148 You wait! [The third watch, ask for a monthly pass]
With a bang, the ball hit the crossbar and the post and fell.
Schmeichel looked up as soon as he landed, saw the ball coming down, and held the ball without hesitation, pressing it under him.
"Ahem!" A sigh rang out from the stands at the Fritzwalt Stadium.
Yang Cheng's originally hoisted heart also fell, he couldn't have imagined that this kind of ball didn't even go in!
What else could he say?
Denelson was already pounding on the grass in frustration, he was too angle-minded.
"Paul, let's make a substitution!" Yang Cheng shouted to the assistant beside him.
Paul. Bayer immediately walked to the bench and asked Schneider, who had already warmed up, to go over for a substitution.
This time, Kaiserslautern replaced Sebasti Rukyle with Schneider.
"Michael, wait a minute, you step back and let Bernd go up!" Yang Cheng called Barak to the sidelines and explained.
Schneider is characterized by being able to hold the ball and get out of place, along with his final pass.
Yang Cheng's intention to make this substitution is also very obvious, that is, to further continue to strengthen the attack, especially in the midfield, Denilson, Schneider, and Deisler are all the kind of roles that can hold the ball, and he just wants to make full use of this.
Everyone knows how much intimidation it would be if Kaiserslautern were allowed to get the ball in front of Manchester United's penalty area!
But United's defence is not vegetarian either, especially when Ferguson wants to defend on the counter-attack.
At this time, Kaiserslautern was back in the same situation as he was at Old Trafford, with an attacking attack but never breaching United's backline.
In the 76th minute, Schneider, who was very active after coming on the field, and after a staggered substitution with Deisler on the right side, Deisler moved to the middle, and Schneider broke through with the ball and crossed the bottom.
The pinpoint cross was accurate down the middle, but Stamm got stuck early and made another mistake. The ball was cleared out of the box early, and Ballack's long-range shot from the back row went just wide.
In the 81st minute, Denilson received a pass from Stodd on the left side of the penalty area and shook it continuously. Neville tripped and the referee played on Gary. Neville showed a yellow card and gave Kaiserslautern an indirect free-kick from the left side of the box.
Deisler took a free-kick and fell to the back post, Larsson headed home and Schmeichel reacted
Soon, the ball was slapped out in time, and Keane kicked the ball out of the baseline with a big kick to form a corner.
Deisler's corner was on the spotlight again when Lucio, who had entered the box, headed just over the top of the net and missed a good chance to score.
The players on both sides are like a taut band, depending on who is more likely to let loose or break.
At 1:2, the score on the scoreboard has not changed for a long time, especially as the game time is getting closer and closer, and Kaiserslautern's players are a little impatient.
Yang Cheng did not make another substitution, but Ferguson, who replaced Scholes and Dwye for Yorke twice, and he obviously wanted to use the substitution to kill time.
By the time the substitutions were made, the clock was approaching, and even with stoppage time, there were only six minutes left.
"Keep pressing, don't give up!" Yang Cheng kept shouting at the players on the sidelines, and even he seemed a little impatient.
When Ferguson saw the appearance of this young Chinese, he couldn't help but feel a burst of admiration in his heart, he was very similar to him when he was young in terms of not admitting defeat, but if he wanted to become an excellent manager, he had to go through difficulties and failures.
I think that at the beginning, he also survived through continuous training and analysis.
This season is a lesson to be learned!
Ferguson has a good opinion of Yang Cheng in his heart. It's just that he must win the game, and at the same time, he has already thought that when the game is over, he should persuade this young man well, at least not lose confidence.
But just when his golden head just appeared. Manchester United's players made a mistake.
In the end, the nerves were tensed, Ronnie Johnson's pass angle was slightly off, which obviously had a lot to do with Larsson's harassment of him all the time, and Bart was harassed by Ballack at all, so he had no time to think about it, so he could only give the ball bucket to Beckham before Schneider.
Nedved had been around Beckham all the time, and as soon as he saw the opportunity coming, he immediately pressed Beckham with his body, tackled the ball and handed it to Denilson on the left.
Denilson took the ball with his back and was beaten by Gary behind him. Neville pressed and had no angle, so he could only knock back to Schneider.
At this time, the entire Manchester United back line was retreating, and Schneider knew in his heart that United must not be allowed to retreat back into the penalty area, so he chose to go straight behind the area between Seroni Johansen and Staem.
The ball crossed a diagonal line and went straight into the box.
Ruud van Nistelrooy and Stam started almost at the same time and struck the back of the net together.
Although Vanney was on the right and Steum was on the left, the latter was in a more advantageous position, but Schneider's pass was after the pass, and Steum couldn't cut the bar at all, but Vanney's position was just right, and the ball came to him, and the speed immediately slowed down.
The Dutchman simply couldn't have missed that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity again, and he just fired a shot at the incoming ball.
At the moment when his foot touched the ball, Vanney seemed to feel the heavy hope transmitted from the ball, some Yang Cheng on the sidelines, every player on the field, every fan in the stands and in front of the TV, they almost pinned all their hopes on this ball.
It made the ball very heavy, but Schneider gave it so comfortably and beautifully that all Vanney had to do was push it forward and make it angle, very simple.
The Dutch do it!!
The ball went from Schmeichel's feet and almost grazed the right-hand post and into the back of the net.
“0llll!!!!!!”
"Kai Slautern has scored!"
"It was a very beautiful goal, Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, scored the equaliser for Kaiserslautern. It's a goal worth a thousand minutes! ”
"With this goal, Kaiserslautern and Manchester United have a 2-2 draw, and will also get one point, although they are still third in the group, but they have kept their hopes of qualifying from the group!"
"It's a goal that has been filled with blood and sweat, and it's also a goal that has been pinned on countless Kaiserslautern fans!"
Yang Cheng, who was on the sidelines, jumped high, but was soon hugged tightly by the excited assistants.
finally got rid of the arms of the assistants, and Yang Cheng rushed to the sidelines.
"Keep pressing, keep pressing, there's still time, there's still 5 minutes!" Yang Cheng waved his arms almost exaggeratedly.
Vanney also got up from the ground as soon as possible, grabbed the ball from the goal, ran directly to the center circle, placed it, and hurried to resume the game.
In contrast to the anxious players of Kai Slouten, Manchester United deliberately stalled for time.
But soon, not long after the ball was kicked, it was back at the feet of Kai Slouten.
The Bundesliga Red continued to organise an attack, attacking the Premier League's Red Wishes goal.
The shrinking Manchester United defence is still very strong, even when they have lost their sharpness and are ready to hold on to the 2-2 scoreline.
"There's still time. Thomas, Lucio, up, up! Yang Cheng shouted loudly.
Link and Lucio both pressed forward aggressively, and even Kaiserslautern pressed into the United half. Goalkeeper Reynke rushed straight to the center circle.
The ball was constantly passed into Manchester United's penalty area, with Ruud van Nistelrooy and Larsson, the two masters of grabbing points in the penalty area, Manchester United's goal suddenly burst into a gust of wind, and the situation was dangerous.
But Stiem's strength is not bad, although Ronny Johansen's performance in this game is average, but in the end, it is the player that Ferguson values, and the strength is still very good, and the combination of the two central defenders seems to be very stable, resolving the crisis again and again.
In the first minute, Kaiserslautern crossed from the right, Stam was very focused on the table, grabbed Larsson, cleared the ball with a header, went out of the line, and turned it into a corner kick by Kaiserslautern.
Everyone suddenly became cautious. Everyone knows that this corner is Kaiserslautern's last chance.
"All up, all up!" Yang Cheng shouted.
Link, Lucio, Barak, Fan Xin... Almost all Kaiserslautern players have flooded into the Manchester United penalty area. The small penalty area immediately turned into a big fierce battle, and if it weren't for the jersey color, it would be impossible to tell who is the attacker and who is the defender.
"There's still a chance!" Yang Cheng gritted his teeth and muttered to himself.
Schneider slowly put the ball down, raised his head, looked at the penalty area, made a gesture at his teammates, and then sent the ball out, a very low low ball, directly to the front point.
Larsson, Ballack, Nedchonde and others have long been buried in this area, and as soon as they saw the ball coming, they immediately pressed forward.
The Swede grabbed the ball half-first, but Staem fell to the ground and blocked the Swedish Communists' shot with his foot again.
"Kai Slautern gets two corners in a row......"
The atmosphere on the pitch was very tense, and all the fans at the scene tensed their nerves, staring at Manchester United's penalty area, for fear of missing even the slightest detail.
Yang Cheng made a gesture to Schneider and Deisler on the court, signaling for another person to make free throws.
The latter immediately ran to the corner spot and "set the ball."
Yang Cheng gave him a big finger change, signaling that he could do it.
Stretching out the golden finger, all the Kaiserslautern players immediately understood what Deisler meant, this is to send the back point, so including Toma Link, Ballack and others began to consciously press forward and mid, while Lucio tried his best to make a vacant space in front of him, so that he could rush up at the critical moment.
The ball came from Deisler's feet, fast and graceful, and cut over all his heads and fell straight to the back point.
The moment the ball went out, Deisler had a feeling, yes, really had!
Kaiserslautern rehearsed the set and Lucio also judged where the ball would land. The center of gravity of the people next to him was deceived into the front, missing Lucio in the back.
The Brazilian was very fast and when he came to the position, he jumped high. Everyone at the bottom looked up at him, and it was a header to meet the incoming ball.
It should be said that the quality of Deisler's kick is very high and it is very comfortable" Lucio can blast the ball in with just a change of header, but he is a little worried about Schmeichel. So I want to adjust the angle and make a dead end.
But that's it, I heard a bang, the ball changed to the crossbar, high!
For a while, the fans in the stands had an urge to cry, because everyone knew that the game was over!
As soon as Lucio's ball hit the crossbar, the game was over!
The Brazilian fell to his knees, he wanted to cry but couldn't, he could only watch the crossbar and the post of the goal.
In this game, he had two great chances, but he didn't take them twice!
He had the urge to hate not being able to kill himself, and to feel guilty!
The referee blew the whistle for the end of the game and the United players were visibly relieved.
If the first half of the game made them feel like they had the win, Kaiserslautern in the second half was enough to break them down, especially in the final moments, when even Reynke rushed to the United penalty area to take a corner. You can imagine the madness of Kaiserslautern.
This gives every Manchester United player a sense of happiness for the rest of their lives.
To be able to walk out of the Fritzwalter Stadium in one piece, each and every one of them should be thankful!
However, Kaiserslautern and his subordinates looked very unwilling, because they could have made a big comeback, but in the end they only won a draw.
However, although they did not win, everyone saw that Kaiserslautern was completely out of the doldrums from the second half.
'Both sides played a good half, but technically in the second half Kaiserslautern created more chances and even scored once. But it was blown away by the referee, plus the help of the goalpost, otherwise, Manchester United would have lost this game! ”
This time, even the on-site commentators were impressed by Kaiserslautern's impression.
Ferguson made a change of head and he really didn't expect the situation to turn out like this in the second half at half-time. But he had to admit that Kaiserslautern did have a better second half, braver and stronger.
Yang Cheng's substitution also played a key role, and the change of formation was also very bold, which shows that the outside world's praise for him is not exaggerated, and he is indeed a very potential and talented head coach.
"Congratulations!" Ferguson walked over and smiled and held out his hand.
A draw is also good for Manchester United, and it is a good match.
"I should congratulate you!" Yang Cheng was unwilling, but in the end he still squeezed out a smile, "You have escaped!" ”
Ferguson was stunned for a moment, immediately understood what Yang Cheng meant, and said with a smile: "The second half can't represent anything!" ”
"Really?" Yang Cheng also smiled, "Then you'd better be mentally prepared, I have a hunch that we will definitely meet again!" ”
"Next season?" Ferguson asked a little funny, taking this opportunity to also want to hit this young junior who seems to be very unrestrained.
"No, this season, the Champions League, you wait!" Yang Cheng said very firmly and confidently, "When the time comes, I must take it back with interest!" ”
Ferguson just nodded, "Then he looked at Yang Cheng deeply, turned around and left."
Yang Cheng turned around, and the players had already come down from the field, and there was no excitement about equalizing, and some were just regrets.
"Boss..."
"Don't be discouraged, we still have a chance!" Yang Cheng had a serious face.
Coming to Lucio, Yang Cheng hugged the Brazilian, grabbed his shoulders vigorously, and patted his cheek gently, "Don't be depressed, ah, it's not the end of the world, raise your head!" ”
"It's like saying, it doesn't matter if you don't score, the next time you get the chance to come back, remember to score the ball and make it up, but if you lose even the confidence, then your life will be over, you know?"
Lucio nodded obediently, his eyes as red as blood.
"And you are the same, if you feel unwilling, remember today, remember the shame of the recent period, we must qualify from the group, advance to the Taowo competition, and then bring everything back with interest!" Yang Cheng gritted his teeth and said.
The players all nodded in agreement.
After 4 rounds, Kaiserslautern won 1 win, 2 draws and 1 loss, accumulating 5 points, Barcelona is 2 wins, 2 draws, accumulating 8 points to catch up with Manchester United, but due to goal difference, it fell to the second place in the group.
In other words, if Kai Yislautern wants to qualify from the group, he will have to win his next two games and make as many clean sheets as possible against Brondby.
Kaiserslautern failed to win this game and the chances of qualifying as group winners are slim, after all, with the same number of points, it is a head-to-head result, and in this regard, Kaiserslautern lost to Manchester United.
So the wisest option for Kaiserslautern at the moment is to finish second in the group, but in that case, Barcelona must be beaten at Camp Nou in the final round, otherwise nothing will be said.
After a calm analysis, the players immediately collected their moods one by one and prepared to deal with the next crucial schedule.
Especially when the second day, after the fourth round of the group stage, their mood became better.
In the fourth round of the six groups, Kaiserslautern's second place in Group D was ideal, and the second place in the other groups, except for Real Madrid's group, was almost worse in terms of points.
"Changing the current trend of the bear, Real Madrid's group is likely to produce a second place with excellent results, but as long as we can get 10 points, or even higher, it will be possible to occupy another place, and qualify for the Taowo tournament with the second place in the two best groups!"
When Yang Cheng announced the result on the training ground two days later, all the players were immediately excited.
There was a glimmer of light in the darkness, which suddenly made them cherish it one by one.
"Our next task is to continue to bite Bayern Munich in the league and then fight for the right to qualify for the Champions League group stage!" Yang Cheng said confidently.
And in his opinion, the most important thing is undoubtedly the game where Rongchang challenged Camp Nou!