Chapter 235: Another Year of Champions League Final (4)
Atletico Madrid scored with Godin's header in the first half to temporarily lead Real Madrid 1-0.
"The 1-0 score in the first half, which is the most common score in the history of Champions League finals, has been 15 first-half 1-0 scorelines in total, and in most cases the team that led in the first half won the eventual title."
At half-time, the whole world was talking about the current scoreline.
"Real Madrid have played in 12 Champions League finals so far, and they have never been behind in the first half, but in the end they were able to reverse the situation of their opponents to win."
"So the score is good for Atletico Madrid at the moment, but it's very bad for Real Madrid."
At half-time, Simeone was also satisfied with the current score.
At the start of the second half, Carlo Ancelotti made a change at full-back, with Marcelo coming on for Coentrão in an attempt to strengthen the attack on the flanks.
This time, Real Madrid's left side of the offensive is up, with Ronaldo at the front, Di Maria in the middle, and the new fullback Marcelo, all three of them are attacking on the left side, and Atletico Madrid's right-back Juan Fran has become more pressurous.
Ancelotti has clearly made changes, Xavi Alonso is no longer the main point of play, and Modric has started to take on more playmaking responsibilities, constantly distributing the ball to the left.
In the 48th minute, Di Maria broke through with Marcelo, who stepped forward to assist, and Miranda stepped forward to make up for a foul, so he received a yellow card.
Five minutes later, it was Di Maria's cross from the left that Ronaldo headed high.
In the face of falling behind, Real Madrid significantly strengthened their attack, and Atletico's counter-attacking opportunities began to increase.
In the 56th minute, Koke crossed diagonally from the left side in the counterattack, Ringer received the ball in front of the penalty area and stepped into the penalty area to hit the goal, but under the interference of Xavi Alonso, the ball hit the post and bounced off the bottom line.
In the 59th minute, Ringer drew the ball to the defence and crossed to Adrian in an attempt to create a chance for his striker, but the ball was pushed straight wide of the far post.
The situation on the pitch finally became intense and no longer as lifeless as it had been in the first half, but Real Madrid could not find an equaliser and quickly used up a second substitution.
In the 69th minute, Carlo Ancelotti replaced Benzema with youngster Alvaro Morata.
Benzema was substituted before he could find a chance to make any of the shots, and if he lost, Benzema could have to take the blame.
However, this time at least Casillas will carry it with him.
In such a situation, Real Madrid continued to make substitutions to strengthen the attack, and Simeone also began to make substitutions to strengthen the defense, intending to keep the score until the end.
In the 76th minute, Atletico used a second substitution, with Simeone bringing on Argentine Sousa to replace Raul Garcia, who had a yellow card.
Real Madrid continued to attack from the left, while Atletico Madrid tried to block their attacks on the left, with Juanfran and Koke both receiving yellow cards on Di Maria.
As a result, the game became, Atletico kept blocking the opponent's left attack, and Real Madrid saw the point of strangling Ringer.
The two sides pulled back the tug-of-war, and the game time passed quickly, but the score remained 1:0.
After 80 minutes, both teams had used up their third substitutions.
Simeone brought Aldrevelde on to replace Felipe to strengthen the defence. A few days before the Champions League final, Felipe was not selected for the final 23-man squad of the Brazilian national team, which made him very angry and expressed his disbelief in front of the media, but it also seemed to affect his form, and Felipe did not perform in this game.
However, Ringer did not approve of this substitution, Simeone's substitution made it clear that the gambling team would definitely be able to keep the score of 1:0 in 90 minutes, otherwise, Juanfran on the right side is now tired of being a dog under the constant offensive impact of the opponent, and he is still carrying a yellow card, he is the player who needs to be replaced more.
However, Real Madrid's substitution made Ringer happy, and Carlo Ancelotti replaced Xavi Alonso with Isco to continue to strengthen the attack.
Xavi Alonso, who teamed up with Ramos to cause a lot of problems for Ringer in this game, is finally off the field to rest.
Carlo Ancelotti obviously knew this, so he waited until now to replace Xavi Alonso.
Any star has been limited in a game, even the king of the ball will be limited in many games, and Ringer was limited by Xavi Alonso and Sergio Ramos today for most of the game, but as long as he can perform and help the team win.
Ringer was given more freedom and started looking for chances, and of course he wanted to score and kill the game.
Real Madrid, on the other hand, are also desperately fighting back, and they are now desperately in need of a goal to drag the game into extra time before they can have a chance.
Ringer tried hard to find a goal, but it didn't come as he wanted it, and he didn't find a good chance in the next moment, and the game was dragged into extra time.
When the 90th minute was reached, the referee gave 5 minutes of extra long stoppage time, which made Simeone quite unhappy, and the second half was interrupted by neither goals nor clashes, but such a long stoppage time was clearly intended to give Real Madrid more time for them to find a chance to equalize.
Simeone was warned by a fourth official for his poor mouthful, and in the fourth minute of stoppage time, Real Madrid equalised from a corner through a header from Sergio Ramos.
'It was a big blow for Atletico Madrid to be equalised in the last minute of stoppage time, but it was still possible for the two sides to decide in extra time. Now all the commentators are analysing the upcoming overtime.
During the short break before the start of extra time, the whole team listened to Simeone's explanation while drinking water on the sidelines: "We have a lot of physical exertion, so we will try to delay the time in extra time and drag the game into a penalty shoot-out to give us a better chance." ”
After failing to end the battle in the expected 90 minutes and the game was dragged into extra time, Simeone was already starting to feel bad.
"Coach, I'm the most physical one in the team right now, let's try to pass the ball to me when everyone counterattacks." Ringer offered to help.
Ringer peeked at his status, which was currently 89.
He started the game at 80 and couldn't do much for the whole game, but now that Xavi Alonso is out and his form has improved, he believes he can help the team in extra-time.
"Okay, everyone listens to Lin, I know that many people have no physical strength, and when they have the opportunity later, they will pass the ball directly to Lin, don't worry too much, after 90 minutes of play, their physical strength will not be very good." Simeone agreed to Ringer's proposal.
Soon, when extra time began, Atletico kicked off first, the ball was passed back to the backfield, and the whole Real Madrid team immediately tried to press it up, obviously they were instructed by Ancelotti to know that Atletico's physical strength was a disadvantage.
Koke took the ball, saw that the opponent was pressing, and directly got up and made a long pass to the front court, looking for Ringer for this.
Ringer was the only Atletico player to still be in the opposition half, three steps from beyond the penalty line, with Luka Modric in close proximity behind him, and Modric and Carvajal ready to come and make up for it at any moment.
Koke's long pass was well diverted and found Ringer directly, facing the ball from the air, Ringer leaned on Modric behind him, and met the ball with the most convenient right shoulder, while the unloading right shoulder shrugged up, and the ball smashed on his right shoulder and flicked to the left side of his body.
With this shoulder stop, the ball was placed in the right position, and Ringer immediately turned around and whipped his right foot into the air like a whip.
When it came to overtime, both sides had a lot of physical exertion, and Ringer's physical strength became his advantage. So he hit the goal as soon as he had the chance, and he tried to add as much power as possible, and tried to threaten Casillas' goal with high-speed balls.
"At the beginning of the second half of the game, Cork ~~~ long pass to find Lin!"
"Lin chest stops the ball~~~ turn around and hit the goal!!"
Ringer, as Atletico's only point in front, stopped his shoulder after receiving the ball, and immediately turned and volleyed, which was quite sudden.
Ramos and Carvajal, who were ready to fill in at any moment, were unmoved, and before they could even go over to block, the ball flew from their side towards the goal.
Bang~~~!!
The ball slammed into the far post and bounced into the back of the net, and Casillas stood stunned on the other side of the goal, not reacting at all.
“Goooooool~~~~”
"Lin~~~Lingoal~~~Lin's goal!!"
"As soon as the extra time began, Ringer turned and volleyed a decisive kick, to everyone's surprise, the ball went in!!"
"The Sheets take the lead again!!"
Ringer's goal made the Stadium of Light boil over, half cheering, half chagrined.
Ringer rushed to the edge of the pitch and received the cheers of the Atletico fans with open arms, and soon the Atletico players came running over and held him down to celebrate.
"Ringer ~~~ Ringer scored a goal in less than 1 minute of extra time to help Atletico Madrid exceed the score again, and Ringer scored in two consecutive Champions League finals, and also scored on behalf of two different teams."