Chapter 157 Five Minutes

When the Italians scored the first goal, their players would still run in the middle circle with the football in the hope that the game would start soon.    When they scored the second goal, they just hugged each other and celebrated freely. The football fell alone in the door, and no one cared about it.

Because they are leading now, they need to delay the game.

Tang En only cursed a few times on the sidelines and came back to his senses of conceding the ball. He stood on the sidelines and kept waving, signaling the players to cheer up, put the football in the middle circle, and prepare to kick off.

For England, it was really impossible to delay any time at this time...

Not counting as injury stoppage time, they are left with less than eighteen minutes.

"Now the England team was forced into a desperate situation by Italy. The lead of one goal turned into a goal behind. In the last twenty minutes, let's see what countermeasures Tony Don can do!"

What countermeasures can he have? It's nothing more than strengthening the offense and being careful of the Italian team's defensive counterattack.

Of course, the Italian team knew that England would attack if they were behind, and now the initiative was in their hands. They could retreat and fight a defensive counterattack in a blatant way, and that was exactly what Lippi and Italy were best at.

The performance of the English players is unsatisfactory at this critical moment. Many people have suffered heavy blows to the reality of losing two goals in two minutes. The concealment comes too quickly, and everyone has not prepared enough mentally...

In the following game, what Tang En said about "strengthening offense" was not reflected at all, but he was a little overwhelmed in the second half.

The Italians originally planned to take advantage of the fact that the English had not yet reacted, and strive to score another goal to completely secure the victory. So they bombarded the penalty area around England, and for a moment, Joe Hart became the busiest player of the England team on the court.

"Drossi's long shot! Unfortunately, he missed..."

"Joe Wenke's breakthrough... has passed! Beautiful! His shot...was saved by Joe Hart..."

"Parosky's long shot.  It's higher than the goal... He should have passed it to Forty next to him..."

"Faced with George Wood, Balotelli did not retreat at all. He wanted to force a breakthrough... Wood made a foul! Free kick! Great, the Italian team won another free kick!"

Faced with such a situation, Wood could only shake his head helplessly. He is not Superman. No matter how outstanding he performs alone, it is useless to not get the support of his teammates.

This situation made him angry. Did he just admit defeat?

Balotelli got another chance to take the free kick. Italian fans are full of expectations. They hope to see Balotelli score twice in the game. These people completely forgot that they had complained that Lippi had replaced him to "waste opportunities."

"Super Mario! Super Mario!! Ohoh!" Italian fans shouted Balotelli's name in the stands.

The English fans became nervous, and they were still using booing to interfere with Balotelli, but they didn't know how effective this would be...

Done stood on the sidelines, biting his lips and staring at Balotelli on the field. His heart was beating desperately in his chest, so fast that he couldn't help but worry about the heart problems.

Balotelli assisted and started running... The football went around the wall and flew straight towards the goal. Joe Hart rushed over. He did not touch the football, and the football did not fall into the goal, but flew directly above the crossbar.

Very dangerous!

Don Eun breathed a sigh of relief. Like him, there were several English fans.

When the game entered the eighty minutes, England's counterattack still did not improve, but the Italian team became more and more excited. After leading, they were in a relaxed mood and could play all the movements.

Those fans in the UK stared at the TV screen, fearing that if they missed a certain shot, it would become a critical moment to rewrite the final trend of the entire game.

England's performance made them a little depressed. But they did not give up hope. After all, there were ten minutes left in the game, but only one goal was left. There was still a chance.

Lippi looked at the watch and it was the 80th minute. He looked at the situation on the court again and decided to be more cautious. If there was a loophole in the backcourt and was caught by England and scored a goal, it would be completely ruined... Tony Donn is so cunning, how could he not exert his strength at the last moment?

So he walked to the sidelines and signaled to the people inside to shrink the defense line. He started to defend steadily and dragged until the end of the game to win.

The pressure on England's defensive team was lighter, and they knew that it was the last moment.

The Italians recycled it, what should we do? This is almost no need to consider, of course it is an offensive!

Tang En stood on the sidelines, calling Vaughn's name. It's been ten minutes since the kid changed it, but this guy hasn't performed at all...

"James! Do you still remember your mission!?"

Of course Vaughan still remembers it. It’s just that his team was compressed into his own penalty area before. He had no chance to fight back. No matter how powerful he is, he can’t kick the ball directly from his own penalty area into the opponent’s goal...

In fact, even if Don En didn't remind him, he knew he would try his best. Abang Lajo started and scored a goal. He was considered to be a high-sounding starter before the game but has not made any contribution now. If England loses the game, it will have a lot to do with him... People will wonder: If Abang Lajo is still on the court, would he not lose this game?

Lippi was also a little surprised that Don Eun returned Vaughn in the last twenty minutes. But then his team completed the reversal, so he didn't care much about it. At this time, there were only ten minutes left in the game. As long as he could hold on, it would be useless even if he replaced eleven Maradona.

Lippi then replaced Giovanko with defender Fabiano_santacroce. On the one hand, Giovanko was exhausted, and on the other hand, he needed to strengthen his defense. Now Italy has changed to 532, and the three central defenders have no way to take advantage of the England offense.

Within the last ten minutes of the game, the Italian team began to try their best to kill the game.

As soon as you touch it, you will fall down, and you will not think about it. In just two minutes, three players have cramped and fallen to the ground one after another.

Tang En was very angry about this. He negotiated with the fourth official off the court. But the fourth official was powerless: "We can't force them up, right?"

"Why can't it! They are clearly wasting time!" Tang En glared at the fourth official. If he was playing football on the court, when he encountered such a situation, he would be afraid that he would go up and drag the opponent's player who fell to the ground to the outside of the court...

The fourth official had nothing to say about this unreasonable head coach. He stopped talking to avoid wasting his saliva.

Tang En's image was not good-looking at this time. He had long been thrown on the ground and had never been picked up - he didn't care about it at all. He had pulled off the tie that was originally tied with, and the collar of his shirt was open. The sleeves were rolled up, and the front of the back and forehead were soaked with sweat, as if he was a gambler who was anxious to lose.

On the contrary, Lippi sat firmly on the Diaoyutai. On his face, you still couldn't see any expression. You didn't seem to be worried about Italy, but you were not happy about leading. The old gentleman didn't even have a trace of hair, and his silver hair was tightly attached to his scalp. A pair of gold-rimmed glasses reflected the lights above the court, making it difficult for people to see his eyes clearly.

These two people are ice and fire, which is a special scenic spot on the sidelines, which is particularly attractive.

Donn was not only good at competing with the fourth official. He turned around and called Bentley from the bench and asked him to replace Gerald. Then England changed to 433, and Walcott targeted the winger and let Vaughan centered alone.

When the Italian team substitution was replaced, people walked slowly. Gerald ran all the way to the sidelines. After slapping Bentley with Bentley, it was replaced with handover, and the whole process did not waste any time.

Seeing that Tang En turned into a 433 formation, the Chinese narrator said: "This is a destruction. If you fail, you will be successful. Tang En seems to be not considering anything else at all."

What are overtime games, what are penalty shootouts? It is so stupid to consider those things at this time. If you don’t score a goal, there will be no overtime games, and there will be no penalty shootouts!

After Bentley ran on the court, he shouted to his teammates: "Boss, let me tell you. The finals are only these five minutes!!" He opened his right hand and five fingers. Now it is the 85th minute of the game. As for injury stoppage time, Tang En didn't even think about it.

It seemed as if the alarm bell rang in the hearts of every English player. "There are only these five minutes in the final" immediately made them feel the urgency of time, and their eyes turned red: after fighting each game, how can they fall in front of the championship trophy?

Even Terry passed the half, so he didn't think about defense or something.

England's offensive rushed to Italy's goal like a tide.

"James Vaughan. He grabbed the header... It's too straight!"

"George Wood's long shot! He hits high! Unfortunately... maybe he should be steady..."

"Walcott broke through. Pass! Wayne Rooney shot!"

Rooney shot the ball on the near post and hit Chiellini when he bounced back. He was about to bounce to the goal again, but Amelia punched him out, which shocked the Italians in a cold sweat.

England won a corner kick. Both centre-backs, Terry and Taylor, ran to the Italian team's goal. After Bentley drove the ball out, Terry sprinted and rushed to the top!

The football flew straight to the near corner, and was about to cross the goal line, but Amelia asked her to racquet the football with two people magically in one hand!

Didn't go in again!

After Balotelli got the ball, he was about to play the counterattack from England, but his ball was intercepted by Wood. Wood, who intercepted the ball, turned around and sent the football forward again. Fortunately, the Italian team did not really want to fight back, otherwise Wood would definitely catch him off guard at this time.

After England re-controlled the ball, it handed it over to Cohen on the other side. In terms of breakthrough, Cohen was not as good as Walcott, so he directly made a cross. This time the football was directly held in his arms by Amelia. England's storm-like offensive came to an end.

And in this suffocating offensive frenzy, the game has quietly reached 89 minutes.

Since replacing Bentley on the court, Don Ever stood on the sidelines without moving. The statue of the statue.

Such moments are not uncommon in his coaching career. Sometimes his team eventually equalized the score and even completed a big reversal, but sometimes his team did not create any miracles and lost the game.

What kind of situation will this time be?

Next to him, the fourth official walked out with an electronic digital card. An Italian defender was following him at the same time. Tang En glanced at that time. At this time, the purpose of substitution was only one - delaying the game time and allowing time to pass through this slow substitution.

Paroski walked down step by step, shook hands with this teammate, hugged the teammate, then stopped and turned around, raised his hands to applaud the fans... Seeing this scene, Tang En gritted his teeth and protested loudly below: "Why don't you need to crawl? Italian man! You eggless turtle, bastard!"

Unfortunately, Parosky couldn't understand Tang En's strong English, but the referee also discovered the opponent's intention to delay the game time. It was obvious that he could not tolerate it... He rushed forward quickly and showed Parosky a yellow card.

This yellow card made Parosky get the excuse of delaying time legitimately. He was very dissatisfied with the penalty and protested against the referee, wanting to take this opportunity to waste some more time.

At this time, Paroski had almost walked to the sidelines, waiting to replace him and go out to the court. Lorenzo de Silvestri (lorenzo_de_silvestri) was just a step away from him, but he was not in a hurry to play. He had to wait for Paroski to come and slap him in a high-five before it counted.

The Italian intentionally delayed the game, but Don En couldn't bear it anymore. He rushed forward and grabbed Paros Base's arm. Parosky, caught off guard, was pulled down by Don En!

Paros basically wanted to get angry when he turned around and saw Don Eun glaring at him. His hideous look scared him. He didn't know what to say... He knew that he was in a disadvantaged way and had to complete the handover with Sylvestery under Don Eun's glare and headed to the Italian team's bench.

Of course, Tang En's actions summoned the referee's verbal reprimand for him, but he didn't care. The referee did not act, so he came to do his best!

Just after completing this substitution, the fourth official put down the electronic digital card, pressed it for a while, and then raised it again. This time it was time to announce the injury stoppage time.

"Five minutes of injury time!"

The English fans booed. For them, the Italian players delayed the game time many times just now, and it was too few to make up for five minutes of injury time. It should be ten minutes of stoppage time!

The fans of the Italian team were also dissatisfied with the fact that they had five minutes of stoppage time - it was too long! As usual, it would be better to make up for three minutes...

Tang En compared five fingers inside from the side.
Chapter completed!