Chapter 231: From Draw, to Victory, and Defeat
The first half ended with Lazio leading Parma 1-0, and in the fifteen minutes of the break, Colomba decided to let Morrone continue to defend in the midfield position first, and try to get involved in the attack as little as possible, and if it really didn't work, then consider other variables. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
It seems that Colomba is going to use Morrone as Gattuso.
Colomba is also a little helpless, who calls the team only six defenders, and the ability is still only average, and the tactical changes at the back are also affected by this, and the changes are only like that.
In the second half, Parma continued the style of the first half towards the end, and Lazio seemed to see some doorways, and Colomba's fear of conceding the ball and the limited attacking investment also gave Lazio the opportunity to attack. The Blue Eagles abandoned their counter-attacking strategy and, after ten minutes of probing, gradually launched an offensive.
Zarate received Hernanes' cross from six yards out and fired a header that Mirante didn't save, but neither did Salat get in and the ball flew over the crossbar.
It was a dangerous goal, Parma were lucky not to concede a goal, but I don't know how long that luck will last.
Three minutes later, it was Zarate who appeared in front of Parma's goal, this time it was a direct pass from teammate Mauri, Salat stopped the ball before Paletta, and in the face of the newly attacked Mirante, Zarate wanted to play a near corner, Mirante's judgment was wrong, and he pounced on the other side.
But the ball didn't roll into the goal, Satra's shot kicked to Paletta's foot and bounced to the corner of the small penalty area, Brockie saw the ball jump towards him, rushed forward and stabbed it, because the distance was too close, Mirante couldn't save even if he reacted, he symbolically raised his hand, and the ball flew into the goal from his feet.
Brocki began to celebrate, but was surprised to see that his team-mates did not run up, and he also saw two of Parma's centre-backs raise their arms. He understood what was happening, and he looked at the linesman, and sure enough, the linesman raised his flag and the referee blew his whistle.
It was an offside goal and the goal was nullified. Once again, Parma escaped.
Sixty-five minutes into the game, Parma were still 1-0 down, and Colomba looked up at the big screen from time to time to get a glimpse of the scores of other games. Cagliari and Cesena, who are on the edge of the relegation zone with Parma in the table, have yet to score, and the score of both games is 0-0, and Colomba is hoping that these two teams will lose quickly so that Parma will have more hope of staying out of the relegation zone.
Five minutes later, Hernanes' long-range shot from outside the box was blocked by Morrone with his body, and Giovinco grabbed the ball and played a long ball to Zhang Shujie.
Zhang Shujie quickly fell into the encirclement, he had to knock the ball to Li Mu, and ran forward by himself, Li Mu picked it over the top, and the ball fell directly to Zhang Shujie's feet. He was on the edge of the penalty area, he controlled the ball, shook off Dias, who was wrapped around him, and fired a left-footed shot from the left side of the penalty area, which was so powerful that Muslera struggled to save the ball out of bounds. Parma won the second corner of the game.
It was still Qiao Wenke who took the penalty, Zhang Shujie shook in front of him, and Li Mu jumped up and fought for the top at the back point, the part was very accurate, and the angle was also very tricky, but Muslera played exceptionally at this moment and magically resolved the crisis in front of the goal.
The ball bounced off the lintel and jumped above the net, and Parma got another corner.
This time it was at the other end, Giovinco drove the ball to the back point, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu did not fight for the ball, and the ball crossed the entire penalty area with internal rotation and fell towards the outside of the bottom line.
The Lazio players basically gave up grabbing the ball, thinking that the ball would fly directly out of the bottom line, and even the Parma players felt that the corner kick had not landed. But Zaccardo scurried in, hooked his foot and hooked the ball back just as he was about to go out of bounds.
Parma didn't have many attacking chances, so it goes without saying how important set-pieces were to them, and Zacardo saved the corner that was out of bounds and the Parma team was back in first-tier form.
Zacardo picked the ball to Li Mu, who paused slightly, slammed his right heel diagonally in, and the ball passed between Biava and Brocki and leaked into the penalty area. Giovinco took a few steps and volleyed hard with his foot up, the angle was a little right, and the ball hit Muslera's chest and blocked back into the six-yard box.
Zhang Shujie on the other side suddenly started. It was a rare chance for Parma to shoot and the defence would have been a little slackening in a situation like this, but only for a moment. And the duel between striker and defender is often in this moment.
With the start of Zhang Shujie, Dias also chased after him, but he was half a beat slower than Zhang Shujie, in a place of right and wrong in the forbidden area, even if it was a little slower, something would happen. Muslera saw Zhang Shujie rushing over, and hurriedly pounced on the ball, trying to confiscate the ball before Zhang Shujie could shoot, but he, like Dias, was half a beat slower.
Zhang Shujie pushed a left-footed shot, and the ball hit the post and flew into the bottom left corner of the goal. Muslera in front and Dias in the back knocked him down, and the three of them twisted together and fell on the turf.
It hurt a little bit, but it was worth it. Zhang Shujie took Dias's leg away, pushed away Muslera who was pressing on him, and then ran excitedly to the stands.
The teammates ran behind him, and many players on Parma's bench also ran towards Zhang Shujie, Manzo also ran over, and even the head coach Colomba ran to Zhang Shujie's side, hugging him regardless of his image. It was a timely goal for Colomba and for Parma as a whole, and now the clock is in the 78th minute, and if you keep it a little better for the rest of the time, then Parma will hopefully leave the Stadio Olimpican with a point.
Chen Hui applauded and looked at Shen Hao: "Parma's two main competitors don't seem to have scored yet, right?"
Cagliari 0:0 Brescia, Cesena also drew with Palermo at the moment. ā
"Keep this scoreline and Parma's position in the table won't change. "Chen Hui doesn't want Parma to fall into the relegation zone, and if Zhang Shujie and Li Mu don't see Zhang Shujie and Li Mu in Serie A next season, they will receive a lot less attention in China.
Shen Hao looked at him and suddenly remembered something: "Chen Hui, you haven't answered the question I asked you before. ā
Chen Hui was stunned: "You ask me a lot of questions, which one do you mean?"
"It's whether you go to Germany to meet the ......?"
"Okay, let's not talk about that, let's watch the game. ā
"I care about you. Hey, tell me, are you looking for a chick?"
Chen Hui glanced at him and refused to speak, but said, "Hurry up and watch the game!"
For Parma, if they can draw with Lazio away from home, Colomba can still accept it. He believes that the club's president, Giraldi, is also acceptable, with a team in 16th place and a team in fifth place in the league drawing a score, a score that any coach and owner can accept.
Lazio can't accept it, and it doesn't matter to them whether Parma can be relegated or not, they just want to be able to qualify for next season's Champions League. Lazio last qualified for the Champions League in 2006/2007, when they finished third in the league and will be looking to return to the competition this year.
So they have to win, they have to win against Parma on their home turf!
With about 15 minutes left in the game at most, including stoppage time, Lazio wanted to score another goal, and if it could be achieved, the win would have been sealed. But Parma won't let their ideas get their way easily.
The two teams began to make frequent substitutions, with Colomba bringing on Calvo and Candreva for a draw, and Lazio replacing Bilawa and Mauri with Fronika and Kozak. One team is the main defense, and the other team is the main attack.
Zarate is very hardworking, he is not only Lazio's starting striker, but also the leading striker, he has played 30 games for Lazio, most of them as a main player, but he only has a pitiful six goals. His last goal came in the 25th round, and if he can't score in this round, his goal drought will reach seven in a row.
So he was desperate to score a goal and break his goal drought.
In the 87th minute, he received a pass from Hernanes and grabbed the goal four meters in front of the goal, so close to the goalkeeper usually has no choice, but Zarate is not good at playing anywhere, he has to kick the neutral post. Even with the ball bouncing back at his feet, his follow-up shot failed to open Parma's door.
He kicked too wide.
It was Zarate's best chance of the game and Lazio's best chance. Unfortunately, the score was not rewritten, it was still 1:1, until the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, and the score of the two teams was still 1:1.
Parma held a strong Lazio to a draw away and exited the Stadio Olimpico with an away point. The owners of the club had no objections to this result, especially after knowing that Cagliari and Cesena did not win, Parma did not drop in the standings, and Giraldi did not say much.
It's just that the process of the game made the big boss not too satisfied. The draw with Lazio in this game mostly relied on luck, but luck is not always there. Colomba also admitted that he also took the initiative to say that his tactical arrangement of the team is not very good, and he will make some improvements in the next game.
As for what went wrong with his tactics, the players could probably guess it. In the match against Lazio, captain Morrone barely stepped into the 30-metre zone at the back of the Blueeagles in the second half. Morrone may not be a strong attacking midfielder, but he is not bad at attacking midfielders, having scored six league goals in a season with Livorno, which is not a small number for a midfielder, and not every midfielder can score a dozen or twenty goals in a season like Frank Lampard, Gerrard or Ballack.
Colomba has allowed Morrone to focus on defence, and there is a bit of a violent feeling in this tiny Palmari. Colomba will have to re-plan for the next round against Inter Milan.
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Inter Milan have been on a run of momentum of late, winning five in a row in their last five games, and the Nerazzurri have moved up to second place in the table, leaving Napoli and Roma behind.
Parma's match against Inter Milan should have been more than lucky, but because Inter Milan's two strikers Milito and Eto'o were injured, Parma's defensive pressure has also been reduced a lot. However, the mainstream media is still more optimistic about Inter Milan, even without Milito and Eto'o, as well as Pandev and Sneijder.
Then the result was a surprise as Parma pulled off an upset with a 2-1 home win over Inter Milan. Li Mu opened the scoring for Parma and scored his 10th goal of the season, before Sneijder pulled a point back for Inter Milan and it was Morrone who regained the attacking power to score the winning goal for Parma.
Zhang Shujie didn't score, but Morrone's goal came from his assist. The team's victory over Inter Milan made Colomba finally decide to let Morrone join more in attack rather than blindly defensively.
The beating of the Nerazzurri was something that made Colomba happy, and Giraldi praised him, saying that he was good, better than Marino. Colomba listened very comfortably, but did not say it in his mouth, only said that he hoped to continue to lead the team to victory.
But in the 34th round, Udinese, who had a full lineup, taught Parma's defense a good lesson. In this campaign, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu faced the old coach Guidolin again, this time the two did not show the level they should have, and they could even be said to be a little sluggish. Zhang Shuming played 70 minutes and only had two shots on goal, and Li Mu only had a pitiful one. The absence of the two main attackers also caused Parma to attack weakly, and the team fell behind 0:3 after only half an hour of play.
Later, it was Bodinov, Palladino, and Amaury who scored in 20 minutes, and Amaury assisted his teammates twice. Unfortunately, in the end, Udinese scored the game-winning goal through Di Natale and beat Parma 4-3 at home.
This is an out-and-out goal battle, but it has nothing to do with Zhang Shujie and Li Mu. The Italian media also gave both men a low post-match rating, neither of which passed. Amaury, who had the second highest score in the game, took the opportunity to express his hope of getting more opportunities to play through the local media.
Chen Hui was worried that the domestic media would listen to the wind and rain, and speculated wildly, so he took the lead in publishing a report in the "Sports Weekly": "Zhang Shujie and Li Mu did not perform well enough in this round of the league, but no one can guarantee that they can play 100% in every game, and the sluggish state is inevitable for every professional player. ā