The path to becoming a football legend began with being ousted from Carrington by Manchester United.

Lin Yi's solo run not only narrowed the score gap, but more importantly, it used up two of Tottenham's substitutions.

In ancient times, a single scheme harmed three virtuous men; today, a single plot can destroy two outstanding talents.

Redknapp had to replace Ledley King and Gareth Bale with Sebastian Basson and Nico Kranjca.

If the curse had worked, Lin Yi would probably be riddled with wounds, all from the sharp swords pierced by the resentment in Redknapp's heart.

The match had only been going on for a little over fifty minutes; it was still a long way from ending.

Logically, in this situation, Tottenham, playing away, should play more conservatively and try to hold onto the 2-1 score, or at least secure a draw.

However, this conflicts with the style they have been adhering to recently.

After much deliberation, Redknapp decided to stick to his principles. Losing a game wasn't the worst thing; losing the very philosophy he relied on for survival was the real catastrophe.

While Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp was having a fierce internal struggle, Lin Yi had already finished celebrating his goal.

After giving Pellegrini a hug as is customary, he received a pair of red gloves from a staff member, which he had asked them to find for him during halftime.

After carefully putting on his gloves, before returning to the stadium, Lin Yi made a special trip to the south stand to wave to the Chinese fans who had created a sea of ​​red.

"Look! Lin Yi has changed into a pair of red gloves; he's responding to us!"

"Go Lin Yi!"

"One goal more! Keep it up!"

The young man who had been complaining earlier was now a completely different person. He was swinging his red thermal underwear around like Nezha's Wind Fire Wheels. When he heard someone next to him shout that they were still one point short, he was very indignant: "Nonsense! What do you mean one point short? There are clearly two!"

The fans, reminded, immediately realized: "Right, right, right! Two more! Come on, Lin Yi! Crush Tottenham!"

The entire Al-Ittihad stadium was still reeling from Lin Yi's incredible performance; the deafening shouts and cheers made it impossible for him to hear what the fans were saying.

But when the other party made a gesture of two, Lin understood immediately.

Lin Yi patted his chest with his bright red palm to show that he had received the fans' instructions.

However, after the game restarted, Lin Yi seemed tired, and his frequency of forward runs and position changes decreased significantly. He spent more time strolling around the field.

This made Redknapp and Bell feel much better. No matter how awesome your sports car is, there's no reason why it could blow up the engine of our supercar and then act like nothing happened.

Lin Yi's performance at this moment was more in line with the public's expectations. Even the commentators did not criticize Lin Yi's performance at this moment, but instead made excuses for him.

"The long run just now greatly depleted Lin's physical strength. To be honest, it's already quite remarkable that Lin didn't cramp up like Gareth Bell, whose opponent was Gareth Bell."

"The forest has burned out; we can't ask this young man to do any more!"

"Now it's up to the other Manchester City players to perform!"

"Nasri has been unusually active lately, and I think he's been inspired by Lin's performance."

Previously, Nasri had been repeatedly humiliated and tortured by Bale, but he was unable to retaliate against Bale in a direct manner like Lin Yi did.

Now that the opponent is off the field, Nasri feels like he's back to his old ways. In his eyes, everyone else at Tottenham is just a player to be sold off.

In an attempt to regain his composure, Nasri frequently dribbled the ball against Tottenham's defense, becoming the most active player in the midfield for a time.

All of them were professional players with rich training and match experience. The other Manchester City players, and even the Tottenham players, all guessed that Lin Yi was now at his physical limit after the continuous sprints.

His oxygen supply is not keeping up with his body's needs, and a large amount of lactic acid is accumulating in his body. The fact that he can maintain normal exercise capacity and has not collapsed is entirely due to his strong willpower in fighting against his body's most instinctive reactions.

There's no point in comforting Lin Yi at this point. The way the Manchester City players helped him was by each of them consciously increasing their running range and distance, wanting to share the burden with Lin Yi so that he could take a good rest.

In the 62nd minute, Nasri used a series of feints on the wing to deceive his marker, Ekotto, and then pretended to walk towards the byline, drawing the opposing center-back to cover before passing the ball back into the penalty area.

Unfortunately, Aguero rushed in too aggressively and missed Nasri's pass.

The Tottenham player's clearance was headed back by De Jong, and the ball fell to David Silva's feet.

Aguero, who had overshot his target, turned back and charged out of the penalty area again. Nasri then simply circled around from the right wing to the left wing in order to stretch Tottenham's defense.

The tireless running of these two players did have an effect, as Tottenham's central defense became somewhat loose.

Silva made a cross from the edge of the penalty area, and Milner, who had sprinted all the way up from the midfield line, unleashed a powerful shot, but unfortunately, he was too focused on power and the ball went just over the goal.

Four minutes later, Manchester City came back on the offensive.

This time, Aguero initiated the attack, switching positions with Nasri and moving to the wing to receive the ball.

Without Bale drawing attention on the flanks, Tottenham's left-back Ekotto proved that he still has a significant gap to close with top-class players.

Ekotto, who had just been beaten by Nasri, was equally powerless to stop Aguero's breakthrough.

Having shaken off the defender in front of him, Aguero looked up and saw that Nasri, Milner, and even David Silva were all sprinting towards the penalty area, bringing Pellegrini's pack tactics to their fullest potential.

Seeing this, Ah Kun didn't dare to delay and decisively swept the ball towards the goal.

This pass was of very high quality, and its trajectory was precisely in a position close to the goal, but out of the goalkeeper's reach.

With just a light touch from the player making a run into the box, there's a very high chance the ball will go into the net.

The player rushing to the near post was Nasri, while Tottenham's other starting center-back, Michael Dawson, did everything he could to prevent Nasri from touching the ball, using both his hands and feet and hanging on Nasri's body.

If Nasri falls in the penalty area at this moment, he might be awarded a penalty kick.

Nasri, eager to score a goal to prove himself, did not choose that option; he stretched out his right foot to try and poke the ball.

Unfortunately, due to Dawson's reckless intervention, Nasri's toe missed the ball by less than 10 centimeters, thus squandering the opportunity.

Milner and Silva, who were following up in the middle, almost simultaneously chose to slide and shoot, while substitute Bassong and Parker, who had tracked back into the penalty area, also made sliding tackles.

A chaotic scene unfolded in front of the Tottenham goal, with four people and four legs rushing towards the rolling football.

A dramatic scene unfolded: due to mutual interference, neither side managed to grab the point.

The ball continued rolling toward the far post, much to the astonishment of Tottenham goalkeeper Friedl.

"Oh dear! What a pity, nobody got to touch the football!"

Manchester City missed a great chance to equalize!

"Nobody's at the far post, Aguero's pass is going to be wasted!"

"Oh! No! Someone's there! It's Lin!"

Amid the commentator's exclamation, Lin Yi, who had been taking a stroll, sprinted at full speed toward the back post.

To combat physical fatigue and suppress muscle soreness, Lin Yi increased the range of his arm swings.

His two red gloves swung rapidly in the air, like two red lightning bolts piercing the sky above Ittihad.