There is a dream called football

Chapter 212 UEFA Penalties

Gerrard and Alonso saw that Li Qiao was holding the ball, and they were very interesting, so they stopped coming, and Benitez didn't interfere. After all, Li Qiao won the penalty.

When Li Qiao was holding the ball, he suddenly felt a little regretful. He was very proud just now, but now he was a little scared.

The pressure of a penalty kick is not something ordinary people can bear, and it is still a draw at this time. Li Qiao turned his head and looked, "Jie team, Alonso, don't you want to fight me?"

It was very strange that no one competed with Li Qiao at all. Everyone cooperated and stood outside the restricted area, as if they were waiting for Li Qiao to perform.

The penalty goalkeeper Bout was ready to fight. He looked at Li Qiao and understood that Li Qiao was very nervous at this time, so he began to put pressure on the referee.

"The position of the ball is wrong, it deviates from the penalty spot."

The referee didn't care, but Bout went to set the ball by himself. This was obviously out of bounds, and the referee warned him.

"I was just swinging the ball, I wasn't thinking about anything."

Bout is an old man, he knows that such a small matter will not make the referee really play cards, but it can affect the opponent very well, that is, it disgusts you, and there is nothing you can do about it.

What Li Qiao had to do was not to watch Bout's performance. He tried to calm down in his heart, although it was difficult to do so.

The referee whistled, and the most stressful moment came. Li Qiao started to run up, similar to Neymar, constantly changing, all he wanted was the sudden shot at the end, which may or may not score.

The moment of final decision came, Li Qiao chose to push the goalkeeper's lower corner, and the ball almost touched the ground.

As soon as the ball went out, Bout was startled, because the ground ball is the most difficult for goalkeepers to guard against. As expected, Bout fell to the ground and missed the goal, and the ball rolled into the goal.

"pretty."

"pretty."

This was Li Qiao's first penalty kick for Liverpool. Before, he could only watch Jie and Long Ge score.

Gerrard hugged Li Qiao. Of course he knew the difficulty of taking a penalty kick, so this was not an easy task.

"You are really too calm."

"Actually, I was scared to death."

"Haha."

When Bout fished out the ball, he kicked it hard and kicked the ball far away. After today, his reputation as a penalty goalkeeper may be gone.

Augenthaler's face is not good, but overall it's okay, because he scored an away goal. In this way, he only needs one goal to solve the battle when he returns home. This is the advantage of away goals.

At this time, Benitez also made a substitution. He replaced the German Hamann and used the Germans to defend the Germans, because Benitez also felt that 2-1 was almost the same, so let's wait until the away game.

But what Benitez himself didn't expect was that Harman came on the field but there was an unexpected joy. It was at the 88th minute of the game that Alonso took a free kick and Harman grabbed the ball in the penalty area and smashed it into the goal.

3:1.

The purpose of replacing Harman was to keep the lead, but I didn't expect that Harman, who knows the Germans best, really played a miraculous effect.

Augenthaler's face turned bitter, which was an uncomfortable feeling, because it was 1-3, and it would be difficult to chase after returning to the home court. After all, the opponent could also score goals. If the opponent also scored an away goal, then everything might be over.

In the carnival atmosphere at Anfield, the Leverkusen people lost, perhaps they can find many excuses after the game.

For example, too many players have passed away, and so many main players have been bought by Bayern Munich, but in the final analysis, fans will not buy it.

Li Qiao remembered that Augenthaler hadn't been in Leverkusen for a long time, and it had to do with both ability and luck.

At the end of the game, it was 1 to 3. Leverkusen lost the game. Liverpool can be said to have entered the top 8 with one foot.

Augenthaler and Benitez shook hands bitterly, "I lost."

"No, there is a second leg. I know the Champions League is a two-legged game."

Winning is happy, but Benitez encountered trouble after the game, because there has been news that UEFA is investigating the riots outside the Liverpool Stadium.

Since the Heysel tragedy, UEFA has been very sensitive to fan riots. I used to think that football fans were just fighting and it was nothing more than a hormonal release, but what I didn't expect was that such a tragedy would happen.

That time was a huge blow to Liverpool and English football as a whole, and the punishment was heavy.

There are generally three types of penalties for fan riots. The lightest is a fine. The medium is to clear the home court and not allow fans to enter. The third is the heavier one, that is, the team is sentenced to a 0-3 loss regardless of the score.

If it is the third type, then Liverpool will be busy in vain, but Benitez probably will not, but this will have to wait for UEFA's final judgment.

However, in order to win the battle of public opinion, Liverpool players were interviewed, and Li Qiao and Gerrard participated in the interview as player representatives.

Of course, Gerrard doesn't need to talk about it, and Li Qiao is the one who scored the penalty in the game, so it is also very important.

"First of all, we condemn any violence in the stadium." Gerrard said, "The best way for fans to support the team is to watch the football. I repeat, football hooligans are not fans, they are poison. Liverpool don't need football hooligans to be our fans."

"Secondly, I would like to send my condolences to any fans who were hurt and I will visit them in hospital if possible."

When it was Li Qiao's turn, he said: "The captain has already said a lot, I don't think I need to say anything more, but one thing is very important, that is, it is not easy for Liverpool to get to where it is today. We only made it out of the group stage in the last battle."

"I hope our fans will cherish it, and of course I hope that UEFA will consider that Liverpool is innocent and we are playing hard."

The public opinion war launched by Li Qiao and Gerrard has been very effective, and Liverpool has created an image of itself as being brave.

This also made many people start to support Liverpool. Even if the fans are making trouble, those people are nothing but hooligans, and they have nothing to do with Liverpool.

The Liverpool Fans Association was also dispatched, expressing a clear line with stadium violence, and the British media also rarely collectively supported Liverpool.

Everything is good, but in the end it still depends on the attitude of UEFA. The right to punish is in the hands of UEFA. In the end, UEFA investigated and found that fans on both sides had misconduct, and Leverkusen may have more.

But it is impossible not to punish, because this incident delayed the game. In the end, UEFA punished both sides with a fine of [-] euros and issued a warning to the team.

Both sides also understand that if there is a second time, no matter who the two teams advance to, don't even think about it.

(End of this chapter)