Chapter 285: A Date with the Blues
On the afternoon of September 16, Juventus challenged Genoa away, and Zhang Yuan sat on the bench. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Sitting next to him was the little brother Pogba, and that obnoxious Lucio.
Pogba has yet to get a minute of playing time this season, and in private he is still a little depressed, knowing that he came to Juventus for the sake of playing.
"You can tell Mr. Conte! In my opinion, you don't have to worry, it's just two games now, and I was on the cold bench last year! You take a good look first! Manchester United is not like Juventus! ”
Zhang Yuan told him these things while telling him some tactical secrets of Juventus, as well as some things on the Serie A field.
Juventus are now in control of Serie A, and many of the teams they play against are passive or active in a defensive position, and it is much more difficult for Juventus to win now than last season.
Conte doesn't pay much attention to Genoa at all, after all, Genoa is part of the relegation army.
Last season was a rocky one for Genoa, when it began with Malaisani in charge, who was sacked after a 6-1 defeat to Napoli and Marino took over the reins. Unexpectedly, on April 2 in the first half of this year, Marino was sacked due to poor results, and Malaisani returned to Genoa. As a result, Malaisani was dismissed again after 20 days. During that time, Genoa played three league games, drawing 1-1 at Novara, 1-1 at home to Cesena and 4-1 at home to Siena.
Genoa showed no signs of rebounding at all, and many of the players were forced to take off their shirts during the match against Siena, accusing the players of not being worthy of wearing Genoa's shirts.
Malaisani, of course, had no good fruit to eat, and was dismissed by the president of Genoa, Preciosi!
Then Preciossi invited Decanio to the stage, and the main thing Decanio did after taking the stage was to rectify the morale of the army, and the root cause of Genoa's problems was actually the players, and the fans asked them to take off their jerseys not to mess around.
Decanio's effect as a psychology teacher was very good, and Genoa finally returned to normalcy and finally succeeded in relegation.
In the first two games of this season, Decanio won one and lost one, scored four goals and conceded three.
Whether it is a 3-back system or a 4-back system, the latecomers are not very conservative in terms of style of play.
Of course, when they met the powerful Juventus today, they had to keep a low profile, the so-called people who know the times are handsome, and Decanio is not so stupid.
He sent a double center-forward combination in the front line today, Borriello and Immobile, and his attacking method is very simple to find a center forward through crosses from both wings, or long passes, and the offensive means are simple and direct, and do not need to invest too many troops.
After all, after the national team game, after all, there are many players in the rotation, Juventus have possession of the ball, but Genoa can often cause problems for Juventus in a simple and direct way.
Genoa finally seized their chances in the 18th minute after missing two great chances to open the door for Juventus.
Carrera has not led the team for a few games, and he is really not the head coach, and in the face of such a situation, he has not found any decent way and has not made effective adjustments.
"Your chance is gone!" Zhang Yuan said to Pogba firmly.
Before the end of the half, Zhang Yuan said that Pogba said that he thought that Juventus must be 100% eager to win this game, but Conte obviously did not learn from the two draws by Genoa last year, and hid a lot of personnel, and this time he suffered a lot.
Pogba is a rookie, and it may be difficult to gain Conte's trust in such a situation, but the main force in the second half is quite likely.
Conte still kept his back hand, and today he did not take Zhang Yuan directly to rest but put him on the bench.
Sure enough, at halftime, Conte called Carrera and quickly replaced, replacing who replaced Giovinco and Zhang Yuan, so that Zhang Yuan and Matri partnered in the front, and at the same time replaced Giaccherini with Vidal.
This is Conte's backhand, when he can't open the situation, let Zhang Yuan come on the field to impact the opponent.
After the start of the second half, Zhang Yuan's play really made Juventus have a significant improvement in the quality of attack, in the 58th minute, Zhang Yuan broke through with the ball and caused the opponent to foul, and Pirlo's free kick hit the goal directly, equalizing the score for Juventus.
And in the 78th minute, Zhang Yuan sent another wonderful pass for Matri, allowing the latter to help Juventus overtake the score.
Decanio obviously can't do anything good in defending Zhang Yuan, Kuczka has a year of experience in Serie A, but he is still unable to deal with Zhang Yuan.
In the 82nd minute, it was Zhang Yuan's return again, and Marchisio's long-range shot broke through the door of Genoa.
locked the win, Juventus played more skinny, Zhang Yuan did not deliberately pursue a goal, but cooperated with the team to control the ball on the field, and easily did not give Genoa a chance, and Genoa had nothing to do about it.
In the end, they won first and then lost at home, allowing Juventus to win three consecutive league games!
An away win was not easy for Juventus, who had already set their sights on the Champions League clash with the Blues Chelsea long before the game against Genoa.
Chelsea was able to win the Champions League last season, to be honest, they were an underdog in themselves, their strength is not as good as Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, but under the leadership of Di Matteo, they won the championship magically.
Throughout Abramovich's years, the longest-lived manager under him was his long-lived Jose Mourinho, and other coaches including some well-known coaches Carlo Ancelotti, Scolari and Villas-Boas were short-lived.
Chelsea's competitiveness in the Premier League is not at all like Mourinho's time, Mourinho will always be the de facto favorite when he is there, but most of the latecomers' results are ups and downs, of course, there are many reasons, but the main reason is Abrasimovic, Mourinho's hand he stretched out to the team to defend the title too much, and the coach does not take the blame for the problem.
The odds of Juventus winning this year's Champions League are relatively high, which shows that the outside world is not optimistic about Juventus' prospects in the Champions League.
However, Juventus themselves do not think so, last season's Champions League, the unfavored Chelsea all the way to the final and finally clink glasses, and the Bianconeri defender Polini, who won the 1996 Champions League with Juventus, believes that the Bianconeri will have a chance to replicate Chelsea's legend. "There are only three teams in Europe today that are clearly better than Juventus: Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester City," Pollini said. Juventus have been seen as spectators this season, but, just like the team I played for, we have a huge desire and passion for the title. Having said that, being looked down upon by others is not all bad, think about Chelsea last year, they just fought back against all doubts and finally won the Champions League! ”
As for the number one striker Zhang Yuan, he has already said that we can win the championship, why not?!
But Juventus is basically at the bottom when playing against the English team, the record of the visitors to England can be described as miserable, the last ten away games have not won a single victory, 2 draws and 8 losses, which is also bad enough, the date with the Blues does not look so wonderful, the last date, although the Blues did not beat Juventus, but also won at Stamford Bridge, laying the foundation for the elimination of Juventus.
Although Juventus is undoubtedly at a disadvantage in these aspects, Chelsea dare not underestimate Juventus, who are stronger now than they were two years ago.
The control of the midfield can be seen to be much higher than before, and the back line of Juventus's three-back system is becoming more and more mature, and the forward line led by Zhang Yuan will not be worse than back then, and even Zhang Yuan alone may change a lot of things.