Chapter 143: Overtaking
Spalletti was in a bad mood. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Roma conceded a goal, Inter Milan scored, and the situation couldn't have been worse. He can imagine what Inter fans would look at at the Stadio Olimpico, the home stadium of Lazio, which is the same stadium as Roma, when they saw the words "Parma 1:1 Roma" displayed on the screen.
Totti's face is not very good, he really wants to be able to play, but he has not fully recovered from his injury and he can't play 100 per cent.
Roma are still carrying out their previous tactics, putting the defence first. Although the score became a draw, there was one less person on the field, so they didn't dare to attack aggressively, so they could only stabilize the situation first.
De Rossi handed the ball to Tadei, who knocked Pizarro back, Pizarro gave it to Guberti, who then passed it back to De Rossi. After a few passes in the midfield, the ball returned to square one.
Roma's players were very cautious, Parma's players were not in a hurry to press, they didn't care too much about the score, even if it was a draw at home.
Roma can't accept it, and they can only win to have a glimmer of hope of winning the title. De Rossi has been on the back foot with his team-mates in midfield, rarely getting the ball up front, and Parma has not been in the midfield to let them pass and receive the ball.
Perhaps Parma's squad was a little looser, allowing Roma to find a gap. De Rossi passes through to Vucinic, who is in an offside position. Parma's defenders raised their hands, only to find Vucinic standing still and not involved in the attack, so De Rossi's pass was not offside.
Guberti came out from the wing, received the ball and ran all the way, Vucinic, De Rossi, Tadei, Pizarro flanked in the middle, Parma thought he was going to cross the box, but he knocked the ball back to Tadei, who was on the line of the penalty area, and there was not a single Parma defender between him and the goal, only goalkeeper Mirante.
Tadei shoots.
The ball hit the goal in a straight line, and he used a powerful volley in the middle of the instep of his right foot, which was extremely powerful, but the disadvantage was that the flight path of the ball was too obvious and not deceptive, unless the angle was very tricky, otherwise it could only give the opposing goalkeeper a false alarm.
Mirante was taken aback, but fortunately Tadei shot too right, and he also saved the ball without danger, but the ball was not out of bounds, and Roma could continue to attack.
De Rossi made a follow-up shot and hit Morrone, Vucinic added another shot and was blocked by Parsi, and Pizarro tried to make up for a third kick, but Mirante was quick and held the ball in his arms.
At this moment, De Rossi, Vucinic, and Pizarro were on their knees, holding their heads in their hands, all frustrated that they couldn't kick the ball in. Spalletti slapped his palms hard, and his mouth was still broken and he didn't say anything.
De Rossi and Vucinic left Mirante powerless, but the rest of Parma's squad followed suit to say 'no' to Roma's goal. Although the outcome of the game has little impact on Parma, it is impossible for the opponent to watch them shoot when they are close to goal, and they still have to block it, which is the spirit that a professional player should have.
The game then fell into an inexplicable dullness, with less than ten minutes left at the end of the first half, Parma did not rush to attack, and Roma were careful with one man missing, always afraid of being attacked at the back. In stoppage time, De Rossi fired an anti-aircraft gun with a long-range shot. It was the only shot on goal in two minutes of stoppage time.
The score of the two teams in the first half was temporarily 1:1. Lazio and Inter Milan, who played at the Stadio Olimpic, also ended with Inter Milan leading Lazio 1-0 for the time being.
In the dressing room in Rome, Spalletti criticised Mex's lack of coolness. Mex's was wronged, and his red card was for the sake of the team. It's just that he didn't expect that the free kick he let Parma get pry open the door of his team, if Parma didn't score, then Mexes could be regarded as a hero, but unfortunately Parma scored, then his red card was very worthless.
Spalletti needed to change his formation, and he removed Pizarro for Baptista. He wanted to change Totti, but after careful consideration, he gave up on the idea. He used powerful centre-forward Baptista to attack Parma's backline and create chances for the likes of Vucinic and De Rossi.
After this adjustment, Roma's formation in the second half will become "3-3-3", no way, one less person will make the formation very strange.
Guidolin didn't demand too much from his players, and there were no changes to the formation and personnel. He just asked everyone to play the way they did in the first half. It's okay to keep the tie, and it doesn't matter if you lose, as long as the ratio is too outrageous.
The fifteen-minute break passed quickly, and the second half began. Roma's three defenders marked Parma's three forwards, one against the other, and Tadei in midfield defended Li Mu and tried not to let the Chinese midfielder get the ball. The rest of the team went back and forth between offense and defense. Spalletti's idea is wonderful, but the reality is too harsh.
In the first ten minutes, everything was in line with Spalletti's tactics, with three defenders guarding Zhang Shujie and Taddai also having a heart for Li Mu. However, one mistake changed Rome completely.
Even he didn't know why he slipped, and of course Li Mu wouldn't be friendly enough to pull him up during the game, just dried-with the ball himself, and let Tadei struggle to get up from the ground.
Li Mu, who was dribbling the ball, was unguarded, and Roma couldn't find anyone to take care of him, after all, they only had ten people to fight. For a while, Li Mu easily took the ball to the edge of the penalty area, and at this time Tadei rushed over from behind him. However, Li Mu had already passed the ball, and Tadei watched the ball float towards the penalty area, eager to grow a pair of wings and fly up to intercept the ball.
Mex's departure and the defense of Zhang Shujie was Juan, the Brazilian defender's header skills did not seem to be very good, and he fell behind in the battle with Zhang Shujie, but he was lucky, Zhang Shujie headed the ball to the back of his head, and the ball bounced out and bounced at Palowski's feet.
The ball was an accident, Paloski was not prepared enough to cushion the ball in time, so the ball bounced back and happened to bounce back to Zhang Shujie.
Zhang Shujie took the ball with his back, stepped on the ball, turned around again, and then changed his foot to pull the ball back, and opened up the distance between him and Juan, and his face changed from his previous back to Juan to facing head-on. Juan was a little annoyed that the Chinese kid was playing footwork in front of him, a Brazilian.
Juan was about to grab the ball, Zhang Shujie knocked the ball diagonally and knocked it to Li Mu, who had just stepped into the penalty area. Goalkeeper Doni was ready to prevent him from shooting.
Li Mu didn't shoot, he hit his heel and the ball slipped between Tadeyi's legs, Palowski went to grab the spot, but couldn't reach the ball, and the ball rolled down his feet into the far corner.
Doni dropped the goal and ran to save the ball, he thought he could hold the ball, but Gallopa appeared in his field of vision, and it was unguarded!
Gallopa in the penalty area was unguarded!!
That's the tragedy of one less person. It's not that Roma don't want to defend, it's that they really don't have enough men. It wasn't a mistake on the part of Rome, it was just that they were too busy to take care of it.
Gallopa got up and hit the goal, Doni panicked, instinctively lifted his hands and feet, and the ball hit his leg and didn't go into the net. Had it not been for his early strike, Gallopa might have scored.
The ball bounced twice on the ground, but it didn't jump out of bounds and jumped into the middle of the six-yard box. This is the place with the most people, and Doni scolded in his heart: "It's not good to play anywhere, you have to play here." ”
There was a lot of confusion in front of Roma's goal, and now these professional players have lost their standard kicking movements and are just subconsciously poking the ball. Roma wanted to kick the ball outside the box, Parma wanted to kick it inside the goal. The fans in the stands couldn't see how many people were kicking or how many kicks the ball had been kicked. Shen Hao suddenly felt something: "That ball is really pitiful. ”
In the chaos of the army, I don't know who stabbed the ball into the gate at the end. The Roma players were stunned, and then Parma's players ran to the stands in droves.
"Goooooooooal!!Parma overtook the scoreline!Roma, who were only ten people present, were punished!Let's see who scored the goal!Ahhh Scoring in such a scuffle, it can only be said that Lanzafame is too lucky!"
Lanzafame's seventh league goal of the season is behind and only one less than Palowski and Zhang, making him the third-highest scorer in the game. Parma's fans gave him a round of applause and, to be fair, Lanzafami have been in great form in the last two months, scoring five goals in six games and deserving applause.
Spalletti was upset, very upset. He glanced at the big screen, and there were no other scores played below, indicating that Inter Milan was still ahead, and presumably Inter Milan had already seen the information that Rome was lagging behind at this time. Spalletti couldn't hold his breath anymore, he turned to look at Totti and told the old captain to warm up.
Totti's appearance in the warm-up area made the on-site commentators pay more attention: "Totti is warming up, it seems that Spalletti still needs him to improve the momentum of the Roma players, we all know how important Totti is to Roma." ”
Spalletti couldn't help it. He originally thought that he could make De Rossi the second leader after Totti, but now it seems that De Rossi still can't compare with Totti in terms of temperament.
After a five-minute warm-up, Totti came on in place of Pizarro. The Roma fans in the stands immediately exclaimed, in their eyes, Totti was not just the captain of Roma, but more like a savior. But whether Totti, who is injured, can play his best, has to be questioned.
That question was quickly answered, as Totti's first touch was out of control and was almost tackled by Gallopa, only to be met by De Rossi and blocked by Morrone.
Fortunately, Totti was experienced and rubbed the ball to Tadei, who passed to the front, but the three strikers did not fight for the ball, and Pasi pushed the ball back and was grabbed by De Rossi.
Totti's injury has had a big impact on him, but as the absolute leader of the team, as long as he is on the field, it is a spur to the players. The Roma attack picked up somewhat, and three effective attacks were launched in the next ten minutes, but all of them died at the goal.
Spalletti grew more and more anxious, and the minutes ticked by. Lazio haven't scored yet, and the team is behind again. He kept pacing back and forth in front of the dugout to relieve the tension in his heart.
Roma's players are also in a bit of a hurry, and they will have to score at least two more goals if they want to win. But the game has been played for more than 70 minutes, and the team is thundering and raining, and the offensive has no goals. Parma, on the other hand, several attacking players have not been seen as often during this period, but that doesn't say anything. Parma are ahead of the scoreline and not burdened, so the mentality of the players is naturally better.
Zhang Shujie roamed in front, and so far he has had three shots on goal, but none of them have scored. Although the first two goals have a lot to do with him, he is a striker and only the goal is the most convincing. He is also slowly looking for opportunities to break his five-game goalless drought. He had already seen the most fatal point, and Rome was starting to get impatient.