Chapter 159: Three Minutes and Fourteen Seconds

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When Paulson put Chu Zhongtian to the ground, Emily suddenly got up from her seat, pointed to the arena and yelled: "He should be sent off!" ”

This startled the people next to her. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info some of them knew Emily Stein, never thought that the girl who was pure and lovely on the screen also had such a wild side...... Metz fans were also protesting the referee's decision – he did not give Paulsen a second yellow card, but signalled for Metz to take a free-kick.

In fact, Chu Zhongtian could have rolled around on the ground with his ankles covered, making the referee think that he had been seriously violated, so that the referee might give Paulsen a yellow card.

But Chu Zhongtian didn't care about wasting time lying on the ground now, he almost jumped up from the ground, this posture made the referee feel that Paulson didn't shovel him at all, so naturally he wouldn't give Paulsen a card.

Chu Zhongtian took the free kick quickly, but unfortunately Matthew. Valbuena has just come on the field, although his body has warmed up, but his mind has not yet adapted to the rhythm of the game, and he is not very well prepared for Chu Zhongtian's free kick.

The football was stopped by him and called Daniel. Alves broke off.

Sevilla took advantage of the situation to counter-attack, and they also wanted to score another goal before the game, and the score of 3:1 was obviously much safer than 2:1.

Chu Zhongtian saw that Alves had broken the ball, so he didn't pounce directly, but quickly ran back, and the other teammates also retreated.

Alves passed the football to Marti and continued to attack Chu Zhongtian's side.

As the game drew to a close, the players and coach Ramos firmly believed that the moment when Chu Zhongtian completely collapsed was not far away. When Chu Zhongtian collapses, he can open the gap from this side, and scoring goals is as easy as a snap.

Instead of passing the ball to Marti's feet, he passed it directly in front of Malti and then let Malti chase the ball, which was a way to ensure the speed of the counter-attack.

But Marti didn't catch up with the ball he passed, and the football called Chu Zhongtian to rush over and kick it into the stands.

β€»β€»β€»Chu Zhongtian glanced up at the big screen at Hampton Park, where there were the team emblems, scores and game times of the two participating sides.

The huge number was constantly beating, telling Chu Zhongtian that it was exactly the ninetieth minute now.

There were four minutes of stoppage time, leaving only four minutes for both the Metz team and Chu Zhongtian.

The music in the stands could still be heard with his familiar singing voice, and the guys from Wimbledon were cheering him on in this way.

The Metz fans also sang, and it was surprising that they didn't sing the Metz team song, but sang a song to Chu Zhongtian: "You should know that I am Chu!" for my body is strong like a pillar! Didn't you see me crushing my opponent? After tonight's game, you'll know I'm Chu! Clear! Clear! Clear! Chu-!! ”

At this time, Metz fans pinned their hopes on Chu Zhongtian. The man with the captain's armband never let them down.

This is the first time Mathilde has stood in the stands to watch the game, and it is not as simple as standing, she and the people around her wave her arms and sing this "Song of Chu". She didn't know why she was doing this, and she unconsciously sang along with the atmosphere of the scene.

β€»β€»β€» Juande. Ramos and Jean. Fernandez, the manager of both teams, stood on the sidelines. It's just that there is no one around Fernandes, he stands alone, and around Ramos, more and more people gathered, arm in arm, shoulder to shoulder, excited and nervous waiting for the end of the game, just waiting for the referee to blow the whistle to the end of the game, and then rushed in to celebrate the victory and celebrate their successful defense of the title.

While the people around him were excitedly discussing the championship, Ramos was thinking about a problem.

It's been 90 minutes, do you want to stop there? Stop attacking the right side and shrink the defence instead. After all, the French team attacked Italy so much because they were behind until 94 minutes and 20 seconds. What about your own team? Now it's the lead. Although a one-goal lead is not a guarantee, considering that there is not much time left in the game, this one-goal advantage can still be held. In the absence of time, a one-goal advantage is an insurmountable barrier.

He just regretted that under the team's repeated impact, Chu Zhongtian did not collapse, and from his every action, it was not obvious that he had been injured.

What a pity...... Forget it, if it doesn't collapse, it won't collapse, and it won't affect your team's win anyway.

But it has been attacking like this, and the huge space behind Alves is really worrying.

So he shouted at the field: "Alves!!" ”

The Brazilian heard the manager's shouts and he turned his head away.

Ramos made a drop-back gesture and told him to concentrate on defending from now on and not press easily.

Alves was on the rise, and he was a little unhappy to see the head coach make a gesture of recovery. But he did so.

Seeing Alves retreat, Ramos' heart let go of the last stone. Puerta is not worried about it, because the left side is not the main direction of attack, it is enough to leave a Duda, Puerta rarely goes up, these few minutes seeing the end of the game approaching, he has already wisely chosen to hold the back and not easily assist forward.

Ramos made adjustments here, and Fernandes just gritted his teeth and stared at the pitch without saying a word. He made all the substitutions, and he had already adjusted and strengthened the offensive. He really couldn't think of what was going to happen next.

Now he can only watch the players run and fight the field, and he can't help at all. As a manager, there are times when you are quite weak.

No matter how good the manager is, the key to winning or losing the game is still the players.

β€»β€»β€» "The game went to injury time. It's a bit of a pity, but Metz is getting farther and farther away from the championship trophy......"

Hearing the words of the TV announcer, Legov, who was sitting in front of the TV, snorted heavily.

The daughter was afraid that her father would not be able to stand such stimulation and have a heart attack. Hearing the commentator say that Mace had no hope of winning the championship, he got up and wanted to turn off the TV. She thought to herself that if she turned off the TV in advance, her father would not be able to see the scene that made him sad and angry, so it should not have too much impact on his heart.

Seeing his daughter close to the TV, Le Goff asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

"Isn't the game over?"

"Who told you?" Le Goff glared.

The daughter pointed to the TV screen, a little aggrieved...... "Don't listen to those bastards!" Sit back for me! ”

When the father was angry, the daughter didn't dare to make a mistake, so she could only return to her seat.

"It's not over, it's not over, it's not ...... It's far from over...... she heard her dad whispering.

In the first minute of stoppage time, Sevilla organised an attack. Chu Zhongtian noticed that this time Alves did not run dozens of meters from the backfield to assist. Is this kid tired? Or is it the coach's arrangement?

He turned his head to look at the sidelines of the dugout.

He saw that the managers of both sides were standing on the sidelines, but Fernandes was the only one in front of the dugout in Metz, and on the Sevilla side, it was much more lively. Their substitutes all got up from their positions and gathered on the sidelines, talking and laughing.

Wait for the game to be over and rush onto the pitch to celebrate the victory?

Although I don't understand why Alves didn't press up, the defensive pressure he faced suddenly decreased, and he could go up and attack.

It's just that Alves doesn't come up, and there is no time behind him...... It was an obvious space that could be exploited, but now it is gone, and we have to find it again. The point is that Metz doesn't have the time to deal with Sevilla anymore.

He couldn't help it for a while.

A minute of stoppage time passed and Sevilla were on the lookout. They were happy with the score. But if the score is maintained until the end, Metz will lose the title. And our Chu Zhongtian will also say goodbye to the first European trophy of his career......"

The commentator of Sichuan TV said with some frustration.

Like him, there are commentators from other television stations across the country. They don't have much to say about the way the game turned out.

At the beginning of the second half, Metz was one man less, and it stands to reason that he has been able to hold on to the present with only a small defeat by one goal. But when it comes to the thought of Chinese players bidding farewell to the club's supreme honor in European competitions, few people can still be calm.

Zhou Xiaoxiang was anxious for his son, and every time a player from Metz got the ball, he yelled for them to pass the ball to his son.

Chu Zuosheng didn't say a word, frowned, and stared at the TV screen. Based on his experience as a veteran fan who has watched football for more than 20 years, it is true that a football game cannot be won or lost lightly until the last second, but that also depends on the situation. When you really can't help it, there's no difference between the last second and the last ten minutes. If there is a way, it is that you can't give up until the last second.

Now for Mace, there is really no way. As soon as Sevilla contracted and they had the advantage of having one more man than Metz, the water in front of the box was blocked. can only attack, but the son just passed a ball up, and was quickly kicked out by the opposing defender.

How does this work?

β€»β€»β€» In the second minute of stoppage time, because of Sevilla's retreat, Metz launched a crazy counterattack. But although the momentum is great, it has no effect at all.

Because of the lack of means, the offense is more like a gamble of chance, if we win, we win, and if we don't, it's over.

How can this continue?

Chu Zhongtian wanted to try to control the rhythm, but his teammates no longer listened to his command, if anyone had the ball at their feet, the only thought they could think of was to shoot, no matter where they were, they had to shoot. What kind of passing and cutting cooperation, what kind of running position pulling to find space...... Ignore it all.

In fact, Chu Zhongtian sometimes wants to pass no one, take the ball up and shoot with his feet, and he is a hero when he enters...... But the thought flashed through his mind, and he vetoed it. He's not a sharpshooter with a hundred paces, and he's not known for scoring goals, so it's better to let yourself end the attack at critical moments than to leave it to his teammates to shoot with a greater certainty.

β€»β€»β€» The third minute of stoppage time entered and there was still more than a minute left before the end of the game.

Chu Zhongtian controlled the ball in the midfield, and Paulson didn't come up much to press, because he would leave a gap after he came up, and it was easy for the opponent to take advantage of it. So just stand still and let Chu Zhongtian and them fall outside.

Chu Zhongtian looked to the left, Matthew. Valbuena and Jaiovi were both there, with Valbuena in front and raising his hand for the ball. But he is too far away from him, but that position is not very good, and passing it can also form a threat, but it is easy to be broken, because the opponent is in a defensive position.

He turned his head to the right again. Ribery moves in the ribs, which means to interpolate diagonally. But the problem is that even if he can pass the ball over, it is too far away from the goalkeeper, and the most likely thing about this ball is not to pass to the feet of Ribery, but to Palop who attacked.

What about in between? Menez and Jura were up front, and after Ibisevic went off, Menez became the center forward, and Jura became a shadow striker, and he was fast. But so far, he has not given full play to his speed advantage, because Sevilla did not give him such a chance at all, and Chu Zhongtian could not find a passing route that could make him rush up.

And what gave him a headache was that Sevilla's squad dropped too far back, all pressed outside the penalty area, and there was almost no space to take advantage of.

Or let them come out a little.

He passed the ball back to Teremi.

He then motioned for Teremi to pass the ball to Cabo.

I ran over to answer it.

Juander. Ramos was celebrating the win early and he wasn't carried away yet, and he had a substitution that he intended to use to kill the game.

Dragutinovic (ivica_dragutinovic) was ordered to stand on the sidelines and wait to play. In fact, it's hard to say whether you can play or not...... If the ball doesn't form a dead ball from now until the end of the game, then he won't have to play.

Fabiano saw Chu Zhongtian with his back to him, and thought to himself that this was a good opportunity to break the ball, and the defense couldn't always passively wait for the opponent to attack. As a Brazilian, take the initiative even when defending!

He crept in.

Cabo passed the football to Chu Zhongtian, and at this time he saw Fabiano suddenly appear behind Chu Zhongtian. He pointed behind Chu Zhongtian and shouted, "Be careful! ”

Although Chu Zhongtian didn't know what to be careful about, he knew that it must not be a good thing.

He was waiting to catch the ball on the spot, but Fabiano took the opportunity to overtake the ball from behind!

The football was broken when it fell at the back, which made the hearts of all Metz people hang...... The Sevilla fans were getting excited.

Chu Zhongtian saw Fabiano's back appear in front of him, and immediately pounced. He didn't have the heart to think, "Oops! "It's over!" This boring thought. He has only one thought in his mind now - to break the ball back, and if he can't break it, he will foul! Absolutely do not give the opponent a chance to fight back, once they score the third goal, the game will be completely over.

Chu Zhongtian grabbed Fabiano's shoulder with one hand, and leaned up, wanting to break the ball.

Fabiano is also smart, he didn't break the ball and brought it forward, he knew that it would be easy to lose the ball, he leaned on Chu Zhongtian's body and protected the football.

In fact, he doesn't necessarily want to score another goal, as long as he can control the ball on his side, he can drag the time to the end, isn't it much better than passive defense?

There are quite a few people who share the same idea as him, so almost no one has come up to support him, with the exception of one person - right-back Daniel, also from Brazil. Alves!

Alves didn't hesitate to rush forward when he saw his compatriot break the ball, and even though he had little energy left, the blood of the attack was still burning and boiling in his body.

Fabiano caught a glimpse of Alves, who played the ball to the side and kicked it hard. After Alves chased after him, he found that the football was almost at a dead end, and it was impossible to directly dribble the ball to the Yellow Dragon.

He changed his mind and stopped pushing for any goals, just defending the football and delaying the game.

So at the corner flag, he stepped on the football, and then carried the oncoming defender Cabo to prevent him from breaking the ball.

Cabo, on the other hand, squeezed forward desperately, while also reaching out to pick up the ball from behind. The two people did not give in to each other, so they wrestled in the corner flag area. The stands rang out with boos from Metz fans and some neutral fans, who were outraged by this blatant delay in time.

The balance was quickly broken by Chu Zhongtian, who rushed in, he slammed Alves from behind, and the opponent fell to the ground, touching the football out of the bottom line with his foot, and at the same time he raised his hand to signal to the linesman who was next to him for a foul.

But the linesman was indifferent.

The referee was also indifferent.

In fact, Chu Zhongtian's collision was really a foul, but Alves's behavior before that was obviously a waste of time, so the referee Busaka chose to ignore Chu Zhongtian's foul.

The caddies on site were not young players from Metz or Sevilla, they were completely neutral. Out of sympathy for the weak, they support Mace more. So the football here is out of the bottom line, and the caddie over there has already thrown the football from outside the billboard to the goalkeeper Humby.

The caddie hopes that Mays can pick up his spirits and continue to attack and not give up.

Wambi didn't accept the caddy's kindness, he felt that the team had already lost. Just as he shook his head to place the football, and then stepped back, preparing to kick the goal kick with his big foot, he heard Chu Zhongtian's hurried shout: "Wenbi!" Wenbi! ”

He saw Chu Zhongtian constantly hooking his hands outside the penalty area to ask him for the ball.

The expression on his face was a little anxious, and he kept looking back.

Wenbi didn't know what Chu Zhongtian was going to do, but was there any better idea than handing him the football?

So he gave up the idea of kicking off the ball with a big kick and kicked the football to Chu Zhongtian.

At the same time that Chu Zhongtian received the ball, the time on the big screen at the game site jumped to ninety-three minutes.

β€»β€»β€» Mathilde suddenly stopped screaming or singing, her waving arms were put down, and she changed her way to cheer for Chu Zhongtian. She put her hands together in front of her mouth and prayed to God.

Lord Almighty, if you can hear my voice, please send down an oracle and show him the path of hope...... β€»β€»β€» Alves has no strength, he wanted to run back slowly. But when he turned his head, he saw that Chu Zhongtian received the ball in front of the penalty area, and then accelerated forward to dribble the ball, and the direction of the ball was his own side corridor!

"Damn it! How much stamina do you have! He cursed, gritted his teeth and ran back.

In Chu Zhongtian's opinion, Alves's move of running up this time just to protect the ball was really stupid and unnecessary - he didn't know that Alves wanted to score another goal in the first place.

Now because after he plugged in, he left a huge gap behind him. Compared to Sevilla's airtight defence, it was like opening a skylight...... If you can't catch this, it's really no fun!

Chu Zhongtian ran wildly with the ball, Alves chased after him, as long as he got close to Mace No. 8, he would not hesitate to put a shovel from behind, even if it was a red card, he would stop the other party! Of course, he knows what the void behind him means to his opponent, so he can't let the opponent take advantage of it anyway.

Alves felt as if his throat was going to be torn apart in the midst of such a fierce runβ€”he was too tired. The lungs are burning, and the gait is getting heavy. His speed slowed down.

Then he could only watch Chu Zhongtian's back run farther and farther.

Chu Zhongtian continued to dribble the ball until he saw Marty crosswise in front of him, and then passed the ball to Matthew. Valbuena.

Chu Zhongtian, who finished passing the ball, did not stop running, he changed direction and continued to insert forward from the ribs.

Valbuena passed the ball to Chu Zhongtian and did not carry the ball himself.

Chu Zhongtian, who got the ball, suddenly made a sudden stop and flicked the football to the inside with the outside instep of his right foot, so that he dodged Paulson, who was waiting in front of him to throw himself into the net.

He also broke through in a straight line to a horizontal dribble.

Maresca blocked the inside and didn't allow him to shoot. At the same time, Navarro also has the intention of coming up to assist the defense, and it is not possible to let this man carry the ball so easily in the front of his penalty area, it is necessary to increase the pressure on him.

Menez glanced at Navarro, who had been running out of the box, who had been in the middle, but now suddenly turned from the middle and ran to the left.

He and Chu Zhongtian came up in the direction of a cross, and when the two of them ran to the overlapping point in parallel positions, Chu Zhongtian suddenly used his right foot to pass the football to the left, which was completely opposite to his own direction...... With an unexpected dunk pass, the ball passed past Maresca and Escud and was caught by Menez, who ran behind the defence.

Because Alves rushed to the front and didn't have time to return to the defense, there were no defenders at all here. Menez adjusted after receiving the ball and turned his body towards the goal.

"Beautiful pass--" The commentators from all over the world who were in charge of commenting the game at the scene became excited.

Menez adjusted his direction and continued to dribble inside. Goalkeeper Palop attacked, and defenders Escud and Navarro threw down their original defenders and pounced on him.

Menez faced the attacking Palop with a crooked body, raised his foot and shot!

Palop fell to the ground and pounced into the near corner of the goal, but the ball flew past his feet, making a less obvious arc and flying towards the far corner of the goal!

Everyone got up from their seats and watched as the ball flew past goalkeeper Palop's foot and into the goal behind him...... The excited smiles on the faces of Sevilla's substitutes disappeared. Mathilde maintained a posture of prayer. Belmont gritted her teeth, her eyes widened, and she looked into the arena with clenched fists. Le Goff's heart had stopped beating, but he didn't care, he just stared at the TV screen, nothing else. Chu Zhongtian finished passing the ball and ran two more steps before stopping, then tilted his head to let his eyes go around Maresca, watching Menez shoot, he gasped, he couldn't tell whether it was sweat or rain, and the water droplets fell down like falling beads, but they only dripped halfway and stopped in mid-air. Even the rain line in the sky froze and maintained a static attitude, and the rain curtain broken by the football flying low in front of the goal had not yet closed, leaving a clear trajectory in the rain line.

Time froze in this second.

It was three minutes and fourteen seconds of stoppage time, and it was 93 minutes and 14 seconds of the game.

Even if there is no God, no Buddha, no hope, and no love in this world, at least there is a man who will never give up.

(To be continued)