Lu Yang’s fingertips are bleeding!
Morici angrily charged towards the opponent, along with Bernulin and Praxedes rushing up from the backfield.
"Why don’t they also..."
Before they could speak, Lu Yang rushed over and stopped them, taking them away.
"No arguments, let’s quickly get the ball in play, we still have a chance!"
Lu Yang said this to Praxedes, because he could hold back Morici, but he couldn’t quite hold back Praxedes.
He still had to hold the ball.
At this moment, Praxedes looked into Lu Yang’s eyes and seemed to finally understand why San Remo could overturn the game in this year’s Italian Cup final.
This Lu Yang, who had created the greatest defensive humiliation of Praxedes’s life, making him a defensive disaster and a background board, at this moment made Praxedes have to respect and admire him.
"Everyone go back! Get ready to kick off!" Praxedes called on his teammates to quickly leave, not to cause more trouble, and especially not to argue with the Main Referee.
But the Sweden Team was relentless, and since they couldn’t cause trouble for Lu Yang, they surrounded the Main Referee, demanding a red card for Lu Yang.
On one hand, they were genuinely afraid of this young man.
On the other hand, they also hoped to drag on the time a bit longer.
Just causing trouble! Just making a fuss!
But the Main Referee doesn’t go soft, and when the broadcast camera showed the blood on Lu Yang’s finger, he decisively showed a yellow card to the Swedish goalkeeper.
The Swedish players exploded, and a forward instinctively held back the Head Coach, not intending to attack him, but his actions were too big. So he also received a yellow card.
Only then did the chaos calm down.
During this time, Lu Yang went to the substitute bench to grab some paper to wipe the blood, then quickly wrapped his left and right little fingers with a medical bandage.
Actually, the wound was not serious, just a small cut.
The troublesome one looked fine, the right little finger.
Because it seemed to have a slight fracture!
The left hand got kicked, but the right hand was the one that blocked the flying football.
The ball finally flew out, pressing on Lu Yang’s right little finger as it went.
The bandage mainly served to hold it steady, binding Lu Yang’s right little finger together with the ring finger.
This kind of binding also caught the director’s attention.
"We can see that Lu Yang has quickly attended to both hands."
"The bleeding left hand just has a small bandage like a Band-Aid. But the right hand’s little finger is bound together with the ring finger. This is often the way to prevent finger movement after a fracture."
"Replay shows that the Swedish goalkeeper indeed kicked Lu Yang’s left little finger!"
"Oh! Worse yet, the football pressed Lu Yang’s right little finger and flew away, with a frightening folding angle!"
"In the slow motion, we can see his right little finger bent backward over ninety degrees, almost touching the back of his hand! Although Lu Yang immediately held his right hand, set the finger back, it must be a fracture!"
"Look! When Lu Yang pushed down a Swedish player, the appearance and position of his right little finger are clearly unnatural!"
"Will this affect Lu Yang’s performance? Will the Italy Team replace him?"
"No! Lu Yang is back on the field! He told the Main Referee he’s fine!"
"Some people might not know, but Lu Yang has a tough and ironclad reputation within Italy. Although his appearance might not look like a butcher type of player, at this moment, I think everyone can feel his fierce tenacity."
"To say something that might dock my pay, I suddenly really want Italy to win this match!"
"It’s not that I disrespect the Sweden Team. I just think that if next year’s European Cup lacks such an Italy, lacking players like Lu Yang who can bring surprises and shocks, we might miss a lot of excitement!"
Whistle!
With the sound of a whistle, the match resumed.
Inspired by Lu Yang’s steely determination, the entire Italy united as one to launch a furious counterattack.
The Sweden Team, because the score was already two to two and having the away goal advantage, chose to shrink back in defense and stop attacking.
Quickly, the match entered injury time.
Due to conflict and "injury" and other reasons, five minutes of injury time was added.
In the first minute of injury time, Ancelotti’s long shot from outside the penalty area was saved by the opponent’s goalkeeper.
In the second minute of injury time, Perrotta made a through pass, and Ancelotti fell after a confrontation inside the penalty area, but the Main Referee indicated that there was no foul, it was a normal body contact, with a hint of diving from Ancelotti.
In the third minute of injury time, the Sweden Team launched a counterattack.
Morici fouled a Swedish forward from behind in midfield and received a yellow card.
In the fourth minute of injury time, Lu Yang completed a tackle in his own backfield and passed to Morici.
Morici executed the "Fried Meatballs" technique to evade the opponent’s pressing and advanced with the ball.
Ancelotti, ahead, was in an offside position and angrily shook his hand!
If Morici made a long pass to him directly, he could gamble on a shot!
But after a second of complaining, Ancelotti professionally ran back to position, waiting for the next opportunity.
Of course, there was a reason Morici didn’t pass to Ancelotti.
Today, Ancelotti was out of form, his shots lacked curvature, and therefore kept missing the target.
This was related to his last injury.
Curved shots, besides technique, have a different way of force than normal shots, and the effort must be fiercer.