Chapter 727 Football match is a psychological game
On the football field, referees are generally cautious in awarding penalty kicks.
After all, the penalty kick spot is only 11 meters away from the goal.
With such a short distance, let alone professional players from the top football leagues like the Premier League, even in ordinary leagues and small competitions, most of the average football players can kick the ball into the goal.
Of course, the Dragon Kingdom men's football team is excluded.
Human reaction takes time.
Because the distance is short, if you wait until the player taking the penalty kick kicks before judging the flight direction of the football, then even the world's top goalkeepers will not be able to judge the opponent's direction at that moment.
Therefore, when facing a penalty kick, most goalkeepers will pre-judge a high-probability shot direction based on his movement, pauses, past penalty kick habits, etc. before the player takes off.
The referee of today's game is named Taylor, a bald white man.
He only awarded the penalty after repeatedly confirming with the video referee in the background.
This penalty naturally caused dissatisfaction among the Tottenham players.
Harry Kane, Son Heung-min and others quickly surrounded Taylor, who had made the penalty call, and argued hard to get Taylor to change the penalty call.
It's a penalty kick.
In a top league like the Premier League, the probability is almost equal to giving away a goal for free.
Even if Tottenham's goalkeeper is French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, this is no exception.
It is understandable that the Tottenham players are so excited.
In particular, the Tottenham defender who was sentenced for a foul, No. 17 player Romero from Argentina, spread his hands with a wry smile on his face, and repeatedly shouted injustice with an exaggerated expression:
"Referee, I was wronged!"
"During the fight for the top, I just accidentally touched the opponent's player. I really didn't commit any intentional foul!"
"This is a penalty kick, I don't accept it!"
The Tottenham players surrounding Taylor also responded, and some players even had the intention of making extraordinary moves.
If this were in an era without a video referee team, Taylor might not award a penalty kick due to pressure or other factors.
But in today's technologically advanced era, the introduction of video referees has made balls that might have been controversial no exception.
The "Hand of God" performed by football champion Maradona will never happen again in the future.
Football has a lot less chance and a lot more inevitability.
As the referee, Taylor was full of momentum and ignored the impulses of the Tottenham players.
While loudly scolding them for retreating, he said righteously that this was a penalty that had been repeatedly confirmed and could not be changed.
Faced with Romero's crying, Taylor himself actually laughed.
Accidentally bumped into an opposing player?
Can Chu Xiaoran fly three or four meters away?
Don’t you think he is blind?ωωw..net
On the other side, Chelsea players rushed into the penalty area and surrounded Chu Xiaoran who fell to the ground.
After confirming that there was nothing wrong with Chu Xiaoran, Mount reached out and pulled him up from the ground.
In the process of pulling him up, Mount gave Chu Xiaoran a cryptic thumbs up and chuckled:
"Chu, you are awesome."
Other teammates also swarmed up, hugged and high-fived Chu Xiaoran one by one in celebration.
Did Romero just foul Chu Xiaoran?
A foul was committed.
100% pushing foul.
but.
The force of Romero's push was not enough to push Chu Xiaoran three or four meters away.
Why did Chu Xiaoran fly so far?
Why can’t I feel pain after falling to the ground?
This is the reasonable application of rules by professional football players!
The purpose is naturally to attract the referee's attention to the maximum extent and make the referee more determined to award a penalty kick.
Even though Chu Xiaoran is young, Xu Jie taught him these sophisticated tricks when he was still in school.
Reasonable use of penalty rules is the only way for a player to move from ordinary to top.
If the fall is too false, it is a false fall, and the referee will ignore it.
If you fall too hard, you are asking for trouble and may cause irreparable damage to your body.
How to fall so hard within a reasonable range that the referee makes up his mind to award a penalty kick and make fans all over the world feel heartbroken for him.
This is a technical job.
After Chu Xiaoran was pulled up by Mang, he rubbed his legs with a grin on his face.
There were too many people competing for Sterling's pass just now, and he was stuck on the edge by Romero and was unable to grab the ball.
Although Romero's touch behind his back was well hidden, Chu Xiaoran was still keenly aware of it.
So, he followed the trend and contributed to the penalty kick.
In fact, with his body coordination ability, Chu Xiaoran could completely offset Romero's push quickly after landing.
But if you do that, wouldn't Romero, who took the initiative to commit the foul, escape?
On the football field where everything is a matter of competition, Chu Xiaoran will not act like a bad guy.
Especially at this stage of the competition, when both sides have been unable to open up the situation.
A penalty kick naturally became the key to breaking the game.
Very crucial key.
As long as the penalty kick can be scored, not only will Chelsea take the lead in the score, but there will also be a gap in momentum between the players on both sides.
Under the premise that the two sides are evenly matched, this slight difference in momentum may form an absolute advantage.
The referee Taylor didn't spend much effort in getting the Tottenham players to accept the fact that a penalty kick was awarded.
Because he had already taken the cards out of his pocket.
What blind player would argue with or even push the referee when the referee takes out his cards?
Isn’t that asking for death?
Soon, players from both sides exited the penalty area.
Only Chu Xiaoran, who took the penalty kick, was left to face Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris alone.
In fact, in the Chelsea team, Sterling, Mount, and Havertz all have more experience in penalty kicks than Chu Xiaoran.
But after simple communication on the court, the team members gave this opportunity to Chu Xiaoran with great trust.
Chu Xiaoran glanced at his teammates outside the penalty area who gave him thumbs up, smiled and nodded slightly, as if to say, leave it to me.
When he turned around, the smile on his face faded and he stared at the Tottenham goal.
Lori stood in front of the goal and looked at Chu Xiaoran, who was only about ten meters away from him.
This young man from the Dragon Kingdom from the far east is indeed surprising.
But now, he wasn't thinking about anything at all, but was concentrating on Chu Xiaoran's every move.
As a goalkeeper, he had seen Chu Xiaoran's shooting skills and habits such as set kicks, free kicks, corner kicks, and penalty kicks in the European Youth Championship before the game.
As a goalkeeper who has played for the French national team for more than ten years, Lori is quite controversial, but his personal strength is not weak.
Based on Chu Xiaoran's starting movement and the stride of his legs, he judged that Chu Xiaoran's kick would go to the right side of the goal.
So, the moment before Chu Xiaoran took off and shot, Lori was already like a door panel, flying towards the right side of the goal.
Lori indeed judged the direction of Chu Xiaoran's penalty kick correctly.
But he did not judge the placement of football.
Lori headed towards the upper right corner of the goal.
Chu Xiaoran's free throw hit the ground!
Lori has already flown into the air, where is the chance to save him?
I could only watch the football roll into the goal from under my nose!