Grass roots glory

Chapter 956

Zhou Tiancheng usually doesn't stand on penalty kicks, unless it's a life-and-death penalty that determines fate.Now all Chinese fans know this problem. It's not that he can't bear the pressure and can't bear this responsibility, but that the difficulty factor of penalty kicks is too low for him.

This is a contest where psychology is more important than technology. In terms of psychological quality, who is Zhou Tiancheng afraid of?
Standing in front of the penalty spot, he has a big heart tougher than Ronaldo.

In Schalke and Dortmund, both Magath and Klopp acquiesced that he may not be the first penalty kicker, but in Van Gaal's eyes, that is another set of logic.

During training, Van Gaal made sure that as long as Zhou Tiancheng is on the court, he must be the first choice to take penalty kicks.

Since you have the ability to be the core, you must bear heavy responsibilities at critical moments.

Zhou Tiancheng stood on the penalty spot to face Mignolet without any pressure and pushed the ball easily.

"Ah ha ha! There is no suspense. When he stood on the penalty spot, Simon Mignolet could have surrendered his gun and gave up resistance, but he couldn't blame Zhou Tiancheng. It all came from their overconfidence. Sterling regards this place as Anfield, and his eyes are also full of red, but the red here does not belong to them."

Yang Cheng was very excited, and Carragher touched him lightly. He was in high spirits, but someone disturbed his enthusiasm, and turned his head to look at Carragher with dissatisfaction: "Jamie, didn't we discuss it?" ? You still can’t take it? I can’t support Liverpool like you do.”

Carragher spread his hands: "Of course I have no right to decide your interest. It's just a friendly reminder. I don't want to be like Bob with you. It is necessary to remind you that Liverpool fans are no less than Manchester United."

Yang Cheng understood, this was to remind him not to shout too much for Zhou Tiancheng, otherwise he would burn himself.

But does he care?
Yang Cheng smiled. It is estimated that many Liverpool fans in China should turn against him now, right?

The performance in the opening 10 minutes has already been judged, not to mention that Manchester United still took the lead.

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Back and forth, the subtle changes in the situation stemmed from Sterling's overconfidence. When he turned around, he was simply caught and counterattacked. There were not many choices left for Rogers. The only way was to be as Zhan Jun said. ——

"The only way now, Rodgers probably can only follow Gerrard's idea, to fight out with two wings, 3-4-3 change to 4-3-3, although Rogers does not change the formation on the spot like Van Gaal It’s big news, but it didn’t work out that well.”

Liverpool’s two wings, Flanagan and Moreno () have strong assists and desires. After the score fell behind, their position was also pressed up, gradually pressing over the center line as full-backs.

Liverpool pushed the formation completely upwards. Gerrard, Coutinho and the new generation midfielder Henderson of the England national team formed a triangular position. The struggle in the midfield became the most important content on the field.

Herrera couldn't watch the opponent pass consecutive kicks in front of her, so she looked at Gerrard's position and prepared to make another kick. However, Gerrard was vigilant enough this time, and he stepped forward and passed back to Hender who was following behind. Sen, the ball has already been kicked, and he is waiting for Herrera to come up with a flying shovel.

Gerrard fell to the ground, and Herrera was still very vigilant in his second reaction, turning around and heading towards Henderson without any hesitation.

The two kicked hard, and then both of them shrank and fell to the ground.

Just near the place where the two incidents happened, players from both sides surrounded them. The Liverpool players were already full of anger, and they couldn't hold it back at this time.

Fellaini is not afraid of things. Such a tall and strong man looks half a head taller than Henderson. There is really no need to be afraid of anyone with this physique.

Seeing that Herrera was brought down, Fellaini went up first, grabbed Henderson by the neck and was about to start. Zhou Tiancheng went up to grab him.

"Let go of me, Zhou, what are you pulling me for? What are you afraid of, you want to bully people in our territory, let me teach him a lesson!"

Zhou Tiancheng pulled hard, but Fellaini still refused to leave. If Zhou Tiancheng hadn't pulled him back desperately, he might have punched Henderson when he went up.

Henderson was also excited at this time, and shouted at Fellaini in a demonstrative manner: "Silly big man, come on, you have bullied Steven so much, come and settle the score!"

Fellaini was about to rush back again. As the captain of Manchester United, Rooney stepped forward at this time, brought the referee over, and gave Henderson a warning.

The game was interrupted for 3 minutes, and the situation was slowly brought under control when the fans of both sides in the stands were throwing mineral water bottles at each other to settle accounts.

Referee Michael Oliver began to settle accounts after the fall.

Henderson will definitely not be able to escape a yellow card, and he was the happiest dancer just now.

There was a burst of cheers at Old Trafford, and there was a bit of regret - many fans felt that Oliver knew the truth, and of course some fans felt that the referee was merciless and dared to provoke Manchester United here. A yellow card is enough?

Two red cards are not an exaggeration!

Of course it's not over yet.

Michael Oliver walked out of the crowd, went straight to Fellaini, and also drew a yellow card!
Now the audience immediately turned into boos, and Fellaini was stunned.

But before he could recover, Oliver quickly took out a red card from his trouser pocket.

This is his second yellow card, two yellows turned into one red.

Just holding the bright red card like this, Fellaini is not as fierce as before, holding his hands up and constantly pleading that he has not acted too aggressively.

Van Gaal was about to rush into the field to speak for him, but was immediately stopped by the linesman.

Without any discussion, Michael Oliver pointed to the field and directly signaled Fellaini to get off the field as soon as possible.

"FUCK!" This time Fellaini spat trash-talking directly at the referee, and threw Zhou Tiancheng away: "Zhou, let go! Why are you still dragging me? I have already been sent off."

Zhou Tiancheng let go of him, and spread his hands helplessly: "Are you still blaming me? I didn't even hold you back, telling you to hold your breath. Why are you fighting with them? Look, it's like this now."

Fellaini was still on fire in his heart, but after hearing what Zhou Tiancheng said, he immediately realized that the hole he had dug seemed a bit too big.

"Ha! It's too late to regret it now, don't worry, I will make up for your mistakes."

At this time, Herrera got up after a simple treatment, Zhou Tiancheng and Rooney came to care about him.

"Ander, it's just the two of us now, but it's okay, hold on, you do your own thing, and leave the rest to me, and calm down, don't be like Marouan anymore, today's referee is not It's annoying."

Herrera nodded, Zhou Tiancheng turned his head and looked at Rooney, Rooney understood immediately: "Don't worry, Zhou, I will convey it."

Zhou Tiancheng couldn't help laughing: "Little Fatty, who is the captain between us?"

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Jokes aside, the situation on the field is indeed delicate. Manchester United is indeed still leading, but there is one less player in a key position on the field, and the one-goal lead is very fragile.

Now it is testing the psychology of every player on the field, which will determine the next direction of the game.

(End of this chapter)