i am beckham

Chapter 205 Another Penalty Shootout

In front of the TV, Hathaway took a piece of French fries, dipped it in ketchup, and ate it in small bites.

Gerald next to him grew his mouth to the limit of a human being, and bit off a large piece of the Big Mac burger: "Don't worry, Anne, our family does not have an obesity gene."

Hathaway glanced at her father's belly: "Dad, you have a belly."

Gerald said indifferently: "This is the protective film of human beings, and people need this protective film when they grow up."

Hathaway took a sip of Coke: "Dad, I'm already 14 years old, don't always treat me like a child."

Gerald shrugged, then took another bite.

In the live broadcast, the referee blew the whistle to start the game.

The German team immediately opened the ball to the left, and they came at Pratt.

He replaced Ince as a midfielder in the last game, and this time he replaced Gary Neville as a right back. Of course, the opponent tested his quality and ideality.

But I didn't expect the German team to be so targeted. At the beginning, three people pressed to the left.

Platt didn't stick the ball, and decisively cleared the ball to the frontcourt.

Shearer leaned against the central defender of the German team in the frontcourt, stopped the ball and turned around and was about to start

The German team's central defender Sammer immediately made up and kicked the ball out of the sideline.

Both the father and daughter in front of the TV sighed. The England team sent the ball out of bounds, and several players passed the ball to McManaman.

McManaman stopped the ball a little far from his body and was kicked out of the baseline by the German defender.

corner kick!

Gascoigne took the corner kick. Looking around, Shearer was completely covered by the German defender Freund. The English players had no advantage in front of the German defenders.

Gerald's mouth was stuffed and he was still talking: "Why does it feel difficult?"

As soon as his voice fell, Adams, who was 1 meters tall, ran forward from the middle of the penalty area.

Almost as soon as he started, Gascoigne had taken the corner.

At this time, Hathaway also saw the clues, the England team wanted to play with the height difference.

Sure enough, Adams arrived at the front point, and the two German players around him were "short players" around 1 meters.

No way, on a team with an average height of 1 meters, below-average players do look a bit undersized.

Adams used a move called Rhino Mochizuki, throwing the football behind him with his head.

Adams took the high point and there was a momentary gap in the middle of the German team.

Shearer and the German team's defensive players rushed to the landing point together. The two bodies collided violently. The German team's defenders bounced instantly, and Shearer was still moving forward.

He pushed the ball hard between 1 and 2 meters from the goal line, and the German goalkeeper Kopke flew out sideways. Unexpectedly, the football bounced off the ground and flew into the goal from above his arm.

"yeah!"

Wembley Stadium suddenly burst, Gerrard quickly bounced off the sofa, raised his hands.

In the TV camera, Shearer uses the same celebratory posture to run aimlessly around the pitch, and Gascoigne joins halfway, both of them raise their hands.

Beckham stood up from the bench when he suddenly remembered Shearer had slapped Gascoigne on the back of the head on the plane back to London from Tokyo.

Gascoigne, who got up to full strength, turned around and smashed the monitor in front of Fowler.

I have to say that football is a wonderful thing. He can tie all kinds of people together and fight against opponents for one goal.

Shearer scored a goal, and Gerald, who had just drank half a cup of Coke, burped in satisfaction.

Hathaway rubbed her nose in distaste: "Dad, why are you so polite outside, but so rude at home watching the game?"

Gerald leaned on the sofa and replied with a contented face: "We learn social etiquette so that we can demonstrate etiquette when we should, and be ourselves when we are rude."

"Do your colleagues know that you are a double-faced person?"

For some reason, Hathaway always felt inexplicably upset when she didn't see Beckham appearing on the stage.

Gerald didn't answer his daughter's words. He kept rehearsing in his heart every day how to shut up his colleagues, tell his rival's customers to fail, and he really couldn't arouse his interest in arguing with his daughter when he got home.

Isn't fried chicken delicious?
Alas, the child was still good when he was young, why is it so difficult to communicate when he grows up?
Gerald's happiness value dropped by 5%, but overall he was still happy.

At this time, a young guy with long hair and a headband suddenly appeared on the broadcast screen. A blonde beauty sat next to him, and the two were talking and laughing.

The buddy suddenly took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and lit it regardless of the reaction of the fans around him.

Gerald laughed contemptuously: "Cut, the good cabbage is eaten by dogs! Look at this bad product, the hair looks very oily, get rid of it, and spend some money to pick up girls, okay?"

Hathaway couldn't help yelling at her father again: "This is their freedom, you have no right to interfere with them,"

Gerald's occupational disease was committed in an instant, and he became a gangster in seconds: "Come on, if you find such a thing in the future, I will buy a grenade and stuff it in his mouth. I will send him to God!"

"Okay, as long as you are happy!"

Hathaway shrugged her shoulders, her expression of indifference suddenly froze.

Fans cheered suddenly on the TV screen, and the broadcast camera was aimed at Beckham.

The number one handsome guy in the British cultural and sports world showed a half proud, half helpless smile.

The camera lens kept staring at him, and Hathaway only felt her heart beat faster and stronger.

The focal length of the broadcast camera gradually shortened. Not far behind the bench, Sophie Marceau was communicating with Beckham with gestures.

Seeing this scene, Gerald showed a smirk: "Haha, finally a good cabbage was taken away by our handsome boy."

Like many people who eat melons, he also likes to kowtow this pair of CPs, and the more he kowtows, the sweeter he gets.

Especially at the moment when the relationship between the two was confirmed, the appearance of all the French men was really refreshing.

Hathaway obviously doesn't like this: "Why is it a good cabbage, obviously?"

She also wanted to imitate her father's unrestrained behavior, swearing and saying something that made people sound uncomfortable.

However, the family education she had received since she was a child stopped Hathaway at this moment, and she choked back a sentence. She felt uncomfortable all over, and took a big sip of Coke.

Hathaway's reaction gave Gerald the pleasure of eating melons again. Her daughter, who always had her eyes above her head, was very picky, and almost nothing caught her attention, but now she was obviously jealous.

He had the joy of digging out his daughter's secret.

"Annie, you are not yet 14 years old. Such a handsome boy is in high demand. I'm afraid he won't wait for you to grow up!"

Hathaway didn't speak, but there was an Olympic spirit on her face that would never give up easily until the last moment
At this moment, the German team launched a counterattack on the left, and Zieg passed Platt's cross.

Their striker Kunz threw off the tall Adams at once, and pushed the football into the goal less than five meters in front of the goal.

"Damn it! Tony lost him!"

Gerald slapped his thigh vigorously, and the sweet smell of knocking CP disappeared without a trace.

The two teams are back on the same starting line.

In the latter half of the first half, neither team got a decent chance, and the two teams returned to the locker room with a 1-1 score.

After a while of commercials, the TV screen showed the technical statistics of the two teams. The England team led the opponent with 52% ball possession rate, and the other technical indicators of the two teams were similar.

The only difference is that England had 13 fouls compared to Germany's seven.

"Annie, just watch, the Germans will definitely step up their confrontation in the second half."

Sure enough, as he expected, the Germans stepped up their confrontation at the beginning of the second half.

German right back Rutter shoveled towards Pierce from 3 meters away, and tried to bring the ball to the opponent after the opponent passed the ball.

His little thoughts could not escape the eyes of England's left-back Pierce. He immediately pointed at the opponent's nose and cursed, even if the referee was around.

Rutter didn't curse back, and he still did what he should do.

"This is a bit scary!"

In Geraud's view, the execution ability of German players is really terrible.

After so many years of World Series, most national teams will have players who lose control of their emotions at some point, and almost no German players are expelled from the game because of loss of control.

The German player has a big heart, but Pierce doesn't have a big heart. In a header a few minutes later, he hit Rutter and flew sideways.

Rutter rolled three times on the ground, rubbed his head, stood up and continued to play football, like a programmed tool man.

The Germans turned around and continued to attack Pratt, which is a bit unbelievable.

After Pierce enjoyed the sweetness, he knocked Muller to the ground again, still without a card.

The famous Dortmund general quit immediately, and was very angry on the ground. Pierce extended his hand to him friendly, and he knocked it off.

Stretch again, knock down again.

Stretch again, knock down again.

Pierce complained to the referee that Mueller was not a gentleman, and the referee signaled Mueller to get up.

The German stayed on the ground for half a minute, and got a yellow diamond card when he got up.

Subtitles appeared on the TV screen immediately: If the German team advances to the final, Muller will be suspended for accumulating yellow cards.

Gascoigne is not a good stubble either, he beat tall German players several times in a row.

He moves extremely fast, accurate and ruthless when he strikes, and he shows everyone the comprehensiveness of the talented midfielder with his actions.

In the second half of the game, a goal of the German team was disallowed. Kunz's handball was immediately discovered by the referee.

England had two chances to score, Shearer's header coming off the post and Anderton's on the post.

At the end of the 90-minute game, the score is still 1 to 1, and the England team will play two consecutive overtime games.

In the 95th minute, Venables waved his hand and Beckham came off the bench.

Seeing Beckham playing, the German team hurriedly replaced the 1-meter potato midfielder Hassler. Vogts had already left behind for Beckham.

Beckham, who had just played, felt Hassler's confrontation ability in the first confrontation.

In the first confrontation between the two, he almost let Hassler, who was 13 centimeters shorter than him but weighed the same as him, collide with him.

It's your opposite!

The second time Beckham took the ball, he immediately accelerated, but Hassler missed a step and was forced to foul.

The England team continued to kick off, Beckham continued to single out Hassler, the German midfielder fouled again and was shown a yellow card by the referee.

The head coach of the German team, Vogts, did not expect that the young English player would be so tough, and he had been pushing hard on the right side of the German team.

He signaled Zieg to help defend, but the German left-back who had played for 100 minutes couldn't keep up with Beckham's rhythm at all.

Foul again
Vogts was also helpless seeing his players being embarrassed by a young man from the opponent.

Hasler is actually a central player, and it is really helpless for him to come up to defend Beckham.

He didn't expect to be able to kick so fast, and he didn't mean to stop at all.

No way, he can only let everyone take turns to face Beckham.

In 115 minutes, in front of the German team's heavy defense, Beckham transferred the football horizontally to McManaman. Liverpool's left midfielder passed two people in a row, and then suddenly made a cross after going to the bottom of the penalty area.

The football passed in front of the German team's goal, and Gascoigne struggled to tackle it, but it was a hair's breadth away.

After Beckham played, the England team played several high-level tactics in a row, which made the German team completely powerless to fight back.

In the last 5 minutes, all 11 players of the German team retreated to the backcourt and kept the score until the end of overtime without any risk.

As the referee blew the whistle to end the game, Beckham shook his head helplessly.

What the hell is going to kick a penalty again.

The reason why he worked so hard after he came on the field was to let the team settle the game in overtime and not enter a penalty shootout.

Venables began to ask everyone who would like to take a penalty kick, and it was still the five people.

Beckham just wanted to suggest that the head coach change his pick, but Venables said categorically: "We will still maintain this order this time!"

Seeing that the head coach killed the order, Beckham could only sigh. It really hurts that he wants to play fifth overall.

The first few players are veterans who have experienced many battles. Can't they be the last one?

This position is often a matter of life and death, one can imagine how much pressure there is.

Especially the players with the fifth pick have to watch the first four rounds of penalty kicks. This position usually requires players with a big heart, but Venables puts confident players in front.

Of course, such things as penalty kicks are based on luck and character. Who can guarantee that the veteran will be stable.

Even Roberto Baggio dropped a plane in the World Cup final, and in the penalty shootout, nothing was expected.

Venables asked Ince if he wanted to take a penalty kick. England's No. [-] beast waved his hands and shook his head: "Just put me in front of the goalkeeper!"

The England team took the penalty first, and their first player was still the sharp striker Shearer.

He put the football on the penalty spot and stared at the German goalkeeper Kopke.

In the midfield position, Ince sat on the center circle with his back to the goal. He was going to skip the animation and get the result directly.

Anne Hathaway asked Gerald: "Is the fifth player who took the penalty kick the best player on the team?"

"Yes, David will be a great player."

While the father and daughter were talking, Shearer rushed to the penalty spot. As soon as he lifted his foot, Kopke flew to his left, and Shearer kicked the football to the right of the goal without haste.

The goal was scored, 1 to 0!

Both father and daughter stood up at the same time.

But the German team was not good at it either. Hasler, who was the first to play, kicked the football into the lower left corner of the goal.

1 is better than 1!

"Since he is the best player on the team, why hasn't he been given a chance to play?"

Gerald thought for a while, then smiled and said, "Probably not yet."

"Since he is not the best player, why does the head coach put him in the most important position?"

Gerald patted his head, probably not being able to explain it clearly: "Look, Pratt is here!"

(End of this chapter)