Chapter 217: Bad Ball Luck
There is a huge difference between a two-goal lead and a one-goal impact. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
A one-goal lead cannot make a mistake, and the player is under a lot of psychological pressure, while a two-goal lead has at least one chance to make a mistake, and the player is almost psychologically stressed.
A very small number of players play better under pressure, most of them are stars, and the vast majority of players only play worse under pressure.
After Gao Xiaodong scored the third goal, the Lexus players played at the highest level of the game, although their passing and receiving speed did not go up, but the accuracy rate went up, and the players also dared to make moves and get rid of passing passes, all of which seemed to be at ease.
The Sporting Lisbon players, who were two goals behind, played very badly because of desperation, the players did not run actively, passed and received the ball with repeated errors, and the effective attack was basically only a few waves, and they were beaten like a relegation team by Lexos.
The Sporting Lisbon fans in the stands also looked as weak as the team's performance on the field, with sparse applause and scolding, and the die-hard fans saw the team playing so badly and twice angrily threw burning fireworks at the stadium.
The game was interrupted twice in order to clean up the fireworks.
It's all the epitome of the desperation and impatience of the home fans.
In the 80th minute of the game, Rexos once again had a good chance to score, Gao Xiaodong, López, and Angulo cooperated with continuous short passes on the side, Gao Xiaodong suddenly sent a diagonal pass to the back of the defender, Brandi successfully countered offside, and went to the meeting to face goalkeeper Patricio.
During this time, Patricio was in better form, and he quickly attacked to block Brandi, who burst into the box and fired into the bottom right corner.
Patricio was too late to make a save, he desperately blocked with his foot, and the ball bounced off the post.
The whole stadium exclaimed, if this goal is scored again, Sporting Lisbon will have no chance, the game will directly turn into garbage time, and the goalpost can be regarded as saving Sporting Lisbon again.
López whipped in a corner and Rexos centre-forward Robert grabbed the spot, but he also headed it over the post.
The two goalposts were a big blow to Lexus's morale, and the head coach Oliveira felt that the ball might be out of luck, and he was afraid that the opponent would seize the opportunity to score, so he replaced Brandy, who ran too much, and replaced Sanchez, a midfielder who had both offense and defense, and changed the formation to 4321.
Brandy's departure drew cheers and applause from tens of thousands of Lexus fans, and although he didn't score, Brandi's run up front kept the opponent's defensive strength in check, and his contribution cannot be measured by goals.
With a two-goal lead and a more solid game after 80 minutes, that's understandable.
However, after Rexos hit two postposts, Sporting Lisbon's confidence rose, especially after hearing that Benfica had a two-goal lead over Bilanesses and could overtake them.
Rexos didn't care, any team would do to counterattack after falling behind, whether it was a giant or an ordinary team, they were two goals ahead, only about 10 minutes, no matter how efficient the opponent's attack was, there was no time for them to play.
In fact, it was true that Sporting Lisbon went from strength to strength, but by the time they reached their climax, the 90 minutes of regular play ran out and the fourth official raised the sign for four minutes of stoppage time.
Sporting Lisbon needed to score two goals to equalize and three goals to turn it back, and with the efficiency shown by the previous Sporting Lisbon players, Sporting Lisbon fans did not dare to get their hopes up, and many fans have begun to leave the stadium early to avoid being too crowded at the end of the game.
At this time, Oliveira also made a second substitution adjustment, Robert, the center who had no physical strength and could not return to defense, was replaced, and the young speed striker Oscar came on the field, which was not only to delay time, but also to strengthen the counterattack speed in front.
Oliveira's substitutions were methodical and purposeful, showing the quality and experience of a veteran coach.
In the first minute of stoppage time, Oscar even almost got a good chance to go to the meeting alone, but he and Gao Xiaodong did not cooperate well enough, and the ball was grabbed by goalkeeper Patricio and passed to his teammates.
In the second minute of stoppage time, the situation changed.
Sporting Lisbon's Veloso hoisted the ball into the box, the ball was headed out by Lexos centre-back Dio, and fell right in front of full-back Abel, who chested the ball and took two steps diagonally forward before shooting with his feet.
There were plenty of people in the box, and Abel's shot hit the leg of Lexos midfielder Angulo and the ball changed direction and flew straight into the near corner.
Goalkeeper Beto was ready to make a save, and there was nothing he could do about the sudden change of direction of the ball, so he could only watch the ball fly into the net.
2:3
Sporting Lisbon were lucky to pull a point back.
The game suddenly became tense, and although there were less than two minutes left, who would dare to say that another goal could not be scored.
The Lexos players think so, and so do the players of Sporting Lisbon.
The Lexos players were nervous and they were all on the defensive, determined to hold on to the final two minutes.
Sporting Lisbon's players all pressed up, even the goalkeeper pushed to the center circle, at this time, attack is their best choice, losing one is a loss, losing two is also a loss, if they can score another goal for Rexos, they will equalize.
Under the full force of Sporting Lisbon, full-back Newman made a mistake in clearing and tried to kick the ball on the opponent and out of the line, but rebounded back and touched his own body out of the line, and Sporting Lisbon got a corner kick opportunity.
The most important way to break down the dense defense is from set-pieces, and giving the opponent such a corner opportunity is very bad for Rexos.
The monkey clenched his fists nervously in the stands and said, "I have a bad premonition......"
"Don't talk about it if it's not good, watch the game. Chen Qiang interrupted the monkey in a deep voice.
Alexander, a die-hard fan of Lexos, was so anxious that he stomped his feet, "How can you give the opponent a corner kick at this time!"
Taylor said: "Newman made a mistake and the opponent was too lucky...... Don't continue to be so good......"
The on-site commentator Wenkra sighed: "This should be the last chance, I hope Rexos withstands, after they hit 3 posts and did not continue to expand the score, giving the opponent this chance......"
Oliveira hurriedly pointed to his watch on the sidelines and yelled at all the players to come back and prevent this last corner.
Everybody in Lexos is back, one-on-one marking, never missing a single one, even Sporting Lisbon goalkeeper Patricio has López to mark.
But after the whistle, Moutinho, who took the corner kick, did not kick off directly, but played a tactical cooperation with Veloso, who grabbed the front point, he passed the ball to Veloso, who ran over to answer, and Veloso passed the ball back to Moutinho.
This time Lexus's defense was all in disarray, Moutinho saw that his central defender Tonel was unmarked, he immediately passed the ball into the penalty area, found Tonel, Tonel jumped high, and a beautiful header pierced the ten fingers of Lexus goalkeeper Beto.
3:3
Capitalising on their opponents' mistakes and their own efforts, Sporting Lisbon miraculously equalised within two minutes.