Chapter 144: No Victory

"Opportunity! With no Stuttgart defenders in front of Thiem, this was Karlsruhe's best chance of the game! Come on, Tim! Well done Federico! Jermaises was extremely excited, and Federico, who had been suppressed, actually broke out in full force at the last moment, and "abolished" the opponent's two central defenders in a row.

Thiem took two steps and found that the opposing goalkeeper Hildebrand was also starting to run out, and he knew that he could not wait any longer, so he immediately raised his foot and prepared to shoot.

However, for the sake of safety, he kicked directly to the far corner of the goal, and the ball was very fast, and even drew an arc of the ball and hung it in the far corner of the goal. Although Hildebrand, who had already attacked, pounced on the far corner, he did not touch the football due to the arc of the football, which made him extremely frightened, but after a while, he was overjoyed.

"Good chance, this ball is here, Tim he's going to be Karlsruhe's savior, gooooa ......, uh......" Jemaith suddenly choked again, the ball was about to fly into the goal, a head appeared in front of the ball, after hitting this head, the ball changed direction, and then grazed the post and flew out of the line.

Thiem's shot flew off the line and the man who saved Stuttgart was none other than Del Pierre, who rushed back to goal at the end of the day and blocked Thiem's shot with his head.

Hildebrand got up and hugged Del Pierre, thanking him for his late comeback.

'It's a shame that if Thiem could have scored that goal, Karlsruhe would have won the game and now normal time is coming to an end. It looks like they're going to go to extra time, but now that Karlsruhe's players are at the bottom of their physical strength, the whole game is likely to be decided in extra time. Duan Yixuan looked pity after Thiem's shot flew out of the bottom line, he really hoped that Karlsruhe could score as soon as possible to end the game, the more it dragged on, the more unfavorable it became.

"It's a pity, but there is no way to do it, so the game gradually returns to the situation where you can only rely on Ah Feng, I hope they can hold on." Zhang Lu is also not optimistic about the situation in Karlsruhe now, Wu Feng has played very well, but he is always just a goalkeeper, and he can do limited in attack.

"But if it can be dragged out to the penalty shoot-out, then Karlsruhe has a better chance of winning, and hopefully Federico and they can hold on."

The normal 90 minutes passed quickly, with three minutes of stoppage time remaining, but the deadlock between Karlsruhe and Stuttgart continued.

At the referee's whistle, the two teams rested for another 5 minutes before starting extra time.

In just five minutes, Becker did not set up a new tactic, he knew that the players had bottomed out at this time, and now they had to rely on their willpower to persevere.

On the other side, Almin said directly to the players: "I believe that now you all know that the players in Karlsruhe don't have much physical strength now. We've got to settle them in extra time and I don't want to drag the game to penalties, you know? Attacking with all their might, they simply didn't have the ability to stop us. Kill them in one fell swoop, and get on! ”

Extra-time soon began, with Becker using the last substitution to replace the exhausted Thiem with Cohen, who was also hoping to hold on to the deadlock in extra-time and have a better chance of winning the game if it goes to penalties.

Now Karlsruhe's formation has also changed to a bus formation that they hated before, and even Capalani has returned to his own half to help the defense, and he has no physical strength to attack.

With Karlsruhe defending with all their might, Stuttgart did not gain a bigger advantage in the first half of extra time and could not score the ball.

Soon 15 minutes passed, and the score was still 0-0 at the end of the first half of extra time, and the deadlock continued. Becker looked complacent, everything was going according to his plan, and in 15 minutes, their odds of victory would increase to 8 percent.

However, Almin was very anxious, constantly walking back and forth in the coach's box, and from time to time loudly commanding the players to attack, which became a stark contrast to Becker, who sat calmly in the coach's box. He also knows a little about Wu Feng's penalty savings, coupled with Wu Feng's world-class performance in this game, he is very worried about the penalty shootout, which is too unexpected.

Soon the two sides exchanged venues, and the second half of extra time continued.

But the Karlsruhe players were all panting and exhaling, and the 15 minutes were already their best effort, and now except for the substitutes at the back, the rest of the players' legs were as heavy as lead.

In the second half of extra time, Stuttgart's players also consumed a lot of physical strength, and their morale was getting lower and lower.

It seems that both sides have formed such a "tacit understanding" agreement, and in the last 15 minutes, the game was relatively dull, and there was no such intensity as a normal game.

However, the fans are very understanding of the comparison, they have been playing for almost 120 minutes, where is there still so much physical strength, and the two sides played the last league game three days ago, and now they can continue to run, that is hell.

As the referee's whistle blew, extra time was over, but the score was still 0:0 and neither side scored a goal.

The players of both sides were lying on the turf at the moment of the whistle, and they were struggling to recover every moment, and the final penalty shootout was even more testing for them.

Karlsruhe's five penalty kicks are easy to choose, and now the key is Wu Feng, who is the goalkeeper, he is the most critical one, whether they can win depends on his continued magical performance, but he doesn't have too much to worry about, Wu Feng has also saved a few penalties in the game this half season, which is not difficult for him.

After a short break, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart both selected their penalty kick players, Karlsruhe's penalty players in order were Wu Feng, Capalani, Federico, Haag, Porcello, let the goalkeeper be the first penalty shooter in the penalty shootout, Becker also opened the first case, it seems to be seen that he trusts Wu Feng, and he wants to solve the penalty shootout as soon as possible.

Normally, goalkeepers are not selected for penalty shootouts unless they go all the way to the end, because this can easily affect their saving status, but Wu Feng personally asked Becker for the first penalty.

Stuttgart's penalty shooters were Gomez, Hitzelsperger, Pardo, Hilbert and Cacau. Both teams have a core or veteran to check the first and last balls, just to win the game better.