Chapter 49: After the Race (114/134)
When Wu Lei rushed over at the speed of a 100-meter sprint and then overturned the Nottingham Forest player with the ball to the ground, Chang Sheng waved his fist on the sidelines.
He knows that the draw in this game is getting closer and closer to him.
Sure enough, next, the players of Nottingham Forest, just as Chang Sheng expected, swarmed with the hornets that had been stabbed in their nests, surrounded Wu Lei, and some people pushed Wu Lei very excitedly.
And Wu Lei fell to the ground very smartly, and the Lazio players were originally surrounding the referee to protest against the unsportsmanlike Nottingham Forest players, and they immediately screamed and pounced when they saw this.
After smiling on the sidelines, Chang Sheng began to trouble the fourth official.
With less than five minutes of stoppage time remaining, it's better to have a delay due to the clashes.
He wished for that.
Stalling for time......
And because he knows why Lazio is doing this, Tony. Donn yelled at his players from the sidelines, "Don't fool you! Here's their strategy! Give me all back!! β
Unfortunately, his voice was completely drowned out under the boos in the sky, and the Nottingham Forest players on the pitch could not hear it at all.
They were completely entangled with the Lazio players.
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The clash between the two sides lasted for four minutes.
Wu Lei received a yellow card, and the Nottingham Forest player who took the lead was also shown a yellow card, which was regarded as playing fifty boards each.
But Tony. Don didn't care about the result. He was ordering his players to hurry up and attack.
Being so stirred up by the damn Lazio, there is not much time left in the game, which can go directly to injury time.
Even if there were five or six minutes of stoppage time, there wasn't much time left for Nottingham Forest.
If you can't win, your efforts are meaningless.
He turned his head to look at the dugout next door.
Chang Sheng has finished the trouble of finding the fourth official and is watching the game from the sidelines.
This damn bastard......
Tony. Don cursed inwardly.
The last clash. It must have been directed by this man!
A clash that drained all five minutes of play.
Precious time is wasted in such a senseless way!
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Soon the fourth official announced the time of stoppage time - six minutes!
Because of that clash, there were as many as six minutes of stoppage time!
This gave hope to the Nottingham Forest fans, who were already in the stands, to regain their noise and cheer on their team.
Lazio fans, on the other hand, looked nervous.
Six minutes, it's not impossible to score a goal.
This is especially the home of Nottingham Forest......
After the start of stoppage time, Chang Sheng made a third substitution, and he brought on another centre-back, Joseph. Elerts replaces veteran Edinson Cavani.
So. Lazio has only one Mario left in the front line. GΓΆtze.
Cavani went off the pitch deliberately slowly, waving to the fans in the stands β in fact, the stands were almost entirely hostile Nottingham Forest fans, so what could he do to wave to?
He's just trying to stall for time.
So there were boos in the stands for his actions.
There are also Nottingham Forest players who rushed up to push Cavani, hoping that he can get off the pitch soon.
Naturally, this gave Cavani a chance to play, and he turned around and shoved his Nottingham Forest player theory in feigned anger. Just stand on the court and simply don't leave!
He wanted to take the opportunity to continue delaying the game.
Anyway, it's all injury time, and even if you wear out some time, it's impossible to make up for it.
So in fact, injury time is the best chance to delay time.
Naturally, Cavani's move caused displeasure among the Nottingham Forest fans throughout the stadium.
The overwhelming boos struck again.
Everyone else knows what Cavani is up to.
The referee ran up and handed Cavani a yellow card and convicted him of deliberately delaying the game.
Cavani can pretend with the Nottingham Forest players, but he doesn't dare to pretend in front of the referee.
So although he was unhappy with his yellow card, he stopped pestering the Nottingham Forest players. Turn around and walk off the field.
Of course, he had managed to spend almost a minute of his time.
After the game, he naturally got a big hug of Chang Sheng.
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If Chang Sheng thought that he could sit back and relax in this way, he naturally miscalculated.
After six minutes of stoppage time. The referee didn't blow the whistle for the end of the game, and the game continued!
Chang Sheng and the rest of the coaching staff, as well as Lazio's substitutes, got up from their seats and walked to the sidelines to protest to the fourth official and the referee.
The Italian commentator unceremoniously sarcastically said: "It's game time!" It's game time! Stoppage time continues? Does the referee want to just make up another 90-minute game?! β
Lazio fans in front of the TV were pointing at the TV screen and scolding the referee for being an Englishman's dog.
The Lazio players on the field also kept pointing at their wrists to remind the referee that the game time had passed.
But the referee still went his own way. The protests of the Lazio players were ignored.
In the end, the referee of this game made up for nine minutes before blowing the whistle to end the game.
The score remained unchanged. It's still 0:0!
Lazio managed to hold on to this draw away from home!
After suffering such a terrible venue, this draw is all the more precious!
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"It's over! It was a full three minutes late, but the game was over! Lazio drew 0-0 away at Nottingham Forest! Such a score and result may surprise some who think that Nottingham Forest have created another new upset. But anyone who watched the game would have thought that the winner was Lazio! It's amazing! β
'Nottingham Forest's home stadium is problematic and Thiago was injured in the pre-game warm-up. Despite this, Lazio stubbornly held Nottingham Forest to a draw away from home. This match showed us a lot of Lazio's defense! The team that has set the record for the fewest goals conceded in a single season in European football, the aftermath is still alive! β
Compared to the excitement of commentators from other countries. The commentators in England were much more frustrated.
"We had great opportunities, but we didn't take them once. Nottingham Forest had a whopping 39 shots on goal in this game, and 17 shots on goal from the woodwork, but none of them were scored! We have to admit that this game did a good job of exposing Tony. Donn's team is not good at attacking weaknesses......"
"It wasn't a great game, but I think the story after the game will be exciting...... Nottingham Forest's poor pitch, Lazio's passive and conservative tactics and various delays in the game, as well as a last-minute injury time of nine minutes in the final stages...... I think that's going to be the focus of people's discussions! β
The narrator was right. The game wasn't exciting, but the post-match press conference was fantastic.
In the post-match press conference, there was a short interval between the two managers, almost as soon as the first man left and the second man came in.
It even makes people wonder when the first person is in the post-match press conference. The second person is waiting at the door?
Tony. Donn was the first to attend the post-match press conference.
At his press conference, he lashed out at Lazio's unsportsmanlike delaying tactics during the game.
"Such a blatant and frenzied delay in time is really unheard of and rare in the world! I think UEFA should punish Lazio for this kind of behavior. It's a very bad example and if it doesn't get the punishment it deserves, there will be a lot of that in the future on a hallowed pitch like the Champions League, for football and for the Champions League. All serious injuries! β
As for whether it was because Nottingham Forest's attacking ability was too weak, it was because they were unable to win the game despite the dominance.
Tony. Don also flatly denied it.
"Sometimes, luck is also important. We did really well in the game, but we had bad luck. Moreover, the frequent fall of Lazio players has also greatly affected the rhythm of the team......"
Anyway, in a word, the lack of victory is definitely not due to the strength of the team.
Right here at Tony. As soon as Don En left, Chang Sheng came. He proved to everyone that he had been eavesdropping outside the door all along.
Didn't wait for the reporter to relay Tony to him. Donn's words, he said bluntly: "Delay the game? My players definitely didn't drag out the game. With the terrible crotch pitch at City Stadium, do my players still need to pretend to be injured? You can go up and run for yourself and see if I'm right. To be honest, now I feel like it's a miracle in the history of human sport that my players were able to run on that field for 90 minutes and still be able to hold on and play the whole game! β
Tony. Donn complained about Lazio's delay in the game, and Nottingham Forest's home stadium was criticised by Constant Win.
"And I want Tony. Mr. Don is probably not qualified to say anything sportsmanlike in front of me. I think he knows it himself, and everyone knows it in their hearts. Why did a piece of land that was still normal to adapt to the site a day ago, suddenly become a rotten vegetable field? Why are my players able to break down and retire during the pre-match warm-up? I guess there's a lot of interest in it, right? Hands-on on the field, he Tony. Don is not the first, but he is the most shameless one! β
"UEFA is going to investigate us for delaying the game? I don't know, but I think UEFA could first investigate whether Nottingham Forest's home stadium is eligible to host a Champions League-level competition. β
Chang Sheng spreads out his hands.
"Also, nine minutes of stoppage time, how did that come about? Even if Cavani had taken up a minute of time and had to make up for it, it would have been seven minutes of stoppage time. Where did that extra two minutes come from? Lazio FC has decided to lodge a protest with UEFA over the venue and injury time for this match! β
"As for this draw, I don't hide my satisfaction with the result at all. The fact that we were able to draw against our opponents in such terrible conditions shows that we are strong - yes, even if the field is as bad as a vegetable patch, it can't beat us, this is Lazio! β
PS: Where is the monthly pass, I call you affectionately!
This is the fourth update!