Chapter 704: Victory in Battle
Benfica started with a fierce attack, even pressing in Manchester City's half at one point, but sometimes, it's not that you attack fiercely, you have more shots or you will score. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Just like the last match, Benfica, who obviously had the advantage in attack, but in the second half, the situation took a turn for the worse and was directly scored three goals by Manchester City.
And the ending of this game seems to be the same as the last time, because the first goal advantage Manchester City, in the seventeenth minute of the game, came from the injured Aguero.
The assister is Li Feng, which is also Li Feng's fifth assist in the Champions League this season, and this assist also allows Li Feng to catch up with Gaitan in Benfica and share the top of the Champions League assist list with him.
Minal is very comprehensive in attack, whether it is on the wing or in the middle, he can adapt very well, after all, in Van Basten's original tactics, Minar is Li Feng's substitute.
The reason why this is the case now is that Li Feng does not need a substitute at all, throughout Li Feng's career for more than three years, his only injury was caused by his teammates, and the injury lasted for a week.
This is definitely a miracle, you know, the omnipotent netizen once made a collection of Li Feng's violations, which has attracted great attention at home and even abroad.
Minar held the ball and attacked, Witsel couldn't stop the Manchester City midfielder, Xavi Garcia could only run to help defend, but Witsel was smart and immediately turned his attention to Li Feng.
However, to his disappointment, Li Feng was completely unmoved, still hanging behind Minal, ready to respond, but despite this, the ball was finally sent back to Li Feng's feet.
Minar in front was stopped by Xavi Garcia, and when his teammates in front of him were not in good positions, Minar now passed back to Li Feng's feet.
It was such a non-threatening return pass that Manchester City finally completed the goal, and after Minaar's return pass, the tense nerves of Benfica's defenders were suddenly relaxed.
It was this laxity that allowed Manchester City to seize the opportunity, Li Feng sent a long-range through ball, and Aguero started quickly from the right side, shook off the defender and cut into the Benfica penalty area.
"Single knife ~~~ single knife ~~~ What is the situation, the killing opportunity is highlighted, this opportunity came too suddenly, the cooperation between the wind and Aguero, this is definitely a cooperation between geniuses, Benfica defenders have no reaction."
"Shot~~~~Aguero~~~~goal~~~~ The ball went in~~~ The wind sent a long-distance through stopper, Aguero shook off the defender and got a single knife, Arthur hasn't even reacted yet, 1:0~~~1:0, which is definitely a huge blow to Benfica."
"Manchester City~~~ Manchester City~~ It was Manchester City that took the lead in breaking the deadlock, a moment of laxity created a goal conceded, in the face of such Li Feng, in the face of such Manchester City, Benfica is so powerless at this moment."
At this moment, the Etihad cheers highlighted Benfica's silence even more, in stark contrast to the cheers of more than 40,000 Manchester City fans, thousands of helpless Benfica fans.
In contrast to Aguero's frantic celebrations, Benfica's players looked slightly confused, and in the first ten minutes of the opening period, Benfica kept pressing Manchester City to play, and even pressed directly into the Manchester City half for the last five minutes.
City's first shot came in the 11th minute from a header from Dzeko and Adam Johnson used his speed to break through and cross over.
Even this was only Manchester City's second shot on goal, and they have completed six shots since the opening, and they are Manchester City's escorts, but now it is the opponent who scores.
In the end, Benfica's players focused their eyes on the sidelines, but to the disappointment of the Benfica players, their manager also had a dull expression at the moment.
"Papa~~~" At this time, several sudden applause pulled the Benfica players back to reality, No. 10, that was Aimar's number.
"Guys~~~ The score is already like this, we have little chance of advancing to the next round, but we can't just admit defeat, at the very least, we have to score, we have to fight for ourselves, the fans and the dignity of the team" Aimar didn't get much excited when he said this, just calmly looked at his teammates around him.
Whether Aimar's words had an effect or not was directly visible from the rest of the game, after the game restarted, Benfica launched another wild attack.
And Manchester City was not to be outdone, so in the rest of the first half, the two teams almost fell into a crazy attack, but although the offensive was crazy, but there were not many real opportunities, coupled with the play of two excellent goalkeepers, the score at the end of the first half was finally fixed at 1:0.
The Dutchman has a desire to attack, and Van Basten, who is excellent as a striker, was a tactical necessity before, but now the 4-0 score is enough for them to squander
What's more, this season, Manchester City is really not afraid of any opponent in terms of attack, so at halftime, Van Basten gave the tactic of playing against Benfica in the second half.
So in the second half, the best half of the quarter-finals at the Etihad Stadium was only two goals, but it didn't affect the excitement of the second half.
In terms of individual breakthroughs, Benfica undoubtedly has an advantage, after all, Benfica is almost all South American players, but in terms of offensive coordination, the advantage is Manchester City, Li Feng is a huge bug.
However, the goals scored by both teams were the exact opposite of what happened on the pitch, with Benfica's goal being scored through a combination and Manchester City's goal being a complete individual show.
In the 70th minute, Cardoso's header was saved by Joe Hart, Benfica had a chance to take a corner, and from a tactical corner, Gaitan sent the ball to the feet of Aimar.
Aimar's dazzling flower arrangement technique directly stunned Kolo Toure, and then sent the ball to Witsel in the middle, the Belgian midfielder did not shoot, fake fax pass, after attracting enough defense, a diagonal push, Xavi Garcia from behind, a strong shot, finally broke through the Manchester City goal, and also regained a trace of face.
City's goal came just three minutes after Benfica's goal, a solo performance by Li Feng, who started to dribble the ball from the middle, shook Witsel in reality, played Xavi Garcia in another Marseille slurry, and then forced a ball away in the face of Hermerson.
Eventually, the ball arced out from outside the penalty area, and the ball made a banana arc, and although Arthur made a swoop, he still couldn't stop the ball from flying into his own goal.
This was also the final goal of the game, Manchester City finally entered the Champions League semi-finals with an aggregate score of 5:1, and after the game, Li Feng also exchanged jerseys with Aimar. (To be continued.) )