Perfect Center

Chapter 24: Single-handed shot! Mulgrew's free kick!
Time passed by minute by minute, both sides launched attacks, but neither side scored a goal.

The fourth official held up a sign on the sidelines indicating that the injury time would be four minutes.

The 49th minute of the game, the last minute of injury time in the first half.

Zalgiris had a counterattack opportunity, Pilibatis made a straight pass and found Xia Han in front!
Xia Han pulled the ball and turned around to face Van Dijk!
Gaucho pulls Mulgrew away, while Cernás draws Boyata's attention.

Xia Han pushed the ball diagonally, accelerated and rushed straight into the penalty area!

Van Dijk was prepared. The moment Xia Han accelerated, he turned around and suddenly blocked Xia Han's position!

Xia Han staggered forward, and instead of falling to the ground during this confrontation, he quickly pushed the ball forward with his toes, then accelerated into the penalty area!
Van Dijk obviously didn't expect that Xia Han also had the ability to fight physically. Without noticing for a moment, Xia Han successfully broke into the penalty area!
Xia Han adjusted his body, controlled the football, and faced the goal!
The Celtics pressed their formation very forward throughout the game!

Mulgrew and Boyata were tied up, and Janko had not come back yet and was speeding back from the wing!
"Xia! Xia's wonderful breakthrough! He passed Van Dijk again!"

"Van Dijk, who has rich defensive experience, fell into Xia Han's breakthrough curse in this game!"

"The goalkeeper chooses to attack! Can he stop Xia's shot?"

The dull commentator suddenly woke up!

Xia Han took two steps forward, looked up at the murderous Gordon, and lightly raised his right toe!
The football took off from the ground!

Draw a beautiful parabola in the air!
Past the goalkeeper!
Fly towards the goal!

Gordon adjusted his body and stretched out his hands hard, hoping that his gloves could touch the trajectory of the football!
The gloves touched nothing!

The football slowly floated into the goal!

Janko tried hard to chase back, but he could only watch the ball fall into the net in the penalty area!

2-1! ! !

The total score is 6-3!!!

Gordon fell to the ground, hammering the turf hard!

"Pretty!"

"It's in, it's in, the ball is in!!!"

"The connection between Pilibatis and Xia! Rapid change of direction, terrifying speed! Facing Gordon's attack, Xia Han once again scored with a lob shot!"

"What a precise lob shot! Such a beautiful goal!"

"The total score has reached 6-3! The suspense of advancing to the Champions League qualifying play-offs is getting smaller and smaller! Zalgiris has already stepped one foot into the Champions League finals!"

In the live broadcast room, barrages of comments were flying everywhere.
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[Wow wow wow wow! Xia Han is awesome! This lob shot is so good! ]
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[Go to the meeting alone! Shoot the ball into the goal! Such a high success rate of single shots! Who else can do it! ]
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[Scored twice! I feel like I will score a hat trick again in this game! ]
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【Zhang Xizhe wears a hat! 】
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[Don’t mention him! He went to Wolfsburg’s pure water dispenser! He didn’t play in a single game. I’m really impressed! ]

Xia Han rushed directly to the sidelines, and facing the non-stop cheers from the home fans, he did a kneeling glider!
After standing up gracefully, he raised his right hand while jogging on the sidelines, then pointed his index finger high into the sky!

"I got another assist!"

Pilibatis caught up with Shahan and gave him a big hug!

Dan Blauskas on the sidelines clapped his hands vigorously and roared excitedly!
Della's eyes were slightly glazed as she looked at the players on the field.

After the game kicked off in the middle circle, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half!
Facing Zalgiris who held a huge advantage, Deira and the coaching staff were somewhat at a loss.

The Celtics players also looked frustrated! It seems that they have no hope of entering the Champions League this season!
"Don't lose heart, we still have a chance!" Brown looked at the frustrated Celtics, clapped his hands, and encouraged them to cheer up.

"Brown is right. We still have a chance. Remember four words in the second half: press and help defend!" Della picked up the small flag and said solemnly.

On the other side, the Zalgiris players slowly walked into the locker room amid the cheers and applause of the fans in the stands. Dambruaskas dragged over the tactical blackboard and moved the small flags on the tactical board.

"The opponent will definitely press forward in the second half! They will press us fiercely!"

"What we need to do is to keep our rhythm steady and not be thrown off balance by their pressure! We need to stay calm!"

"In the final stage of injury time, the counterattack was quite good! Keep up the pace in the second half! We will keep up the pace! They are behind, so they must be the ones who are anxious!"

"Listen to the cheers outside! All we have to do is to advance steadily into the Champions League finals!"

"Believe in yourself! We can do it! There are only 45 minutes left to enter the Champions League finals!"

The Zalgiris players looked focused.

No one doesn’t want to enter the Champions League finals!

The fifteen-minute halftime passed slowly.

Players from both sides return to the field.

"Good evening, viewers! Welcome back! Now we are broadcasting the second half of the second leg of the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League qualifying play-offs!"

"We can see that the Celtics have made personnel adjustments!"

"A substitution! Commons replaced Armstrong who did nothing in the first half!"

Beep!
Accompanied by the referee's whistle!
The second half of the game officially begins!
In the next game, the Celtics continued to launch fierce attacks!

Zalgiris creates threat with quick counterattack!
In the 48th minute of the game, facing Cernás's shot, Boyata fouled and was shown a yellow card by the referee!
In the 55th minute of the game, after Commons actively counterattacked the ball, he was fouled by Gaucho in front of the penalty area and was shown a yellow card!
Celtic get a free kick in a great position!
Johnson and Forrest's feint!

The penalty kick was taken by left-back Mulgrew, who shot after a run-up!
Football is like a sharp blade!
Penetrated through Zalgiris's wall of people!

Hit through Witkauskas' gloves!
Rushed into the goal!
2-2! ! !

The total score is 6-4!!!

"Unbelievable! So beautiful!"

"Amazing free-kick technique!"

"The goal came from Celtic's left back Mulgrew!"

"Can his goal save the Celtics from a deep quagmire?"

Mulgrew did not choose to celebrate. He picked up the football in the net and ran towards the center circle!

"Zalgris used two substitutions at once!"

"Enyazi replaces the exhausted Cernás! Shemberas replaces Gaucho who performed poorly in this game!"

“Let us look forward to what wonderful performances they will bring us!”

N'Yazi, who came on as a substitute, brought instructions from De Bruyne.

So, after this substitution, the football was constantly kicked out of bounds by Zalgiris players.

The Celtics' attack was strongly blocked!

(End of this chapter)