In the 21st minute of the game, Roma once again wanted to threaten Leeds United's goal through a cross.
Chivu's cross was too deep and was confiscated by Van der Sar, who attacked, and then the Dutch goalkeeper launched a direct counterattack.
A powerful hand throw found Baynes running forward.
Although Leeds United's tactical focus today is defense, they will not miss the opportunity to counterattack.
Baynes moved forward very actively. He stopped the ball with his right foot, then moved with his left foot, almost reaching the midline.
Panucci immediately came from the side to press the defense, hoping to destroy Leeds United's counterattack.
But before Panucci arrived, Baynes made a long diagonal pass to find Van Persie at the front.
There were serious gaps in Roma's two central defenders.
Mecks saw Smith moving closer to Bynes, so he followed him.
But this just gave Van Persie a chance. The Dutch striker cleverly inserted in front of Mexes and Bovo without anyone marking him, and ran all the way to the penalty area.
It didn't matter that Mexes and Bovo didn't see Van Persie. Roma goalkeeper Doni spotted the running Van Persie when he saw Baines pass the ball and quickly attacked.
Van Persie kept staring at the incoming ball, while using his peripheral vision to pay attention to Dhoni's attack.
George Li raised his clenched hands on the sidelines, trembling constantly, praying for a goal in this attack.
If it were a year ago, the Leeds United coaching staff would have been praying that Van Persie would not stop the ball and just find a way to hit the goal. Because Van Persie's stopping skills before shooting are really bad.
But after a season of special training, Van Persie has obviously improved a lot.
But this time, Van Persie did not choose to stop the ball. Instead, he took the initiative to run towards the ball after seeing Doni attack.
George Li was very excited when he saw this scene and thought that the famous scene would be moved forward. After all, the scene was too similar.
However, what George Lee didn't expect was that Van Persie chose to use his feet instead of diving to header.
After Van Persie determines where the football will land, he stands on his right foot, swings the left side of his body backwards, then tilts his body to the right, and kicks out sideways with his left leg.
Just like Zidane's amazing kick against Bayer Leverkusen in the 2002 Champions League final, Van Persie's shot was even further away.
The ball was like a rainbow, crossing a wonderful arc and over Dhoni's head.
Doni had already arrived outside the penalty area at that time. He didn't care about the handball outside the penalty area. He stretched his arms to reach the ball high, but he still missed it by a little.
Finally the ball flew straight into the goal.
1-0, total score 5-1.
The stadium is boiling, even now in the Olympic Stadium in Rome, most of the people present are Roma fans.
But everyone in the stadium was stunned by this goal.
"This... is really a perfect goal, really impeccable. Although we are opponents, I am still amazed by this wonderful goal."
Italian commentators were all intoxicated by Robin van Persie's goal.
"Van Persie is not going to stop the ball, what is he going to do... volley, volley outside the penalty area... Goooooooooooooooal!!!... I declare that this Europa League The best goal was born!!!”
The British commentary is more direct. The more exciting the goal, the longer the "o" in his "Goal" will be.
Later, according to incomplete statistics, the "o" earned by Van Persie's goal ranked among the top ten of all commentary goals in the UK.
"Shh~"
After a brief exclamation, the Roma fans burst into bursts of boos, completely drowning out the cheers of the remaining Leeds United fans.
Because after scoring the goal, Van Persie came to the Roma fans and made a shut-up gesture.
Before the game, Leeds United captain Alan Smith used words to tell the Romans to shut up and stop talking nonsense.
Now, Robin van Persie uses practical actions to shut up all the Romans. Football is played with feet, not spoken with mouths.
"After Francesco Totti was injured and Antonio Cassano left, we discovered how far behind our opponents the forwards of Roma really were."
When the commentator of the local TV station in Rome, Italy was explaining, the camera showed the forward of today's Roma team, Vincenzo Montella.
"Glider's" face was filled with helplessness and frustration.
And Doni fished the ball out of the goal and kicked it out with a big kick.
Spalletti stood on the sidelines. He knew that he had lost and had been completely eliminated. With Leeds United's current defense, he couldn't even score a goal, let alone score four or five to make a comeback. .
In the last game, Leeds United used two wings to counterattack, just like in a boxing match, the boxer kept hitting the opponent with left hooks and right hooks.
So in this game, after Leeds United defended, they hit Roma in the face with a straight punch, directly KOing Roma.
The game continued, and the ball was still controlled at the feet of the Roma team most of the time, but most of the time they were ineffectively controlling the ball and kept playing back and forth.
As long as Leeds United's defense is successful, they will definitely counterattack directly, which will often shock Roma players and Roma fans into a cold sweat.
In the 36th minute of the game, Roma finally mustered up the courage to launch a decent attack.
Mancini broke through from the left, and Milner blindly stretched out his foot to expose his movements. Mancini changed direction in advance and passed Milner.
Then facing Mills who came up, two consecutive bicycles opened up the space and crossed the ball to the center.
Under Parker's marking, Perrotta deliberately missed the ball and passed it to De Rossi who came in behind.
De Rossi's powerful long-range shot missed the crossbar and flew out of the baseline.
"Don't eat his moves..." Van der Sar shouted to Milner from behind.
Since the Dutch veteran came to Leeds United, he has steadily become the leader of Leeds United's defense. Once there is a loophole in the defense, Van der Sar will often take the initiative after the defense, and sometimes even scold the defensive players. But the young defenders of Leeds United did not dare to talk back. After all, they were here to win, and they did point out what they did not do well.
"James, be careful..." Smith also took the initiative to run over and warn Milner who made a mistake.
Graveson on the side and Mills, who had just wiped Milner's butt, both looked at Milner with vicious eyes.
In short, the entire Leeds United team is very motivated. They want to win this game against Roma, and win beautifully, so that the Roma people will shut up.
They all know that by winning against Roma, there is a high probability that they can reach the Europa League finals and challenge for the European championship. This is what everyone hopes for.
"Ah~" Milner shouted, quickly getting himself into a state of excitement.
George Li looked at the state of his players on the court and was very satisfied.
At the same time, he seemed to be infected by the players. In the final stage of the first half, he kept giving instructions on the sidelines, loudly arranging tactics and reminding the players. He did not join the players until the referee blew the halftime whistle. Back to the locker room.
