Chapter 209: Fight for the Champions League Again
Less than 24 hours after his last visit to Rome, he turned around and left, unhappy with the Arsenal club's behaviour, and after a conversation with Arsene Wenger, he left the city of Rome and is now back in Rome. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The difference is that this time Liu Han is a player of Real Madrid, while the opponent is still Lazio.
Lazio were placed in a group with Arsenal in the first group stage of the Champions League, and they failed to beat Arsenal who lost Liu Han in the group stage, but in the end they managed to qualify for the second group stage by finishing second in the group.
This season's Lazio team can be said to be in the limelight in Serie A, at the beginning of the season, they used 55 million US dollars to introduce Argentine goalscorer Crespo, although Real Madrid later introduced Figo and Liu Han's transfer fee to break the record, but after the news broke at the time, it still caused a great sensation around the world, and now this Lazio team holds high the offensive banner, in the defense of the prevailing Serie A can be said to be unique, which also makes many fans like this team wearing blue jerseys very much.
"Hey man, when did you learn the way I kicked free-kicks? At that time, I was because I had grown taller on my own, and I had learned to use my right foot. ”
Although Liu Han's events in Brazil caused turmoil in Brazilian politics, Carlos, who is Brazilian, did not think so, he got along well with Liu Han, often played free kick games and racing games with Liu Han in daily training, and after coming to Rome, he and Liu Han lived in a room, Carlos was very curious about Liu Han's way of taking his free kicks.
"Oh, that was when I first arrived in London, when I used to watch some game highlights, and I thought your way of playing was very different, so I tried to learn, to be honest, I was also scared by your free kick kick at that time, I have never seen such a big arc of free kicks, especially the one in the Confederations Cup in '97, and the French bald head (Barthez) on the other side almost laughed at me at that time."
Liu Han is trying to learn Spanish, and Portuguese and Spanish are almost not much different, so communicating with Carlos can connect with his pronunciation, but when saying some unfamiliar words, Liu Han can still express them in English, fortunately, Carlos's English is not bad, and it does not cause obstacles to the communication between the two people.
"Haha, thank you for the compliment, can you tell me more about Rio? I'm curious, I remember when I was a kid in the slums of Santa Marta, and the guys in there used to let the kids help deliver the 'goods', and I had a very good friend who was killed in it, and the scum in there deserved hell. ”
Speaking of Brazil, Carlos has a poor image of the slums of Rio, having lived in Rio for a while, was also born into a slum family, and is very disgusted by the cruelty of children by some gangs.
"I was there to save my girlfriend, and I'm not very familiar with the situation inside, but I regret it a little when I heard you say that, maybe I should have done it more at the time."
"Man, you were good enough at that time, and you rescued seventeen hostages, much more powerful than in the movie, haha, maybe there will be a big Hollywood director who will ask you to make a movie in the future, and you must remember to take me with you when the time comes, and I will be your assistant, haha."
"Well, I think your image is more like a gangster boss, maybe you can be the anti-number one, haha."
Although the game is approaching, the Real Madrid players don't care too much about this game, Lazio is indeed in the limelight in Serie A, but in the whole of European football, they are not a big team.
On February 13, 2001, the second phase of the Champions League group stage officially began, Real Madrid visited the Olympic Stadium in Rome, away against the "Blue Eagle" Lazio.
Bosque still sent a three-striker lineup in this game, with the deepening of training, Liu Han gradually integrated into the team's system, and Raul and Morientes are becoming more and more tacit, and he can also switch positions with Morientes appropriately, he sits on the central axis, feeds his teammates, Liu Han has played most of the positions on the field, and he is much better than Morientes in how to pass.
But just when everyone was expecting a big battle to be played at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Lazio's new head coach Zoff sent a team with a defensive formation, and the 532 formation didn't look like it was going to attack Real Madrid.
As soon as the opening game, the Lazio team did not come out of the half, and the back line with Nesta as the core completely turned the team's penalty area into a human jungle, Liu Han encountered the close pressing of the opponent's two defenders in the right winger position, and Morientes was also stuck by Nestor, and Real Madrid's attack came to a standstill.
Gradually, Real Madrid, who couldn't open the situation, began to consciously press, and Carlos also stepped forward frequently to assist, but the Lazio team, which used to play offense, actually defended very decently, making Real Madrid's offense have no clue.
The game went on for twenty-six minutes, the scene was very slow, the rhythm of the whole game seemed to be in a quagmire, but the Lazio team took advantage of Real Madrid's too much pressure to start a counterattack, Crespo, who only scored four goals in the first half of the season, suddenly woke up in this game, and used a counterattack opportunity to successfully counter offside and help the Lazio team score a goal, Real Madrid fell into a complete passivity.
At this time, a light rain fell in the sky, and the cold rain mixed with the cold wind in February caused the players' form to decline rapidly, but the Lazio team playing at home became more and more courageous.
As the first half drew to a close, Lazio scored another goal and Crespo scored again with a header from inside the box to break through Real Madrid's goal, and the Argentine striker finally had a performance worthy of his value.
At the end of the half, the Real Madrid players dragged their bodies soaked in cold rain back to the dressing room exhausted, and the performance of falling behind 2-0 really made everyone unable to raise their heads.
"Change your clothes first, wipe your body clean, and don't catch a cold."
Back in the dressing room, Bosque actually asked the players to change out of their soaked clothes first, but his behavior made the players feel some warmth, which is the most prominent point of him as a manager, that is, he thinks about the players' bodies at all times.
"The opponent is expected to hold on in the second half, what do you think about the second half, gentlemen?"
"We shouldn't keep attacking, they will continue to play counter-attacks, we need to mobilize the opponent's defense." Hierro, captain of the team, was the first to give his opinion, but Figo, the heart of the team's front line, went off injured in the previous game and did not come to Roma at all.
'Coach, I can drop back to a midfield position, at Arsenal I played playmaker and I can organise the team's attack.
Liu Han, who was already familiar with the atmosphere in the Real Madrid team, stepped forward at this time, and he felt that he needed to do something.
"Well, this is a good proposal, then in the second half, Liu you return to the forward position, the players on the side can retreat appropriately, and the opponent's counterattack today is very fast."
Bosque did not refuse Liu Han's proposal, and he also felt the need to bring Liu Han to the forward position to organize the team's attack. (To be continued.) )