Chapter 164: Overtime
The Italian Olympic team scored a goal first to make the Chinese team fall into passivity, which was originally a very passive tactical strategy, due to strength, the national Olympic team has no ability to threaten Italy's goal, which makes the passive situation aggravated, can not make the Italians feel threatened, then the Chinese team must always shrink half of the defense. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After the team scored a goal, Trapattoni returned to the bench, and even crossed his legs, he only succeeded the former Italian legendary goalkeeper Dinozov after the European Championship to become the head coach of the Italian national team and the national Olympic team, the Olympic Games can be said to be his first major game, Trapattoni is full of confidence, and wants to win the championship, because this can more or less establish his authority in the team, after all, Zoff led the Italian national team to win the runner-up of the European Cup, If it weren't for the luck of the French, Italy might have been champions.
After scoring a goal, the Italian Olympic team's offensive rhythm slowed down a little, all along, Italy is not known for its offensive team, their way to win is basically a strict defense and team cooperation, it can be said that the Italian team's attack under this system is not actually strong, but such an Italian team is the most feared opponent of the Chinese team, because they never make big mistakes, and the tight defense also makes the Chinese team want to play counterattack can not find a suitable opportunity.
The time of the game passed in a hurry, and after the Italian team's attack slowed down, the Chinese team was not too eager to equalize, which was the result of Liu Han's control, because he knew that once the rash pressure on the whole line was likely to allow Italy to expand its lead, when it came to defensive counterattacks, Italy has always been one of the best.
At the end of the first half, the Chinese team did not get a single shot on goal in the first half, which shows how much pressure the Italian team put on the Chinese team.
"The Chinese must have now understood that football is actually a sport of eleven people, and it is impossible to rely on the individual ability of individual stars to achieve outstanding results, although I have to admit that Liu's ability is indeed excellent, but he has no way to come to our half, the Italian lad has taught the Chinese a good lesson, I think, the Chinese should consider hiring an Italian coach next, because the Italian coach is the best at defending, and the English will only talk big."
Italy's on-site commentary Pierni continued his commentary at halftime, in his opinion, the Italian team's opponent this time the Chinese team is a negligible team, relying on Liu Han alone to achieve success in Pianni's opinion is somewhat impossible, the Chinese team can go so far to show that Liu Han is good enough.
Back in the locker room, the National Olympic team looked a little dull, everyone was quiet, looking very tired, and the continuous defensive pressure made most of the Chinese players feel both physical and mental pressure.
'Boys, all look up, you've done well, you scored a goal, but that's nothing, it's just an accident, the Italians are lucky, but I'm sure in the next 45 minutes we can definitely equalise or even overtake them.' When Horton said this, he unconsciously felt a little disobedient, because he didn't think that the Chinese team still had a chance in the future, but as a head coach, he had to do something.
"How did you play in the second half? Liu, do you have any ideas? Horton really didn't know how to adjust the atmosphere, so he handed over the conversation to Liu Han.
"We have to wait, wait patiently, wait for the Italians to relax, we will only get a chance when they lose their guard, so we have to be patient, we have to be calm, we have to have one chance, but we have to take it." Liu Han's words made everyone even heavier, and at the same time made some young players a little ashamed.
"Football is like this, if you don't have enough strength, you can only endure, you have to endure the oppression of the other party, and life is the same, isn't it? Cheer up, we still have 45 minutes or more to play, and we can't give up until the whistle blows, I don't care if you guys don't care about it or not, but I care about winning this game, the fans care about winning the game, we play to get glory. ”
The half-time break ended quickly and the two sides were back on the field.
The Chinese team did not attack rashly after the first kick-off, but patiently reversed the foot in the midfield, with Liu Han in the middle of the strategy, such a reversal is not meaningless, but in order to slowly find the loopholes of the Italian team, but the Italians' defense is indeed very good, Liu Han is difficult to find a suitable opportunity.
If the strength of his teammates is good enough, Liu Han may try to play with his teammates, and then mobilize the Italian defense to find opportunities, but unfortunately, the individual ability of the Chinese team players is indeed worse than the opponent, first of all, the physical confrontation is much worse.
The Chinese team did not try to attack, which made the Italians a little puzzled, according to the situation of the game, the Chinese team should strengthen the attack, but now they don't seem to care much about falling behind, Trapattoni deliberately arranged for the team to shrink appropriately in the second half at halftime, so that the Chinese team can attack, and then the Italian team can find a chance to counterattack, so as to expand the score, but now his arrangement has failed.
If it was in the past, maybe the Italian team would shrink the defense line and patiently look for opportunities, but the opponent was the Chinese team, and the Italians began to be a little arrogant, and they began to slowly push the defense line out, trying to suppress the Chinese team again.
The two sides fought fiercely in the midfield, and in order to make up for the physical and technical deficiencies, the Chinese team had to use more fouls, and even Liu Han was saddled with a yellow card in a defensive attempt to intercept Ventola's turn.
Time passed quickly, and the Chinese team gradually showed physical exhaustion, and Zhao Junzhe on the side first had cramps in the 70th minute, and Horton had to make an emergency substitution, and Huang Yong came on as a substitute.
As the game passed, there was less and less time left for the Chinese team, and many fans in front of the TV began to lose hope, although they also knew that it was not easy for the Chinese team to come to this point, but in their hearts they still expected the Chinese team to go further. The Italian team gradually began to relax, because the Chinese team never organized a decent attack, and they were more likely to fall in the middle and back. (To be continued.) )