Chapter 8: The Battle of Lazio (Part I)
After the unexpected loss to Modena at home, Prandelli and Chen Fei further improved their intensity during training, especially the cancellation of the no-ball warm-up, and there was the ball throughout the whole process from the beginning of the warm-up, which made the players and Prandelli very confused at first, but after 2 weeks of training, the players' sense of the ball has indeed been greatly improved, which made Prandelli's previous mustard against Chen Fei slightly diluted. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info And the boys of the youth team are finally worthy of the high-intensity training during this time, defeating AC Milan and Inter Milan in two consecutive away games, and Chen Fei's new 433 for the youth team is becoming more and more proficient:
Locatelli finally overcame his problem of liking the edge and not the in-cutting slightly, he was not slow, coupled with the lateral pull, so that the opposing full-back was forced to adduct and take care of the defense in the middle, so his left wing-back pressed to make a cross was more threatening; After Frio mentioned the back midfield, he slowly overcame his penchant for the right, and gradually stopped leaving a large "Colosseum" between him and Tachinatti; On the right, the Zenoni brothers are also becoming more and more proficient, both of them have very comprehensive skills and good speed, and Damiano also has a relatively high-quality cross, which makes no team dare to take the two brothers on the right lightly; Rossini narrowed his range of movement up front and reduced his physical exertion, but he made the most of his superiority and became an important pillar of attack in the penalty area.
However, the name of Serie A's "Little World Cup" is not given in vain, Italian football in the 90s is the stage of talent blowout, and aside from Atalanta, Juventus and other "star factories", even before the era of Kragnoti Jinyuan, Lazio, which is recognized as the least important to youth training, has also emerged a lot of decent good seedlings, no, Chen Fei got the next opponent-Lazio's game list, and his eyes fell out, although he had no impression of many names, But there are still a few names that impress Chen Fei as soon as they pop up: former Chievo main winger Danielle? Daniele Franceschini, "Blossom in the Wall", from Lazio Academy but Ligue 1 goalkeeper Flavio? Rome (FlavioRoma。。。。。。 Of course, there are two more people who have to be mentioned: the former legendary Bologna goalscorer, a regular of the Italian national team, Marco? Marco Di Vaio, as well as Alessandro Alejandro, who made his debut at Lazio but was forced to move to AC Milan after paying for the economic crisis caused by Cragnotti's brainless money? Alessandro Nesta!
Before the game, Prandelli and Chen Fei arranged a warm-up training as usual, and then called the players back to the locker room to start today's pre-match preparation meeting. "Today we played 4-3-3 as before, goalkeeper Ambrosio, back C Zenoni, Zanchi, Montero, Poselli; midfielders Tacinati, Mofeo, Frio; Forwards Rossini, Locatelli, D Zenoni. Prandelli didn't hold back, and all at once he threw up the best 11 men he could send on the team at the moment. Although this 4-3-3 is still relatively new to Prandelli, the Italian coach is known for his tactical ability, so Prandelli has a good understanding of this tactic after studying this 4-3-3 carefully.
So he continued: "The key points to pay attention to, first, after the opposing player gets the ball, especially in our 25-35 meters area, the protection of the two backs must be in place, and they must be closely connected with each other, compressing the opponent's space for holding the ball and shooting in this area. Second, when the ball runs on one side, the running of the other side must pay attention to the balance with the opponent's central defender line and the ball, to avoid offside without the ball, especially Darmiano (D Zenoni), you have to set the side, so sometimes you may not pay attention to the situation on the opposite side of Thomas, which is very bad, remember to look at the opposite side more, never offside. Christian, you brother should keep an eye on him at all times. "D Zenoni put his head down, and admittedly, his underside position often wastes the chances created by the opposing side, and that's also an indisputable fact.
"Thomas, after you cut inside, according to Chen, pay attention to the situation behind at any time, Domenik, you should also pay attention to Thomas's side when you press, take the ball when you have the opportunity, either transfer or shoot from a distance, depending on the situation on the field, you have to pay more attention to this." 'Fausto you start a little bit slowly at times, pay attention to the progress on both sides and as soon as you see them dribbling past your parallel line, you have to start right away and try to get a good shot in the box. After saying this, Prandelli looked at Chen Fei: "Chen has anything to say?" ”
Chen Fei thought for a while and said, "Let me add, about the question of defense. The small striker on the opposite side is very fast and very good at shooting, so we don't press too high on the back line when attacking to avoid being offside by him. ”
"All right, kids. Come on, we can! "Oh!!"
With that, the home team's players returned to the field, and the captains of the two sides, Nesta and Tacchinati, finished picking the edges, and then the two sides stood on their feet, and Lazio kicked off first and the game began.
Atalanta's 4-3-3 has gone from strength to ease after several games. In this game, they were also the first to create a goal threat at home: in the 9th minute, Folio successfully stole the opponent's Franceschchini in the midfield, and then found the fast D Zenoni with a 45° diagonal pass. Dzenoni ran high and shook off the opposition left-back, and crossed with his feet, but the first point of the cross was quickly returned to Nesta in the box and cleared into the area of 30 metres. Luckily, the first drop point outside the penalty area was waited for by Mofeo. After the ball bounced off the grass a bit, Mofeo volleyed straight into the ball, but the shot was not completely pressed and went just over the crossbar.
Just when Atlanta was lamenting that they had wasted the opportunity, a fire broke out in their backyard: a Roman kick opened a line that no one expected, and directly found Franceschini, who had almost reached the left line. The latter dribbled forward with the ball at high speed and suddenly accelerated inward at the parallel line of the big penalty line. This completely disrupted Atalanta's defensive system, not only the original right-back C Zenoni did not have time to return to the defense, but even the right central defender Zanchi was taken to the right position by Franceschini's in-cut, and Montero on the left was pulled away more and more. In order to protect the gap between the two, Montero was also forced to close to the right, but he saw Franceschini's ankle shake, and the ball drew an arc and accurately found the unmarked Di Vaio on the other side of the penalty area. The leading scorer certainly didn't miss the chance to unload the ball and slotted it into the far corner of the net. 0-1! The defending champions suffered another opening deficit.
In the 90s, the core of Italian football was the chain defence. In the 1993-1994 season, Capello and his all-star AC Milan won the domestic and Champions League double titles that season with their excellent defense. As a result, the vast majority of coaches can't tolerate a quick counterattack instead of an attack, and a traditional Italian coach like Prandelli is no exception (except, of course, Zeman's kind of "I'm just going to score your N+1s)"). Therefore, Prandelli stood up with a solemn face, called over to C Zenoni, and gave a few words. After listening to the coach's instructions, C Zenoni also looked solemn and nodded.
The ball was placed on the white dot in the centre circle again, ready for the Atalanta players to tee off to resume the game. Chen Fei suddenly stood up at this time and shouted: "Alessio! Then he made a series of gestures. Seeing Chen Fei's movements, Tacinati showed a puzzled expression, but saw Chen Fei nod his head heavily, and Tacinati had no choice but to call Mofeo, Poseli and Locatelli according to Chen Fei's meaning, and whispered in his ear. So, what did Chen Fei's series of actions just now mean?
The referee blew the whistle to restart, and with the movements of the Atlanta players, the meaning of Chen Fei's series of gestures just now finally surfaced. I saw that Locatelli, who was accustomed to being involved in the kick-off, did not go to the tee-off, but handed over the tee to Mofeo and Tacinati. Tacinati nudged the ball forward, and instead of following his usual train of thought, Mofeo chose to return to his own half, but rushed straight forward with the ball himself. Mofeo is not fast, but the victory is sudden, Mofeo directly dribbled the ball along the middle to a position about 40 meters away from the opponent's goal, and then did not observe, and directly kicked a diagonal long pass to the left. Locatelli didn't tee off, but as Mofeo advanced, he increased his speed as fast as he could, and then stopped Mofeo's pass accurately.
Locatelli continued to dribble along the touchline, with no intention of cutting inside. This time he dumbfounded Prandley on the sidelines and shouted, "Thomas, go in, go in!" But Locatelli chose to ignore Prandelli's shouts and continued to go his own way. At this time, something unexpected happened to Prandelli, Locatelli actually got a left-footed cross! In Prandelli's opinion, Locatelli was clearly guilty of the old mistakes, while Chen Fei showed a faint smile, but it was fleeting.
In fact, the accuracy of this ball was not as bad as Prandelli thought, and it did not pass into the penalty area, but instead made a weird reverse arc to the top of the penalty area. Lazio's defence was preceded by a sudden forward by Mofeo, and the gap between the two chains was already very short. Locatelli's cross was actually waited for by Poselli, who also ran to the middle unexpectedly. After Poselli stopped the ball, he immediately picked up his thighs and made a posture to shoot, and the opposing defenders saw that the situation was not good, and rushed directly to prepare for Huang Jiguang to block the eye. But what I didn't expect was that Bossili's leg was halfway up, and he turned into a push, and chose to plug the ground to the right! Tacinati understood it and jumped straight past the opposition's two defensive chains to get a chance to face goalkeeper Roma directly.
At this time, Roma faced Tacinati's single knife, and the whole person was already attracted to the direction of the near corner of the goal, ready to block Tacinati's shot, but Tacinati actually didn't want to shoot at all, and still pushed the ball sideways. At 1-1, the defending champions took advantage of a well-planned blitzkrieg and immediately returned the color.
However, the blitzkrieg was a surprise, Chen Fei used an unprepared quick kick-off to break through Lazio's defense, and then the two sides entered a traditional Italian tug-of-war. In this way, the two sides were deadlocked for more than 20 minutes, and it was not until 5 minutes before the end of the first half that Paulo Frio used a world wave to blast open the door of the Roma guard. At 2-1, the defending champions entered the break with a one-goal lead in the first half. But in the second half, will the lads of Lazio make it so smooth for the defending champions?