Chapter 629: Penalty Shootout! Coach, I can play the first one!
"Swap halves directly!"
"It looks like everyone is so tired that they can't even take a sip of water."
"Hold on for 15 minutes,"
"The game has been played so far, it is completely supported by willpower, compared to Real Madrid, the physical fitness of Leverkusen players is actually better, because they are younger, Real Madrid has several veteran players, Redondo is 31 years old, and Karanka, Campo These players have no age advantage, although Hierro is a substitute, but also played for a long time."
Both sides did not have time to breathe, set up their formations, opened their posture and continued to work.
Beep
Corina's relentless whistle sounded again, and the second half of extra time began.
Brdarić kicked the ball back to Yazdani, Yazdani gave it to Zheng Zhi, Zheng Zhi controlled the ball in the middle, but found that no one on the other side came up?
What's going on?
No more full-court pressing?
Is it really not enough to be physically fit for them to do this? Zheng Zhi was happy in his heart.
If so, maybe Bayer Leverkusen still has a good chance. Thinking about it, he kicked the ball to Ribery, but Ribery on the left did not dare to take risks, and in the face of Hierro and Savio, Ribery still passed the ball back to Zheng Zhi.
Zheng Zhi did not hesitate, immediately rushed forward with the ball three steps, in the face of Redondo, he quickly slowed down the speed, changed to two small steps in a row, and when he approached Redondo, suddenly an acceleration oblique!
"Oh~"
"Beautiful!"
"It's over!"
"Zheng Zhi!"
Seeing this sudden scene, Huang Jianxiang immediately shouted loudly.
In an instant, Zheng Zhi used his speed to erase Redondo, which was to use speed to eat. Lei Dongduo was dumbfounded, he wanted to put on a posture to meet Zheng Zhi, who knew that Zheng Zhi would directly use his speed to second him? There are no other superfluous actions at all. When he turned around and wanted to chase back, Zheng Zhi had already pulled more than three meters, how to chase? Hierro immediately smelled danger on the left and immediately made up for it in the middle, but when he made up for it, Zheng Zhi stepped out and stuffed the ball diagonally behind Hierro, Ribery understood that he would immediately cut inside, and Elgra was thrown away by him. Ribery, who was still galloping like a tiger, stabbed his right toe, dodged the gap in front of Campo, and took advantage of Karanka's failure to make up for it, immediately supported the body of the column, and forced the goal with his right foot! The ball flew quickly to the top right corner of the goal!
"There it is!"
"Oops!"
"Casillas."
'He still lifted the ball over the crossbar and it was a world-class save.'
"Leverkusen got a corner kick attack, I didn't expect the game to be played so far, Leverkusen is still capable of playing such a beautiful attack, Zheng Zhi and Ribery's physical fitness is too exaggerated, and the two have completed a wonderful offensive cooperation. As I said just now, Redondo's physical fitness is a problem, and Zheng Zhi directly used his speed to force it. ”
"However, there are a few Leverkusen players who have entered the Real Madrid penalty area, and there are only three in total, so it seems that everyone is afraid to be careless, for fear of the other party's sneak attack. Novotny, Kovac and Burdaric were in the box and no one else went in. ”
There were too few of them to threaten from a corner and the ball was headed out by Karanka, but it was still Bayer Leverkusen's possession, and LaMelo got the ball but chose to pass it back to Gresco.
At this time, Zheng Zhi had already withdrawn from the corner flag and received a pass from Gresco, Ergraru pounced recklessly, Zheng Zhi buckled with his left foot to the right, and just crossed with his right foot!
The arc of the ball was very fast, and it quickly fell to the back post of Real Madrid, and Yazdani, who had just been cruising in front of the penalty area, quickly inserted it into the back post and jumped up to the ball.
Da~
The ball goes to the side-netting!
Call~
There was a chill in the stands.
A lot of people thought Yazdani's header had gone in, but it was only headed wide of the side-netting.
"Recycling!"
Zheng Zhi shouted loudly in the middle lane, reminding his teammates to hurry back to defense.
Offense is a morale boost, but defense is what matters right now.
After Real Madrid regained possession of the ball, they failed to launch a quick counterattack, and when Hierro tried to send a long pass at the back, he found that Raul and Anelka did not run up in time, and Savio ran away, but he was stuck to Gresco on his forehead, and there was a LaMelo not far away, if the ball was passed, it would be given to the opponent.
Even Carlos was a lot slower to cut forward.
Real Madrid had to switch to positional warfare.
Hierro still gave the ball to Carlos, who stopped the ball at his feet, squinted his eyes and glanced ahead, also gave up the idea of impacting and passed the ball to Redondo. Zheng Zhi came over, and directly got into a hand-to-hand fight, and after standing firmly on the turf with both feet, his whole body suddenly hit Redondo, and the latter's body shook for a while, but he still gave the ball to Hierro steadily.
But only Lei Dongduo himself knows that at this time, he and Zheng Zhi fought for their bodies and suffered a loss! I can't stand on my feet anymore. But he had no choice now, turned around and tried to step forward if he was attacking, but what he didn't expect was that Zheng Zhi's retreat was faster, always keeping him in front of him, not letting him go beyond half a point.
Hierro couldn't get the ball back to Redondo, so he tried to play it straight to Raul in front of him. However, Raul was also interfered with by Kovac when receiving the ball, and his body was not his strong point in the first place, and he stumbled, still lost his balance and failed to protect the ball!
LaMelo immediately took the ball to his feet and looked for Zheng Zhi as soon as possible!
Zheng Zhi had already started from Redondo's side, and in an instant, he got rid of him and rushed in the opposite direction, Redondo was panting, where did he expect Leverkusen's counterattack to come so quickly? Just when he thought that he could only face this situation, his friend Hierro flew to Zheng Zhi's feet.
Zheng Zhi was helplessly left behind.
Hierro's tackle was too timely to prevent Zheng Zhi from taking the ball and launching a quick counter-attack.
Corina came over and gave Hierro a yellow card.
What can Hierro do? In this case, you can't fly a shovel. If you don't shovel, who knows what Zheng Zhi will do after he gets the ball?
Real Madrid retreated across the board, with almost everyone retreating outside the penalty area. The first few attackers have also returned, and no one dares to be an uncle at this time.
After receiving LaMelo's pass, Zheng Zhi found that the front was densely packed with people, and there was almost no chance to pass the ball up. Just dribble the ball in front of Redondo and force your feet!
"Long shot!"
Thirty meters away, Zheng Zhi pulled out his foot and shot angrily.
"Whew~"
"Casillas again!"
"The ball was saved by him again."
"The ball is at Carlos' feet!"
"Ouch!"
Carlos held back his strength and seconded Yazdani, who had a physical advantage but no speed advantage. Kovacs quickly made up for it, but Carlos made another big trip! Ignore Hoffman, who is further back!
On this trip, he directly wanted to pass Kovacs and Hoffman.
It's really not human!
Carlos rushed frantically towards the ball, unable to see his short legs, too often.
"It's broken,"
"Bayer Leverkusen's left side of the line was broken, Zheng Zhi and LaMelo quickly ran to the middle, dangerous, Anelka, Raul, Savio are all outflanking forward."
"Carlos has passed!"
"Ahh
"Anelka!"
"Woohoo~"
"Anelka was half a beat slower, his sliding tackle didn't touch the ball, the ball ran first, Carlos's pass was too strong, but if he didn't pass a little bigger, the ball wouldn't have flown over, right?"
"Gresco get the ball!"
"Oh my God, Zheng Zhi is rushing in the opposite direction again."
"Oh my God!"
"How do I feel like I'm watching the NBA right now? Is Zheng Zhi's physical fitness so terrifying? This is a switchback run, and in the blink of an eye he rushed from his own penalty area to the outside of the big penalty area, and Gresco subconsciously passed the ball to his feet. ”
"What a chance to fight back!"
Da~
Zheng Zhi did not covet the ball, and immediately sent the ball to more than four meters in front of Ribery, Ribery gritted his teeth and rushed up, directly leading the ball to the outside, and also got rid of Elgra with the most concise speed! Then he continued to lunge forward, with Burdaric pinning down Campo in the middle and Karanka guarding against Yazdani. Zheng Zhi went straight into the middle of the penalty area! Redondo obviously can't keep up again, in the competition between the two people running without the ball, he is completely in the devolution, Hierro cut from the middle to the left, while looking at Redondo's direction, he has no way, he must stop Ribery, otherwise Ribery drove straight into the big penalty area with the ball, and Casillas would be cool.
But at the moment when he was distracted, Ribery slammed his left foot into the middle and quickly cut inside!
Hierro ran over and his defensive barrier was useless!
"Here's your chance again!"
This time it was Campo who was embarrassed, Campo had to give up the defense against Burdaric and pressed up to try to stop Ribery, but Ribery's brain was so good, and the eye saw Yazdani dragging Karanka behind and quickly poked the ball to Burdarich!
Burdarich is unguarded! Faced with this big pie falling from the sky, Boldarić adjusted his right foot before getting up.
Click~
But a white coat flew from the left, and quickly shoveled the ball at his feet, and Brodarić didn't even have a chance to shoot, this big stupid pig!
Who else is not the captain of Real Madrid?
Hierro didn't dare to kick because he got a yellow card, and he was still very decisive in the big penalty area! Courageous and resolute!
Redondo was a blessing in disguise, but the ball rolled to his feet as he was running slowly!! What a chance to fight back. Redondo pulled the ball and spun around, then immediately got up and sent a long ball over the top.
call
call
Call.
After taking two big breaths, he realized that the power of the ball he passed was too small and did not reach the feet of French genius Anelka! Anelka sprinted, but the ball was cut off by Novotny.
Then, the unexpected happened, Anelka fell to the ground, and then beckoned his teammates to come over on the turf.
Raul arrived as soon as he could, lifted his left leg and pressed it down.
"I'm cramping."
"Anelka has cramps."
"He was the first guy to fall on the turf with cramps."
"I think Redondo is about the same, the pass just now is too substandard, it can't be passed to Anelka."
Real Madrid coach Bosque frowned on the sidelines, and when the game was interrupted, he quickly beckoned Hierro and pulled him over, explained a few words, and didn't know what to say. On the other end, Worrall's voice was clearly visible, and he grabbed Kovacs, who was drinking water on the sidelines, "Tell them to slow down a little, slow down a little!" ”
"We're going to hold it."
"Don't let the other side fight back."
At this time, Worrall's mind was already left to hold the score of 3:3 and drag the game into a penalty shootout.
Would you rather win or lose on penalties than concede at this time? Even if Bayer Leverkusen looks like they are attacking aggressively right now, he doesn't care.
He is now starting to wonder who he will play in the penalty shoot-out, but the question is not that complicated. Training for the penalty shootout had been scheduled a week before the game, and the personnel had already been decided.
Only Kovacs is likely to adjust.
His ideal penalty shootout candidates are Novotny, LaMelo, Hap, Ribery, Zheng Zhi, but now that Kovac has paid, he wants to replace Ribery with Kovac, and it is more reliable to use a veteran than a 17-year-old, right?
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Anelka lost almost half a minute before the game resumed. There are eight minutes left in the second half. Bayer Leverkusen had the ball, but it was clear that Real Madrid's tactics had changed, and the formation was recycled and did not give Leverkusen much space to attack.
Zheng Zhi took the ball in the midfield and passed it continuously, but they were not able to pass any chances, the ball returned to the backfield, although Raul they came up to harass, but it was obviously not as good as just now. At this time, even Real Madrid, which has a strong attack, will not be able to jump.
In the 116th minute, Raul even tackled Gresco in the return defense and got a yellow card, and it seems that Raul is almost unable to bear it.
Everyone's pace was slowing down and becoming heavier and heavier, Zheng Zhi received the ball from Gresco in the middle, but once again used his speed to stride forward.
"Redondo again!"
"I was lying down by Zheng Zhi again!"
"This guy's heart is made of steel!"
Seeing that his teammates were being stared at by the other party, Zheng Zhi once again took a long shot, about thirty-five meters! The domineering elevator ball is born!
Changhong through the sun! A swift arc goes straight into the bottom right corner of the goal guarded by Casillas! Casillas in front of the goal pounced frantically, using all his strength!
God forbid!
Casillas could only pray.
Chirping~
He felt his left hand touch the ball.
duang!
This was followed by the sound of the ball hitting the post.
"Whew~"
"Whew~"
"Whew~"
In the stands, Leverkusen fans, French fans and Chinese fans instantly wailed.
Zheng Zhi's elevator ball hit the goalpost and popped up the bottom line, and almost, Zheng Zhi completed the lore!
"Casillas touched,"
"Slow motion shows that his fingertips touch the ball, just a little bit, changing the direction of the ball's flight."
"Oh, if Zheng Zhi is killed, that's basically it."
"It's a pity,"
"It's a pity,"
"What a shame!"
"I think a lot of people thought the ball was going to go into the goal and then it was over......
"But the referee decided it was a goal kick?"
"Not a corner?"
In fact, even Zheng Zhi can't see clearly whether Casillas touched the ball, maybe only Casillas himself knows! Zheng Zhi had already led his teammates to run back and rearrange the defensive line.
Casillas picked up the ball with trepidation, looked at the bald Corina again, and pressed the ball firmly on the line of the small penalty area, but did not rush to kick the ball out. He wants to calm down, for the rest of his life, he almost lost the ball just now.
It took him six seconds before he kicked the ball out.
There was a scuffle in midfield, and Colina's whistle sounded again. This time, Corina punished Novotny for violating Raul.
Raul gets up and immediately takes a free kick!
"Oops!"
"Danger!"
Raul kicked the ball to Savio, who immediately swept the ball towards Guti at the far end!
Guti rolled up a curling ball, and Carlos rushed up from the left! Once again, he tried to finish off Hoffman, but Kovac was close this time and stabbed the ball out of the touchline first, and it wasn't over yet, he ran straight out of the court, deliberately picked it up, and threw a boundary kick. This is obviously a deliberate attempt to delay time and make teammates hurry back to defense.
Corina ran over and showed him another yellow card.
But how could Kovacs care?
Carlos frustrated picked up the ball, ran several meters, and threw a depth charge hard, and the ball fell straight into the Leverkusen penalty area!
But the penalty area was full of people, although Anelka earned the first point, but the ball did not have any strength, Matty Sek jumped in the crowd, and took the ball down with both hands!
When he kicked the ball out.
Beep
Beep
Beep –
Corina finally blew the whistle for the end of extra time.
The score is still 3:3! Neither side achieved anything in extra-time.
Now, they need to get into the penalty shoot-out.
"It's game over!"
"The cruelest moment is coming."
"The two sides will decide the winner through penalty shootouts."
"I don't know who will win in the end, but we are definitely firmly on Bayer Leverkusen's side!"
"Come on, Bayer Leverkusen!"
"Zheng Zhi, come on!"
The players on both sides walked off the court one after another, most of them lay directly on the ground, looking tired like dogs, only Zheng Zhi held the level steadily to continue to replenish energy, and stood beside Worrall. Worrall already had a note in his hand, which he had clearly prepared before the game.
This is the starting line-up for the penalty shootout.
"Zheng, are you really sure that you will be the last one to appear?"
"I think you should be the first to play to stabilize the morale of the army."
He is unprecedentedly dependent on Zheng Zhi.
The first penalty and the last penalty are the hardest to play, especially the last one, and all the pressure is on one person.
"I believe in them."
"Then I'll ask Novotny." He strode over to Novotny lying on the turf, where the team doctor was massaging Novotny's legs.
"Can I not kick the first one?"
I didn't expect Novotny to answer like that! Flinch out!
It's so demoralizing.
It was originally arranged, why did you retreat from the battle? You're a German! Leverkusen's vice-captain!
It's too demoralizing, at a critical moment, how can it be answered like this?
"Coach,"
"I can kick the first one!"
Suddenly, a childish voice came to mind around everyone.
Zheng Zhi and Worrall immediately looked over.
"You?!"
"You kick the first one?"
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Momentarily speechless.
Let Ribery play the first?
Why don't you let Kovacs get on it?
But who dares to stand up now? Except for Zheng Zhi.
And at this time, Zheng Zhi spoke.
"Boss, just kick him,"
"If he can say that, it naturally means that he is full of confidence."
"Who else can you give it to?"
"This ......" Worrall hesitated, he was really afraid. If he could, he would have liked to put on his boots and take the first penalty himself.
But Zheng Zhi was right, only he dared to stand up, even Novotny flinched, and the others didn't say anything.
He hesitated for about ten seconds.
"Okay."
"You kick the first one, kid."
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