Chapter 624: Once the top wealthy family in Europe! Opponents in the Europa League semi-finals! Juve

Chapter 624: Once the top wealthy family in Europe! Opponents in the Europa League semi-finals! Juventus!

The ball went in!
Rooney's extraordinary performance set the entire Wembley Stadium on fire!

The Red Devils fans cheered wildly with excitement! The Saints fans in Southampton were filled with admiration.

These feet are so beautiful.

Not only did it score beautifully, it also kept the suspense of the game.

The current score is Southampton 2:1 Manchester United. Counting the injury time, Manchester United should have at least 8 more minutes of opportunities. As long as Manchester United can seize these 8 minutes and equalize the score, then they can win. It's overtime.

However, with the number of people in the Manchester United team and the existing physical fitness, even in overtime, Manchester United has no advantage at all.

The game continues.

Southampton stepped up their full-court press and high press.

The fourth official held up a sign to signal five minutes of injury time.

In the third minute of stoppage time, Rooney took the ball again and quickly broke through the middle.

Lallana and Salah couldn't intercept the bull-like Lu Xiaopang at all, but Gu Ran and Mikel quickly stepped up.

Gu Ran immediately blocked Rooney's breakthrough route. Gu Ran's body collided with Rooney's, and neither of them took advantage.

Mikel took the opportunity to block Rooney and prevent him from speeding up.

Gu Ran took the opportunity to steal the ball with precision and cut off the ball from Rooney's feet.

Rooney quickly reached out to catch Gu Ran, but Gu Ran's activation speed was very fast, and Rooney missed it!
The son of Gu Ranfeng and the King of Highbury are at full speed! Dribbling the ball straight into Manchester United's penalty area!
Manchester United's defensive players pursued and blocked Gu Ran with all their strength!
Facing Manchester United's iron-barrel blockade, Gu Ran suddenly stopped, knocked his heel, and passed the ball to the unmarked center!

Salah stepped in from the back and hit the rolling football with a powerful volley!
This pass is so exquisite! Fooled all the Manchester United defenders!

By the time Manchester United's goalkeeper reacted, it was already too late!

The football goes straight into the net!
The ball went in!
Buzzer-beater! Southampton 3:1 Manchester United!

It can be said that Manchester United does not work hard, but the Southampton team with Gu Ran is too strong!

At this time, the referee blew the whistle to end the game!
All the Southampton players and coaches on the bench rushed onto the field!
Southampton advances to the FA Cup final!
At the same time, another FA Cup match was also held between Manchester City and Liverpool.

In the end, Liverpool defeated Manchester City with a difficult score of 4:3 in overtime.

In this way, Southampton's opponent in the FA Cup final will be Liverpool.

After the FA Cup semi-final, Coach Adkins gave the main players a day off so that they could all get a rest.

Three days later, on April 3, the Europa League war resumed.

The first leg of the Europa League semi-finals begins with Southampton hosting Juventus.

Juventus is recognized as a world-class giant, but since the Calciopoli scandal in 06, Juventus was penalized and relegated, and then the giant fell.

Being relegated to League Two with penalty points is actually nothing. After all, giants also have ups and downs in performance, such as Manchester United. Manchester United has been kicked into the second league more than once.

However, the reason why Juventus was relegated was not the team's lack of strength, but cheating.

This is absolutely a fatal blow to the reputation of a century-old club.

The Calciopoli incident was very involved and directly led to the decline of Serie A. Before Calciopoli, the competitive level of Serie A was definitely the strongest in the world and was known as the Little World Cup.

After Calciopoli, Serie A became less attractive.

However, when Juventus was relegated to Serie B, there were still many world-class big-name players in the team who resolutely stayed and worked with the club to tide over the difficulties - such as Chiellini, Del Piero, etc. Redzeguet, like Nedved, like Buffon.

So far, Trezeguet and Pavel Nedved have just retired, but world-class stars such as Del Piero, Buffon and Chiellini are still there.

"Young general" Buffon's ability is very stable. Although a strong new goalkeeper will appear in football at every stage, Buffon has always been in the second goalkeeper position and is more stable than anyone else.

This game was also the first contest between Gu Ran and Buffon.

That morning, Juventus head coach Conte held a press conference.

When faced with questions from the media, coach Conte, who is known as the "conte fool", bluntly stated that he was not a fan of Gu Ran and was not optimistic that Gu Ran could win against Juventus.

Conte also said that this will be a relatively easy game and they will win this victory and then win the Europa League finals.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the game officially started.

Southampton directly formed a 4231 formation, with all main players on the field.

Juventus deployed Conte's unique 352 formation, which is also the most popular 3-back formation in Serie A.

The three defenders are De Cele on the left, Motta on the right, and Chiellini in the middle.

Among them, the most worth mentioning is Chiye Chiellini.

Chiellini is a very typical Italian central defender. Chiellini has a good overall view, stable performance, abundant physical fitness and confrontation, wide coverage, and can go forward and assist at critical moments.

In terms of technical characteristics, Chiellini's tackles are very fierce and precise, and he rarely commits fouls. However, he can always cause unsolvable pressure on the opponent's offensive players at the most appropriate time, thus forcing the opponent's players to find it difficult to perform. Show your true strength.

In addition, the Serie A team itself emphasizes chain defense, so it is normal for a center back talent like Chiellini to appear.

What's more worth mentioning is that Chiellini himself is also an academic master. During the heavy football training, Chiellini also took a master's degree in economics from the University of Turin.

This master's degree is extremely valuable, because the University of Turin itself is one of the top ten universities in Europe. It is more difficult to get a master's degree from the University of Turin than to win the European Championship trophy.

Juventus' five midfielders are: Marchisio, Krasic, Pirlo, Vidal, Elia.

Krasic is known as the younger version of Nedvěd. Vidal was briefly loaned to a Premier League team and also played against Southampton. Not to mention Pirlo, the only active player in football. The midfield maestro.

Pirlo is a player with his own ideas, and his characteristic is very distinctive, that is, slowness.

On the court, players are all pursuing speed, but Pirlo can control the rhythm of the game well, with slowness and dexterity, and every movement is full of appreciation and technicality.

A slow master similar to Pirlo is the retired Zidane.

Zidane is also famous for being slow, but he is also famous for being elegant.

Conte's set of 352 is centered on Pirlo.

Finally, Juventus’ two forwards are No. 10 Del Piero and No. 9 Iaquinta.

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(End of this chapter)