Chapter 661: Offensive Football (Asking for a Monthly Pass)

"Wow! What a danger!!How dangerous! Rome almost broke the deadlock! The appearance of Kolo Toure defused the danger!" exclaimed the narrator.

Joe Hart then shouted at Kolarov with some anger, and just now Kolarov mixed at his feet, and was broken through by Burdisso, which led to this danger in front of Manchester City.

Kolarov knew that his side had not been able to defend against Burdisso this time, so he waved his hand, signaling that it was his own problem and that he would pay attention to it later.

Kolarov tripped on the field, causing a dangerous situation in front of the Manchester City team, and Mancini also tripped in the coach's box on the sidelines, which was scared, if Roma scored first, it would be a major blow to the Manchester City team.

The Stadio Olimpico in Rome was thunderous with joy, it was Roma who were on the attack, and Manchester City's clearance did not completely end Roma's attack, and they attacked again after the half-time break.

Borriello controls the ball in the box.

The Italian international, who was produced by the AC Milan Academy but has been wandering outside, beautifully deducted Manchester City defender Colo Toure, and then dodged the angle and volleyed!

The football was subconsciously blocked by Joe Hart with his legs.

Gareth Barry, who returned to his own penalty area, kicked the ball forward!

"Gareth Barry – clearance – no – wait! this is a counter-attack! this is City's chance!"

The Roma team was pressed in an all-round way just now, and at this time they suddenly switched from attack to defense, and their defense line did not have time to retract in time.

Gareth Barry's big foot cleared the ball in front and was pushed back by the Roma player, but De Jong gave the ball to Yaya Toure!

Yaya Toure dribble,

Seeing that the Roma team's backline was still returning to defend and did not organize an effective defense in time, he passed the ball directly and made a long pass.

The ball flew to the side!

There, Dzeko stopped the ball, and in the face of the Roma defenders who came up in a hurry to press, he made a move to break through with the ball, tricked the opponent into coming up and breaking the ball, dunked the ball back, and then flashed out of the space and passed the ball.

In front of the Roma penalty area!

Yang Fan ran forward as early as when Gareth Barry cleared the ball.

At this time, he had just rushed to the front of the penalty area!

Dzeko's pass was touched by Burdisso and jumped up, which made Yang Fan have to stop and adjust the ball after catching up with the ball, which gave Roma defender Mexes time to come up.

However, Yang Fan noticed that Mex's small door was relatively wide, and he cleverly stabbed directly with his toes, and the football rolled between Mex's legs and rolled towards the goal.

The shot was a stealthy shot, with the only drawback being that the ball wasn't fast enough, which gave Roma goalkeeper Doni time to counter-attack, reaching out to block the ball and then reacting quickly to pounce on it again.

Yang Fan waved his hand a little depressedly, when he stabbed just now, Mex's reaction was also fast, and he subconsciously put his legs together and rubbed against the football, which is also a reason why the football ball speed is not fast enough, which also gives Doni the reaction time to save.

Ranieri was taken aback and relieved to see Doni hugging the football.

After Doni grabbed the football, he got up and rushed straight to the edge of the penalty area, and a big foot drove the ball out, and the Roma team also had to play a quick counterattack.

Tadei, who was dribbling the ball, drove straight in, and De Jong had no choice but to foul and pull his opponent to the ground.

It was a tactical foul and the referee unceremoniously showed a yellow card.

Seeing that De Jong ate the card, Mancini shook his head helplessly, as the defensive barrier of Manchester City's midfield, De Jong carried a yellow card, which will have an impact on the later games. Of course, this time defending, De Jong's tactical foul was also necessary.

Roma free-kick in front.

Tadei's set-piece found Borriello in the box, the Italian striker's header rubbed the ball to the back post, and De Rossi jumped up to head the goal, but the ball hit the defender and bounced out.

Mancini was stunned when De Rossi's header hit the goal at the back post, he thought it was inevitable to lose the goal, and only wiped the sweat from his forehead when he saw the ball blocked by Kompany's body.

The Roma fans were unfortunate to jump straight to their feet, De Rossi's header was very threatening, but they didn't expect to be blocked by Kompany in that position.

With two away goals in their 2-2 draw away from Manchester City, Roma could have scored early in this game, then the balance of promotion would have tilted in favour of the hosts.

Soon Manchester City's attack on Roma was still in color. David Silva organises the attack in the middle. He didn't choose to dribble himself in the face of De Rossi's marking, but quickly distributed the ball to Zabaleta on the wing and then cut forward himself. Zabaleta passed the ball back to him and made a one-two.

De Rossi is still following David Silva.

David Silva made a feint to pass to Zabaleta, but he snatched the ball to Yaya Toure behind him.

Yaya Toure received a clever pass from David Silva and dribbled twice laterally to draw the attention of the Roma defence before distributing the ball to the wing.

There, Gareth Barry received the ball and, as soon as he took two steps forward, he saw an interceptor, Roma full-back Norwegian Reese.

Reese's defense was in place, and Gareth Barry couldn't break through for a while. He pulls the ball and waits for his team-mates to run.

Dzeko knew what Gareth Bari was going to do. So he ran diagonally to the side to answer, Gareth Barry passed straight behind Reese, Roma's central defender Juan was pulled to the side by Dzeko, Dzeko got the ball first, he didn't continue to dribble, but took advantage of Juan's lack of pasting up and not blocking his angle, and directly crossed!

The pass was headed back by Roma defender Burdisso.

Gareth Barry jumped up and he gave the ball to David Silva and the ball was still at the feet of the Manchester City team.

David Silva adjusted a little and passed the ball out.

This is where David Silva is better than Gareth Barry's passing ability, he did not blindly pass high balls like Gareth Barry, but made a smart pass of the bocce ball!

This is a very headache for the defender: because the ball is very fast, close to the ground, close to the goal, but there will be a certain risk if the goalkeeper attacks, so the goalkeeper generally does not dare to attack for the sake of conservatism, and no one in the defender dares to stretch out his feet to block, because the slightest lack will be self-promising.

This kind of passing is sure to cause chaos in front of the opposing goal. The Manchester City players wanted to finish the shot, while the Roma players held on to the City players and did not give them a chance to touch the football, and such a pass, as long as anyone touches the football, can lead to the loss of the ball.

Yang Fan watched the football coming, he shook his hand, and then rushed up with all his might, stretched out his foot and shoveled it!

It's a pity that Mex's helplessness grabbed him, so that he couldn't use his strength, and he could only watch the football slip in front of him.

Yaya Toure cut in and he fell to the ground to shoot, but he couldn't touch the football, but it also scared the Roma defenders.

Ranieri shouted anxiously from the sidelines, expressing his displeasure that his players had missed such a dangerous player as Yaya Toure.

Yang Fan raised his hands and signaled to the referee that Mexs had just pulled him, which should have awarded a penalty, but the referee ignored him.

Manchester City's sideline ball, De Jong quickly threw the sideline ball, Zabaleta got the ball, suddenly cut inside, flashed a shot space, and then directly shot at goal.

"Zabaleta!

Roma goalkeeper Doni pounced on that side as he hoped to block the shot. The ball swept under his right-hand side, much to Doni's surprise, and he thought it was going to go in, but he turned his head to look and saw the ball arc and hit the goal-side net. The goal didn't go in, it hit the side-netting, and if you spin a little more inside, it will be a goal around the post, and this time, the Roma team can be said to be in a big disaster.

There was a burst of exclamations and sighs at the Stadium Olimpico in Rome.

Thirty minutes into the first half, both sides still haven't been able to score, the offense of both sides is back and forth, so to speak, both sides of the offense are doing well, the defense is more average, the game has not scored so far, it can only be said that the luck of both sides is good, whether it is Manchester City or Roma, there are chances to score, but unfortunately the luck is a little worse.

Mancini glanced at his colleague Ranieri not far away, then returned to the dugout and sat down. As long as he didn't concede a goal in the first half, he was able to accept the result, and Mancini put the total attack time in the second half.

The knockout game is played first, and whoever makes fewer mistakes is more patient. Of course, if we can find a way to break the deadlock in this calm situation. That's even better.

The camera gives a close-up of Ranieri in the Roma dugout.

The Italian coach is a good man in football and a great coach, but unfortunately he is always unlucky.

It is widely accepted that Mourinho's success at Chelsea should be partly due to his predecessor Claudio Ranieri, who earned a reputation as the 'architect of the team' in the Italian and Spanish leagues before arriving in the Premier League. During his four years at Stamford Bridge, Ranieri also progressed through the ranks of his team, leading them to a fourth place in the Premier League in 2002/2003 and finishing second in the Premier League and a semi-final in the Champions League in 2003/2004——— Chelsea's best season in 49 years. Given the Italian a little more time, who's to say he doesn't have the ability to "pierce that layer of window paper"? Unfortunately, Abeu, who invested £110 million in players, has run out of patience, and Ranieri, a coach who has never won a league title and doesn't have much of a halo on his head, may not be the right man to coach "the best club in Europe" in the eyes of the tycoon. Anyway, the results are already in front of everyone. Ranieri was fired by Abu and read a book (

No matter how much the British media used to ridicule the English language of the Italians during Ranieri's four years in charge, by the time he left, almost everyone was filled with nostalgia for his humor, kindness and dignity. Reuters said on behalf of his country's counterparts: "Ranieri speaks Italian clearly, but his English has never been as good as Wenger and Houllier, but despite this, he has insisted on using English as the lingua franca of the club for four years." Behind this praise lies the British's recognition of Ranieri's "English coaching style". Today, people see that in the top three of the Premier League, the team that maintains the traditional "bulldog" momentum of the United Kingdom has become Chelsea, which not only absorbs many English players who are still playing in the Premier League, but also inherits the "fighting spirit" of English football. In this regard, Ranieri's credit cannot be erased. His efforts to combine English, Italian and Spanish football traditions have also paid off. As a result, Ranieri has earned the absolute support and respect of his players at a time when he is generally questioned by the club's leadership. In fact, many of the Chelsea players were supportive of Ranieri at the time, and the players showed great loyalty to the manager. England midfielder Frank Lampard once said: 'The players love and respect the coach. Unfortunately, there is always speculation about his departure. However, it makes us want to play the ball better for him. "With such support from the players, what more could Ranierife ask for!

Therefore, although the media always ridicules Ranieri as a firefighting coach, always builds a championship team, and then makes wedding dresses for others, the players still recognize this coach.