Chapter Twenty-Eight: From Abnormal to Normal
Although they didn't score, Lazio's counterattack choked Real Madrid enough to let them know that Lazio is now on the defensive and stalling for time, but they can still hit the ball in front of Real Madrid's goal at any time and threaten Real Madrid's goal.
If Real Madrid don't pay attention to their defense, they will wait for Lazio to score another one at the last minute!
Sure enough, this trick was quite useful.
When the game resumed, Real Madrid looked hesitant to attack.
Of course, they scored first, but they were afraid that they would not be able to score, and Lazio would score another goal.
There is some hope for being behind by two goals, but it is really completely finished after being behind by three goals.
But if you don't attack it, it's no different from the end of these two goals.
In the final minutes of the game, Real Madrid struggled like this.
By the time they finally decided to take the plunge, there were only five minutes left on the game.
There is no suspense in this game.
When the referee blew the full-time whistle, Real Madrid were unable to find the back of the net against Lazio.
In the end, this high-profile game ended with Lazio beating Real Madrid 2-0 away.
The result and the process of the game really surprised people.
Everyone was expecting a close match before the game.
Unexpectedly, it was an easy victory.
This match is a lot like the Lazio vs. Utus match. It was also before the game that everyone was more optimistic about Lazio's opponents, but in the process, Lazio won easily.
This Lazio is really unpredictable. Against underdogs, they can narrow out against Udinese at home or lose to Chievo.
Then, just when everyone is not optimistic about them, they can burst out with strong enough energy to defeat the opponent when facing a strong enemy. And it's an easy win.
If you praise them for a win like that, they would have lost at home to a team like Chievo in the blink of an eye......
So Lazio is really unpredictable today.
“…… But it also illustrates a problem. That is, the current Lazio team really does not have the previous dominance. To know how Lazio played in the past? They win regardless of the strength of their opponents, and they all win by a big score. At that time, they were like tireless robots, with no emotions to speak of. They are very stable, stable and hopeless...... What about Lazio today? Performance is good and bad, with ups and downs. That's the sign of not being dominant......"
There are media outlets who have analyzed Lazio's problems after this out-of-game.
They have a point.
Lazio's dominance is indeed much lower than before.
Playing a strong team, maybe the team players pay more attention. I can't help but get more energetic.
And playing a weak team is somewhat unmotivated.
This is a common problem for many players, not just Lazio.
That's why there are upsets on the football field.
If the strong always win the weak, then how boring football should be.
It's just going to be a bit of a surprise.
In fact, this is the normal world of football.
In the past, Lazio was able to overturn anyone who met them, winning all the championships this season, and was unbeaten in 129 league games. This kind of thing, that's not normal.
Now Lazio is just going from being abnormal to returning to normal.
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After the match against Real Madrid, they returned to Italy for a local derby between Lazio and Roma.
Lazio away to Roma.
This game is naturally the highlight of the round of the league.
However, the suspense is relatively not as big as in other games.
Because Lazio will go again, no matter what their results are, even if it is two consecutive seasons, there is not a single championship. They have also never lost to Rome.
Roma's best result was a home draw with Lazio, and only once in the last 16 years.
Lazio's advantage over Roma is still great.
Playing other teams Lazio may have some idea of underestimating the enemy and slackening, but playing Roma has never been.
That's what the city derby is all about.
Hatred between Lazio and Rome. That's huge.
Especially after the constant victory, this hatred escalates.
To this day, it is common for people to say that old Sensi abandoned Changsheng to prove what a stupid thing Rome did in the first place.
Obviously, Rome invited Chang Sheng to coach first. In the end, he became Rome's sworn enemy.
There are even human resource management textbooks that use this as a case study for students to analyze. How to treat a useful person correctly......
It was a humiliating experience for the Club of Rome.
And the big mouth that wins is still not sarcastic about Rome.
Every time after a long time, when everyone's feelings about this grievance gradually faded, Chang Sheng jumped out to stimulate Rome, and then asked everyone to revisit the original grudge between Rome and Chang Sheng, and continue to laugh at how stupid Rome was.
stimulated Rome again and again, making many Roma fans really hate Chang Win.
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This time Lazio is away to Roma.
It's a real away game.
In the past, Lazio and Roma played the same city derby, both home and away, in the same stadium, except for the number of fans who supported them.
The team is quite familiar with the pitch.
Later, with the completion and commissioning of Lazio's new stadium, the Wanda Stadium, the two teams were completely separated.
Roma continue to defend their Stadio Olimpico in Rome. Although they also wanted to build a new stadium of their own, the Italian conquest was very aware of this, and since Lazio was independent, then Rome could not be counted on.
So Rome now has to give a large part of its annual ticket revenue to the Rome City Council.
This upset the Club of Rome.
They believed that the Rome City Council favored Lazio and allowed the Lazio Stadium to become independent, so Lazio had a lot more revenue, and financially, they were ahead of Roma. Because they are in a better financial position than Roma, they can buy better players. They can invest more money, so that the team is better than Roma and the results are naturally much better.
Roma thought Lazio was a very good virtuous circle, and the beginning of the cycle was because the Roma City Council allowed Lazio to go out and build their own stadium on their own.
This made Rome quite complaining.
They felt that in terms of the name of the club, they were the team that really represented the city of Rome, and before the rise of Lazio, the first football team that people would think of when they talked about the city of Rome must be Roma club, not Lazio.
It's good now. Lazio became Roma's most famous team, much to the disgrace of their arch-rivals, the club of Rome.
And there is some truth to Rome's complaints, of course.
Because Lazio did make a lot of money with this new stadium.
Because of the new stadium, they will earn an extra 50 million euros a year from ticket fees alone, which is a huge amount of money for any club to put this money in.
And it relies on Wanda Stadium. The construction of commercial and residential real estate projects in the surrounding area has also made Lottito a lot of money.
Of course, over the years, there have been a lot of hats on Lotito's head, such as "Italian red-capped businessmen" and "communist lackeys...... It's all because of the close cooperation between Lotito and the Chinese side.
There is a good example of how he has a good relationship with China - Wanda Stadium, a stadium named after a Chinese company, not to mention the plot around Wanda Stadium. The person responsible for the construction of the commercial area is Wanda Group from China, and the investment in the residential investment project is also a real estate company from China: Evergrande!
The explanation given by Lotito as to why Chinese companies should invest is that Chinese real estate companies are located in the largest and fastest-growing region of the world's real estate market. Therefore, experienced, efficient, and choosing Chinese companies is the guarantee of quality......
Many Italians called him a traitor.
Lotito doesn't care.
There's nothing better than making money in your hands.
At the same time, the city of Rome has to support Lotito, because the Chinese investors he has brought in have added at least 10,000 jobs to Rome.
It's just a matter of solving the problem of employment. It was enough for the officials of the city of Rome to thank Lotito.
Not to mention the other economic benefits that come with it.
That's why the city of Rome is also very supportive of Lazio FC.
Those opponents of Lazio will always use this to show that Lazio's success is based on government intervention. Their success is a political and economic complicity, not a decent football victory.
This kind of development model is despicable.
Lotito was likewise deaf.
As Chang Sheng said, those are "the distant barking of the negative dog".
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The Stadio Olimpico in Rome is a bit unfamiliar to Lazio, who haven't played a home game here for a decade, and once a year they come to play Roma.
Two hours before the start of the game, there were a lot of fans gathered here, all Roma fans in dark red jerseys.
They looked looking forward to the game.
This scene has made many media feel strange - Roma fans are looking forward to the Rome derby? It's incredible.
Because in the past 16 years, since Chang Sheng took charge of Lazio, Lazio have not lost in the Rome derby. This is true both in the league and in the cup.
Lazio is a true enemy of Rome!
It's always the Lazio fans who look forward to the Rome derby, because that means they can fuck their opponents hard for 90 minutes.
Therefore, every time there is a Rome derby, the Lazio fans are the most active people the media see outside the stadium.
Even away from Lazio.
Today, the situation is completely reversed.
What's going on?