Millwall locker room.

Hearing Zhang Yang's serious words, the players fell silent, and many people looked back on the recent games and were deeply touched by Zhang Yang's words.

The new players are better, they don't feel deeply, and some of them still feel strange in their hearts, "Could it be that the team played really simple football last season?" ”

That's where the weirdness goes.

Players such as Quaresma, Zambrotta, Traore and other players, after entering the team, began to play the 'double core' tactics after training with the team, and the team was extremely skillful in cooperation, and they all felt that Millwall was a team based on technology, otherwise how could it change so much?

The old players were deeply touched, and they all lowered their heads to reflect.

Looking back at last season, and even last season, Millwall didn't play any technical football at all, and there were some combinations, but they were definitely not smooth, and most of them were very simple.

Like, an ordinary counterattack.

In the past, playing a counterattack was to find someone, and the backcourt passed to the front court, or passed to other teammates, either a big foot, or a quick forward, and there was cooperation in the middle, but the number of times was very limited, and it was precisely by relying on simple cooperation that the team continued to defeat one opponent after another, and finally won the league championship.

This season is different.

There are a few new players in the team, and their skills are very good, especially Quaresma and Pire, which can definitely be said to be very good, and the 'dual-core' tactics also provide a platform to show their skills, so they began to constantly pursue 'technicality'.

Deliver!

Dazzling fit!

Whenever they play a wonderful game, many players feel very proud, they are intoxicated by it, and they experience the passion of technical football.

But has the team's overall performance improved?

Everyone knows what to expect.

Although the team is still at the top of the league and the Champions League has also gone all the way, winning two games, it can only be said that there is no decline compared to last season's results, especially in the league, when playing against several opponents, they have not won easily.

The outside world blames the 'international break syndrome', but is it all due to the 'international break'?

That's not it!

Morris, Simpson, Smitchell, Pire, etc., many of the main players in the team did not enter the national team, but got plenty of rest during the international break.

Now they know why!

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Zhang Yang thinks deeply about the team's problems.

When he found a problem, he immediately knew that it was a big deal and that it must be corrected in time.

Although the problem has not developed to a big extent, but if you want to correct it, it is not a few words to solve, 'habit' is a terrible thing, when some players are used to cooperating with teammates, the first reaction is difficult to think of a breakthrough, when the whole team is used to cooperating, simple football is difficult to play.

Fortunately, the problem did not occur for long, and the team can get back on the right path through the next games.

Zhang Yang talked about the style of play in the second half.

The point mentioned by Zhang Yang is very simple, "David, you have to increase the number of times you come forward, Jody, help pay attention to the defense." ”

It's not about Morris and Livermore switching positions, it's just a reminder for Morris to pay attention to defense, and Livermore has to step up to assist.

Livermore is the antidote to the problem.

Livermore is definitely the lonely one when the other players are constantly cooperating, he rarely cooperates with his teammates, and it is very good to touch the ball once or twice every time he attacks.

This is a limitation of Livermore's abilities, and it is also his specific personal style.

When Livermoree plugs in, it makes football simple, he can almost impossible to play 'complex football', he can become a 'benchmark' for the whole team, and let others think carefully about how simple football is played.

In addition, Livermore is also the key to breaking down the Roma defence, and his one-shot ability can completely ignore the opponent's defense.

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The second half began.

Roma did not make any adjustments due to the dominance in the first half, with manager Luciano Spalletti praising the performance of the whole team and asking them to continue their efforts and try to take away the three points.

"It looks like the opposition can't defend against us." "But we have to be careful, the defense is the most important thing and if we can keep the goal, we won't fail." ”

Spalletti spoke about the Millwall players to focus on, with Darren Bent being one and Pire one.

Not the rest.

Spalletti didn't see any threat from the other players.

Spalletti is clear that other Millwall players are weaker than Roma in terms of individual ability, and it is not easy to rely on cooperation to break through the Roma defence, and it is even less likely that they will rely on individual skills.

Spalletti's confidence was quite good, but before five minutes of the second half, his brow furrowed slightly.

He felt something was wrong.

Spalletti has been the head coach for 10 years, first at Empoli, during which he led Empoli from Serie C to Serie A, and then coached Sampdoria, Venezia, Udinese and other clubs, and also led Udinese to fourth place in Serie A and Champions League qualification.

Such a resume is enough to see that Spalletti is excellent.

But when it comes to leading the team to the Champions League, Spalletti has very little experience, and for him, the Champions League is also a place to accumulate experience.

In the first half against Millwall, Spalletti already had a general impression: an English team that pursues a technical style of football.

"Quite outstanding!"

That's what Spalletti had to say about Millwall.

Millwall and Roma were a bit passive in the game, but Spalletti felt that the opponent's performance was already very good, causing enough trouble for Roma, and the dazzling coordination made even Roma feel a headache.

In the second half, things seemed to have changed?

Millwall have played well in the last five minutes, but Spalletti watched the game and always felt that something was wrong.

Strange!

This time Millwall attacked again, and Spalletti watched carefully.

The ball was passed from the wing to the middle, Morris passed back to the backfielder, a defender stepped forward and slotted the ball to the left side of the field, and Pire's scramble for the ball was successfully pushed across to Smitchell.

Smitchell swept the field and suddenly accelerated, as if to pass De Rossi.

Two steps later, De Rossi posted it.

At this time, Smitchell suddenly crossed to the right side, and a tall figure rushed up.

"That's him!"

Spalletti has finally discovered where the change is!

From the second half of the game, the tall man, who seemed to be named Livermore, began to push forward, but most of the time, he was doing useless work and didn't seem to bring much help to the other team.

As an experienced manager, Spalletti knows it can't be a player's personal will, it must be a change made by the opposing manager.

But why?

"Do you want this tall man to disrupt the team's defensive formation?"

Spalletti thought.

Then he found out why!

Livermore stepped forward a few times before, and there were people defending next to him, and his teammates didn't pass the ball over, and he didn't even touch the ball in the front court.

This time, here's your chance!

Smitchell's transfer was abrupt, De Rossi next to him did not react, and the other Roma players, attracted by Millwall's cooperation on the left, did not have time to do anything at all.

Livermore runs out of the open seat!

Watching the football roll sideways, Livermore waved his right foot without hesitation!

"He's going to shoot !?"

Every Roma player who saw Livermore's action had some doubts in their hearts, and many of them couldn't pronounce Livermore's name, but the mood was the same at the moment.

Is that a shot?

But the location is too far away!

Goalkeeper Doni was in the same mood when he saw Livermore rushing over and swinging his right foot directly at the ball, which was completely incomprehensible for a while.

It's too far!

Almost thirty meters!

If it could be scored, it would be an amazing shock, but it's a pity that Doni believes he won't let it happen.

"Bang!"

Livermore's right foot made head-on contact with the football, and with a strong drive, the ball instantly whizzed towards the Roma goal.

Doni suddenly tensed.

Just a second ago, he was still relaxed, he didn't think that any player could be in that position, creating a threat to his goal, but when the football rushed over, he found that there was not much time to react, but thirty meters was a bit too far after all, and Doni still made the right judgment.

He lunged to the left!

While his body was still in mid-air, Doni glanced up at the front, and then realized that he must not be able to pounce.

The angle of the football is too big!

"It should be out of the line!" Dhoni chimed in a glimmer of hope, and then the muffled sound of a soccer ball hitting the post gave him a long breath and his body relaxed as he fell to the ground.

But then the loud cheers from the stadium made Doni realize the turn, and he slowly turned his head to look at the goal, where the football was bouncing like a writhing elf.

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“Goooooooooooooal！！！”

Stadium radio Mike Johnson let out the biggest shout since the opening kick-off, "Goooal!! Goal！ Goal！！！ The ball is in! Entered! Entered! Livermore! Livermore! David! David! He's a hero! He's a miracle! He's the master of Neil Stadium! ”

"He, David Livermore, scored a long-range world wave! It was a real world wave, thirty meters from the goal, and the football seemed to cross a third of the pitch and fly directly into the Roma goal! ”

"That's still a dead end! The ball hit the post and bounced to score! Pretty! It's just so beautiful! ”

"Roma's goalkeeper Doni probably wants to cry, and any goalkeeper in the world can't save a shot like this!"

"This is Livermore! Livermore! When it matters most, he can step up and help the team score! Maybe in the team's lineup, Livermore is not too conspicuous, but this goal is enough to make all Roma supporters remember his name! ”

"I repeat it again! It was the one who just scored the goal—"

"David—"

—Livermore——!!