Chapter Eighty-Three: Heads-up with Cafu

Although Totti was desperate to teach Brescia a profound lesson, he soon discovered that Brescia was not easy to deal with today. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This season, due to the weakness of the forward line, the attacking burden of the Roma team has fallen more on Totti. In the first half of the league, Totti scored a hat-trick and almost single-handedly helped Roma to a 3-2 win away at Brescia.

Totti in that game was as unstoppable as a god, with a penalty, a free-kick and a long-range shot from the top of the box. Totti put on full display of his all-round aggression. Totti loves the feeling of saving the team alone, and he is happy to take on the responsibility even if his teammates are not enough.

But it's all based on the condition that they can help the team win the game. Totti suffered a back injury in the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia on 7 February, and although he returned for this game, he was not in good form.

When he couldn't open up the situation, Totti's heart inevitably complained a little about his teammates.

The game started alongside Totti with Marazina, who moved from Chievo during the winter break. As Barty's replacement after leaving Rome, Totti looked down on him from the bottom of his heart. Neither from previous training nor in the competition, Marazina didn't have anything too good. In Totti's opinion, not to mention Batti, even Cassano and Montella on the bench are a hundred times better than this Chievo newcomer who joined halfway.

His striker partner doesn't seem to be able to count on anymore, and his team-mate in midfield seems to be in trouble.

Roma's attacking attack has been like a storm of fire and fierce today, with Pep Guardiola leading the Brescia midfield and dragging the Roma squad into the mire like a net. Whenever Roma completed an attack, the tempo of the game slowed down as soon as the ball fell to his feet, and he slowly controlled the ball at the back, waiting for the Roma players to come forward and press before passing the ball out.

Although Mazzoni asked Guardiola to use the fast tempo to drag down the opponent before the game, Guardiola did not start attacking Roma as soon as he came on the field.

As the commander on the field, he has the right to make some minor adjustments to the manager's tactics.

The rest of the Brescia players didn't rush to get the ball forward, but waited for Guardiola to run out of position and then passed it back without any ambition.

Totti felt that such a match was awkward to play, and the slow pace made him feel like he was in a women's football game.

With Brescia deliberately slowing down the pace of the game, there was a lethargic atmosphere throughout the stadium. There is only one exception. On the side of the pitch near the coach's box, Zhang Shu and Cafu started a sparkling confrontation.

"Boy, you're so slow!" Cafu sneered at Zhang Shu, who was waiting in front of him, and then slammed the ball out of the line. Zhang Shu didn't make any tackles at all, and after observing and judging in slow time and space, the ball had no chance of stealing. So he turned around and followed Cafu to the bottom line.

After finding that they could not open up the situation from the middle, Roma shifted the direction of attack to Cafu's right. Playing against a 17-year-old with a reputation for attack, the Roma players believed Cafu could easily penetrate the Brescia defence.

Cafu did it, and in several confrontations with Zhang Shu, he found that the young man in front of him reacted and judged very quickly. His feints and rhythm changes are difficult to work for him, but he directly uses his body and speed to force a breakthrough with a greater success rate.

Just like now, he only needs to simply wade out of the football, and the Chinese kid on the opposite side can only eat ashes behind his ass.

He dribbled through the ball until Martinez got in front of him and sent the ball into the Brescia box with a 45-degree cross before Zhang Shu could chase it back.

Nicknamed Big Dumb Goose, Del Vecchio headed in a cross from Cafu at the back post, but the ball flew over the crossbar.

Cafu contributed a cross for Roma and Zhang Shu immediately returned the colour. As soon as the football flew off the bottom line, he had already turned and ran towards the Roma half. Pep Guardiola soon spotted the sprinting Zhang Shu, who changed his slow pace of possession and passed the ball directly to Zhang Shu's feet with a direct pass close to the ground.

Unlike Cafu's galloping breakthrough, Zhang Shu's breakthrough is more calm. Facing the Roma right-back Panucci, who was defending him from the position, Zhang Shu disrupted the opponent's pace with a quick stop and accelerated, and then used a simple feint to dunk Panucci.

After passing Panucci, Zhang Shu still wanted to cut inside with the ball, but after being delayed by Panucci for a while, Cafu had already chased back. So Zhang Shu could only take the football to the bottom line along the outside line.

"You go back!" As he passed by Panucci, Cafu shouted to Panucci. The opponent's foot technique was very good, and Cafu was not sure that he would be able to break the ball when the opponent was stationary. But with Zhang Shu's speed, he also can't get rid of his own pursuit and enter the penalty area, and even if he passes himself in a one-on-one situation, he will quickly be caught up by himself with speed, and Cafu has this confidence.

So since both sides can't help each other, then they only need to guard against Zhang Shuhuang's cross after the gap, Panucci can also play at central defender, and it is the best choice to let him return to the middle to increase the air defense in the penalty area.

Things are just as Cafu envisioned, in the narrow side, Zhang Shu keeps changing direction and feints. Cafu stood at a distance of one meter from Zhang Shu, constantly moving his steps with the opponent's movements, sealing the route that the opponent could break through.

5 seconds, 10 seconds, although Cafu played right back in this game, he is actually one of the best right back in the world, and Zhang Shu has not been able to form an effective breakthrough in the face of him.

Brescia's players had no one to respond to Zhang Shu, and the Roma players have been guarding the penalty area out of trust in Cafu. The players on both sides kept their positions in this way, watching the two of them fight bulls on the wing.

"Chance!" Seeing that Zhang Shu had a flaw in smashing the ball too big, Cafu decisively stretched out his foot to grab it, but Zhang Shu kicked it before him, pulled the ball back with the sole of his foot, and then drilled the ball from his other side.

Kafu hurriedly retracted his feet, turned around and took two steps to catch up with Zhang Shu.

Feeling the pressure brought to him by Cafu from the side and back, Zhang Shu made an emergency stop and buckled the ball back with the outside of his right foot.

It took so long, in addition to consuming the physical strength of both sides in vain, and the positions of the two people returned to the original point.