[football] walk side by side

This kind of running is actually meaningless.

After more than two hours of running, it is the most sensible choice to reserve some energy to deal with the next penalty shootout.Given Cristiano's situation at the time, it was impossible to catch up with football. No matter how hard he tried, it would only consume what little energy he had left.

However, when Cristiano ran back out of breath, and then threw himself into the next round of scrambling, Cyril couldn't say a word of persuasion.

Say what?

Now there are less than 3 minutes left before the end of overtime, your persistence is meaningless at all, our offense is very difficult to tear through Spain's defense line, no matter how hard you work alone, it will have no effect, nothing will matter Can not change.

Instead of wasting energy in vain, it is better to focus on the penalty shootout to decide.

Yes, it is true.Intellectually speaking, this is the optimal solution for Portugal. Scolari thinks so, Cyril thinks so, and other Portuguese teammates think so.

Some Spanish fans in the stands were still laughing unscrupulously. In their view, this seemed more like Portugal's dying struggle.Cristiano, who passively accepted all this, had no expression on his face. Seeing that Iniesta had given the ball to Xavi, he immediately turned around and ran back without hesitation.

How stubborn.

Cyril thought silently, but at a certain moment, his eyes unconsciously met with Cristiano who was chasing back.The eyes of the two looked at each other for a brief second at this moment, and soon they had to look away because of the rapidly changing situation on the field.

Harvey didn't ignore Cristiano who rushed over like this, but he didn't take it too seriously either.Portugal has decided to defend across the board. No matter how strong Cristiano is, he is alone. What can threaten them?

Among other things, a simple pass can solve the problem if a tiger like him comes over to grab the ball.

Thinking of this, Harvey gave the ball to Fabregas, and he continued to explore the Portuguese penalty area with difficulty without the ball.Seeing this, Cristiano also immediately gave up Harvey, turned his head and ran towards Cesc Fabregas.

Most of Spain is almost overwhelmed.

Cyril thought quietly.

Ramos and Capdevila couldn't bear the itch when Spain stormed in front of Portugal, and followed midfielders Senna and Silva to touch them.Marchena and Puyol were the only ones who insisted on staying in front of Casillas. However, seeing the other two defenders rushing up and shooting in front of Portugal's goal, what did the two central defenders do? I didn't hold back, and rushed to have a drink from time to time.

At the beginning, they ran forward and ran back occasionally, but when Portugal completely gave up their offense and had no intention of attacking at all, the two central defenders never went back.

Looking at it from a distance, the entire Spanish half can be said to be blank, with only the solitary shadow of the Spanish goalkeeper.

He glanced at the coach bench, Scolari's attention was not entirely on the court, he looked at the court for a while, then turned his head from time to time and whispered something to the assistant coach next to him - Cyril guessed that the coaches should Is the candidate for the penalty shootout.

On the scoreboard hanging above the stadium, the time is still moving every minute and every second.

There are only 2 minutes left before the end of overtime.

Cyril looked at the teammates around him. They were still meticulously carrying out the tasks assigned by Scolari, but when their gazes passed over Cristiano unconsciously, they would not unconsciously startled slightly, and then turned their heads away. look.

This made him stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help showing a knowing smile.

Cristiano is actually not the kind of captain who can use passionate language to encourage his teammates-at least not yet.But he also has his own way of influencing players.

If words can't express it, then use actions to prove it.

The ghost is a coincidence, and he suddenly remembered the scene where their eyes met a minute ago.

Those eyes were still clean and dust-free, without fatigue, anger, or any resentment.If something must be said, it may be more like an unspoken question——

"How do you know if you don't try?"

……

"There are less than 2 minutes left before the end of extra time. It seems that this game is about to go to the cruelest penalty shootout." Robart said with a sigh.

on the coach's bench.

Pigna lowered his head, wrote down the name of the last player on the list in his hand, and made the final confirmation to Scolari beside him: "So, shall we arrange a penalty shootout like this?"

Scolari nodded silently.

Penalties are not what Portugal is good at, but for Portugal, which is not strong enough, being able to survive the penalty shootout is the best ending. At any rate, it is not completely hopeless, is it?

Thinking of this, he felt that the regret in his heart seemed to have dissipated a lot.

"That's it, we've done our best - God will judge the rest."

Fans in the stands.

"It seems that the game is still going to a penalty shootout." Faria whispered, "In any case, although it is not good for Portugal, there is still a glimmer of hope in this situation... It depends on what God sees."

Mourinho stared at the pitch without saying a word.

on the field.

There is only 1 minute left until the end of the game.

Iniesta thought helplessly, and was not surprised to receive the gesture command of "recover the ball" from the head coach.From the time when Portugal recovered the defense line, they were trying various bombing and shooting at the Portuguese goal. However, Portugal, who made up their minds on the bus and dragged to the end of overtime, was also not easy to fool. The Portuguese who gave up their offense did not give them a chance Leave nothing to chance.

So be it.

Just watch the penalty shootout.

Thinking of this, he raised his right hand, and was about to tell his teammates that they don't need to attack and just keep the ball under their feet, when the fans suddenly burst into exclamations!

57 seconds.

Torres was dribbling the ball from the side. Cyril, who had been staying in the backcourt to defend in the middle, suddenly rushed up. The distance between the two was not too far. Immediately dribbled horizontally to avoid, but he only noticed Cyril, but did not pay attention to other players——

When Cyril rushed towards Torres, Carvalho, who noticed his intention, was only stunned for a moment, and immediately rushed forward.From Porto to Chelsea, Carvalho and Cyril have worked together for nearly six years, and some tacit understanding and thinking habits have long been unconsciously developed: such as now.

Although I don't know why Cyril violated the head coach's instructions at this time, and I don't know what Cyril wants to do-but since he wants to grab the ball from Torres' feet, then give it to him.

With this in mind, Carvalho rushed up shortly after Cyril left, but he and Cyril were in different positions, one was in front of Torres, and the other was in the side of Torres. At this moment, Torres wanted to get rid of Cyril dribbled horizontally, but it just gave Carvalho a chance to steal the ball!

Taking advantage of Torres' attention completely on Cyril's side, Carvalho made a decisive decision. While paying attention to his own strength to avoid the illusion of "shoveling someone from behind", he stretched out his foot and hooked the ball over!

After completing this series of stealing moves, Carvalho did not hesitate to hit back to the middle. The ball crossed a beautiful arc and landed steadily in front of Cyril.

When this accident happened, Ramos, like other teammates, stayed in the Portuguese half.

But at the moment when Carvalho passed the ball to Cyril immediately after stealing the ball, Ramos suddenly felt a strong anxiety. He did not delve into the source of this anxiety, but subconsciously listened to his heart Premonition—he turned around and ran towards his own goal without looking back!

50 seconds.

Cristiano glanced sideways at his own backcourt. At this time, almost all the Spanish players gathered in the Portuguese half. After getting the ball, Cyril took the ball and did not run a few steps forward, and quickly fell into the opponent's encirclement. .

But Cristiano doesn't seem to care about that.

After seeing all this, Cristiano didn't run to chase the football like before. He didn't even look at the football at this moment, but turned around and accelerated on his own, exhausting all his strength, desperately heading towards the football. Run in the direction of the middle circle!

39 seconds.

For the two people who are both enemies and friends, Fabregas' threat to Cyril can be said to be very clear, but in terms of defensive ability, he is really not that good... being pulled and shaken by Cyril Fabregas, who had passed by, gritted his teeth, stretched out his feet and tripped directly towards Cyril's feet!

Although the referee must have seen this kind of foul and even dealt the cards, he really couldn't care less about it at the moment.

Just to make him stop.

Just to make him stop—

Under the terrified eyes of the Spanish fans, Cyril seemed to have eyes behind his back. He pushed the ball slightly forward with one foot, while jumping up on the spot, avoiding Cesc Fabregas' tackle , and then at the moment of landing, he quickly regained control of the ball under his feet and continued to move forward!

30 seconds.

When Carvalho snatched the ball from Torres and passed it to Cyril, the Spaniards were not quick to think back.

Their people are basically gathered in Portugal's half. Even if Cyril takes the ball and distributes it orderly in Portugal's midfield, the players in the center circle will not let him take the ball out.Besides, the game may be over soon. Is there a big difference between running back to defend and simply staying in Portugal's frontcourt?

Puyol thought so too at first.

It wasn't until he casually glanced over the Portuguese players in front of him, and found that there seemed to be one player missing in the opponent's lineup, and then he inadvertently thought of——

By the way, what about Ronaldo?

... Ronaldo? !

Puyol didn't even think about it, and didn't consider staying with his teammates to intercept Cyril in the Portuguese half. He turned his head without hesitation and ran at full speed to his penalty area!

25 seconds.

Cyril, who was walking all the way, suddenly paused slightly.

This unreasonable pause confused Senna and Marchena for a moment, but Cyril quickly picked up the ball, kicked the ball hard with another kick, and hoisted the ball towards the Spanish half!

This scene is no stranger to Casillas-six years ago at the Bernabeu Stadium, Cyril made a shocking lob and broke through the gate he was guarding.

Seeing this lob shot again now, Casillas is not sad but happy!

With such a long distance, even if Cyril really sent the ball to the goal and successfully kicked a shocking long shot, Casillas was [-]% sure to stop the ball beyond his five fingers!

20 seconds.

Iniesta's eyes widened suddenly. From the game to the present, the calm Spanish midfielder finally had a panic-like expression on his face——

Do not!

hell! !That's not a fucking lob! !

In the excited and nervous eyes of the Portuguese fans, Cristiano received the ball in the Spanish frontcourt.Puyol really wanted to stop him, but Cristiano was faster than him, and the timing of the start was faster than him. Although he also reacted immediately after finding out that Cristiano was missing, he wanted him to stop him now. Cristiano, but it was too late.

Damn!

At this moment, the Spanish fans couldn't laugh anymore. While Cyril got rid of the Spanish players surrounding him with a lob, he also sent the ball to the feet of Cristiano in the middle circle. At the same time, what Cristiano, who was advancing with the ball, had to face was an empty half.

No, it wasn't actually an empty half-court either.

Perhaps there is another point that is worthy of their comfort and gratitude-at least at this moment, Casillas is still standing in front of Spain's goal, and Ramos, who is desperately rushing to the goal ahead of Cristiano.

Facing the oncoming Cristiano, Ramos took a deep breath and made a decision in his heart——

It doesn't matter even if it's a foul... Definitely, stop this guy!

13 seconds.

Ramos gritted his teeth and put the shovel directly!

Cristiano turned to stop the ball, and chose to avoid his action at the moment Ramos slid the tackle.This allowed Ramos to successfully shovel the ball, but he fell to the ground because of Cristiano's dodge, and the ball slowly left his side and rolled towards the distance.

Taking advantage of the chance that Ramos hadn't had time to get up on the ground, Cristiano continued to receive the ball and went straight into the penalty area.Now standing in front of him, Casillas is the only one left.

One-handed!

5 seconds.

Casillas stood in front of the door, staring at Cristiano's movements without blinking.

In this game, he used his own hands to forcibly stop several dangerous Portuguese attacks and must-go goals.But these excellent saves could not give him even a little more confidence in front of Cristiano.

Because he clearly understood that the last shot was made by the player in front of him——

put all one's eggs in one basket!

Cristiano stood on the edge of the penalty area, suddenly swung his thigh, and kicked towards the ball!

left?right?Or feint?

Casillas tried his best to stretch his arms, jumped up and rushed to the upper left corner!

In the desperate eyes of the Spanish fans and the ecstatic expressions of the Portuguese fans, Casillas fell to the ground and closed his eyes in pain.Where he was originally standing, the ball hit the middle of the road and jumped into the goal lightly.

On the scoreboard above the stadium, the column of time is simultaneously reset to zero.

The referee blew his whistle to signal the end of the game.

Cristiano let out a breath, the long run and last-minute explosion gave him the illusion of losing consciousness in his legs, he turned around and took a few steps outside, before he had time to celebrate the goal, he staggered , Losing strength for a moment, the whole person knelt and sat on the grass all at once.