The Era of Emerald

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Due to the restrictions of the game rules, after the end of the 10-minute game, the players of both sides did not return to the locker room, but went to the sidelines to receive treatment from the team doctor and masseurs, so as to take advantage of the 5-minute rest time. Get back some strength for the next overtime.

While receiving the massage, the Fiorentina players gathered together and listened to coach Fabio Capello's tactical arrangements for the overtime period. After all, the rules of overtime are different from the regular nine and 10-minute games. If the ball is lost in overtime with the sudden death method, it will kill people.

Vicenza is also in the same scene, but they are not as good as Fiorentina in terms of treatment, which is obviously worse than their opponents. This also makes many Vicenza players feel a little unbalanced. I began to wonder if they could also enjoy this kind of high-level service if they went to play for the giants.

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

Guidolin naturally also noticed these emotions of the players, but he was not good at communicating with the players, and he didn't know how to make the players let go of this idea.In the case of tight time, he can only instill the team's overtime tactics into the players as concisely as possible as soon as possible, hoping that they can focus on the game instead of those foreign objects.

Therefore, in the next three and 10 minutes of overtime, the players on both sides began to become more conservative on the field. The shredded frontcourt passes of the defense line are also gone, and even the number of times of pressing the offense is much less than before.

In many cases, players would rather pass the time in the backcourt than pass the ball forward to try to attack.

In fact, this is all caused by the golden goal system, because in the overtime game that adopts the golden goal system, once the opponent scores a goal, it means that the team's efforts throughout the game will be in vain because of this conceded goal. The psychological pressure forced any team to dare not continue the onslaught in overtime.

If it was the overtime game in which the winner was determined in the traditional way before the golden ball system came into being, the players on both sides would not have so much to worry about. It doesn't matter, as long as you let your side lead at the end of the game.

But now, the players and coaches of both sides have to worry about the gain and loss of a goal, because as long as a goal is scored, one of them can be driven into the abyss of eternal doom!

Seeing that Fiorentina and Vicenza, two teams that played extremely openly in 10 minutes of regular time, actually became very restrained and conservative in overtime, many fans and football critics began to curse Golden Ball in their hearts. The system believes that it is precisely because of the emergence of this sudden death law that the two sides of the game have become so conservative and unwilling to make progress in overtime.

Therefore, after the end of this game, European football once again set off a denunciation of the golden ball system, calling for the abolition of the golden ball system and returning to the 96-minute overtime system before 10. If so, let’s not mention it here.

In this way, in this drowsy atmosphere, the two teams finally finished this disappointing overtime match and ushered in the final penalty shootout!

However, what everyone did not expect was that this penalty shootout, which should have been decided after at most five rounds of shots in people's eyes, would be completely different when it came to Florence and Vicenza. !

In the first four rounds of the penalty shootout, the four players in charge of penalty kicks on the Fiorentina side all hit, but Tony, who was the first to take the penalty kick on the Vicenza side, kicked the ball off the crossbar, causing the second When all four rounds of penalty kicks were over, Vicenza was temporarily one city behind by three to four in this penalty kick contest!

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

However, the Italian midfielder lost the chain at this critical moment, and his penalty kick was caught by Barlotta who was guarding in front of the goal!

And Ballack, the fifth player in Vicenza to take the penalty, steadily scored the penalty kick, bringing the two teams to the same starting line again!

Such a dramatic change happened at such a critical juncture, which made the hearts of all fans rise to their throats.Fans who supported Fiorentina all sighed for Zanetti, lamenting that the young man's psychological quality is still not up to the mark, and Capello should send Carlos, who is more experienced, this penalty may not be so easy No opposing goalkeeper caught it.

Since the two sides did not decide the winner after the end of the first five rounds of penalty kicks, the sudden death method will be adopted for additional penalties, that is, players from both sides will continue to take penalty kicks for each other in turn until the end of a certain round occurs. If one side makes a penalty and the other side fails to make a penalty, the side that makes the penalty wins the final victory.

And this officially opened the prelude to this extremely long penalty shootout!

From the sixth round to the tenth round, the players who took penalty kicks from both sides without exception had to maintain an amazing hit rate and psychological quality. They scored a total of ten penalty kicks without a single miss!

In the No.11 round, the goalkeepers of both sides played penalty kicks. Toldo, who took off his gloves, stood on the penalty spot without any stage fright. Balotta, who played later, did not disappoint his teammates, and tricked Toldo into sending the ball into the goal, ten to ten!

So far, all 22 players on the field from both sides have taken a penalty kick. The referee, who was already stunned by this, had to arrange the players of the two teams to take the penalty again in the previous order according to the rules.

In the No.12 round, Ronaldo, who played again, easily tricked Balotta into a penalty kick, and Tony also made up for it this time and scored, [-] to [-]!

Vieri and Redondo, who played in the No.13 and No.14 rounds, both resisted the pressure and scored a penalty kick. Unfortunately, Vicenza did not miss, and Toldo, who was guarding the goal, failed. Oddo and Larsson's shots were blocked, and the two sides continued to tie in the penalty shootout.

This extremely long penalty shootout finally came to an end after the No.15 round - Effenberg broke through Barotta's ten fingers with an angry shot, and Ambrosetti went to the upper right of the goal Jiao's powerful shot was saved by Toldo!

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

ps2: Special thanks to Liverpool and Middlesbrough, the League Cup match really benefited me a lot...