Chapter 179: Didn't You Say You'll Be Scoring Goals Soon?

The game started quickly.

Luton Town still came up and started to press in formation, playing what they do best in pressing up front.

Ranieri is very appreciative of the tactical system created by Gao Bo.

The three fronts were very dense, both vertically and horizontally, and then the overall coordination and the discipline of the overall movement allowed them to form an absolute numerical advantage in the area with the ball.

Ranieri is thinking about how to break this set of tactics these days. Italy is a region with a lot of football tactics, and there are many famous Italian coaches, mainly because there is a very strong atmosphere in Italy to study tactics in the country.

Ranieri is not surprised.

Ranieri has his usual tactical style, based on defensive counterattacks and side attacks, Ranieri's tactical thinking, for the speed and assault of the full-backs have relatively high requirements, and at the same time attach great importance to the defense of the back line (this is also the reason why he bought a bunch of midfielders during the Juventus period), even in the use of 4312, the front midfielders are often asked to pull the side to organize the attack (Menes is typical during the Roma period). All in all, the emphasis on attacking from the flanks and the emphasis on defending in midfield is at the heart of Ranieri's tactical system.

Gao Bo also knows Ranieri well, and as a head coach, studying the tactical styles of famous coaches around the world is what Gao Bo often does.

However, due to the lack of high strikers in the current Roma team, Gao Bo is not afraid of Roma's wing attack.

In fact, both teams are good at defending and counter-attacking, but Luton Town has raised their formation to the midfield, using such a pressing defense to create pressure on the opponent, let them make mistakes, and then seize the opportunity of the opponent's mistakes.

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Facing Luton's uplift, Roma also looked well prepared.

Roma's attacking approach was also simple, with long balls played directly from the back in the face of Luton's dense midfield defence!

In the third minute, De Rossi sent a long ball from the edge of the box.

The ball went over Luton's midfield defence and fell directly to the feet of Menes on the right side of the pitch.

"De Rossi's precise long ball !!"

The Italian narrator began to get excited.

However, Luton recovered quickly, with Menes sprinting down the flanks and Sandro following suit, blocking Menes' path to the middle, and Luton's formation quickly moved around and immediately gathered a large number of defenders on Menez's side.

Adam came back to defend, and Drinkwater was on the side.

Roma have also gathered a large number of personnel here, with Perrotta and central striker Vucinic both coming over.

For a while, almost all the players on the field gathered on the right side.

Gao Bo saw such a scene, he was a little strange, when the Roman team attacked, it didn't pull away?

It didn't take long for Gobo to know what Roma were trying to do, and Vucinic came over to meet Menes, who played with him twice and then passed the ball up.

A cross to the ball!!

On the other side, Tadei quickly stepped forward to get the ball, and Luton's formation quickly moved over!

However, Tadei looked like he was waiting for Luton's formation to move, and he immediately pushed the ball down the middle!

De Rossi, who was inserted in the back row, shot directly with a kick!!

The loud sound startled the fans at the scene.

However, the football is grazing the crossbar and going out of the bottom line.

Gao Bo also breathed a sigh of relief. He now saw what Ranieri was up to.

Roma were small in attack, with Menes trying to break down the flank, but Luton's formation quickly moved. And Rome seems to have been mentally prepared for a long time.

The center pulls the ball wide for Menes, who then moves the ball wide to the other end.

Gao Bo is still very familiar with the characteristics of Menez, an attacking playmaker who pulls on the wing, not a pure winger.

His footwork can support him in doing so.

Then Tadei on the other wing was just a feint, and the real point of attack was in the middle, and the midfielder inserted to complete the shot. De Rossi still had a long-range shot.

Gao Bo looked at Ranieri not far away.

The Italian head coach has been criticised for his lack of imagination in attack, but in such a game, the one-size-fits-all approach can be hugely useful against Luton Town, as Roma can still have some advantages in terms of individual quality.

The opposition's attacking routine was simple, but Gao Bo also had to defend, and Roma's combination of the wings and the middle of the front, as well as the switching of the two wing-backs up front, created a threat.

In the fifteenth minute of the game, Menes switched to the left.

As a result, Karl Jenkinson fell to the back against Menes, who first tricked Jenkinson with a feint to lose his center of gravity, and then he calmly cut inside and fired from the edge of the box.

The inside instep curled towards the back of the goal.

Schmeichel scrambled to save and he ended up flicking the ball with the tip of his fingers, but it worked, as the ball bounced off the far post and bounced back into the box, before being cleared by George Parker in the box.

"A rather dangerous attack from Roma, youngster Carl Jenkinson couldn't keep up with Menes' rhythm!" Letkinson said with some concern.

'Roma were in very good form for the game, they played directly on both sides with long balls, and the front players on both sides of Roma were almost always close to the wings, and Luton's dense central was bypassed. Redknapp Jr. said.

Menes also found out that Carl Jenkinson was easier to bully than Alex Sandro on the other side, so he simply stayed on the left.

George Parker's clearance went off the touchline and Roma quickly cleared the ball away.

Seeing signs of Roma's attack, Gobo beckoned his players to recuperate.

Gao Bo looked at the current Roma team, despite the absence of Totti, they are still a very strong team in Serie A, and it is no wonder that they can almost win the championship in the second division this season.

Claudio Ranieri's side have never been to be underestimated.

Luton recovered, Roma was not in a hurry to attack, De Rossi became the metronome of Roma's attack, when there was no gap, Roma left the ball at the back, and if Luton wanted to press it out, De Rossi sent the ball long to both sides, allowing Roma's two wide attackers to create some threat on the wing.

As the first half ticked by, the two teams on the pitch were in a state of parity.

Luton were afraid of Roma's wide attack, so they took back the formation, while Roma were afraid of Luton's counterattack, and they did not dare to press on the attack.

The game lasted until the thirtieth minute, and the score on the field was still 0-0.

"Didn't you say you'll be able to score goals soon?" Mrs. Chen squinted her eyes and glanced at the old man suspiciously.

"It's coming... It's really fast.." The old man was a little weak-hearted, so he had to talk about him left and right.