Brescia, who returned from Turkey, didn't have much time to reflect on their first Champions League win before jumping back into the league. Three days after www.biquge.info, they defeated Reggina 4-3 at home.

In this game, Baggio, who was well rested, scored a hat-trick of assists, while Zhang Shu scored two goals, and the other two players who scored were Toney and Di Biagio.

Japanese midfielder Shunsuke Nakamura, who still plays for Reggina this season, also relied on a free kick and a penalty to draw 2:2 with Zhang Shu in personal data, but in the eyes of Chinese fans and media, Zhang Shu, who led Brescia to victory over his opponent, is undoubtedly the winner of this East Asian derby.

After the game, the Chinese media once again began to hype up the topic of Zhang Shu's victory over the Japanese player, only this time, the reaction of Chinese fans was much more muted.

After all, after watching Zhang Shu's game for so long, everyone knows that Zhang Shu is much more powerful than Shunsuke Nakamura, and now Chinese fans don't look down on Nakamura a little, isn't it normal for them to perform better than that Japanese in their hearts? What is there to discuss.

Their vision has been raised by Zhang Shuyang, what is the core of the Serie A relegation team? Our Zhang Shu is going to be a core player in the future.

The reaction of the fans disappointed the media, and the next game was originally an East Asian derby, with Japanese striker Atsushi Yanagisawa coming to Serie A this season, and Sampdoria who he joined was Brescia's opponent in the next round of the league.

But so far, he has not won the position of the main force, and seeing that Chinese fans have lost interest in Shunsuke Nakamura, the media is too lazy to hype the showdown between Zhang Shu and Atsushi Yanagisawa.

After all, Atsushi Yanagisawa doesn't even know whether he is playing or not, so what's the point of frying?

After two games, Brescia's attacking transitions have become more and more fluid, with a total of 11 goals scored in their last three games, and it looks like the front three are full of firepower.

However, Mazzoni was a little unhappy with conceding three goals in this game.

In the goalkeeper position, Castellazzi, who returned from Reggina from his loan spell, was less consistent than Sereni in the past, and after a low-level mistake in the first round of the league, he once again gave a big gift against his old club, and in the face of Shunsuke Nakamura's 45-degree cross, he came out but failed to touch the football, and as a result, Reggina striker Di Michele who was ambushed behind him scored an empty goal.

While the goalkeeper position requires consistency, Mazzoni is already considering giving backup goalkeeper Agriadi a try in the Coppa Italia starting next month.

In addition to the goalkeeper problem, another reason for conceding more goals is the speed of the defensive formation.

After the loss of Appia, Brescia's midfield interception ability has dropped considerably. Although Di Biagio is tough and does not lose to the Ghanaian, after all, he is old, and he really can't cover the entire midfield defense like Appiah did when he needs to often insert and take care of the attack.

So this season, Brescia's defensive strategy is to rely on the numerical advantage of three back four to increase the depth of the defense.

However, this requires the team to be able to complete the transition from attack to defense before the opponent launches a counterattack after the attack fails.

However, the team is still a little inexperienced in how to distribute the focus of the Champions League and the league, because the Champions League match with Besiktas a few days ago consumed too much energy and physical energy of the players, and the speed of the players after returning to the league is still inevitably reduced a lot. Although the frontcourt players still tried to slow down the opponent's counterattack by pressing high post, Reggina still relied on counterattacks to penetrate Brescia's goal three times in this game.

This defensive ability has Mazzoni a little worried. After all, in a league like Serie A, other teams are only more quick and lethal than Reggina in their counter-attacking ability.

However, Mazzoni has no solution to this problem. One can only hope that the team will be able to adjust themselves and adapt to the rhythm of the Champions League and the league as soon as possible.

Seven days later, on 28 September, Brescia travelled to challenge promoted Sampdoria.

Speaking of Sampdoria, although they are only a promoted team this season, they are very familiar to the hearts of the older generation of Chinese fans. If you exclude the top three in the north, in terms of popularity in the minds of Chinese fans, Sampdoria is not inferior to Roma, Lazio, Parma, Fiorentina and other middle and upper teams.

The team, known as the "Mariners", was a powerhouse in Serie A in the 80s and 90s, and in the 90-91 season they defeated Napoli with Maradona to win the Serie A title and win the Super Cup that year. They reached the final of the Champions League the following year, and after 90 minutes of fierce action against Barcelona, Barcelona won a hard-fought victory over them in extra time thanks to Koeman's goal.

At that time, Sampdoria was star-studded, and the team had the current Lazio manager, Mancini, who was only 18 years old at the time, the only player in the history of world football to win the three major European Cups and runner-up Vialli, one of the three Dutch musketeers, Ruud Gullit, free kick master Mihajlovic, and Seedorf, Veron, Ortega, Klinsmann, Chiesa, Montella and other stars.

At that time, even their youth team coach had just retired from Sampdoria and would become known as the Silver Fox Lippi.

The biggest reason why Sampdoria is well-known to Chinese fans is that they visited China twice in 94 and 95, compared to AC Milan who visited China in the same year, Sampdoria was more friendly and dedicated, and their friendliness and enthusiasm for Chinese fans left a deep impression on Chinese fans. At that time, almost all the young fans had a Sampdoria pirated jersey, and in the football fever that had just arisen in the land of China because of the A professional league, the children who wore Sampdoria jerseys and played in the streets and alleys were also an indelible figure in many people's memories.

In the hearts of many Chinese fans, there is a feeling for Sampdoria, and this team carries the simple complex when they first watched the game.

However, now that Brescia has Zhang Shu, for most Chinese fans, which side to support is something that does not need to be considered.

In preparation for the Champions League match on October 2, Mazzoni made a significant rotation of the squad for this game. Baggio and Pep Guardiola were on the bench, with Bacchini and Mauri taking their place. Caracciolo, who returned from loan at the front, also got his first chance to play and will replace Toney as the starting centre-forward.

In Mazzoni's heart, facing Sampdoria, who has just returned to Serie A, even Brescia, who has half a main lineup, should have a fighting strength away from home.

As a result, just 10 minutes into the game, Sampdoria scored.

"Oops, Brescia's luck isn't so good!" Fabio shook his head. Originally, Brescia's defence was fully prepared, and Sampdoria striker Bazzani had no choice but to take a casual kick from outside the box, only to be blocked by Dainelli's outstretched foot in the box. The ball changed direction and bounced towards the other end of the goal.

Castellazzi, who had already saved, could only lie on the turf and watch the football slowly roll into the goal.

The unplanned goal left Brescia's players frustrated. They quickly launched a counter-attack against Sampdoria's goal, hoping to erase the gap as soon as possible.

As a result, in the 22nd minute, Sampdoria capitalized on a mistake in Brescia's attack and launched a counter-attack from the wing before Martinez, who had the assist, could return to the defense. In the end, another striker, Vladhi, scored again in the middle.

"Brescia is in some trouble at this time, and for the next Champions League match, coach Mazzoni has hidden most of the main lineup. Now it looks like he's a bit overwhelmed. Without Pep Guardiola's scheduling, Brescia's control of the tempo in the attack has still declined to a certain extent. This conceded goal was caused by the steal of the previous offense, and Zhang Shu was alone in the front court. ”

Huang *Jian*Xiang has already begun to help Zhang Shu find an excuse to lose. It was just over 20 minutes before two goals fell behind, still away, and in the hearts of many people, Brescia was unlucky in this game.

'Now it's up to Brescia to pull a goal back before the end of the first half, and if they go into the break with a 2-0 scoreline, Brescia will have a hard time playing in the second half.' Director Zhang also said the same.

Conceding two goals in a row made Brescia's players a little confused, and many players had a blank look on their faces.

We don't have much of a disadvantage, why are we two goals behind?

"What are you doing???!!! A voice suddenly exploded on the court, "What are you doing!! ”

With Baggio, Filippini and Pep Guardiola not playing today, the captain's armband was on Di Biagio's arm, and he was yelling at the players at the back.

"Focus! Don't get distracted! Didn't you eat! He roared as he ran back to the goal, snatched the ball from a dejected Castellazzi, and ran towards the centre circle with the ball, spitting at every teammate around him along the way.

"Zhang! Come back a little! Pep isn't here today, don't keep standing in front waiting for the ball! ”

Zhang Shu had just run back to midfield when Di Biagio pulled his jersey.

'We have to score a goal before the end of the first half!' Di Biagio said viciously, "No matter what method you use, get one in anyway!" After speaking, he didn't wait for Zhang Shu to answer, and directly pushed Zhang Shu into the middle circle, and went to find someone else.

Seeing that Bacchini on the other side was so trained that he didn't dare to raise his head, Zhang Shu brought the ball that Di Biagio threw in the center circle to the tee-off, and then he crossed his waist and stepped on the ball and waited for Caracciolo to come and kick off.

"Damn, that's unpleasant." Caracciolo was also scolded by Di Biagio at this time, and he muttered into the center circle and stood next to the ball. This sentence quickly resonated with Zhang Shu.

"yes, that's not cool."

"Right? Zhang, you think so too, don't you? It's not our responsibility to concede the ball, what to yell at us... When Caracciolo heard Zhang Shu's words, he suddenly felt as if he had found a comrade-in-arms on the same front.

But Zhang Shu's unhappiness and his unhappiness are obviously not the same kind.

"No, I mean, it's really unpleasant to look at the smug expression on the other side." Zhang Shu replied, "Okay, Andre, recover a little later, run more, as long as we score as soon as possible, Gigi will have nothing to say." ”

"Gigi is like this, it's easy for young players to be dissatisfied with him." On the sidelines of the pitch, Baggio, who saw the scene, was discussing with Pep Guardiola.

'Everybody has their own style of leading the team, so don't worry about that, Gigi doesn't care what other people think of him.' Pep Guardiola shrugged, "Sometimes, you need such a villain in the team. ”

As he said the word "villain", Guardiola raised his hands to the sides of his head, bent his index and middle fingers, and made a quotation mark gesture to Baggio. 'You're too laissez-faire with the youngsters, they're going to charge after you when you're on the pitch, but they're running low when you're not playing.

"Who said that, Zhang is not like this."

"Ha, you only have Zhang in your eyes now, if you become a coach in the future, it's not okay, Zhang is not the only one in a team."

"I'm not like you, and I'm not going to be a coach in the future."

Although Baggio has some criticism of Di Biagio's leadership style, it has to be said that Di Biagio's method is still very effective. When the game resumed, the Brescia players on the pitch were much more motivated.

For Brescia's new tactics this season, the most important foundation is for everyone to run widely. When attacking, you need to rely on running to form a local numerical advantage, and when defending, you also need to run to limit the opponent's passing.

Without running, the delicate coordination practiced in pre-season training became an attic on the floating sand, and the original flowing formation became a pool of stagnant water.

Brescia's fitness is not too much of a problem for this game, Mazzoni has rotated most of the players, and with a week's rest after the last game, the players have fully recovered.

But for the players, it's not just the fitness that affects their ability to run that is more important than their positivity.

Since participating in the Champions League, many players always feel that they can't lift their energy in the league, and the next Champions League match with Porto is next, and many people's hearts have already flown to 4 days later, so naturally they are a little absent-minded in this game.

At this time, Di Biagio woke them up. No one dared to resist this grumpy veteran, and in order not to be scolded again, the players showed 120 percent motivation.

Coupled with Zhang Shu's retreat, Brescia's offensive finally began to improve. (To be continued.) )