legendary midfielder

Chapter 257 Did the ball go in?

"Beep!" With the referee's whistle, the first half of the overtime game officially started.

Sure enough, as Oltra guessed, when the extra time started, Real Madrid immediately launched a crazy attack.

Kaka, Ronaldo, Benzema and Higuain played in turns, frequently launching a violent attack on Deportivo's defense.

Fortunately, Zhang Xu is really strong, and with the help of the advanced ultimate esoteric skill "Control the Rhythm", he fully utilized his defensive ability and turned Deportivo's midfield into an impenetrable defense line, which made Real Madrid's offensive players sigh.

At the same time, while stabilizing the defense, Zhang Xu also used high-speed penetration and simple and practical passing and catching from time to time to penetrate into the hinterland of Real Madrid, posing repeated threats to the gate guarded by Casillas.

In the 905th minute of the game, after receiving a pass from Essien near the center line, Kaka quickly turned around, but before he could start his pace, he was stopped by Zhang Xu. If his reaction speed was slower, Zhang Xu might have cut off the football at his feet.

Kaka's reaction speed was very fast, his right foot came back quickly, and then he pushed the football to Modric who was responding on the right, and then prepared to bypass Zhang Xu from the left and ask Modric for the ball.

However, Zhang Xu knew what he was going to do when he passed the ball, so he just took a sudden step to the right, directly blocking Kaka's forward route, and then quickly ran to the backcourt.

Modric saw that it must be unrealistic to pass the ball to Kaka, so he could only drive the ball forward by himself, and then stabbed the football to Benzema in front.

Benzema's side is Pablo, who firmly pushes Benzema to the outside, not giving the opponent a chance to turn around and break through.

Benzema had no other choice. After making a fake move to form a breakthrough to the right, he quickly turned to the left, and then made a direct cross to pass the football to Ronaldo who came to meet him.

However, what he didn't expect was that Zhang Xu had expected that he would pass the ball to Ronaldo. The moment he passed the ball, Zhang Xu also fell to the ground with a shovel at a distance of three meters.

The football was cut off by Zhang Xu's sliding tackle less than one meter away from Ronaldo. The football was obtained by Evaldo and passed to Marchena.

Marchena distributed the football to Gama on the left. After Gama took the ball, he found that there was no good passing route, so he simply moved the football horizontally.

At this time, he saw that Zhang Xu had rushed up, and immediately passed the football to Zhang Xu naturally.

Zhang Xu didn't stop the ball either, and with a push with his right foot, he sent the football to Aguilar on the right.

Aguilar quickly turned around with the ball, quickly slanted, and after being entangled by Real Madrid's Modric, he pushed the football cleanly to Zhang Xu in the middle.

As before, as soon as Zhang Xu gets the ball, Essien and Pepe will definitely rush forward at the same time. Although everyone knows that Zhang Xu is difficult to defend, especially Zhang Xu's pass is elusive, but defense is better than no defense.

After Zhang Xu saw the movements of the two, he didn't hesitate at all, and directly pushed the football to Oliveira in front, and then prepared to pass between Essien and Pepe.

Unexpectedly, Essien came to Niu Jin at this time, and directly bumped into Zhang Xu who was running over.

After a heavy sound, the two collided directly, Essien flew out without any surprise, and Zhang Xu was also hit by Essien, making him a little unstable.

At this moment, Pepe's scissor legs arrived in time, and directly inserted his two legs into the middle of Zhang Xu's right leg.

If there hadn't been Essien's impact, perhaps Zhang Xu would not have been tripped by Pepe, but because of Essien's impact, his figure was already a little unstable. Fortunately, he was finally tripped by Pepe successfully.

What annoyed Zhang Xu even more was that Pepe's scissor leg twisted his right foot a little bit. After Zhang Xu fell to the ground, he felt a sharp pain in his right ankle.

It seems to be twisted to the bone!
Zhang Xu didn't care how the referee made the penalty. He immediately rubbed his right foot and found that the pain had eased. Although there was still a little bit of tingling, it basically didn't affect his actions.

Seeing Zhang Xu sitting on the ground rubbing his ankle joints, his teammates were taken aback. Ricky immediately asked anxiously, "How is it? Is there any problem?"

"Hehe, it's okay, it's just a little twist, it doesn't matter!" Zhang Xu smiled, and stretched out his right hand to Ricky.

The teammates finally felt relieved, Ricky also smiled, and pulled Zhang Xu up.

Unsurprisingly, Essien and Pepe, who blocked Zhang Xu without the ball, each received a yellow card and awarded a direct free kick to Deportivo.

Deportivo really couldn't find a player who was good at taking free kicks, especially after Belleron left the field, he couldn't find a suitable candidate.

So this direct free kick was kicked away by Thomas.

In the next game, seeing that the surprise attack had no effect, Real Madrid immediately switched to a positional battle.

Zhang Xu was not in a hurry to attack. After all, there were 10 minutes in overtime, so there was no need to take risks.

However, what made Zhang Xu feel a little uneasy was that the tingling pain in his right ankle joint had not been eliminated, but it tended to aggravate because of his fast running and frequent turning.

It seems that the blow just now was indeed injured!If you continue to insist, I'm afraid the injury will worsen.

However, now is the most tense time of the game. Even if you leave the field and ask the doctor for emergency treatment, it will greatly affect the morale and mentality of the team.

Therefore, after much deliberation, Zhang Xu could only persevere.

Soon, the first half of overtime was over, and the players of both sides returned to their respective seats to take a rest.

In fact, according to regulations, there is no intermission in overtime, but considering the physical fitness of the players, generally speaking, the referee will give players on both sides three to five minutes to drink water.

Zhang Xu took a bottle of energy drink thrown by Ricky, and when everyone was not paying attention, he found a familiar doctor and sneaked to a hidden corner.

"Give me a sealing injection on my right foot!" Zhang Xu said directly to the doctor.

"What?" The doctor was a little puzzled.

Zhang Xu had no choice but to take off the shoe on his right foot, then removed the shin guard and socks, exposing his right foot.

Zhang Xu himself was taken aback by this exposure, because his ankle joint had already started to swell, and it was still a little obvious.

The doctor was also taken aback. He quickly pressed Zhang Xu's ankle a few times, and asked Zhang Xu how he felt: "Zhang, I suspect that your ankle ligament is damaged. You can no longer participate in the competition! You must go to the hospital for an examination!"

"No!" Zhang Xu immediately and resolutely denied: "I can't go to the hospital, at least not now! If I can't play, doesn't that mean I'm giving the championship trophy to Real Madrid? Give me a block shot, and I'll go to the hospital after the game, how about it?"

"This, this, I can't decide, I have to report to Mr. Oltra!" The doctor said hesitantly.

"Report what a fart!" Zhang Xu couldn't help but swear: "I know my body, don't worry, there will be no problems, hurry up, give me a block injection! The competition is about to start!"

"Here, okay! You must pay attention later, don't use too much force on your right foot, or you will aggravate the injury!" The doctor finally compromised with Zhang Xu, found a sealing needle from the medicine box, and gave Zhang Xu an injection quickly.

After the injection, Zhang Xu quickly put on his socks and shin guards, then put on his sneakers, and Shi Shiran walked to his teammates, pretending to be relaxed.

There was still a little bit of tingling in his right foot, but he didn't feel it soon. He just felt that his right foot was a little numb, and he was not as dexterous as before.

But it doesn't matter to Zhang Xu, anyway, his skills are not very good.

Soon, under the signal of the referee, the second half of overtime began!

When Zhang Xu was running fast, he still inevitably used his right foot. Slowly, he felt the effect of the sealing needle was fading, and the tingling seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.

But Zhang Xu could only grit his teeth and persist, persist, persist!
During this period of time, Zhang Xu sweated much more than before, not because he was tired, but because he had to hold back the pain.

Time passed little by little, and the extra time was about to end. At this time, Real Madrid's offense became fierce again.

The opponent increased the strength of the attack, which also means that the opponent will weaken the strength of the defense. This is also an opportunity!

Zhang Xu naturally would not give up this opportunity.Of course, chances have to be built on a solid defense.

118 minutes into the game, only 2 minutes before the end of overtime, Higuain received a pass from Kaka, turned around and shot!
However, his shot was blocked by Zhang Xu's outstretched right foot, and then was taken by Marchena.

When the football hit his right foot, Zhang Xu obviously felt a sharp pain in his right foot, which almost made him lose his balance and fell to the ground.

But soon he held back, moved forward quickly, and then motioned for Marchena to pass the football.

After he got the football, he endured the severe pain in his right foot, turned around quickly, poked the toe of his left foot, and gave the football to Thomas in front of him. He accelerated again and ran forward quickly.

After Thomas turned around with the ball, he made a beautiful through pass and sent the football directly to the feet of Ricky in front.

Ricky slanted and moved quickly to the right side of the penalty area. When he opened his body, he immediately passed the ball over the top and passed the football to the other side of the penalty area.

There, Oliveira jumped up decisively with his back against the opponent's defender!
header!

However, Oliveira is not a header, but a pass!

Pass the ball to Zhang Xu who came in!
Seeing the football flying towards Zhang Xu who was in the middle, Pepe shoveled towards the football without saying a word!

Zhang Xu looked at the gleaming spikes on the soles of Pepe's feet, hesitating.

He knew that if he didn't care about it and just shot hard, then at such a short distance, there was still a great chance of scoring a goal!

But the price to pay may be greater!
The injured right foot is likely to be directly aggravated to the point where it has to be carried down by a stretcher!
At this moment, Zhang Xu seemed to see the shining golden championship trophy, as if he saw the injured expression of captain Belleron, as if he saw the earnest eyes of the players, as if he saw the solemn entrustment of the head coach Ortra, as if he saw the faces of countless Deportivo fans in the stands looking forward to!

Fight!

Zhang Xu gritted his teeth and swung his right leg. Under the terrified eyes of everyone, his right foot slammed on the back of the football!

"Bang" loud noise!
The football went straight to the upper right corner of the goal like a cannonball!
Before Zhang Xu could see the football flying into the goal, his right foot met Pepe's feet fiercely!
Immediately, he seemed to hear the sound of something breaking, and a burst of unspeakable pain came from his right ankle. When his eyes went dark, he completely passed out on the grass!

Did the ball go in?

(End of this chapter)