Chapter 293

The excited Italian players tangled with the referee for a long time, and the referee finally lost his patience and gave the two most excited Italian players a yellow card each, finally dispersing the excited Italian players.

Afterwards, the other players of the two teams left the penalty area and stood outside the penalty area line. Jiang Xiaolin picked up the ball on the ground, came to the back of the penalty spot, and carefully placed the ball on the penalty spot.

In order to avoid accidents, Jiang Xiaolin even checked the ball before putting it down to avoid pits, stepping on empty feet or kicking it.

This penalty kick is of great significance.

Not for him, nor for this game, but for the entire history of Chinese football.

The penalty kick, eliminating Italy and entering the semi-finals may change the long-term decline of Chinese football.

Even if they no longer enter the finals and win the championship, entering the Olympic semi-finals is enough to make countless Chinese people see football again.

Therefore, even with the confidence of Jiang Xiaolin's system plug-in, he is very careful and cautious, and does not want any accidents.

Goalkeeper Viviano returned to the goal line, clapped his hands and walked back and forth for two steps, then stared at Jiang Xiaolin behind the penalty spot, half-crouched and prepared to guard the goal.

As the referee's penalty decision could not be changed and Jiang Xiaolin was ready to take the penalty, the noisy stands began to quiet down.

Many Italian fans at the scene and in front of the TV closed their eyes and dared not watch.

Some people were afraid to see Jiang Xiaolin kick the penalty and eliminate Italy.

Some people were nervous and dared not watch.

Some people closed their eyes and prayed, hoping that God would bless Italy and let Jiang Xiaolin nod and kick it away or be saved by Viviano.

Similarly, the Chinese fans who were celebrating excitedly just now also suddenly accelerated their heartbeats, no longer feeling the confidence they had when the referee just judged that Bocchetti had committed a foul and won a penalty.

Even if they knew that Jiang Xiaolin had never made a mistake in taking a penalty, it did not help to relieve their nervous psychological pressure.

Everyone understands the importance of this penalty kick.

Countless people looked at Jiang Xiaolin behind the penalty spot, clasped their hands together, and chanted various gods such as "Buddha bless, Bodhisattva bless, God bless" in their hearts, praying that Jiang Xiaolin would continue to perform steadily as always and kick this penalty kick in.

Qiu Shengjiong, the goalkeeper facing the Italian penalty area, had full confidence in Jiang Xiaolin before, because he had experienced Jiang Xiaolin's penalty kick training in training, and he knew that Jiang Xiaolin would definitely score this penalty kick.

However, when the time came and Jiang Xiaolin was about to take the penalty kick, his heart started beating wildly and he couldn't control it at all.

The rational confidence in his mind couldn't help him calm down at all.

Qiu Shengjiong was so nervous that he was shaking all over. He didn't even dare to look. He turned to face the goal he was guarding, knelt on the small penalty area line, lowered his head, put his hands together, and muttered: "Go in! Go in! Go in!"

In the commentary booth, the commentator of the sports channel of China National Television was explaining:

"The players of both teams have left the penalty area."

"Jiang Xiaolin is ready to take the penalty kick himself."

"There is no doubt about it!"

"This penalty kick was created by Jiang Xiaolin himself, and he is also the well-deserved first penalty kicker of the Chinese team "Since Jiang Xiaolin joined Alkmaar and was selected for the national team, whether it is the youth team or the adult team, whether it is a friendly match or a regular match, Jiang Xiaolin has never made a mistake in his penalty kicks, nor has he been saved by the opponent's goalkeeper." "100% penalty kick goal rate is Jiang Xiaolin's previous data." "I hope Jiang Xiaolin can continue to play a stable penalty kick today and score this crucial penalty kick." At the end, the commentator's voice began to tremble: It's too nervous. Not only at the scene, but also in front of TVs and computers across the country that are broadcasting online, I don't know how many fans and viewers are staring at Jiang Xiaolin nervously, looking forward to Jiang Xiaolin's goal. It can be said that Jiang Xiaolin, who is only 17 years old at this time, shoulders the expectations of tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of fans and viewers across the country. How fiercely people usually scold the national football team, how strong the expectations are at this time: typical of being disappointed in iron. As the world's number one sport, football must have a huge potential fan and audience group for the Chinese team. It's just that the Chinese national football team didn't perform well before, and everyone was ashamed to talk about football, and many people hid their true thoughts.

Now the Chinese men's football team may upset the world's top team Italy in the Olympic quarter-finals and advance to the Olympic semi-finals.

Such a prospect is undoubtedly a great expectation for fans and audiences across the country.waiting.

For Jiang Xiaolin, it is no exaggeration to say that the expectations of millions of fans across the country are on him.

Jiang Xiaolin naturally knows this.

Therefore, when he put the ball on the penalty spot, he would be so careful and serious, and carefully checked the surrounding grass conditions, not allowing any accidents.

At the same time, while standing behind the penalty spot waiting for the penalty whistle, Jiang Xiaolin was constantly taking deep breaths and adjusting his state.

Even if there is a system plug-in, even if he has never missed a penalty in the previous game, even if Jiang Xiaolin's on-the-spot state in this game has been increased to 100% of the full value...

But facing such an important goal opportunity, Jiang Xiaolin still can't help but get nervous.

Fortunately, his nervousness is not as serious as other teammates and fans. It is impossible for him to be so nervous as Qiu Shengjiong to turn around and kneel down to pray.

Other people's confidence is based on trust in Jiang Xiaolin, but this confidence cannot reach 100%.

But Jiang Xiaolin's confidence is based on the system attributes.

In the system attributes, Jiang Xiaolin's shooting skill is 20 full values, so it must be 20 full values. The system shows that the Chinese team players, including Jiang Xiaolin, are in 100% on-the-spot condition in this game, so it must be 100%.

Therefore, although Jiang Xiaolin is a little nervous, he is not so nervous that he cannot take the penalty kick. He is just a little nervous about the consequences of the penalty kick.

But it doesn't matter.

Jiang Xiaolin keeps taking deep breaths, releasing his emotions, adjusting his mentality, and then waiting for the referee's penalty whistle.

At this time, the time has reached the 85th minute.

Seeing that both players have withdrawn from the penalty area line and the goalkeeper is ready to guard the goal, the referee standing on the left side of the penalty area blew the whistle for the penalty kick, indicating that Jiang Xiaolin can take the penalty kick.

Jiang Xiaolin took a deep breath and exhaled for a long time while looking at Viviano's position, shook his body, relaxed his body, and then kicked the ball out after three steps of running.

At this important moment, Jiang Xiaolin did not show off his skills to kick the upper corner or anything like that.

He chose to kick the lower right corner.

In terms of difficulty, if the ball can be kicked accurately into the dead corner of the two upper corners, it will be the most difficult for the goalkeeper to save it because it is difficult to reach the height.

But such a kick will turn into a miss or miss the post if you are not careful, which is very unsafe.

Even if Jiang Xiaolin has a full on-site state and shooting skills, he did not show off his skills and kick the two upper corners on such an occasion.

Secondly, for the penalty kicks in the two lower corners, the goalkeeper must have a process of sinking his body when saving.

This process is even longer than the time it takes to fly up.

Therefore, a penalty kick with a tricky angle on the ground is also difficult for the goalkeeper to save, and it is much safer than a kick to the upper corner.

As long as the angle is good, it is difficult to save unless the goalkeeper predicts accurately and saves it in advance.

But if you predict, if you save it too early, the opponent will temporarily change the direction of the kick, and if you save it too late, you can't reach it.

That's why penalty kicks become a nightmare for goalkeepers.

Because even if the prediction is accurate, it is highly likely that you can't save it.

As for the penalty kick kicked by Jiang Xiaolin now, Viviano can't save it even more.

Because Jiang Xiaolin's full on-the-spot state plus full shooting skills, the ball he kicked is not only straight to the dead corner, but also the maximum dead corner: the ball hits the inside of the lower right corner post and then bounces into the net.

It's trickier than a shot that goes into the dead corner close to the post, and it's one or two centimeters away from the goalkeeper's fingers.

As a goalkeeper at the Serie A level, Viviano performed well in this penalty save. He predicted the direction of Jiang Xiaolin's shot based on Jiang Xiaolin's movements.

But unfortunately, it was a penalty kick, and the distance was too close.

Moreover, Jiang Xiaolin's shot was powerful, fast, and extremely tricky.

Although Viviano predicted and saved the ball in advance, he was still out of reach. He watched the ball hit the inside of the post in the air, and then bounced into the net with a "bang".

In the 85th minute of the second half, the Chinese team relied on the penalty kick created and scored by Jiang Xiaolin himself to reverse the score, and in turn led the favorite Italian team to win the championship 2-1.

"Wow..."

When Jiang Xiaolin's penalty kick hit the inside of the post and bounced into the net, the entire Beijing Workers' Stadium was instantly boiling.

Countless Chinese fans jumped up from their seats, roared and screamed crazily, hugged and clapped people around them, knowing and not knowing them, to vent their excitement.

Even Jiang Xiaolin's mother Jiang Liantao was excited and laughed with her niece Jiang Xueling.Hug together, celebrating Jiang Xiaolin's penalty kick and helping the Chinese team overtake the score.

After watching the live broadcast and the live broadcast of these games, Jiang Liantao also knew what this penalty kick meant to Jiang Xiaolin and the Chinese team.

Therefore, seeing her son successfully score the goal, even with her status, she couldn't help but hug and cheer with her niece beside her.

Even Jiang Liantao was inevitably excited, not to mention the other real fans and spectators.

Whether it was at the scene or in front of the TV, all the fans and spectators were boiling, clapping and cheering wildly.

Qiu Shengjiong in the Chinese team's penalty area also jumped up from the ground, screaming and turning to rush to the opposite side.

He was going to celebrate this goal with his teammates.

In the commentary booth, the Chinese commentator completely ignored the lonely Italian commentator and stood on his seat and screamed wildly:

"Goal! Goal! Goal... "

"Goal..."

"Jiang Xiaolin scored the penalty kick!"

"The Chinese team has reversed the score!"

"The Chinese team leads Italy 2-1!"

"Thanks to Jiang Xiaolin, Jiang Xiaolin is so amazing, he is the banner of our Chinese football, he is a world superstar!"

"If our Olympic team can really eliminate Italy today and advance to the Olympic semi-finals, then Jiang Xiaolin will undoubtedly be the biggest contributor."

"Whether in the group stage or the current elimination In the knockout rounds, Jiang Xiaolin led everyone to keep moving forward. "

"The score was 2-1, and there were less than 10 minutes left. As long as the Chinese team could withstand Italy's counterattack, we would be eliminated and enter the semi-finals."

"This was a scene I could not even imagine before the Olympics. It was unbelievable!"

"It was so exciting!"

"I think the fans and viewers in front of the TV must have been celebrating like crazy at this moment. And they were looking forward to the game ending soon so that the Chinese team could really advance to the semi-finals."

Indeed, wherever in China, as long as they were watching the live broadcast of this game, there was jubilation.

Whether they were fans before or not, everyone was excited and excited to see Jiang Xiaolin score the penalty and the Chinese team overtake the score, and celebrated enthusiastically.

As for Jiang Xiaolin and others on the court, it was even more needless to say.

Even Qiu Shengjiong, who was far away from another goal, ran over, and the teammates who were closer naturally followed Jiang Xiaolin to the sidelines to celebrate fiercely.

He was caught up by his teammates while running along the baseline to celebrate, and was pulled to the ground. Then, his teammates pressed him down like crazy to celebrate.

Yin Tieshen and other Chinese coaches, substitutes, staff, including the nominal consultant Dujkovic, all excitedly clapped hands, hugged, cheered, and ran to celebrate, venting their excitement.

Originally, at the beginning of the second half, when Italy took the initiative to retreat and started to play their defensive counterattack, the Chinese team seemed to be in low morale.

Especially when even Jiang Xiaolin had few options and could not threaten the opponent's goal under the opponent's skilled chain defense, everyone was pessimistic about the result of the game.

Even if the head coach replaced Wang Yongbai, retreated Jiang Xiaolin, and withdrew from the penalty area to shoot long shots, it would not help the situation of the game.

Everyone could see that the Italians were very cautious and firmly guarded their penalty area. They would not easily let Jiang Xiaolin shoot, nor would they attack to leave a gap for the Chinese team.

As the world champion, Italy wanted to use defense to drag the time into overtime and penalty shootout, and then use the penalty shootout to eliminate the Chinese team.

As the game progressed, this was already the tactic that the Italians put on the table, and even ordinary fans could see it.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Jiang Xiaolin suddenly began to frequently switch positions with the two wingers, increasing the number of sideline breakthroughs, bottom crosses or cut-in shots.

The situation suddenly became clear.

The expansion of the activity area made Jiang Xiaolin's threat to the Italian goal rise by more than one level.

Then, the panicked Italians strengthened the sideline defense, which gave the Chinese team a chance to break through the middle.

So, there was this penalty kick and this goal.

This goal made the hearts of the Chinese team coaches and players climb from the bottom of the valley to the top of the mountain, and they were so excited that they could not help themselves.

They really have the possibility of creating an incredible miracle: reversing and eliminating Italy to enter the Olympic semi-finals.