Chapter Seventy-Five: Overtime
More than 10,000 Gossau fans at the scene released their long-suppressed mood and cheered in unison, and the excited Eggman also rushed to the sidelines, beating his chest to respond to the cheers of the fans; The fans of AC Milan collectively lost their voices, and the constant danger in front of the AC Milan goal had made their nerves tense all the time, and now they finally conceded the goal, and they had a deep sense of powerlessness. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
At this time, there was a commotion on the field, several AC Milan players gathered around Pirlo and anxiously called the team doctor over, Arauyo's heart suddenly tightened, he asked the team doctor to hurry up to check the situation, and he himself poked his head on the sidelines and watched Pirlo's body on the ground with concern.
The team doctor went to check and found that Pirlo had cramps, and his fitness was exhausted, and he was in danger of injury if he continued to kick, so he motioned for Arauyo to make a substitution, and Arauyo waved his fist in frustration and had no choice but to replace Pirlo with Rosicky on the bench.
Pirlo was carried off the field on a stretcher, he covered his face with his hands, looking very depressed, although he instigated a goal today, but most of the time he was firmly frozen by Antunovic, under the frequent physical confrontation with Antunovic, his physical energy was consumed quickly, and in order to avoid Antunovic, he ran more than usual today, so his physical energy was exhausted early, and he kept holding on, until Gosau scored just now, he finally couldn't hold back.
Arauyo stepped forward and asked about Pirlo's situation with concern, and only after learning that he was okay did he put his mind at ease, and in the last round of the league a few days later, he was still counting on Pirlo's performance. Pirlo is getting older, he has always wanted to find a replacement for him, he bought Rosicky, but Rosicky has been injured frequently since he came to Milan, and he has become a standard glass man, plus he is also nearly 32 years old, and he cannot be the hope of the future; He bought Judson again, but Judson was acceptable, but he didn't have the talent, so he had no choice but to continue to use the 34-year-old Pirlo.
Fortunately for Arauyo, Abbiati has stood up after the emergency treatment of the team doctor, and can continue to play, this news makes Arauyo very pleased, he has used two substitutions, if he replaces Abbiati, he doesn't know that with the current intensity of the game, his group of veterans can last until the end of the game, and now there is still a substitution in his hand, he is a little relieved.
Rosicky was very active after coming on the pitch, he hadn't played for a long time because he was often injured, and AC Milan's main midfielder was Andrea Pirlo, he wanted to show in this crucial game, as soon as he came on the pitch there was a long-range shot from outside the box, which was very threatening, and was saved by Reiter, and then he took a corner kick, which also caused chaos in the Gossau penalty area, but his performance ended there, because Antunovic immediately clung to him and actively sought to fight his body, This feeling annoyed him, he was a temporary replacement for Pirlo, and he did not warm up sufficiently, and the frequent physical confrontations made him feel that the muscle that he often strained in the back of his thigh began to ache again, and for the sake of caution, he stopped asking for the ball frequently, which made his performance fall silent all of a sudden.
After the goal, the morale of Gosau took advantage of the situation to launch a fierce attack on AC Milan, AC Milan's formation was suddenly pressed back into the half, even Judson had to often retreat to help defend, seeing that AC Milan had not many offensive players in the frontcourt, Xiao Yang immediately replaced the right-back Gugelman with Lima, adding an attack point that can take the ball in the front, he hopes to solve the battle in 90 minutes.
Arauyo is very painful, in fact, he also hopes to solve the battle within 90 minutes, but now the situation of AC Milan is not very good, many players are close to physical exhaustion, and the midfield brain Andrea Pirlo has also been replaced, they are really powerless to counterattack, in the face of Gosau's aggressive attack, Arauyo can only helplessly use Paraguayan central defender Cáceres to replace Paloski, who scored in the first half, to strengthen the defense.
Seeing Arauyo's substitution, AC Milan President Berlusconi, who was sitting in the box of the stadium, waved his hand angrily, and cursed in his mouth, he was very dissatisfied with Arauyo's performance, he has been in trouble in recent years, and he planned to use the first League Cup in the team's history to make himself happy, but he didn't expect AC Milan to be forced like this by such a team that he couldn't even name, and now he is humiliating in the case of a draw to replace the striker with a defender to strengthen the defense. He was determined that if the team didn't qualify for the Champions League this year, he would let Arauyo out of the way and that he would never invest a lot of money in the team again.
The desire of the coaches of both sides to end the game in 90 minutes was not achieved, and in the last ten minutes, Gosau's offensive wave after wave, but AC Milan's captain Gattuso burst out with great power, and when the players on the field were a little unable to run, he ran from left to right alone, ran from the middle circle to the penalty area, and kept destroying Gosau's offensive, plus Abbiati still played well, AC Milan withstood Gosau's attack and did not concede the goal.
AC Milan had two counter-attacking chances, both of which were due to their lack of attacking numbers up front, while Gosau's two centre-backs were very attentive and ended up with a hasty long-range shot that did not pose much of a threat to the Leiter goal.
Five minutes into stoppage time, referee Graf raised his wrist to look at his watch and blew the whistle at the end of the 90 minutes, with the score 1-1 and 30 minutes of extra time. The players dragged their heavy steps to the sidelines one by one, and the coaches and team doctors of both sides hurriedly pounced on them and seized the time to massage the players on both sides.
In the 8th minute of extra time, Ribeiro rushed forward on the left side, broke through Flamini's defense, and handed the ball to Lima in the middle before Bonella pressed up, Lima took the ball past Rosicky who stepped forward to defend him, and just before he was about to burst into the penalty area, Gattuso rushed out of the diagonal spur and knocked him to the ground. The crowd of Gossau fans booed, believing that Gattuso had committed a deliberate foul and deserved a yellow card, so he turned two yellows into one red and was sent off.
Lima jumped up from the ground and glared at Gattuso, how could Gattuso show weakness? He also glared at Lima without giving in, seeing that the two were about to clash, but fortunately, players from both sides surrounded and pulled the two apart. The referee awarded a free-kick from the edge of the box and verbally warned Gattuso, but did not show him a second yellow card. In response to the decision, the Gossau fans booed in dissatisfaction, while the AC Milan fans interrupted the Gossau fans with applause.
Ribeiro stood in front of the ball, waited for the referee's whistle to blow, and after two steps, he slammed his left foot into the bottom left of the ball, which made a beautiful arc, crossed the wall and plummeted into the near corner of the goal.
'Ribeiro started running, he shot and the ball went in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let's take a look at the slow motion, beautiful, it was a world wave, the ball was hit into a dead corner in the absolute sense of the word, grazed the crossbar and the post and drilled into the goal, and Abbiati, who was excellent throughout the game, could not do anything about the goal. Coach Xiao Yang's adjustment was immediate, and his extra-time substitution of young player Ribeiro played an important role, it was his insertion that caused the free-kick, and it was he who scored the free-kick himself. Gossau has a large number of outstanding youngsters who stand in stark contrast to the ageing AC Milan squad. ”