Chapter 83 The Priceless Treasure of Chinese Football
After Ji Ming scored this time, he refused the request of his teammates to come up to celebrate, he ran to the front of the coach's seat, and then made a pacifier sucking action to his boss and godfather Chang Sheng.
Everyone knows what this action means.
He dedicated this goal to his boss!
Congratulations to his eldest son!
After the other teammates came up, they also learned Ji Ming's movements to celebrate the goal, and then everyone laughed and flocked to Chang Sheng and hugged him.
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Compared to the joy and warmth of Lazio's side, Manchester United's side seems to be in hell.
Ji Ming's goal did deal a second blow to Manchester United's morale.
And what's worse than the last time is that there is not much time left for United this time!
The goal was even more deadly.
With a little more time, they can also attack and re-score to take the lead on aggregate.
And time can make them a little more relaxed.
Now that time is short, they can't take it easy, and the attack will be undisciplined, and they will rush forward in one go, completely forgetting the space behind them.
Lazio is also a team that is very good at playing defensive counter-attacks, let them fight on the counter-attack, who knows what will happen!
Regardless, United's future seems bleak and there is no hope at all.
This atmosphere of desperation spread within the United squad, with the jubilant cheers of the Lazio fans at the Wanda Stadium being the catalyst.
Many Manchester United players have even lost the motivation to keep playing - what is the use of a game with no victory and no hope?
At this time, perhaps only their manager Mourinho did not give up.
Mourinho is definitely not willing to be eliminated by Lazio like this, because the aggregate score is a draw!
Just because of one away goal, one away goal...... Mourinho is not reconciled!
There are less than ten minutes left, so what?
Mourinho's gambler temperament is on full display at this moment.
He used up his last two substitutions in one go.
It's all strikers. The ones who were replaced were all defenders.
He's already on a desperate gamble.
At this time, don't think about the problem of conceding goals defensively, the total score of 3:3 is lost, and the total score of 3:4 is still lost, it is meaningless.
The point is that they have to score!
In order to score, Mourinho fought hard!
As long as they can score one goal first, they will win the bet!
After scoring first, shrink the defense immediately, and then there should be less time. That's a little bit of time. If they can't get through it, Manchester United deserve to die.
And even if Lazio also scores, it will be much easier for Manchester United's side - if the aggregate score is tied, and the away goals are tied, then extra-time will be played. At this time, psychologically, Manchester United is going to have the advantage.
Mourinho thinks so.
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As Mourinho thought, when Lazio equalised the aggregate score, they immediately reverted to the defence.
Messi and Edinson Cavani were substituted at the same time, with two defenders on the side.
Lazio are going to hold on to the scoreline.
But at the same time, Gotze and Ji Ming are still at the forefront, and their task is simple. It's a counterattack.
As long as there is the right opportunity, he quickly counter-attacks with the ball and relies on his own individual ability to threaten the Manchester United goal.
There will be plenty of free space at the back for them then. In terms of their ability, threatening the United goal is not a problem.
And Ji Ming has fully demonstrated his super individual ability in this game.
You can trust them to give them football.
With just these two men, Lazio can threaten Manchester United.
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In the next game, Manchester United pressed Lazio to play. It looks like it's at Manchester United's home turf.
Lazio, on the other hand, contracted their defence and counter-attacked from time to time. It makes Manchester United very uncomfortable.
With three minutes of stoppage time, Lazio's substitutes were all standing on the sidelines, ready to go in and celebrate.
On Manchester United's side, Jose Mourinho was still standing on the sidelines, his eyes fixed on the pitch.
Unwilling to give up any hope.
In fact, even his assistants, Manchester United's substitutes, may have given up, thinking that they are out of play.
But Mourinho didn't.
Even for a second, he was unwilling to admit defeat.
He can't afford to lose a duel with a constant victory!
Unfortunately, fate did not favor him, and despite his tenacity, he lost to a genius.
Tactical discipline is a regular thing, there are traces to follow, you can restrain the other side, and the other party can restrain you.
But genius is such a thing...... That's hard to say, it's too fanciful.
You don't know when this genius will break out, you don't know how he will break out, you have no countermeasures at all, you can only defend passively, rely on experience, rely on luck.
And this time, unfortunately, luck is not on his side, and experience is of little use to Ji Ming, a genius.
When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the cheers at Wanda Stadium resounded in the sky. When they lost 3-1 at Old Trafford in the first leg, many felt that their hopes of advancing were slim and that it depended on luck.
So their cheers are particularly vigorous now, and there is a sense of rebirth for the rest of their lives.
Amid their cheers, Mourinho kept his previous posture, holding his head slightly high, his mouth on his shoulder, and his expression was serious.
This may be the only action he can express his unwillingness.
He didn't bow his head, even though it was just an ordinary movement. He didn't want to be thought that he had bowed his head and conceded defeat.
Then he went out on the pitch to comfort his players.
This game was also a big blow to those players.
How happy they were when they won 3-1 in the first round.
They thought they could get past Lazio and reach the semi-finals.
Who would have thought that this away trip would turn out to be their last Champions League game of the season.
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At the end of the game, the substitutes on the sidelines rushed onto the pitch, running, hugging, cheering, and celebrating.
Ji Ming was also among them, he kept waving his fists, hugging and high-five his teammates.
There was a camera reporter beside him. Carrying a heavy camera, the camera is always focused on him.
Close-up, close-up, in addition to close-up or close-up.
That's because he's the best in the game.
Everyone knows that Ji Ming is the biggest contributor to Lazio's ability to advance to the semi-finals, or even the only one.
In the first leg, in the absence of Chang Win and Lazio 0:3 behind Manchester United, it was a goal scored by Ji Ming before the end of the game. The team's hopes of advancing were retained.
Looking back now, if it weren't for Ji Ming's goal, Lazio would have been eliminated in the end even if they scored two goals in this game.
In the first leg, he kept the team's hopes of qualifying.
In the second round. He even dominated the game alone.
When the team was unable to open the situation for a long time, he relied on his super individual ability to turn the tide by himself, scoring two goals alone, pulling Lazio back from the edge of the cliff, and then kicking Manchester United off the cliff.
Looking at Ji Ming in the camera, the Italian commentator said: "If you want to say that a star decides the outcome of a game and decides the fate of two teams. I think it's the person in front of me. The twenty-year-old Ji fully demonstrated his ability, he was the protagonist of this game, and all the other players and coaches in this game became his supporting role and served as a foil for him. Terrific! ”
"This is the priceless treasure of Chinese football! Thank you Changsheng! Thank you Lazio! Such a good player has been developed for us! Please cherish him and take care of him. Such a person should be offered like a bodhisattva! The Chinese commentator was also quite excited, he said emotionally.
Chang Sheng appeared in the shot, Chang Sheng grabbed Ji Ming, and then pulled him over. Gave him a hard bear hug.
Chang Sheng praised Ji Ming in this way.
It was a tough game for Lazio, but luckily he had Ji Ming.
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At the post-match press conference. Mourinho pouted and said that he would not admit defeat, anyway, he was making excuses for his own failures, and he absolutely refused to admit that he lost.
He can't admit it, although what he does now will make many people despise him, thinking that he has no gentlemanly demeanor, can't afford to lose, and has persecution paranoia......
But this is an important factor in his success.
Because he will find many reasons to excuse himself, but he just won't admit defeat.
In his opinion, once he admits defeat, that breath is gone.
Because failure is a kind of inertia, and admitting failure is also a terrible inertia.
If you admit it once, you will admit it a second, a third, and many more times. Admitting defeat can also win a good name in public opinion. So the cost of admitting failure is reduced, and failure is nothing more than that in the eyes of these people, it is no big deal.
Mourinho is unwilling to admit defeat and would rather let himself be scolded by the world than let go, which is his personal fighting principle.
He would rather be a notorious fighter than be assimilated by that "gentlemanly demeanor" and become one of them.
Life is a battle, and if life is not enough, then it must be fought endlessly.
Mourinho ridiculed in his post-match press conference that Chang Win can only win by his godson. From a tactical point of view, this game is a complete victory, if it weren't for Ji Ming's sudden outburst, it would be Manchester United who has now advanced.
The implication is that Chang Sheng himself is incompetent, what kind of ability is it to rely on the player's inspiration? That's not the manager's credit at all!
In the post-match press conference later, Chang Sheng retorted, saying that it is also one of the responsibilities of a head coach to make good use of these talented players, to fully exploit their potential, and to create a suitable environment for their individual development, which is nothing to criticize.
Mourinho's contempt only shows that he is short-sighted.
The media are used to spitting on two people all day long.
There are even people who give the two of them a very passionate name for this relationship, called "until the end of the world".
It means that until the end of the world, these two will still be arguing.
That's their relationship.
No one needs to be too surprised.
There is no need to judge who is right and who is wrong, these two people are controversial figures, and there is no right or wrong. If you argue about which of them is right and who is wrong, it is a matter of appearance......