Chapter 630: Miscalculation
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"According to UEFA's rules for this season's Champions League, when the game goes to extra time, the Golden Ball system, or sudden death, will be used to determine the winner. This also means that players on both sides need to be more cautious in the next half hour of the game, after all, in this case, any mistake could be fatal to the team! ”
After the commentary ended, Baggio began to express his own opinion: "Actually, personally, I am very opposed to the implementation of the Golden Ball system, although this sudden death does have a lot of attraction for the majority of fans, but it also makes most teams pay more attention to defense in the extra time stage, which leads to the fierce process of the overtime field now than when the Golden Ball system did not appear." ”
"That's right, in order to avoid being won by the opposition's golden ball, managers tend to focus more on defending than on scoring opponents in extra time. Therefore, the implementation of the Golden Ball system has indeed had a great adverse impact on the spectacle of football games. The narrator also agrees with Baggio's view.
However, dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, these two can only have a good time in the live broadcast room, whether to cancel the Golden Ball system, they can not tell.
On the pitch at this time, the players of both sides returned to the pitch after a short break, waiting for the start of extra time.
Before extra time began, both managers made some changes to their teams.
For Juventus, Lippi brought on Antonio Conte for Otero, who scored a goal in the game, and then brought on Tacinadi for Iuliano, who was no longer able to fight. The purpose of the Silver Foxes is very clear, that is, to strengthen the team's defensive strength, survive this half hour, and drag the game into a penalty shootout!
Looking at Fiorentina's side, Capello finally used up the two substitutions that had been holding in his hands according to the physical consumption of the players - Zambrotta, who was already a little unable to run, was replaced by French veteran Angeloma, and Vieri, who had been battling with Juventus' defenders throughout the game, was replaced by Portuguese midfielder Rui Costa.
"Replacing a strong centre-forward with a playmaker in midfield, although Fiorentina's strength in the forward line has weakened, but Costa's presence has given Fiorentina another notch in the control of the midfield, and it seems that Coach Capello does not want to split the winner in the penalty shootout." After getting the players on the extra time lineup, the commentator got to work with his job.
After the start of extra time, the Fiorentina players controlled the ball firmly at their feet with Redondo, Effenberg and Rui Costa in the middle of the field, and at the same time constantly tore apart the Juventus players' defense through guò passes, looking for a lethal opportunity.
The joint performance of the three midfield masters allowed Fiorentina to further improve their possession rate in extra-time, reaching about 60% and close to 70%. Far beyond the opposition's possession and the constant supply of support from the midfield, Ronaldo and Inzaghi in the Juventus penalty area were surrounded but still had plenty of chances to shoot.
In the face of this passive situation, the Juventus players did not choose to launch a counterattack to make Fiorentina have some scruples, but became more and more conservative on the field, under the order of Lippi, who was worried about being won by the opponent's golden ball, Pierrot and others even gave up counterattacking, and simply ignored it after intercepting Fiorentina's attack, and drove the ball directly to Fiorentina's half with a big foot, or Zidane, who had the best ball control skills, delayed time on the field in order to drag the extra time into a penalty shootout smoothly.
In the twelfth minute of the first half of extra time, Effenberg, Redondo and Rui Costa played a one-two in succession in the front court, and after stirring up the defense line painstakingly managed by the Juventus players, Costa sent a through ball, Ronaldo suddenly rushed out from Blank and stabbed the ball into the Juventus goal before Peruzzi could save the ball!
"The ball is in! Fiorentina scored! It was ...... who scored the goal Wait a minute! The commentator was just about to cheer loudly for Ronaldo's goal, but found that the referee Cragg did not signal that the goal was valid, but declared that Ronaldo was offside, "The referee signaled that the goal was invalid!" How is this possible! Is Cragg's eyes blind? It was a textbook offside goal! ”
"Damn! Which of your fucking eyes saw me offside? Seeing that the goal was blown away by the referee, Ronaldo, who was furious, immediately wanted to rush over and reason with the referee, but the alien was just about to make a move, but he was stopped by his teammates.
Seeing that the referee blew for the goal to be invalid, Lippi breathed a sigh of relief, he was really taken aback by Ronaldo's goal just now.
On the other side, Capello was angrily denouncing referee Kragg's blow to the fourth official. Looking at the embarrassed look on the referee Cragg's face, and the fact that the German didn't even go over to order Capello to return to the Fiorentina bench, it was clear that the referee was aware of what kind of mistake he had just made.
"Cragg's decision was an extremely harsh mistake as he blew away an undisputed goal from Fiorentina and it could have had a huge impact on the outcome of the final." In the live broadcast room, the commentator was fighting for Florence, "Cragg's table in this game could have been said to be quite good, while controlling the atmosphere on the field and ensuring the smoothness of the game, but this misjudgment is a huge stain, if Fiorentina loses the game in the end, then Cragg will definitely become the most hated person for Fiorentina fans after the game." ”
After the restart, it was clear that the Fiorentina players, who had been blown off a good goal, could not recover from the miscalculation, and many of them made low-level mistakes in the following games.
Thankfully, Juventus had no intention of taking the initiative, so these mistakes were quickly covered up, and the game entered a stalemate, and the originally lively scene began to fall silent and drowsy.
In this slightly dreary atmosphere, Fiorentina was unable to break the door of Juventus again in extra time. At the same time, as the referee Cragg blew the whistle announcing the end of extra time, the Champions Cup final finally entered the moment that made everyone fearful, that is, a brutal penalty shootout!
"One hundred and twenty minutes of competition is over! Both sides were unsuccessful in the entire extra-time match! Next, the game will enter a thrilling penalty shootout! It will be interesting to see which team will be able to lift the Big Ears Cup after the game! ”