Chapter 449: Penalty Shootout
Maybe it's because they want to win the promotion play-offs too much, or maybe as Championship teams, Derby County and Queen's Park Flashers are really the quintessential example of the traditional style of play in mainland England.
They were really fast, and soon after the game started, they gave the referee Li Xuan a lot of trouble, constantly making all kinds of fouls and physical contact, flooding the game, and no one was scared.
Moreover, their various physical flow play styles are obviously not too bad, and they are more of a law enforcement standard that deliberately challenges referee Li Xuan.
Regarding such a situation, Li Xuan suddenly realized in time. Why did these two teams praise him loudly before the game, welcome him to enforce the law, and sing all kinds of praise songs to him, it turns out that there is a reason.
The two teams of Derby County and Queen's Park Swift Rangers should basically think of going together, both planning to use tougher physical confrontations to put pressure on each other, and at the same time in the game environment, in order to gain a favorable situation with their own side, so they deliberately picked up Li Xuan, the referee, first.
Li Xuan quickly figured this out, and he had to immediately admire the careful thinking of the two teams in order to win. In addition to the attitude of the competition itself, this kind of competition that even the additional factors on the field are fully considered in advance, can indeed be regarded as a top-level matchup.
Of course, Li Xuan understands and understands, but he will never let any team or player challenge his law enforcement standards.
In the face of various deliberate and strong physical collision tests by the players of the two teams of Derby County and Queen's Park Swift Rangers, Li Xuan quickly carried out extremely detailed punishments according to the different conditions and rounds, as well as the importance and danger, without hesitation or fluctuation.
It's like adapting to local conditions and time conditions. Li Xuan will always make timely and accurate targeted discrimination and punishment for all kinds of real and suspected fouls on both sides, as well as intentional fouls and passive fouls, rather than making the game really become the completely open muscle loose play that the two teams want.
Therefore, even if the two teams always deliberately want to make the game more chaotic and create more complicated things, trying to make Li Xuan loosen the balance of the penalty scale, so that they can take advantage of the chaos more unscrupulously, there is no chance to achieve it at all!
In fact, it didn't take a while, and even many fans who watched the excitement hadn't been able to notice it, Li Xuan had actually succeeded in bringing the game back to normal, easily regaining control of the luck psychology of the players of the two teams, so that they had to fight again according to his fair and just unified law enforcement standards, and no longer delusionally wanted to get the convenience of the fluctuating penalty environment through his side.
As for more football experts who know the ball, or senior fans, they can't help but applaud Li Xuan's law enforcement methods in time again!
Li Xuan almost just took a simple action to moisten things silently, but invisibly, the teams of both sides were immediately controlled. The game remained on track as always, and the players, under Li Xuan's continuous and uncontroversial precision enforcement, quickly refocused their attention on the direct competition with their opponents, and it was difficult to consider other crooked moves.
This kind of law enforcement method is extremely powerful, and it is almost difficult to see it in the ordinary arena, and it is indeed worthy of praise from those who know how to hit the festival!
You must know that the vast majority of referees in major football today may not make big mistakes when faced with similar situations.
But they can often play a game according to the team's secret wishes, leaving it in tatters and filled with savage and irregular action scenes. Not only does it make the game chaotic and lose its smooth balance at all, but it will also inadvertently steal a lot of shots belonging to the players and the game itself, and it will still make the players directly gamble and vindictively on the spot, further losing the essence of the game. And this must not be considered a successful game enforcement.
And after being resolved by Li Xuan, he no longer dared to easily exploit the idea of punishing environmental loopholes. The two teams of Derby County and Queens Park Rangers had to rein in some of the excessive on-field movements and deliberately tentative improper game behavior, and instead focused more on the real game of one board and one eye.
As two of the top teams in the Championship, the tactical level and real strength of these two teams are actually about the same, very close. Moreover, this crucial final was held in a neutral stadium, and the fans of the two teams had already managed to divide the stadium in two, and they were truly evenly matched.
Therefore, these two teams, after returning to the normal and standardized game state, in the specific field, on the contrary, none of them has the upper hand, or played more aggressive tactics.
They are more deliberately waiting for their opponents to make mistakes, and during the game, they are all adopting more obscene squatting tactics.
Especially when he knew that there was no way to get Li Xuan's lenient punishment in the game environment, and he couldn't take advantage of the chaos in the first wave. In the case of confirming that there is no better way to make a final decision for the time being, the two teams simply re-prepared as much as possible to drag the game into a safe state, each waiting for the opponent's loophole to appear, and did not dare to easily press it all over for a while.
A crucial game that was supposed to be full of excitement turned out to be a little dull because of the quick win-and-lose between the two teams.
Naturally, in this way, no one is willing to make mistakes easily, and would rather be ineffective at the back than easily attack and lead to the risk of conceding the ball. The scores of the two teams have not had a chance to be rewritten.
This made more fans watching the game quickly become more anxious, so they had to play tricks and cheer in various ways, hoping that the team they supported could be stimulated to their fighting spirit and state as soon as possible, and show their skills to win, which made the atmosphere of the scene continue to be lively and intense!
As for Li Xuan, he can also express his understanding that these two teams suddenly chose this kind of safe play style after a simple attempt at the beginning.
It is precisely because both sides want to win too much, and then in the absence of a better way to be sure, it is human nature to ensure that they do not make mistakes first and wait for opportunities.
It's just that, no matter what the two teams think and how the new on-the-spot tactics continue, they do unknowingly consume a lot of effective game time for no reason.
Then, in the process of Li Xuan's sudden gesture, the two teams even directly and slowly entered the overtime, so that many fans and viewers almost failed to react in time.
The two teams, which are originally safe and conservative in their style of play, are even more afraid to make big moves when the game time is becoming scarcer and scarcer, especially before they are still uncertain about winning.
As a result, in overtime, even if the two teams have changed their offensive state a little one after another, the players on both sides have become a lot more eager and have more ideas. However, their respective physical strength and state have gradually been consumed by the previous Da Bao Jian style of play, and there is still no way to instantly change the stalemate in the game.
And after such an inexplicable dull duel for a long time, the two teams actually entered the moment of betting on luck such as a penalty shootout!
Such a situation, for Li Xuan, the referee, he did not expect it before the game.
It's just that the quality and ability of professional referees quickly made Li Xuan adjust his personal state and prepare to enter the life-and-death penalty shootout!