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Chapter 851 - 206: Boom! Youngest Hat-Trick in European Cup History! (Part 2)

This guy is wild. Without him, Real Madrid’s defense would be further weakened.

I’m sure someone in Real Madrid can see this.

Zidane might be willing to recommend his national team friend to Real Madrid, but he definitely doesn’t want him to replace La Veran.

On the contrary, the academic star Lande from the France Team seems to have an inexplicable synergy with this Martial Monk La Veran.

The soccer match begins.

Portugal initiates another attack.

They must win to qualify.

France Team’s qualification is almost secure now.

Portugal can only compete with Italy for this spot.

Bam!

Madeira makes a long shot from outside the penalty area.

But Audi saves it.

Seemingly to make the goal rate normal, Madeira’s frightening efficiency in the first half has finally started to lose effect.

Praxedes’ strong defense makes Madeira unable to fully focus on shooting even if he gets a chance.

Chiavich controls the ball and passes it to Canyes.

Canyes immediately initiates a counter-attack.

But the opponent quickly comes to obstruct.

Canyes passes to Morici.

Morici turns and shoots without looking up!

It’s a super-speedy switch and distribution.

Praxedes receives the ball.

Ancelotti moves to the left.

Lu Yang advances forward.

Praxedes passes to Ancelotti and also moves forward into the side.

Ancelotti returns the pass to Praxedes.

Praxedes makes a through pass.

Lu Yang has already invaded the penalty area.

Once he receives this through ball, he has a great shooting opportunity. No one doubts Lu Yang’s capability to shoot while in motion.

If not, you could ask Sofia—no, ask those goalkeepers who have been "blasted" by Lu Yang!

La Veran grapples with Lu Yang once more.

But he realizes he doesn’t have any advantage physically.

Moreover, he’s considerably slower than Lu Yang.

In desperation, La Veran can only slide tackle, hoping to disrupt the ball early.

However, Lu Yang seems to have anticipated it.

When a player slides during a confrontation, there’s a brief moment of reduced pressure.

The higher-level defenders can shorten and speed up this pressure reduction period, thus, not giving the attacker any time to predict.

But the more pressure the attacker puts on the defender, the greater the swing before the defender’s tackle.

This is a mutual process.

The advantaged party in the confrontation can have the initiative in tackling and evading tackles.

This is also why many top offensive players can feint and lob the ball to avoid tackles.

Lu Yang lobs the ball!

The ball flies up.

But La Veran’s slide tackle is extremely fast.

Even Lu Yang gets knocked down after the lob.

Tweet!

The Main Referee blows the whistle decisively!

Penalty!

It’s a penalty!

"Oh! My god! A penalty! It’s actually a penalty!"

"Lu Yang forced La Veran to concede the penalty! Yellow card! La Veran receives his second yellow card of the match on Lu Yang!"

"Two yellows turn into one red, and La Veran is sent off!"

"La Veran protests to the Main Referee, believing his tackle was clean. But the replay also shows the referee’s decision was undoubtedly correct; La Veran indeed didn’t touch the ball."

"Lu Yang’s lob was ahead of him, as if he had anticipated the tackle."

"This is the second penalty awarded to Italy Team in this European Cup. The previous penalty was against Russia, taken by Ancelotti, but the result wasn’t satisfactory."

"Ancelotti missed the penalty, almost causing huge trouble for Italy Team. This time..."

"Oh, is it still Ancelotti, is he going to take it?"

Maniero hasn’t touched the matter of penalty taker.

You can’t take away the free kicks and penalties belonging to Ancelotti when the tactical and team resources are being shifted from him to Lu Yang.

Without Ancelotti’s nod, the team’s primary penalty taker has always been him.

Moreover... how many penalties are there in a match?

If it’s given to Ancelotti, so what?

Some teams go through an entire European Cup or World Cup without a single penalty; what’s the use of having a penalty taker?

Of course, if it’s last season’s Manchester United, then fighting for a penalty taker is necessary.

Sure enough, Ancelotti first looked at Lu Yang.

Lu Yang took one of his free kicks in the first half, although he volunteered and it was a special situation, but taken is taken.

If Lu Yang thinks this penalty should be his, then any tiny improvement Ancelotti felt towards Lu Yang might extinguish completely.

The relationships between people are sometimes progressed in these little bits of mutual testing.

Understanding to respect others’ boundaries is the key to peacefully coexisting.

Does Lu Yang understand?

Lu Yang, after creating the penalty, didn’t grab the ball or say anything.

He voluntarily walked out of the penalty area.

This attitude clearly shows no intention of competing for the penalty.

In a moment, Ancelotti felt a tremor in his heart.

He felt guilty for his own pettiness.

Is this the Lu Yang that Canyes and Bernulin mentioned?

Indeed, he seems to have that... personality charm!

Ancelotti thought about it; Lu Yang already seems to have... scored twice this match?

So... if there’s another penalty, Lu Yang could complete a hat-trick?

Oh my god!

How old is he!

There are only a dozen hat-tricks in the history of the European Cup, and the youngest was... definitely over twenty years old.