The Day I Played with Ronaldo

Chapter 179 South American Copa Libertadores: Champion! (middle)

This conceded goal made the Boca Juniors completely sober.

After Bianchi stood on the sidelines and yelled, they seemed to have suddenly opened up. After re-kick-off, they played several waves of threatening attacks.

Fortunately, Rojas had anticipated the opponent's possible counterattack. He instructed Kaka and Rico to recover and return to the position of full-back to actively assist in the defense.

Up to now, it is no longer possible to expect the team to continue to score goals. After all, Luis Fabiano, Ricardo and Ricardinho are exhausted. Now he only hopes that the team can maintain the score of 3:1 and can Drag to penalty shootout.

Rojas raised his wrist to check the time, and now the game has progressed to the 84th minute. Counting injury time, it is impossible to exceed 10 minutes.

In the last 10 minutes, can the team withstand the pressure?

To be honest, he had no idea.

Bianchi continued to mobilize troops, and he replaced the physically exhausted veteran Kania with the midfielder Pedro Lalli, intending to strengthen the offense. Everyone can see that he is not willing to be brought into the penalty shootout.

Rojas thought about it, and finally chose to defend firmly. He replaced Ricardinho with the more defensive midfielder Marco Antonio. This signal is very obvious: Everyone, stay steady!

Sao Paulo no longer has the extra strength to launch a frontcourt press, and the overall defense line began to retract.

Boca Juniors certainly want to change the score, but they also face the problem of lack of physical fitness, and the team's thinking is not unified. Some players are already thinking about taking penalties, while some players are eager to attack, which makes their offense a bit out of touch.

Time passed little by little, and the game gradually came to an end.

In the 88th minute, Rojas replaced Luis Fabiano with teenager Tardelli.

The fans in the Morombi stands also temporarily silenced, waiting for the penalty shootout.

Ricardo was still running on the field, but his speed had slowed to the limit. Now, he didn't even have the strength to sprint, and his legs seemed to be filled with lead.

But he is still relentlessly looking for opportunities. He doesn't want to take penalties and of course he wants to settle the fight within 90 minutes if possible.

But he doesn't get much support. Most of his teammates can't run anymore.

Rojas replaced Tardelli.

Not expecting Tardelli to score, but hoping that Tardelli can run more in the frontcourt and press more, so as not to make Boca Juniors attack too comfortable.

Even Rojas doesn't want to take risks, so what can Ricardo change?

Steal it yourself and dribble the ball past** to score a goal? That is unless it is the early part of the game. Now he has to kneel when he takes two steps with the ball.

So what can he do, he is also very helpless.

The two sides, both physically exhausted, are now playing like an amateur team. Their performance is very poor, and they are relying purely on their will.

Soon the fourth referee raised the electronic card for 3 minutes of stoppage time.

Unlike people's impression that South American football is always full of violence and rough actions, although both sides in this game fought hard, there were not many fouls, and there was very little time for dead balls. Three minutes of stoppage time can be said to be more reasonable.

In the 92nd minute of the game, Boca Juniors got a free kick in a good position. This may be their last chance to attack. If they catch it, they can kill the game. Therefore, Boca Juniors invested heavily in the penalty area of ​​Sao Paulo. Most of the Sao Paulo players went back to participate in the defense. Only Ricardo was alone. Youyou waited for an opportunity to counterattack near the midfield.

Delgado took a free kick. With his right foot, he rubbed a ball with a rather large arc. Cheney didn't dare to attack the ball rashly. The football spun and came to the back point. Gano fought to the point. His header is very powerful and the football flies far out of the penalty area.

Seeing this, Riccardo immediately ran back, barely touching the ball before the opponent's player was in place. He didn't intend to dribble himself, but passed the ball to the right side, and Rico was rushing in at high speed along that side.

After getting the ball, Rico took a big kick. He didn't play until the 60th minute.

Seeing this great opportunity, several Sao Paulo players also rushed forward at high speed, echoing each other from a distance.

Many fans in the Morombi stands stood up, watching the ball with bated breath.

In a blink of an eye, Riccardo ran across the center line, parallel to the opponent's two central defenders, Schiave and Corosa, carefully kept onside, and looked back at Rico frequently.

After Rico dribbled the ball across the center line, he found that Ricardo was in a good position, and there was not much time left, so he prepared to pass directly behind him.

Ricardo understood, and suddenly stopped and ran two steps back, making a gesture to withdraw to respond. When Schiavi followed him and ran back, Ricardo suddenly turned around and headed towards the penalty area, mustering up his last strength to sprint, throws schiavi away in an instant

At this time, Rico passed the ball! He passed a long pass over the top!

The ball was passed very well, it was a stroke of genius, and Licado followed up with a lift of his leg, and lightly unloaded the ball.

"Riko made a long pass! It's a very beautiful stop, and Ricardo's stop is always so pleasing to the eye." The commentator of Brazil Globo Sports praised.

When the ball was stopped, Schiavi and Corosa were moving closer to Ricardo, but Ricardo felt a little bit of trouble under his feet. He quickly glanced to the left, and Kaka was driving to the penalty area side by side with Burdisso run.

With Kaka's speed, it will be a matter of time before Burdisso can be overtaken, so Ricardo no longer hesitates, pokes the ball with his toe, and the football rolls obliquely towards Kaka's front.

Kaka really accelerated again, opened the distance with Burdisso, and caught up with the football.

"Riccardo passed the ball, Kaka single-handedly!" The Brazilian commentator almost screamed.

Kaka took a step forward and shot with the arch of his foot!

Abundan Sheri jumped up like a spring on the sole of his foot, but his hand failed to touch the ball.

The hearts of the Argentine fans were all raised in their throats.

"Pang!" With a muffled sound, the football hit the crossbar and also the hearts of Sao Paulo fans.

"Oops, beam!" the narrator exclaimed in disappointment.

The football bounced back, roughly in the direction of Ricardo.

But Licado quickly judged that this ball was not easy to handle by himself. Just raise your leg and shoot? The ball is too high and too far, not sure. header? It's too short again, the height of the ball only reaches his waist. stop the ball? It's easy to park big and get sabotaged by Schiave next to you.

Maybe that's all.

Under the astonished eyes of everyone, Licado suddenly jumped forward, and the football slid past him, but his legs had already swung backwards.

He was in mid-air, almost parallel to the ground, face down, and kicked the football with his heel!

This action is by no means a standard shooting action, so it was done very reluctantly, but he hit the football!

The football flew towards the goal at a faster speed than before. Under the horrified eyes of the Boca Juniors players, Abundan Sheri quickly got up and made a second save with superhuman reaction speed, but in the end Slow down!

"Dysprosium!" The referee blew his whistle and pointed to the center circle.

After Licado got up, he stood where he was, with his arms raised high, proud and handsome like a mortal god!

"Riccardo goalllllll! Wonderful, great, great goal! Incredible goal!" The Brazilian commentator couldn't find the right words to praise, "During the countdown of the game, Ricardo scored the game lore !"

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