Chapter 55: A hearty battle
"Michael passed the ball! He passed it to the captain Beatty in front!" The live commentator Robin was also nervously explaining.
As a commentator of this game, he felt very tired. On the one hand, he was always worried about whether his team - Sheffield United would concede another goal. On the other hand, he also had to cheer for the team through his passionate voice.
"Betty showed us his amazing footwork and shook the opponent's defender Cadwell down! Opportunity! Murphy, the last defender of Birmingham, forced him up, and Beetty immediately changed the route of dribbling and inserted it to the right!"
"Ah, shot! Uh, the ball was blocked by Murphy, and the ball rolled towards the right edge of the penalty area. But there were neither our players nor Birmingham players there."
"Oh, no, who is that? Our player! No. 25, when did zhang come here? Great!" Seeing Zhang Xu appearing in Birmingham's penalty area and appearing behind the football, Robin was so excited that he was almost speechless.
"Come on! China zhang! Come on! Oh oh, God, he shot! goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! "
Before Robin finished his shot, he saw that the football had pierced through Birmingham's gate, so he quickly let out a long scream to express his uncontrollable excitement and excitement.
Along with his high-pitched screams, the deafening roars of all the Blade fans in Bramo Lane Stadium! Horn! Applause! These sounds gathered together, completely releasing the passion that Blade fans had suppressed for a long time, and headed straight for nine days, as if they wanted people all over the world to know their inner ecstasy.
After Zhang Xu saw the football flying into the goal net, he immediately rushed to Birmingham's goal. In the resentful eyes of Birmingham goalkeeper Michel, he picked up the football from the goal, held it and rushed to the mid-line kick-off position.
"It's only 1:2, and you have to score a goal to equalize! There's not much time left!" This is Zhang Xu's true thought in his heart. He is a person who is full of pursuit of victory. He will find it difficult to accept losing even if he loses to an opponent who is stronger than himself.
The teammates originally planned to run towards Zhang Xu and prepare to celebrate this rare goal with Zhang Xu, but after seeing Zhang Xu's actions, they all understood Zhang Xu's plan, so they quickly returned to their half and stood in a good position.
Zhang Xu placed the football at the kickoff point, then flew to his position, and clapped and cheered with his teammates passing by.
When Blades fans saw the team's actions, they were even more excited. Under the leadership of Northwest Balcony fans, all Blades fans began to sing the Sheffield United team songs loudly. They hoped to add some strength to the team in this way.
When the referee saw that the Sheffield United players had stood up, and the Birmingham players seemed to have not yet woken up from this shocking long shot, they quickly blew the whistle in their mouths and signaled Birmingham to prepare for the kick-off.
The referee's whistle made Birmingham players wake up, and then he realized that the opponent had put the football at the kick-off point, and the opponent's players had returned to their half, looking at this side with a fierce look.
The game continued to begin after a whistle of "beep!"
After Sheffield United scored a goal, the team's morale was greatly boosted, and the physical fitness, which was about to be exhausted, seemed to have recovered a lot. Whether it was offense or defense, they all suddenly returned to the beginning of the second half.
Although Birmingham is strong, his combat effectiveness has plummeted when morale is hit. The effect of this decline and increase is that the English Championship team Birmingham, which originally had the upper hand, was actually defeated by the English League One team Sheffield United in the last ten minutes.
In the 85th minute of the game, Zhang Xu successfully broke the ball from Marlon's feet again. This time, he did not rush to pass the ball, but took the ball and used his abnormality of 93 points to quickly kill to Birmingham's hinterland.
Zhang Xu's blatant behavior naturally attracted a lot of hatred. Three Birmingham players surrounded him directly, trying to stop Zhang Xu's crazy dribbling.??? ◎№ ?
They succeeded and did terminate Zhang Xu's dribbling action, but before they completely joined the ball, Zhang Xu gave the ball to Michael who was responding to the front right.
After Michael received the ball, he suddenly found that Zhang Xu attracted the attention of three Birmingham players, and his place was empty like the Mongolian prairie.
In delight, he immediately activated and quickly took the ball forward. He crossed the center line and gradually approached the penalty area. He was ten meters away from the penalty area, and was stopped by the opponent's defender.
Michael naturally won't fight alone. Even if he has this strength, it's not the time to perform. With a push of his foot, he passed the defender Cardwell who was defending him and sent it to Beatty who was actively running towards the open space with Birmingham centreback Murphy.
Beatty had a wonderful catch and a man, pulled apart a lot, and then suddenly shot!
This is a ball rolling ball, which is not fast, but it is the most difficult ball for goalkeepers to save. Michel immediately flew out horizontally, hoping to get this tricky shot!
He failed to pounce, and the football rolled over his fingertips!
Just when he was desperate, he heard a crisp sound that brought him back from the dead!
"Bang!" The football actually hit the outside goal post and then rebounded back to him. He hurriedly hugged the ball tightly in his arms and hugged it tightly.
After the shock, Birmingham's morale became even lower, while Sheffield United's morale was even higher. The game had entered the final stage. Birmingham simply gave up the frontcourt and all the players shrank and defended.
Under this circumstance, Sheffield United launched a series of bombings on Birmingham, shooting high and low, and intensively impacting Birmingham's goal again and again.
In the 89th minute of the game, Zhang Xu took the ball through the half for the first time unscrupulously, and then shot again after several passes and receiving with his teammates.
However, the quality of this shot is not high, about one meter above the crossbar!
This is also the last shot from Sheffield United!
Finally, Birmingham made it difficult to advance to the third round of the FA Cup with two goals!
When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, all the Sheffield United players fell on the grass, slamming and kicking hard, and could not move at all.
Although I couldn't move and even lost the game in the end, everyone showed a satisfied smile on their faces.
"Hahaha! It's so good! It's so good!" Captain Beatty turned his head to the side and laughed loudly at Zhang Xu, who was lying not far away from him.
"Yes! Although we lost, we also won!" Zhang Xu nodded and said contradictory words with a smile.
"You did win!" At this time, Birmingham's Zakic and Jonathan both came to their side. Zakic said in an admirational tone: "Although we won the game, we lost our dignity! Alas!"
Zhang Xu struggled to get up, then helped Captain Beatty up, and said to Rikic with a smile: "Hi, telephone pole, thank you for giving us a lesson, and at the same time, it also helped us find the most rare thing we almost lost - Blade Spirit!"
Zickic and Jonathan smiled bitterly: "Are we considered enemies?"
Everyone laughed.
Although the team eventually lost the game, all the Blades fans were not disappointed with the team. In their opinion, the team has gained a freshman and has the spirit and momentum that fans want to see the most!
That’s right, it’s the spirit of the blade and the momentum of moving forward!
So, after the game, there were not many fans leaving the field, but continued to sing Sheffield United's songs loudly in the stands with their already hoarse voice!
Looking at the Blades fans who were still singing, Jonathan sighed enviously: "You Sheffield United do have the cutest and most precious fans in the world!"
"Of course!" Beatty finally stood firm with Zhang Xu's support. He said proudly: "This is the blade! This is the blade that will never fall!"
After saying that, he wore the jerseys exchanged by Jonathan, and Zhang Xu, who was wearing the jerseys exchanged by Rikic, summoned his teammates lying on the ground, supported each other, and came to the stands.
Amid the fans' high-pitched singing, Zhang Xu and his teammates were very tired and even difficult to stand firmly, but they still bent down and bowed deeply to the fans!
Beatty shouted loudly to the fans: "I'm sorry! We lost this game! I'm sorry!"
Beatty's apology moved all the Blade fans, who shouted loudly: "No, we didn't lose! We are still the invincible Blades!" Some fans even shed crystal tears when they said this.
"Yes, we are the blades! We are fearless!" Beatty shouted.
Then Zhang Xu and his teammates followed and roared loudly: "We are the blade, we are fearless!"
Soon, all the Blade fans shouted loudly: "We are Blades, we are fearless! We are Blades, we are fearless!"
Head coach Wilson stood quietly on the side of the court, feeling quite uneasy.
Before this game, he always believed that the team, under his leadership, was already strong enough to have the level and qualification to compete for the Championship.
However, today, Zhang Xu and his teammates gave him an unforgettable class!
It made him finally understand that a truly powerful team is not just a strong player, but not just a tactic with powerful energy that matches it, but most importantly, a spirit! A powerful spirit that can resonate with fans!
Chapter completed!