PS1: First of all, I would like to ask for a recommendation vote here, thank you......

Due to the rules of the game, after the 90 minutes of the game, the players from both sides did not return to the locker room, but walked to the sidelines to receive treatment from the team doctor and masseur, so as to take advantage of the five-minute break to recover more body and prepare for the next extra time.

While receiving the massage, the Fiorentina players gathered to listen to the tactical arrangements from manager Fabio Capello about the extra-time period, after all, the rules of extra-time are different from the regular 90-minute game, and it would be fatal to concede a goal in extra-time with the method of sudden death.

Vicenza is also the same scene, but all the conditions are not as good as Fiorentina's, they are obviously worse than their opponents in terms of treatment, which also makes many Vicenza players feel a little unbalanced, and they begin to wonder if they can also enjoy this kind of high-level service if they go to play for the giants.

This is the helplessness of small clubs, even if they can achieve results that are not inferior to those strong teams on the field, but the huge gap in hardware conditions and treatment in all aspects will still make them continue to lose excellent players.

Guidolin was naturally aware of the players' feelings, but he was not good at communicating feelings with the players, and he didn't know how to make the players let go of such thoughts. With time crunched, he could only try to make his team's extra-time tactics as concise as possible to his players, hoping that they would be able to focus on the game rather than on the outside world.

As a result, in the next 30 minutes of extra time, the players on both sides invariably began to become conservative on the field, the previous addictive sharp breakthrough was gone, the kind of frontcourt pass that tore the opponent's backline apart little by little was also gone, and even the number of times to press the attack was much less than before.

A lot of the time the players would rather kill time at the back than pass the ball forward and try to attack.

In fact, this is all the fault of the Golden Ball system, because in the extra time game with the Golden Ball system, once the opponent scores, it means that the team's efforts throughout the game are in vain because of this goal, and this huge psychological pressure forces any team to dare not continue to attack in extra time.

If it was the kind of extra-time that preceded the Ballon d'Or, the players on both sides would not have so much to worry about, and it didn't matter who scored first between the two teams during that time, as long as they had the lead at the end of the game.

And now, the players and managers of both sides have to worry about the gains and losses of a goal, because just one goal can be scored to put one of them into the abyss!

Seeing that Fiorentina and Vicenza, two teams that played unusually open in 90 minutes of regular time, became extremely restrained and conservative in extra time, many fans and football critics began to secretly curse the Ballon d'Or system in their hearts, believing that it was precisely because of the emergence of this sudden death law that the two sides of the game became so conservative and unenterprising in extra time.

Therefore, after the end of this game, European football once again set off a condemnation of the Golden Ball system, calling for the abolition of the Golden Ball system and the return to the 30-minute tiebreaker system in extra time before 96 years has become more and more intense.

In this lethargic atmosphere, the two teams finally played this disappointing extra time and ushered in the final penalty shootout!

However, what everyone didn't expect was that this penalty shootout, which should have been decided after a maximum of five rounds of shooting, would be completely different here in Florence and Vicenza!

In the first four rounds of the penalty shootout, the four players in charge of the penalty kick on the Fiorentina side all hit, but Toni, the first penalty taker on the Vicenza side, kicked the ball off the crossbar, and when the fourth round of penalties was over, Vicenza temporarily fell behind 3-4 in this penalty contest!

In this way, the shape of the game seems to have become quite clear, as long as Zanetti, the fifth penalty on Fiorentina's side, sends the ball into the goal, then the game can be declared over!

However, the Italian defender dropped the chain at this crucial moment, and his penalty was saved by Balotta, who was guarding in front of goal!

And Ballack, the fifth penalty taker on the Vicenza side, scored the penalty steadily, pulling the two teams to the same starting line again!

Such a dramatic change at such a critical juncture made the hearts of all fans rise to their throats. The fans who supported Fiorentina all sighed for Zanetti, and they all sighed that the young man's psychological element was really not hot, and Capello should have sent the more experienced Carlos, and this penalty might not have been saved by the opposing goalkeeper so lightly.

Since the two sides are separated after the penalty shootout in the first five rounds, the next penalty will be added using the sudden death method, that is, the players of both sides continue to take penalties to each other in turn, until there is a situation where one side takes a penalty at the end of a round and the other team does not score, then the side that scores the penalty wins the final victory.

And this officially kicked off the prelude to this super long penalty shootout!

From the sixth round to the tenth round, the players who took the penalty kicks on both sides without exception maintained an amazing hit rate and psychological quality, scoring a total of ten penalties without missing a single miss!

In the eleventh round, the goalkeepers of the two sides played a penalty kick for each other, and Toldo, who took off his gloves, stood on the penalty spot without the slightest stage fright, and he directly pushed the lower left corner of the goal with good foot strength; And Balotta, who came on the field close behind, did not disappoint his teammates, tricking Toldo into sending the ball into the door, ten to ten!

At this point, all 22 players on the field on both sides had taken a penalty, and the referee, who was already stunned, had to arrange for the players of the two teams to take turns again according to the previous order according to the rules.

In the twelfth round, Ronaldo, who played again, easily deceived Balotta to score a penalty, and Toni also scored a goal this time, 11 to 11!

Vieri and Redondo, who came out in the thirteenth and fourteenth rounds, resisted the pressure to shoot in the penalty spot, but unfortunately, Vicenza's side did not miss either, and the goalkeeper Toldo could not block the shots of Otto and Larsson, and the two sides continued to go head-to-head in the penalty shoot-out.

The long penalty shoot-out finally came to an end at the end of the fifteenth round when Effenberg smashed a shot past Balotta, but Ambrosetti's powerful shot into the top right corner of the net was saved by Toldo!

So far, Fiorentina defeated Vicenza 14-13 in the penalty shootout and lifted the UEFA Super Cup trophy for the fourth time in a row!

PS2: Special thanks to Liverpool and Middlesbrough FC for that Carabao Cup game was a real benefit......