Chapter 179: Copa Libertadores: Champion! (Medium)

This goal conceded completely sobered up Boca Juniors.

Bianchi stood on the sidelines and yelled, they seemed to suddenly get the hang of it, and after the restart, they unleashed several waves of dangerous attacks.

Fortunately, Rojas had anticipated a possible counterattack, and he instructed Kaka and Rico to recycle and return to the wing-back position to actively assist the defence.

By now, the team can no longer be expected to continue scoring goals. Fabiano, Ricardo and Ricardinho are all exhausted and now he just wants his team to maintain the 3-1 scoreline and drag it out until the penalty shoot-out.

Rojas looked up at the clock, and now the game was in the 84th minute. Including stoppage time, it can't be more than 10 minutes.

Will the team be able to withstand the pressure in the last 10 minutes?

To be honest, he didn't know the bottom of his heart.

Bianchi continues to deploy his troops, and he uses Pedro as a striker. Larli replaced the exhausted veteran Kania in an attempt to strengthen the attack. Everyone can see that he is not willing to be taken into a penalty shootout.

Rojas thought about it for a moment and finally chose to defend solidly. He used the more defensive midfielder Marco. Antonio replaced Ricardinho, and the signal was very clear: everyone steady, steady!

Sao Paulo no longer had the strength to press up front, and the overall defence began to retreat.

Boca Juniors certainly want to change the scoreline, but they also face a lack of fitness and the team's thinking is not uniform, some players are already thinking about taking penalties, others are in a hurry to attack, which makes their attack a bit disjointed.

Little by little, the game is coming to an end.

In the 88th minute, Rojas replaced Luis with youngster Tardelli. Fabiano.

The fans in the Molumbi stands also took a break for the time being, waiting for the penalty shoot-out.

Ricardo was still running on the field, but his pace had slowed to the limit. Now he didn't even have the strength to sprint, and his legs were like lead.

But he is still relentlessly looking for opportunities. He doesn't want to play a penalty shoot-out, and if possible, he certainly wants to settle the battle in 90 minutes.

But he didn't get much support. Most of his teammates couldn't run.

Rojas replaced Tardelli, not expecting Tardelli to score, but hoping that Tardelli could run more and press more in the front court, so as not to let Boca Juniors organize the attack too comfortably.

Even Rojas didn't want to risk fighting, so what could Ricardo change?

Steal yourself and then dribble through a dragon to score? Unless it's in the middle of the game. Now he has to kneel with the ball in two steps.

So what can he do, he is also helpless.

Both sides, who are physically exhausted, are now playing like amateur teams, both performing poorly, relying purely on will.

Soon the fourth referee raised the electronic card with three minutes of stoppage time.

Unlike people's impression that South American football is always full of violence and rough actions, although both sides of this game are very hard, there are not many fouls, there is very little time for dead balls, and 3 minutes of stoppage time can be said to be more reasonable.

In the 92nd minute, Boca Juniors won a well-placed free-kick up front. This may be their last chance to attack, and if they do, they can kill the game, so Boca Juniors committed heavy reinforcements to ambush in the Sao Paulo penalty area, and most of the Sao Paulo players also went back to defend, with only Ricardo roaming around midfield waiting for a counter-attack.

Delgado took the free-kick, he used his right foot to play a ball with a considerable arc, Cheney did not dare to rush out to pick up the ball, the ball spun to the back point, several people jumped up at the same time to fight for the top, and finally Lugano won the spot. His header was very powerful and the ball flew far out of the box.

Seeing this, Ricardo immediately ran back, but he was able to touch the ball before the opposition player could get into place, and instead of dribbling himself, he passed the ball to the right side, where Rico was cutting in at high speed.

After getting the ball, Rico took a big kick, he only came on in the 60th minute, and at this time he was still full of energy, and he took advantage of his speed, eating Rodriguez raw and running all the way.

Seeing this great opportunity, several Sao Paulo players also stepped forward at high speed, echoing each other from afar.

Many fans in the Molumbi stands stood up and watched the ball with bated breath.

In the blink of an eye, Ricardo ran past the halfway line, parallel to the opposing two central defenders, Schiave and Korosa, carefully keeping it offside, and frequently looking back at Rico.

After Rico crossed the halfway line with the ball, he found that Ricardo was in a good position and had little time left, so he was ready to get up and play a straight pass behind him.

Ricardo understood, suddenly paused and ran back two steps, making a gesture to retreat to respond, and when Schiavi followed him back, Ricardo suddenly turned around and headed for the penalty area, mustering up the last strength to sprint, and instantly threw Schiavi away

At this time, Rico passed the ball! He passed a long pass over the top!

The ball was so well passed that it was a stroke of genius, and as soon as Ricardo lifted his leg, he lightly unloaded the ball.

"Ruike long pass! Very beautiful stopping, Ricardo's stopping action is always so pleasing to the eye. The commentator of Globo Sport Brazil exclaimed.

As he stopped, both Schiavi and Korosa were moving closer to Ricardo, who felt a little garlic under his feet, and he quickly glanced to his left, where he was running alongside Burdisso in the box.

With Kaka's speed, it was only a matter of time before Burdisso overtook him, so Ricardo no longer hesitated and poked the ball with his toes, and the ball rolled diagonally in front of Kaka.

Sure enough, Kaka accelerated again, distanced himself from Burdisso, and caught up with the football.

"Ricardo passes, Kaka makes a single cut!" The Brazilian commentator shouted almost screaming.

Kaka took a step and pushed with the arch of his foot!

Abondanherri jumped up as quickly as if the soles of his feet had pressed a spring, but his hands couldn't touch the ball.

Argentina's fans are in their throats.

"Whew!" With a muffled thud, the football smashed on the crossbar and also on the hearts of São Paulo fans.

"Oops, beam!" The narrator shouted in disappointment.

The football bounced back, roughly in the direction of Ricardo.

But Ricardo quickly judged that the ball was not easy to handle on his own. Shoot straight with your leg up? The ball was too high and too far off the mark. Header? It's too short again, and the height of the ball is only up to his waist. Stopping the ball? It's easy to stop big and get ruined by Skiavi next to you.

Maybe that's all there is to it.

In the midst of everyone's stunned gaze, Ricardo suddenly lunged forward, the ball sliding past him, but his legs were already swinging backwards.

He was in mid-air, almost parallel to the ground, face down, and hit the football with his heel!

It was by no means a standard shooting move, so it was done very reluctantly, but he hit the ball!

The ball flew backwards towards the goal at a faster speed than when it came, and under the horrified gaze of the Boca Juniors players, Abondancheri quickly got up to make a second save with extraordinary reaction speed, but after all, he was a beat slower!

"Dysprosy!" The referee blows the whistle and points to the centre circle.

When Ricardo got up, he stood where he was, arms raised, proud and handsome as an ordinary god!

"Licardo goalllllllll! Wonderful, great, terrific goal! Incredible goal! The Brazilian commentator couldn't find the right words to compliment," said Ricardo in the second countdown of the game. ”