Chapter 50: A miracle, a comeback to win the championship
After Lin Quan left the field, De Bruyne stood at the penalty spot.
Originally, the team's captain Fritz was the first penalty taker, but Fritz knew that De Bruyne had a good relationship with Lin Quan, so he took the initiative to give the ball to De Bruyne.
Under normal circumstances, De Bruyne would probably decline.
But today, he didn't refuse.
This opportunity was created with great difficulty, he must not waste it!
This goal was not scored by himself, but by Lin Quan who was injured and left the field.
Standing on the penalty spot, De Bruyne took a deep breath.
After observing the goalkeeper's position, he started his run-up.
He chose to shoot at the far corner, and the goalkeeper guessed the direction correctly, but unfortunately his diving action was a little slow and he failed to save the ball.
De Bruyne scored in one fell swoop, changing the score on the field to 3:3!
In the 59th minute of the regular season, Werder Bremen equalized the score.
There was one minute left in the game, including injury time, a total of less than five minutes.
If neither team can change the score, then they will go to a penalty shootout! It seems that neither team can accept the result of a draw, so after the restart, both sides launched attacks at the same time.
Dortmund's players ran the entire game. At this time, many players were at a bottleneck in their physical fitness and they were gritting their teeth to persevere in the game.
However, because one of their players was sent off, their number of attackers decreased, making it difficult for them to break through in positional warfare.
Werder Bremen's situation was not much better. They had played games for two consecutive days. The team had been traveling a lot and had not had enough rest. Their physical fitness was not as good as that of the opponent.
As a result, the offense of both teams lacked some momentum.
The 60 minutes of regular time ended quickly, and the game remained suspenseful as the winner was still undecided.
So the referee gave 2 minutes of injury time, which is relatively short.
For both teams, that might only be enough for them to launch one attack each.
In the first minute of extra time, Dortmund reached the front of Werder Bremen's penalty area.
Reus was planning to break through and shoot with the ball when he saw Lewandowski asking for the ball in the penalty area.
So he chose to trust his teammates and passed the ball immediately.
The intention of this pass was seen through by Werder Bremen's defenders. The substitute central defender Papastathopoulos predicted it in advance and kicked the ball to his teammate before Lewandowski received it.
After receiving the ball, Selassie immediately passed it to winger Elia, who received the ball on the wing and ran quickly, striding towards Dortmund's half.
When he dribbled the ball across half court, the referee looked at his watch and saw that there were only a few dozen seconds left. This might be the last attack of the game.
Elia also knew that time was running out, so he didn't dare to stop and kept rushing forward along the side road.
The opponent's defense on the wing was relatively empty, and he had enough space and time to advance the attack to the opponent's sideline.
When the time comes and his teammates rush into the penalty area, he will make a cross, and the success or failure will depend on this shot.
Like Lin Quan, Elia was also a little exhausted at this time, and was already out of breath when he ran to the sideline of the opponent's backcourt.
Dortmund's full-back Korch had already rushed up, ready to intercept him.
So he didn't have time to dribble the ball to the bottom line and could only pass the ball to the middle with a sweep.
At the edge of his vision, he seemed to see a teammate in a green jersey rushing up.
Although he was not sure whether the ball could be passed to the opponent, he could only choose to trust his teammates at this time! De Bruyne was running desperately. With his physical strength close to the limit, he could feel that his legs were filled with lead, and every step he took was extremely difficult.
However, he did not want to give up this opportunity to attack.
Seeing the opponent's goal within sight, he gritted his teeth again, rushed forward with all his might, and received the pass from his teammate before the defensive player.
Dortmund's backcourt defender rushed up immediately, having learned from Hulmes' previous foul in the penalty area.
Without waiting for De Bruyne to dribble the ball into the penalty area, he fouled outside the penalty area to stop his advance.
This was a tactical foul and the referee gave a yellow card without hesitation. After hesitating for a while, he awarded Werder Bremen a free kick in the frontcourt.
He seemed to be planning to blow the final whistle, but when he saw Werder Bremen's No. 6 had already climbed up from the ground and came to the foul site with the football in his arms, he softened his heart and gave the opponent a chance to take a free kick, which was a reward for his fighting spirit of not giving up! "Do you want me to take the free kick?"
Fritz came to De Bruyne and asked.
He could see that De Bruyne didn't have much energy left.
In this situation, it would be difficult for him to perform at his original level when taking the free kick.
"No thanks, Captain. I can do it myself!"
De Bruyne rejected the captain's kindness. He knew this was the team's last attack, so he was not in a hurry to take the penalty.
He waited until the other side formed a human wall and the referee stepped back and blew the whistle, indicating that he could take the free throw, and then he began to slowly retreat.
Read the error-free version on 6Ⅹ9Ⅹ bookⅩ bar! 6Ⅹ9 book bar first publishes a novel.
As he retreated, he closed his eyes and thought about how he was going to take the free throw.
Suddenly, he thought of the theoretical knowledge that Lin Quan had told him when they were practicing the elevator ball.
At the time, I found it difficult to understand and do it, but now, on the field, that knowledge seems to come alive and doesn’t seem so difficult to understand.
So De Bruyne made the decision that he would play the most difficult elevator ball.
On the bench, Lin Quan, who was coming down from the stretcher and receiving a massage from the team doctor with an ice pack on his body, saw how far De Bruyne had retreated and was shocked: Is this guy going to play an elevator ball? He has no energy left, can he still play an elevator ball at a speed of over 100 kilometers per hour? Lin Quan was skeptical. De Bruyne's choice seemed a bit stubborn! He was not a person of this character before...
Could it be because of me?
Well……
Is this guy trying to avenge me?
The idea is good, but this ball is unlikely to go in...Fuck (I copied a terrified expression here in the backstage of Qidian when posting)!!!
Lin Quan was just about to say that De Bruyne couldn't score this goal, but the latter kicked a high-quality elevator ball.
The ball passed over the human wall and flew high.
Dortmund goalkeeper Langerak judged that the ball would land above the goal, so he did not jump to save it. He did not think the ball would pose a threat to the goal.
But when the ball was about to fly over the crossbar and into the stands, it suddenly began to fall, sticking to the lower edge of the door frame, and strangely fell into the goal.
Dortmund’s goalkeeper was dumbfounded!
This ball must be a ghost! How could this ball go in? Not only him, but all 22 players on both sides of the field, including De Bruyne, were stunned after seeing the result of this ball.
The difference is that after Dortmund's players reacted, they were all dejected, as if they could not accept this cruel result.
They fought hard for the entire game, but in the end they watched their opponents win the championship at their doorstep and snatched the championship trophy! After recovering from the shock, the Werder Bremen players rushed towards De Bruyne like crazy.
Lin Quan also jumped up from the bench, without even taking the ice pack, and rushed to the court with other substitutes.
The referee didn't want to give any more extra time as the 2 minutes of injury time had already expired, so he blew the whistle to end the game right after the restart.
The champion of the 2012 Telecom Cup is the Parrot Army - Werder Bremen!
I was criticized for being autistic. Today I posted all the chapters before the Bundesliga game, and will update the Bundesliga game tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)