My Ultimate Gacha System-Chapter 315 - 303: Coppa Italia Final — Extra Time & Penalties

Chapter 315: Chapter 303: Coppa Italia Final — Extra Time & Penalties

Extra Time — Second Half**

**10:07 PM**

**106’ - 108’ |**

The second period of extra time begins with both teams moving at speeds that would have been unrecognizable during the opening ninety minutes, and passes that were crisp and precise in the first half now arrive half a yard off target because the legs relaying them don’t have the sharpness left to generate exact weight.

Milan keep possession through the first two minutes without attempting anything vertical because risking a turnover at this stage of the match requires more courage than they have left, and their circulation is patient and sideways while Atalanta track the ball without pressing aggressively.

In the hundred-and-eighth minute Demien receives near the center circle while Tonali closes from his right and Bennacer cuts off the forward passing lane to his left, and both midfielders arrive together because their positioning has been coordinated throughout the match.

He lets them come.

Both arrive expecting him to try and play through the pressure, and their body positions commit forward slightly because every previous time he’s received in this area he’s attempted to find a passing lane through their block.

He drags the ball backward with his sole.

「LEGENDARY SKILL ACTIVATED」

**Johan Cruyff — Turn Innovator**

His body pivots away from both challenges in the same motion, and the space that opens behind Tonali’s committed weight is brief but real, and Demien drives forward five yards into it before looking up while Scamacca makes a diagonal run from deep toward the channel between Kalulu and Tomori.

The through ball comes quickly but Tomori reads the passing line before Demien plays it and steps across to cut the pass off with his chest, and the interception is clean and immediate while Milan break forward with three against two.

Leão receives wide on the left while Giroud runs the central channel and Díaz supports from deep, and Tolói holds his position to prevent being beaten by pace while Scalvini covers the center, and when Leão’s pass goes to Giroud with his back to goal the striker lays it off first time toward Díaz arriving at the edge of the area.

Díaz strikes before the ball settles, and the contact is clean but the placement finds Musso in the correct position because he read the pass-and-shoot sequence before Díaz committed to it, and he gathers it against his chest without needing to dive while Atalanta recover their shape.

The chance comes and goes in seven seconds, and both teams return to their positions while the clock moves past the hundred-and-tenth minute.

**110’ - 113’ |**

The match stretches and compresses in the way games do when bodies are past the point of sustained effort, and gaps appear all over the pitch as defensive lines push forward while the midfielders trailing behind can no longer close the space quickly enough.

Atalanta find their chance in the hundred-and-thirteenth minute from Musso’s quick distribution, and the goalkeeper rolls the ball immediately to Hateboer on the right who knocks it forward first time into the channel behind Theo Hernandez who has pushed forward and left space in behind.

Lookman reads the ball’s movement before Hateboer plays it and he’s running before the pass is made, and when he receives he’s clear while Kalulu scrambles across from his central position and Maignan rushes off his line to close the angle.

Lookman takes one touch to control and adjusts his body while Maignan keeps coming, and the space between them shrinks fast and Lookman strikes while there’s still room to place it rather than waiting until there isn’t.

The shot is low and aimed for the near post but Maignan’s angle-closing has been relentless all night and his body fills the space correctly, and the ball strikes his standing leg rather than going past him, and it deflects out for a corner while Lookman stands with both hands pressed flat against the top of his head, staring at where the shot has gone.

His teammates arrive quickly and Koopmeiners puts a hand briefly on his shoulder without saying anything because there are no words for it, and the corner is taken while Atalanta push bodies into the area.

The delivery is headed clear by Giroud with authority, and Milan win the ball and keep it through the final minutes while the clock moves toward a hundred-and-twenty.

**Commentary Booth**

"Lookman again," the co-commentator says, and his voice carries something that isn’t quite disbelief but isn’t far from it. "One-on-one with the goalkeeper, strikes it well, and Maignan blocks with his leg. It defies logic at this point — Atalanta have done everything but put the ball in the net in extra time. Both keepers have been immense."

"The concentration Maignan has shown over a hundred-and-thirteen minutes is remarkable," the lead commentator adds. "Still reading the play. Still closing angles. You don’t win Coppa Italia finals by being ordinary in goal."

**114’ - 120’ |**

The final six minutes pass the way the last minutes of extra time always do when both teams know that penalties are waiting — with possession circulating carefully and neither side willing to overcommit to an attack that might leave them exposed to a counter.

Milan keep the ball through the hundred-and-sixteenth and hundred-and-seventeenth minutes in their own defensive third, and their passes go side to side across the back three while Atalanta’s press has no sharpness left because the legs running it have covered well over a thousand meters of intense movement across a hundred-and-seventeen minutes.

Atalanta try once more in the hundred-and-nineteenth minute when de Roon wins a header at the edge of the area and the ball drops toward Scamacca, but his first touch under pressure from Tomori is too heavy and Maignan claims it before it reaches a dangerous position.

Milan restart quickly and knock the ball sideways while the referee checks his watch with one hand raised.

The whistle comes.

Three long blasts.

**FULL TIME: ATALANTA 3-3 AC MILAN (AET)**

**PENALTIES**

Players from both squads lower themselves to the grass or crouch where they stand while the reality of it settles through one-hundred-and-twenty minutes of accumulated effort, and the penalty spot is thirty yards away from some of them and might as well be a different city for how far their legs feel right now.

The referee walks toward the center circle while both captains follow, and the coin toss happens quickly with the official pointing toward Musso’s goal at the southern end where the Atalanta supporters have been from the beginning.

Atalanta shoot first.

Gasperini moves through his group with deliberate calm while both hands stay in his jacket pockets, and his voice stays low enough that cameras on the perimeter can’t pick it up, and when he reaches the center of his players he looks around once before speaking.

"We’ve already made history," he says. "Now step up."

His eyes move across the squad. "Who goes?"

Koopmeiners speaks first. "Me."

De Roon follows. "Me."

Then Lookman. Then Demien. Then Ederson. The five are set, and Gasperini gives no further instruction because the five standing forward don’t need a speech.

Milan’s five are arranged on the opposite side of the pitch, and both groups walk toward the center circle where players not taking penalties will stand while the kicks are taken, and the stadium noise builds from a sustained roar into something that has no ceiling because sixty thousand people all understand what happens next.

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**PENALTY SHOOTOUT**

**Atalanta shoot toward the southern end**

**10:23 PM**

**KICK 1 — KOOPMEINERS**

He walks to the spot without rushing and places the ball down with both hands before taking seven measured steps backward, and his eyes go to the left corner while he settles into his run-up stance, and the stadium noise peaks while the referee raises the whistle.

The whistle blows.

His run is four steps, straight and unhurried, and the contact is clean with his instep driving low and hard toward the right corner while Maignan’s read takes him the other way, and the ball is inside the post before the goalkeeper’s dive reaches its full extension.

**GOAL.**

**ATALANTA 1 — MILAN 0**

Koopmeiners raises one arm and turns back toward the halfway line without celebration because there are four more kicks after this one and none of them have happened yet, and his teammates on the halfway line clap once but nobody jumps.

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**KICK 2 — MILAN (CALABRIA)**

He places the ball carefully and strikes left while Musso dives right, and the ball finds the corner cleanly and Musso’s outstretched glove doesn’t reach it.

**GOAL.**

**ATALANTA 1 — MILAN 1**

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**KICK 3 — DE ROON**

He stands over the ball for two seconds before his run comes short and direct, and he strikes toward the right corner with his instep while Maignan dives left, and the placement is clean.

**GOAL.**

**ATALANTA 2 — MILAN 1**

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**KICK 4 — MILAN (GIROUD)**

He places the ball and strikes down the middle while Musso dives right, and the ball passes through the space the goalkeeper has just vacated.

**GOAL.**

**ATALANTA 2 — MILAN 2**

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**KICK 5 — LOOKMAN**

He walks to the spot with the particular focus of someone who has a specific thing to correct, and the one-on-one with Maignan in extra time lives behind his eyes as he places the ball down and steps back, and his run is six steps with his approach angle slightly wider than the others.

He strikes hard to the left and the power is the difference — Maignan gets a hand to it but the pace drives it past his palm and into the side netting, and the net shudders with the impact.

**GOAL.**

**ATALANTA 3 — MILAN 2**

The Atalanta end roars while players on the halfway line grip each other’s arms.

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**KICK 6 — MILAN (TONALI)**

He places the ball and takes four steps backward, and his run is measured while both his body and his face stay composed because he’s taken penalties in big matches before and his technique shows it.

He strikes right.

Musso dives right.

The save is made with his right hand pressed flat to the ball, pushing it away from goal, and the ball strikes the inside of the post before spinning out across the six-yard box while Musso scrambles to his feet.

**MISS.**

**ATALANTA 3 — MILAN 2**

The Atalanta end is pure noise and movement while players on the halfway line grab each other and Musso raises his fist once while jogging back toward his goal, and the sound coming from the away section is different now — belief shifted into something approaching certainty.

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**KICK 7 — DEMIEN**

He walks from the halfway line while the noise builds around him and the referee waits near the spot with both hands in his pockets, and the pitch feels different from this angle because this is the goal he defended rather than attacked for a hundred-and-twenty minutes.

He takes the ball from the referee and crouches to place it on the spot, adjusting it once so the valve faces forward, and when he straightens he takes three steps back and one to the left before stopping.

Maignan is on his line bouncing while his eyes study Demien’s body for information, and the goalkeeper’s read of the match has been good enough to make everything difficult, and the space in the goal exists in both corners and down the middle while the decision sitting in Demien’s chest has been made before he left the halfway line.

The referee raises the whistle.

The stadium holds.

The whistle blows.

His run is short and direct, four steps, and his plant foot lands beside the ball while his right foot drives through it low and hard toward the left corner, and the contact is clean and firm and the placement is true, and Maignan dives toward the correct side but arrives after the ball has already passed him and struck the inside of the netting.