Chapter 57: Ending the Game

Lagini calmed down and regretted it, he found that he had made a wrong decision before, he should not recycle but should attack, and the pressure on his defensive line was greater, Rimini is not the kind of team with a poor attack, and he should not focus too much on Zhang Yuan's counterattack speed in Rimini, you must know that when Zhang Yuan is not there, Rimini's attack is also very methodical.

After the goal, Zhang Yuan rushed to the corner kick area to celebrate his usual slippery kneeling, but this time he fell on his head, the grass was not in very good condition, so arrogant that even the turf was against him, and the Piacenza fans above did not laugh at his antics but cursed him fiercely.

The teammates came to celebrate together, this goal was very important, it was the equalizer goal, it was very morale-boosting, and after 63 minutes, it finally ushered in the moment of raising eyebrows.

Akori jumped up on the sidelines and gave Martini a high-five, and his tactical setup paid off.

After the game restarted, Lakini adjusted again, re-set the team's tone to attack, he planned to attack instead of defending, but in the face of Rimini, whose confidence has increased, his team was a little unable to attack, the two sides once again fell into a stalemate, the midfield competition was particularly fierce, the game went on for more than 80 minutes or 1:1, Akori began to make substitutions, replacing Zhang Yuan for Pagano, replacing Jada for Matri, he was going to play a single striker tactic, Pagano strengthened the midfielder's control of the ball.

Lakini also did not dare to risk withdrawing the defensive midfielder and attacking with all his might, it was dangerous to do so, he did not have the guts, and the other 1:1 was not really unacceptable, and the play-offs did not count the home and away goal advantage, but the team with the same score and the top of the table advanced, although they were at a disadvantage, but they may not be able to win against Rimini away from home.

The final result of the game was fixed at 1:1, this result disappointed the home team fans at the scene, but they will not boo their own team, and there is an away team, booing their own team is not a painful thing for the enemy? So they sent the boos to the whole Rimini team, when the Rimini players walked into the dressing room, the home team fans were above the passage and shouted at them, but it was really futile, Zhang Yuan and they talked and laughed after the game, elated, as if they had won the battle.

The score of 1:1 is indeed a victory, everyone knows the rules, and it is still Rimini who maintains the score of 1:1 until the end of the next round to advance, even if it is they who advance at 10:10.

In his post-match press conference, Acori was full of praise for his boys, saying they had a tenacious style and a remarkable draw at home to Piacenza. When the reporter asked about the possibility of promotion, the old guy played a trick, he said that the current score does not say anything, but Rimini's chances of promotion are obviously greater, and fools can see that this old guy is probably trying to squeeze Piacenza, which is a conspiracy.

His words really angered the other party, Piacenza head coach Lakini told reporters on the spot, then look at it, it must be Piacenza who is promoted.

When Piacenza heard about it, they privately vowed to take out Rimini away.

Rimini's players also knew what Akori said afterwards, and everyone laughed, in fact, everyone knew that this was clearly a run on people, but people were going to be fooled, and it was needless to say that they were going to attack wildly when they hit Rimini, which is called not fighting for steamed buns, and Piacenza had no other way out than to defeat Rimini but to attack.

The tactical arrangement for the next game doesn't need to say anything more about Akuri, everyone understands that Akori must play defensive counterattacks at his home stadium and make full use of his own fast counterattack characteristics.

Before the game, Zhang Yuan, as the core figure of the team, also accepted an interview with the media.

"Zhang Yuan, do you have any confidence in your promotion to the next game?"

"Needless to say, of course I'm confident! We're a very fighting team, and we've proven it all season! We're also the best team, so we're definitely going to qualify!" Zhang Yuan said in an affirmative tone.

"Zhang Yuan, can you predict that you can score this time?" asked Moqi, since Moqi's last interview was published in the newspaper, he slapped those boring media fiercely, causing a huge response in China, oh, there is a genius boy named Zhang Yuan in Serie B, who is Chinese.

Zhang Yuan has become even more popular in China, and many fans regard Zhang Yuan as the hope of Chinese football.

Now Zhang Yuan's every game has Chinese reporters come to follow, the previous boring media like nothing, send reporters to follow, but Zhang Yuan rarely accepts reporters' individual interviews, basically before the game, after the game, after the training casually answer a few questions from reporters, many reporters think Zhang Yuan is arrogant, but there is nothing to be done about it, he is such a person.

Zhang Yuan looked at it, it turned out to be Mo Qi, this person is a good reporter, in his eyes is a reporter with a conscience, Zhang Yuan replied: "Brother Mo, I really haven't made a prediction about your question, but I dare to say it today, I will definitely score a goal." As for a few, we'll know when the time comes!"

Zhang Yuan said this not in Chinese but in Italian, young does not mean no scheming, he also has a scheming here, presumably his words will definitely reach the ears of the opponent, when the time comes, maybe the other party will not let himself complete the goal, then the defense of his teammates will be lax, and there will be a goal if he can't say it! For whether he is cashing in on the words to score, he doesn't attach much importance to it, the team can win is the most important thing, isn't this a lie.

After a two-day break, the second leg of the match took place on 18 June at the Romero Neri Stadium, home of Rimini.

The second leg was naturally more eye-catching than the first, with 5,000 seats full, and a bunch of fans gathered outside, waving the team's flag, and the away Piacenza fans did not show weakness, Rimini came with about 2,000 fans, and the seats allocated to the away fans were certainly few, but they did not have seats and gathered outside the Romero Neri stadium to wait. In the face of such a situation, the most tense is the Rimini police, fan riots are also common in Italy, Rimini is the first time to be so close to the Serie A field, the emotions of the fans are very excited, Piacenza is now at a disadvantage, it is not ruled out that their fans will use some radical means to interfere with the game, such as group beatings, causing riots, such as throwing dangerous objects into the stadium, you must know that there is a wall between the inside and outside, and it is easy to throw a Molotov cocktail.

At the beginning of the game, Piacenza really didn't say anything, beat it, beat it to death, but Rimini had already arranged for this, it was very simple to shrink the defense, and give you another knife while you were not paying attention.

In fact, Lakini really can't make this early attack, isn't it 1:1, it's still early, and a goal is also a win, why be in such a hurry to come up and show Rimini a three-board axe, first based on defense and slowly look for opportunities?

It may be that Akori's words worked, or Zhang Yuan's words worked, they seemed to be really provoked, and they attacked vigorously one by one, and the result was really tragic.

In the 8th minute, Rimini got a chance to counterattack, Polkia passed the ball to Zhang Yuan, who ran to the midfield, Zhang Yuan only had the opponent's central defender Olivier in front of him, and another central defender Milionico stared at Jada, Zhang Yuan didn't take the ball, and rushed directly past Olivier, in order to avoid Olivier pulling him, he also specially stayed away from Olivier and overtook from the sidewalk, Olivier can turn around and fast, but compared with Zhang Yuan, it can only be said that it is not fast. Zhang Yuan easily overtook him, he turned around to chase, Jada moved into the penalty area, Milionico could only follow, his speed was much slower than Krishitto, and it was undoubtedly a dead end to go forward, so he could only choose to follow Jada and make plans in the penalty area. Zhang Yuan sprinted with the ball in front, Olivier chased hard, everyone thought that Zhang Yuan would take the ball into the penalty area, but Zhang Yuan passed, a slash straight stopper, past Miglionico, Jada got the ball, Miglionico ran and signaled to the referee that Jada was offside, but the linesman did not raise the flag, Jada was not offside, Jada was not slow, he had formed a single knife, Miglionico was left behind by him, in the face of the goalkeeper he was very calm and chose to shoot, the ball crossed the opponent's goalkeeper and went into the net, and Rimini, who was fighting at home, relied on this counterattack 1: 0 lead over Piacenza.

Piacenza's strong attack did not work, while Rimini's defensive counter-attack tactics worked in just a few minutes, and Lakini was expressionless, not because his heart was not fluctuating, but because he had nothing to do, and he still did not realize the problem of his attacking tactics.

The fans at the scene cheered thunderously, and the fans who knew the ball had already seen that Rimini had made up his mind today to take advantage of the defensive gap left by Piacenza to press the attack, and the game would be better if he led by one goal, Piacenza was really on the edge of the cliff, they had to overtake Rimini to advance, they had to attack.

After the restart, Piacenza continued to choose to attack, but soon they were unlucky again, in the 15th minute, Rimini quickly counterattacked, Zhang Yuan's shot was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper, Rimini corner kick, Riquiuti crossed the front point, Polkia rubbed back, Digan pressed Olivier header to break through Piacenza again, Rimini led the opponent 2:0 in the first half.

Lakini's face was already pale, and the opponent's two-goal lead meant that Piacenza had to score three goals in the remaining time to advance, which was undoubtedly equivalent to a miracle at Rimini's home stadium.

The Piacenza players, who had been in high spirits for more than ten minutes, were visibly stunned after the goal, and everyone understood what the 2-0 score meant, and no team at home had ever scored three goals in this season, or even two, so everyone knew that there was little hope of promotion.

As the morale of the Piacenza players is low, their control on the field is also declining, and Rimini's defensive counterattack tactics have now become attacking tactics, in the 35th minute, Piacenza was hit again, Rimini's position attacked, Moscalderli went down to knock the ball back to the middle when the ball was about to go out of the bottom line, Jeda snuggled up to Milionico and swept, the ball was blocked by Piacenza goalkeeper, Zhang Yuan shot again in the small penalty area, the ball went in again, Rimini led the opponent 3:0.

This game is really unplayable like this, this goal basically ended the game, although there are still about 60 minutes, but scoring 4 goals, facing the morale of Rimini, it is really impossible to complete. The morale of Piacenza players was very low, Rimini did not give up and instead controlled the ball in midfield, the situation was reversed, and now Piacenza is on the defensive.

After halftime, Akori replaced Zhang Yuan, replaced Pagano, replaced Jada with Matri, he was already thinking about the next game, the first leg of the final will be played on June 22, Zhang Yuan is young, his physical fitness is not particularly good, the play-off schedule is very dense, it is easy to bear it, so change it early to rest and accumulate strength.