road to victory

Chapter 357 Penalty kick, golden ball!
When the game returned to normal, Baia passed the goal kick to Xavier. Xavier sent a forward pass close to the touchline. This pass was very good. Conceicao used his speed to beat Liza Lazuo, and a cross from the wing, fortunately Desailly returned to his defensive position in time to destroy the ball.

If this goal is scored, then Conceicao's breakthrough will be a classic, but now it will be submerged in the long river of history.

But this time Conceicao also tried his best. After passing the ball, he fell to the ground. Knowing that the Portuguese team doctor treated him, Conceicao stood up tremblingly and sat on the sidelines. After a while, he limped back into the arena.

Then France scored three consecutive free kicks and a corner kick in the 100 minutes of the 105-5th game, but none of them posed any threat to Portugal's goal.

After the corner kick, the first half of the overtime game is over. The score of the two teams is still 1:1. If there is no accident in the second half of the overtime game, the two teams will have a penalty shootout.

As soon as the second half of overtime started, Vincent replaced Wiltord with Trezeguet, and Wiltord couldn't move much.

Then within seconds, Portuguese striker Pinto received a yellow card for stepping on Thuram.

In the second half of overtime, the physical fitness of the two teams was almost at the limit, so basically they were robbed by the opponent after taking a few steps in the midfield, and the chances of entering the penalty area were almost gone.

In the 107th minute, Zidane dribbled the ball from the backcourt to 15 meters in front of Portugal's penalty area, but he failed to pass it out in the last pass and was intercepted by the Portuguese player.At this time, Zidane has no physical strength to return to defense.

Costinha didn't run either. After stealing the ball, he passed it long to Conceicao. Conceicao exhausted his last bit of physical energy and completed an inside shot, but it was really at the end of his strength. The power was seized by Baatezu.

Then Barthez threw the ball to Thuram, Thuram passed directly up the field, and this through pass across half the court was picked up by Pires who changed sides here, and then Pires slid the ball from the man. It was given to Trezeguet who inserted into the penalty area, and Trezeguet took advantage of the opportunity to shoot and was thrown by Baia.

But the second point was taken by Pires. Although the angle was already 0 degrees, Pires still managed to shoot the ball towards the goal.The ball was blocked by Xavier who returned to the defense halfway and bounced out of the baseline.

At this time, Pires and Trezeguet signaled the referee Xavier to block the ball with his hands. The referee did not see it clearly, but the assistant referee waved his small flag at this time to signal the referee.After the referee communicated with the assistant referee, a penalty kick was awarded.

From the perspective of slow motion, the ball hit the bottom line in Xavier's hand, and the referee's penalty was no problem.

But the Portuguese players didn't think so. Six or seven Portuguese players surrounded the assistant referee, and the rest surrounded the referee.Especially for the main assistant referee, there was another person who actually pushed the assistant referee.

Since it was a sudden death, this penalty basically means that Portugal will be eliminated, so even 11 players questioned, begged for mercy, and abused them. Anyway, they are thinking of various ways to hope that the referee can change the penalty. Don’t overdo it. Early kill game.

But the referee was unmoved, it was just one action that made the Portuguese players disperse and stop surrounding him and the assistant referee.

At this time, Figo should be the most angry. He took off his jersey before the referee showed him a red card.Then he yelled at the referee and the assistant referee and walked out of the court.

"That's enough personality," said Fan Shang and Santini next to him.

"Hehe." Santini had nothing to say, so he could only hehe.

The referee ignored Figo and firmly awarded France a penalty, and then asked France to take the penalty quickly.Zidane, of course, refused to be the player who made the free throw.

Zidane, who took the penalty, had a serious expression, while Baia, who was keeping the goal, also had a serious expression.

Zidane put the ball in place, and then retreated to the top line of the arc. Following the whistle of the referee, Zidane took a big stride and ran to the ball. After making a push to the lower right corner, he touched the ball In an instant, he turned his ankle, changed his push to a pump, and easily hit the ball into the upper left corner of the Portuguese goal.Baia completely ate Zidane's feint and jumped out to the right, already showing a frustrated expression in mid-air.

"Okay!" Fan Shang and the coaching staff all jumped up, couldn't you be excited to finally advance to the finals!

France celebrated here, while the Portuguese players surrounded the referee and assistant referees, wanting to discuss an explanation.

Just now the referee did not act too aggressively in order to continue the game.

Now seeing the Portuguese players coming up again, he immediately took out a red card and gave a red card to the leader, Nuno Gomez, who had the worst temper, and then escaped from the encirclement of the Portuguese players with the help of security.

After the game, Portugal's head coach Coelho was quite dissatisfied with the referee's penalty at the press conference, believing that the referee killed the game.

When a reporter asked Fan Shang, Fan Shang spread his hands, "I respect the referee's penalty, and I think UEFA will deal with this matter fairly in the future." Can the cheap people say no? , must respect referees respect UEFA.

Soon, the penalty for this incident came out early the next morning, but Vincent saw that UEFA's penalty was still a bit light, Nuno Gomez's red card remained inconvenient, Xavier and Bento were added suspension.

What's the matter with Figo who didn't leave early? Shouldn't this kind of negative game teach some lessons?Then next time when it comes to this kind of inevitable defeat, it is much more comfortable to withdraw all the players and embarrass the opponent than to lose directly.

"Johnson is still merciful." Fan Shang sighed when he saw the result of the punishment.

The Portuguese Football Association is also a smart person. As soon as the result came out, it jumped out and decided to respect UEFA's final penalty, and suspended three players who were not absolutely core players. This is already a favor of UEFA. Well, if you still can't recognize the situation, then you really don't need to engage in politics.

This time the French team was very good, and none of them got involved in this matter, which made Vincent very pleased.But if you think about it, you're going to win the game, so who would go to such lengths.

At the same time that UEFA issued this announcement, France also began to pack up and prepare to think about the next destination, the location of the European Cup final, the Netherlands, Rotterdam.

(End of this chapter)