Chapter 1200: Brutal Victory

Liverpool's celebration lasted more than two minutes, and referee Rossetti couldn't persuade him to come back. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

When the game restarted, the Liverpool fans on the field continued to chant Chen Yu's name.

Before Chen Yu scored, Liverpool was at a disadvantage on the field, not only the score was behind, but the psychological disadvantage was more obvious, in the past ten years, as long as Chelsea scored first, Liverpool has never reversed, this history makes Liverpool's players very uneasy, so Chelsea has created so many scoring opportunities.

Chen Yu's goal greatly stimulated Liverpool's fighting spirit, and now they are on par with Chelsea, and the situation is even better, as long as they score one more goal, Chelsea must score two goals, which makes Liverpool's players more confident in attack, while Chelsea are beginning to suffer from gains and losses, attacking and defending are a little hesitant.

The mentality reversed, and the situation on the field quickly became different, although Liverpool controlled a lot and created few threatening attacks, but now Liverpool's attack is obviously much sharper, and there are far more opportunities to shoot on goal than in the first half.

After 80 minutes of the game, both sides became cautious, because the goal was too lethal to concede at this time, and neither had time to get it back, and in the end, this cautious mentality allowed both teams to fail to score in the final period, and could only end the game with a 1-1 result.

In the first leg of the semi-finals, the two teams also drew 1:1, and now the aggregate score of the two legs is 2:2, and the two sides generally have more away goals, and only extra-time can be played to determine the promotion place.

Chelsea made changes at the start of extra-time, with Kalou replaced by Malouda and Joe Cole replaced by Nicolas Anelka, and Chelsea were determined to decide the winner in extra-time against Liverpool, who did not want to play a penalty shoot-out.

In fact, overtime is not about tactics or the individual ability of the players, but about the physical fitness and will of the players.

The player's body is generally only enough to support 90 minutes of high-intensity play, and 120 minutes is an extreme game, and no player except the goalkeeper can stand it.

In terms of fitness alone, Chelsea withdrew from the league title race early, and in the league they were often juggling errands, and their fitness was much better than that of Liverpool, who played the league game as a final.

After extra-time, Chelsea swept away the slump of the second half, attacking Liverpool in a series of attacks and scoring in the 95th minute through Essien, but referee Rossetti ruled that Chelsea had been offside and ruled the goal invalid.

The Chelsea fans were furious and protested for several minutes but could not change the referee's decision.

Liverpool gritted their teeth and held on for 10 minutes, and then the game became Chelsea's world, Liverpool first assisted by defenders and then couldn't come back, so they could only give up assists, and then the midfielders could feel powerless, and they could only play more and more backwards, and finally could only move in their own half.

The forward line was completely forced back by Chelsea, because Chelsea's defenders pressed too forward, Chen Yu and Kuyt did not shrink back, then they were offside, Kuyt was just down, and simply went to his own half to participate in the defense.

Facing Liverpool, who were shrinking defensively, Chelsea finally got a taste of the iron bucket formation.

Regular attacking methods were helpless in a perverted defence, and Chelsea had to make up for it with the number of shots on goal to see if there could be a miracle.

In the last minute of the first half of extra time, Liverpool won a corner, Chen Yu drove the corner, Hyypia took advantage of his height to grab the landing point, and his header flew off the bottom line against the post.

Liverpool didn't take advantage of the opportunity to score, and Chelsea took the opportunity to launch a wave of attacks, Ballack received the ball at the edge of the box and sprinted towards Liverpool's box, Hyypia made a decisive tackle on the edge of the box, and Ballack fell into the box.

The German was also cunning and immediately raised his hand to ask for a penalty, but referee Rossetti decided it was not a penalty and decisively awarded a free-kick.

The Chelsea players were furious and came around to put pressure on the referee, with Rossetti showing Ballack a yellow card to scare off the Chelsea players.

Slow motion ensued to show that Rossetti's decision was correct, a foul from outside the box.

Frank Lampard didn't score from a free-kick and the two sides went into extra-time.

In the second half, both sides were very physically exhausted, Liverpool couldn't run, but most of Chelsea's players couldn't run either, and in the end neither was able to create a goalscoring chance and had to go to a brutal penalty shoot-out.

When the whistle blew at the end of extra-time, the Chelsea and Liverpool players were all overwhelmed on the turf like hollowed-out sacks, they were too tired to take a step.

The coaches, team doctors, and masseurs quickly entered the stadium to help the players massage their muscles and recover their strength, and the managers were ready for the penalty, and the list of penalties was made.

The five people who took Liverpool's penalty kicks were Chen Yu, Kuyt, Alonso, Reese, and Gerrard, Chen Yu was the safest and kicked the first kick, and Gerrard was the soul of the team and played the last kick.

Chelsea's five penalty-takers were Frank Lampard, Ballack, Drogba, Ashley Cole and John Terry, with Frank Lampard the first to play and John Terry the last.

The penalty shootout is the most cruel, it is not a test of the strength of the team, nor the personal ability of the player, he is actually a test of the player's psychological quality and the player's luck, luck is an elusive thing, leave the fate to luck to decide, it is difficult to make people feel secure, the fans on both sides are nervous, restless, timid and even covered their faces, did not dare to look directly, let their companions tell themselves the result of the penalty.

The stadium fell silent, and the fans did not dare to applaud or sing for fear of affecting the players who took the penalty.

The players were even more uncomfortable, with both Chelsea and Liverpool players drinking water with serious faces, moving their stiff muscles and thinking about how to play when it was their turn to take the penalty.

Five minutes later, the penalty shoot-out finally kicked off, and after picking the side, Liverpool took the first round.

In the limelight, Chen Yu walked to the penalty spot with the ball.

This is the first time Chen Yu has participated in a penalty shoot-out, and in the game he has played, Chen Yu can basically finish his opponent in 120 minutes because of his ability to cheat, and he does not need to participate in such a brutal penalty shoot-out, but today, he was not able to beat Chelsea in 120 minutes.

The average reaction time for a top goalkeeper to make a bottom save is 0.5 seconds, while a 12-yard soccer ball flies across the goal line at 130 yards in less than 0.3 seconds. In other words, as long as you pull out the boccia ball with all your might, the probability of the goalkeeper saving is almost equal to zero.

But just how high is the success rate of penalty kicks on the pitch? The official FIFA figure is 79 per cent, which means that 21 per cent of people actually miss a penalty.

There are two reasons for this, one is that the players are under too much psychological pressure, their footwork is deformed, and they don't know where to kick the ball. The second is that the goalkeeper predicts in advance at the moment when the player gets up, that is, the goalkeeper is too late to fall to the ground to save, but after he pounces in advance, he forcibly rewrites the success rate to 33%.

At this time, the star acceleration system did not work, at this time the test was not technology and consciousness at all, the test was psychology and luck, Chen Yu did not bind anyone's consciousness, he decided to rely on his own ability to take this penalty.

Taking a deep breath, Chen Yu put the ball on the penalty spot, took five steps back, stood up, and waited for referee Rossetti's whistle.

Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech stood in front of goal, in this kind of penalty shoot-out, he didn't have much pressure, the probability of saving was only 21 per cent, and it was natural to lose, he was a hero if he won, and goalkeepers actually liked it when they did, and some goalkeepers hated to have the opportunity to be a hero in every game.

The absence of pressure does not mean that the goalkeeper does not work hard, and each goalkeeper will collect the shooting habits of the opponent's frequent penalty kick players in order to improve the success rate when anticipating.

Petr Cech is very familiar with Chen Yu, this is a player who has scored his goal several times, he is very jealous of Chen Yu, today the two finally met on this occasion, Cech is ready to move, rippling with ambition to defeat Chen Yu.

Beep!

The whistle sounded, Chen Yu ran up, got up, saw that the action was a volley, and at the moment when the ball touched Chen Yu's feet, Cech flew to the lower right corner of the goal, which was the angle at which Chen Yu shot the most.

At the moment when Petr Cech saved, Chen Yu gently rubbed the ball, and the ball drew a small parabola where Petr was standing and fell into the net.

"Spoon!"

"Chen Yu kicked a spoon penalty!"

"Cow! That's awesome! ”

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The scene was jubilant, Liverpool's fans finally laughed, Liverpool's players also laughed, on such an important occasion, with so much pressure, Chen Yu actually kicked out a spoon penalty, which is definitely a relaxed mentality that does not put the opponent in his eyes.

Seeing that Chen Yu was just raising his arms to look up at the starry sky in a celebratory posture, and did not make a very exaggerated celebration to motivate his teammates, Benitez was not angry, because such a way of scoring goals can already give his teammates enough encouragement.

Chen Yu scored a spoon penalty, encouraged his team-mates and put pressure on the opponent, but Chelsea's midfield core Frank Lampard was not an idle figure, his mother had just died the day before, he came to this game with a huge injury, such players are very psychologically strong, facing goalkeeper Reina, Lampard volleyed into the far corner of the net, and returned the pressure to Liverpool.

In the second goal, Kuyt took the penalty and the Dutchman was unambiguous, and he also easily converted the penalty.

Chelsea's second penalty was Michael Ballack, who also found the ball in the back of the net with ease.

The third and fourth penalty takers of Liverpool and Chelsea were not under much pressure, with Liverpool's Alonso and Reeser scoring all of them, and Chelsea's Didier Drogba and Ashley Cole also scoring as well.

The fifth player to come out could be the one who didn't get a chance to play and the one who was the most stressed in the game, and it was a clash of captains.

Steven Gerrard takes the penalty first, and according to research, the player who takes the penalty first has a starting advantage, because if he scores, it will put a lot of psychological pressure on the opponent.

Steven Gerrard, who was Liverpool's iron-blooded captain, was under so much pressure that he fired a furious shot into the right side of the goal, but goalkeeper Petr Cech misjudged and could only watch the ball fly into the net.

Now all the pressure is on Terry.

There was silence in the audience, and everyone's eyes were on Terry, whether friend or foe, and through the TV screen, the eyes of almost 500 million people around the world were also focused on Terry.

The goal was scored, the penalty continued, it didn't score, the game was over, Chelsea were eliminated and they were eliminated from the Champions League by Liverpool for the third time. Terry felt like a mountain was weighing on his heart.

Taking a deep breath and exhaling, Terry seemed to exhale all the pressure. He put the ball at the penalty spot and took a few steps back to stand up and wait for Rossetti's whistle.

Beep!

Whistle blows!

John Terry ran up and slotted the ball to the right of the net, and he went in the same direction as Steven Gerrard.

Reyna pounced on the right and he chose the right direction, but he didn't touch the ball because it went wide of the post!

Fly!

The ball is flying!

Terry crouched on the ground with his head in his hands, tears streaming down his face, and his ears were filled with the frantic cheers of the Liverpool fans and players.