six finger demon

Chapter 2 The Price of Hesitation

Naturally, there are fans in China who are watching the final game of the Premier League. Although CCTV [-] is also broadcasting it, it is not this game.

Those who are still watching football at this point are mostly football fans.And these football fans naturally care about the games of teams with Chinese players.

Today will be a historic day for Manchester City.Because the Maine Road Stadium is finally about to withdraw from the stage of history after witnessing the ups and downs of the Manchester City team for 80 years and 1700 games.Next season, Manchester City will move into the newly built Manchester Stadium.

But these are not what Chinese fans are concerned about. After the commentator explained the lineups of the two sides, many fans discovered that the Sun Jihai they were looking forward to still did not appear in the starting roster, not even the 16-man roster. Enter!
After hearing the news, many fans turned off the TV, shook their heads helplessly, sighed, and got into bed.

This is the seventh consecutive round that Sun Jihai has not played!
Perhaps every CCTV headline "Sun Jihai may be a substitute/starter in the next game" means that they have known for a long time that Sun Jihai will not show up at all.

This night, the last fans who stayed in front of the TV witnessed Blue Moon's 0-1 loss to Southampton. Maybe they were still thinking before turning off the TV, if the Chinese player Sun Jihai played the game, the result must be better than that. Much better now!

Not only Sun Jihai, Li Tie's situation at Everton is the same.

In the second half of this season, after being substituted in an away game against Arsenal, Li Tie was "hanging out" for almost a month before starting again against Chelsea.But unfortunately, he was replaced early again, and he didn't even make the 16-man roster for several weeks.

Anyone can see that if Chinese players want to get a seat in the Premier League, they still need to work harder!

2003年5月11日晚，BJ时间22点，当地时间15点，英超最后一轮10场比赛同时打响。

Under Zhan Jun's excited eyes, Liverpool quickly took the initiative on the field!

Only 1 minute into the game, Baros and Murphy cooperated skillfully. Irving received the ball from the left side of the penalty area and shot low with his left foot.Cudicini stretched his legs desperately and blocked the ball out of the right post.

".Due to the absence of the German midfielder Hamann, Houllier chose Baros to start with Owen. Looking at Liverpool's performance today, it is obvious that Houllier made a correct decision!" In order to make up for the Red Army's previous 10 visits to Stamford With 7 losses and 3 draws at the Bridge, Zhan Jun began to spare no effort to justify Liverpool's name.Anyway, this is not mainland CCTV, so it is normal for the commentator to have some team tendencies.

After the opening, Liverpool, who attacked fiercely, changed from the previous style (before this, Liverpool often waited for others to attack, and then seized the opportunity to counterattack), creating opportunities in the frontcourt from time to time, creating murderous opportunities.It seems that they want to use the opening onslaught to defeat the Blues' psychological defense in one fell swoop.

In the 11th minute, the visiting Liverpool fans were ecstatic.

The Blues Desailly fouled Dior in the backcourt. Murphy took a free kick from the left. Finnish defender Hyypia was unguarded from 8 yards in front of the Blues goal and scored with a header for the team to open the scoring.

However, before "You'll Never Walk Alone" was finished, Chelsea equalized the score after only 2 minutes.

The Blues blackmailed the ball and gave it to Gronkshall. The Dane crossed to the left side of the penalty area. Desailly beat Caragher with a header.

After the two sides drew 1-1, the sky over London began to drizzle.The local commentator looked up at the sky, and couldn't help worrying: "It seems that an unscrupulous heavy rain is coming!"

After the two sides scored a goal each, they also lost a lot of scruples in their hearts.Coupled with the fact that the advantages brought by set kicks became more and more obvious, players from both sides began to have frequent physical contact.Such a penalty could not be easier for the referee Willy, just blow the whistle, point out the position, and then serve the set ball.

Cudicini and Dudek fought back, not daring to slack off in the increasingly heavy rain.

Houllier couldn't sit still earlier than Ranieri, and the Red Army coach began to stand on the sidelines in the rain, directing the players loudly.

At the last moment of the first half, Murphy passed a through pass, but the slippery field gave Melchiot the opportunity to steal the ball from the foot of Owen, who was about to form a single goal. Liverpool missed the best opportunity to expand the score.

In the second half, Houllier replaced Dior with Heskey to strengthen the attack, but Chelsea did not sit still.

Not long after the opening, Gronkshall passed the ball to Hasselbaink, and the Dutchman then passed to Gudjohnsen, who was outflanking the goal. However, the Icelandic striker also missed the opportunity in front of the goal because of a slippery sole.

After that, whether it was Gerrard's long-range shot or Owen's continuous forward penetration, Liverpool desperately looked for opportunities for a fatal blow.

A draw is not so safe for Chelsea. Under La Nieli's instruction, Chelsea often seizes opportunities to counterattack their opponents.

In the 62nd minute of the game, a dramatic scene appeared.

After the Czech winger Borg, who only started once and came off the bench once this season, replaced Diouf, Chelsea took advantage of the opponent's substitution gap to suddenly insert and send a through ball, and then Hasselbaink almost made it for Chelsea. The score was rewritten to 1 to 1.However, the Dutchman's shot was held firmly in the arms of Dudek, who was once the best goalkeeper in the Eredivisie. It seems that Hasselbaben kicked here.

Just when Chelsea's offensive players turned around and returned to the defense, Dudek suddenly ran forward with the ball and ran to the penalty area line with a big foot.

Taking advantage of the wind and rain, the ball crossed the half court and flew forward.

Baba Yaluo, who was dragged at the end, jumped up when he made a clearance. The ball bounced on the back of his head and continued to fly backwards.

Before Babayaro could react, the chasing boy Michael Owen quickly inserted from one side, and with his speed that ordinary people could not catch up with, he took the ball and ran towards Chelsea's penalty area.

Seeing the boy chasing the wind and running with the ball, the shouts of the Red Army fans in the stands were louder than the sound of rain.Even Zhan Jun yelled "Owen single-handedly", stared at the broadcast screen, held his breath and waited for Owen's next move.

Although the blue team Desailly is desperately chasing him, Baros is also closely following him, and even tends to overtake him.

At this moment, Liverpool formed a situation of double ghosts hitting the goal!
"Attack, attack!" Ranieli shouted from the sidelines.

But due to the wind and rain, Cudicini did not hear the voice of the coach.His eyes were fixed on Owen who was getting closer; in his peripheral vision, Barosh's figure was also getting closer.

For a while, Chelsea's main goalkeeper hesitated.At this most critical moment, he actually made such a low-level mistake!
Just when he realized that he was going to attack desperately, Irving's front foot had already stepped into the penalty area.

"Boom!" "Crack!"

The sound of the slap of the glove and the ball, and the sound of the player falling on the grass sounded almost simultaneously.

"Wow!"

The fans in the stands quit and made a lot of noise.

"Penalty kick! It's a penalty kick! Liverpool's penalty kick!" Zhan Jun shook his fist vigorously in front of the broadcast screen, and his voice revealed uncontrollable joy.

Seeing his appearance, the other staff in the stage also shook their heads.Huya girl, who was still in the internship, also opened her eyes wide in surprise: "Ah, he really caught him off guard!"

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