hands hard and encouraged her players.

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Rooney ran to the penalty area and clapped his hands and clapped loudly, saying, "Be careful, stay focused, don't make mistakes, do your own things, do you understand?"

No one responded to the call from the Manchester United captain, but every Manchester United player was doing it as Rooney called on.

Maguire, Van Dijk, Fellaini, Vardy... All Manchester United players who are good at heading have entered Atletico Madrid's penalty area, and Rooney himself is also waiting near the penalty spot.

And with the whistle of referee Scormina, the penalty area suddenly became a mess.

Felipe Luis saw De Bruyne wanting to make a free throw, and Vardy beside him was about to rush to the back of the penalty area, but Rooney suddenly ran out of the penalty area.

Everything happened suddenly, and he immediately chose Valdi instinctively.

After all, compared to outside the penalty area, the threat posed by the back point to the goal of this side is definitely much greater.

When Rooney ran out of the penalty area, he saw Felipe Luis chasing Vardy, and he rushed to the left immediately.

De Bruyne's pass came over.

The Belgian midfielder neither passed the arc ball into the penalty area nor cooperated with others. He just gently stroked it horizontally.

This sudden move was indeed unexpected. If Manchester United had not cooperated countless times in their usual free kick tactics, the players would not have thought that such a move would be done.

But in the penalty area, there were still people who reacted.

Atletico Madrid captain Godin, who returned from injury, has always been very focused. When he saw Felipe Luis chasing Vardy while Rooney ran to the outside of the penalty area, he immediately realized something was wrong.

Especially when he saw Rooney running to the left along the big penalty line, he immediately realized that it was bad.

Everyone in the team was fooled!

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Godin rushed towards Rooney at the first time, without even having any extra thoughts, and directly used a fierce sliding shovel.

He went to the ball and didn't aim at Rooney's leg.

Rooney reacted very quickly. As soon as he saw Godin appear suddenly, he realized that there was a variable. He originally wanted to play a more confident ground rolling ball and attack directly at the goal. Because at this time, Atletico Madrid's line from the left side of the top of the penalty area to the near post had been exposed.

But when Godin suddenly appeared, he realized that it would not work, and directly hitting Godin would hit him.

Rooney almost changed his attention in a flash. After calculating the situation of the ball, he directly hit a half-high ball with his left foot.

The ball was extremely fast. After just passing Godin, it fell quickly. After hitting the ground, it rebounded without decreasing speed and directly hit the goal behind it. Oblak didn't even have time to fly to save.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"

"The ball is in!!!"

"In the 31st minute, 31st minute! Rooney scored a wonderful long shot from the outside of the penalty area!"

"1:0! The total score is 2:1! Now Manchester United has temporarily taken the lead."

"This is definitely a very fatal blow to Atletico Madrid. They must start taking the initiative next."

"Let's relive it. Rooney's shot was very decisive and beautiful! This is definitely a textbook-level shooting action, and every picture is perfect."

"Rooney's goal is really critical!"

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After Rooney scored, he quickly rushed out of the court. He opened his arms and glided along the way, and passed through the Ferguson stand where avid fans gathered, rushed to the home team coach's seat, and hugged head coach Ye Su and assistant coach Giggs with force.

Simeone knew she had been trapped!

He knew that he had been plotted by Ye Su, but at the same time he was also fatal by Rooney!

He realized that there were some loopholes in his set-piece defense tactics, which were extremely secretive, and he had never even been peeked by his opponent before, but Ye Su saw through and caught him.

This damn Chinese is simply a monster!
Chapter completed!