Chapter 167: Penalty Shootout

For example, the media will sigh that Derby County is playing very well, Manchester United fans are cheering for the team and striving to defeat their opponents, Derby County fans are satisfied with the team's performance, send blessings to the players on the field, and those commentators who support their respective teams will also praise the team more, etc., in short, when imagining, I always feel that there are a lot of ideas and a lot to say, but when the game really comes to this kind of course, after the overtime begins, They found that they didn't have time to think too much in their heads, because the game on the field was so intense. Top Novel, www.

They can only watch the game, and they don't have time to do anything else.

The same goes for Wansheng.

At this time, he was standing on the sidelines, nervously watching the game.

He thought that the team might play extra time with Manchester United, and when Ivan Crewe scored just now, he thought about praising Ivan Crewe more and standing on the sidelines to cheer on the players, but at this point, he didn't have time to do this, but just stood on the sidelines and watched the game nervously.

The same goes for Alex Ferguson, on the other side.

The only thing the old Scottish man did more than Wan Sheng was to keep yelling, and he seemed to want to use the yelling to command the game, but it didn't work very well.

At this point, he didn't care about his image at all, he just kept waving and yelling, and often called out the names of some players, or angrily scolded them for their poor appearance, or instructed them to do something. It's a pity that the head coach commanded the game on the spot, and the effect was really not good, as is the case with any head coach, after all, the player made a mistake and then pointed it out, it was completely useless, and the state of the player was not to get better with two roars, just like the on-site commentator said, "Ferguson is already a little panicked"

He was a little panicked.

Ferguson never imagined the game to be like this, and before the game he thought it would be an easy win, and the Derby County manager, the young man from China, might have done a good job in coaching. But Derby County are only one League One team after all, and whether they swept League One or reached the FA Cup final, these results could not make up for the huge gap between them and Manchester United.

But the two teams are now in extra time

Ferguson was no longer sure that his team would win, so he was a little anxious, hoping that his team would score as many goals as possible, and he didn't want to bet on an uncertain penalty shoot-out – although he believed that even if it were a penalty shoot-out, the United would have a good chance of winning.

No manager wants to rely on luck to win. Of course, the premise is that the team he leads is the stronger side.

Ferguson leads Manchester United, they are much stronger than Derby County, in such a situation, to rely on luck to win, it is absolutely unacceptable, but on the side of the weak team, Derby County, if you can rely on luck. It's pretty good to say how many chances there are to win.

But in fact, Wansheng doesn't want to rely on luck, for example, the team's defense now depends entirely on strength. He wants his team to drag the game to penalties so they have a better chance of winning.

It's not luck, it's strength, if you don't have strength. How could they hold the goal?

At this time, the players of both teams have a lot of physical consumption on the playing field.

For Manchester United, the fit-out Ryan Giggs and O'Shea have been replaced. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Djemba were given the chance to play; For Derby County, Wan Sheng also made a substitution, and Ivan Crewe, who had just scored, was replaced by Webson.

At this point in the competition, perseverance and fighting spirit are often the key factors that determine the outcome of the game, and the superiority of technical strength is difficult to reflect.

The Manchester United players work hard.

It was a surprise to Ivan Crewe with that goal, they thought they would be able to finish the game after 90 minutes, but it was dragged to extra time, which is a bit unacceptable to them, but they also want the team to win and win the FA Cup, so they have been working hard.

This is especially true of Derbyshire.

Although Wan Sheng constantly emphasizes that the team has a chance to win, many players in Derby County still do not think that the team has many chances to win, after all, the opponent is Manchester United, the overlord of the Premier League, and they are only a League One team, and the difference in strength between the two teams is very large.

But now that the team has dragged the game into extra time, who could have imagined before the game?

At least most of the Derby players couldn't imagine it, but now that the game has been played and they have renewed their hope of winning, they will naturally try harder.

Hold on!

Hold on!

Manchester United must not be allowed to score!

Every Derby County player thinks so, they stick to the goal, they stick to the solid defense, and when they have the chance, they will also come to attack in two waves, after all, the attack is the best defense, they don't attack too far forward, but the attack is still made, and even twice in a row, they also completed two long-range shots.

The game was very intense, and the two teams were a bit of a 'you go back and forth' look.

Although Derby County's attacking play is not very threatening and has very few chances, it can at least kill a lot of time by putting on an attacking and counter-attacking appearance, and for a while, Manchester United are not very threatening, they are eager to attack, coupled with physical exhaustion, but they have wasted opportunities again and again.

Such a game made the local Welsh fans enjoy watching it!

The Welsh fans who came to the scene didn't expect the game to be like this, most of the Welsh fans are neutral fans, they don't support Manchester United, and they don't support Derby County, but they actually sympathize with the weak in their hearts, and the weak is naturally Derby County, but Manchester United is really too strong, they don't think Derby County will have any chances, they didn't expect the game to go into extra time at all.

As a result, many Welsh teams have cheered for Derby County so far.

There were a lot of similar voices in the crowd, even more for Derby County than for Manchester United, and these neutral fans also felt that the game was worth the ticket price, and it was an FA Cup final between a strong team and a weak team, and the result of the weak team was quite good, and the game dragged the game to extra time, and there were four goals in the game, which is definitely not the case.

Derby County fans and Manchester United fans watched the game nervously.

At this point, they were all worried about their respective teams, with United fans hoping they could score as much as they could, while Derby County fans prayed they could hold on to the net. They weren't even nervous enough to cheer on their respective teams.

At the same time, the TV commentary was left with only commentary on the game.

As for the many commentators who still had time to talk about Derby County, Manchester United, and the shape of the game, now there is nothing left, and the only thing left is the commentary of the game-

"C-Ronaldo passes the ball to Roy Keane! The captain of Manchester United completes a long-range shot! ”

'Derby immediately returned the colour and Layton Bynes had a shot on goal, but it was too far away'

'Ruud van Nistelrooy was asking for the ball, but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer couldn't pass it, he passed it to Keane! The ball is broken! Derby County captain Marcus suddenly appeared to complete the clearance! ”

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All that's left for the TV commentary is the narrative of the intense game. As for the 'Derby County has no chance' and the like that I talked about before, the game has been played to this extent, even the media that are hostile to Derby County dare not say anything 'Derby County has no chance', and no one dares to make this guarantee, because it is a person who can see that Derby County has a chance, and they are not behind in the score, even if it is now overtime. They can play in attack, and if United are negligent, it is possible to be scored by Derby.

In this fierce encounter, time flies. Fifteen minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

The referee blew the whistle at the end of half, and then the two teams did not have any rest and exchanged venues for the second half of extra time.

At this time, many people feel that time flies really fast, as if overtime has just begun. Fifteen minutes had already passed, and the two teams were already in the second half.

But they didn't have time to reminisce and the game on the field continued.

Second half of extra time. United continued to attack, but the Derby defence was dead and it was not easy for them to find chances, so they began to try to pass the ball directly into the box, so that the Derby County defence was somewhat threatening.

Manchester United passed the ball to the goal again and again, trying to rely on Van Nistelrooy, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Scholes and others to find opportunities, and at the same time, the commentator's voice became more nervous -

"Van's header! The top is off"

'Ole Gunnar Solskjaer shoots in front of goal! Football hits the Derby County defenders! “

"Ruud van Nistelrooy again, oh he couldn't get the ball and the ball was cleared by the Derby County defender!"

'Manchester United are attacking fiercely and they still have a chance to score!'

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Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines and watched the game nervously, his heart was in his throat, and his mouth was silently reading, "Hold on", "Hold on", "Must hold on", now at the moment, time has been calculated in seconds in his heart, he keeps looking up at the time, from the second half of overtime to now, I don't know how many times.

The countdown to the game has begun.

Manchester United's attack became very aggressive, and they just wanted to use the last minute of extra-time to complete a goal that could have directly decided the outcome of the game.

They pressed very hard, and the formation pressed very forward.

Even so, Derby County won't have much chance because all their players have to be involved in defending, most of them are sticking to the box, and even if they get the ball, they don't dare to dribble in their own half, and there are no players in front of them.

They can only hold on!

In the final minute, United made two crosses in quick succession, both times looking for Ruud van Nistelrooy, and it was clear that in the minds of the United players, if anyone could score in the most crucial moments, it would be their top scorer Ruud van Nistelrooy.

But two crosses in a row only made a young Derby County centre-back famous!

"Baker Alfred!"

"It's Alfred's clearance again!"

On two occasions in a row, the commentators mentioned Alfred's name in a row, just because he carried Vanney and made two successful clearances.

"This is a young central defender at Derby County, he is already an absolute mainstay in Derby County, and he is responsible for guarding against Nie in this game! He did a good job, he broke up United's attack with two successful headers! ”

"I think after this game, a lot of people will remember the name - Baker Alfred!"

After Derby's two successful defenses, the commentators were excited to say something similar, not that they were excited about Derby's successful defense, but that there were not many seconds left in the game, and Derby County had managed to make these two clearances and keep the football at their feet, which means that they had managed to drag the extra time out.

The game is about to usher in a brutal penalty shootout!

With Alfred twice successfully cleared, Manchester United is also a little desperate, the game has entered the countdown, many players silently count the time in their hearts, '10 seconds', '9 seconds''', there is not much time, and at this time the football is still at the feet of Ribery, he ran all the way on the side, intercepted in the midfield, and then Ribery resolutely drove the ball out of the field with a big foot, the football flew high and far, as the football flew out of the sideline, the referee couldn't wait to replay with a new ball, he directly blew the whistle at the end of extra time.

"Beep"

With a long whistle, it means that the extra time of the two teams is over, and the score is still '2:2', in the extra time, both teams have not scored, they have not yet decided the winner, the big battle is still going on.

Then came a brutal penalty shoot-out.

"The two teams are about to go to a penalty shootout, and the managers of both teams will report the players who took the penalty to the referee, and then the penalty shootout will begin"

There was only about two minutes of respite halfway through.

At this point in the game, everyone felt that Derby County had been very successful and that it was remarkable that they were able to drag the game to penalties against Manchester United in the FA Cup final.

So in the penalty shoot-out, will Derby County have a chance?

At this time, everyone thinks that Manchester United has more opportunities, one is that Manchester United's goalkeeper Howard is more famous and better, at this stage of the penalty shootout, the strength of the goalkeeper is almost the decisive factor, and Manchester United players have better skills, they often participate in European knockout rounds and various major competitions, and the experience of penalty shootouts is richer, and the famous stars will have a much better mentality than Derby County, so Manchester United's winning rate is higher.

But there is one person who thinks otherwise, and that is Wansheng.

He was also very excited that the game could enter a penalty shootout, and there was also the expectation that Derby County would be afraid of penalty shootouts?

Never! (To be continued......) R527