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As Lampard rushed forward with the ball, Chu Zhongtian stabbed diagonally and slammed into him, and both of them fell to the ground at the same time, but neither of them was holding their shins, knees or ankles or anything to roll back and forth on the ground in pain. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info They sprang up from the ground almost instantaneously after they landed, ready to grab the ball. They reacted so quickly that the referee's whistle blew late, only to sound when they were back together.

"Toot!"

The referee ran up and pointed his finger at Hoffenheim's goal, which was fouled by Hoffenheim and hit by Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian let go of the hand that was tugging at Lampard's sleeve, and Lampard also let go of the hand that was holding the chest of Chu Zhongtian's shirt. But Chu Zhongtian didn't back down, he stood in front of the football and prevented Frank Lampard's free-kick from being sent quickly.

Frank Lampard did think so, but when he decided to do so, he saw Chu Zhongtian standing in front of the football, and he shouted to the referee who was bowing his head to record the foul.

The referee looked up and saw this scene and waved his hand to signal Chu Zhongtian to retreat.

Chu Zhongtian looked back at his back, his teammates had already set up the defensive formation, and the opponent lost the opportunity to send a free kick quickly, so he retreated slowly.

Lampard was not in a hurry to send a free kick, he ran away with Chu Zhongtian, and threw the free kick to the central defender Alex who came up behind to take the penalty, Chu Zhongtian was still running backwards, Lampard ran past him, Chu Zhongtian didn't look back, continued to turn and retreat, retreated to the right position, he stopped.

Because this foul was quite far from the goal, just past the center circle, there was no need for a crowd wall.

Chu Zhongtian retreated to his position and looked back, Lampard was not far away from him, it was not a deliberate attempt to avoid him, and he did not deliberately want to paste it, because both sides chose the same key point - the middle of the front of the penalty area.

However, Alex did not pass the football like this, he passed it directly to the back post. Malouda, who was there to pick up the ball, stopped the ball on his chest and was about to shoot, but both Srna and Sana pressed up.

He had already lost his best chance to shoot on goal, so he had to turn around and pass the ball out again.

Hoffenheim rearranged the defensive line, Chelsea had no time to drill, so they had to pass back and pass back again, pulling Hoffenheim's formation out, they had been compressed by Chelsea's continuous attacks before, so that the attacking Chelsea had no good way to get into the penalty area.

※※※Time passed quietly in this circle. Chelsea have been goalless but there are fifteen minutes left.

"They had to be fifteen minutes...... If you count stoppage time, it should be 18 to 20 minutes, and in that amount of time, they have to score two goals and not let Hoffenheim score......" The commentator didn't draw a conclusion here, but everyone knows what he thinks in his heart, because many people have the same idea for him - this game is too difficult for them.

So looking back, why did the game come to this point?

Chelsea's tactics are wrong? No, they were strictly guarded against Chu Zhongtian, and their players worked very hard, and they were not affected by the so-called infighting.

But why did you still lose the game?

Hoffenheim's home advantage is one reason. But in the final analysis, it was they who did not play a role in containing Chu Zhongtian.

Whether it is zone defense or man-to-man defense, it is difficult to freeze Chu Zhongtian. He is perhaps the most well-rounded midfielder in world football today, and when the opponent presses him closely, he can complete the playmaking attack without even touching the ball, using him as a magnet to attract the opponent's defensive attention, but leaking the football to his teammates behind him, and when the opponent's attention is attracted by his own team-friend, he runs to the open and can calmly receive the ball.

When he's dribbling forward, if you're afraid of his passing, after trying to keep the defence in his position and back, it leaves him too much space, and when he gets to the 30-metre zone, his excellent long-range shooting ability can threaten the opponent's goal without passing at all.

If you want to guard against his shots and don't let him hold the ball calmly, you have to come up and grab the first shot, and sometimes even go around the front or put more defensive pressure on him behind him. But in this way, there is no space behind him, and he can pass the football directly out at any time, and then turn around and run to receive it, or send the football directly to the empty position behind him. Don't doubt that he doesn't have such abilities.

Defend against shots, can't prevent passes. Sometimes he can also break through with the ball on his own, and this breakthrough combines passing and shooting, either of which is very dangerous. Relying on the combination of these three points alone is enough to give the vast majority of defenders a headache.

In addition, he works very well with the team, and when you think you can block him, he can always cleverly pass the football to his teammates, and a player without a football at his feet can easily get rid of defenders. For defensive players, those who have outstanding footwork, but will only bury their heads in dribbling or kill those who don't pass the ball, are their favorites, one person can't defend, two people come, two people can't come, three people come, they can always drive him to a dead end.

And a person like Chu Zhongtian, who knows very well what he should do in a certain period of time, is very troublesome for them, you don't know if he can pass the ball, and you don't know if he can shoot. Sometimes he tries to shoot, but he just passes the opposing line of the football. There are times when he looks to the right, lifts his left foot, shifts his center of gravity, and all these actions only make the defender conclude that "he must pass the ball that way", and he suddenly shoots.

It's easy to guess a player's movements, but it's hard to guess his heart.

Today's Chu Zhongtian is in such a state. He's at the peak of his career, and he's invincible on the pitch, scoring with his own shots and assisting his teammates to score, as well as defending and attacking. He is at the top of the league and Champions League scorers and assists. He doesn't know how long he can maintain such a heroic state, generally speaking, the decline after reaching the peak is an inevitable trend, which is exactly the same as the trajectory of a dynastic team.

All he could do was try to keep himself like this for a few more years.

※※※Time is passing by minute by minute. If this had been at Stamford Bridge, it would have been a lot of camera opportunities to get into the stands, as some of the home team's fans would have started to leave early. However, this is at Hoffenheim's stadium, and the cameras are still starting to give frequent shots to the stands, this time featuring the Hoffenheim fans who are chanting and celebrating and bouncing around the stands.

As a country team that has only reached the Champions League for the second time and has been unknown for 110 years, they are on the verge of reaching the last four of the Champions League. This is a result that many big teams may not be able to do, but they have done it. Whatever the end result, the night was enough to satisfy them.

Chelsea still scored a goal.

In the eighty-third minute, they finally broke the door of Hoffenheim. Hoffenheim is not Mourinho's Inter Milan after all, and it is really difficult for them to hold on for 30 minutes.

Chelsea started with two consecutive long-range shots to force the attack, Lampard's long-range shot was blocked by Chu Zhongtian with his thigh, the ball fell to the feet of Essien, who was cut in from behind, and he shot from a distance from the goal, this time the ball went straight through the Hoffenheim backline, forcing goalkeeper Nyema to make a volley, but he couldn't drag the ball out and couldn't hit it far, in fact he saved the ball and got rid of it!

Drogba, who had been lurking in the box, cleverly followed, smashing the ball into the goal with his chest before the centre-back Simunic who interfered with him.

The Chelsea fans, who had been silent, could finally give their cheers.

Instead of celebrating after the goal, Drogba shook off Simunic and picked up the ball that rolled out of the goal.

The rest of the Chelsea players didn't celebrate, at most they just came up and patted Drogba on the shoulder and head before running with him into the centre circle.

With seven minutes to go before the end of the 90 minutes, Chelsea are not without hope. There have been cases in the history of football where even two goals have been scored in one minute, so what is one more goal in seven minutes? Besides, stoppage time isn't even counted.

Seeing Chelsea's goal, Chu Zhongtian slapped his teammates and cheered them on: "It's okay! Let's take the opportunity to fight back! Counterattack! Brothers, hold on! ”

※※※After the game restarted, Chu Zhongtian paid more attention to counterattacks in addition to defense.

After that he no longer just stayed at the back and was a turret on the ground, which he felt was too light for the Chelsea backline. He has to press it out and that's the only way to keep the Chelsea defenders honest.

So when his teammates passed the football to him, he didn't make a long pass directly, but made a long pass, but took the football forward and took it out!

"Oh oh oh oh!! Hoffenheim was outraged by this goal! Their captain is back with the ball and attacking! It's not been seen since they scored the second goal! ”

Seeing Chu Zhongtian suddenly dribble the ball to the middle, the Chelsea players who were about to press the attack just now panicked, and hurriedly ran back one by two, and the defenders in the backfield also hurriedly shrank to the middle, wanting to stop Chu Zhongtian.

"He's alone, he lacks support, just close the door!" That's what a lot of Chelsea players think.

As soon as Chu Zhongtian saw that there was no chance to force a breakthrough with the ball, he controlled the football and stabilized the rhythm.

Waiting for the opponent to come up, he grabbed his balls one by one in the back, but Chu Zhongtian was very dead, and he couldn't break it for a while. Frank Lampard rushed up and cut the ball straight from the front, and Chu Zhongtian lost possession of the ball under the siege of four people with their hands and feet, and at the same time the man fell to the ground.

When they were behind, the Chelsea players were angry, and they thought that Chu Zhongtian was not attacking at all, but delaying the game, so when he grabbed the ball, he made a big move. Chu Zhongtian had never fallen down before, and was still stubbornly controlling the ball, and the referee did not blow the whistle. Now seeing that Chu Zhongtian finally couldn't hold on and fell to the ground, his whistle sounded in time.

Hoffenheim won a free-kick near midfield and possession was back at Hoffenheim's feet, and the Chelsea players were back in their own half, not only defending but trying to defend - they couldn't let it go. What if Hoffenheim took advantage of the opportunity to score another goal?

If Hoffenheim scores another goal, it will not be salt in Chelsea's wounds, but in the opening of Chelsea's wounds...... Finally, he can play the ball control opportunity in the positional battle, Chu Zhongtian will not be stupid enough to kick the football into the opponent's penalty area with a big foot, and then let the goalkeeper attack it. How to delay time is the smartest? It's definitely not that the goalkeeper can't kick the ball, it's not that you have to crouch down to tie your shoes when you take a free kick, tie your left foot and tie your right foot, or park the football in the corner flag area with your back to the enemy.

The best way to delay the game is to keep the football firmly under your feet.

Chu Zhongtian did not make a long pass to the frontcourt, in fact, there were not many teammates in the frontcourt, and most of the players were still in the middle and backfield.

He turned the ball and passed it to the defenders, who poured their feet back and forth, and when the Chelsea players came up, they passed it back to the goalkeeper, and after passing the ball, Hoffenheim's backline retreated as a whole to meet the goalkeeper and avoid him facing the opposition alone.

In fact, Nyema was very cautious, receiving the ball, and even though Drogba had just rushed past the top of the penalty arc, he had already passed the ball to the full-back Kolarov, who was picking up his own.

Kolarov didn't have to stay at his feet for too long, and this is when Chelsea are on a big comeback, and a little delay could be targeted by two Chelsea players. He directly gave the football to Chu Zhongtian, who ran from the middle to pick him up.

Chu Zhongtian didn't control the ball for a long time, and turned around and passed the football to the retreating Quaresma.

Quaresma didn't move forward after attracting the Chelsea defenders, but instead passed the ball back to Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian waited for the opponent to pounce again, and then passed the football to Quaresma. Quaresma didn't stop the ball and knocked it back to him.

After a series of small-scale passes, which firmly attracted everyone's attention at Chelsea and aroused the anger of the opponent, Chu Zhongtian slammed the football to the left wing. Salihovic received the ball. At the same time, Chu Zhongtian also jumped up and dodged a black foot from Malouda.

The succession of passes and link-ups made Chelsea feel teased, and with the game trailing and time running out, their defensive moves gradually increased.

After Salihovic passed the ball to Ibisevic, Anelka was brought down from behind and the referee's whistle was repeated.

This is tantamount to delaying Hoffenheim...... in this kind of "active defence", Chelsea have never had any decent attacking opportunities.

There were four minutes of stoppage time, and now the clock is three minutes and thirty seconds left, with thirty seconds left. Football is at the feet of Chelsea, but no matter how you look at it, there is no hope.

In fact, many Chelsea players have already given up, and the last 30 seconds are no play at all.

Only a few are still fighting. Frank Lampard is one of them.

He hooked his hands vigorously at his teammates and motioned for them to pass the ball over.

At the third minute and fifty seconds, the ball fell to him.

Chu Zhongtian rushed up, no intention of fouling, no intention of breaking the ball, as long as he could stop Lampard and force him to pass the ball back, then the game was over.

Frank Lampard didn't pass the ball back, he slammed the slam and opened a gap before he suddenly got up and fired!

The fast Chu Zhongtian didn't react, so he could only turn back to follow the football. He saw that Enyema was already in the air...... "Frank. Frank Lampard - !! The England commentator shouted in a long voice that it was almost Chelsea's last attack, and if the ball didn't go in, maybe the game would be over. Chelsea will be knocked out!

Enyema stretched out his arms and pounced on the football. Then he felt as if the tips of his fingers were touching the football, but the touch was fleeting, and by the time he made the move to pull the ball forward, the ball had already flown by.

In Chu Zhongtian's opinion, the football in the air did have a very slight change of direction, and it jumped slightly...... Enyema has done what he can, and it's up to God to follow.

The ball deflected slightly, and as a result, it grazed the post...... Fly out of the bottom line!!

"The ball didn't go in! The ball didn't go in! The ball didn't go in!! The German commentator went crazy, "Hoffenheim advanced to the semi-finals!! Final Four!! ”

"Final Four !!" The same shouts came from the Hoffenheim fans in the Rhine-Neckar stands.

In such an enthusiastic atmosphere, everyone thought the game was over, and some fans couldn't wait to flock to the lower levels of the stands, intending to get closer to their heroes.

Even the commentators thought the game was over, but there were still sharp-eyed people who noticed something was wrong on the field.

The referee did not blow the final whistle with his arms raised, but ...... Point to the corner flag!

It's a corner!

"Huh? Huh? Corner kick? Is this a corner? ”

"That doesn't make sense...... It's time for stoppage time! ”

Everyone turned their heads to the big screen, where the game time had reached 94 minutes and 8 seconds, and according to the injury time, the game was over in 94 minutes.

Hoffenheim's players quit and they surrounded the referee, appealing to him and motioning for him to watch the time.

The referee shook his head.

The Chelsea players saw hope as Frank Lampard trotted all the way to the line, picked up the ball and placed it in the corner flag area to wait for the referee to blow the whistle for kick-off.

This is the real last chance to attack. Stoppage time was already over, so if they couldn't get the ball in, the game would have been over and the referee would have been booing them for another four minutes of stoppage time.

Rangnick was very unhappy with the referee's decision, and he roared at the fourth official: "If this goal goes in, I will appeal!!" ”

Carlo Ancelotti rushed to the sidelines with his assistant coach and stared nervously at Hoffenheim's goal.

※※※ Chu Zhongtian pulled out his teammates who were going to trouble the referee, and he was about to enter the semi-finals, because he couldn't get a yellow card...... Besides, some teammates still have yellow cards on their backs, what if they are sent off by two yellows and one red for colliding with the referee?

"There's nothing to fight about, just try to prevent this corner. Don't let up, it's the last time, if you stand up, we'll go to the semifinals! He shouted.

Everyone let go of the referee and returned to their positions. Goalkeeper Enyema was directing their position: "Keep an eye on their men! Begin! Pull their clothes! Don't let it in! Also watch out for the people outside, be careful of them and plug them in!! ”

Seeing his team secure the last precious corner, goalkeeper Petr Cech also rushed up to the plate, intending to use his height and bounce to make a difference for his team.

It's not hard to understand why Hoffenheim, from the coach to the players, and the fans to the fans, are so nervous. The classic example of a late corner kick was in the 1999 Champions League final, when United equalised with Cherlingheim's shot and then flew into Bayern's goal from a corner kick before full-time.

There's no guarantee that Chelsea won't be able to replicate Manchester United this time, especially since corners have always been a very important means of scoring.

※※※ In the end, the entanglement between the two sides in front of the goal ended, and the referee stepped back and blew the whistle in his mouth!

Frank Lampard took a deep breath, spit it out and stepped forward to pass the ball with his feet!

The ball arced towards Hoffenheim's goal.

Like a startled bird, there was a commotion in front of Hoffenheim's goal, with Cech, Terry, Alex, Drogba, Camper, Simunich, Pogatts and others jumping for the first time.

Everybody wants to hit the ball.

But Chu Zhongtian didn't jump up at the first time, he observed below, and at the same time looked for a place. When he found the landing point of the football, he jumped out like a rocket ascending into the sky, jumping later than everyone else, jumping faster than everyone else, and jumping even higher!

He quickly got ahead of everyone and shook his head at the incoming ball!

The football was thrown out of the penalty area by him and thrown out of the sideline...... "It's Chu Zhongtian!" He's out of the way! Pretty!! ”

In the shouting of He Ping, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and Rhein-Neckar thundered again with joy, and the belated moment of celebration finally came!

The Hoffenheim players and coaches who had been waiting on the sidelines rushed into the pitch together and went straight to the goal.

And some of the Hoffenheim players on the field even hid their faces and cried because they were too excited, but there was no shame in the tears of joy because of the victory.

Chu Zhongtian, who landed on the ground, heard the referee's whistle, he opened his arms and clenched them into fists, and then swung them into the sky!

Wembley, two games left!

(To be continued)