48. A blockbuster
From the moment the referee blew the opening whistle, Corradi and Mex, the brothers, were in sight.
Corradi deliberately swam around Mex, who also did not let him out of three meters from him.
The most flexible player in Lazio's midfield position is none other than Fiore, who did not accelerate to break through the blockade of Kaladze like a winger after receiving the ball, but cut horizontally to the middle, and flexibly avoided Van der Vaart's entanglement and suddenly made a light pick!
The pass was deliberately high, and the result of slowing down the ball was that many defenders would make mistakes in their judgment, thinking that the ball had time to get stuck in front of them, but they didn't know that the pass could turn into a trap.
Corradi had the idea that once Mexes got around the front, he could jump up and tap the ball with his head to change direction, and then quickly turn around, and if he was lucky, it would be enough to make a dangerous breakthrough, and then it would be all a matter of passing or shooting.
Mexes also moved when Fiore picked up a pass into the penalty area, and the idea of breaking the ball around the front was just a flash in his heart, and immediately disappeared, but Jiang Qi's words suddenly came out of his heart.
"The most important thing is position, never take risks, as a defender, consistency trumps everything!"
Costacuta's words of guidance in training were still in his ears, and he immediately suppressed the Frenchman's floating spirit, stepped behind Corradi's back and clung to prevent him from turning, and then used his knees to push the center of gravity of the Blue Eagles forward, while his hands were naturally open to signal to the referee that there was no movement in his hands.
Corradi, who was squeezed and slightly unstable, couldn't jump, and finally didn't control the landing point of the football, but was nodded by Mex's head to Cafu on the right side.
Corradi vs Mex, first leg, Mexs wins!
Lazio made a comeback, Cesar forced a break through Cafu on the left and then crossed with his feet, the football was blocked by Cafu with a kick, and there was a strange change of direction in the arc, Corradi hurriedly adjusted his pace but slammed into a human wall, it turned out that Mex's judgment of the landing point of the ball was earlier than him, and he had been waiting for a long time.
Jiang Qi snickered from the sidelines, no matter how you look at this scene, it looks like the San Siro version of the Waiting for the Rabbit, but the French played the role of the half of the stump.
Corradi vs Mex, in the second leg, Mexes won again!
AC Milan attacked around Lazio's penalty area, Kaka's through pass was suddenly intercepted by Cuto, and then the long pass that happened to flash accurately found Corradi who was cruising in the front, and the high school striker could have stopped a little and waited for Lopes to plug in at high speed and then pass it as a good fulcrum.
However, the defeat in the first two rounds of the battle made Corradi's heart feel a nameless fire, seeing Mex's pressure in front of him, and after a right-footed buckle, he was about to accelerate the ball past the Frenchman.
Corradi actually has good foot work, and it is not too difficult to pass a person, but he didn't expect the Frenchman to decisively put the shovel directly, and left the ball with a long leg, and then got up quickly and broke the ball to counterattack!
Corradi vs Mex, in the third round, it was Mexx who won!
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Three consecutive one-on-one battles against the Frenchmen ended in failure, Corradi became more and more agitated, and gradually he changed from the axis of Lazio's front field to a jammed gear, and the attack suddenly stalled as soon as he reached his point, and even received a yellow card for excessive counter-attack after the ball was broken.
Even Mancini on the sidelines saw that Corradi's state was not quite right, and couldn't help frowning, nearly half an hour has passed since the opening, Corradi has not taken advantage of Mex's defense at all, and he has been completely disrupted, resulting in the difficulty of the entire team's offensive operation.
"Could it be that the young manager on the other side really has a trick to make a rookie central defender mature and calm overnight, like an old Jianghu who has worked hard in Serie A for many years?" Mancini glanced at Jiang Qi's direction, but secretly shook his head to deny this idea, "The growth of defenders often takes a year or even several years of league experience, and many defenders only gradually find that state after they are 25 or 6 years old, and the Frenchman has only played one official game so far, and he is still facing a fish belly opponent in the Champions League group......"
Just when Mancho was pondering the reason for Mex's sudden transformation and never got the point, the Frenchman, who was unusually calm on the defensive end, also shined on the offensive end!
Many times on the football field, you will feel that it is actually shrouded in an invisible layer of luck, which itself will not add to the superfluous part, but will be based on the performance of both sides, just like two people wrestling with each other.
Lazio's attack was blocked, and the natural momentum gradually declined, while the AC Milan side began to gradually control the dominance of the battle!
In the 32nd minute, Rui Costa was brought down by Liverani when he broke down on the right side of the pitch and was given a set-piece opportunity.
Maldini motioned for Mexes and Kaladze to go up and grab the spot, while he and Cafu crouched in the center circle to intercept.
It is customary for Andrea Pirlo to take set-pieces, and before the run, Sleepy raised his right hand to signal to his team-mate. Mexes noticed that the little finger of his raised right hand was slightly bent, which was the team's prescribed tactical code, and the set-piece would land at the back point.
Coincidentally, it was Corradi, the former opponent after the exchange of attack and defence, who was targeting the French defender at the moment, and thinking about the high schooler's anxiety when facing him, Mexs grinned and designed a running route for himself.
He rubbed to the front point first, hid in the crowd, waiting for the moment when Pirlo's right foot touched the ball, and suddenly ran in reverse and went straight to the back point!
Mex's actual don't know whether the ball can finally fall to the back point as agreed, he just runs strictly according to the tactical arrangement, and doesn't care how the ball will run!
And it was this idea that got rid of Corradi who was guarding him in an instant, knowing that Lazio's high school striker was staring at the trajectory of the ball to judge its landing point at the moment when Mex's start, completely forgetting that the defender's rule is "marking is more important than marking the ball......
"Pirlo came to take the free-kick and the ball went to the back post, Mex! Header! The ball is in! "In the first 30 minutes of the first half, Mexes was almost the most eye-catching player in the game, and he defended Corradi almost at a loss, like a lost mustang, unable to find the direction of the attack at all!" And now he is the first to knock on the door of the opponent for AC Milan, and he has performed well at both ends of the pitch! ”
"Now we think back to what Mancini said before the game, it seems that he is more of a prophet than Giangchi, but there is one thing he did not predict, and that is that his Lazio team will become a stepping stone to the success of the French defenders!"
"Reminiscent of the outside media's speculation about the dialogue between Mancini and Jiang Qi, Mancho's real purpose may be to force Jiang Qi to arrange for Mexes to play with agitation, and now it seems that he really responds to the old saying 'lift a stone but hit his own feet'!"
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