Chapter 54: Against Triestina
In the 41st round, Rimini challenged Triestina away, and there is no need to say much about the current situation, Triestina must want to win Rimini at home. In the pre-match press conference, their head coach Gostinelli said that there is no way back for Triestina now, and they must win this game, and Rimini coach Akori is also a tough bone to gnaw, but his team must also win this game.
The two coaches swore at the press conference, everyone thought that this game was destined to be a game of firepower, but as soon as the game began, the coaches of both sides invariably chose a safe way of playing, testing and testing, and the defensive system has always focused on the back, first based on the defense and not giving the other party a chance, it seems that everyone is playing with the idea of winning a goal is also winning, and the back force is forced.
So in the first 25 minutes of this game, it was really not as sparks as people imagined, but like two people practicing Tai Chi, you came and went, creating few opportunities, and neither of them could hit each other once.
Zhang Yuan was strictly restricted in this game, this restriction is all-round, the other party is obviously studying him, not only to take a special person to mark, and the space around him is very tight, this kind of defense is very similar to the defensive strategy adopted to him in the second half against Juventus, it is indeed a great restriction on his play, although the personal ability Triestina is not as good as Juventus, but Triestina is now a battle of life and death, very willing to run, willing to fight, Zhang Yuan in the first 25 minutes really has nothing to show.
Akori looked at it on the sidelines and felt that it was nothing, Zhang Yuan is a player who can play with his brain, he will always think of a way, and the opponent can't be so focused all the time, and Zhang Yuan broke through more in the first 25 minutes and passed less, because the midfield support arranged by Akori to Zhang Yuan at the beginning of this game was not enough. He now believes that Zhang Yuan has the ability to pass the ball lethally once he has the opportunity, and from the usual training, Zhang Yuan's passing ability has increased a lot now.
His self-confidence is correct, in the 30th minute, Zhang Yuan got the ball in the midfield, although the opponent's defending him Allegreti was sticked, but the ball was always under Zhang Yuan's control, the ball was back, Zhang Yuan was not good at turning around, he just protected the ball and took a step back, Allegretti followed, another midfielder Rossetti came up from the side position to wrap up, Zhang Yuan swept his eyes, chose to pass, turned quickly, kicked a diagonal long pass with his right foot to the right side, the right side is a gap, Moscalderli is plugged in at high speed, very fast, The opponent's left midfielder Marchesetti was overtaken by him, he rushed to the opponent's left central defender Abruzzase's tackle and swept the ball directly into the middle, Jada got rid of Mignani to follow up the volley, and shot into the bottom left corner of the Triestina goal, the opposing goalkeeper failed to touch the ball, and Rimini, who was playing away, took the lead in breaking the deadlock on the field and leading the opponent 1:0.
The goal showed Zhang Yuan's progress in passing, and the long diagonal pass was accurate, estimating Moscaldelli's sprint speed and successfully completing the indirect assist.
After the goal, Rimini's players are very happy, now that they are ahead, the game will be better, after all, the opponent presses out to attack is what everyone wants to see, Zhang Yuan's biggest threat is speed and dribbling, if the opponent gives him more space, Rimini's counterattack is very threatening.
However, Triestina did not make adjustments to Rimini's goal, Gostinelli did not want to attack but was really jealous of Rimini's counterattack speed, with Zhang Yuan, their counterattack speed is very fast, once pressed by the opponent's counterattack, the threat is very big, he doesn't want to press all so early, after all, there is still a lot of time.
Terry Estina didn't make adjustments, but Akuri made adjustments, he thought that Terry Estina's advantage of not attacking his side couldn't be played, okay, then I took the initiative to adjust the posture of defense, he wanted the players on the field to pass the word to increase the backcourt pass, it is dangerous to increase the backcourt pass, but he was reluctant to let the child can't trap the wolf, and he won't have a chance if he doesn't lead the opponent to attack.
Zhang Yuan's pass just now is indeed a kind of luck, even if the clever passer does not pass once, it can create opportunities for the team, and a scoring opportunity requires the player's running position and the player's passing to be just right at one time. Therefore, most of the time, Zhang Yuan's passing can only be decent, rather than being able to pass a threatening ball every time, not to mention that his original passing skills are now improving.
After Akori made this adjustment, Triestina pressed but still didn't attack fiercely, and Gostinelli stubbornly didn't want to give Rimini a chance to fight back.
After 45 minutes, the first half was over, with Jada's goal giving Rimini a temporary lead.
In the second half, Triestina changed his tactics, focusing on attack, and the 352 formation became the 3322 formation, which is a strange formation, 3 defenders, 3 midfielders, 2 attacking wingers, 2 center forwards, this is going to be a desperate gamble, it is indeed only forty-five minutes, and if you don't attack, you won't talk about victory, and whether you can equalize depends on luck.
Gostinelli put on this formation, clearly attacking, but he put the main focus of defense on the middle, the two wings are equivalent to basically giving up, his starting point is that Zhang Yuan and Jada are very threatening in the middle, just defend the two strikers, and they cross on the side, anyway, the headers of these two strikers are not strong points, and the threat should not be great.
But he obviously forgot that Zhang Yuan was wandering in the front court, and the tactical arrangement that Zhang Yuan quickly let him know was wishful thinking. Zhang Yuan saw that the opponent was hoarding heavy troops in the middle, so he moved the focus of his activities to the side, Allegreti naturally moved, and the defense system of the back also tended to Zhang Yuan's side, as a result, the defensive strength in the middle weakened a lot, Cristiano began to step forward, and Richiuti also went to the middle from time to time, threatening Triestina's goal with more opportunities.
In the 61st minute, Zhang Yuan received the ball in the run, knocked through Allegreti's crotch, and then went around to get the ball, Allegretti pulled Zhang Yuan's jersey in the process of Zhang Yuan's turn, Zhang Yuan saw that the ball was about to lose control, so he could only choose to pass the ball out, who to pass it to? He passed to Richiuti who moved to the middle, Richiuti made a long-range shot and really buckled, shook Kyriazis, and then picked up the penalty area, Jada and the opponent did not fight, the ball was pushed out by Mignani again, but the ball was not far away, Richiuti regained control of the ball, a straight plug towards the left side, Zhang Yuan had already run to the position, followed by Allegretti who was chasing him, but his speed could not keep up with Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan did not stop the ball but chose to knock back to the middle, Rikiuti followed up with a push, The ball went through the armpit of the opposing goalkeeper from the middle and into the net.
Rimini, who is away from home, has a 2-goal lead, Gostinelli is very depressed, the opponent's counterattack is really fast, this counterattack is very fast, and it is easy to leave such space and space for the opponent if the attack is not successful, but now he has no choice but to continue like this.
Of course, Akori was very happy, such a situation was what he wanted to see the most, the more space the other party gave Zhang Yuan, the greater the threat, and he applauded the disciples on the field.
During the celebration, the audience shouted shrill boos, and it was not known whether it was to boo Rimini or Triestina, or both.
After the game restarted, Triestina let go of his hands and feet, regardless of his head, and as a result, Rimini got more opportunities, but they all wasted, Zhang Yuan wasted twice, one was to dribble the ball and shoot with one foot, the ball was high, and the other time was to receive Jada's return, he slipped on the soles of his feet, and the ball was weak and weak to be easily obtained by the opposing goalkeeper.
Triestina's frenzied attack was not without success, they finally took advantage of a corner kick in the 88th minute to score a goal from Kyriazis, but that was the end of their goal in this game, and in stoppage time they failed to break down the united Rimini defence again, and the final score was fixed at 1:2, and the away side Rimini won a valuable victory.
After the game, the happiest thing for the Rimini players was not Rimini's victory over Triestina, but at the same time Mantua defeated Genoa at the same time, so that the gap between Rimini and Genoa was reduced to five points, although Piacenza also won, but in the last game Rimini even if he lost against Mantua, he could get a place in the play-offs, either fourth or fifth.
The pressure has been reduced, but Rimini's players have not relaxed, after all, the fourth place has a home advantage, don't underestimate this advantage, after playing at home, the home stadium will be full, the home fans will cheer for the home team, and at the same time, it will also bring huge mental pressure to the away team, not to let the opposing players have a mental breakdown, just imagine all kinds of abuse, all kinds of strange interference methods make you overwhelmed, it will inevitably affect the mood of playing, and it is very possible to play abnormally. In addition, the away team can play safely, and the home team can make adjustments according to the previous away situation. And the home and then the away is not the same, at home you take a safe tactics, to the away and then want to be safe is not so easy, it is easy to be interfered with the scene The implementation of tactics is not in place, and the last unlucky is yourself, which is why many home and away teams in football play more at home and attack first, and must want to score a goal advantage first, of course, it is necessary to be based on defense, but most teams choose to be offensive rather than defensive at home, unless it is a weak team, From the beginning, make up your mind to play defense or hold on to the opponent until the penalty shootout.
This season, in addition to Juventus, Napoli and Genoa, the strength of the entire Serie B league is obviously higher, and the strength of other teams is actually not much different, otherwise everyone will not fight for promotion and relegation this season, which is not until the last round, everyone is still fighting, and there are a lot of teams fighting.