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Chapter 452 Extra time for the upcoming penalty shootout

Chapter 452 Extra time for the upcoming penalty shootout

The score of 2:1 was almost fatal at this time point. Facing the cheering and celebrating Germans, Zoff suppressed his anger. He looked at his watch and then at the substitute players sitting behind him. After hesitating for a moment, he still didn't make a decision to substitute.He knew that now was not the time, he had to wait, and it was no big deal to fall behind by one goal, as long as he was willing to trust the players, they would definitely not let him down.

Sure enough, in the No.803 minute of the game, when the German fans were clamoring for the end of the game, Italy scored and Kenny scored. After all, he still defeated Hamann. After the second attempt, Kenny and Maldini continued to cooperate.In the end, at the most critical moment, when the team needed it most, Maldini helped Kenny successfully get rid of the double-teaming of Harman and Metzelder.

The ball flew to the far corner of the goal and Kahn couldn't catch it, unfortunately it became the background board.This goal did not live up to Zoff's expectations for Kenny, nor did it live up to the expectations of the Italian fans far away in the Apennines. Kenny proved himself with a goal worth a thousand dollars in almost desperation and proved that he can become the core of tactics.

When the game was dragged into overtime, the coaches of both sides made substitutions at the same time. While strengthening the defense and not hoping that all the previous efforts were in vain at this moment, they started to prepare for the possible penalty shootout. In order to prepare, the German team replaced the young and weak Neuville with the veteran Bierhoff, replaced Link with a sad expression, and replaced Kyle who couldn't wait.

Compared with the young Neuville, Oliver Bierhoff is a truly famous striker in German football and world football.When the "German tank double barrel" composed of Wöhler and Klinsmann bombed indiscriminately, Bierhoff could only be a spectator, and when Wöhler retired, he caught up with Klin It was because of his appearance that the opportunity of Sman's partner filled the vacancy left by Worraer.

Bierhoff, who was born in 1968, became famous only in the final of the European Championship in 1996. At the age of 28, he came off the bench in the final of the German team and the Czech team. With the first touch of the ball, the lagging German team tied the score at 1-1, and finally scored the winning golden goal, becoming a German hero in one fell swoop.After that, Bierhoff won the top scorer in Serie A at the age of 30 and became the captain of the German national team.

At Wembley Stadium in the 96 European Cup final at that time, the Czech team led 1-0 with a penalty kick shortly after the opening of the second half. The German team, which was full of injuries, had reached the point where even Kahn and Lake were ready to play at any time. , Time passed by every minute and every second, and the German team seemed to be exhausted.But at this time, Vogts, then coach, played the last card in his hand, replacing the exhausted Sauer with a tall forward wearing No. 20 jersey.

At that time, even the most experienced fans didn't know who this big tall man was, and his name was so difficult to pronounce, but it was this big tall man that few people recognized, who wrote the European legend in the next game. The most amazing stroke in the history of the cup: he first used the free kick opportunity to head the goal to equalize the score, and brought the game into extra time, and then he turned around and volleyed from the penalty area line at the end of the first half of extra time Scored the first golden goal in the history of world football, helped the troubled German team to turn the defeat into a 2-1 victory, and took away the Delaunay Cup.

With these two priceless goals, Da Tall rose to fame. Since then, there have been more powerful centers named Bierhoff in world football, and the then head coach of the German team Vogts expressed his excitement. : "Oliver is a gift from God to us. You know, I followed my wife's advice and brought him to England at the last moment."

Bierhoff, who played for Udinese, scored 17 goals in the first season, more than half of which came from headers. His powerful header has thus become a beautiful landscape in Serie A, and Udinese Dines also relied on this powerful weapon to achieve a good result of 10th.Not only that, Bierhoff's outstanding performance also made him receive invitations from the German and Italian teams at the same time, because his grandmother is Italian, he can represent the Italian team.But after weighing it again and again, Bierhoff still chose Germany, where he was born and raised, and he later won the famous "Golden Ball" in the European Cup.

After Bierhoff came on the field, he immediately showed his advantages. Even if he came off the bench, the energetic Materazzi could hardly compete with the 34-year-old player. Fortunately, at the last moment, Buffon Withstood the pressure and almost saved a header from Bierhoff on the goal line so that the Italian did not fall into uncontrollable grief.

At this moment, all the players are relying on willpower to support them. Many people feel that it is difficult to continue. From time to time, players have leg cramps and need to temporarily stop the game.Many players are in favor of this. They even stopped attacking, just to take advantage of this time to recover their physical strength as much as possible. It's not that they don't want to fight in the last 10 minutes of overtime, but It's that they can't run.

On the Italian side, in addition to replacing Cannavaro and sending Materazzi, Piero also played as a substitute for Zambrotta, and Montella was ready to play as a substitute for Inzaghi.Zoff paced back and forth on the sidelines, looking anxiously at his disciples, hoping that the penalty kicks that had been practiced for a long time would not go wrong. At this time, he could only try his best to arrange penalty kick personnel.

Footwork is one of them, and psychological quality is what coach Zoff values ​​most.The every move of the players and the coaches of both sides also infected the fans. Looking at the players who were almost unable to run on the court, everyone turned their attention to the timer and the referee. They knew that the final result would be through cruel Penalty shootout to decide.This is what the fans of the two countries do not want to see, but it is what the fans of other countries are looking forward to. This is definitely the most exciting game of this World Cup. The two teams scored four goals in regular time. To solve the problem, a penalty kick must be used to decide the final outcome.

Finally, after an unknown amount of time, the Swiss referee Meyer blew the whistle to end the overtime. It was cruel and unusual, and the fateful penalty shootout was about to begin.

　This semi-final focuses on the penalty shootout, this time. Madrid derby!

(End of this chapter)