The Day I Played with Ronaldo

Chapter 119: A Ball That Brings Hope

Robinho's goal silenced the Morombi Stadium for a while.

Osvaldo stood motionless, as if he had been turned into a statue.

Celsorot was as happy as a child, ran into the field with his hands up, and hugged Robinho.

"In the 59th minute, Robinho scored a goal for Santos, rewriting the score to 2:1, and the total score became 3:2," the commentator analyzed. "The current situation is very unfavorable to Sao Paulo. Returning a goal to tie the total score to 3:3, they will also be eliminated because of the disadvantage of away goals. In the remaining 30 minutes of the game, they must score more than 2 goals, and they cannot allow their opponents to score again. This difficulty is quite large."

"At this moment, Sao Paulo is calling for heroes. Fabiano, Kaka, Ricciardo, all have the ability to rewrite the game situation on their own. Can they stand up at this critical moment?"

When the Santos players ran wildly to celebrate, Ricardo was not idle. He first ran back to his own penalty area, and comforted the captain Cheney who had just been pierced through the wicket: "Rogerio, this conceded goal is not your fault, don't take it to heart."

As the captain, Cheney has a strong will. He smiled and rubbed Riccardo's hair with his big gloved hands: "I don't need your comfort, I need you to score goals."

"I will."

After a brief exchange with Cheney, Ricardo ran to Kaka again. "We must be brought together, not separated."

Kaka hesitated: "But Mr. Osvaldo said..."

"Never mind what he said!" Ricardo said decisively, "Right now, we are losing this game. I hate the feeling of losing! If you hate losing as much as I do, let us work together to change this situation ! I believe we have the ability!"

Kaka nodded: "What do I need to do?"

"I need you to join me, move to the left, and empty the center and right." Ricardo simply stated his idea.

Kaka was a little surprised: "This?"

"We play on the left. Santos' right back Arauyo is much worse than left back Leo in terms of defensive ability. At the same time, we use the air and right to make it easier for Ricardinho and Baptista. , Simplicio comes in from the back. If we don't find chances on the left, we move the ball to them. We have to invest more attacking troops!"

"I understand," Kaka nodded, "I'll tell them."

After Sao Paulo re-kicked off the ball, they immediately launched a wave of offense, but Kaka's forced shot was destroyed by the opponent's defender.

After Santos got the ball, he was not in a hurry to counterattack, but instead slowed down in the backcourt.

Now they are equivalent to having a two-goal advantage, and there is no need to worry at all. As long as they kill the time, they can wait for the victory to fall into their hands.

Sao Paulo immediately launched a frontcourt press, but this made the physical strength of their frontcourt players sharply exhausted.

Osvaldo didn't do nothing, he let Rico start warming up, ready to make substitution adjustments.

Under the pressure of Sao Paulo, Santos finally chose to drive the ball to the front court. Elano, who was not dominant in height, did not fight for the landing point. The ball was pushed by Lugano and came to Ricardinho.

Sensing Diego approaching behind him, Ricardinho slammed the ball in the chest, but instead of trying to control it, he picked it up and passed it to Baptista on the flank.

Baptista unloaded the ball with his thigh, looked up for a moment, and chose to give the ball to Ricardinho, who had escaped Diego's entanglement.

At this time, Ricardo smelled a smell called "opportunity". He turned quickly and thrust forward.

Sure enough, Ricardinho noticed his running position, and passed a half-high ball at a distance of 25. The trajectory of the football flight was quite accurate.

It bypassed Almeida's defense and flew directly behind Ricardo.

At this time, in front of Ricardo was Arauyo who was facing a formidable enemy.

Arauyo rushed over cautiously, waiting for Ricardo to get the ball with his back before trying to interfere or steal.

But Ricardo didn't mean to take the ball with his back at all. His body was always facing the direction of Santos' goal, and he turned his head back to observe the trajectory of the football. When he was about to collide with Arauyo, the football flew to him. On the other side, Ricardo did not stop the ball, but quickly raised his foot backwards, and with a tap of his heel, the football, which was about to fall to the ground, flew up again, drawing a wonderful parabola, flying over the heads of him and Arauyo .

Arauyo hurried to pull Ricardo, he would rather give a free kick in the frontcourt than let Ricardo pass. But Ricardo's speed at this moment was beyond his imagination, like a gust of wind, blowing past him and catching up with the football.

Arauyo could only quickly turn around and chase after him.

When the football fell from the air, Licado lifted his foot lightly, and the football rolled down obediently and landed less than half a meter in front of him. He accelerated again, and the ball went sideways and forward, and it hit Santos. The left corner of the restricted area.

Alex quickly approached, sank his center of gravity, put his hands behind his back, fixed his gaze on Licado's shoulder, and only looked at the football from the corner of his eyes.

Ricardo's left shoulder sank, and his whole body tilted to the left. Alex was really fooled and moved a step. But Ricardo quickly adjusted his center of gravity, swung to the right like a pendulum, and at the same time turned the ball over with his left foot.

Got a shot angle!

Riccardo noticed with his eyes that Fabio Costa was standing closer to the near goal post, and not inside the goal, but two or three meters outside the goal line, as if he was ready to attack at any time.

A rare opportunity to buy! Ricardo didn't hesitate, quickly raised his right foot, and kicked heavily on the lower right part of the football.

The football flew out with grass roots and dirt, drew a rainbow-like arc, and flew towards the far corner of the goal!

There was a huge sound at the Morombi Stadium, and countless Sao Paulo fans shouted heartily at this moment, as if they wanted to use their shouts to send the football into the goal!

Fabio Costa knew Ricardo's intentions in an instant. With a look of panic on his face, he quickly took a step towards his left hand, and then jumped up with his arms stretched as far as possible, trying to reach the ball.

But it's still close! Not so much!

The football flew past his glove and into the junction of the crossbar and the post.

"boom!"

The entire Morombi Stadium was set on fire! At this moment, almost all Sao Paulo fans jumped to their feet, no one could sit comfortably in their seats after witnessing such a goal.

It might not be the prettiest goal.

But it's a ball of hope!

"Riccardo continued to dribble the ball, he swayed away from Alex, kicked and shot! goalllllll!" The commentator seemed to be showing off his lung capacity, "Perfect goal! The tricky angle made Fabio Costa helpless Only 5 minutes after Santos' goal, Ricardo rewrote the score again! Now the total score is 3:3, and Sao Paulo has seen a glimmer of hope!"

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