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Chapter 93 The second round

There are still a few Nordsshire players who remember how they talked to themselves in their hearts during the break?

"Wimbledon? Division IX? One goal behind? It doesn't matter. Forty-five minutes are enough to beat you."

This confident inner monologue sounds like a wonderful irony now.

Their despised opponent Wimbledon is now celebrating their second goal in the game.

"2:0! This score is so amazing! It's so incredible! It's so incredible!"

"It's so incredible, so incredible" may be the most said by the trial commentator of this game, and not only was he surprised, but many fans of Nordsshire and even Wimbledon Athletics did not expect the game to be like this.

For the Nordsshire fans, maybe they guessed the score correctly, 2:0, which is still a conservative estimate, but unfortunately they guessed the wrong one to lead.

Just half a minute ago, Wimbledon Athletics took advantage of a corner kick opportunity and scored by Joe Hilling, who was not good at heading the ball. The defensive attention of the Nords defenders was attracted by the two Wimbledon Athletics central defenders, Kevin Cooper and Chu Zhongtian. Unexpectedly, Joe Hilling, who was not tall and headed the ball was not outstanding, appeared at the landing point of the ball, with almost no one marking it, and easily pushed the ball into it.

Such a ball is not difficult for amateur players.

Wimbledon's hard-working set-piece offensive tactics before the game finally received a reward here.

This goal made Wimbledon all over the game ecstatic because they were worried that the team would be equalized when they were leading with one goal. Now they are very confident in leading with two goals. Even if they accidentally scored a goal, they still lead.

"We're going to the second round!" Wimbledon Athletics fans shouted. "Oh yeah!! We're going to the second round!"

These cheers deeply stimulated the Nordsshire players on the court, but what can they do? They are proud and underestimated the opponent and relaxed the transition. As a result, when they want to be nervous, they can't get nervous anymore. Some people even think like this when they see them falling behind two goals: "It's over, we're over!"

And the fans of Nords County chose to remain silent. Just as they can't accept their team's squad behind a Nine League team at home, they can't accept the fact that they are two goals behind.

"God, this fact has left me unacceptable for a while..." Someone among the fans of the Wimbledon Bar muttered. "I thought it would be great that we could participate in the main competition, but I didn't expect that we still have hope to go to the second round..." The old man actually shed tears as he said, and the people around him didn't think it was a shame to cry for this.

Old Ben patted his back: "Hey, man. We can go further! Trust Chu and his friends, believe in our own team!"

※※※Eames kept holding every player running past him on the sidelines and shouted: "Pay attention to defense! There are more than 20 minutes left in the game! You must keep it for me!!"

The plan he made before the game was not useful at all, but he was very happy because the team is now leading two goals. This is the best manifestation of the players' subjective initiative - they temporarily thought of using the opportunity to kick off the ball before the game to hit the goal of Nords County. Unexpectedly, Nords County is so proud and underestimated, and it seems to be powerful, but in fact it is just a paper tiger, which makes Wimbledon break with a stab.

After leading two goals, the game started again. Nords County finally became anxious. They launched a bombardment attack on Wimbledon's goal. However, although their offensive was fierce, they had no rules. Most of them were reckless, which was actually inseparable from Chu Zhongtian's performance. Because he frozen the opponent's midfield core Darren Kasky, Nords County's offense lacked changes more often, which was too simple.

The further they get to the back, the fewer their methods appear. Apart from long shots and forced breakthroughs, they can't find any other means to threaten Wimbledon's goal. There are people everywhere in front of the goal, and they hope that football can meet some unlucky guy or lucky guy's body and fly into the goal. Once they enter the penalty area, the Nosshire players scramble to fall to the ground, hoping to get a penalty, and one is not enough, and they need two penalty kicks.

Unfortunately, they failed to get what they wanted. This intensive fake fall was simply challenging the referee's patience limit. After giving yellow cards to two fake falls against the booed fans at home, the trend of cheating on penalty kicks by the Nords County players was finally curbed.

Later, the impatient mood of the players in the Nordsshire was still reflected in their excessive movements. Every time they defended, they looked like fouls, fierce tackles and physical collisions continued to appear. However, the players at Wimbledon are not fuel-saving. Although they are not professional players, their cunning may be considered professional-level - once the opponent fouls, they fall to the ground and lie for a long time, humming and unwilling to get up, pretending to be seriously injured. Don’t the teams who want to delay the game time in the TV football game do this? They have never eaten pork, and at least they have seen pigs run.

At the beginning, Nords County also talked about some sports ethics. When they saw Wimbledon Athletics players fall to the ground due to injury, they kicked the ball out of the sideline. By the last ten minutes, they didn't care about sports ethics. Fei'er's Wimbledon Athletics players fell to the ground? Keep attacking! Anyway, they were all fake falls!

This caused booing fans of Wimbledon in the stands.

Despite this, they still did not score.

When the injury time was in the middle of five minutes left, Wimbledon Athletics fans had all stood up from their seats, singing and cheering, waiting for the game to end. They were completely unable to sit in their chairs, and only by standing up and jumping can they fully express their excitement.

"Wimbledon! Wimbledon! Ohohoh! We are Wimbledon!!"

Not only their fans, but also Wimbledon Athletic substitutes and coaches were standing shoulder to shoulder on the sidelines, waiting for the moment when the referee blew the final whistle, and then they would rush into the court and embrace every Wimbledon Athletic player on the court.

※※※ Chu Zhongtian didn't think of so many things for a while. His mind is full of games, defense, and the idea of ​​not being able to score goals by the opponent. He doesn't know how long it will take to end the game.

His midfielder Darren Kasky, who was responsible for defense, was replaced five minutes ago. The opponent's head coach was not the front midfielder, but the forward. Chu Zhongtian thought about it and retreated to the penalty area to play a cameo as a central defender.

He has played central defenders for several years before and is not unfamiliar with this position. He also knows what requirements and needs special attention in the central defender position. Compared with the midfielder, central defenders are not allowed to make mistakes, so central defenders cannot make rash moves like the midfielder, and sometimes they cannot play at will. After all, scavengers are no longer popular now. If you are targeting people, the central defender misses people. If you make a mistake, no one will help you wipe the butt.

Now his main task in the game is to push the opponent's cross out or block the opponent's player's shot.

In order to avoid the football from moving towards the goal when the football is rubbed against his body, he tried to block it with the front of his body, so that the football will most likely hit his stomach and chest and can bounce back directly.

But he will be "bombarded" many times... After this game, I wonder if there will be "the mountains and rivers of the motherland are red" on his chest and belly?

Fortunately, there is not much time left.

During injury time, the fourth official raised the sign of "Four Minutes of Stop Time", which attracted booing from Wimbledon fans in the stands. They thought this stoppage time was too long and clearly gave Nords a chance to equalize the score.

Nords County head coach Billy Dearden also stood on the sidelines, but he did not wait for the game to rush into the stadium to hug the players, but instead roared loudly and asked the team to press the team across the line. Four minutes did not mean that there was no chance to equalize the score.

The situation of scoring two goals in the last three minutes turned defeat into victory is common in world football, and Chinese fans must be familiar with it... Losing to a team in the ninth league is not the end of the world, it can make them lose their faces and make the team lose a large amount of game bonuses and TV broadcast income. The money may be life-saving for Nordsshire... Unfortunately, Wimbledon Athletics united in the last moment, all retreated back to the penalty area, covering the goal tightly. At the last moment, Nordsshire finally got a corner kick, but no one squeezed in. In the penalty area, there were all Wimbledon Athletics players wearing blue and yellow jerseys. Nordsshire players already knew that they had lost in this game, so it was no difference whether the goal was entered or not.

After that, the corner kick taken by Nods County was pushed out of the baseline by Chu Zhongtian. The referee was too lazy to give Nods County another corner kick, and then the whistle sounded at the end of the game!

"The game is over!" The trial commentator shouted excitedly, "Wimbledon Athletics defeated Nords County and entered the second round of the FA Cup. You should know that the team in the third division, the second team of the B division! Look at this score, 2:0! Wimbledon Athletics only had four shots in the whole game, and scored two goals, while Nords County scored twenty-three shots in the whole game, but not a single goal! This must be the biggest upset in the first round of the FA Cup! None of them!"

He must now hope that he can win the favor of BBC senior executives with passionate commentary of this game, just like John Mortson at the time. Now he is BBC's ace commentator and one of the best commentators in the UK.

Amid the passionate voice of the young trial commentator, Wimbledon Athletic substitutes and coaches rushed into the court with their arms wide open.

Wimbledon Athletics fans in the stands also used the first floor of the stands and waved their arms to shout at the players on the field. This made the police at the scene very nervous. Wimbledon fans have not had a good reputation. Since the League One era, their fans have become famous with the team's rough style.

The police don't want Wimbledon Athletics fans to do anything extreme when they are too excited.

Fortunately, these fans just squeezed into the first floor of the stands and kept singing, and did not intend to rush into the stadium or remove the seats and fight with the home team fans.

"Round 2! Round 2! Round 2!!" The fans shouted at their next goal in an orderly manner, while waving their arms into the field.

Chu Zhongtian was very excited to win the game. When he heard the referee's whistle, he turned around and hugged a teammate closest to him. The teammate was even more excited than him. He even kissed him hard on his face, and his saliva was covered with saliva. However, Chu Zhongtian didn't care, or he didn't feel this at all... After he hugged this teammate, he went to hug the next one, and then was hugged by more people.

"Long live!! We advanced!" they shouted. "We advanced!!"

Colin John murmured with a DV camera, "What a pity you can't see this scene on the spot, Emily..."

"It's only been a year since I started the team, and I entered the second round of the FA Cup! This is amazing!"

The commentator was still squirting his saliva with passion.

But he was right, this Wimbledon sport is indeed amazing.

※※※There was not much news media paying attention to this game, and there was almost no one except the local media where the two teams were located.

Now that the game is over, both media have come up and caught Wimbledon Athletics players and coaches for interviews.

Even Chu Zhongtian was pulled and asked a few questions, but Chu Zhongtian, who was extremely excited, did not hear the reporter's questions clearly, nor did he know what he answered. Afterwards, this made him regret it. The other teammates were not much better than him. Everyone was so excited that they were all inconsistent with their words, incoherently speaking, and inconsistency in their words.

Only head coach Eames looks a little normal, and he can talk freely when facing reporters and speak in a organized manner. After all, he has experienced this exciting thing.

"Yes, I'm not surprised that we advanced. Didn't we just say it over two weeks ago? Our goal is longer than that...Is there anyone who thinks we're talking big now?"

His rhetorical question left all the reporters speechless. The media who had unscrupulously mocked Wimbledon's Athletics expressions were quite wonderful at this time.

"So will the team's limit be the second round of the main competition be the limit?" Of course, reporters who are not afraid of death will always exist.

"I remember you asked the same question before this game." Eames glanced at him squintly. "Every round of the league is the limit for us, but do you know where our limit is?" he asked, and then he said, "Even we don't know! Hahaha!"

Yes, no one knows where the team's limit is. Should they stop in the second round, or can they really achieve their goals - the third round? Or, there is a further distance...※※※ On the way back from Nords, the Wimbledon Athletics players have not yet completely quieted down, and they are enthusiastically discussing this game and future games.

"I think we will be able to have a national live TV opportunity in the next round!"

"We are already famous! After defeating Nords, it is a team that is sixth-level higher than us, haha!"

"This will surely be the most unforgettable game in my statement!"

"Don't be so shabby, we have the next round, what about the next round?"

"My dad didn't watch the game. I called him just now and said we won. What do you think he said? He said: 'Don't make fun of your dad!' Hey, am I that kind of person? He can take a good look at the sports news in the evening later. I don't know what happiness will be like at that time!"

Qiao Xilin kept rummaging through the luggage he brought, jumping up and down, which made many people look at him with attention: "What are you rumbling on? It's messy, dead Jeep?"

"Sunglasses!" Qiao Xilin continued to search. "I remember I obviously brought it... why can't I find it?"

"What are you looking for sunglasses? It's evening now!" In November, the UK was dark very early due to the rain and fog, and it started to get dark at 4 pm. Today is cloudy. When they boarded the train back to London, it was already 7:30. The sky outside had been dominated by the night. What sunglasses are there?

"Hey, who stipulates that sunglasses can only be used to prevent sunlight?" Qiao Xilin stopped the movement in his hand and said proudly. "I scored the goal in the game. Now I am a celebrity. What should I do if I don't wear sunglasses and go out and be surrounded by people? It doesn't matter. It's just a signing photo. But if it hinders traffic, it will be troublesome..."

Xilin shook his head and boasted about the beautiful and troublesome future. Inspired by him, a group of people said that they would prepare to put sunglasses on their bodies when they went back and wear them when they went out.

Chu Zhongtian didn't have this idea because his life was very simple. He was not only in the apartment he lived in, but also in the school and bar where he worked. He also participated in training and competitions. He couldn't have brought sunglasses when he studied, worked and played football, right?

In the past, I wore sunglasses to prevent glaring eyes, but now this thing still retains its original function, but it is often used to show off.

Chu Zhongtian doesn't like to show off, so he never wears sunglasses. He did not discuss with other teammates how to do after becoming famous. He was doing another thing - taking out his notebook and pen from his backpack and writing a diary on the train.

Since I started writing a book called "The Days of Playing Football in the UK" at noon this day, he has planned to record all his future life and sort it out after graduation to see if he can really write a book.

It can be regarded as a commemoration of my UK study career...
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