Young Football Player

Rooney missed the penalty and walked back with his head down.

At this time, the entire England team seemed lifeless, no one spoke, and no one stepped forward to comfort Rooney.

Everyone knows that Rooney's kick probably directly kicked England's semi-final qualification.

The whole Dutch team was celebrating wildly, even crazier than their own goal.

At the last moment of this kind of game, the opponent missed a penalty, which not only missed the lore, but also caused a serious setback in morale.

Next, if a penalty shootout is really played, England will definitely be the side with low morale.

There was no goal in the game yet, but there was a scene of crazy celebrations on the court, and England, who didn't celebrate, didn't mean to step forward to intervene and let the opponent continue to celebrate.

After the celebration, the game restarted, and Li Chenglong quickly raised his hand to signal that he would take the initiative to leave the field.

"Bruce raised his hand to signal, is he injured?"

"If Bruce is injured at this time, it will definitely make things worse for England."

Li Chenglong's actions immediately attracted the attention of all commentators.

In fact, Jackie Chan was not injured, but now the mentality of the whole team has been ruined by Rooney, and the trend of the next game must be to wait a few minutes for a penalty shootout.

Li Chenglong himself knows that he has the debuff that the national team suffered from a penalty shootout or a penalty kick in the World Cup final, so he planned to leave the field voluntarily.

I won't play with you anymore, you can play the next penalty shootout as you like, sir, I won't accompany you anymore.

This time Li Chenglong was really angry and didn't want to play with them anymore.

Although Hodgson didn't know whether Li Chenglong was really injured, but at this critical moment, he didn't dare to be careless, and soon let Welbeck play and replaced Li Chenglong.

As soon as Li Chenglong was on the field, the team doctor came over and asked with concern: "Bruce, what's wrong? Did you get hurt somewhere?"

"My thigh is a little uncomfortable, it may be strained..." Li Chenglong replied casually.

"Then let me check for you..."

Li Chenglong sat on it and was examined by the team doctor, but the game continued on the court.

When the game was about to reach 120 minutes, Van Gaal in the Netherlands made their last substitution, changing the goalkeeper.

Substitute goalkeeper Krul came on and replaced the main goalkeeper Cillessen.

"The Netherlands made an unexpected goalkeeper change. Obviously, they were prepared for the upcoming penalty shootout."

"Van Gaal was already ready to take a penalty shootout, but what about our preparations?"

The England commentator doubted Hodgson again.

Soon, the 120-minute game was all over, and when England missed a penalty, the two teams were about to enter a brutal penalty shootout.

The head coaches of both sides arranged the order of penalty kicks on the sidelines, and then the commentators of various countries also talked about the upcoming penalty shootout.

"Now the game has officially entered a penalty shootout, a very cruel way of confrontation."

"For both sides in tonight's game, they are actually not very good at penalty shootouts."

"England are notoriously weak in penalty shootouts.

Most of their previous 3 penalty kicks in the World Cup ended in failure. "

"Even with all the international competitions, England have only won one of seven penalty shootouts."

"However, the penalty shootout of the Dutch is not much better. They failed in the two penalty shootouts in the World Cup before, and they only won the penalty shootout in the 6 international competitions."

"In other words, both teams are teams with a low penalty shootout rate and have never won a penalty shootout at the World Cup."

"So after tonight, there must be a team that will win its first penalty shootout in the World Cup."

Soon both sides arranged various matters of the penalty shootout.

The Dutch team made the penalty first, and Van Persie, who was their first player, made a successful hit.

Hodgson in England arranged for the veteran Lampard to play first, and he also successfully hit.

Robben, who played second in the Netherlands, also hit, but Sturridge, who played second in England, took a penalty too conservatively and was saved by Krul.

"Krul made a contribution, this substitute goalkeeper who came on at the last moment, he saved Sturridge's penalty."

"Van Gaal's pre-match preparations paid off, Krul lived up to his trust and he helped the Netherlands take the lead."

Commentators all over the world are praising Van Gaal for this key substitution.

Then the penalty shootout continued, and Sneijder and Henderson, who played third on both sides, also hit respectively.

Then in the fourth round, the Dutch player was Model Worker Dirk, who also made a successful hit.

On the England side, Rooney played with the captain's armband.

"Wayne is on the field. If this penalty is not scored, then we will lose the game."

"Before he missed the penalty kick that could kill the game, now I hope he can withstand the pressure and help us keep our hope of advancing."

Although the England commentators are all angry with Rooney, but at this time, they can only continue to cheer for him.

Hodgson on the sidelines was also very nervous at this time, his hands were even trembling.

In fact, Hodgson didn't want Rooney to play. After all, he missed a key penalty just now, and his mentality may not be good enough.

But Rooney himself asked to play, and he still wanted to continue to prove himself, so Hodgson also chose to believe in him.

However, Hodgson still arranged for Rooney to play as the fourth, not the first or fifth with the most pressure.

But I didn't expect that Rooney in this order still became the focus and the key to deciding the game.

At this moment, Hodgson suddenly thought of Li Chenglong who took the initiative to ask for the ball to leave the field. He looked back and found that Li Chenglong was sitting on the bench, closing his eyes and meditating.

"I wonder what he's thinking?"

Hodgson thought so, but at this moment, the stadium suddenly became noisy, with cheers, sighs, and curses.

Hodgson looked back and saw Rooney standing in the penalty area with his head down, just like when he missed a penalty more than ten minutes ago.

The entire Dutch team rushed towards the goal excitedly, crazily embracing their substitute goalkeeper Krul.

"The game is over, the game is over!!" At this time, the Dutch commentator was already yelling wantonly.

"Krul made another contribution, he saved Rooney's penalty, he became the hero of the team!"

"Rooney missed two penalty kicks in a row of more than ten minutes. He is really a good friend of our Dutch. He is definitely a real flying Dutchman."

The England commentator once again yelled at Rooney.

"Rooney bastard, what the hell is he doing?"

"Once again he missed the penalty, this time he didn't kick the ball directly into the stands, but he kicked a very bad half-high ball, it was almost deliberately kicked into the opponent's goalkeeper."

"Couldn't he just hit one, hit that damn penalty!!"

"It's over, we're out, we're down on penalties again, for the fourth time in a World Cup, and for the seventh time in an international competition."

"Penalty shootouts are definitely the worst invention in football, the Germans invented the damn thing and let us lose it over and over again and they win every time."

There was indeed no penalty shoot-out in the earliest football world, so in some games that had to be decided, if there was a tie after overtime, a rematch would be chosen.

If there is still a tie in the rematch, they will even choose coin guessing, drawing lots, etc. to determine the outcome.

This is very criticizing. The football game actually has to be decided by pure luck such as guessing coins and drawing lots.

So a German referee brainstormed and invented something like a penalty shootout.

Although it is also a gamble on luck, to a large extent, it is still using football to decide the victory.

However, FIFA did not recognize this decisive method at the first time. It was not until the European Cup in 1976 that penalty shootouts were used in official games for the first time.

Then in the European Cup final that year, it happened to be a tie in 120 minutes, and the penalty shootout was used in an important game for the first time.

What's more interesting is that the final was between Germany and Czechoslovakia.

At that time, many people were mocking Germany, thinking that they had trapped themselves with something they had invented.

The strength of Germany is obviously stronger than that of Czechoslovakia. Now if the rematch is played according to the original rules, Germany is obviously the side with a greater chance of winning.

And in a penalty shootout, it's hard to say who wins and loses.

As a result, as many people are happy to see, the stronger Germany lost to Czechoslovakia in a penalty shootout and missed the defense.

You must know that Germany won the European Cup in 1976. If it also won the European Cup in 1976, the Germans will have an unprecedented three consecutive European Cups.

From this point of view, the Germans really seem to have put themselves in it.

But since losing in that final, the German seems to have opened up the two lines of the penalty shootout, and then won five penalty shootouts in international competitions and never lost again.

The Germans have won five of their six shootouts on penalties, while England have lost seven of their eight.

So the English do have reason to complain.