Chapter 102: Striding Forward
In the Liverpool penalty area, Dai Zhiwei jumped almost at the same time as Kolo Toure, took a big step and flew up, towards the falling ball, his head was high, and he jumped to the top!
Kolo Toure is standard black and hard, although because of age, his physical fitness is not as good as before, but at this time he is also very tough, even if he finds that he is likely to not be able to hit the ball, he is also shaking his head in the direction of football.
He didn't want to touch the football in this ball, just to interfere with Dai Zhiwei and make it impossible for him to reach the exact position.
Dai Zhiwei jumped and collided with Kolo-Toure, his forehead was a big difference from his expected position, and when his forehead touched the football, he was in the right position, and the football also flew out of the bottom line by grazing the goalpost.
The Villarreal fans, who were originally ready to cheer, could only let out a sigh in unison.
"I'll go!" Dai Zhiwei tore off a few lawns, this opportunity was really rare, but it was still wasted by himself.
However, on the other side, Kolo Toure was afraid, but he didn't expect that his interference had a limited impact on Dai Zhiwei, and the opponent's header was only twenty or thirty centimeters away from the goal.
On the bench for Villarreal, assistant coach Xavi suggested to Marcelino with some concern: "I don't think we should consider replacing Day and Soldado, now we need more energy in the forward line. ”
After thinking for a long time, Marcelino shook his head, and seeing that his assistant didn't understand, he explained: "Let Bakambu go to warm up, wait for Soldado, Dai wait." ”
Harvey said in a somewhat uncertain tone: "The situation on the field is still unclear, we will lose if we can't do it, are you sure?" ”
"Perhaps, but ......" Marcelino asked rhetorically, "at this time, do we have a striker who can score more goals than Day?" ”
As Marcelino said, the current Villarreal other strikers do not have any advantages over Dai Zhiwei other than experience.
What's more, at this time, Dai Zhiwei used a more crazy state to fight with the Liverpool backline!
Yes, fight!
Dai Zhiwei, who has had a smooth career, has never had such a strong desire to beat his opponents, and he is ashamed of his own inaction in this game, which can only be washed away by goals and victories.
And with 2o minutes to go, it's still too late.
It's a pity that after Liverpool broke the deadlock, instead of waiting for Villarreal to counterattack, Liverpool's attack was extremely ferocious, and for a time Villarreal was completely suppressed, and Dai Zhiwei's efforts only increased the running distance.
The singing at Anfield Stadium has not stopped, and they are all waiting for the Reds to completely kill the suspense of promotion in the next moment.
In the 74th minute, Liverpool's attack was tackled by Bruno, and Dos Santos rushed to the opponent's penalty area without hesitation after getting the ball.
Dos Santos kept on his feet, changed his direction left and right, and suddenly accelerated to shake Emre Can over, and then stuffed the ball straight to Dai Zhiwei as he went.
At this moment, Liverpool's midfield defense was instantly cut apart by Dos Santos's through ball, but the players in the back line were not too panicked, because there is only Dai Zhiwei and a Villarreal player in Liverpool's half.
"It's a big scene, I like it!"
Dai Zhiwei did not have the slightest intention of stopping and waiting for the support of his teammates, and his long drive and straight into Huanglong was his favorite way to score goals, and it was also the best way to give full play to his strength.
When Dai Zhiwei drove the ball all the way to the top of the penalty area, Liverpool's central defender finally panicked.
Lovren and Kolo Toure went forward and behind to ensure a layered protection at the back, and Lovren immediately met Dai Zhiwei.
In the face of Lovren's defense, Dai Zhiwei rushed over with only the simplest croquettes.
Lovren didn't expect that he was only a beat slower, and he could only look at Dai Zhiwei's back.
But just as he was breaking through Lovren, Dai Zhiwei met with Chloe Toure.
Dai Zhiwei's flexible reverse buckle change of direction at his feet, and his right-angle fake body at high speed rhythm made Chloe Toure have no time to adjust his center of gravity, and he was successfully broken through.
Seeing that Dai Zhiwei was only one step away from stepping into Liverpool's penalty area, but the next second he felt his body blocked, and then he was knocked to the ground and fell in the penalty area.
"Penalty!"
"Fake fall!"
Anfield Stadium erupted in cacophony.
Chloe Toure innocently stood in place with his hands raised in the air, signaling to the referee that he had not committed a foul and signaling Dai Zhiwei to fake a fall.
"Is it a penalty? Is it a penalty? Let's see what the referee will do! Zhang Haixuan also jumped up from his seat excitedly and yelled at the microphone loudly.
You must know that as a fan of Dai Zhiwei in this game, he is quite depressed, because there are not many shining points of Dai Zhiwei in this game.
Dai Zhiwei also sat on the ground and looked at the referee with his hands spread out his eyes, but he was not sure whether this goal was a penalty or not when he fell - although he was sitting in the penalty area at the moment, inertia made him rush forward two or three meters.
Disappointingly, however, the referee only awarded a free-kick and Kolo Toure was only given a yellow card for Moreno in the box.
Marcelino was also depressed, but the game went on and he couldn't be as reckless as the fans. He quickly pulled past Bruno, made changes to the formation on the field, and brought on Bakambu to replace Soldado, the least present of the game.
Villarreal then whipped in a tactical free-kick, but it was disrupted before it could be shot.
With the help of Bakambu, who can hold the ball up front, Dai Zhiwei's performance is getting better and better, and it is clear that he is not yet a bridgehead, and he is more suitable to play as a shadow striker or winger behind a strong center forward.
"Damn it!"
In a beautiful counter-attack, Pina sent a precise through ball, Dai Zhiwei's jump ball turned and passed Lovren, but Colo Toure took the lead to push the ball off the sideline, and he could only curse in frustration.
The game has reached the 85th minute, and the situation on the field has basically stabilized, that is, Villarreal continues to attack, and Liverpool is based on defense and counterattacks.
Trigueros sent a sideline kick, handed the ball to Dai Zhiwei, and then rushed out with his fastest speed.
Dai Zhiwei used his body to protect the ball, resisted Lovren behind him, and then decisively returned the ball to Triguros, and then went straight into the penalty area.
Liverpool full-back Moreno rushed straight towards Trigueros who was dribbling the ball at high speed on the wing, and the moment he rushed in front of Triguros, Trigueros pulled the ball back with his right foot, and then increased his speed to get out of Moreno's high-speed body.
After Trigueros passed Moreno, Joe Allen had already rushed over, Trigueros did not hesitate, instantly knocked to his left side, sent the ball to the high-speed Dai Zhiwei, and then rushed past Joe Allen.
Dai Zhiwei, who was running with all his might, was running at full speed to complement Trigros's pass, and Dai Zhiwei knocked it again, and Trigueros was already present at the beating ball.
After a continuous two-by-one, Dai Zhiwei also rushed to the penalty area in an instant.
After Triguros got the ball, he still didn't stop the ball, because the Liverpool players also intercepted with all their might, and once they stopped the ball, then they would be caught in an endless struggle.
Trigueros flicked the instep of his right foot and the ball was swiftly sent to the edge of the box, where Bakambu had already picked it up.
Bakambu had already been blocked by Klein, and he didn't choose to grapple with it, and he directly knocked it back.
Pina had already inserted into the middle, and after receiving the ball, seeing that Bakambu had already started, he immediately picked it up high, and the ball crossed Lallana and fell to the left side of the penalty area.
Dai Zhiwei, who had caught up with the horse, had already appeared there, and there was no one in front of him, even Mignolet had just moved his body in this direction.
Dai Zhiwei is facing most of the empty doors!
Dai Zhiwei did not hesitate, opened his bow and arrow, and a heavy cannon was pumped into the middle and lower part of the ball, directly hitting the near corner of the goal.
Mignolet tried his best to straighten his left hand and pounce towards the near corner of the goal, but because of his position, he was obviously unable to stop the ball.
Just as Dai was about to cheer, the ball hit Collo Toure in front of goal, and then the deflected ball deflected off the post.
"Handball! Handball! "The Villarreal players near the penalty area all opened their hands and signaled to the referee that it was a handball.
"Referee, he's handballed!" Dai Zhiwei clearly saw that the football hit Kolo Toure's arm before it missed the goal, and he was also in a hurry, and hurriedly ran to the referee, constantly waving his arms.
"No, it's my body that hits the bottom line." As an old Jianghu, Toure naturally did not admit it, and the players of both teams surrounded the referee.
At this time, the game was close to 9o minutes, and at this last moment, no referee would easily give a penalty, so the referee hurriedly rushed to the assistant referee to communicate with him.
Players from both sides were so nervous in the box that Dai Zhiwei even ran over to stand behind the referee and linesman, waiting for the results of the exchange between the two.
The whole stadium was already terrifyingly quiet, many fans covered their mouths, not daring to make a sound, everyone was waiting for the final decision, Klopp also stood on the white line on the sidelines, and Marcelino walked back and forth a little impatiently, frowning tightly.
Will Liverpool's home advantage play a role at this point?
Just when the Anfield stadium was silent, the referee first stretched out his right hand to point to the penalty spot in front of the goal, and then gave Kolo Toure a red card with a straight face!
Penalty + red card!
"The referee's decision was very accurate, it was a foul in the box, it was a penalty without a doubt, we came to Dai Zhiwei's position, we came to the Liverpool player's position, it was a penalty, a penalty without a doubt. Dai Zhiwei made a difference when he forced Liverpool defender Kolo Toure to handball and Villarreal won a penalty in the 88th minute. Zhang Haixuan, the number one brain-dead fan among Dai Zhiwei's commentators, said with a smile.
“come_on!” After seeing the verdict, Dai Zhiwei clenched his fists with both hands and raised his arms and shouted!
Immediately, he gently placed the ball on the penalty spot from twelve yards in front of goal.
This position is arguably the easiest way to score on the pitch, but it is also the position that puts the most pressure on the players.
Baggio in the 1994 World Cup, Albertini in the 1998 World Cup, Palermo in the 1999 Copa America, David Beckham in Euro 2oo4, etc., these superstars have all fallen on penalties.
Dai Zhiwei slowly retreated a few meters, and suddenly felt that there was not enough starting distance, and then took two steps back, and he was about to exit the penalty area.
At this time, the referee had already blown the whistle, indicating that the penalty could be awarded.
"Whew! Come on! ”
Dai Zhiwei moved at the referee's whistle, he rushed up quickly, and at this time, Mignolet, who was bouncing on the Liverpool goal line, also nervously bent down to spread his hands and try his best to expand the defensive area.
Dai Zhiwei was getting closer and closer to the ball, and at this time he did not look at Mignolet's hand dancing, but stared straight at the left side of the goal.
"This way!"
Mignolet saw the direction of Dai Zhiwei's shoulders and supporting feet, judged from experience, and subconsciously pounced on the lower left corner of the goal.
Mignolet proved to be right, but when he flew away, he could only pounce on the air - Dai Zhiwei took the penalty with the power of a football kick, and the football hung in the corner of the goal!
The Tigers shoot a penalty, and even if you guess the right direction, you won't be able to save it at all!
This is Dai Zhiwei's most domineering penalty kick kick!
“gooooooooooooooooooooooooooa1!” Zhang Haixuan saw Dai Zhiwei lightly bombarding the goalkeeper and sending the ball to the goal, and shouted loudly with excitement.
At the same time, Anfield's few yellow submarine fans also shouted loudly and excitedly, and all the yellow submarine fans jumped to their feet, raising their team scarves and cheering loudly.
Dai also yelled after scoring the penalty, which was the least difficult goal of his career so far, but it was significant.
He was not so nervous when he had staged many stunners before, but he was nervous at the penalty spot for a moment just now, but fortunately, the football still flew into the gate guarded by Mignolet as he wished!
1:1, with an aggregate score of 3:2, the yellow submarine once again took a two-round lead!
Liverpool made two substitutions in succession after that, but they still struggled to recover the disadvantage on the pitch with one less player, and Marcelino replaced Dai Zhiwei with Adrian to consume the little game time left.
Dai Zhiwei walked slowly to the sidelines, applauding the Villarreal fans who had come from afar to thank them, who were clearly happy with the team and Dai Zhiwei's performance, holding up the team's scarf and chanting Tai's name.
It was the second minute of stoppage time.
In the end, Villarreal and Liverpool played 1:1 in this game, eliminated Liverpool with a big score of 3:2 on aggregate, and advanced to the Europa League final with their heads held high!
The next stop is the Battle of the Champions!