Mister Legend

Chapter 459 The Moment of Life and Death
In the 5 minutes before the start of extra time, the broadcast camera was aimed at Diego Simeone in the stands many times. Since he was not at his home court, the Argentine iron coach could not enjoy the treatment in the semi-finals - at that time He has been staying outside the top box of the Wanda Metropolitano.

Although sitting among the many spectators who are constantly shouting and cheering, it is difficult for the camera to completely lock him, but through the limited close-up clips, everyone can easily find that Simeone's face is not good-looking.Perhaps in his pre-match plan, the possibility of this game entering the playoffs should be extremely low.

It's just that the lightning goal of the Torino team at the opening game disrupted Atletico Madrid's deployment before the game. The Italian team's offensive and defensive strategies have repeatedly hit their own vital points. Handsome unexpected situation.Fortunately, Atletico Madrid's overall strength still has a certain upper hand, and finally seized the opportunity to equalize the score at the beginning of the second half, but then failed to make any gains because of insufficient adjustments, and the game was dragged into overtime.

Not counting the predecessor City Expo Cup, in the 59 Europa League finals including the previous UEFA Cup, there were a total of ten overtime situations (including the second round overtime in the previous two-round competition system), this ratio does not count high.According to the statistics of the five major leagues over the years, draws can account for about 21% to 23% of all games, which is higher than the final of this second most important club competition in Europe.

The number of games to decide the winner in overtime is not too high. There were six times that the final winner had to be decided through brutal penalty shootouts, and only four times were the winners won in the additional game time. Negative, but it includes the 2000-01 season when Liverpool relied on the opponent's own goal, the golden goal lore La Liga team Alaves, and the 2002-03 season Mourinho led Porto's silver goal to defeat Celtic. These two classic moments.

It is worth mentioning that when Atletico Madrid won the championship for the first time in the 2009-10 season, it relied on Uruguay striker Forlan's right-footed goal in the 116th minute to defeat the Premier League team Fulham, becoming the second team after Real Madrid. The fourth La Liga team to win the Europa League title after , Valencia and Sevilla. (PS: Barcelona won the City Expo Cup in 1958, 1960, and 1966, but UEFA did not count the results before 1972 in the history of the European League, so Barcelona unfortunately failed to enter the group Among the ranks of the club's Grand Slam honors)
Although eight years have passed since that final, veterans such as Juan Fran and Felipe Luis who participated in that game are still in the team. I have also experienced the whole process of winning the championship for the second time in 2012. It can be said that the more critical the moment is, the more the experience of Atletico Madrid players will be able to play a role.

So after Kuipers blew the whistle to start overtime, most people are still more optimistic that the Spanish team will have the advantage.

The game process basically confirmed everyone's predictions. Although the golden ball and silver ball systems were cancelled, half an hour of extra time was left for both sides to score goals, but an atmosphere of extreme caution still shrouded Lyon's Olympic Park Over the pitch, in the first 15 minutes, the Torino team didn't score a single goal.Fortunately, Griezmann and Cork each missed a shot, otherwise the fans watching the game would really sit up and fall asleep.

However, Atletico Madrid, who took the initiative on the scene, did not exert their full strength. Partey and Gabi hardly pressed the midfield line in the second half of the extra time. They were very scruples about the Turin team because of their older average age. The counterattack speed is too high, and he is unwilling to take the risk of tightening the defense to strengthen the offense.Especially in the 112th minute, Baselli's direct pass almost helped Immobile form a one-handed goal, which obviously frightened the Atletico Madrid players and forced them to pay more attention to their own defense. Since then, the game has no bright spots Appeared.

When the game progressed to the 117th minute, the head coaches or assistant coaches of both sides seemed to remember that they still had a substitution in their hands, and played their last cards at the same time.

Farke replaced Silvestri, Torino changed to a 4-3-3 formation, and Kannemann made a temporary cameo at the right-back position, which he was not good at. negative influence.The purpose of this personnel replacement is already quite obvious. With the Spanish winger with 15 penalty kick ability replacing the team's most unreliable right wing back on the 12 yard line, Li Moody's idea of ​​planning a penalty shootout is clearly revealed.

Atletico Madrid's substitution strategy is exactly the same. The team's spiritual leader Torres came on to replace the midfielder Koke. In addition to wanting to let the legendary captain experience the atmosphere of the final final before leaving the team, it was also because of T9's penalty kick. The ability to rank among the top three in the team is a good candidate who is trustworthy at critical moments.

After the final 120 minutes, the score of 1-1 was fixed on the large electronic display above the stadium, and the two sides had to decide the ownership of this year's Europa League champion through the cruelest penalty shootout.

The list of penalty kicks is being gradually formed in the tense arrangement of the coaches of the two teams, while the 22 players on the court are sitting on the turf and taking the time to adjust their physical functions. The masseurs and other coaching staff members of both sides are All out to relax the leg muscles for the fighters who are about to set foot on the battlefield.

In the broadcast room of BBC TV at this time, Lineker and Ferdinand are also using this short gap time to analyze the future development trend of the game. The former Manchester United central defender believes that the penalty shootout is too unpredictable to judge. Which team can become the winner in the future.

Lineker revealed news from the Italian media, saying that the Red Bulls had focused on penalty kicks in the few days before the game, and it seems that they should have some advantages.But this statement did not get the approval of Ferdinand. The latter said that this ability is largely innate, and it is difficult to improve through temporary practice. The main test is whether the mentality of the kicker is strong enough. There is some element of luck involved.In terms of mental attributes such as willpower and composure, Atletico Madrid is undoubtedly the better side, but the Turin team is not completely without opportunities, because they also have a great goalkeeper.

On the Tianchao PBTV sports live broadcast platform, the two directors Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu are also popularizing science about Iker Casillas' magical experience in saving penalty kicks. Director Zhan, who has the title of a football encyclopedia, uses the fluent words like a few treasures. The speed of speech mentioned that the former Real Madrid captain saved the Galacticos and the Matador Legion many times in the 12-yard line duel. In the quarter-finals of the World Cup in 2002, he saved three penalty kicks from Irish players. In the quarter-finals of the European Cup in 2008, he blocked the shots of De Rossi and Di Natale. Facing Portugal in the semi-finals, Ronaldo, who took the fifth penalty, didn't even get the qualification to play...

Although the overall efficiency of saving penalty kicks is slightly lower than that of Buffon, but only looking at penalty shootouts, Casey is undoubtedly No.30 in the past 1 years. The only loss came from the shocking match-fixing match with Kimchi Nation in 2002. Among them, the other time was eliminated by Bayern in the semi-finals of the Champions League in the 2011-12 season, and the rest were easy wins.

At this moment, the order of taking penalties on the scene has been determined. Atletico Madrid, who won the coin guessing, did not make the mistake of three years ago again. They chose to take the penalty first. ——According to previous statistics, in penalty shootouts, the winning side has reached 2016%. In [-], Atletico Madrid won the right to pick in the Champions League final with Real Madrid, but chose to take a penalty. Afterwards, it was considered one of the key factors in the final loss of the game. Today they obviously learned a lesson.

As Casillas stood in front of the goal with a calm face, and Atletico Madrid's first player to take the penalty, Captain Gabi, put the ball in position and then took two steps back, accompanied by the Turin fans on the scene. Everyone turned all their attention to the half-court penalty area used by the Torino team in the second half of overtime, and at the same time they were waiting for the whistle that indicated that a free throw could be made.

Due to the reminder of the FM system, the Turin coach can clearly observe the order of the opponent's penalty kicks. It has to be said that the team's overall penalty kick ability is really very strong. Gabi at 16, Diego Costa at 15, Juan Fran at 13, Griezmann at 13, and Torres at 15, if the first five rounds fail to determine the winner, there will be 12 Sau Al and 11 Godin, in world football where this value is generally not too high, Atletico Madrid undoubtedly has a very high chance of winning in the penalty shootout.

In contrast to the Red Bulls, Li Moody has tried his best to gather the strongest team of five people. They are Falke at 15, Baselli at 13, Fabas at 13, Immobile at 15 and Belotti at 14. .Judging from this list alone, there is not much difference between the opponents, but even if the sixth player is a big guy, there is only 10 Barreca who can give it a try, and the rest of the Turin players are not good. The penalty ability is higher than 8, and the prospects are very worrying.Therefore, they must resolve the battle within the regular rounds, otherwise they may encounter tragedy.

It was too late to say it, and Gabi is indeed the best player in the game to take penalty kicks. Although the speed of his kick to the lower right corner of his kick is not very fast, the angle is extremely tricky.Even if Cassie judged the right direction, the extreme side attack failed to touch anything except the air.Atletico Madrid took the lead and took the psychological advantage.

Throwing out the differences in players' ability to take penalties and factors of luck, the conclusion that the main factor affecting the result of the penalty shootout comes from psychological pressure is actually not unpopular knowledge, but anyone who has a certain understanding of football will understand learn.But in actual operation, few people really regard it as such an important thing. In the 2008 European Cup, in the elimination of Italy against Spain, Buffon also chose the penalty after winning the right to choose.But Li Mudi very much agreed with this conclusion, he was very eager to get the right to be punished first, but unfortunately luck was not on his side.

However, after becoming a relatively unfavorable side in terms of probability, it does not mean that the Turin team has lost the initiative to win, except that it has long been expected to enter a penalty shootout like a life-and-death moment, and strengthened this aspect before the game. Apart from practice, Li Moody has another trump card that he can use.

In the 2006 World Cup match between the hosts of the World Cup and the Pampas Eagles, the small note that the then German goalkeeper coach Kopke handed to Lehmann made the world see how to master the opponent's penalty kick habits before the game importance.

Although Atletico Madrid's coaching staff and goalkeeper Oblak must have thoroughly studied several important players of the Turin team, but Turin is not a vegetarian, and the results of the work of the two sides in this area are basically equal State, no one can take too much advantage.But Li Mudi obtained another confidential document from his good friend Qi Zu, and this may become one of the biggest boosters for the Red Bull to finally stand on the top of Europe.

It was the night of the Champions League final three years ago. After a long period of video observation and summary, the Real Madrid team discovered that the Slovenian national goalkeeper had a very bad habit, that is, before saving a penalty kick, Oblak often unconsciously Take a small step in the direction of your final save.Although this behavior does not occur every time, at least before 2014, the probability of him doing this behavior was as high as 60%.So at that time, four of the five Real Madrid players chose to run slowly. After seeing the small step taken by the Atletico Madrid goalkeeper, they kicked the ball in the opposite direction. curtain.

After that game, Oblak should have received information feedback, and deliberately suppressed his inherent habitual awareness when facing penalty kicks a few times later, but occasionally "recurrence of old symptoms".Moreover, after changing his original habit of saving points, his success rate of saving penalty kicks has also dropped significantly. The changed method not only made him lose the extra speed improvement brought by that step, but also did not increase too much direction. Apart from avoiding the weakness of being caught by the opponent, the accuracy of prediction has no other benefits.

Therefore, after judging that the goalkeeper of Atletico Madrid is likely to subconsciously use the original habitual moves again on such an important stage today, Li Mudi told the players in advance to choose to take the medicine according to the prescription, and also observed Oblak's movements with a slow approach.

Although this trick did not work in the first two rounds, when Falk, Costa, Baselli and Juan Forlan made the penalty kicks in turn, the judgment was correct twice in a row. The Slovenian national goalkeeper, who failed to touch the ball in the direction, finally resumed his old habits, allowing Fabas, who is relatively weak in penalty kicks, to seize the opportunity and easily hit it.

3 to 3, after three rounds, the players from the two teams did not miss, and the atmosphere of the final was moving towards a suffocating direction in an extremely tense state.

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