Football career: From winning the championship to becoming a legend

Manchester United extended their lead in the 67th minute.

Wes Brown's long diagonal pass from the right sideline seemed to be about to fly out of the far end, so the Roma defender was careless and did not follow it to the end...

But Manchester United had a hard-working player who never gave up. Park Ji-sung sprinted with all his might to get the ball, and desperately headed the ball back to the middle in the air.

And because of inertia, I fell directly out of the lawn...

Although like Li Qi, he was mostly watching the ball and playing without the ball, but I have to say that Park Sam-fei saved the ball beautifully and made a brilliant pass!

Li Qi, who originally thought that Wes Brown was going to pass the ball to him for a sneak attack, rushed forward and waited on the left side of the penalty area...

De Rossi, who had been chasing, chose to defend in front and intercept the pass from Manchester United's half to Li Qi, so there was no way to block the header from the bottom corner of Roma's penalty area!

Li Qi was overjoyed, and even with De Rossi's interference from behind, he still tried his best to head the ball. After all, Mex was also flying over, so it was not realistic for him to stop the ball and adjust before shooting.

Since it was a header relay attack, it was indeed difficult to exert force, so Li Qi chose to lob the ball into the far corner. This was entirely due to Li Qi's long-term private training in high-altitude balls, which greatly improved his heading skills!

A very serious head job...

Roma goalkeeper Doni flew to save the ball, stretching his body to the extreme, but Li Qi's neck was not strong enough, and before the ball was about to fall into the net, Doni still managed to hold the ball with one hand.

However, the ball was not cleared, and Toni, who was flying, collided with Panucci who was trying to get back to the goal line...

This gave Rooney, who had been lying in wait on the other side, a chance to score. He received the gift with a smile and easily shot the ball into the empty goal with his right foot 3 meters in front of the goal!

This is also Rooney's 16th goal of the season, including his 4th goal in the Champions League, helping Manchester United lead Roma 2-0 away from home!

It can be said that the Red Devils have already stepped half a foot into the semi-finals of this season's Champions League!

Without having time to celebrate with Rooney, Li Qi turned around and said to the big boy De Rossi who was still tugging at his shirt: "Look! I am! If you don't keep a close eye on Rooney, he will score sooner or later, right? If you don't keep a close eye on him and Ronaldo, you will lose the third goal!"

De Rossi rolled his eyes at the shameless Li Qi and didn't bother to pay attention to his nonsense:

He had been fooled by Li Qi countless times when he was in the national team. This time, he didn't need the boss to remind him. De Rossi also knew that the key to this ball was Park Ji-sung, and the second was Li Qi's header. If it weren't for himself and Mex's deliberate defense, Manchester United would not need Rooney's follow-up shot, right?

But soon, De Rossi's faith was shaken again and he began to doubt himself...

Because just one minute later, with the help of Li Qi's wing to lead De Rossi away from the middle, Ronaldo counterattacked from the left rib, cut inside, received a direct pass from Scholes, and fired a powerful right-footed shot from 1 meters in front of the goal!

Fortunately, Roma goalkeeper Doni, who had already made a save, made another amazing save. With a push of his fingertips, the ball changed direction slightly and hit the bottom of the near post with a bang!

Indeed, on the field, it seems that Ronaldo and Rooney are more threatening than Li Qi!

But in fact, De Rossi fell into his own inertial thinking and completely forgot to consider the constraints and restrictions that he, Roma's first defensive midfielder, put on Li Qi...

Of course, at this time in the game, a normal person's brain would be heating up and it would be difficult to think rationally; in addition, Li Qi had been brainwashing De Rossi from the beginning, repeatedly emphasizing that he was harmless and that others were the evil ones.

With a two-goal lead, Sir Alex Ferguson made another substitution, replacing Park Ji-sung, who was slightly injured after a heroic flight, with Hargreaves. He moved Scholes to the front and let Li Qi replace Park Ji-sung to play as left winger.

At this time, Spalletti, who was two goals behind, decided to give it a try and directly used the last two substitutions, replacing Tonetto with Cicinho and Aquilani with Esposito to strengthen the attack.

At this time, even without the coach's specific instructions, De Rossi knew that his role had changed:

It was impossible to fight with Li Qi on the wing anymore. More energy had to be put into organizing and clearing the offense in the middle. The task of freezing Li Qi could only be given to Cicinho, who had just come on as a substitute.

However, Cicinho, who is strong in offense but weak in defense, came up to assist. Defense was not what he wanted, let alone closely guarding Li Qi...

Li Qi couldn't even believe that he was suddenly free! In the last 20 minutes of the second half, it seemed that no one was sticking to him? !

But the cunning Li Qi is very good at hiding himself. He cannot make a high-profile appearance for fear of provoking that annoying Daniele again. He has to save the opportunity for the most critical moment!

So Li Qi continued to pass the ball back and forth like before, almost always with one foot, without trying to take risks or break the balance, in order to make Roma's defense really ignore him...

The game went on like this for another ten minutes. In the 80th minute, Sir Alex used his last substitution of the game and replaced Rooney with Tevez.

Li Qi wanted to remind De Rossi to keep an eye on the newly-arrived Argentine beast, but the Italian young man changed his mind and said: That's not right! The Roma midfielder didn't even follow me, why would I tease him? Don't blame me, don't look at me...

Finally, before the end of the game, when the great Red Wolf Army was attacking the Bloody Devil's base camp one after another, the evil Homecoming Group that had been patient for almost the entire game finally showed its equally evil claws to the folks!

In the 86th minute, Roma pressed forward and besieged the Manchester United penalty area, but Ferdinand's blind cross was decisively cleared with a header. Then Hargreaves, who was outside the penalty area, added another header and headed the ball to the gap near the right side of the midfield...

Tevez, who had just come on as a substitute, rushed out from Manchester United's defensive third zone like a rabbit and went straight for the ball that was cleared. Cassetti, whose physical strength was already approaching a bottleneck, was unable to stop the former's rapid advance.

Two figures rushed out with Tevez, and Manchester United launched a quick counterattack, firing three arrows from the right, middle and left.

Tevez dribbled the ball across half court and was about to be caught up by De Rossi, so he decisively sent a powerful long pass to the center of the court!

The one they were looking for was the most handsome guy on the field - Cristiano Ronaldo. Although the latter had just passed the center circle, he was not offside, and it seemed that he would overtake Mex who could not turn around in time in just two or three steps.

Mexes could only stretch out his little hand, which represented justice but was a little bit sinful, and prepared to commit a tactical foul to stop Ronaldo who was rushing forward at high speed.

Roma goalkeeper Doni also rushed out of the penalty area, ready to make a sideways tackle. Only one of Ronaldo and the ball had to be left!

But just before the three of them were about to meet the ball, they all found that Tevez's pass was too long. Ronaldo and Doni could not catch the ball in the middle. Of course, Mex was definitely the one least likely to get the ball among the three...

So the three of them watched the ball pass in front of them, with some spin, and rolled to the far end of the court.

There was another evil spirit in white sprinting at high speed at that location! It was the forgotten Li Qi!

Li Qi took the slowed-down long cross pass just before the ball was about to go out of bounds.

Regardless of whether Tevez passed the ball unintentionally or deliberately looked for a long ball far away, Li Qi felt that the Argentine beast's pass was really good: not only did it hit the right spot, it also fooled Roma's entire defense line.

So Li Qi easily dribbled the ball all the way from the left side into the Roma penalty area, and easily sent the ball into the empty goal in front of the Roma players who had already given up or were desperate.

3-0! Manchester United not only won the first leg by 3 goals, but it can even be said that the significance of the second leg was almost killed. Manchester United has not only one foot in this season's Champions League semi-finals, but half of their body has already entered!

Of course, Paris Saint-Germain will tell everyone that they are still too young, but at least now, no one will doubt that Manchester United under Sir Alex Ferguson will be overturned by 3 goals at home...

After the game,

De Rossi: "Asshole! Big liar!"

Li Qi: "Alas, Daniele, that's not right. When have I ever lied to you? Besides, as a wanderer in Italy, it's a rare opportunity for me to go home. What's wrong with leaving some memorable moments?"

The entire Roma team: "Get lost! Rome is not your home!"

Li Qi could only tuck his tail between his legs and quickly slip away. Oh, before leaving, he even exchanged jerseys with Mancini Jr.

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Manchester United had five shots on target and scored three goals. Especially since Li Qi only had one shot in the whole game, it almost announced that Roma's Champions League journey this season was about to end. After all, for any team, it is too difficult to keep a clean sheet and score three goals against Manchester United at the Theatre of Dreams.

This made Spalletti feel helpless, and Manchester United's extremely efficient counterattack ability also made the Roma coach say helplessly at the press conference: "Roma, as a representative of the Italian team, lost to Manchester United, who played very Italian style.

Manchester United's players were very united and had a very good sense of teamwork. Once the team needed to defend, every player would make the maximum sacrifice for the team, so that their offense and defense were very balanced...

People always think that Italian teams are the best at counter-attacking, and judging from today's game, Manchester United is the most Italian team I know! I have watched no less than 10 Manchester United games, and they always play like this. ”

Of course, although he was helpless about the result of the game, Spalletti still looked at the game process objectively and enjoyed it very much: "If you only looked at the result of the game, then you would think that Roma and Manchester United are two different levels of teams.

But that was not the case. Looking at the course of the game, we should not have gotten this result. We did not lose our fighting spirit and confidence in tying the score until Li Qi scored the third goal. We kept fighting.

Especially in the first 20 minutes of the second half, we played very well and we should have scored. Vucinic and Panucci both had great chances to score. If we had scored to tie the score, the result of the game would have been completely different. ”

As for the second round, which may become a friendly match, Spalletti can only help Totti, who has almost recovered from his injury, to find the feeling and state of the game...

At the post-match press conference, Sir Alex Ferguson, with a beaming face, praised everyone, even his opponents:

"Of course, our opponents were very good! We had to defend well first. In the second half we were a little lucky at the beginning and they could have scored.

But it was the boys from Manchester United who seized the opportunity first. Especially Li Qi, people might question why he disappeared for the whole game. But I observed that he handled it very well, he played a very clever off-ball tactic, which made Roma's defense lose sight of the big picture...

And the third goal he scored in the final moments was the best index of his performance throughout the game.

Yes, we didn't concede a goal, that was the key, this score is great for us, I am very, very happy! ”

Sir Alex was in such a good mood that he even generously gave the whole team a day off on the second day of the game. After all, the team was exhausted from the long journey back to Manchester in the middle of the night.

However, Sir Alex Ferguson didn't know that misfortune often brings good fortune and misfortune. Three days later, when he returned to the Premier League, he would change his face again...

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[In order to catch up with the progress, I added more chapters and wrote a 4K chapter. Today I will update 8K words! Please have some mercy on me, readers...

The author feels that if this book had started with small chapters...it's hard to say, but it would definitely have been over a thousand chapters by now!

The author needs to study whether the outline should be adjusted and whether the speed of writing the book and the main character should be sped up.

Also, to add some additional writing information, the author finished re-editing the first volume of this book over the weekend;

The latest chapter that has been rewritten is Chapter 61. Together with the previously rewritten Chapters 1-6, 32, 51-52 and 70, a total of 11 chapters have been rewritten: part of the content from the 03 World Youth Championship and European Youth Championship, the reasons and summary of the bench season, and the football classroom knowledge of Xavi, Ronaldinho, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

In addition, the main thing is to modify the overall format of each chapter - split the paragraphs into short sentences for easy mobile reading, modify some expressions (but the expression "player dad" that some readers disagreed with was not deleted), delete a large number of (), voice-overs and ellipsis, and correct some typos and wrong sentences.

If you are interested, you can go back and read it again. However, it will not affect the development of the plot, and readers who don't want to bother don't have to go back.

Next, readers will begin the work of re-editing and completing the second volume, mainly the one picture per chapter that was promised before, and there are still more than 90 chapters to be completed...

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