my team is going to attack

Chapter 110 Penalty
Martin O'Neill filled the bus with gasoline, let alone 90 minutes, even if it was 120 minutes, I was never afraid, and in fact, they did play to 120 minutes in this game.

The two sides fought fiercely to 95 minutes, and the score was still 0:0.

At 75 minutes into the game, Su Bai deliberately slowed down the pace, attacking again and again to no avail. Su Bai saw that the players were also very tired, not only physically, but also psychologically.

Villa was able to defend all the time today, kept their positions with all the players, did not mess up in Manchester City's offense, and almost all the players were performing exceptionally.

Friedel took high and low blocks and tried to keep the goal. Facing Lewandowski, Negredo and the Manchester City midfielder's successive long-range shots and various shots, Friedel was able to keep Villa's goal and ruled out one. A little bit of luck has a lot to do with his own personal strength and today's state.

After Aston Villa paid an ace in the backcourt, others including Carew, Ashley Young and Milner all received a yellow card. At the end of the regular game, Villa The team has already got seven aces, almost reaching the level of one apiece.

However, Weber’s law enforcement is not a problem today. Villa’s destructive tactics, in addition to causing a lot of trouble to the opponent, will also pay a big price. !

Milner also played a game of his own worth today. As Villa's defensive midfielder, he firmly strangled the offense of Johnson and Ireland and others within the range of the midfield. Milner scored as many as ten times in the game. The interception embodies the limit of what he can do as a top defensive midfielder.

In addition, Ashley Young and Abang Lahor are the wings of Villa. While other teammates are focusing on defense, the two fight alone, dribbling the ball and attacking Manchester City's backcourt again and again. Johnson and Ireland are sitting in Manchester City today. The sidewalk was turned into a sieve by the two of them.

It’s just that today’s Manchester City defense line composed of Richards, Zabaleta, Henderson, Maicon and others did indeed trap Ashley Young and Abanglaho firmly on the wing and unable to pass. , cut inside, even if he made a cross, there was no teammate who could catch the ball. Neither Carew nor Downing was a very good center forward. They couldn't stand as a fulcrum in Manchester City's penalty area!

Judging from the whole game, although Manchester City's offense was blocked, the best defense is to attack again and again, suppressing Villa's momentum of attacking!

But today's semi-final match was so fierce, Manchester City also paid a lot of price!
Not to mention that Santa Cruz was injured at the beginning of the game. In the 80th minute of the second half, the young central defender Henderson also exerted too much force today. While defending Downing, he twisted his ankle.

There is no way, Su Bai's defender only brought Cahill. Normally, Su Bai didn't plan to let Cahill play, but Henderson's injury made him unexpected!

Except for Henderson's injury, Lewandowski, Negredo, Rakitic and others paid a total of five yellow cards.Most of them are placed on Ashley Young and Abang Raho!
In addition to the 5 minutes of stoppage time, the game ended in regular time, the score was still 0-0, and the two sides entered overtime.

Su Bai got good news at the beginning of extra time. Villa's backcourt player Warnock fouled Negredo. Webber showed him a yellow card and awarded a penalty about one meter away from the penalty area. Yes, a free kick in the frontcourt.

However, Wonor had already received a yellow card in the regular game before, and was sent off after two yellow cards turned into one red. Now in overtime, Manchester City played one more player at the beginning.

Lewandowski's free kick hit the wall hard, bounced back, and then kicked again, the ball was not held down, and went to the stands.

"Everyone back up, hold on, don't go forward, Karu and Tangning back up to defend."

Martin O'Neill's suit jacket on the sidelines has been taken off and thrown on the coach's bench. The weather in London is not very hot now, but because of the frequent rain, the temperature is a bit cold, even so.Both Su Bai and Martin O'Neill's clothes were soaked through.

One less player will win Villa. In O'Neill's view, Villa can only win if it keeps defending.

For the audience, this game is definitely an extremely boring and depressing game. Maybe some fans can't help but want to leave the stadium.But for the head coach and players, although such a game did not score, it is definitely not a very pleasant game.

In the first minute of overtime, Manchester City played one more player. Originally, Su Bai had only one substitution left in his hands. He didn't use it lightly. There were 1 minutes of overtime. What if something happened later?If you want to change at that time, it will be too late.

Overtime was played exactly the same as regular time. Manchester City attacked Villa's defense. Although they played one player less, Villa has persisted to this stage, and it is impossible to take another step back!
It has been more than 100 minutes, both physically and mentally, have reached a very exhausted state, and the most important thing at this time is the spirit of the players, whoever loses the momentum will lose the game .

The coaching staff of both sides had already stood on the sidelines, and both Su Bai and O'Neill did the same thing, calling the coaching staff to discuss the penalty shootout later.

The FA Cup semi-final is a one-round game. If the two sides are tied in regular time, there will be extra time. If the extra time is still tied, there will be the cruelest penalty shootout!
Judging from the current situation, the possibility of a penalty kick is very high, so Su Bai and O'Neill called all the coaching staff to discuss the candidate for the penalty kick and the characteristics of the opponent's goalkeeper.

As the head coach of a team, Su Bai may still be very young, but with two experienced coaches, Koman and Simeone, all possible situations have been considered before the game.

Before the game, the coaching staff of Manchester City had recorded the direction of Villa goalkeeper Friedel's penalty kick and some of his usual characteristics. Avila's players who often kicked penalties usually The direction of the shot is also recorded one by one

This is also because Su Bai changed three players in a row at the beginning, and then the team was injured again, causing them to be ineligible for the rotation. There was no room for substitutions, and the team could only play ten to 11 at the last moment. Before the game, I used to communicate with the coaching staff to simulate all kinds of situations that may occur.

There was no goal in the game. Although Lewandowski or Cahill also took a long shot, it was just that Villa was united, and the human defense line slammed into their bodies. The body blocked the attack, and the blood and courage of the attack were perfectly reflected at this moment.

And at the last moment, the fans at the scene also began to boil, because they also saw the cruelest side and the strongest side.

Manchester City's attack was very good, Villa's defense was also very strong, both sides showed their best form, and in the second half of extra time, every player was a little bit heavy.I can't run anymore,

Tired, very tired.

There are 21 players on the field. Except for the goalkeepers of both sides, Keylor Navas and Fried, the other players have been running for more than 130 minutes.
No matter how good their physical strength is, they can't stand it. At this point, at this time, every player can only use his last trace of physical strength, or use his strong perseverance to support his body, run, defend and attack.
Sure enough, in the last minute of the game, the score remained unchanged, still 1-0. The referee did not blow the whistle for the whole game, and the two sides will have a cruel penalty shootout to determine the winner of this game

Webber is also tired, maybe more tired than the players, maybe.In terms of physical strength, age, and physical fitness, Weber is completely inferior to professional players, but he also ran for more than 130 minutes today, and he was able to maintain a focused attitude and make accurate judgments. He is known as one of the best referees in England The Chris Webber did not live up to his name, today he really did, very good, very fair, just and accurate, fast!
Both Su Bai and O'Neill called the players to their side, while the coaching staff and the team doctor massaged the bodies of the players who were about to kick penalties. Su Bai personally took the tactical board to arrange the order of the players to play.

He found it first, and later, "Robert, do you remember the first one?"

"OK!"

Drenched in sweat and out of breath, Lewan answered Su Bai in the affirmative.

Normally, the head coach will not refuse to arrange a penalty shooter, but there are also players who don't want to take a penalty kick, and the head coach can't force them, so they will discuss with the players when making arrangements.

"Negredo, you kick the second!"

"no problem"

"Richards, you kick the third!"

"Don't worry, leave it to me!"

“Irish Titi Fourth”

"Can"

"Cahill, your last one" Finally Su Bai walked in front of Cahill and looked at him affectionately.

The latter actually smiled, "Don't worry, I won't let you down."

If the winner can be determined in the five rounds of penalty shootouts, then the pressure on the first and last ones will naturally be the heaviest.

For the first appearance, Su Bai gave it to his most assured forward, Lewandowski, and for the last finale, he gave it to the defensive core Cahill.

As a player who only joined Manchester City this season, unless Su Bai arranged for him to rotate this season, otherwise, as the absolute core of Manchester City's defense, Cahill's state on the court has not changed at all throughout the season, calm and calm , The ability to adapt to changing situations is also super strong.

Compared with defensive players such as Kompany, Maicon and Marcelo, Cahill not only has first-class defensive ability, but also his offensive ability in the backcourt is also ranked first in the Premier League.

This season, as a defender, Cahill has scored a total of five goals and is the defender with the most goals among the Premier League defenders.

Cahill also felt the trust of the head coach in himself, so he must show his best form to give back to his head coach, and his physical strength is very good. After all, as a substitute player, he only played for more than 40 minutes. Compared with other players who played more than 130 minutes, Cahill definitely has an advantage in terms of physical strength.

In terms of penalty kicks, the player's shooting skills may not be the most critical point. The psychological warfare is the most deadly factor in the direct face-to-face game between the striker and the goalkeeper.

The old Suchel took Navas by the side and kept telling him the shooting habits of the players on the opposite side, as well as the commonly used methods of penalty kicks!
The young Navas was also panting heavily, lying on the lawn, listening carefully to Schmeichel's teachings while receiving a massage from the team doctor.

Standing next to them, Manchester City Zhengyin goalkeeper Joe Hart is now very envious of Navas who can face the most intense and exciting penalty shootout in such an important game on such an occasion.Well, Hart said that he has never played such a heartbeat moment.

Under the leadership of Weber, the goalkeepers of both sides tapped each other to signal, and then chose to accept the starting goalkeeper.

In fact, the penalty shootout has the same impact on whoever comes first, and the player who kicks first may respond a little psychologically.

In the end, Navas lost and Villa played first!

Su Bai and all other coaches, team members, and players on the bench all stood up. Everyone put their shoulders on their shoulders and looked at the field nervously, while the fans on both sides of the field also fell silent. It becomes extremely depressing!

Villa started the game with their midfielder Milner, put the ball on the penalty spot, and stepped heavily on the lawn next to the ball a few times. Milner did not look at Navas' position.

Navas knew what the opponent was thinking right away, he jumped there if he wanted to, and I just kicked vigorously

Navas has been telling Schmeichel to himself, what about Milner?He likes to volley vigorously in the middle, and now his posture seems to be like this.

call!call!
With his chest rising and falling, Milner took a deep breath, and at the moment of starting, he looked up at Navas.

"bump"

The ball went in from the right of Navas in an instant like a cannonball.

Navas had already made a save when he kicked, but he jumped to the right, but the ball flew to his left, and the angle of the ball was very tricky, almost rubbing the goal post. of.

"Come on, come on, Vera"

The captain scored the first penalty, and the Villa fans celebrated wildly.

Next it was Lewandowski's turn, standing quietly one meter in front of the ball, looking at the opposite goalkeeper Friedel, he is under a lot of pressure now, the opponent's first goal has been scored, so his first One must also score.

Adjust your breathing, Lewandowski made the same choice as Milner, and volleyed vigorously to the left of the goalkeeper. Friedel made a correct judgment, but Lewandowski's strength was too great, and the speed of the ball was very fast. There was no time to touch the ball.

1 to 1 draw.

Lewandowski excitedly clenched his fists to celebrate. Su Bai clasped his hands and said that Solskjaer and Michelle's shoulders jumped up all of a sudden. The two next to him didn't say anything. It hurts them both.

Both Solskjaer and Michel knew that Su Bai was under a lot of pressure and nervous, so they forgave Su Bai.

The pressure came to Villa again. Their second appearance was striker Carew. Navas stared at Carew quietly, trying to overwhelm the opponent from the momentum.

However, Carew suddenly changed speed halfway through the run. Navas was instantly deceived and rushed to the left, and then the ball was gently pushed to the right by Carew.

2 to 1 to lead by one goal.

Then Negredo, Richards, and Ireland all kicked the ball in. Correspondingly, Downing and Sidwell of Villa on the opposite side also kicked the ball in.

4 is better than 4
Last to play was their striker Abang Laho.

Abanglahuo made a mistake. He originally wanted to hit the lower edge of the crossbar, but he didn't expect to kick the ball directly off the crossbar.

At this moment, Wembley became a world of ice and fire. Villa's players, fans, and coaches squatted down with their heads in their hands in frustration, while Su Bai and others smiled happily.

Now the pressure of the audience is coming, Cahill, if he scores the goal, then Manchester City will enter the FA Cup final, if not, then everyone will continue.

"Hi here"

Friedel suddenly roared, trying to interfere with Cahill's rhythm with such a small move, Cahill, who is an old fritter, was unmoved, quietly put the ball on the penalty spot, and then took a few steps back, His starting range is not large, and he may be able to run in front of the ball in two or three steps.

Wiping the sweat from her eyes, Cahill didn't even look at her opponent Friedel,
He raised his foot and shot at the start, and the movement was done in one go.

(End of this chapter)