When Lampard drove the ball forward, Chu Zhongtian rushed out from the slant and collided with him. The two of them fell to the ground at the same time, but neither of them hugged their calves, knees or ankles, rolled back and forth on the ground in pain. They almost rushed from the ground again in the moment after landing, preparing to grab the ball. Their reaction was so fast that the referee's whistle sounded late, and it only sounded when they were entangled again.

"beep!"

The referee ran up and pointed his hand at Hoffenheim's goal. The ball was a foul by Hoffenheim and Chu Zhongtian hit someone.

Chu Zhongtian let go of the hand holding Lampard's sleeve, and Lampard also let go of the hand holding Chu Zhongtian's jersey. But Chu Zhongtian did not retreat. He stood in front of the football to prevent Lampard from sending a free kick.

Lampard did think so, but when he decided to do so, he saw Chu Zhongtian standing in front of the football. He shouted and signaled to the referee who was bowing his head to record the foul information.

The referee looked up and saw this scene, waved his hand to signal Chu Zhongtian to retreat.

Chu Zhongtian looked back at his back. His teammates had already set up their defensive formations. The opponent lost the opportunity to send a free kick quickly, so he slowly retreated.

Lampard was not in a hurry to send a free kick. He ran away with Chu Zhongtian and threw the free kick to the central defender Alex who came up from behind to take the penalty. Chu Zhongtian was still running backwards. Lampard ran over him. Chu Zhongtian didn't turn around and continued to turn and retreat, retreating to the right position. He stopped.

Because this foul was quite far from the goal and just passed the middle circle, there was no need to line up for the wall.

Chu Zhongtian retreated to his position and looked back. Lampard was not far from him. He did not mean to avoid him on purpose, nor did he deliberately post it, because both sides chose the same key point position - the center of the front of the penalty area.

However, Alex did not pass the football like this, and he passed it directly to the back point. When Maluda, who was receiving the ball with her chest and then planned to shoot, Serna and Sana rushed up.

He had lost his best shot, so he had to turn around and pass the football out.

Hoffenheim relocated the defense line. Chelsea had no time to get into it, so they had to pass back and pass again and then pull out Hoffenheim's formation. They had been compressed by Chelsea's continuous attacks before, and in this way, Chelsea would have no good way to break into the penalty area.

※※Time passed quietly in such a process. Chelsea has not scored, but there are only fifteen minutes left.

"They have to go in fifteen minutes... If the injury stoppage time is included, it should be from eighteen to twenty minutes. At this moment, they have to score two goals, and they can't let Hoffenheim score..." The commentator said that there was no conclusion, but everyone knows what he thought, because many people had the same idea with him - this game was too difficult for them.

So looking back, why did the game come to this point?

Chelsea's tactics are wrong? No, they have strictly guarded Chu Zhongtian, and their players have also worked very hard and have not been affected by the so-called internal strife.

But why did you still lose the game?

Hoffenheim's home advantage is one reason. But in the final analysis, it is that they have no effect on Chu Zhongtian's containment.

Whether it is regional defense or man-to-man defense, it is difficult to freeze Chu Zhongtian. He may be the most comprehensive midfielder in the world today. When the opponent presses him closely, he can organize the offense without even touching the ball. He uses him as a magnet to attract the opponent's defensive attention, but leaks the football to his teammates behind him. When the opponent's attention is attracted by his teammates holding the ball, he runs into the space and can catch the ball calmly.

When he dribbles forward, if you fear his pass and keep retreating while trying hard to keep the defense line, you will leave him too much space. When he presses into the 30-meter area, his excellent long-range shooting ability can directly threaten the opponent's goal without passing the ball at all.

If you want to prevent his shot and don't let him hold the ball calmly, you have to come up and grab the first shot. Sometimes you even have to go around to defend, or put more defensive pressure on him behind him. But in this way, you will be empty behind you. He can pass the football directly out at any time, turn around and run to the support, or directly send the football to an open position behind you. Don't suspect that he does not have such ability.

He can defend against shooting and passes. Sometimes he can even drive the ball by himself. This breakthrough combines uploading and shooting, and no matter which one is very threatening. Just relying on these three points, it is enough to make most defensive players feel headaches.

In addition, he has a very tacit cooperation with the team. When you think you can block him, he can always cleverly pass the football to his teammates. A player without football is very easy to get rid of the defenders. For defensive players, those who are outstanding in footwork, but only know how to drive the ball or kill the star who does not pass the ball is their favorite. One person can't defend, two people can't, two people can't do it, three people can always push him to a dead end.

People like Chu Zhongtian who have a very clear mind knowing what he should do at a certain period of time will be very troublesome for them. You don’t know if he will pass the ball, and you don’t know if he will shoot. Sometimes he wants to shoot, but in fact he just passes the opposite line of defense of the football. Sometimes he looks at the right side, raises his left foot, and moves the center of gravity. All these actions can only make the defender come to the conclusion that "he must pass the ball there", but he suddenly shoots.

It’s easy to guess a player’s actions, but it’s harder to guess his heart.

Chu Zhongtian is in this state now. He is in the peak of his career. He is invincible on the court. He can score both by himself and assist his teammates in scoring, and he is in defense and offensive. He ranks among the top in the league and Champions League scorers and assists. He doesn't know how long this brave state can last. Generally speaking, falling after reaching the peak is an inevitable trend. This is exactly the same as the trajectory of a dynasty team.

All he can do is try to keep himself in this state for a few more years.

※※Time passes by minute by minute. If this is at Stamford Bridge, it is estimated that the camera will start to shoot the stands frequently, because some of the home team’s fans will definitely start to leave the field early. However, this is at Hoffenheim’s stadium, and the cameras will still start to shoot the stands frequently. This time the protagonists are those Hoffenheim fans who shouted and kept jumping in the stands.

As a rural team that has only reached the Champions League for the second time and has been unknown for 110 years, they are about to reach the Champions League semi-finals. Such results are something that many wealthy teams may not be able to do, but they have done it. No matter what the final result is, this night is enough to satisfy them.

Chelsea still scored a goal.

In the 83rd minute, they finally broke Hoffenheim's goal. After all, Hoffenheim is not Inter Milan under Mourinho, so it is really hard to let them hold on for 30 minutes.

Chelsea first used two consecutive long shots to attack. Lampard's long shot was blocked by Chu Zhongtian with his thighs. The football fell at the feet of Essin who was inserted in the back. He shot far away from the goal. This time the football directly penetrated Hoffenheim's defense line, forcing goalkeeper Enyema to make a volley save, but he failed to drag the football out and failed to hit the fare. In fact, he lost his hand in the save!

Drogba, who had been lying in the penalty area, followed with agility and rushed to the goal with his chest before the central defender Simonic who interfered with him.

The Chelsea fans who have been silent can finally cheer.

After scoring the goal, Drogba did not celebrate freely, but instead threw away Simonic and picked up the football that was rolling out of the goal.

The other Chelsea players did not celebrate, at most they just came up and patted Drogba on the shoulder and head, and then ran into the middle with him.

There are seven minutes left before the end of ninety minutes, and Chelsea is not hopeless at all. Even in football history, even if you score two goals in a minute, what is the goal of scoring another goal in seven minutes? Besides, the injury stoppage time has not been calculated yet.

Seeing Chelsea scored, Chu Zhongtian slapped his teammates and encouraged his teammates: "It's okay! Let's seize the opportunity to fight back! Counterattack! Brothers, hold on!"

※※After the game restarted, Chu Zhongtian paid more attention to counterattacks in addition to defending.

After that, he no longer just stayed in the backcourt to make a turret on the spot. He felt that this put too light on the pressure on Chelsea's defense line. He had to push it out, and only in this way could the Chelsea defenders be honest.

So when his teammate passed the football to him, he did not pass it directly, but instead made a long pass, but took the football forward and out!

"Oh oh oh oh oh!! Hoffenheim was angry with this goal! Their captain dribbled the ball forward again! Such a scene has been unseen since they scored the second goal!"

Seeing Chu Zhongtian suddenly dribbled the ball into the middle, Chelsea players who were about to push the attack just now were panicked, one and two of them ran back quickly, and the defenders in the backcourt also quickly contracted to the middle, trying to stop Chu Zhongtian.

"He is alone and lacks support, just close the door!" This is the idea of ​​many Chelsea players.

When Chu Zhongtian saw that there was no chance to drive the ball and forcefully break through, he controlled the football and stabilized the rhythm.

When the opponent came to him, he snatched his ball from behind, but Chu Zhongtian was very damn and could not break it for a while. Lampard rushed up and intercepted the ball from the front. After four people used their hands and feet, Chu Zhongtian lost the ball possession, and at the same time he fell to the ground.

Chelsea players were angry when they were behind. They thought Chu Zhongtian was not attacking at all, but delaying the game time, so they were very active when grabbing the ball. Chu Zhongtian had not fallen before and was still controlling the ball tenaciously, so the referee did not blew the whistle. Now seeing Chu Zhongtian finally couldn't hold on and fell to the ground, his whistle sounded in time.

Hoffenheim won a free kick near the midfield, and the possession of the ball returned to Hoffenheim's feet, and Chelsea's players returned to their half. They not only have to return to defense but also have to work hard to defend - they must never let this free kick be ignored. What if Hoffenheim takes advantage of this opportunity to score another goal?

If Hoffenheim scores another goal, it will no longer be the sprinkling of salt on Chelsea's wound, but the sprinkling of sulfuric acid... The opportunity to control the ball with a positional battle will not be so stupid that he kicked the football into the opponent's penalty area with a big foot, and then let the goalkeeper attack. How can he drag time be the smartest? It is definitely not that the goalkeeper is slow to kick the ball, nor that he has to squat down and tie his shoelaces when he takes a free kick, tie his left foot and tie his right foot, or stop the football in the opponent's corner flag area with his back facing the enemy.

The best way to delay the game is to keep the football firmly under your feet.

Chu Zhongtian did not pass to the frontcourt for a long time, and in fact, there were not many teammates in the frontcourt, and most of the players were still in the middle and backcourt.

He turned the football and passed it to the defenders. The defenders fell back and forth. After the Chelsea players came up, they passed it back to the goalkeeper. After passing the ball, Hoffenheim's defense line retreated as a whole and responded to the goalkeeper to avoid him facing the opponent's siege alone.

In fact, Nyema was very cautious. He received the football. Although Drogba had just rushed over the top of the free throw arc, he had quickly passed the football to the full-back Kolarov who was receiving him.

Kolarov didn't have to stay at his feet for too long. At this time, Chelsea was making a big counterattack. If he was delaying a little time, he might be targeted by two Chelsea players. He directly gave the football to Chu Zhongtian who ran over from the middle to pick him up.

Chu Zhongtian didn't control the ball for a long time, so he turned around and passed the football to Quaresma who was retreating.

Quaresma attracted Chelsea's defensive players and did not move forward, but passed the football back to Chu Zhongtian.

When Chu Zhongtian waited for the opponent to pounce again, he passed the football to Quaresma. Quaresma knocked back without stopping the ball and gave it to him.

The continuous small-scale transmission attracted everyone's attention, and at the same time aroused the opponent's anger, Chu Zhongtian suddenly moved the football to the left side with big feet. Salihovic received the ball. At the same time, Chu Zhongtian jumped up and avoided Maluda's black foot.

The continuous transmission and cooperation made Chelsea feel teased. In addition, they were behind in the game and had little time left, so their defensive movements gradually became bigger.

After Salihovic passed the football to Ibisevic, he was knocked down by Anelka from behind, and the referee's whistle sounded again.

This is equivalent to helping Hoffenheim delay time...※※※In this "active defense", Chelsea never gained any decent offensive opportunities.

The injury stoppage time is four minutes, and now it has reached three minutes and thirty seconds, and there are still thirty seconds left. Although the football is controlled by Chelsea's feet, it doesn't seem to be hopeless no matter how you look at it.

In fact, many Chelsea players have given up, and the last thirty seconds are completely out of the blue.

Only a few people are still fighting. Lampard is one of them.

He hooked his teammates hard and signaled them to pass the football over.

At the third minute and fifty seconds, the football fell at his feet.

Chu Zhongtian rushed up, without intending to foul or intercept the ball. As long as he could block Lampard and force him to pass the ball back, the game would be over.

Lampard did not pass the ball back, but he suddenly hit and opened a crack.

Chu Zhongtian was so fast that he could only turn around and follow the football. He saw that Enyema was already in the air... "Frank Lampard-!!" The English commentator roared, and said, "This is almost Chelsea's last attack. If the ball cannot be entered, the game may be over. Chelsea will be eliminated!

Nyema stretched out his arm and rushed to the football. Then he felt that his fingertips seemed to touch the football, but the feeling of contact was fleeting. When he made the move to troll the ball forward, the football had already flown.

In Chu Zhongtian's opinion, the football in the air did have a very subtle change of direction, and it jumped gently... Enyema had done what he could do, and it was about God next.

The football tilted a little, but it turned out to be rubbing the post...flying out of the bottom line!!

"The ball was not scored! The ball was not scored!!" The German commentator became crazy, "Hoffenheim advanced to the semi-finals!! The semi-finals!!"

"Fourths!!!" The same shout came from Hoffenheim fans in the Rhine-Neka stands.

In such a warm atmosphere, everyone thought the game was over, and some fans couldn't wait to flock to the lower level of the stands, intending to get closer to their heroes.

Even the commentator thought the game was over, but some sharp-eyed people still discovered something wrong on the court.

The referee did not raise his arms and blew the final whistle, but pointed his hand... at the corner flag!

This is a corner kick!

"Eh? Eh? Corner kick? Is this a corner kick?"

"This makes no sense... the time for injury stoppage time has come!"

Everyone turned their heads toward the big screen. Where, the game time had reached 94 minutes and 8 seconds. According to the injury stoppage time, the game ended in 94 minutes.

The Hoffenheim players quit. They surrounded the referee, appealed to him, and signaled him to see the time.

The referee shook his head and ignored it.

Chelsea players saw hope. Lampard trotted all the way to the bottom line, picked up the football and placed it in the corner flag area, waiting for the referee to whistle and kick off the ball.

This is the real last chance to attack. The injury time has passed, so if they can't score the ball, the game will definitely end. The referee will never boo all over the head and give them four minutes of stoppage time.

Rangnick was very dissatisfied with the referee's penalty. He was furious at the best-selling and roared at the fourth official: "If this ball is entered, I will appeal!!"

Ancelotti rushed to the sidelines with his assistant coach, staring at Hoffenheim's goal nervously.
To be continued...