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Due to the limitations of the rules of the game, after the ninety-minute game, the players on both sides did not return to the locker room, but went to the sidelines to receive treatment from the team doctors and masseurs, so that they could recover more energy during the five-minute break and deal with the subsequent overtime.

While receiving massage, the players from Fiorentina gathered together and listened to the tactical arrangements of the overtime stage from head coach Capello. After all, the rules of overtime are different from regular ninety-minute games. If you lose the ball in an overtime game using the sudden death method, it will kill people.

Vicenza is also in the same situation, but their treatment is obviously much worse than that of Florence, which also makes many Vicenza players feel a little unbalanced, and they start to wonder if they can enjoy such advanced services if they play in a wealthy family.

This is the helplessness of the club. Even if they can achieve results that are no less than those strong teams on the field, the huge gap in hardware conditions and treatment in all aspects will still cause them to lose excellent players.

Guidolin naturally noticed these emotions of the players, but he was not good at communicating with the players and didn't know how to let the players let go of this idea. In the face of time tight, he could only instill the team's overtime tactics into the players as briefly as possible, hoping that they could focus their attention on the game rather than those external objects.

So, in the next thirty minutes of overtime, the players of both sides began to become conservative on the court. The sharp breakthrough that was exciting and exciting was gone, the forward pass that tore the opponent's defense line bit by bit was gone, and even the number of times of pressing on the offense was much less than before.

Many times players would rather pass the time in the backcourt than pass the ball forward and try to attack.

In fact, this is all caused by the Golden Ball system, because in overtime games that adopt the Golden Ball system, once the opponent scores a goal, it means that the team's efforts in the whole game are in vain because of the concealment of the ball. This huge psychological pressure forces no team to continue to attack in overtime.

If it was an overtime game that was a traditional way of deciding the winners and losses before the Golden Ball system, there wouldn't be so many players on both sides to worry about. It doesn't matter which of the two teams scored first during this period. Just let your side lead at the end of the game.

Now, players and head coaches on both sides have to worry about the gains and losses of a goal, because as long as one goal is generated, one of them can be thrown into an abyss that will never be restored!

Seeing that Fiorentina and Vicenza, two teams that played extremely open during the regular 90 minutes, became extremely conservative in overtime, many fans and critics began to curse the Golden Ball system in their hearts, believing that it was precisely because of the sudden death method that both sides of the game became so conservative and unprofitable in overtime.

Therefore, after this game, European football once again launched a condemnation of the Golden Ball system, and the call for the abolition of the Golden Ball system to return to the 30-minute decisive victory system in overtime before 1996 has become increasingly strong. This is a later story, so I won't mention it here for now.

In this way, in this sleepy atmosphere, the two teams finally finished this disappointing overtime game and ushered in the final penalty shootout!

However, what no one expected was that in people's eyes, this penalty shootout, which should have been decided after up to five rounds of shots, would become completely different from Florence and Vicenza!

In the first four rounds of the penalty shootout, all four players in Fiorentina who took the penalty kick all hit, while Tony, the first to take the penalty kick, kicked the ball out of the crossbar, causing Vicenza to temporarily trail one game three-to-four in this penalty game!

As a result, the game situation seems to have become quite clear. As long as Zanetti, the fifth penalty in Fiorentina, sends the ball into the goal, the game can be declared over!

However, the Italian midfielder lost the chain at this critical moment, and the penalty he took was saved by Barotta, who was guarding the goal!

Barack, the fifth penalty in Vicenza, steadily scored the penalty, pulling the two teams to the same starting line again!

Such a dramatic change occurred at this critical moment, which made all the fans' hearts come to their throats. Fans who supported Fiorentina sighed for Zanetti, lamenting that the psychological quality of this young man was indeed not yet at the right time. Capello should send Carlos, who has more experience, and this penalty may not be so easily saved by the opponent's goalkeeper.

Since both sides will decide the winner after the penalty shootout in the first five rounds, the sudden death method will be used to increase the penalty, that is, the players of both sides will continue to pay penalty kicks in turn until one side is punished and the other side does not advance at the end of one round, and the party who entered the penalty will obtain the final victory.

And this officially kicked off this extremely long penalty shootout!

From the sixth round to the tenth round, the players who took the penalty kicks on both sides had to maintain amazing shooting percentage and psychological quality without exception, and all of them scored a total of ten penalty kicks without any mistakes!

In the 11th round, the goalkeepers of both sides appeared and punished each other for penalty kicks. Tordo, who took off his gloves, stood at the penalty spot without any fear. He was so strong that he directly pushed the ball hard to the lower left corner of the goal. Barotta, who followed closely behind, did not disappoint his teammates, tricked Tordo into sending the ball into the goal, ten to ten!

At this point, all the twenty-two players on both sides were fined a penalty kick. The referee, who was already stunned by this, had to arrange for the players of the two teams to take the penalty again in the previous order according to the rules.

In the 12th round, Ronaldo, who appeared again, easily deceived Barotta into a penalty kick, and Tony also made up for the score this time, scoring eleven to eleven!

Vieri and Redondo, who appeared in the 13th and 14th rounds, both withstood the pressure and shot the penalty kick. Unfortunately, Vicenza did not miss either. Tordo, who was guarding the goal, failed to block Odo and Larson's shots, and both sides continued to run side by side in the penalty shootout.

This extremely long penalty shootout finally came to an end after the end of the fifteenth round - Effenberg broke through Barotta's ten fingers with an angry shot, while Ambrossetti's powerful shot at the upper right corner of the goal was saved by Toldo!

So far, Fiorentina defeated Vicenza 14-13 in the penalty shootout, winning the European Super Cup trophy for the fourth consecutive time!
Chapter completed!