In the five minutes before extra time, the camera focused on Diego Simeone in the stands several times, and the Argentine boss was unable to enjoy the treatment of the semi-final because he was not at his home stadium, and he had been outside the top box of the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium.

Although it is difficult for the camera to completely lock on to him while sitting in the crowd of spectators who are constantly shouting and cheering, through the limited close-up clips, everyone can still easily find that Simeone's face is not good-looking. Perhaps in his pre-game plans, the chances of this game making it to the playoffs should be extremely low.

It's just that today's lightning goal from Torino disrupted Atletico's pre-match deployment, and the Italian team's strategy at both ends of the attack and defense repeatedly hit their own key points, which were also greatly unexpected by the world famous coach. However, Atletico's overall strength still had the upper hand, and finally seized the opportunity to equalize at the beginning of the second half, but then failed to score again due to insufficient adjustment, allowing the game to drag into extra time.

Excluding the predecessor City Expo Cup, there have been a total of 10 extra times in the 59 Europa League finals, including the previous UEFA Cup (including the second leg in the early two-legged format), which is not a high percentage. According to the statistics of the five major leagues over the years, draws can account for between 21% and 23% of all matches, which is higher than the final of the second most important club competition in Europe.

There were six brutal penalty shoot-outs to determine the winner, and only four of them came in extra time, but those included Liverpool's own goal in 2000-01, La Liga side Alaves in the Golden Goal, and Jose Mourinho's Porto silver goal in 2002-03.

It is worth mentioning that when Atletico Madrid won the competition for the first time in the 2009-10 season, it was thanks to Uruguayan striker Forlan's right-footed goal in the 116th minute that defeated Premier League side Fulham, becoming the fourth La Liga team to win the Europa League after Real Madrid, Valencia and Sevilla. (PS: Barcelona won the City Expo Cup in 1958, 1960 and 1966, but UEFA did not count the results before 1972 in the history of the Europa League, so Barcelona unfortunately did not enter the ranks of the club's Grand Slam honors)

Although it has been eight years since that final, veterans such as Juanfran and Felipe Luiz, who participated in that game, are still in the team, and Gabi, Godin, Koke and others have also experienced the whole process of winning the championship for the second time in 2012.

Therefore, after Kujpels blew the whistle for the start of extra time, most people were still more optimistic that the Spanish team could have the advantage.

The game also basically confirmed everyone's predictions, although the Golden Ball and Silver Ball system were abolished, and the extra time was left for half an hour for both sides to fight for goals, but the atmosphere of extreme caution still hung over Lyon's Parc Olimpico stadium, and in the first fifteen minutes, the Torino team did not even score a single goal. Thankfully, Antoine Griezmann and Koke each had a shot off target, otherwise the fans would have fallen asleep.

However, Atletico Madrid, who took the initiative on the field, did not use their full strength, Partey and Gabi almost did not press the halfway line in the second half of extra time, and the average age was very concerned about the counter-attacking speed of the Torino team, and they were unwilling to risk the defensive tightness to strengthen the attack. In particular, in the 112th minute, Matchli's through ball almost set up Immobile to form a one-on-one goal, which clearly frightened the Atletico players and forced them to pay more attention to their own defence, and there have been no bright spots since then.

When the game reached the 117th minute, the head coaches or assistant coaches of both sides seemed to remember that they still had a substitution in their hands, and at the same time played their last cards.

Farke replaced Silvestri and Torino switched to a 4-3-3 formation, with Canneman making a cameo at right-back, which he was not good at, but there was little time left to have a negative impact. The purpose of this personnel change is quite obvious, with the Spanish winger with a penalty ability of 15 to replace the team's most unreliable right wing-back on the 12-yard line, and Li Moody's idea of setting up a penalty shoot-out is obvious.

Atletico's substitution strategy is the same, the team's spiritual leader Torres came on to replace midfielder Koke, in addition to wanting the legendary captain to experience the atmosphere of the final for the last time before leaving, but also because T9's ability to take penalties can rank in the top three in the team, and he is a trustworthy candidate at critical moments.

After 120 minutes, the score was fixed 1-1 on a large electronic display above the stadium, and the two sides had to decide the winner of this year's Europa League through the most brutal penalty shoot-out.

The list of referees is gradually being generated in the tense scheduling of the coaches of the two teams, and the 22 players on the field are sitting on the turf to seize the time to adjust their physical functions, and the masseurs and other coaching staff members of both sides are also all out to relax the leg muscles of the fighters who are about to step into the battlefield.

In the BBC broadcast room, Lineker and Rio Ferdinand were also using the brief gap to analyse the future of the game, with the former Manchester United centre-back believing that the penalty shoot-out was too unpredictable to tell which team would emerge victorious.

Lineker, on the other hand, revealed information from the Italian media, saying that the Red Bulls had focused on penalty shooting in the days leading up to the game and looked to have some advantages. However, this statement was not agreed by Ferdinand, who said that this ability is largely innate, and it is difficult to improve through temporary practice, and the main test is whether the main penalty is mentally strong enough, and of course there is some luck in it. In terms of mental attributes such as willpower and composure, Atletico Madrid are undoubtedly the better side, but Torino are not completely out of chance, as they also have a great goalkeeper.

Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu are also popularizing science about Casillas's magical experience in saving penalty kicks, and Zhan Jun, who has the title of football encyclopedia, mentioned in a fluent voice like a few treasures that the former Real Madrid captain has saved the Galaxy Battleship and the Matador Army many times in the duel of the 12-yard line. In the quarterfinals of the 2002 World Cup, he saved three penalties from Irish players, in the quarterfinals of the 2008 European Championship, he blocked De Rossi and Di Natale in succession, and in the semi-finals of the 2012 European Championship, he faced Portugal and let the fifth penalty Cristiano Ronaldo not even qualify for the game......

Although the overall penalty saving efficiency is slightly inferior to Buffon's, but looking at the penalty shootout alone, Cassie is undoubtedly No.1 in the last 30 years, the only two defeats came in the shocking match-fixing match with the picklese nation in 2002, and the other was eliminated by Bayern in the semi-finals of the Champions League in the 2011-12 season, and the rest were easily won.

At this time, the order of the main penalties on the spot has been determined, and Atletico Madrid, who won the coin guess, did not make the mistake of three years ago again, they chose to take the penalty first. According to past statistics, the winning rate of the first team in penalty shootouts has reached 60%. In 2016, Atletico were given the right to pick in the Champions League final against Real Madrid, but opted for a penalty that was later considered one of the key factors in the eventual loss, and today they clearly learned their lesson.

As Casillas stood calmly in front of goal, and Atletico Madrid's first penalty captain, Gabi, took two steps back from the ball, everyone turned all their attention to the half-time penalty area used by Torino in the second half of extra-time, while waiting for the whistle to signal that the penalty was ready.

Thanks to the prompts of the FM system, the Torino coach can clearly observe the order of the opponent's penalties, and I have to say that the overall penalty ability of this team is really very strong. Gabi (16), Diego Costa (15), Juanfran (13), Antoine Griezmann (13) and Torres (15), if the first five rounds are not decided, followed by Saul (12) and Godin (11), Atletico Madrid undoubtedly have a very high chance of winning in penalty shoot-outs in this generally not very high value world football.

On the other hand, the Red Bulls, Li Muddy has tried his best to put together the strongest team of five people, they are 15 Falck, 13 Baseli, 13 Fabas, 15 Immobile and 14 Belotti. Judging from this list alone, there is not much difference between the opponents, but even if the sixth choice is the big one, Barreca, who is only 10, can be a try, and the rest of the players on the Torino field are no higher than 8 penalty ability, and the prospect is very worrying. So they have to settle the battle within the regular rounds, otherwise tragedy is likely to begin.

Gabi was arguably the best penalty taker in the game, and his push into the bottom right corner of his hand was not very fast, but the angle was extremely tricky. Even if Cassie was right, the extreme side-lunge failed to touch anything but air. Atletico took the lead and had a psychological advantage.

Throwing out the difference in the player's ability to take penalties and the factor of luck, the main factor affecting the outcome of the penalty kick is psychological pressure, which is not really unpopular knowledge, but anyone who has a certain understanding of football will understand. But in practice, few people really take it as an important thing, and in the elimination of Italy against Spain at Euro 2008, Buffon also chose to take a penalty after drawing the right to choose. But Li Mudi very much agrees with this conclusion, he is very eager to get the right to punish first, but unfortunately luck is not on his side.

However, after becoming a relatively unfavorable side in terms of probability, it does not mean that the Torino team has lost the initiative to win, in addition to the possibility of entering a penalty shootout like a moment of life and death, and strengthening the practice in this area before the game, Li Mudi has another killer weapon to use.

In the 2006 World Cup host's clash with the Pampas Eagles, the German goalkeeper coach at the time, Koepke, handed Lehmann a small note, which showed the world the importance of knowing the opponent's penalty habits before the game.

Although Atletico Madrid's coaching staff and goalkeeper Oblak must have studied several important players of the Torino team thoroughly, Torino is not a vegetarian here, and the results of the work of the two sides in this regard are basically in a state of half-heartedness, and no one can take too much advantage. But Li Mudi obtained another classified document from his good friend Zizou, and this could be one of the biggest help for the Red Bull to finally stand on top of Europe.

On the night of the Champions League final three years ago, the Real Madrid team found that the Slovenian international had a very bad habit before saving a penalty, that is, before saving a penalty, Oblak would often unconsciously move a small step in the direction of his final save. Although this behavior does not occur every time, the probability of doing so is as high as 60% or more until at least 2014. So four of Real Madrid's five players chose to run slowly, and after seeing the Atletico goalkeeper take that small step, he kicked the ball in the opposite direction, and the result was an easy victory, starting the curtain of consecutive titles.

After that game, Oblak should have received feedback, and deliberately suppressed his inherent habit when facing penalties in the next few times, but occasionally "relapsed". And after changing the original habit of saving points, the success rate of his penalty saves has also dropped significantly, and the changed method not only makes him lose the extra speed increase brought by that step, but also does not increase the accuracy of direction prediction too much, except for avoiding the weakness of being caught by the opponent, there is no other benefit.

Therefore, after judging that the Atletico goalkeeper is likely to subconsciously use the original habitual moves again on such an important stage today, Li Mudi told the players in advance to choose to take the medicine according to the prescription, and also observed Oblak's movements in a slow way.

Although this trick did not pay off in the first two rounds, when Falke, Costa, Baseli and Juanfran took the penalty in turn, the Slovenian goalkeeper, who judged the right direction twice in a row but failed to touch the ball, finally returned to his old habit, allowing Febas, who was relatively weak in penalty ability, to seize the opportunity to easily hit the ball.

3 to 3, after three rounds, none of the players from the two teams missed, and the atmosphere of the final moved towards a suffocating direction in an extremely tense state.