Chapter 115: The End of Undefeated
The game had been played for half an hour, and the players of both sides had repeatedly made the hearts of the opposing fans and coaches skip a beat, but after a moment, it turned out that it was just a false alarm. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Guidolin couldn't do anything about the supernatural events that took place, and the players got a lot of chances, but they were always off target. In the 35th minute, Zhang Shujie and Palowski failed to score with two shots, and Zhang Shujie's ball was blocked by Contini on the goal line. You must know that the goalkeepers have "surrendered" at that time.
Guidolin secretly cursed: "Damn Contini!"
Until the end of the first half, neither side scored a goal, the score was still 0:0, and after a fifteen-minute break, the second half continued.
Judging from the first half, the offense of the two teams was evenly divided, and the overall performance was very good, but they were a little bit unlucky, and I don't know if the head coaches of both sides will have other tactical arrangements.
Guidolin told everyone to keep attacking and not to lose their prestige by missing a couple of shots in the first half, they lacked nothing, they just weren't lucky enough. Donadoni also asked his disciples not to stop attacking, he thinks that the players are very smooth, but unfortunately they are not very lucky, as long as they are a little more lucky in the second half, they will definitely score.
In the second half, the two sides changed sides and stood again, because the two managers called the players to attack in the fifteen minutes of midfield, so at the beginning of the second half, the two teams actually played against each other.
Italian style of football is generally conservative, unlike the back-and-forth between the two teams that you can see in the Premier League, where one team finishes attacking and the other strikes back. The most typical example of this is the 2003 Champions League final, in which two Italian teams, AC Milan and Juventus, played 120 minutes to a 0-0 scoreline, which was the only game in the history of the Champions League without a goal, and the two teams were ultimately decided by penalty shootouts.
In Serie A, small scores such as 1:0 and 2:1 are often seen, but in recent years, there have been a lot of improvements, and there are many large-score games, mainly because in recent years, world football has played offensive football, everything is mainly offensive, and Serie A, as one of the world's "five major leagues", is gradually developing towards this trend.
Today, the two teams that met at the Tardini Stadium combined for six shots in the first fifteen minutes of the second half, an average of less than three minutes, to watch the fans get hooked. The fly in the ointment is that there are still no goals.
Guidolin was a little anxious, the players hit the goal frame with a total of four shots in this game, could it be that God is really not on Parma's side?
He plans to change another striker, this is in his home stadium, if he can't open the situation for a long time, I am afraid that he will be ashamed of the fans on the scene.
Just when Guidolin turned around and was about to warm up Biabiani, he suddenly heard the fans at the scene screaming loudly, he turned to look, only to see Li Mu a 50-meter long pass close to the ground, tearing apart the Napoli defense, Palowski got a single knife in the anti-offside position, and went straight to the penalty area with the ball.
Zhang Shujie, Li Mu, and Morrone covered around Paloski, and Napoli defended all the way. Before Palowski arrived in the big penalty area, goalkeeper DeSantis had already attacked, and at the same time Contini was close to him, Palowski panicked and chose to hit the goal directly outside the penalty area, DeSantis reached out and lifted the ball into the air.
The trajectory of the ball had deviated from the goal, but before it was out of bounds, Parma's attack did not end, Zhang Shujie came out of the diagonal ground and ran towards the ball.
DeSantis, who fell to the ground, had no time to make amends, and Napoli defender Campanelo hurriedly stepped forward to block the eye with his body, but Zhang Shuwei's feet moved very quickly, he stretched his legs, and with a flick of his foot, the ball passed through the side of Campagnaro's body and flew into the goal.
"Goooooooooal!" Parma finally broke the deadlock in the 63rd minute! It was 18-year-old striker Zhang Shujie from China who scored the goal!" shouted the announcer. It's just that the fans are louder than him.
Zhang Shujie ran to the stands of his team's fans and listened to their cheers, and he enjoyed the feeling very much. His teammates ran over and surrounded him in the middle.
Chen Hui in the press gallery let out a long breath, he had been worried for more than an hour, Zhang Shujie finally scored.
Although this goal was not Li Mu's assist, it was also instigated by him from the midfield, and his long ball rolling from a distance of 50 meters was quite creative. Palowski received his pass and didn't score, and Zhang Shujie made a follow-up shot into the net. If Parma can win in the end, this ******** player will still be the hero of the team.
Shen Hao smiled: "It's not easy! It's not easy! It's really anxious to wait for this goal." ā
"Well, with that goal, it's going to be much easier next Tuesday's special issue of Football Weekly. ā
Guidolin smiled and slapped Manzo's palm, the two teenagers, doing better and better.
According to the playing style of the two, Guidolin put Zhang Shujie in the position of the second striker, under the cover of the center, he can give more space to play his technical and speed advantages, and Li Mu is according to Guidolin's requirements, constantly switching between the forward and shadow striker, so as to maximize his ability to pass and shoot. When necessary, there is no need to place a center in front of the two, they can cross each other, let Zhang Shujie play the role of "pseudo center", and Li Mu is ambushed behind him.
To put it simply, both of them are extremely comprehensive attackers, Zhang Shujie is stronger with one kick, and Li Mu has more overall vision. In the frontcourt position, they are equivalent to "free men".
Guidolin looked at the two of them, and after some time of training, the team's tactics could be customized around them. I just don't know if this little Parma will be able to keep them.
Napoli trailed by one goal and were not without chances to equalise and overtake with less than half an hour remaining. Donadoni started calling Dennis to warm up and make some adjustments to the formation.
Guidolin has not changed personnel for the time being, and he needs to wait and see.
Li Mu's shot was saved by DeSantis, and Napoli called for a substitution, and striker Dennis replaced midfielder Gargano. In this game, Gargano's performance was average, and his shadow was basically invisible in attack and defense, and Donadoni also replaced him, and according to tactical needs, it was time to add a striker at this time.
Napoli's formation changed from 3-5-2 to 3-4-3, and the formation alone was extremely aggressive. Sure enough, less than a minute into Dennis' play, he fired a powerful shot from the edge of Parma's box, Mirante scrambled to save the ball and Napoli won a corner.
The corner did not pose much threat to Parma's goal, Zenoni headed the ball out, but accidentally headed it to Hamsik, who met it with a kick that hit the goal like a cannonball, and the force was so great that Mirante did not react at all.
In the panic of the home fans, the ball flew over the crossbar and into the stands. Seeing that the ball was out of bounds, Mirante also suppressed his tense nerves.
Two minutes later, Napoli came on the attack, first Quagliarella's shot was blocked by Panucci, Ravic added a second kick, and Mirante held the ball firmly in his arms.
Parma wanted to take the opportunity to play a counterattack to extend the lead, Milante made a long pass, the ball fell in front of Zhang Shujie, at this moment he was about thirty-five yards away from the penalty area, Paolo Cannavaro leaned on his side and pulled and dragged him, Zhang Shujie protected the ball with his back, pulled back with his feet, and hooked again, surpassing half of the "copycat" Cannavaro. But although this Cannavaro is a "copycat", he is not exactly a parallel import, but he is also Fabio's younger brother, and he stretched out his feet and poked the ball out.
Contini and Palowski ran to grab the ball, and in the end it was Contini who got on the ball a step faster and passed it back to DeSantis.
This time, Zhang Shujie and Paul lost to their opponents in the duel, and Parma's attack came to an end. At this time, Napoli striker Paciola began to warm up again.
It was the seventy-fifth minute, and Napoli had to hurry up and attack. Quagliarella, Ravic and Dennis led a couple of attacking midfielders to lay siege to Parma's goal, but they were always a little short of scoring. In the space of five minutes, Parma had just one shot on goal, still from outside the box, compared to Napoli's four.
But Napoli have not given up yet, and Donadoni has replaced Paciola after the warm-up, so that Napoli have four strikers on the field. Guidolin also beckoned to Fontanero: "Go, warm up." ā
Napoli, with four forwards on the field, attacked more fiercely, Parma was suppressed for a while, the ball was always in their own half, Li Mu returned to the penalty area, Zhang Shujie also retreated to assist in the defense, only Palowski was still near the halfway line.
Chen Hui and Shen Hao also sweated for Parma's goal, which looked like they could concede at any time.
Guidolin survived five minutes in horror before signaling to the referee that he needed to make a substitution. The fourth official raised the LCD card, and Fontanero replaced Li Mu.
A defender replaced an offensive player, and Guidolin wanted to play defensively. Li Mu received a round of applause from the home fans after leaving the game, and although he did not score or assist, Parma probably would not have been able to tear apart the Napoli defence without his through ball.
Li Mu walked off the field, Manzo personally put on his coat, and Guidolin patted him on the back: "Young man, it's hard work, take a good rest." ā
Napoli will not give up on attacking just because Parma have an extra defender, and Donadoni still has a substitution in his hands, and this time he still gave it to the striker.
Guidolin didn't dare to show weakness, you want to attack me and let you attack, as long as you have that ability.
In the 85th minute, Napoli replaced Campagnano with 22-year-old Austrian striker Hove. Reduced the number of defenders to two, leaving only Cannavaro and Contini behind. Donadoni is going to give it a go.
Around the same time, Guidolin brought on de la Fiore and Strassell, replaced by Zhang Shujie and Gallopa.
When Zhang Shujie came off the field, the applause of the fans was even more enthusiastic, he was the hero of the goal, and the team was about to go unbeaten in six rounds, and the Chinese teenager contributed a lot.
Guidolin also patted the two of them, praised them a few words, and then asked them to rest on the bench.
The smile on his face tells people that he is in a very good mood. Parma formed an iron bucket formation, with the exception of Palowski, almost all the rest of the players blocked in the box, and Guidolin did not think Napoli could still score. Do you remember the group stage of the 2002 World Cup between South Korea and Japan, England vs. Argentina, which had a one-goal lead, won the game with this iron bucket tactic.
But Parma is not England, Napoli is not Argentina, and the course of any game is impossible to replicate.
In the 88th minute, Hamsik's shot from 20 meters outside the box was blocked by Castellini with his legs, and it was blocked at the feet of Ravitch, who lifted his foot and broke Mirante's 10-finger pass from six yards out.
1:1! Napoli pulled a goal back!
"Ravitch! It's Ravitch! He equalized in the 88th minute! If the score is maintained until full-time, then Napoli playing away should be acceptable!" The announcer's voice echoed in the stadium in the live broadcast room.
Donadoni clapped excitedly, the game was coming to an end, and it was finally a draw! But Donadoni was not satisfied, the team had five forwards, but only two defenders, he could not defend, he could only attack.
Guidolin looked at the score but was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head helplessly.
This is at home, and it is by no means good news that he was equalized at the last minute, and he somewhat regretted replacing Zhang Shujie and Li Mu in advance. However, Napoli's defense has only two defenders, and Parma pressed all over the line and may be able to overtake the score again.
He walked to the sidelines and cheered the players on: "Don't panic, there's still time." Plus there are about five minutes of stoppage time, so you hit the ball right away!"
Parma are on the back burner and they don't want to leave with a draw at home. Strassell and Palowski had two shots in quick succession that were blocked by defenders, and Mariga's follow-up shot was denied by DeSantis.
Donadoni shouted for DeSantis to kick off quickly, the Napoli players quickly pressed forward, Parma quickly returned to the defense, and the ball was grabbed by Hamsik after several struggles in the midfield.
The game went into stoppage time.
Three minutes of stoppage time is theoretically still hopeful, and it just depends on who of the two teams can take it.
Guidolin and Donadoni each looked at the field thoughtfully, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu's expressions were also very serious, and Shen Hao and Chen Hui in the press gallery did not look away, who can create a miracle? Or will there be no more miracles at all?
The home fans sang the team anthem, and the singing never stopped. The game was ready to be counted down, and the referee kept looking at his watch, and God knows when he would blow the whistle.
Napoli are still on the offensive and this could well be the last. Guidolin no longer wanted to win back, it was his substitution mistake, and he only wanted the eleven players on the field to hold on to the point.
But God didn't let him get his wish.
With his back to the goal, Ravitch had no chance to shoot and handed the ball to Hough, which the 22-year-old young striker gambled on, and the ball was in front of him without stopping.
Sometimes, fate is just that.
Hough didn't determine the goalkeeper's position when he shot at goal, it was completely blind, but the angle of the ball he shot was awkward, Mirante did his best, his fingers had already touched the ball, but unfortunately, the ball hit the bottom edge of the crossbar and bounced into the net.
All of a sudden, the voices of the home team's fans stopped. Gui Duolin, Zhang Shujie, Li Mu, as well as Chen Hui and Shen Hao, all looked at the ball in the goal. Guidolin looked up at the large LCD screen, which clearly showed Parma 1:2 Naples.
It's time for the game.