Chapter 752: Victory without Pride
Chapter 752: Don't Be Arrogant When You Win
Sometimes, a wonderful goal, a beautiful tackle, or a solid defense can ignite the morale and passion of the players on the field, especially for a passionate team like Manchester United.
Bruno's wonderful one-on-three goal greatly boosted Manchester United's morale and passion. After a crazy celebration, everyone started to play more actively and continued to launch a counterattack against Liverpool.
First, Bruno forced a breakthrough in the middle and spotted an opportunity. Suddenly, he shot directly from the outside of the penalty area.
The shot was so fast, sharp and sudden that it made all Liverpool fans break out in a cold sweat.
Alisson reacted quickly and saved the ball, thus barely defusing the crisis.
But soon, Manchester United took a corner kick, and Maguire headed the ball from ten meters in front of the goal, but it was a little high.
Two consecutive attacks created threats and Manchester United continued to launch the offensive.
Harry Kane pulled away the defenders for Bruno, and Gundogan quickly made an over-the-top pass from the right side of the center. Bruno quickly cut diagonally from the center to the right side of the penalty spot and shot directly with his right foot before the Liverpool players arrived.
Alisson flew to save the ball again, once again defusing Bruno's sure-fire shot and saving Liverpool's goal.
Corner kick!
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Bruno climbed up from the grass in the penalty area, panting and brushing off the grass clippings on his body.
At this time, several high-level players of Manchester United came up, Maguire, Van Dijk, Luke Shaw, Harry Kane, Rashford...
Gundogan was lying in ambush outside the penalty area, ready to rush in and score the winning goal at any time.
Cancelo ran to the corner area, placed the football, stepped on the grass behind the football, and then slowly backed away.
Bruno came to the edge of the penalty area and stood side by side with Gundogan. He felt that he was in a very excited state and seemed to have endless energy. He was eager to score again.
As the referee Atkinson blew the whistle, all the players inside and outside the penalty area immediately moved.
Gundogan quickly shook off the player defending him and rushed towards the front of the goal.
Harry Kane and other high-point players also put pressure on the middle and front points. Maguire, Van Dijk and others also moved quickly, disrupting the defense of Liverpool players.
The entire restricted area was in chaos.
Cancelo quickly took a corner kick, but it did not appear at the front point as everyone expected, nor did it fall in the middle, but went to the back point.
"Danger!" Henderson was the first to react and shouted.
But when the Liverpool captain turned around, he suddenly found that Bruno, who was originally blocked behind him, was gone.
Suddenly, he had a very ominous premonition.
In this kind of corner kick offensive and defensive battle, missing someone is the most likely to result in conceding a goal.
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There was chaos in Liverpool's penalty area and Henderson had no way of finding where Bruno had gone.
Only Bruno knew it very well. He deliberately retreated to the left side of the front edge of the penalty area, and then suddenly quickly penetrated into the penalty area.
Robertson was stationed at the back post of Liverpool. When he saw the ball flying towards him, he wanted to clear it immediately. Unexpectedly, as soon as the thought came up, he felt a figure flash in front of him. A Manchester United player suddenly rushed in front of him and jumped high before him.
Robertson was only 1.78 meters tall, five centimeters shorter than Bruno. At this moment, Bruno rushed up from behind, and after a run-up, he jumped with all his strength to a height that made Robertson even forget to jump. He just looked up and looked at Bruno who was like a god.
So high!
He jumps so high!
After Bruno predicted the landing point and trajectory of the ball, combined with his own jumping ability, he was confident enough to grab the landing point.
With the help of a dozen meters of running start, he jumped with all his strength, controlling his body, leaning his legs and head back as much as possible, and his whole body seemed to become a C shape.
At this moment, he was extremely clear-headed, and when the ball came in front of him, he controlled his core abdominal muscles, stretched his head and legs forward as far as possible, and the upward force and all the strength of his body were transmitted to his head through his core muscles, and then through his forehead, hitting the flying ball.
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Heading the ball may seem painful, but it isn't because the ball is already falling.
Bruno was like a high-altitude bomber. It was more of a smashing than a heading. He smashed the football into Liverpool's goal!
Alisson didn't even have time to react to this close header. He just instinctively stretched out his right hand to block it, but the ball still hit the left post and hit Liverpool's goal!
"GOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!"
"Header! Bruno took advantage of a corner kick and headed the ball from close range, scoring a reversal goal for Manchester United!"
After Bruno landed, he clenched his fists and raised them high above his head, then roared to the sky again, venting his inner excitement. This feeling was so cool and so satisfying!
Especially when he jumped high up, he really had the feeling of being high above, overlooking everyone.
And when he noticed Robertson's stunned eyes, and saw that the Liverpool players around him were almost jaw-dropping in shock, he really had the urge to cheer wildly.
But before he could shout, he was surrounded by his Manchester United teammates.
"So handsome!"
"Wow, your header is so handsome and cool!"
"I didn't expect you to jump so high!"
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"It was indeed a very unexpected goal. Not only the Liverpool players, but I'm afraid even the Manchester United players were equally surprised."
"It's not that Bruno hasn't scored headers before, but most of his headers so far are far less surprising than this one. Robertson was stunned beside him, as if he had seen a god descend to earth."
"Bruno's header should be a response to Salah's header just now. The competition between these two young players is bound to become a major highlight of the Premier League in the future."
Salah was also very shocked because he did not expect Bruno to respond to him in this way.
Salah scored a wonderful header in this game, but less than forty minutes later, Bruno also scored a header that was even more exciting than Salah's. How could the Egyptians not make associations?
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The referee Martin Atkinson finally blew the whistle, and Manchester United players sat down exhausted on the grass of the Millennium Stadium.
More than 70,000 Manchester United fans in the Millennium Stadium sang and danced, forgetting everything else with joy.
The big red scoreboard showed the final score of the game, 2:1. With Bruno's double goal, Manchester United reversed the Red Devils Liverpool at the Millennium Stadium. This made more than Manchester United fans cheered happily, all shouting Bruno's name.
Throughout the second half, Liverpool almost dominated the game and launched an almost crazy attack on Manchester United's defense. Mourinho's defense, which he had trained for three years, almost collapsed several times, but in the end Manchester United still held on to the final score and reversed Liverpool at home.
Liverpool's 17-game winning streak came to an abrupt end and was ended by Manchester United.
After bowing to the fans, Bruno turned and slowly walked towards the player tunnel.
The pressure of the Premier League games is too great, too intense, and too high. In the final stages of the game, he really couldn't handle it and had to hold on by gritting his teeth.
He believes that not only himself, but also other players in the team do so.
Liverpool's attack was very threatening, and Manchester United's defense was under great pressure. But in the end, Manchester United gritted their teeth and held on, showing the team's amazing resilience.
Among them, the three midfielders composed of Bruno, Gundogan and Kante made an indelible contribution. They were like an impenetrable barrier in front of the defense line, guarding the front of the penalty area firmly.
It can be said that Liverpool took the initiative and had the advantage throughout the game, but Manchester United's several sharp counterattacks made Liverpool play very painfully, especially Bruno's counterattack goal in the first half and the subsequent wave of attacks by Manchester United.
That was the only high point played by Manchester United in the game, but it ended up creating two goals and reversing Liverpool.
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"What's the matter?" Kant came over from behind and saw that Bruno looked a little depressed, so he asked.
"Nothing." Bruno shook his head.
"I see you don't seem very satisfied with the game." Kante asked.
Bruno nodded and said, "I had a chance to score a hat trick in the second half, but I missed both chances. It would have been great if I had just grabbed one of them."
After that, Bruno sighed again, obviously a little regretful. This made Kante both amused and angry, but at the same time he admired him.
It's funny because Bruno's two chances were not that good. At best, they were 50-50. Seizing them or missing them were both within a reasonable range and didn't count at all.
He was angry because he felt that his good friend's expectations of him were too high, so high that he, as a friend, felt a little inferior.
Scored twice and directed Manchester United's comeback against Liverpool. Are you still not satisfied? Are you still regretting missing the hat trick?
How can other people live like this?
As for his admiration, it was because Kante felt that Bruno's ambition was indeed high and he demanded high things of himself.
With his performance today, any other player would have celebrated, but he regretted the opportunity he missed, which shows his ambition.
Perhaps, this is the reason why he can grow into the best player in the world football!
