Ren Dahua shook his head and said: "It's really hard to say. Rain is more detrimental to teams that control the ball and pass more. From this aspect, we have taken a big advantage."

"But the rain is a great test for the players' physical strength. Our players obviously suffered in this aspect."

"The biggest impact is on the goalkeeper. Firstly, the rain will block the goalkeeper's vision and make it difficult to see the direction of the football. Secondly, the friction of the football will become smaller, making it easier for the ball to be thrown away."

When Liu Huade heard this, he immediately became anxious and said: "Damn, our only reliance is Mr. Zhang's guarding the door. If this happens, doesn't it mean that this rain is very detrimental to us?"

Ren Dahua sighed and said: "Now I can only resign myself to fate!"

Fifteen minutes later, the play-offs officially started.

Players on both sides were affected by the light rain and made a lot more mistakes. The players of Team F were relatively more experienced. They reduced long passes and increased breakthroughs and short-distance passes.

However, in this way, their attack frequency will be much lower, and Zhang Xiao's pressure will be reduced accordingly.

Ren Dahua's analysis is not wrong at all. Rain will indeed have a great impact on goalkeepers, but this does not include Zhang Xiao. For him, even if it pours, it doesn't matter.

Amidst this ebb and flow, Zhang Xiao felt that the offensive momentum of Team F seemed to be much less than before.

"Bang!"

The football spins rapidly carrying water droplets and rushes straight towards the goal.

Zhang Xiao had already judged the direction of the football, moved three steps to the left, and easily hugged the football.

"Fake!"

David looked annoyed. This was his second header shot, but he still failed to break through the goal guarded by Zhang Xiao.

At this time, Zhang Xiao was like a towering mountain in front of him, leaving him with no hope of scoring a goal.

And now there is less than ten minutes left before the end of overtime.

"good!":

"pretty!"

"Xiao Shen is awesome!"

"Xiao Shen is invincible!"

Fans of the Chinese national team saw Zhang Xiao save a ball again and cheered him on.

The drizzle finally stopped, but the lawn was still very slippery, which caused great trouble to the players of Team F.

There were big problems with their passing, and their climaxing skills were greatly interfered with. Seeing that the end was getting closer, they still couldn't find any way to break through Zhang Xiao's goal.

"Press them all up!"

When the last three minutes were up, the almost desperate head coach of country F finally gave the order for the entire army to attack.

Except for the goalkeeper, the ten players of the F country team were like half tigers, roaring towards the Chinese team's half.

Baoshuiyuan saw this and shouted loudly: "Foul tactics, interrupt their attack!"

As soon as he finished speaking, defender Liu Mang pulled David's clothes directly.

"Beep~~~" The referee's whistle sounded immediately, and David got a chance for a corner kick.

The F country team actually fell down instantly. David did not dare to waste time and quickly ran over to take the corner kick.

Perhaps because he was eager to win, or because the grass was slippery, David made a mistake and kicked the ball out. The football only rolled five or six meters away and landed just at the feet of Baoshuiyuan.

Bao Shuiyuan was stunned for a moment, then kicked the football towards the F country team's half.

A bolt of lightning rushed out, and it turned out to be Wang Mi, the core of the Chinese team's offense. Before the two defenders of the F team could react, he quickly ran towards the football.

There was no one in the F country team in the second half. Wang Mi tried his best to rush towards the opponent's goal with the football.

"Holy shit!"

"Counterattack."

"Wang Mi, come on!"

The fans of the Chinese national team were immediately excited.

Screams, trumpets, cries, cheers...

All kinds of messy sounds blended together and resounded through the sky.

After two hours of fierce competition, Wang Mi's physical strength was close to the limit. He was holding on solely by his own willpower. The two substitute defenders of the F national team behind him had plenty of physical strength and were naturally much faster than him.

.

When there were only fifty meters left from Country F's goal, the opponent had already caught up.

Wang Mi looked back and found that behind the two F national team defenders was Yu Huidong, who had come on as a substitute. He couldn't help but be overjoyed.

He made an emergency stop, passed one of the defenders of Country F, and then passed the ball to Yu Huidong.

Wang Mi accidentally slipped and fell to the ground and shouted: "Huidong, run up and delay time."

Yu Huidong immediately understood what Wang Mi meant, took the ball and ran to the right wing.

"Go and steal!"

The returning players from Team F rushed towards Yu Huidong.

Yu Huidong did not fight consecutively and directly passed the ball to Luo Feng, the core midfielder of the Chinese team.

Luo Feng looked at the time and saw that there was only one minute left, so he ran back with the ball, because there were only two players from the F national team on the right, but there were four or five on his side. This choice was undoubtedly very

Correct.

"Luo Feng, well done."

When Robin outside the court saw this, he jumped up excitedly and shook his arms fiercely.

Team F was completely crazy at this time. They were like a pack of wolves, swarming towards Luo Feng.

Luo Feng acted very calmly. When he saw the opponent rushing towards him, he kicked the football hard. The football flew forward more than thirty meters and rolled to the feet of Yu Huidong, who was in the F national team's half.

"Ten, nine, eight~~~"

The Chinese fans have already started shouting excitedly for the countdown to the end of the game.

"Five, four, three, two, one, zero~~~"

"Du~~~"

The referee blew the whistle, and the game ended with a score of 0:0 between the two teams for a full 121 minutes.

"Oh yeah, we made it."

"We made it through!"

"We made it through."

"Hercules Cup, here we come!"

“···”

The Chinese fans were so excited that tears filled their eyes. Regardless of whether they knew each other or not, they hugged each other tightly.

Everyone knows that with Zhang Xiao's ability, the Chinese team will definitely have no problems in the next penalty shootout.

Robin tried his best to suppress his inner excitement and shouted to the excited players on the field: "Calm down, we are only one step away from the championship."

The players of the Chinese national team, who almost fell into a trap, suddenly woke up from a dream when they heard Robin's words, and they all looked at Zhang Xiao who was standing in front of the goal.

Zhang Xiao gave them a thumbs up, then patted his chest and said: "Don't put too much pressure on me. My requirements are not high. As long as you can score a goal, we can bring you the Hercules Cup."

Back to the capital."

When everyone heard it, everyone was extremely excited.

Wang Mi shouted: "Coach, I petition to take the first penalty kick here."

In the last penalty shootout between the Chinese team and the Italian team, Wang Mi took the lead and was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper. Wang Mi was severely hit at that time. This time, he obviously wanted to avenge his shame.

So, Robin nodded and said: "Okay, the order of appearance will be the same as last time. Victory is right in front of you. Come on, boys."

"Come on!" the players of the Chinese national team shouted to the sky.

Soon, the exciting penalty shootout began.

Just like last time, it was the Chinese team that took the lead in taking a penalty kick.

Wang Mi walked to the free throw line, took a deep breath, roared, ran forward three steps, and kicked out hard.

The football slid from the right to the left with a spinning force. The goalkeeper of the F country team made a misjudgment and the football penetrated deeply into the goal.

"Oh yeah!"

All the Chinese fans on the football field cheered in unison.

Although he only scored the first goal, everyone was full of confidence in Zhang Xiao and felt that this goal might have helped the Chinese team seal the victory.

Wu Jin shouted excitedly: "I feel that the Hercules Cup is waving to us!"

Li Liangjie stared closely at Zhang Xiao, who was smiling, and said leisurely: "The next step is to see Zhang Xiao."

The captain of Team F, Rodier, took the first penalty kick. His skills would rank among the top five in the world. He has done so many things like taking penalty kicks in his eight-year career.
To be continued...