Chapter 250: Penalties

Fifteen minutes to go......

Give it a go.

Starler Solbakken walked to the sidelines again and gave orders to his teammates to press them all.

An effective but also dangerous way to deal with the Iron Bucket Formation.

However, looking at the movement of Jena in the first half, Starler Solbakken was not too worried, and it was obvious that he could not play a quick counterattack.

So after leaving Jéromel in the backfield to watch Niels, the rest of the Cologne team suddenly pressed into Jena's half.

Heiko suddenly had a feeling of familiarity.

Isn't this the way your team dealt with the Bundesliga team?

But......

Without Ye Xin, you dare to make this move, are you too confident.

Starler Solbakken didn't know what Heko was accusing him of, and he was now watching the situation intently.

With fifteen minutes to go until half-time, he was hoping his players would be able to break through Jena's goal in the first half.

Starler Solbakken's approach had to be very effective, and the defensive line, which had just been unusually strong, suddenly crumbled a little after Cologne's full force pressed it.

It didn't take long for Cologne to finally tear a hole open.

Miatek was once again a defensive black hole, and after Kristint Simon realized that Miatek wasn't fast enough, he began to break through endlessly with the ball, and he forced his speed to eat Jena's left side.

And every time someone went to help with the bag, he directly took the ball and rushed forward to the bottom line.

Bottom cross.

Although Kristin's crosses are not very beautiful, they are not able to withstand the number of crosses, and because he usually attracts two players and crosses, Jena is actually in a state of one less person outside the penalty area.

Then all sorts of grabbing points were staged in front of Jena's goal.

Cologne's forward line did not disappoint their manager, as they grabbed three points in just ten minutes.

In the 34th minute, Cologne midfielder Mato Garro grabbed the ball and volleyed straight into Jena's goal, then ...... Ye Xin took the ball into his arms.

In the 37th minute, Cologne striker Novakvich leaped to the top, and the football flew like a cannonball towards Jena's goal, but Ye Xin once again shattered their dream.

In the forty-second minute, Cologne striker Novakevich grabbed the front point again, although the jump was a little far from the goal, but the football still had strength, and it was another efficient header, and then it was taken away by Ye Xin again in the regret of the fans.

Starler Solbakken stood on the sidelines in a daze, he felt a cool breeze blowing behind him, was this too strong?

For a moment, he suddenly felt that he had underestimated the strength of this goalkeeper.

No, something will happen if it goes on like this, although Cologne has just played a lot of attacks, but Jena still counterattacked once, but the goalkeeper on his side also performed very well and decisively held Niels's shot.

However, Starler Solbakken decided to stabilize first after thinking for a while, Ye Xin's strength made him a little confused, and just as he was about to let the players resume their initial tactics, a whistle came from inside Jena's penalty area.

Starler Solbakken wiped his eyes vigorously and quickly looked towards the referee when he saw his love have knocked Podolski down in Jena's box.

Penalty kick!

Haha, that's good! Well done!

At this time, the Cologne fans were also excited, and the defenders of Jena finally made a mistake and gave their home team a big gift.

What does a penalty mean for Cologne?

It's definitely a goal.

And the morale that was just rubbed to the end by Ye Xin has regained its morale, and you have three excellent opportunities to pounce on us, but this time it depends on how you pounce, Novakevich, Podolsky, Shehi, etc., Cologne has penalty takers.

The atmosphere at the Rhein Energy Stadium immediately soared, and the fans, who had just been made a little dull by Ye Xin, began to get excited again.

Starler Solbakken's brow furrowed at the moment, and he looked at the time, with two minutes left before the end of the first half, it seemed that Cologne could go into the second half with a one-goal lead.

And with only one goal ahead, Starler Solbakken thought about it, and he decided to disgust Jena too.

Iron Bucket Array, yes, I'll play it for you, too.

Starler Solbakken looked triumphantly at Jena's head coach Heiko, who must have been overwhelmed.

It's just that things didn't turn out as he imagined.

At this time, Haike was standing on the sidelines with a flat face, without the slightest negative emotion.

Do you want to pretend like that, you got a penalty, okay?

Starler Solbakken looked speechlessly at this already famous mouth-cannon coach in Germany, mouth cannon and bluff are always twin brothers, you think you can't score the ball if you pretend to be calm.

Could it be that this mouthpiece naively thought that the goalkeeper named Ye Xin could save the penalty kick of the Cologne striker?

Starler Solbakken had a hint of sarcasm on his face, knowing what Podolski's penalty success rate was, 94 per cent.

That's not your seventeen-four.

And sure enough, it was Podolski who took the penalty this time.

After the referee coordinates everyone's positions, he takes the ball and places it at the penalty spot.

It's just that he didn't choose to shoot immediately, but took two deep breaths and exhaled, he was clearing the distractions in his heart.

Usually he doesn't have so many names, but this penalty made him feel a little awkward.

Because although he created this penalty before the end of the first half, he felt a sense of unease haunting him from the moment the referee awarded the penalty.

Jena's players were so calm that they didn't panic at all when a penalty was awarded, and the defender who pulled him down didn't even blush, and there was no shame in his eyes.

Isn't it worth reflecting on the act of giving the opponent a penalty even though he didn't eat a card?

How did this team with no sense of team pride get promoted from the Bundesliga to the Bundesliga?

Podolski was full of question marks, but he stood firmly in front of the football.

This penalty must be scored by himself, as a core player of Cologne, he is quite aware of a very bad phenomenon in Cologne now, the tiger cat phenomenon.

In the first half, everyone was very energetic, but in the second half, I don't know why, everyone began to get lazy, and even they would become less like to run, which was caused by Cologne's physical training being too relaxed, although everyone knew it in their hearts, but few people were willing to point it out.

People like to be lazy.