Blog 9: An Amazing football match

I saw the final of the UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations) Champions League on the morning of May 20th from 3 am to 6 am. You may not know what it means. I will make a comparison to explain it. If the winner of the World Cup is the best football team with players from the same country, the winner of UEFA Champions League is the best team with players from the same club. So the final is very important for football fans and the two teams actually gave us a great treat both in sight and in thought. The two teams were Bayern Munich and Chelsea. On their way to the final, they defeated many strong teams, such as Real Madrid and Barcelona at the cost of losing many important players, especially Chelsea. Four important players could not get on court, so the experts all thought that Bayern would win the match. Actually, they guessed most of the game correctly. Bayern controlled the match from the beginning to the end and they got a goal at almost the end of the match after wasting a lot of good chances to goal. After seeing the goal, I almost wanted to go to bed because Chelsea could hardly get any chances to goal. However, the scream of the football announcer told me that Chelsea had made a marvel that they drew the score at the end of the match. So I had to stay up. Actually, in the overtime, Bayern got a penalty, but Robben wasted it. After that, they had to play penalty to decide who the winner was. You can hardly imagine that four years ago, Chelsea was in the same situation, but they lost the shootout. However, this time, they won with great morale and confidence, though they did not have any advantages through the match. From the match, I know that even if you have great advantages, you are not bound to win the match. The one who can seize the few chances but not the one who wastes a lot of chances is the real winner. The one who drags himself out of the tragic history and cherishes today’s opportunity can win. Because of the persistence of Chelsea, it became the champion and made me go to sleep 1 hour later with a wonderful dream