Chapter 687 I Want to Score Another Score

The impact of Chelsea's 0-6 defeat to Manchester City was huge. Until the fifth round of the FA Cup at the weekend, they still had not recovered from this heavy blow. As a result, they lost 5-0 at home to Manchester United without Bruno and were eliminated from this FA Cup.

First, they suffered a 0:6 defeat to Manchester City away from home, and then they were completely defeated 0:2 at home by Manchester United who played with a substitute lineup. Sarri's coaching ability has been greatly questioned, and the media is full of reports calling for Sarri to be sacked.

Manchester United, on the other hand, received an unexpected surprise. After all, Mourinho sent out a substitute lineup to play, which was a strategic abandonment of the FA Cup, but he did not expect to receive an unexpected surprise from his old club.

With joy in their hearts, the entire Manchester United team boarded a special plane to Germany.

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On the evening of February 2018th, in the first round of the 2019-04 UEFA Champions League knockout stage, Manchester United visited the Veltins-Arena to challenge Schalke .

Schalke 04 is not doing well recently. As the runner-up of the Bundesliga last season, it is now ranked only 14th in the Bundesliga and is almost falling into the relegation zone. Head coach Dominic Tedesco has begun to be questioned, which makes him determined to beat Manchester United at home.

Both sides played without reservation from the beginning and the game was very unrestrained.

Bruno continued his recent excellent form. Just 04 minutes into the game, he made a steal in the frontcourt and then passed the ball to Harry Kane, who scored against Schalke .

But what happened next made Manchester United players very depressed.

In the 33rd minute, Caligiuri's shot hit Maguire's arm, and the referee awarded a penalty after listening to the VAR video replay!

Bentaleb scored the penalty kick to help Schalke 04 equalize the score, and the two teams returned to the same starting line.

Before the end of the first half, Schalke 04 launched another attack. Fred pulled down Salif Sane in the penalty area and the referee decisively awarded a penalty!

Bentaleb scored twice with a penalty kick and Schalke 04 took the lead.

Manchester United's luck was extremely bad as their opponents took two consecutive penalties to overtake them.

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During the halftime break, Mourinho criticized Manchester United's defense and asked the players to concentrate. However, this did not work very well. In the 68th minute of the second half, Maguire knocked down Burgstaller from behind, received a second yellow card, and was sent off.

Playing away from home, trailing in the score, and still having to play with ten men, it seemed like Manchester United was bound to lose the game. Their 19-game unbeaten streak in the Champions League would come to an end on this day.

Mourinho had to make personnel adjustments, replacing Fred with Lindelof to keep the back line intact.

Schalke 04 then launched a strong attack, but facing Manchester United's complete defense, they were unable to score the third goal of the game and the score remained at 2:1.

As the game passed 80 minutes, Schalke 04 gradually gave up the strong attack and began to waste time by controlling the ball, hoping to maintain the score of 2:1 until the end of the game.

However, Schalke 04's idea did not come true.

In the 85th minute, Manchester United got a free kick opportunity in the frontcourt. Bruno took the free kick and hit the dead corner, equalizing the score!

This is Bruno's eighth Champions League goal this season, and he has surpassed Bayern Munich's Polish striker Lewandowski to become the top scorer in the Champions League.

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After equalizing the score, the situation on the field instantly reversed. Schalke 04 began to intensify their offensive, trying to increase the score again, while Manchester United began to control the situation on the field, taking advantage of Schalke 04's impatient mentality and patiently looking for opportunities.

Bruno was also very active on the court. In the 88th minute of the game, when Bruno found out that Mourinho planned to replace him with Mata, he went to the sidelines to communicate with Mourinho, hoping that he could continue to stay on the court.

"I want to score another goal and return home with victory!" Bruno said very firmly.

Mourinho and the coaching staff also respected Bruno's opinion and said that he could continue to play.

"Don't be anxious. The more anxious you are, the harder it will be to find scoring opportunities." Assistant coach Carrick reminded Bruno.

Bruno nodded vigorously.

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After the game resumed, Bruno kept looking for opportunities and ran very actively.

His teammates also understood his ideas and took the initiative to create opportunities for him.

Schalke 04's defensive players followed Bruno throughout the game, running around in a hurry, and finally revealed a flaw again.

In the 90th minute, Kante passed the ball to the right. After receiving the ball, Cancelo quickly dribbled forward and passed it to Bruno at the front of the penalty area.

As soon as he received the ball, Bruno quickly turned around and cut inside, but Schalke 04's left-back followed him closely, and the returning midfielder also blocked the front of the penalty area, leaving Bruno no chance at all.

Bruno started quickly, then suddenly kicked the ball into the penalty area with his left foot, and rushed into the penalty area. But after the Schalke 04 left back quickly caught up, Bruno suddenly stopped and kicked the ball back with his right foot.

The two consecutive actions happened in an instant. Before the defensive players had time to react, Bruno had already created a gap and kicked a curve ball with his left foot again.

The ball passed over the hands of the opponent's goalkeeper Feldman and hit the goal behind him.

The score on the field was rewritten to 2:3. According to international practice, the home team is in front!

After 3 minutes of injury time, the score remained at 2:3. Manchester United completed a reversal away from home with only ten men.

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With one player being sent off, Manchester United managed to escape from the away game with three points, which is undoubtedly great news. This means that they have already stepped half a foot into the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

However, this game still greatly consumed the physical energy of Manchester United's main players. After all, with one less player, for nearly half an hour, Manchester United players could only make up for the disadvantage in numbers by running more.

Back in the Premier League, Manchester United faced the second leg of this season's Red Devils derby.

Manchester United was clearly out of form due to the heavy consumption in the Champions League match in the middle of the week. Fortunately, their opponent Liverpool also had a fierce battle with Bayern Munich in the middle of the week and was in about the same state as Manchester United.

In the end, the two sides drew 90:0 after 0 minutes of fierce battle at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.

In both rounds of the Red Devils Derby this season, Manchester United and Liverpool shook hands and agreed to a draw.

In the Premier League standings, Manchester United still maintains a 9-point advantage, but the gap between Manchester City and Manchester United has narrowed to 10 points.