novelraw Chapter 870 601: From Mentor and Disciple to Archrivals—Tang Long’s Hat Trick on the Night of Deification, Coach Pei’s Melancholic Retirement!
Chapter 870 601: From Mentor and Disciple to Archrivals—Tang Long’s Hat Trick on the Night of Deification, Coach Pei’s Melancholic Retirement!
This season, Tang Long has performed miracles of scoring from zero angles multiple times.
The most famous one was in the match against Bayern, where after bypassing Boateng, he executed a shot with a tricky angle, catching the German god Neuer off guard, leaving him watching the ball with a sigh.
Manchester United's goalkeeper, De Gea, was well aware of this threat before the game. How could he not know Tang Long's menace?
But this time, he was careless!
Because everyone thought that facing Smolin's fierce tackle, Tang Long would at most pull the ball away and then choose to adjust.
So De Gea was still nervously directing the defense, indicating to the teammates behind to quickly come up and block Tang Long.
However, nothing went as everyone expected, Tang Long directly went against reason!
He ignored any logic and just stepped up with a quick shot.
What harm was Smolin's fierce tackle?
Tang Long's action was faster, making it impossible for him to tackle!
The ball that Tang Long hit was very low but not entirely glued to the ground.
After the shot, the ball first brushed against the studs of Smolin's outstretched shoe, then bounced off his elbow, and finally almost grazed his nose, heading towards the goal with a roaring sound.
Smolin felt a chilling aura coming over, instinctively closed his eyes, and felt a warmth on his nose, clearly skin had broken.
When he opened his eyes again, he heard a "bang" as the ball hit the inner side of the post and crossbar and bounced into the goal.
And at this moment, De Gea was still dumbfounded standing in the middle of the goal, with his hand pointing to command teammates back to defend still hanging in the air, not yet lowered.
He stood there like a clay statue, staring blankly at the ball inside the net.
"This, this went in too!"
Not only was Manchester United's goalkeeper De Gea stunned, but even Manchester City's own goalkeeper Onana was dumbfounded.
New to the Premier League, Onana had great respect for De Gea.
After all, being able to stay at a top club like Manchester United for six or seven years is not something an average person can do.
As a fellow goalkeeper, Onana didn't expect Tang Long to shoot so cleanly and decisively from this angle.
Not to mention how the ball was struck, just the decisiveness alone made Onana's heart tremble.
He couldn't help but ponder, "If I were in De Gea's position, what should I do?"
Thinking about it, he still couldn't figure out a strategy.
Only by predicting in advance that Tang Long would shoot and stepping towards the near post could there be a chance to block it.
But Onana couldn't help but smile bitterly to himself, he's not a deity, how could he predict it in advance?
With these thoughts, Onana became even more admiring of Tang Long, his heart full of awe, his steps involuntarily quickening, running towards Tang Long to join his teammates in surrounding him to celebrate.
Pop!
Guardiola snapped his fingers at Chiwo, a look of pride on his face.
"So, Christian, didn't I say not to rush? Look, now we're two goals ahead, aren't we?"
Guardiola's snap startled Chiwo out of his reverie from Tang Long's exquisite shot, giving him a shiver and widening his eyes to look at Guardiola.
"Pep, do you know what I'm thinking? After this season, I'm planning to do a dedicated research report on Tang Long. I genuinely think there are so many unknown forces within him worth exploring and discovering."
Guardiola laughed heartily and affectionately wrapped an arm around Chiwo's shoulder.
The two lifted their heads to gaze at the brilliant starry sky of Wembley Stadium.
Tonight in London, it was especially clear, the moonlight was pure as water, the starry sky vast, resembling a magnificent starry river.
And beneath this starry sky, Guardiola and Chiwo were filled with lofty ambitions and overwhelming pride!
Having a great player like Tang Long is the absolute capital for these two coaches to proudly dominate the Premier League and Europe.
After trailing by two goals, Manchester United's players' spirits completely collapsed.
Even their captain Rooney—Lu Xiaopang who never says die, had stopped running.
Not to mention Eevee and Pogba and others.
Even De Bruyne, who was continuously moving around trying to deliver threatening balls, shook his head and sighed.
The time had now reached the 83rd minute, with less than 10 minutes left, including stoppage time.
To overturn the game in just 10 minutes, how difficult would that be, especially when facing their nemesis Manchester City?
The cheers of Manchester City fans had already started to echo in Wembley Stadium.
Previously, because there were more Manchester United fans, "Glory glory united" had been resounding around the stadium.
But after Tang Long scored two goals in a few minutes, the chants of "come on city" from Manchester City fans had completely drowned out the Red Devils fans, becoming the only thunderous and unified song echoing in Wembley Stadium!
Even with Wembley Stadium's capacity of 90,000, only over 20,000 were Manchester City fans, but they used their throats to turn the stadium into Itihad, into a home battle for the Blue Moon!
The second championship of the new season is beckoning to them!
Nearby, with the team player Gracie was also extremely happy.
Though not having played, she kept bouncing up and down excitedly like a little elf after Tang Long scored.
Her entire body was already soaked with sweat, her painstakingly arranged air bangs were dampened by the sweat from her forehead, sticking messily to her forehead.
A throw-in moment.