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Those who are not familiar with Isco will feel abnormal when they see him on the court for the first time, far from being as pleasing to the eye as a running like Kaka in stride, Isco gives the impression that he is not very coordinated in running, in fact, even walking seems to be shaky.

Inner figure-eight, looped legs, sagging hips, twisting the buttocks... Anyway, many, many indecent things that are often corrected by parents will be reflected in him.

Isco, who came to Real Madrid after Mesut Ozil, is credited with being one of the reasons for crowding out the Germans, even if the two are not similar, and people often compare Isco to Mesut Ozil, just as they like to compare Ozil and Kaka, who are not similar.

And when he came to Real Madrid, he quickly became the darling of the fans with his light and extremely ornamental style of play, and his clear thinking and efficient performance made the discerning media seem to be more tolerant of him, and often protected him. Zidane called him 'the little magician' and said of him that he was able to do things that no one else could do, or even think of. Even before coming to the club, his favorite team was Barcelona, he named his Labrador dog 'Messi', and when he officially became a Real Madrid player, he was able to get along with everyone very quickly.

Of course, according to him, he called Labrador Messi because Messi is the best in the world, and he thinks his dog is also the best dog in the world. When Fran heard this, he was a little unconvinced while thinking about his family's Sisko's heartless and pulmonary amnesia.

Speaking of which, it's just that when Fran kicks his shot, most people on the pitch think it's more like a frustrated airplane ball, and Isco is running forward the moment the ball takes off. His pace is not very coordinated, and his running speed is not one of the best, but when the camera is on him, no one can ignore the threat he is about to create.

The chance to overtake the score seemed to be in sight, and it was Ronaldo who came back after Isco. Offside or anti-offside? There was no such thing as an anti-offside, as they had already run past Juventus' Lichtsteiner and Patrice Evra and were about to break into the box.

After receiving the ball on the left side of the Isco penalty area, because it was already very close to the goal, Buffon chose to attack, Isco was very calm and faked a real pass, and the cross made Buffon not touch the ball, and Ronaldo rushed to the top in front of the goal and hit the crossbar.

As Ronaldo hit the crossbar this time, the Real Madrid fans at the Bernabeu Stadium hugged their heads in disbelief. This is the seventh time that Real Madrid's Champions League journey this season has almost hit the goal frame, and people have to wonder if this season's Champions League goddess is not on the side of last season's champion.

But the attack was not over yet, as the ball that hit the crossbar bounced back into the box, and Marcelo, who had appeared in front of the ball before Chiellini, fired a volley with his toe, only to graze the crossbar with too much force.

"I have to say that Marcelo showed Chiellini what it means to clear 2333." Some Juventus fans complained when they saw that this round of crisis was resolved.

Ronaldo and Marcelo looked at each other in confusion, as if they still couldn't believe they had missed this rare opportunity. Isco pursed his lips and felt a little regretful, but he didn't say much.

The game continued as both sides tried to break the deadlock by blasting the ball into each other's goals. Real Madrid's defense has shrunk across the board, and Morata has been a little impatient because he has not made any achievements so far, after all, there is still a slight gap in the Champions League experience in the face of Real Madrid's defense. Real Madrid's forward line was really unlucky today, and when they bombarded the Juventus goal for about 70 minutes in the second half, they were either blocked by Buffon's extraordinary play, or the football crashed into the Juventus defender and was unconsciously blocked.

The 1-1 draw is still in place, and it is unclear whether it will go to extra time.

Juventus' Andrea Pirlo was the first to hold out, with Allegri replacing the Juve midfielder in the 82nd minute of normal time. In Allegri's view, the scoreline, which is 1-1 in both home and away games, will not change in regulation time without much change. The 36-year-old Pirlo was very tired, and the Italian who was substituted didn't say much, and was tapped on the shoulder by Allegri and sat on the bench.

He will move to the Major League at the end of the season, and Pirlo is hoping to get a Champions League for Juventus as the best farewell to it. Now, he can only put his expectations on his teammates.

On the side of the Real Madrid coaching staff, Ancelotti frowned slightly and watched Forlan's condition, but he couldn't tell whether it was because he didn't have the same physical exertion as before or because he was more excited, and now it looks like there is no problem at least going into the first half of extra time.

If he is dragged into a penalty shootout, he is not expected to be on the list. Such a thought popped into Ancelotti's mind.

As the game drew to a close in regular time, Juventus had Vidal in possession of the ball and tried to dribble to guide Forlan to the touchline, thinking of moving away from Ramos' position.

After pulling Forlan wide, Vidal played the ball to Tevez's attacking line down the left flank, and then immediately rushed towards the penalty area behind Forlan. Vidal wants to cooperate with Tevez to complete a one-two, and if he succeeds, he will break directly into the penalty area, and Real Madrid's defenders will have to weigh their own defense in the penalty area, and it is impossible to rush on the defense unscrupulously.

Carvajal's side will be exposed in attack, and this is an opportunity to send Juventus to the Champions League final.

But after all, this is only Vidal's vision.

In the one-two, Carvajal had already defended Tevez who had the ball when he saw Tevez coming forward. Tevez saw his team-mate about to shake off Forlan and kicked the ball in front of Vidal. But the next second that Vidal thought he was out of defence, Fran appeared in his path and slammed the ball across to Ramos. Ramos was stunned for the ball, and although he saw that there was not much time, he also passed to Kroos again for him to re-arrange for the next round.

Vidal still crashed into Fran after making an emergency stop, he couldn't believe it, even if Fran was faster than himself? In this case, he turned around and started again, no matter how fast he should be behind, how could he be ahead of him?

It is clear from the footage that, unlike Vidal's prediction of Fran's response, Fran turned around and stuck half of his body in Vidal's forward lane rather than fighting for football.

Fran blocked Vidal's path, making it impossible for the opponent to speed up, let alone explode to get rid of him. Relying on physical ability to eat opponents and chase back behind is the way that Forlan would choose in the past, but this time, Forlan chose to be stuck in a position.

As Real Madrid's attack ended in vain, the referee blew the whistle to stop the game, and the game finally dragged into extra time as expected. Real Madrid were a bit more threatening than Juventus in extra-time, and Carlo Ancelotti regretted why he didn't score more goals at Juventus' home stadium.

According to the rules of the Champions League, the Champions League knockout round adopts a home-and-away knockout system from the 1/8 finals to the semi-finals. Two 1-1 matches such as Real Madrid and Juventus will go to extra time. In the Champions League, extra-time was 0-0 and went to penalties, and if it was a goalless draw, the extra-time goal would be counted as the home team's scoreline to allow the visitors to advance.

Real Madrid's whole team looked serious, and if Juventus had scored a goal in the next 30 minutes of extra time, Real Madrid would have to create two goals to advance to the Champions League final.

Fran listened to Carlo Ancelotti's game schedule, drank water and did not speak, and the team doctor next to him took turns moving the legs of the players to prevent the muscles from being too tense after a short rest. Two goals in 30 minutes, Forlan thought to himself, looking at today's bad luck, it is better to hope for a penalty shoot-out.

He glanced at Casillas, who was silently adjusting the goalkeeper's gloves, and happened to meet Cassie's gaze. Casillas was slightly stunned, and for some reason suddenly raised his clenched fist towards Fran, who froze, and when he reacted, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and the fist slammed into Cassion's fist, which was several sizes larger than himself in gloves.

Neither Casillas nor Fran mentioned the unpleasant conversation that had taken place in the locked locker room to anyone, and the two of them spent their daily lives together as if nothing had happened. But in fact, how can this matter be easily forgotten, at least when the two of them talk, they will always subconsciously consider whether the other party's words will have any specific meaning.

The two of them are still friends with each other, but they have finally damaged the friendship that has been together for 20 years and has been walking side by side for more than 10 years.

But they both understand that Igor Casillas is only used to having Forlan in front of him, while Francisco Alvarez only trusts the goalkeeper behind him.

It doesn't matter if the defender is a bastard who is bent on drilling into the first team with a weed in his mouth, a pit dad who occasionally scores an own goal, or a first-choice defender who often turns the tide.

Whether this goalkeeper is the little fat man who once burst into tears and couldn't eat sugar, the captain of Real Madrid who has some desire to control, or the first goalkeeper who has a hundred palms and thousands of arms.

As long as the other party is still insisting, he has more reasons to insist.

When the game resumed, Real Madrid's backline shrank significantly, but it did not give up the attacking opportunities in the midfield. Real Madrid's tempo has slowed down, and the two-man back configuration has long since made it difficult to tell whether it is Ramos or Forlan who dominates the second half of the season.

Time passed minute by minute, and Barcelona in the other half of the region had successfully eliminated Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich to advance to the final, while Real Madrid and Juventus, Casillas and Buffon were evenly matched at the Bernabeu, making many people even look forward to a penalty shootout.

A penalty shoot-out that is really hard to guess and probably resigned to fate.

Carlo Ancelotti watched the time from the sidelines, five, ten, fifteen... Juventus also obviously have endless trust in their goalkeeper, especially now that Casillas's form is declining in the news, the Italian, who is optimistic about the penalty shoot-out, is not too keen on attack, for fear that Real Madrid will steal a goal and lose all his efforts.

With the last ten minutes of extra-time remaining in the second half, the referee gave only two minutes of stoppage time at most, and there was even time to go straight to the penalty shoot-out. Ancelotti watched the crowds on the pitch and already had some thoughts on who to choose for the penalty shoot-out.

Compared to Allegri, who ran out of substitutions, Ancelotti still had one substitution in his hand. He motioned for his assistant coach to warm up with Varane, and it was reliable to replace Forlan towards the end of the game.

But the slow pace does not mean a low level, Ramos, who forced Tevez's wide attack out of the sideline and won the ball from the outside, pressed on the side, midfielder J Ronaldo suddenly crossed the middle, Isco cut diagonally and J Ronaldo switched positions, so that Kroos, who received Ramos's pass, had a very loose space to control the ball.

Kroos crossed J Ronaldo in front of him, J Ronaldo did not rush forward with the ball, but knocked directly to the top of the arc of the penalty area without stopping, where Ronaldo faced Bonucci and Evra's bag and jumped up with a header to ferry the football to the right side of the penalty area, Benzema was ready to go, he shot angrily at the ball, but this burst was jumped high by Buffon for fear of getting rid of his hands and hugged tightly in his arms.

Without the slightest hesitation, Buffon kicked the football directly into the Real Madrid half, and Real Madrid's style dictated that the momentary attack made their defense suddenly relaxed. Allegri stood on the sidelines and watched anxiously at the attack, watching Barzagli who managed to chest the ball, Vidal who shook Carvajal after receiving the ball, and watching Llorente, who replaced Alvaro Morata on the right side of the penalty area, get the ball and enter the box unhindered.

From Buffon's start, through a series of passes from Barzagli and Vidal, Llorente successfully seized a hole, or even the only hole, in Real Madrid's nearly 24 minutes of extra time! Only Francisco Alvarez and Real Madrid goalkeeper Casillas were left in front of him!"

In fact, Llorente is more accurate to face Casillas, Casillas in the middle is watching Llorente's every move with the ball, and Forlan is still chasing back frantically. Shooting faster will allow Casillas to save, and slower adjustments will allow him to defend and remedy.

However, Llorente's choice was not as ideal as Forlan thought, and his decision was too calm, raising his right foot to aim at the near corner of the goal, picking up the shot Casillas was fully convinced, and when his right foot was about to touch the ball, he threw himself on the right side with all his might. But the reason for the use of a 'soon' is that Llorente walks straight to the front of the ball with his right foot, and the hook of his left foot in the back position is flattened, adjusting the angle to aim at the far corner of the goal.

Casillas, who had fallen to the ground, had no time to react.

"The one-on-one between the striker and the goalkeeper, in any case, the striker has a huge advantage! Llorente completely deceived Casillas, he had an empty Real Madrid goal in front of him!Llorente shot!g....."

The commentator's goal celebration instantly choked in his throat.

A figure flew up in front of the goal, bounced off the right arm of his aerial body before the ball bounced off the line in the frame of the goal, and was kicked off the touchline by Ramos, who was one step slower to return to the defence.

If that body belonged to Casillas, it would have been a god-like save, and Casillas' defensive prowess was more than enough to make up for his season-long mistakes.

However, no, Casillas didn't have time to react after he got up.

Forlan, who fell on the pitch, breathed a sigh of relief to see that the attack was completely stopped, and the next second the entire Bernabeu stadium resounded with the frantic boos of thousands of Juventus fans who came with the team. Fran slowly got up from the ground, he didn't look at the angry Juventus players, he just shrugged at Casillas and said silently, it's up to you.

Llorente was clearly annoyed by Forlan's crazy move, and a goal he was able to turn the tide was ruined in this way, and he wanted to beat the Real Madrid defender violently. The referee on duty in this game quickly ran over and blocked Llorente first.

The referee turned around and raised a red card at Forlan, and then pointed to the penalty spot, there is no doubt that such a deliberate handball is a definite red card + penalty violation.

It was the first direct red card of Forlan's career so far.

It was the only egregious foul in Fran's career that violated professional ethics.

The author has something to say: undoubtedly deliberate handball, the red dot should not be excessive.

The next chapter will continue to discuss the question of which is more important, work ethic or the results of the game