Chapter 41: Preparing for Juventus

The local media in Rimini didn't dare to shout the slogan of escalation a few weeks ago, and they just thought about it, but now Akori's words have made everyone excited, upgrade! The historic event of the Rimini football team!

The media hype seems to have woken up the sleeping Rimini fans, everyone is now watching the standings, Mom, we're third! Many fans have long spotted Rimini's rise to the top of the table, one by one, but this time it was Akori who awakened their dormant dream of promotion.

On April 14th, Rimini played Cesena at home, the home stadium was full, and there were many fans without tickets outside the stadium, the home team fans were really passionate, the away team Cesena players came to the stadium in a bus and did not expect the home team fans to be so fanatical, what made them angry was that there were Rimini fans who kept giving them the middle finger on the bus, throwing plastic bottles, it seems that this group of fans is trying to use all means to hit the Cesena players, and in an alternative way to help Rimini win.

Today's Zhang Yuan is also the first time to see this kind of momentum, the stadium of 5,000 people seems to echo the voice of 10,000 people, and the fans began to scream at the beginning of the game, cheering for the home team and putting pressure on Cesena.

In such a warm shout from the home team fans, Rimini's players really seemed to have beaten chicken blood, attacking forward vigorously, Cesena was pressed in his own half and could not move, but Rimini played like this, but there were not many opportunities, there was no possession, no goal rate!

Akori is very anxious on the sidelines, he doesn't know what to do, asking his players to lose possession is very similar to pouring cold water on his players, splashing well, the players may calm down, don't pursue suppression, if they don't splash well, they may discourage the players, maybe they will think that we have an overwhelming advantage on the field, why give up this advantage?!

Throughout the first half, Akori waited anxiously for a draw, and the crowd was not anxious at all, what they saw was that Rimini had the absolute advantage on the field and did not score? Never mind! As long as the players continue to put pressure on Cesena like this in the second half, there will always be chances to score!

At halftime, Akori pointed out to the players that it was meaningless to possess the ball like this, and explained in detail his tactical play, we need space in the frontcourt, not to compress our own activity space, and for 15 minutes, Akori forcibly instilled the uselessness of possession to the players, asking his players not to press so fiercely.

At the start of the second half, the players followed Akuri's tactical plan, but it didn't work, why? In the first half, Cesena was passive defensive, and was pressed by Rimini to have no choice but to defend, and in the second half, Cesena coach Fabrizio? Kastori took the initiative to arrange a defensive counterattack tactic and let Rimini control the ball and attack, so in the game, Rimini gradually played the ball again. I have to say that sometimes the cheering of the home fans is also a kind of pressure, today's Rimini attack was unsuccessful, the players showed some impatience under this pressure, Zhang Yuan also behaved very impatient today, forced to shoot after several breakthroughs, accurately reflected his impatience, always want to solve the problem with personal ability, but today does not seem to be his lucky day, the shot is either blocked or deviated from the goal.

In the 85th minute, Rimini pressed the attack and failed to play, was cleared by the opposing defender, and drove to the front with a big foot, Cesena young center Graziano? Pelle won the tussle with Pecarisi and successfully passed the ball to his own Andre. Bracaletti, the speedy full-back who sprinted all the way to Pelle, was in place in the box and scored with a powerful shot from Pelle to give the away side Cesena the lead.

The home team Rimini suffered the consequences, but now it is no longer to help, Cesena still cowered after the goal, leaving Rimini at a loss, and could not equalize at the end of stoppage time.

In this way, Rimini, who was playing at home, lost 0:1 to Cesena in full view of the home fans.

Just now a big win immediately overturned in the gutter, once again surprised everyone, even the Rimini players themselves feel that they can't accept such a result, reporters interviewed several important players after the game, such as Pecarisi, Riquiutti, Zhang Yuan, but they all said that the loss was really not very lucky, Zhang Yuan also apologized that he played badly and disappointed the hopes of the home fans.

The elated fans before the game are now like being poured a basin of cold water, their hearts are cold, and they are full of hope but how painful it is to be broken, but this is football! However, the good news is that there has been little change in the standings, with Juventus, ****** and Napoli all winning, with Rimini slipping just one place to fourth, while Piacenza are six points away from them.

After this game, Rimini will challenge Juventus away, this is a make-up match, Juventus's relegation is the misfortune of all Serie B teams, there is no doubt that even if Juventus has gone a number of main players, it is a giant for Serie B teams, this team has never been relegated from Inter Milan since the inception of Serie A, and they still have many top superstars in their team, such as Piero, Nedved, Buffon, Trezeguet, Camoranesi, etc., and now the top two scorers are Piero and Trezeguet.

However, Juventus also has his own misfortune when he comes to Serie B, maybe the little brothers of Serie B have never seen much of what the big brother of Serie A looks like, and they always want to be close to him, and pry the big brother over that is also the talk of the history of these Serie B teams, so whenever Juventus plays not only the team is like playing chicken blood, but also the fans are like playing chicken blood, Juventus away from home has brought a lot of ticket revenue to the home team.

Rimini is a member of the Serie B team that played chicken blood, in the first round of Serie B, Juventus's Serie B luxury one-year tour was just started by Rimini knocked on the stick, and the home team drew 1:1 with the powerful Juventus.

After that game, Rimini boss Akori made it clear that his side were really in the thick of the game, as it would be a great honour for the Rimini squad to play against the 27-time league winner and two-time Champions League winner.

The last time Juventus was forced to draw by luck, it was obviously a hate, and this time it is estimated that Juventus will not let Rimini go if he says anything, and Rimini still wants to be a hero who robs the rich and helps the poor, which is the consensus of the whole team.

Akori said in an interview: "Playing Juventus, I don't need to be mobilised, I think our lads can't wait to go to Turin and feel the enthusiasm of the home fans! ”

As the most popular person in the team recently, Zhang Yuan was naturally asked by reporters what he thought of the away challenge to Juventus.

This time, Zhang Yuan made a tirade, and he replied to reporters: "Juventus? They are a formidable opponent who has historically won everything they can. There are big names like Piero, Nedved, Gianluigi Buffon and Trezeguet in the squad, they are my idols and it was a pleasure to meet them on the pitch! Are we weak? I don't think so, there are no underdogs on the pitch, last time we didn't let Juventus win at home, this time we are still confident! As for me, I'll do everything I can to help the team on the pitch! ”

Zhang Yuan's words were confident, but he also revealed a trace of calmness between the lines, the last time he drew the opponent, this time he meant to try his best not to let Juventus, after all, the opponent is Juventus, or playing at home, it would be good to get a point.

Most of Zhang Yuan's teammates had a hint of fantasy after the last game, and this time they were forced to draw, maybe we could still win the game.

In the preparation, Acori analyzed it and felt that it was not necessarily a good choice to defend it, mainly because Juventus's frontcourt attack was a bit strong, although the front court went to Ibrahimovic last summer, but they also had Piero, Trezeguet, Nedved, Camoranesi, creativity is still very strong, they have scored the most goals in Serie B so far, blindly defending, it may be easier for the opponent to break through. After thinking about it again, he still felt that he should not make adjustments to the formation, just insist on playing 442, let the two midfielders not lean too closely, and just focus on defense. As for the rest, it will be adjusted according to the actual situation when it comes to the game.

Zhang Yuan's arrangement, he continued the arrangement of the previous games, and still let Zhang Yuan stand behind the striker Jeda and be a shadow striker, no matter how tight Juventus's defense is, it must be the main attack at home, and it may not leave room for Zhang Yuan.

In the two consecutive days of training, Akori arranged this tactic, and in the team training match, he specially transferred Zhang Yuan to the substitute first team, arranged a back close to force Zhang Yuan, and asked Zhang Yuan to try his best to get rid of or pass the ball in this situation. Will Juventus defend Zhang Yuan closely? This question is not easy to answer, Zhang Yuan is now regarded by other teams as Rimini's most threatening figure, Juventus may think that as long as they watch Zhang Yuan, they can greatly limit Rimini's frontcourt attack and adopt close marking tactics to make Zhang Yuan unable to comfortably hold the ball and pass the ball. Another possibility is that they will not send someone to guard Zhang Yuan, after all, it is Juventus, who is Zhang Yuan? It's just a 16-year-old player, and it's really booming recently, but there is no need to send someone to keep an eye on it, and the regional joint defense can be done.

In short, Akori tried his best to rehearse all the situations he thought of in training, the opponent was Juventus, and he said confidently in front of the media, saying that it was one thing, if you really didn't take the opponent seriously and were immersed in the last draw, then it was yourself who was unlucky.