Xu Qi waved his hand to Serna,

Serna had nothing to say. This set ball was caused by Xu Qi's replacement for him. In fact, if you want to take the blame, Serna would be the first to stand up and Xu Qi was not responsible.

However, seeing this situation, Serner was also a little worried. Xu Qi's foot frequency just now did not keep up with Robinho at all. In Serner's opinion, if Xu Qi was in the peak state, he could keep up with Robinho with accurate defense predictions.

In fact, Xu Qi is not much slower than Robinho, which can only be said that Xu Qi's condition is still not at his best.

"Have he not found his best form yet? This is the fourth consecutive game. Will he sink into it?" Serner couldn't help but worry secretly.

Sometimes the striker will encounter a goal drought and fail to score for many games, but it does not mean that the striker is in poor form, it only means that he is unlucky.

And Xu Qi is not unlucky, it is obviously in poor condition, and it is not a good sign.

How could Xu Qi not realize this when Serner realized it?

After all, Xu Qi has always hoped to adjust his status back through his own adjustments. At present, it seems that he has failed.

After Manchester City's set-piece was opened in the penalty area, it was immediately pushed out by the tall Ziglinsky.

However, they still grasped the second point and continued to surround the Donetsk Miners' defense zone, as if they wanted to find a breakthrough in this dense line of defense.

It is absolutely not feasible to force a jump into the penalty area. Manchester City has no high center forward at this time. Maybe they are looking forward to having a striker like Drogba, but unfortunately, they don't.

The Donetsk Miners began a very fierce midfield counterattack at this time, and implemented a pressing strategy against Manchester City's entire midfield.

Even Adriano has returned to the midfield position and formed the team's first line of defense with William and Judson.

Xu Qi did not push forward behind these three people this time. After all, the defensive pressure on the right side was too great, and Robinho's deterrence was really hard for people to relax their vigilance against him.

The pressing effect is not particularly good. Although Manchester City's ball control is not smooth, even if the Donetsk Miners grab the ball, they will immediately lose it again.

They have too few players in the frontcourt, and it is difficult to effectively control the ball.

Perhaps Xu Qi, who is in excellent form, can change all this by taking the ball in the frontcourt, but now Xu Qi can only be tired of defense in the backcourt.

And Manchester City are not in a hurry, they have time.

Especially when the opponent has no offensive opportunities at all, they can relax and slowly look for loopholes in the miners' defense line.

Faced with the intensive defense of the Donetsk Miners, the one they can rely on is naturally the team's ace superstar Robinho.

After a midfield battle, the ball came to Robinho's feet again.

This time he took the ball very comfortably, and then he calmly completed the turn.

Xu Qi immediately returned to the defense and formed a double-team defense with Serner.

Robinho received the ball lightly and turned around. The Brazilian cyclist completed a very exciting fake move in front of Xu Qi and Serner.

Then, with his excellent starting speed and foot frequency, he quickly passed through between Xu Qi and Serner.

"Has I been passed again?" Xu Qi himself felt a little incredible. Serner took Robinho's fake move. Xu Qi actually didn't eat it, but he knew that Robinho was going to pull the ball, but he still didn't have time to react.

When Xu Qi turned around and chased after him, it was too late.

Robinho had already reached the penalty area. Facing the miner's central defender Iszenko, Robinho had no idea of ​​passing the ball and directly hit the bottom line. As if he had expected Iszenko to make a kick, Robinho fell.

And Iszenko was indeed caught up in Robinho's trick and rashly showed his legs. His legs and Robinho's legs had a very obvious contact in the air.

It was this contact and Robinho who fell in the penalty area that made the referee's whistle sound.

"The referee awarded a penalty kick, and Manchester City got the chance to equalize the score. If the penalty kick was made, the total score of the two teams would equalize 2-2. Once the game ended with this score, Manchester City would eliminate the Donetsk Miners by taking advantage of the away goal and advance to the semi-finals. If Manchester City scored a penalty kick, the Donetsk Miners should attack, and this game is very unfavorable to the miners." cspn's commentator commented.

Robinho personally stood on the penalty spot. He naturally wanted to send the penalty to the net himself.

It can be achieved overnight without any drag.

The score is one to zero.

Manchester City players ran to the sidelines to celebrate and waved to the fans on the scene.

Even when the players were hugging each other, some fans were involved in the celebrations. The team scored their first record, and these fans were naturally extremely happy.

However, Xu Qi's back was a little declining.

He was once again defeated by Robinho. This time, he and Serner jointly defended, but Robinho rushed past him.

Xu Qi hasn't experienced this kind of thing for a long time.

Lucescu also began to call on the players to signal them to press forward. At this time, defense is meaningless.

Manchester City are happy to keep the score until the end of the game.

For the team that needs attack, it's the Donetsk miners' turn.

Xu Qi also got the instructions from Lucescu to start pressing before starting.

Manchester City fans in the stands began to boo at the Donetsk Miners who started attacking. The meaning was very clear. You didn't attack just now and wanted to shrink and defend. Now you know how powerful we are?

Attack? Attack you will be done faster!

William's offense was blocked on the left, and the ball was passed to Xu Qi on the right again. Facing Sabaleta, who had just transferred from Espanyol to Manchester City this season, Xu Qi decisively chose to break through.

However, Zabaleta is also an Argentine defender with rich defensive experience. He is not in a hurry to make a move, but just keeps interfering with Xu Qi's movements and pressing against Xu Qi tightly.

A few seconds later, Xu Qi had already brought the ball outside the penalty area himself.

When the sidelined raised the flag and signaled the ball to go out of the sideline, Xu Qi even wanted to pick up the ball and threw the ball hard on the sidelined's face.

Of course, he certainly held back, he had to, he knew that his emotions were on the verge of an outbreak.

But these negative emotions come from themselves, not from others.

He was anxious, anxious about why his state was getting farther and farther away from him, and why the team's offense was not improving at all.

He could only hold everything in his heart, rolled his eyes and threw the ball to Sabaleta, and jogged back to defend.

Sabaleta seemed quite happy. He took the ball thrown by Xu Qi like a spring breeze, wiped it on his clothes, and then threw it to his teammates.
Chapter completed!