Generally speaking, when two teams are preparing for extra time, everyone expects something unexpected to happen, especially those Chinese fans who stay up late to watch the games.

They all hope that Dortmund can kill Bayern Munich, just like they did in the league.

Turning their heads to look at the sky outside the window, it’s still dark. But if they have to play extra time or even a penalty shootout, by the time the game is over, it should be bright outside. After staying up all night, some of them can't hold on any longer.

But the two teams were calm and composed in the final stage of the game. After attacking each other head-on for ninety minutes, the players of the two teams also felt tired. Since the coaches passed on the idea of ​​deciding the winner in extra time through substitutions, the players naturally don't need to work so hard. What if they don’t win and exhaust the last bit of their strength, and then collapse directly in the thirty-minute extra time?

And they had to be careful to guard against the opponent's final kill, and the defense could not be relaxed.

This resulted in neither of the two teams posing a threat to the other's goal.

The four minutes of stoppage time quickly came to an end, and the referee Rizzoli blew the whistle to end the ninety-minute game.

"The regular time is over! The game will enter thirty minutes of extra time! Although the two teams only scored one goal each in the score, the number of goals seems a bit small. But this does not affect the excitement and intensity of the game. This is the most exciting Champions League final we have seen in recent years. In these ninety minutes, the two teams have offered us a very tense and fierce head-to-head battle, and both sides played very openly, without reservation!" He Ping said.

"Thanks to Bayern Munich and Dortmund, these two teams have shown the world the highest level of German football, and also the highest level of European football!" Marcel Reif praised even more vigorously, because after all, this is his national team, and praising them is praising his own country's football.

In their comments, the players of the two teams walked to the sidelines one after another for a short rest—according to the rules, they only have five minutes of rest before extra time, which is far from enough for them to return to the locker room, so they just sat down on the sidelines.

The team doctors and therapists of the two teams were seizing the time to massage the players and relax their muscles. After fighting for ninety minutes, everyone's physical energy was greatly consumed. There will be another thirty minutes of extra time, and if the physical energy can't keep up, they will collapse.

The coaches on both sides were also seizing the time to deploy the latest tactics and boost morale.

"...There are still thirty minutes! Grit your teeth and hold on! Whoever can hold on at this time will win the final victory!"

"...They are already on the verge of collapse. As long as we continue to put pressure on them, they will definitely collapse!"

Klopp especially told the players to pay attention to controlling the rhythm during extra time. If Bayern Munich wants to attack, then don't attack with them—at this time, without physical support, attacking is just courting death. The reason why they were able to attack Bayern Munich before was entirely because the entire Bayern Munich team could still run.

Their opponent, this Bayern Munich team, has entered the Champions League final for the third time and has very rich experience in participating in the Champions League final.

And Dortmund? In history, they only have one record of entering the Champions League final. This team has no final experience, and no one in the team has participated in the Champions League final.

In terms of experience, it is inevitable that they will be inferior to Dortmund. At the last moment, what they are fighting for is willpower and experience.

Bayern Munich has the advantage in this regard.

As the break time was about to end, Klopp squatted on the ground, looked around at the Dortmund players in front of him and said, "I am proud of you, lads. This is your first time in the Champions League final, but your performance is no worse than the experienced Bayern Munich. You have shown the whole world how great you are. Logically speaking, I can't ask for more, but I still want to ask you—go all out, win this championship, and leave our names in history forever!"

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The players from both sides got up and walked towards the stadium, preparing to start the thirty-minute extra time.

Klopp stood on the sidelines, arms crossed, watching the players on the field with some nervousness.

This is the thirty minutes that will determine their fate. The efforts of a season depend on these last thirty minutes.

He had a hallucination. It seemed that these players were not stepping onto the football field, but... a battlefield filled with smoke.

"Friends, welcome back to Wembley Stadium in London to watch the first half of extra time in the 2012-2013 Champions League final. After ninety minutes of fighting, Dortmund and Bayern Munich drew 1:1 and were unable to decide the winner within ninety minutes. If extra time fails to determine the winner, the game will enter the most brutal and fierce penalty shootout..."

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In the first half of extra time, Bayern Munich kicked off.

They took advantage of the kickoff to launch a very rapid offensive against Dortmund's goal.

Wave after wave, Dortmund could only retreat to the backcourt to parry, and had no power to fight back at all.

The hearty head-to-head battle from before was nowhere to be found.

After the physical energy of both sides declined, it was indeed difficult to play scenes that would make fans cheer.

Generally speaking, extra time in football matches is like this: in the first fifteen minutes of the first half, one team bombards the other team, and in the fifteen minutes of the second half, they continue to bombard, but the attacking and defending sides switch positions.

This is caused by physical energy.

Now it is obvious that Bayern Munich is attacking and Dortmund is defending in the first half.

Bayern Munich's idea is to take the lead in this first half.

Because of physical energy, as long as a goal appears in extra time, in most cases, it is difficult for the lagging side to come back. If they can, they will definitely be famous in history and be called a "classic".

For example, in the famous 1982 World Cup match between France and Germany, the two sides drew 1:1 in regular time. In extra time, France scored two goals first, leading Germany 3:1. As a result, the tenacious Germans scored two goals in a row in extra time, tying the score at 3:3, dragging the game into a penalty shootout, and defeating France in the penalty shootout, eliminating them from the game.

The reason why that game is called a classic is because of such a ups and downs plot in the short thirty minutes of extra time. That game has also become a classic symbol of the tenacious will of the German chariot. As long as the tenacity of the Germans is mentioned, this game will be brought up as evidence.

Because rarity is classic.

On the other hand, there are countless examples of teams losing the ball in extra time and then collapsing.

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In the ninety-sixth minute, Bayern Munich launched an attack. Robben dribbled the ball to attack, cut inside, and sent a direct pass.

Müller inserted forward to receive the ball, but due to the decline in physical energy, he could not increase his speed. Seeing the pursuers getting closer and closer, and the goal was still far away, he could not guarantee the success rate of the shot, so he sent the ball to the side in a staggering manner, and Gomez was there. After he received the ball, he shot directly at the corner of the penalty area!

The ball hit the side net...

Although it didn't score, it scared the Dortmund fans a lot. During this period, Bayern Munich's offensive became more and more fierce, and many people were really worried that their team would not be able to hold on.

Bayern Munich continued to bombard.

In the ninety-eighth minute, they got a corner kick. The corner kick taken by Robben was punched out by Weidenfeller.

But the ball landed outside the penalty area and did not fly far. After Schweinsteiger stopped the ball, he took a long shot... and hit it high!

In the hundredth minute, Bayern Munich launched an attack on the right. Lahm dribbled the ball into the penalty area and passed the ball back near the baseline. Müller in the penalty area was originally unmarked, and he also made a gesture to shoot, but when the ball really rolled over, he faked a shot and let the ball leak past his crotch!

This greatly exceeded the expectations of the Dortmund defensive players. They could only watch the ball leak to the top of the penalty arc, where Schweinsteiger inserted forward and directly volleyed a powerful shot!

This time the ball was pressed very well and did not hit another high shot.

But Weidenfeller once again performed bravely. He pounced sideways and blocked Schweinsteiger's heavy shot out of the baseline with both fists!

"Schweinsteiger—Weidenfeller! World-class save! During this period, Bayern Munich's offensive was very fierce, and Dortmund's goal was in danger..."

Many people couldn't help but have the idea in their minds when they saw this scene—if this continues, Bayern Munich's goal may come soon...