Chapter 119: Francisco Totti
In the American NBA arena, there is a "wolf king" Garnett. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAlso in European football, there is also a wolf king, he is the prince of the Olympic Stadium and the king of Rome: Francisco Totti!
Foreign visitors to Rome may not know anyone here, but they must know who Totti is, otherwise they will not be welcomed by the locals. It is not difficult to imagine that Totti's position in the hearts of the Romans was exalted.
Roma are in a 4-4-2 formation, but it's more like a 4-4-1-1, Totti is not a traditional striker, he is in a midfield position, but his attacking power is comparable to that of a striker, and he also has to play the role of playmaking and has a beautiful pass. Looking at the technical characteristics alone, he is very similar to Li Mu. It's just that Li Mu's current reputation is probably less than one-tenth of Totti's.
Totti was paired with Vucinic, a striker who was not a prolific goalscorer, but manager Spalletti still put him in the starting line-up, the biggest reason being that Vucinic played well in key games and was dubbed by the media as "only scoring key goals". The game was crucial to Roma's ability to secure a fourth-place finish in the league before the winter break, and Spalletti decided to start Vucinic with another centre-forward, Baptista, as his replacement.
The four midfielders are Tadei, De Rossi, Pizarro and Guberti. Among them, De Rossi is known as the core of Roma's future and is the focus of the Roma team's training, and he will take over Totti's mantle in the future, but for now, De Rossi can only be said to be close to Totti technically, and he is still far from being a leader in temperament.
The back four are Motta, Mex, Juan and Reese, which is arguably Roma's strongest backline this season. The goalkeeper is Doni, who is of average fame, but has been selected for the Italian national team, and his strength cannot be underestimated.
In today's Serie A, this lineup can also be called "quasi-first-class". In contrast, Parma is much inferior, the biggest name in the team is actually Roma abandoned Panucci, followed by Paloski, who is only 19 years old, Li Mu and Zhang Shujie, who has not played, are not in the stream for the time being.
Parma's lineup is not very different from the past, the formation is 4-3-1-2, the two forwards are Palowski and Biabiani, who broke the goal drought in the last round, the forward is Li Mu, the three midfielders are Gallopa, Mariga and captain Morrone, the four defenders are Panucci, Pasi, Castellini and Zenoni, and the goalkeeper is still Mirante, who has performed well recently.
Córdoba had just recovered from injury, and Guidolin had him on the bench for the sake of conservatism.
Looking at the names of Parma's players, they are not as famous as the players in Roma.
After the start of the game, Roma launched wave after wave of attacks under the organization of Totti, tens of thousands of Roma fans at home loudly cheered for the players, with the cheers of the fans, the Roma soldiers had two threatening attacks in just five minutes. Fortunately, Mirante showed great courage and defended the goal behind him.
Guidolin was shocked in the coach's box, although he knew that the difference in strength would make his disciples play hard, but he did not expect that in the first five minutes Roma almost scored two goals, if this continues, let alone a draw, the team only loses one goal is good.
Morrone's pass to Li Mu was cut off by Taddai, who immediately handed the ball to Totti, who went to defend but was accelerated away by Totti and quickly distributed the ball to De Rossi.
Castellini is in charge of defense, De Rossi glanced at his teammates around him, all of them have been received in place, he is not entangled with Castellini, the ball is in the front court at the moment, and a little more sticky will delay the opportunity to attack for one more second.
He gave the ball to the unguarded Guberti, who didn't dribble the ball too much, and tried to pass Vucinić but couldn't, at which point Totti retreated a little, and Guberti handed the ball to Totti's feet again.
Panucci confronted him.
Before the game, Guidolin handed Totti to Panucci. Although Totti is not always active as a striker and prefers to drop back to get the ball, Panucci will pestering him whenever Totti goes up.
The two have been teammates for eight years, but today they meet as rivals. But whether it's Totty or Panucci, they won't be soft-footed. Panucci, in particular, wanted all the Romans to know that it was a wrong choice to give up on him in the first place.
The two knew each other very well, and neither dared to despise the other. Totti took two small steps, and Panucci followed closely, leaning his body against him and tugging at his jersey. Totti defended the ball, picked it up with his foot, and the ball flew to the right side of the penalty area.
Vucinic scrambled to shoot but his header was deflected wide by Pasi's interference. Guidolin, who was on the sidelines, looked at the time, eight minutes and thirty-six seconds, and less than nine minutes into the game, Roma had three shots on goal, and Parma had zero.
Guidolin sighed, strength!
Coincidentally, the announcer at the scene also talked about the problem of strength: "There is still a big gap between Parma and Roma, and the ball has been in the second half of Parma for nearly ten minutes. ”
The game entered the rhythm of Rome, Paloski and Biabiani in the front court did not get a chance, as long as they came back to help defend, Li Mu was also at the front of the penalty area, and his forward midfielder was about to be back during this time.
Zhang Shujie laughed helplessly after seeing it, in this half season, Li Mu often returned to the penalty area to participate in defense, and his defensive ability has been greatly improved. You must know that when he played in the high school league before, Li Mu never went to defense.
This can't be helped, this is in Serie A, it is a professional league, not a Chinese amateur high school league can be compared. In order to get a chance to play, a lot of players have to do things that they haven't done before.
In the 14th minute, Totti kicked a shot from 20 yards outside the penalty area, Mirante judged the right direction, but the ball hit the thigh of defender Zenoni in the middle of the flight, changed its trajectory and flew to the other side of the goal. Luckily, the ball refracted well and eventually hit the post and bounced out of bounds.
Guidolin was about to be scared out of his heart attack. At this time, Rome is in a small attack, Parma is pressed and beaten, if you can't hold this ** offensive of Rome, then Parma will be defeated like a mountain, and the goals will be lost one after another.
However, as long as they hold on, then the players can play a counter-attack or two in the interval between Roma's attacks.
As Guidolin expected, Roma's attack lasted about twenty minutes, and in those twenty minutes, Roma had five shots on goal, but Parma did not have one, and even the ball passed the half-court only twice.
Zhang Shujie watched the progress of the game, and was secretly glad that China did not broadcast this game tonight.
Twenty minutes later, Roma's attacking momentum gradually slowed down, and Parma gradually stabilized their position, at least not as they did in the first 20 minutes, even the strikers retreated to half-time. Guidolin walked to the sidelines and instructed the players to quickly take advantage of this opportunity to fight a wave of counterattacks.
Garopa and Mariga teamed up to steal the ball from Tadei's feet, frustrating Taddai's desire to pass the ball to Totti. Mariga, covered by Gallopa, got the ball down from the bottom of Morrone's feet and gave it back to Li.
In terms of the organization of the attack, who in Parma's squad could be better than this Chinese teenager?
Li Mu controlled the ball and saw his teammates pressing to the front court from different positions. Because this is a counterattack war, not a positional war, the overall offensive rhythm of the team in the counterattack is relatively fast, so Li Mu can't stick to the ball for too long, otherwise he will delay the best offensive opportunity, then the root of all the bane is here.
Fancy and unrealistic is not Li Mu's style, and his style of play is gorgeous and not procrastinating.
One and a half turned, Li Mu leaned on Pizarro, rubbed the inside of his right foot, the ball flew from the top of the heads of four people to the right side of the penalty area, Biabiani got the ball first, and passed the ball into the penalty area under the pressure of Reese.
Parma had five players in the penalty area to grab points, but Biabiani passed the ball a little reluctantly, the landing point was not good, was pushed out by Mex, Li Mu, who was running to the penalty area, followed with a kick, the ball rushed to the goal with grass clippings, goalkeeper Doni was well prepared, punched the ball to block, and then firmly held the ball in his arms.
In the twenty-fourth minute of the game, Parma finally made the first shot by Li Mu.
Doni kicked the ball off with a big foot, the ball went to the center circle, Morrone fought for the first point, and the second point was grabbed by De Rossi. De Rossi doesn't have to look for Totti first and foremost with the ball like other Roma players, as he doesn't have to do because he has the ability to organise attacks.
The Roma players started to press forward and Totti ran to the striker's position, with Panucci clinging to him. De Rossi took a look and did not give it to Totti, but to Guberti.
But Guberti made a rare mistake when he didn't stop the ball and stopped a little wide. Gallopa intercepted the ball and passed straight to Li Mu.
This is another counterattack! Roma's attack was intercepted halfway! Li Mu raised his eyes, did not dribble the ball, let alone stick to the ball, but suddenly made a long pass, and Paloski in the front court overtook Mex's position and stopped at the top of the arc of the penalty area until the ball was played.
He took a step into the penalty area, a figure appeared in his peripheral vision, he looked up, and Dhoni actually attacked! Palosky had just entered the penalty area, and Dhoni actually abandoned the goal!
Mexis was still behind Palowski, quietly tugging at the corner of his shirt, and Dhoni was blocking the angle of his shot. In a hurry, Palowski raised his foot to shoot, but because he missed the kick, the ball flew straight into the blue sky.
On Parma's bench, there was a sigh. Zhang Shujie frowned and was silent, he can't be blamed for the ball Palowsky's shot, Doni's bold attack was really surprising, Mexes was only half a step away from Palowsky, under the front and back attacks, Palowsky didn't hold his foot, and then put an anti-aircraft gun.
"Zhang. Manzo looked back and asked, "If it were you, how sure would you be that it would have been scored?"
Zhang Shujie pondered for a moment before saying, "It's hard to say. Sir you also know that there is no if on the football field. ”
Manzo smiled, he understood that Zhang Shujie was unwilling to answer this question head-on. In fact, this Chinese teenager is right, there is no if in football.
But he believed that Zhang Shujie had already seen that Palowsky was a little slower at the moment of starting, and if he could have been half a second faster, the result would probably have been different.
Manzo is very clear about this, and Li Mu on the field also saw it. And Guidolin, of course, he knew that Paloski's start was a bit slow, but he wasn't worried about that, he found that the players found the attacking touch, and that was the most important thing.
Two minutes later, however, Roma dealt him a heavy blow, and the key figure was none other than Totti.
Parma can play on the counter-attack, as can Roma. De Rossi received Doni's long ball and there were only Vucinic and Totti up front, but Tadej and Guberti had already stepped in from behind. De Rossi went straight to Settoti and played one of Parma's backs, and Panucci's disadvantage was also revealed.
At the age of thirty-six, three years older than Totti, Panucci is experienced in many battles, but as he gets older, his weakness of turning slowly will be exposed. It's not obvious when you're facing second-rate strikers, but against someone of Totti's level, it's a big problem.
De Rossi's pass passed through the left side of Panucci's body, Totti ran from his right and ran towards the front, Panucci turned behind him, and Totti was already a metre away.
Similar to Palowski's previous situation, this is also a single knife. It's just that the guy who got this opportunity now is called Francisco Totti.
Totti dribbled into the box and Panucci chased after him, but was always a little bit off. Mirante came out to block the angle, and as soon as Totti saw him come out, he toe and the ball went over Mirante's raised hands, jumped on the goal line, and hit the net.
"Gooooooooooal!Francisco Totti!He gave Roma the lead in the 28th minute! It was a very clever shot that Mirante couldn't do anything about it!" shouted the announcer in the live room.
The home fans chanted Totti's name. Roma had five unsuccessful shots on goal, with Totti finally breaking the deadlock with a sixth shot.