Chapter 103 Lin Feng's First Red Card
After receiving the pass from Adriano, Lin Feng dribbled the ball towards the penalty area at high speed.
Since most of the players were in the opponent's half, Juventus' defense only had Cannavaro and goalkeeper Buffon.
Seeing Lin Feng rushing towards him, Cannavaro stepped back and tried to block his position to prevent Lin Feng from rushing over.
But Lin Feng did not entangle with him. After pushing the ball to the side, he accelerated again, intending to overtake from the side bend.
Cannavaro quickly adjusted his position and continued to stick to him.
He knew very well in his mind that he had to stick closely to Lin Feng at this moment and not let him shoot comfortably.
Although Cannavaro has great confidence in the ability of his teammate Buffon, no matter how good a goalkeeper is, it is impossible to save all the shots of the opponents.
Cannavaro's idea was right, but he underestimated the opponent's speed.
While he was adjusting direction, Lin Feng had already caught up with him from being one body length behind him to being on par with him.
When Cannavaro came up again, Lin Feng was already half a body length ahead of him.
Looking at Lin Feng swinging his long legs like a fire wheel, Cannavaro was very surprised.
The distance between him and Lin Feng continued to widen. At this speed, by the time Lin Feng entered the penalty area, he would probably be completely left behind.
A decision must be made, no more hesitation!
Cannavaro made up his mind and didn't care even though he knew he would most likely get a card for doing so.
Just when Lin Feng was about to break into the penalty area, Cannavaro fouled him from behind and pushed him to the ground.
The referee blew his whistle, reached into his chest pocket, and took out a yellow card while walking towards the Juventus penalty area.
This was a very obvious tactical foul. After pushing Lin Feng down, Cannavaro immediately raised his hand to indicate that he had committed a foul.
Getting only a yellow card was not the worst outcome for Cannavaro. In fact, when he committed the foul, he even considered the possibility of being sent off with a red card.
However, just when everyone thought that the referee would show a yellow card to Cannavaro for the foul, De Santis made a move that almost no one expected:
He ignored the culprit Cannavaro and instead showed a yellow card to Lin Feng who fell in the penalty area, for diving!
This result not only surprised and shocked Lin Feng, but also Cannavaro who was standing beside him was a little confused:
what's the situation?
Wasn't it me who committed the foul?
How did he become Inter Milan’s number eight?
If Lin Feng could tolerate the referee's previous actions, he really couldn't tolerate it this time.
He got up from the ground angrily, rushed to the referee and questioned him:
"Cannavaro himself admitted that he committed a foul, but you f*cking judged me for diving. Are you blind?"
At this time, Inter Milan fans rushed up to ask the referee for an explanation.
The referee stepped back, trying to escape from the encirclement of Inter Milan players, while showing the yellow card to Lin Feng again, and then took out a red card from behind, turning two yellow cards into one red card, and sent him off!
Lin Feng was so angry that he laughed. He gave him a thumbs up and applauded him.
Zanetti quickly pulled the angry Lin Feng away, then walked up to the referee and tried to reason with him:
"Hey, Mr. DeSantis, Lin was wrongly accused. You can't judge like this. Everyone saw that it was Cannavaro who committed the foul. If you don't believe it, you can ask Cannavaro himself."
While recording the yellow card recipient and time, De Santis glanced at Zanetti with disdain: "Are you questioning my judgment?"
After saying that, he raised the yellow card again, and the target of the punishment was Inter Milan captain Zanetti.
Zanetti had already received a yellow card in the first half, and when he received another yellow card, two yellow cards turned into one red card, and he was sent off.
Including Cambiasso before, this is the third Inter Milan player to be sent off in this game.
If Mancini is counted, this is the fourth red card.
There was a chorus of boos from the stands, and the excited Inter Milan fans wanted to climb over the guardrails and rush onto the field to teach De Santis, the son of a bitch, a lesson.
Even Juventus fans felt that the referee's decision was too outrageous at this time.
Although they wanted to defeat their opponents, winning by relying on the referee's favoritism always felt unfair or even despicable.
"Damn it, is this guy crazy? Is he trying to make a big deal out of this?"
In the stadium box, Juventus manager Moggi's smile froze on his face after seeing De Santis send off Inter Milan players in succession.
Not only was he not happy about De Santis's decisions that were favorable to Juventus, but he cursed the other party as a fool and a pig in his heart.
Given Juventus' strength, the referee only needed to provide some additional, less obvious help to help them win.
But DeSantis screwed it up!
His favoritism was so obvious that even an idiot would start to suspect that he was whistling unfairly!
If it was an ordinary game, the impact of these penalties might have been controllable.
But the bad thing is that this is the most watched national derby in Italy!
I wonder how many eyes are watching this game right now!
It is conceivable what a huge earthquake these penalties will cause in Italian football.
The Italian Football Association and even the police may intervene in the investigation, and once these people are involved, the good things that Juventus has done over the years may no longer be concealed.
The more Mogi thought about it, the more frightened he became, as if he had already seen himself being thrown into prison.
At this point, there is only one way!
Moggi took a look at DeSantis on the field, made up his mind and made a decision!
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The violent reaction of the fans and the murderous looks of the Inter Milan players finally made De Santis feel scared.
In fact, he also wanted to do things quietly, but Inter Milan's damn number eight just wouldn't stop.
A goal scored in the first half ruined his plan. If he was allowed to score this goal again in the second half, the mission assigned to him by Mogi would have failed.
So DeSantis had to take a risk and choose the most drastic means to send the opponent off.
But this decision seemed to have opened Pandora's box, making the situation even more out of control...
"This is your first time being sent off, right? Haha, come on a few more times and you'll get used to it."
On the way back to the locker room, Zanetti put his arm around Lin Feng's shoulders, trying to calm him down.
"Haha, I think it's better not to have this kind of experience more than once. Once is enough."
Zanetti shrugged: "Well, the probability of a striker getting a red card is still relatively small, but for defensive players like us, the probability of being sent off with a red card is still very high."
Sometimes, they know that the action they take will result in a card, but they still have to do it.
As a defensive player, you must always be prepared to sacrifice for the team.
Using their own yellow card or even red card to avoid conceding a goal is a good deal in some cases. Lin Feng has actually calmed down at this moment. Although his actions just now were indeed a little uncalm, he did not regret it.
If the referee's whistle hadn't been so outrageous, Lin Feng wouldn't have wanted to escalate the situation.
As a reborn person, he already knew that Juventus had some issues.
Since the opponent dared to blatantly blow the whistle in such an important match as the Italian national derby, don't blame him for adding fuel to the fire and making the fire burn even more fiercely.
Anyway, he was going back to China to participate in the East Asian Games, and he couldn't play in the next few rounds of games anyway, so the red card suspension had no effect on him at all.
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"Oh, Lin Feng's actions just now were a little irrational!"
Inside the CCTV studio, Huang Jianxiang shook his head repeatedly, feeling sorry for Lin Feng.
"Young people are easily impulsive, which is understandable."
Another commentator also said a few good words for Lin Feng:
"And the referee made a clear misjudgment just now. I think any player would feel resentful when faced with such an unfair decision."
"Yes, many of the decisions made by referee De Santis in this game are questionable, especially the three yellow cards he showed to Lin Feng and Zanetti, which can be said to have directly killed the game."
Although the two commentators did not say it explicitly, they hinted at it clearly enough.
Chinese fans, who are accustomed to all kinds of shady dealings in the Chinese Super League, are naturally very familiar with this scene.
"It's a 100 percent match-fixing!"
"Haha, if this referee doesn't take the money, I'll write my name upside down!"
"Such an outrageous penalty is rare even in the Chinese Super League!"
"Haha, doesn't this indirectly show that the referees in the Chinese Super League have strong professional capabilities?"
"Juventus is too shameless. They can't beat Inter Milan, so they resort to such tricks!"
"I dare not say anything nonsense. Maybe the referee was just having a seizure. There is no evidence to prove that Juventus had anything to do with this matter."
"Don't try to whitewash it. According to the principle that whoever benefits is the most suspicious, Juventus is the first suspect!"
In addition to calling the referee an idiot, fans have gradually developed a conspiracy theory, which is directed at the Serie A champions Juventus.
Moreover, this conspiracy theory not only appeared in China, but also in Italy and Europe. After watching this game, fans all began to doubt Juventus.
The situation is developing towards the scene that Moji least wants to see!
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After three Inter Milan players were sent off one after another, the situation on the field became completely one-sided.
With only eight players left, Inter Milan no longer had any ability to attack and could only retreat to their own penalty area and defend with all their might.
The assistant coach used his last substitution, replacing Adriano with a defender to fill the gap in Inter Milan's defense after Zanetti was sent off.
But even so, they still found it difficult to resist the opponent's attack.
In the 85th minute, Piero, who came on as a substitute, scored a goal after receiving a pass from Emerson, changing the score to 3:1.
In injury time, Trezeguet received a cross from his teammate in the penalty area and made a diving header to extend the score to 4:1.
In the end, the score was fixed at 4:1, and Juventus won a big victory at their home court.
But the Juventus executives who won the victory were not happy at all.
Because the moment the whistle blows, the real war officially begins.
After the game, angry Inter Milan fans rushed to the headquarters of the Italian Football Association and surrounded the place.
The phones of Milan Police Department and Public Prosecutor's Office were almost immediately flooded with calls from fans calling the police.
At the same time, Inter Milan Club also submitted materials to the Serie A officials and the Referees Association at the first opportunity to protest against the unfair judgment of the referee of this game, demanding the cancellation of the penalties against the players and coaches, and a strict investigation of the referees of this game.
As the situation gradually escalated, more and more fans gathered, including a number of saboteurs.
They began to create chaos on the streets of Milan, smashing vehicles and shops, and took the opportunity to start zero-dollar shopping.
A large number of blocks in Milan were shrouded in fire and smoke, just like Los Santos in GTA.
Not only that, the impact of this game quickly expanded to all of Europe and even the world.
Major foreign media outlets also followed up and launched follow-up reports on this.
"The shame of Serie A, the national derby ruined by the referee!"
This is the headline of Bild, Germany's largest-circulation newspaper.
"In tonight's Derby del Italia, the referee made several controversial decisions, and in the end, it completely ruined the Derby del Italia in a humiliating way."
Barcelona's mouthpiece, Mundo Deportivo, also took the opportunity to criticize the status of Serie A:
"As more and more top players leave Serie A to play in La Liga and other leagues, La Liga is making rapid progress while Serie A is going backwards. This is puzzling:
Can today's Serie A still be called the world's best league?
The Times of Britain reported that: Football is a fair and just sport that cannot tolerate any tarnish. If the Serie A officials cannot give the public an explanation on this matter, then the fairness of the Serie A league will probably be questioned.
Things were getting bigger and bigger and becoming increasingly out of control.
The presidents of the Italian Football League and the Football Association were forced to make statements, announcing the suspension of referee De Santis's work and the launch of an investigation into him.
But these have nothing to do with Lin Feng.
After the game with Juventus, he packed up and set off for Germany to join the national team.
Originally, the national team only had Germany as its warm-up match opponent this time, but with the help of national youth team head coach Krauchen, the Chinese team arranged another friendly match - with Leverkusen Club.
Although the opponent is a club, not a national team, the value of this friendly match is even greater than that of ordinary national team friendly matches.
Generally speaking, the strength of the club is often greater than that of the national team.
The club's players are not restricted by nationality and can look for the most suitable candidates in the transfer market. In addition, the players train and play together for a long time, and the tacit understanding between them is far greater than that of the national team.
Although Leverkusen is not ranked high in the Bundesliga and has not even qualified for the European Cup.
But if they were ranked among the national teams, they would at least be in the top 30.
(End of this chapter)
