Chapter 160: Overtime

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"Chu Zhongtian suddenly stepped forward with the ball!" The commentator of Sichuan TV shouted. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 "This may be Mayz's last chance to attack...... If...... If this attack can score, Metz will drag Sevilla into extra-time...... If not, Sevilla can keep the football firmly under their feet and drag it until the end of the game......"

Although it was only a third party, there was still a hint of nervousness in the voice of the commentator of Sichuan Station.

Zhou Xiaoxiang lowered his head, not daring to look at it, for fear of seeing the picture of his son's failure.

As an old fan who has experienced the baptism of Chinese football, Chu Zuosheng has a very good psychological quality. Such a moment only made him a little nervous, but not to the point of not daring to look at it. He stared at the TV screen, his eyes following the figure of Number Eight on the screen.

β€»β€»β€» "This is Chu dribbling the ball!" Alves chased after him...... But unable to catch up, the Brazilian's pace has clearly slowed down...... He can't run! He can't run!! The British commentator said.

The Wimbledon fans in the stands did not stop singing, but sang louder and louder.

"This is a song for those who stand firm in their faith!"

"Sing for Chu who never flinched!"

"There is no doubt that the game will get tougher and tougher......"

"Luck will not befall ...... again"

"But he never gave up!"

"Loud-sound-point-!!" Jackson waved his arms and motioned for his fellow men to be louder and louder. "Let him hear us!"

β€œits_my_chu――!!!”

In the song, Chu Zhongtian was galloping, running as fast as he was now, and he got rid of Daniel, who was chasing after him. Alves.

β€»β€»β€»"Two over one...... Stop him! The Spanish commentator yelled nervously. When he saw Chu Zhongtian suddenly dribble forward, he didn't expect him to insert it into Sevilla's hinterland so quickly.

An instinctive sense of danger came over him, and as a professional commentator who has commented on countless football matches, he was no stranger to such scenes. It's a desperate gamble in a desperate moment, and this kind of momentum must be taken with care, and if the defenders take it lightly, it can lead to tragedy.

"Lateral dribbling...... Watch out for his long-range shots, or watch out for the far wing, he could move the ball over, and there's Ribery over there! ”

No wonder the Spanish commentators were nervous, he had seen Ribery's power. Because just last summer's World Cup, Frank. Ribery's first World Cup goal was scored by shaking off the Spanish international Iker Casillas, who is known as "Saint Igor".

Sevilla's fans also made noise, constantly making noise, wanting to interfere with Chu Zhongtian.

It's a pity that they don't know that Chu Zhongtian at this time can't hear anything except the sound of his own breathing.

β€»β€»β€» "Horizontal dribbling...... Pass the ball! Beautiful...... Jeremy. Menezβ€”"

The narrator's voice on the television rose sharply an octave.

Equally excited was Le Goff, who was sitting in front of the TV, clenching his fists and shouting, "This is the best chance!" Brat! This is the best chance, and this is the last chance! ”

The daughter looked at her father worriedly, for fear that he would be overexcited and have another heart attack.

But it looked like her father was ruddy, which was normal.

On TV, Menez received the ball and turned to adjust, then brought forward - a certain Metz fan in the stands clasped his shoulders, hands on his chest, clenched into fists, staring nervously at the pitch, the muscles in his face twitching unconsciously. This is Menez's reaction after receiving Chu Zhongtian's pass, and it is also the performance of many Metz fans, all of whom have been nervous and forgetful...... "Jeremy. Menez! Jeremy. Menez, Menez, is Menez...... He shoots...... Jeremy. Menez! Jeremy. Menez! Jeremy. Menez! Jeremy. Menez Jeremy. Menez Jeremy. Menez Jeremy. Menez Jeremy. Menez - ! The commentator on French national television was already screaming hoarsely, but he was still shouting the name, because the man he kept repeating had just sent the ball into the goal!

"Ahh

When she saw her father's ugly face, she hurriedly poured the medicine she had been holding in her hand into her father.

"Daddy!"

Le Goff waved his hand and replied weakly to his daughter: "I won't die until I see Metz win the championship, ha......"

β€»β€»β€» There were Sevilla players standing in place, raising their arms to signal that Menez was offside, but they did not see the linesman standing in place with the flag held high, nor did they see the referee who raised his arm to signal that the goal was invalid. The linesman was running towards the halfway line, and the referee turned around and threw his hand into the centre circle - the goal worked!

Separated by two layers of backline, Chu Zhongtian watched the whole process of the goal, and then he fell to the ground with weak knees. This time it was really all the energy that was drained, he didn't feel that way when Sevilla FC scored, and after his team equalised, he felt powerless.

His heart was beating violently in his chest, and he could feel it. It's a thrill of escaping death. Before, they seemed to be sitting in a car that could only keep accelerating, rushing towards the abyss in front of them, and now the broken car finally braked when half of the body leaned out of the cliff, and as the driver, he breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, he felt a dull pain in the muscles of his left thigh, twitching and twitching, reminding him that the strain before the game had recurred.

Menez, who scored the goal, looked so excited that he took off his shirt and ran all the way to the underside of the stands where the Metz fans gathered. Then he threw his jersey into the air, ** his upper body, and kept waving his fists.

His teammates swarmed after him, catching up with Menez in front of the billboard and shouting at the Metz fans in the stands.

It was a team-saving goal, and it can't be overstated.

After sitting for a while, Chu Zhongtian got up from the ground, he didn't want others to see that he was injured, he kicked back hard, although it hurt, it was not that he couldn't hold on. So he ran to his teammates who were celebrating their goal.

Ribery was outside the crowd, and when he saw Chu Zhongtian running over with grinning teeth, he laughed and hugged him: "You did a great job, Chu!" It's true! I almost gave up...... Ha ha! Now we've got 30 minutes to score! ”

Metz fans in the stands flocked to the Metz players below, who, like the players, waved their fists and shouted "Forward, Metz!" Forward, Crimson! slogan. Let the heavier and heavier raindrops fall on their faces, into their mouths and eyes, they don't care, they want to vent their long-suppressed emotions, and celebrate the moment of the rest of their lives.

Half of Hampton Park was caught up in this irrational frenzy, and the other half were stunned, unable to accept the drama for a moment.

Sevilla fans were already celebrating their team's success in defending their title in advance, but with 46 seconds left before the end of the game, Metz equalized and dragged the twisty final into extra time!

Juander. Ramos stood dumbfounded in the rain, letting the growing rain wet his hair, face, and clothes, and the rain ran down his neck and into the inside of his clothes, but the cold sensation did not bring him to his senses.

He had planned to emulate the French team in the 2000 European Championship final and keep pressing to defeat Chu Zhongtian. Unexpectedly, the game lasted ninety-three minutes, and Chu Zhongtian was not defeated, but his own team Sevilla was defeated.

Didn't he get injured three days before the game? Why did you play such a high-intensity game, and still be able to run dozens of meters with the ball at the last moment and launch a deadly offensive?

Sevilla's substitutes, who had been standing on the sidelines waiting for the momentum to celebrate the victory, were now overwhelmed and dazed, unable to believe that their team had gone from leading to equalising, and if nothing else, the game would have to go 30 minutes of extra time.

Dragutinovic, who was originally tasked with using this substitution to delay time, stood on the sidelines in a daze, but he didn't expect his playing time to change from less than a minute to thirty minutes, and he really didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing...... On the other side, Metz's bench became a sea of joy, and Ibisevic rushed to the other side of the pitch to celebrate the goal with his teammates. Metz's coaches also hugged each other and shouted excitedly.

At the entrance of the players' tunnel, Promans, who had been standing there watching half the game, was very nervous, because it was his red card and a penalty that ruined the team's future, and if the team finally lost, he really didn't know how to face his teammates.

Now it's okay, Chu Zhongtian and Menez saved him.

He jumped up from the ground excitedly, and then wanted to run over and celebrate with his teammates. He didn't get his wish because he was stopped: "You can't go out!" The staff waved at him.

A person who is sent off the pitch with a red card does not mean that he cannot stay on the pitch, but that he is not allowed to even set foot in the area on the sidelines, in short, he can only move in the players' tunnel or in the dressing room.

Now Promans was very happy, but he didn't care about such a trivial matter, he stood there and clenched his fist and waved it vigorously. He couldn't celebrate with his team-mates, but as long as the team could equalise, he was happy.

The late goal was a fatal blow to Sevilla's players, and when the referee signalled for them to restart, everyone was listless and unmotivated.

Thankfully, the referee waited for Sevilla to kick the ball out before blowing the whistle for the end of the 90-minute game. Otherwise, if this state continues to develop, even if you give Metz three more minutes, maybe Metz will be able to score again.

Before extra time, both teams have five minutes to rest and adjust, and the head coach will set up the tactics himself.

Sevilla's players can use those five minutes to regain their composure and then prepare for the remaining 30 minutes.

And Fernandes also regained his composure after the initial excitement. The situation he faced was much more difficult than that of Sevilla.

Although the game was dragged into extra time, many players were already exhausted and could only hope that the five-minute break would allow them to recover some energy.

For the next 30 minutes, the 10 men will have to keep the goal clean and try to drag the game into a penalty shootout. So the overtime tactic that Fernandez arranged for the team was to defend.

As soon as Chu Zhongtian walked off the field, he asked the team doctor Tang Ji for ice packs.

Hearing his request, Tang Ji tensed for a moment: "Is it aggravated?" ”

Chu Zhongtian nodded lightly: "It's just a little bit......

Without saying a word, Tang Ji grabbed Chu Zhongtian's left thigh and pressed it down on the injured part. "It's good that the muscles aren't torn...... Does it hurt? ”

Chu Zhongtian shook his head: "It's not very painful, it's just a little bit, compared to when the game just started, it hurts." ”

Tang Ji nodded, wrapped the ice pack around Chu Zhongtian's thigh with transparent tape, and applied ice to the injured person.

Then Chu Zhongtian returned to his teammates and listened to the head coach's tactics for the second half. Ribery, who was next to him, glanced at the conspicuous ice pack on his leg, and then asked in a low voice, "Is it serious?" ”

Chu Zhongtian shook his head: "Just in case." ”

Not far away is the area where the Sevilla players gathered, and the Sevilla players sat around to meet their head coach Juan de Ander. Ramos is in the center.

Ramos is building up the morale of his players.

"It's not a big deal to get leveled...... Ramos said it a little unconfidently, because it would be uncomfortable for anyone to capsize and fall overboard when they are about to reach the other side of victory, but in order to revive the morale of the team in extra-time, he must say something that is not even acceptable to himself. You know, they have one less person than us and have a greater physical exertion than us, so it was still us who had the advantage in the 30 minutes of extra time, and if we were patient, we could score their goals! ”

The analysis was correct, as Metz played 48 minutes with one man less, and in the 48 minutes they were constantly bombarded by Sevilla, and their physical strength was long depleted. If they were to play like this for thirty minutes, it would be a matter of time before they collapsed.

Yes, Ramos used "collapse" again, only this time he didn't think that the person who collapsed was Chu Zhongtian, he thought that the whole team of Mace would collapse. As for Chu Zhongtian...... He didn't plan to continue to use the tactic of putting pressure on Chu Zhongtian in overtime, because it turned out to be useless!

The five minutes passed quickly, and Ramos wasn't sure if the players were really back to normal, but he didn't have time to continue to build up mentally, so he had to put the players on the pitch and keep encouraging them: "Solve them in extra time, you can do it!" ”

On the other side, Fernandez grabbed Chu Zhongtian, who was about to play, and he had already removed the ice pack tied to his thigh.

"How's the thigh?"

Chu Zhongtian kicked his leg hard and let the head coach see the effect. "No problem, sir."

Fernandes smiled: "I love championships, but I don't want you to miss half a season for this. You know. ”

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "Yes, I know." Mr. ”

"Let's get on the field, there's still thirty minutes."

He was pushed onto the pitch by Fernandez.

β€»β€»β€» "It's unbelievable that the ten-man Metz actually dragged the game into extra time at the last minute!" Although on a sober analysis, extra time may not be a good thing for them...... But now we have to applaud the courage of the Metz team and their performance in the last moments! They made it a great game for us and we were able to look forward to it! The neutral British commentator was full of praise for Metz's performance, everyone likes to be mentally retarded, and in front of the defending champions, Metz is clearly the likable underdog.

"Six minutes ago, Sevilla thought they had successfully defended their title, but now they are in extra-time like their opponents. It looks like the defending champion is really not easy to do. Since Real Madrid, no team has been able to defend the UEFA Cup for almost two decades. Metz's late goal reminded us of that once again, was it providential? ”

The commentators have expressed their opinions on the peak and loop of this final.

The referee on the field has already blown the whistle for the start of the game.

The overtime of this final kicked off.

As soon as extra time began, Ramos rushed inside from the sidelines and shouted: "Keep attacking!" They have no strength! ”

It is not known whether the players of the Metz team still have the strength for the time being, but it is not the Metz players who are the first to drop the chain, but the referee, the Swiss Busaka.

Just five minutes into overtime, he suddenly fell to the ground during a run, then clutched his calves with a painful expression. The closest man to him was Sevilla's player Canoute, who quickly ran over, skillfully lifted the leg that the referee was holding, and then pressed down hard - the referee was cramping...... Because of this sudden incident, the game was interrupted for about three minutes.

The final solution was for the referee to go off the pitch and the fourth official, Bertolini, to step up.

"Even the referee has cramps, which shows the intensity of this game......"

Thanks to the cramping referee, players from both sides, especially Metz, had an extra three minutes of rest.

The game restarted, and the game was stopped before the ball went out of bounds because the referee himself fell to the ground, so the resumption of the game was due to the falling ball.

The format is the same as the jump ball in basketball, except that in basketball the referee throws the ball upwards, while in football the referee releases the ball and lets the ball fall freely. Another difference is that the competition for the jump ball in basketball is very fierce, while the falling ball in football is more like a formality, there is no smell of gunpowder, but there is quite a spirit of mutual humility.

Before the crash, Metz and Sevilla themselves assigned a player to participate in the drop. On Mace's side is Chu Zhongtian, and on Sevilla's side is Canute, the enthusiastic person who just pressed the referee's legs.

The referee then called the two of them together and told them to resume the game by dropping the ball. Everyone is not a rookie who doesn't know what a falling ball is, so Canute generously said that he would give the ball to Metz, because the referee fell to the ground in the Metz half, if he didn't give up the ball to the other party, but took it himself, and launched an attack, it would be too unsportsmanlike.

Chu Zhongtian had no objection to this. Next, the referee let the football fall, Chu Zhongtian got out of the way, and Kanute kicked the football out of the sideline.

He still forgot that the two teams are now competing for the championship, so you don't have to be too polite, so he kicked the ball at a very high level, very close to the bottom line, and it was basically a tactical corner. Sevilla can press up, press Met's throw-in at the back and break it when the time comes, but no one can accuse them of being unfair.

The game was resumed after a crash, and with 20 minutes to go until the end of extra-time, could Metz, who had one man less, really get his wish to hold on to the penalty shoot-out?

(To be continued)