99. Don't give up

Soon Liu Jiayuan saw the changes in the midfield of the Longteng team, Roque Gill and Qi Ming supported the defense of the entire midfield, and Yan Xiaoyu stood between Zheng Zhi and Paulinho.

This is an extremely awkward position, if it is the first seventy-five minutes of the game, Yan Xiaoyu's small body is estimated to be sandwiched into meat by the two masters one after another, but now it is seventy-five minutes after the ultra-high-intensity game, Zheng Zhi's physical energy has been exhausted, and B2B's Paulinho is even more tired.

Scolari was just about to change Zheng Zhi, but Zou Zheng sat down on the turf, and he had cramps.

Accepting the lesson of Han Pengfei conceding the ball on the field in the last game, Scolari did not let Mei Fang play left-back, and he replaced Zou Zheng with Zheng Long.

However, just three minutes later, Zheng Zhi received a yellow card in the midfield, and the target of his foul was Yan Xiaoyu, who turned 360 degrees after holding the ball, leaving Zheng Zhi with only a hand.

Guangzhou Evergrande was going to put the substitution quota in stoppage time had to be used, Huang Bowen replaced Zheng Zhi, Lin Feng returned to the position of the back, and Huang Bowen went to the right side.

Huang Bowen immediately proved the correctness of Scolari to replace him, he took the ball and shot directly from the goal more than 20 meters away, Ma Yongli, who was responsible for sweeping in this position, could not keep up, worthy of the title of "World Expo", football power and angle are the best choice, Huang Dawei's save did not touch the ball at all.

Maybe it was to compensate for the multiple missed shots of the Longteng team before, and finally the football smashed on the lintel and popped off the bottom line, and the Longteng team escaped.

"Huang Bowen's long shot! Oh, it's a pity. Liu Jiayuan also gave a thumbs up to the "World Expo", "If this goal is scored, it will be really difficult for the Longteng team." ”

Guangzhou Evergrande's shot, although the players on the field did not say it, but Zhang Sheng on the sidelines knew that the main reason was that Ma Yongli's physical fitness was not enough, and he had to make adjustments in time.

Soon Zhang Sheng played his second card, Zhang Hao replaced Ma Yongli, and let this physical maniac simply go to be a mixer in the midfield and backfield, as for Ma Yongli's ball task, it was handed over to Roque, and Jill and Qi Ming shared it.

Continuous substitutions, the rhythm of the game dropped down at once, and a lot of time was wasted in the substitutions.

In the 42nd and 44th minutes of the second half, the Longteng team made two long-range shots from outside the penalty area in a row, and the effect was not ideal.

"The Dragons are playing a little impatiently. Liu Jiayuan shook his head and said, "Evergrande has now retreated from the defense, and Diego Costa has returned to the penalty area to defend." ”

At this time, the fans in the stands also knew that the game had reached the most critical time, and they had already cheered for the team for a whole game, although many people were hoarse, but they still mustered up the spare strength to cheer for the team, even the two feet of the Longteng team players just now were a little off-the-beaten-path long shots, everyone did not blame, and the audience could not hear any boos.

"Five minutes of stoppage time, this is the last chance for the Dragons. The tense atmosphere on the court made Shen Fangjian also look serious.

In the first minute of stoppage time, Zhang Sheng played the last card, and senior striker Zou Weijia replaced the defender Roque Gill, which was a desperate substitution.

As soon as Zou Weijia came on the field, Scolari also made a change, Han Pengfei replaced Gao Lin, the defender replaced the striker, and he was still a tall central defender, his task was one, staring at Zou Weijia.

In the third minute of stoppage time, De Paul dribbled the ball to the corner flag on the left side, and saw that Shu Jun and Lin Feng were entangled with each other, and there was no hope of breaking through, he kicked the ball to Lin Feng with a very smart kick, and then the football bounced out of the bottom line.

De Paul and Lin Feng raised their hands at the same time, indicating that it was the last ball that the opponent touched, and it should be their own possession.

"Three players, two former captains of the Dragons and one current Dragons player. Haha, this scene. Although he knew that the atmosphere was very tense and there should be no gossip, this scene was so interesting that he couldn't help but say, "It should be a corner kick from the Longteng team, this is the real last chance." ”

This corner kick, the Longteng team didn't care about any defense, except for Yan Xiaoyu, who was almost tall, outside the penalty area, to see if he could find a chance to take the second point to shoot a long shot, and the other players all entered the penalty area.

When De Paul's ball came out, Evergrande's penalty area was in chaos, countless people were pulling and pulling, and when the football flew to the middle of the penalty area, I saw Diego, a Longteng player next to Costa moved back and forth in a small space, shrunk his body, suddenly jumped into the air, and then overwhelmed Diego Costa, a powerful header rushed to the top, and the football crossed Liu Dianzuo's waving palm and drilled into the goal.

"Ahhh It should be Lu Zhihui. Liu Jiayuan really almost shouted this time, seeing the captain armband of the Longteng team on the field, he rushed to the billboard, jumped over, and then rushed to Lu Zhihui under the south stand of the die-hard fans, "It's Lu Zhihui, the captain of the Longteng team, the oldest player in the Longteng team, and the oldest player in the Longteng team now." After failing to keep an eye on Diego Costa and conceding the first goal, he redeemed himself by beating Diego Costa to help the Longteng team draw against Guangzhou Evergrande, and the game was about to go to extra time. ”

"When everyone thought that the game was like this, Lu Zhihui told everyone as a captain that no, the battle had just begun. Shen Fangjian also roared and said, "Look at the madness of the Longteng fans." ”

At this time, Lu Zhihui pulled up his jersey and kissed the team emblem deeply, and the Longteng fans in the stands frantically squeezed to the railing of the stands.

"Ah!!!!" Chen Jiangfeng in the stands was extremely envious of the group of fans in the South Stand at this time, he grabbed Zhang Guohua's arm tightly with excitement, and roared with all his strength, "See it, see it." This is our Lu team. This is the Dragons I love. ”

"Although it is so close, if I don't get close now, I can't hear what Jiayuan said at all, and the entire Jiangcheng Sports Center has fallen into madness. Shen Fangjian had to use his biggest voice to explain, "This is the charm of football." ”

When Lu Zhihui applauded to the fans in the stands and slowly retreated to the court, suddenly the uniform song "You Will Never Walk Alone" sounded on the field, and under the leadership of the live DJ, this football song resounded throughout the audience.

When he returned to the court, Lu Zhihui deliberately walked to Zhang Sheng's side on the sidelines: "Coach, I did it." ”

Zhang Sheng patted Lu Zhihui's shoulder, and everything was silent.

Shortly after kick-off again, referee Fagani blew the whistle for the end of regulation time, signaling players from both sides to hurry up and prepare for extra time.

Liu Jiayuan also hurriedly took the time to introduce the overtime rules of the AFC Champions League: "In the AFC Champions League, if the scores of the two sides are the same in both legs of home and away, then overtime will be played. Unlike the Champions League, goals scored in extra-time in the AFC Champions League do not count towards away goals. If there is extra time, whether there is a goal or not, as long as the two sides still do not decide the winner, it will enter the most brutal penalty shootout. ”

"The rules of extra time have changed over the years. Taking advantage of the ten-minute break before overtime, Shen Fangjian also extended to introduce, "In the past, overtime was played for 30 minutes, but later in the 90 World Cup and 92 European Championship, the teams in overtime were perfunctory, no one refused to attack, and they all wanted to kick a penalty at the end." In 93, FIFA introduced the Golden Ball system, that is, the sudden death method, in extra time, whoever scored first would directly kill the game and win the game. In the 98 World Cup, there were many golden ball winning games, and later because the controversy was too great, there was an improved silver ball system, that is, after the goal was scored, the half had to be played, and if the half was not equalized, the team that scored the goal would win. If the first half is equalised, the second half continues. ”

After introducing Datong, Shen Fangjian returned to the game: "Later, considering that the gold and silver ball system has a lot of drawbacks, and it is difficult for the current team to play negative football to win, the game has returned to the old 15-minute overtime system in each half since 2004. Both teams will play for 30 minutes without a break to determine the winner, and the winner will advance to the AFC Champions League final. ”

The 30 minutes before overtime are very important for the team, because it is a game outside of 90 minutes, the physical fitness of the players is generally insufficient, and for the victory or defeat of the game in regular time, there are often unconventional substitutions, and the players on the field are likely to be you will not have the opportunity to appear on the field several times a season.

Most of the time, in overtime, everyone will choose a more stable style of play, playing defensive counterattacks without conditions, and playing pass control if they have conditions and abilities.

This time, the Longteng team chose to play the familiar pass control, and Guangzhou Evergrande chose to defend and counterattack.

In the case that both sides will not press hard, the time of extra time passes quickly, and the two sides would rather foul more rules in the midfield, rather than easily give the other party the opportunity to enter the 30-meter area, and if there is only one yellow card in the semi-finals, it will not accumulate to the final, that is, as long as you don't take the red card directly, don't take two yellow cards, and have a yellow card, it will be automatically canceled if you enter the final.

With this in mind, in the first half of overtime, Guangzhou Evergrande and Longteng each received a yellow card for tactical fouls. By the time the first 15 minutes were over, the score had not changed at all, and there were not even a few shots on goal.

There was no break in the middle of extra time, and with a simple rehydration, the two sides quickly entered the 15 minutes of the second half. At this time, even the fans in the stands felt deeply tired, and one can imagine the difficulties of the players on the field now.

Because it has been raining lightly in Jiangcheng today, the game started at half past six in the evening, and it is now more than eight o'clock, the cold and rainy night in Jiangcheng autumn, the temperature is just over ten degrees, and the fans in the stands have a high probability of catching a cold and getting sick tomorrow.

Zhang Sheng and Scolari on the sidelines, the clothes on their bodies have been changed into a set of soaked ones at halftime, and another set of soaked ones before the overtime game, which shows the hard work.

In the last two or three minutes of extra time, the coaching staff of both sides was all in motion, and the most brutal penalty shootout was coming.

With Fagani's whistle, the 30 minutes of extra time ended with the score still 2:2.

"Both sides are 2:2 in both games and 4:4 on aggregate. A real dragon and tiger fight (the crest of the Longteng team is a dragon in the sky, and the crest of Guangzhou Evergrande is a roaring South China tiger on a shield) ended in a draw in regulation time and overtime. Now the thrilling penalty shootout is about to begin. Liu Jiayuan made an introduction.

"In the history of the two teams, Guangzhou Evergrande has had 3 penalty shootouts, while Longteng has not. It can be said that in terms of the experience of this project, Guangzhou Evergrande is more sophisticated. However, recalling Evergrande's three penalty shootouts, the memory is not good, these three, they only beat Hangzhou Greentown on penalties in the 2013 FA Cup, and the other two were lost. Taking advantage of the fact that the head coaches of both sides were arranging the penalty sequence, Liu Jiayuan began to study the information of the two sides.

"Then according to probability, the probability of Evergrande winning is 1/3, and the Longteng team is 1/2?" Shen Fangjian threw out a mathematical problem involving probability theory, which made the fans who were still watching the game hotly discussed.

When it comes to penalty shootouts, there are too many legends in history, including the riotous operation of replacing substitute goalkeeper Krul before the penalty shootout in the 14th World Cup, and the mysterious note that the German team gave to its goalkeeper Lehmann in the 2006 World Cup, the ecstatic song and dance of Dudek on the miracle night of Istanbul, and the spoon penalty kick with a calm expression of all the gods.

As for what the first four of both sides did not score in a round, and all 22 players in the field were punished, and there was another magical operation, it can be said that there is everything.

But in general, the manager arranges penalties in the following order: the first and fifth players who are most sure of it, and at least one defender in the middle three.

After all, it was 1V1 at that time, and it was eliminated if it lost, and the second arrangement of the central defender was because the psychology of the central defender was more excellent, and the opponent would analyze the penalty habits of the opponent's main shooter, but rarely aimed at the central defender, after all, the vast majority of the central defender's resume is blank, you can't target it, this is the legendary no trick to win, of course, the physical consumption of the central defender is also very important.

Soon the penalty lists of both sides were handed over to the referee, and the penalty shootout was imminent.

The Dragons' penalty line-up put captain and centre-back Lu Zhihui first, and the game proved that he was mentally good, followed by Nie Jiang, Yan Xiaoyu, De Paul and Chavez. The sixth and seventh are Tao Wentao and Zou Weijia.

Basically, those with good archery skills and good physical fitness are put in front, and Zhang Sheng thinks that he will do his job in one battle.