Football: Invincible starting from krypton gold

Chapter 129

At 4:24 pm on April 6th, in the Weser Stadium, Werder Bremen's home stadium, the fans of the home team in the surrounding stands looked very sad.

At this time, the match between Mainz and Werder Bremen has reached the stoppage time stage, and it is only a few minutes before the end of the game. The big screen on the sidelines shows the score of the two teams, 0 to 2, and the international practice is that the home team is in front of the visiting team.

A few minutes passed quickly, and the referee on the field blew the whistle for the end of the game.

With Chen Xiao scoring in the first and second halves, Mainz beat Werder Bremen 2-0 in the away game, taking all three points.

Almost at the same time, other games in the second round of No.30 also ended one after another. Everyone thought that Bayern would be affected by the incident just past. Unexpectedly, Bayern, who challenged Hamburg in an away game, directly slaughtered the home team 5-0. Bayern, which also took all three points, continued to maintain the pressure on Mainz.

After the match against Bremen, Mainz had no time to celebrate their victory, because three days later there was still a strong dialogue waiting for them, that is, the second game of the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup.

On April 4, the whole Mainz team took a plane and landed at Rome Airport in Italy, and then took the hotel bus to the hotel that had been booked in advance.

Although the incident has calmed down this time, the Italian media still don't want to let go of this opportunity to make things worse. However, under Klopp's instructions, the entire Mainz team adopted a unified answer to the reporter's interview without comment.

The game against Rome will officially start at 4 pm on April 27.

After arriving in Italy, the Mainz team rested for a day, and then had a closed training day in the venue rented in advance on the 26th, and then went to the Rome Stadium, which is Rome's home stadium, for training on the field on the morning of the game.

At 4 o'clock in the evening on April 27th, with the whistle of the referee in the Rome Stadium, the match between the two teams officially began.

The starting lineups of the two teams have not changed from the first game.

However, the difference from the first game is that Roma, who played at home, launched a crazy attack on Mainz from the very beginning of the game, while Mainz behaved more like the Roma team in the first game.

The Roma team’s offensive tactics have achieved some results. Although they did not score a goal in just 10 minutes, they have basically suppressed Mainz on the scene. However, with the joint efforts of Albertini and Petit, the biggest problem of the Roma team’s offense is almost the same as the first game, that is, Totti’s role in the center has almost no effect under Albertini’s defense.

Roma's side attack is not his strong point, so this is the biggest problem Roma currently encounters.

In this way, after Rome suppressed for nearly half an hour, Völler on the sidelines also felt very troublesome. He had never expected Mainz to be so resilient. He couldn’t score a goal after such a strong attack. Völler felt that he didn’t know what to do. no way out.

In the 39th minute of the game, Roma made a mistake in passing the ball in the frontcourt. Petit directly blocked the ball in the middle. Petit got the ball and passed the ball directly to Troshovsky in the midfield. In the scene that appeared, Troshovsky picked up the ball with his toes directly facing the incoming ball, and then relied on the defensive player behind him to kick the ball backward with an upside-down golden hook shot. For Troshovsky's action, the Roma players were a little confused. No one knew why he did it?
But some people will not be confused. They saw a figure from the right, and it was Chen Xiao who was rushing forward at high speed. This scene once happened in Mainz's team training. The football was still flying in the air. Chen Xiao had already found the ball's landing point, and then unloaded the ball easily. At this time, because Rome's defense did not expect the ball, by the time Chen Xiao got the ball, he was already at a distance of about 29 meters from the goal, and there was no defensive player around him.

Chen Xiao, who stopped the ball, just looked up to observe the position of the opponent's goalkeeper, then swung his right leg on the spot, and with a powerful long shot, the football flew towards the goal.

Pellizzoli turned pale with shock, and he did not expect Chen Xiao to shoot directly on the spot. Originally, he was still waiting for Chen Xiao's adjustment.

Although Chen Xiao didn't have any run-up strength for this shot, judging from the speed of the ball, the speed of the football is still very fast. This shows that Chen Xiao's shot is strong. The most important thing is that the ball obviously has a very strange arc when it is flying in the air.

1 to 0, in the 40th minute of the game, Mainz took a one-goal lead in the away game, and this is not just a problem of one goal. For Roma, from this moment on, their away goal advantage is completely gone.

That's why it is said that Chen Xiao made up his mind for Worrell, because at this moment, Rome has no way out, and if he doesn't attack, he will die.

After the goal, Chen Xiao celebrated the goal with his teammates on the field, and Klopp on the sidelines completely let go of the heart that had been hanging in his heart, because he knew that the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup belonged to Mainz, and there was only one opponent before the final.

All hopes and dreams can only be realized if they really enter the finals. All of this seems a bit dreamy to the Mainz people. In just one year, Mainz has completed a dream that has been impossible for decades.At this moment, whether it is the fans who came to Italy with the team or the fans who stayed in Mainz, many people shed tears of excitement. For a small club like Mainz, such a result is really like a dream.

(End of this chapter)