When referee Koupes blew the whistle for the end of the 90-minute game, neither manager had any surprise on their faces, as if the result had been expected by them.

In the 90 minutes of the game, both teams changed only one person, with Vrsalico carrying a yellow card, and his opponent San Maximin was a breakthrough player, who was beaten by Juan shortly after receiving the yellow card. Fran came off as a substitute.

FC United's first substitution did not appear until the 82nd minute, replacing Lozano with Sancho with calf cramps, Lozano did not have much advantage on Lucas's side in this game, but did not let Lucas arbitrarily insert assists, but also completed his task, if not calf cramps, I am afraid Lu Wei does not plan to substitute.

Although the second half was a stalemate all the time, Lu Wei and Simeone were satisfied with the performance of the players on the field, and the 22 players on the field were also in very good shape, with smooth offense and solid defense, in which case substitutions can sometimes be counterproductive.

Overtime only left the players with a 5-minute break, which was not enough for the head coach to make tactical details, so Lu Wei just said a few words and ended the tactical explanation.

"Harry, Andrew, you already have a yellow card on you, pay attention to the action in overtime, they may let Torres play in overtime, when Isaac comes on, replace Harry, Declan withdraws to the position of central defender, the golden boy is handed over to you, don't be afraid, he has long been brilliant, as long as he blocks the angle of his frontal shot, there is nothing to fear, everyone else continues to play like this, it's time to move forward boldly, the defense concentrates more, well, time is limited, So much for tactically, you guys hurry up and recover.

After that, Lu Wei looked at these panting players, recalled their fighting figures on the field in the past season, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously raised.

"One last thing I want to say."

Whether the FC United players were drinking, wiping sweat or getting massaged, they all looked up at the young manager.

"The season is over 30 minutes away, it's great to be able to play with you and win for the team, don't let yourself look back on the season and think that you lost in the last half hour for your own reasons, and use up your last strength."

As Lu Wei expected, Simeone replaced Diego at the beginning of extra time. Costa, replaced by Atletico legend - Golden Boy Torres.

Torres has been a substitute striker since returning to Atletico but has maintained good form, scoring double-doubles in the first two seasons, but has scored only five goals so far this season, and announced at the beginning of this year that he would not renew his contract with the club at the end of the season.

Seeing the once dashing golden boy lose the ball under Rice's defense, Lu Wei can't help but sigh a little, Torres stayed up late with his roommates in the university dormitory to watch the game when he won the European Cup, ten years later, the golden boy is late, but Ronaldo, Modric and others who are only one year younger than Torres are still standing at the top of the world. Injuries are really the biggest enemy of professional players.

It seems that Simeone and Atletico's players have also learned the lessons of the Champions League final defeat four years ago, and have begun to retain their strength as soon as extra time is possible, although the running volume is not so great, but the players can still keep up with the attacking rhythm of FC United.

The first half of extra time was attacked by FC United, Atletico have been shrinking in their half defense, Sancho also created a few threatening attacks after coming on, and also allowed Lucas to get a yellow card, but the final cross did not form a threatening shot, Giroud was also strong under the pocket of Gimenez and Godin, which made Lu Wei a little difficult, whether to replace Balbosa to change the attack, or to keep this substitution to stabilize the defense.

Lu Wei did not think for long to make a choice, Taphnir pulled down Cork when Atletico counterattacked, received a yellow card, if the attrition in the final stage of the game, it would cause the back line to break the embankment, so Lu Wei decisively replaced Tafnir with Tete.

With the addition of a new force in the backline, Atletico can no longer run to create too many chances, 30 minutes is not long or short, but when the fourth official raised the sign of one minute of stoppage time in extra time, Lu Wei and Simeone tightened their hearts at the same time, knowing that they had to decide the winner by penalties, but at the same time they were still looking forward to the decisive kill.

Unfortunately, the winner did not show up, and with Maddison's long-range shot flying into the stands, the referee ended the game and the winner of the Europa League in 17-18 would be decided by a brutal penalty shootout.

"At the end of the 120 minutes, FC United and Atletico Madrid played 1:1, although the score is not high, but it is undoubtedly a very exciting final, the game will enter a brutal penalty shootout, this is the first time in four years that the Europa League final is decided by penalties, the last time in the 13-14 season, Sevilla and Benfica exchanged white rolls in regular time, and finally Sevilla won the championship with a 4-2 penalty win over Benfica. Let's see if this year will it be the Spanish team that wins, or will this red dark horse from England win the title? Let's wait and see! "

The players from both sides gathered in front of their respective dugouts to wait for the penalty shoot-out to begin, while members of FC United's coaching staff gathered around to discuss the order of the penalty shootout.

FC United had practiced penalties before the game, and they had a bottom in mind who would take the penalty, and the two defenders with the highest penalty shooting rate in FC United's team, Tavernir and Tarkovsky took 80% of the usual penalties. However, now that Taffonier has been replaced, FC United have one less penalty shooter, but Lu Wei is not worried, although there are no particularly outstanding penalty takers in the team now, but everyone has a high penalty shooting percentage.

Tarkovsky is sure to go, Giroud and Maddison are the two most consistent shots in the team, and they are also the only ones to be selected in the five-man roster, but there are still two people behind, Robertson, Rice, Sancho and St. Maximin all have good shooting percentages in practice. Lu Wei looked at the players and pointed out the four of them.

"There are still two of you, which of you will come?"

Robertson didn't wait for Lu Wei to finish speaking, and then stood up directly.

"I, the first!"

With concise and powerful words, Robertson went straight to the middle circle to prepare for a penalty shootout with the referee.

Lu Wei smiled, Robertson is more stable than him in the original world, the experience from the lower leagues has polished his heart very mature, Robertson will definitely become the legendary captain of the Red Rebels in the future.

The last selection is also very certain, the three young people did not flinch, all said that they could play, but Lu Wei after recalling the future resume of the three, still handed the burden of the last penalty to Sancho, Rice and San Maximin both played 120 minutes, the physical consumption is more serious, now both legs are still a little shaky, Sancho came off the bench to play only more than 40 minutes, the competitive state is at its best, Although Sancho missed a penalty in the famous future European Championship final, Lu Wei believes that the well-prepared Sancho will withstand the pressure today.

The five penalty takers have been identified, and now the order of the main penalty needs to be considered.

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