Before this match, many people fantasized about the Lazio vs Sampdoria matchup.

Sampdoria fans, in particular, fantasize about their team beating Lazio away from home, just as they beat Inter Milan at home.

Then they can hold their heads up and announce that Sampdoria, which dominated Serie A back then!

They also fantasized about many ways to beat Lazio.

But when the game actually started, they realized that fantasy is fantasy after all.

The people who were expecting Lazio before the game are now silent.

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In this game, Sampdoria's manager Del Neri was not carried away by the top position in the league and ran to the Stadio Olimpico in Rome to play against Lazio.

He opted for a defensive counter-attack.

Although Sampdoria's attack has improved a lot this season.

Because they have Cassano, who is transferred from Real Madrid, and Pazzini, who is transferred from Fiorentina.

But in this game, Del Neri did not dare to attack against Lazio.

Now let alone Serie A, even in the whole of Europe, there is no team that dares to play against Lazio.

Attacking is a dead end.

Let's play Lazio in the tradition of Italian football, the defence.

From a tactical point of view, Sampdoria made the right choice.

It's better to defend than to attack.

They also managed to defend their own goal in the first half, drawing 0-0 with Lazio.

This also made Sampdoria fans and those commentators and reporters who like Lazio lose very excited for a while.

I thought Sampdoria could really play with Lazio for a long time.

As a result, in the second half, they realized that they were really too young, too simple.

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The second half was a chance to test that new idea.

David Silva, Cazorla and Luka Modric can all organise the attack. So Chang Sheng didn't assign them specific tasks, nor did he tell them how to play, but just let them cooperate freely and seek opportunities.

As a result, Lazio's attack in the second half suddenly became incomprehensible.

I really can't understand it, because there is no pattern to follow. It is not known exactly how Lazio's attack will play.

When Modric gets the ball. He is the heart of the organization and will be targeted by the opposition.

But he can pass the football to David Silva.

David Silva's performance against Fiorentina last time out was a testament to his playmaking ability and talent, and Sampdoria should not be taken lightly.

David Silva then passed the football to Cazorla.

In Sampdoria's eyes, Cazorla's threat is naturally not as high as David Silva and Luka Modric.

As a result, Cazorla used his breakthrough to disrupt the opposition defence. Gave the football to Gotze. Gotze shoots in the corner of the penalty area!

The soccer ball draws a wonderful arc. Bypassing Sampdoria goalkeeper Luca Castellazzi, he fell into the fillet of the goal!

This time. Only nine minutes into the second half......

Italy's gold medal commentator Fabio Caresza is naturally better than other commentators, and he saw the problem at a glance and said: "Lazio's attack is unguardable!" ”

That's why everyone in Lazio is at the heart of the organization.

In order to make the offense unguardable, in order to overwhelm the opponent!

The attack just now is typical.

Sampdoria kept Modric at bay. David Silva was also guarded, but they didn't expect Cazorla to turn into the player who delivered the final lethal pass.

Of course, if Cazorla is also blocked, it doesn't matter, Lazio also has Ledesma, a midfielder who can be inserted back, and Gotze, a golden boy.

In short, when the Lazio offensive began to work. Be sure to make your opponent feel desperate!

So that they don't know what to do!

Let them finally feel that sitting down, closing their eyes and waiting for death is the only option......

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The dream is very full, but the reality is very skinny.

As Gotze and the rest of the Lazio players cheered for the goal, the Sampdoria fans in front of the TV and in the stands fell silent.

They are hoping to beat Lazio away from home. As a result, they are now behind Lazio.

Although only one goal behind......

But Sampdoria fans, who have been watching Serie A for many years, know that Lazio like to play downwind the most, and when they take the lead, the game almost enters their rhythm.

They play with ease, while their opponents are uncomfortable.

So when Lazio took the lead, many Sampdoria fans fell silent. They know that big things are bad.

Sure enough, Lazio then got into their rhythm completely.

Taking a lead allowed Lazio, who had the advantage of possession, to play relaxedly.

This spirit is relaxed, and the kick is natural.

Because there is no pressure, you can do whatever you want.

And doing what you want is the realm that a winning midfield combination requires to be played.

When you're doing whatever you want, how can your opponent know what you're going to do next? Not sure what you're going to do next, how do they defend it?

In the box with the best position in the stands, assistant coach Rudy Gonzalez was standing there, and he did not follow his other colleagues to the dugout, but was here in the box.

His task was to shoot the video of the match.

In front of him was a tripod with a camcorder mounted on it.

He was responsible for filming the game from a global perspective, going back and cutting out the useless things, such as footage of the opponent's attack, and editing it into a collection of Lazio's attack, which was then used as a reference.

The coaching staff can use these recordings to identify the problems and potential of new tactics and thus adjust themselves.

It can also be shown to the players, telling the players their gains and losses, where they need to pay attention to, and where they need to improve.

Rudy Gonzalez watches the game through the camera's LCD display.

Because the screen is small and the camera is long-range, the players look like little black dots.

Fans must not like this kind of broadcast footage because they can't see anything clearly. They want to see the players put on a great individual performance. Nice dribbles and shots, as well as unexpected saves......

None of this perspective can be shown.

But as a coach, this perspective is just right.

He can see every player's running and passing routes.

Rudy Gonzalez looked at the court and had to admire the idea of winning a lot.

Lazio will still look a little messy when attacking now. But there are some shining spots in the chaos.

The previous Mad Dog tactics saw the team as a whole as a sophisticated machine. And the players are the components of the machine. Each person has a role to play. As long as the coach sets the program, the machine will follow the program.

Although the efficiency is good. But the subjective initiative is poor, and since it is a machine, there are rules to follow, and it is easy for masters to study thoroughly.

Chang Sheng is right, with the success of the two teams of Lazio and Barcelona. There will be more and more teams looking at how to defend them, how to contain them.

In the future, there will be less and less space for Lazio to play tiki-taka.

If you don't want to make progress, you will reach a dead end.

Even if they had nine successful seasons, perhaps the failure of the last season would have been enough to bury them and the previous nine seasons!

Now this new tactic gives full play to the creativity of the players themselves.

Stimulate their imagination and assist agency, from "what the coach tells us to do" to "what we want to do".

This improves the unpredictability of tactics and makes it not so easy for opponents to study thoroughly. Because of the study of this tactic. It's like studying every player in Lazio, and it's not an easy task.

Of course, there's a downside to letting the players play on their own, and that's that you can't control what they think and how they behave. There are times when everyone thinks that passing the ball is better than shooting, and if you pick up a player, your brain will twitch and your blood will come to your head, and the result will be that the football will shoot away and the team will lose the game......

That's where the coaches come in.

By going over and over the video footage of each game, we can identify the problems, weed out the choices that are clearly wrong, and show the players that these choices should never be made.

The rest is free to play.

It's not a full sense of freedom, but there's no such thing as freedom in the full sense of the word. Everyone plays in one box, and that's what "dancing with shackles" means.

A scope must be defined so that it can be effectively controlled.

The video recording now is also for the purpose of delineating the scope in the future.

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When Lazio's attack was thoroughly fought, Sampdoria did feel that it was difficult to defend.

As a result, they conceded two goals in a row in the subsequent game and lost 0:3.

Of course, if it weren't for Lazio himself wasting a lot of offensive opportunities, for example, because the game was too chaotic, Lazio himself didn't know how to attack in the end...... The score could be a little higher in this game.

However, the match proved at least one thing to Lazio's coaching staff, and that was that the new tactics proposed by Changsheng and Rudy Gonzalez were viable and effective.

For a perennial win, that's a bigger win than three points.

When the two managers shook hands after the game, Del Neri asked: "I have a question, Chang. Did you deliberately orchestrate the situation at the end of the second half? ”

Chang Sheng hurriedly spread his hands and shook his head, looking helpless: "This is not. Actually, I'm helpless...... The players seem to be getting too excited......"

Delneri shook his head: "Yes, I can also see that your own attack is also a bit chaotic...... It's a pity......"

Then he shook his head and turned away.

He still muttered "It's a pity, it's a pity."

As for what he is sorry for......

Chang Sheng vaguely guessed.

That's why he told Delneri the truth.

This is Lazio's ultimate weapon in the future, and he will take the initiative to reveal it to his opponent if he has a problem with his brain.

Even if he is proud of this tactic, he will not show it off everywhere.

Tactics are used to defeat the enemy and win victories, not to show off.

ps: The fourth update is coming, it's a little late today, and I hope there will be eight more chapters in the end!

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