Chapter 359: Italian Lore!
Lu Poyu, now this is your team.
Just four months ago, except for a few people in this team, such as Li Huitang and Chen Zhenhe, no one knew who he was, at that time, as the coach, Yan Chengkun did not hesitate to offend Captain Li in order to balance the interests of the team, and did not let him enter the team, so that he had to go from Shanghai to Nanjing, and return to Shanghai from Nanjing to play the tryouts to prove that he has the ability to play football-
The people present are all his seniors, even if they rely on his foolish identity, then they are also brothers!
But now, most of his teammates recognize his value as a core player, and even the spiritual leader when Captain Lee is not there!
Be benevolent, don't let the teacher!
Lu Zhuhu held the ball, brushed his wet hair behind his ears, solemnly put the ball on the 12-yard point, and slowly took a few steps back, waiting for the referee's whistle.
Venturini rubbed his palms almost constantly, as nervous as a prisoner being sent to the execution ground.
The Italian fans are no longer afraid to look at the field, they cover their faces with their hands weakly, but they can't help but peek through their fingers, as long as the referee's whistle blows, it will scare them. Even Mussolini in the box had words in his mouth, as if he was praying to God—
Amusing! How could someone like him believe in God!
All the players of the Chinese team gave way to space and kept their distance so that Lu Zhuhu could be calm. Several Japanese housewives screamed excitedly, and Lu Zhuhu stretched out his hand to signal them to be calm, so they all immediately shut up.
Penalties are both honour and responsibility, and it is impossible without pressure. Lu Zhuhu never thought about evading the responsibility when it came, but while waiting for the whistle, he suddenly thought that he didn't seem to score the last few penalties.
Once for Tottenham, then for Ajax and not in.
Do I need to change my penalty strategy? It's not a big brainless shot, but a bit of rhythm or feints?
Or maybe—
When I was a little distracted, the referee's shrill whistle sounded!
Lu Zhuhu didn't seem to hear it, and after a second of pause, his feet started and ran to meet the ball!
Raise your long legs and shoot arrows with a bow!
Venturini's strategy of saving penalties seems to be the same as that of Zhou Xianyan or his national team junior named Buffon, who is ready to save on which side before Lu Zhuhu throws the ball out!
He chose to bet on the left!
The moment the ball left the Tiger's shoes, Venturini was already leaning to the left!
But this time, whether he fell to the left or to the right, he was destined to guess wrong, and Lu Zhuhu's ball was hoisted to the middle!
Spoon! It's a spoon again!
In terms of pretense, skill, and weightlifting in penalty kicks, there is nothing that catches the goalkeeper off guard more than this way of "rubbing" the ball instead of "picking" and hanging it to the middle!
If the punishment is good, it is naturally wonderful, and it is praised, but you can pretend to fail and be prepared to be ridiculed by the audience!
It wasn't the first time Lu had used a spoon penalty in a match, and the moment the whistle blew, he didn't even think of any other way – it was already the best way to show off his extraordinary skills.
The goalkeeper had indeed been deceived, but the moment the ball was rubbed up, he knew it was high, and could only hope that it would be a little lower and grazed the crossbar. But under the gaze of him and everyone in the audience, the unusually slow ball hit the lower edge of the crossbar after crossing an arc!
"Bang!"
It's unbelievable that the ball came from his self-proclaimed "wonderful" right foot!
The ball didn't hit the crossbar and into the net, but fell vertically!
Venturini saw Lu Zhuhu's ball heading for the middle, and the moment he fell, he already felt that he was finished, and he had completely lost the possibility of remedy.
Almost instinctively, he raised his hand and flicked it gently, and Lu Zhuhu's ball was dialed out!
Penalty kick! Penalty kick! Penalty kick!
Venturini has made a meritorious service, Venturini has made a meritorious service! Don't give the Chinese team any chance!
- The great Italian goalkeeper! He started the glorious tradition of the Italian door gods!
Gianluca Pagliuca, Sebastiano Rossi, and Gian Luigi Buffon will all be possessed by the soul of this benevolent brother one day and one day in the future!
Venturini alone he represents the long history and tradition of Italian football, in this moment he is not fighting alone, he is not alone!
The audience couldn't believe what they were seeing!
Lu Zhuhu missed the penalty!
This is the third time in a row that he has missed a penalty!
Lu Zhuhu's first reaction was to rush up to make up the shot, but Baldo's reaction on his side was even faster than him, and the Italian midfielder, who was played by Lu Zhuhu all over the field, grabbed the ball in front of Lu Zhuhu and cleared the ball!
The Aftermath of the Italian Catastrophe!!
"How can the ball be punished!" Bao Jiaping, who created the penalty, blurted out in shock, completely unable to understand Lu Zhuhu's choice!
But the game was not over, Baldo's ball was quickly caught up by the fast-running Piccini, he almost had to run out of his lungs, Liang Rongzhao fell down and shoveled him with a foul to stop Italy's counterattack, but Piccini still kicked the ball to the left front court before falling to the ground!
Gabriotti chased hard, and he and Cai Wenli, the 100-meter champion of East India, started a fierce speed competition, but in the end, Gabriotti took the lead! He also knew that Cai Wenli's foul was imminent, so he didn't dare to bring more, and he also kicked across the half court and kicked to the right side!
In the panic, the control of strength is certainly not accurate, and the Chinese audience can only hope that the power is too great, rolling out of the sideline, so that the team has time to organize the positional defense. Marquini on the right side is also desperate, his body has been leaning back and running, and he really stopped the ball before the ball was about to go out of the bottom line, but it was already the limit of what he could do to stop the ball, and he almost fainted in front of him as soon as he stopped, and the defenders of the Chinese team also hurried to the penalty area in a few seconds after stopping the ball, and Malquini couldn't wait for them to finish their position, and hoisted the ball into the penalty area.
Lao Tan was also observing the landing point of the ball while traveling, and he was confident that he could win the competition with the opposing player, but then he was stopped by Scarabello, the center forward who was ridiculed for offside and didn't understand it, and the two collided - Scarabello thought that he couldn't fight with Tan Jiangbai, so he simply died with him, and the opportunity was given -
Frossi in the middle lane!
The ball speed is very fast, and Frossi has no time and room to adjust, rushing up is to kick and eject!
Zhou Xianyan worked hard to block!
Although it touched the ball, the force was so great that the ball did not change its path and still crashed into the net!
Italy!
91 minutes to complete the stunner goal!
Frossi was going crazy, and he finally, finally, for the second time in the finale, stepped past the man who seemed to be almost omnipotent, and scored a stunning goal!
He took off his jersey and celebrated wildly, the jersey was even torn open with a huge tear, and the Italian fans in the stadium screamed, and the Imperial Stadium was fortunately unroofed, and if anything, it had been stomped down by their crazy leaping footsteps!
Even now there is the illusion that the earth is falling!
"Viva Italy!"
'God bless Italy!'
“Forza! Forza! Forza!”
The Italian fans hugged each other with tears in their eyes and congratulated each other on this hard-won victory, which was incredible! It is really God who blesses the glory of Italy!
A minute ago they were still worried that their beloved team would be killed by the damn Chinese, but a minute later, it was them who celebrated wildly, crying and becoming Chinese!
Not to mention Italy, even in the eyes of the Chinese, it is completely impossible to understand Lu Zhuhu's penalty choice in the face of a god-given opportunity:
So limp and powerless!
Not even a little angle!
Such a ball, let alone a professional goalkeeper who has undergone rigorous training, is someone who has never been exposed to football, like us, even a dog, I'm afraid it can be stopped, right?
It is no wonder that today's fans do not understand the subtlety and mystery of the spoon penalty, because it was not until the 1976 European Championship final that the famous Czechoslovak star Palenka invented the spoon penalty in the game against West Germany, and finally the Czechoslovak team also successfully won the cup. But few people have used this method since then, and in the semi-final of the 2000 European Championships, Totti used a "spoon" in the penalty shoot-out against the Netherlands to completely play Van der Sar, and Italy advanced – all of a sudden greatly increasing the popularity of the spoon's penalty kick. In the eyes of Italians, the people who use the spoon best are naturally Italian players, Totti, Pirlo, etc.
Lu Zhuhu just wanted to use it on Italy this time, it was just a class axe, which was ridiculous.
Of course, in the face of Italy, there are also successful spoon tricks, the one scored by Zidane in the 06 World Cup final is, and even the trajectory of Lu Zhuhu's penalty today is very similar to the one that Zidane played Buffon, both of which hit the crossbar, but Lu Zhuhu's luck is undoubtedly too bad, and Zidane's one bounced directly into the net.
In the eyes of supporters, I am afraid that Lu Zhuhu has chosen to surrender in advance, so he will give such a bad penalty with no strength and no angle!
It's just that because Lu Zhuhu has saved the team from fire and water many times before, they really can't scold.
All you can do is look up at the sky and hold back two tears that are unwilling to fall in this way.
Lu Zhuhu witnessed almost the whole process of how Italy used fast, wide passes to finally send the ball into their own net.
The moment the ball fell into the net, his mouth was full of bitterness, his knees were weak, and he almost knelt on the court.
In the end, he did not kneel as if to atone for his sins, he stood still, and the wood was like a wooden carving.
……
Penalty, don't score, the opponent counterattacks, lore. Such dramatic scenes appear on the football field almost every year.
In 2013, a British team contacted Lu Zhuhu, who was still playing in the J-League at the time, and sent him an invitation to play in England. That team is called "Leicester City", also known as "Fox City". Lu Zhuhu is never lacking in enterprising spirit, and it is naturally very good to be able to go to the UK to meet a bigger stage, but it is a pity that Leicester City is a team that plays in the Championship.
Yes, to say that the level of the Championship is still higher than that of the J-League and the Chinese Super League, not to mention that the Foxes are the best in the Championship. But Lu Zhuhu told his girlfriend, who is also his agent Ning Shuangxiao, that if it wasn't for the first-class league, he wouldn't go.
What's more, I've seen a lot of your routines, and when I go, I sit on a cold bench until I get old.
Leicester City were not annoyed, they didn't know where to get the information, and they were not less interested in the AFC Champions League, saying that it didn't matter, next season, that is, in the 13-14 season, we will be the top league team.
Maybe we'll be able to win the Premier League title with you.
Lu Zhuhu felt that the other party was just a joke, and he didn't take it seriously. But on 12 May of that year, Watford and Leicester City played that season's Championship promotion play-offs, a game that was billed as "worth hundreds of millions of pounds" (because of the Premier League's huge broadcast share). Lu Zhuhu finally found the live broadcast source in the middle of the night and watched the game that could determine "where he will play next season". Of course, although he didn't know what Leicester City was before, it didn't prevent him from being a three-month old Leicester City fan on this day.
Leicester beat Watford 1-0 at home in the first leg and were 2-1 in the seventh minute of stoppage time in the second leg – Leicester City will reach the promotion final with away goals. Leicester also won a penalty in the last minute......
At this time, Lu Zhuhu was a little excited, and even felt that he would definitely be able to land in the UK next season and sit on the cold bench in Fox City - he once planned to wake up his girlfriend and let her share the joy of "home team promotion" with him.
As a result, Leicester City's No. 24 Nox Elt shot the ball was still saved by the opposing goalkeeper Almunia, and the follow-up shot was defused again, Watford took the opportunity to launch a quick counterattack, and after a series of cooperation, Diney scored with a strong volley in the penalty area!
Lu Zhuhu watched as Watford eliminated his "home team" Leicester City and reached the promotion final!
So Lu Zhuhu's dream of landing in the Premier League for the first time was shattered, and it seems that the Premier League champion Fox City can only win it a few years later.
Of course, Leicester City was finally promoted to the Premier League the following season, and it was too late to recruit Lu Zhuhu, who was half the world popular that summer and went directly to Real Madrid. (Well, China is half the world!) )
Leicester City won the Premier League in the season, and Lu Zhuhu also won the Champions League at Real Madrid - although they missed out for a while, they finally achieved great results for each other.
Just thinking of that defeat, Lu Zhuhu was sad for two months.
Unexpectedly, in the Olympic finals today, he actually saw the scene that was completely similar in front of the TV that day!!
And the culprit is none other than himself!
The cheering, watering, and scheming with the opposing goalkeeper by the female fans are all useless! His tricks only make him look ridiculous!
Even if you die, you won't be able to give an account to the 450 million people!
Since his debut, he has suffered the most painful defeat! - There is something more painful than that, but it is not the game itself.
Seeing Lu Zhuhu's dejected and stunned appearance, someone walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder: "Break the prisoner, don't be like this, there are still two minutes left in the game, and it hasn't yet-"
"It's over!"
Lu Zhuhu was stunned and looked at Dai Linjing who spoke to him.
The one who was thrown two tea bowls by him and must be dragged to Germany, the first to lead the Chinese team to the World Cup, and also failed, Mr. Dai.
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