Chapter 129: Penalty shootout

Lee Chenglong led the team with a hat-trick to help the British Olympic team beat South Korea 4:1 in Cardiff, which immediately gained a lot of space in the sports media the next day.
　　 "19-year-old boy hat-trick, the British Olympics beat South Korea"
　　 "Bruce Li Tianshen went down to earth, made five goals in a single game"
　　 "Great victory over South Korea to advance, the British National Olympics will enter the Olympic semifinals after 64 years"
　　Because it was during the Olympics, the sports media had a variety of news to report, but with the influence of football in Europe, Lee Chenglong still got a lot of special pages.
　　Before the British and South Korean National Olympics, the other games of the Olympic quarterfinals had already started early.
　　 The final result is:
　　 Japan's Olympics beat Egypt 3-0,
　　Mexico defeated Senegal with a 3:2 victory in the Olympic extra time,
　　 The Brazil National Olympics defeated Honduras National Olympics 3:2 in regular time.
　　According to the Olympic football lottery, the British National Olympics will face the Brazilian National Olympics in the semi-finals, and the Japanese National Olympics will face the Mexico National Olympics in the semi-finals.
As far as the four teams in the semi-finals are concerned, the Brazil National Olympics, with stars such as Neymar, Oscar, Thiago Silva, Pato, are the strongest on paper. The British National Olympics met in the semi-finals. The other party is definitely not a good thing.
　　Of course, in the exaggerated reports of the British media, the British National Olympics is the strongest one.
　　Especially Lee Chenglong, who made five goals in a single game in the quarter-finals, has been touted very much recently. This time he has truly made a big appearance across the UK.
　　 I have to say that although Olympic football is not taken seriously and has a low gold content, it is indeed a good opportunity for Jackie Lee to show his face because it is held in London.
It is worth mentioning that after the hat-trick in the quarterfinals, Lee Chenglong scored 5 goals in this Olympic football match, temporarily tied with Senegal’s Konat and Brazil’s Damion for the first place in the scorer list. .
　　 But Konat has been eliminated, Lee and Damian both have two games.
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　　 On August 7, at the Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, the British and Brazilian Olympic games officially started.
　　 In the previous day’s match, Mexico defeated Japan 3-1 and entered the final ahead of schedule.
　　 In this game, the coach of Brazil National Olympics Menezes made full preparations and specially arranged a targeted defense against Lee Chenglong.
　　 The other party arranged for Alex Sandro and Thiago Silva to join forces to defend against Jackie Lee, which made Jackie Lee quite uncomfortable.
　　 Although Sandro is still slightly young, Thiago Silvaco is already a well-known central defender in Europe, and even many media claim that he is the current European first defender.
　　 Among the Brazilian Olympic team this time, Thiago Silva came to London as an over-age player and team captain.
　　Olympic football is a youth team competition in terms of event division. The age of participation is required to be under 23 years old, but you can bring three over-age players.
　　 On the English National Olympics side, the overage players are Giggs, Bellamy and Richards.
　　 As the kingdom of football, Brazil has won almost all football championships, but they have never won the Olympic football championship. Therefore, the Brazilians have always been brooding about the Olympic football champion in the past two decades.
　　 Many Brazilian superstars have led teams to participate in Olympic football, including Rivaldo, Ronaldo, Ronaldo and other world footballer-level players.
　　 But Brazil is always inexplicably unable to win the championship, which is about to become a part of the football kingdom.
　　 This time, Thiago Silva as the captain of the team, he naturally hopes to help Brazil realize this "Olympic football dream", so he is dedicated to the defense of Jackie Lee.
　　 Received such special treatment, Li Chenglong's performance has naturally declined a lot.
　　 Of course, this also has something to do with Li Chenglong’s not working hard.
　　Long Expectation In Europe, Jackie Lee is also affected by the overall European atmosphere, and he is not very interested in Olympic football.
Just like Barnett said before the start of the Olympic Games: "This trip to the British National Olympics is mainly to help you spread your popularity in the UK. It doesn't matter whether you win the championship or not. If you fight for an Olympic champion, Injury, that is definitely something a fool can do."
　　 In fact, it's not just Jackie Lee. Almost everyone in this British Olympic team has this idea.
　　 In the case of Li Chenglong being restricted, the British National Olympics at home still scored the goal first.
　　 In the 41st minute of the first half, Ramsey's through ball assisted Sturridge to score and the British National Olympics took the lead.
　　 But at the beginning of the second half, Pierce started to be a demon again. He made continuous substitutions and adjustments. I don’t know if he thinks one goal is not enough, or he wants to keep the 1:0 score.
　　 Anyway, the effect was not seen. Instead, in the 67th minute, Neymar assisted his striker partner Damian to score, and the Brazilian Olympic equalized the score.
　　 At this time, Pierce had only the last substitution opportunity, so he sat on the sidelines and thought for more than ten minutes. In the 82nd minute, he finally used up this last substitution opportunity.
　　 Up on the 13th, down on the 7th.
　　 "Pierce replaced Tom Cleverly from Manchester United's youth academy. He may be looking for some changes, but he replaced Bruce Lee. Is this substitution a little less considered?"
"The state of Li exploded in the last game and he made five goals in a single game. Even in this game, his performance was a little calm, but under the defense of a top defender like Thiago Silva, no one dare to say. It must be able to perform."
"Moreover, the goal in the first half was when Lee moved from the wing and pulled Thiago Silva and Alex Sandro together. Ramsey won the pass. ."
　　 Jackie Lee came out of the field, Southgate came to hug him, and comforted him: "You have a good rest, coach Pierce just wants to make some changes to the team..."
　　 Obviously Southgate is worried that Jackie Lee is angry. This is a live broadcast game in the UK. If Jackie Lee throws a towel or smashes a water bottle to vent, the impact will be bad.
　　 In fact, he thinks too much, Li Chenglong is really not angry.
　　 After scoring five goals in a single game with South Korea, Lee Chenglong has achieved his goal of participating in the Olympics. It doesn't matter if Lee Chenglong can win the championship next.
　　 In fact, after the game against the South Korean team, Barnett specifically called Lee Chenglong to tell him to protect himself from injury. After all, the goal has been achieved.
　　 Now let that guy play whatever he likes.
　　 Pierce’s new Cleverly is not without performance, he successfully broke through Sandro as soon as he played.
　　 But in the following time, he quickly disappeared on the court.
　　 Then the game ended in 90 minutes and the score was 1:1.
　　 The 30 minutes of overtime soon ended, and the score was still 1:1.
　　 "It's another penalty shootout. I already have a bad feeling." The British commentator began to vaccinate.
　　 "As long as there is a penalty shootout, we must be fine."
　　 "A month ago, we lost to the Italian in the Ukrainian penalty shootout~EbookFREE.me~ Now we may have to lose to the Brazilian in the Manchester penalty shootout again.

Penalties have indeed always been the dead spots of English football. So far, the England national team has experienced 7 penalties in official competitions. Only in the 1996 European Cup quarterfinals has it won Spain once, and the other 6 times. lose.
　　 The 1996 European Cup was held in England. It may be that the home game bonus made them win.
But in the semi-finals of the European Cup that year, England immediately lost to Germany in a penalty shootout. The offender who missed the penalty was Southgate. He is sitting next to Jackie Lee with his head down, and he seems afraid to look up. Look at the next penalty kick.
　　 In fact, it is not just the England senior team. Even with all England youth teams and warm-up matches, English football is restrained by penalty shootouts.
　　England has suffered 10 penalties in all stages of the competition, and only won 2 times.
　　 In addition to the 1996 European Cup win against Spain, there is also a penalty shoot-out win over Sweden in the 2009 European Youth Championship.
　　 And the penalty shootout in Olympic football this time is really familiar.
　　 England only made one of the first three free throws by Wang Lo Kat, but the Brazil team made all three free throws. Then Cleverly, who went up for the fourth free throw, made a soft and weak penalty and was easily saved by Brazilian goalkeeper Neto.
　　 The game is over, there are no penalties for the next penalty kick, Brazil has won early.
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