vs 72 Mixed feelings
(a)
In this game, Gasperini needs Chen Zhuo to lead the adjustment of Genoa's entire tactical plan by changing between the three positions according to his instructions.
The first is the parallel position of the back waist, when Chen Zhuo appears in this position, that is to confront and limit the opponent's "three front waist" in the organizer Sneijder, disrupt the opponent's offensive and defensive rhythm, at this time it is also the stage of Genoa's full defense, Chen Zhuo took the ball and played a long pass over the top to let Scully race with the opponent's back line, anyway, Inter Milan is to press 5 to 10 meters, and there is a running distance behind that allows Scully to rush up the speed.
The second position is the forward position, which is the same as the midfield position of the Twin Towers 2.0 version, except that the three defenders have become four defenders, and the Twin Towers have become the counterattacking Scully single arrow, when this formation is used, it is the stage when Inter Milan has changed to 4-4-1-1 due to the poor implementation of the 4-2-3-1 tactics to strengthen the side attack, at this time Genoa began to use the midfield triangle defense system with interceptions and tackles.
The third position is the shadow striker position, which is an attempt, Gasperini asked, look at his gestures, and launch a fast attack with a direct long pass from the central defender, at this time Chen Zhuo is required to quickly step forward, keep a distance of 10 to 15 meters behind Scully, and when Sculley's advance is blocked, he will protect the ball and pass back, Chen Zhuo will not pause and follow the shot directly.
(b)
The match day was October 31, and Inter Milan's starting list before the game still surprised the media.
In addition to continuing to use the 22-year-old French teenager Biabiani to start, Benitez added two new post-90s players in this game.
Born in 1991, the Italian teenager Davide? Thornton started at left wing-back. Left wing-back Zivo, who made a mistake in the last game and caused Inter Milan to concede a goal, was put on the bench, and Davide Thornton was once called "Maldini's successor" by the media during the Mourinho era, but his form was not stable enough, and he underwent knee surgery in November 2009, Davide Thornton has not been able to play in the main team for most of the season.
Up front, Rafael Benitez was even more daring, bringing on 18-year-old Brazilian teenager Philippe Coutinho and putting Milito on the bench while "bad boy" Cassano. It's the second game in a row that he didn't even make the bench list.
Coutinho's arrival. It also means that Benitez's line-up is 4-4-1-1, and the Brazilian youngster plays as a shadow striker in this line-up, operating behind Samuel Eto'o. In Italy's tactical system, the shadow striker has no defensive responsibility. In this sense. Benitez does have a lot of trust in the Brazilian youngster.
Four midfielders. Left wing-back Biabiani, right midfielder is still 37-year-old Zanetti, and forward midfielder Sneijder. Defender Cambiaso, diamond-shaped position.
The back four, left wing-back Davide Thornton, right wing-back McConn, and double centre-backs Lucio and Samuel are in parallel positions, and the goalkeeper is still Cesar.
(c)
Dealing with 4-4-1-1 was the second set of tactics, with Chen Zhuo in the right midfield position facing two youngsters, Frenchman Biabiani and 19-year-old Davis Thornton.
In the opening period, both sides made a quick sneak attack, but it was not fruitless, Eto'o's breakthrough was disrupted by a tackle by Ranocchia, Kaladze cleared the ball with a big foot, and Genoa's quick sneak attack was offside in Scully.
After a few rounds of tenting, under the signal and urging of Benitez, Inter Milan began to play a pressing tackle in the midfield, trying to make mistakes in the 40-meter area of the Genoa goal, so as to get a chance to score.
According to the pre-match arrangement, when dealing with Inter Milan's side attack and middle attack, Chen Zhuo participated in defense in different positions and cooperated with the whole team to resist Inter Milan's attack, and the Genoa team played very patiently.
Due to offending the fans of Inter Milan in the last warm-up game, in this game, every time Chen Zhuo took the ball, the boos were overwhelming, and every time Chen Zhuo made a steal, the audience would roar loudly and shout that Chen Zhuo had fouled.
The time of this game is the rising period of Chen Zhuo's competitive state, but in terms of the 23-day physical fitness cycle, it is only the first week after getting out of the trough, and there are still more than two weeks before the peak, which is also the result of Rebecca's fine-tuning two cycles in advance at Chen Zhuo's request, and the peak period of Chen Zhuo's competitive state is scheduled in mid-November, which is the time during the Asian Games.
In this game against Inter Milan, Gasperini's goal is also very clear, a solid defensive foothold not to lose, it is of course better to be able to steal three points from Inter Milan's home stadium, if only one point can be taken away, the Genoa team is already satisfied.
(iv)
Genoa, which focuses on offense this season, has surprisingly become the most defensive team after the first seven rounds.
defeated Udinese 1:0 in the first round, 3:2 in the second round against Chievo, 2:0 in the third round against Parma, 3:0 in the fourth round against Fiorentina, 0:1 in the fifth round against AC Milan, 3:0 in the sixth round against Bari, 1:0 in the seventh round against Roma, 1:0 in the eighth round against Catania, Genoa scored a total of 14 goals in the eight rounds and conceded only 3 goals!
With 14 goals scored in eight rounds, Genoa's attacking power is only tied with Napoli for third place among Serie A teams, Juventus with 16 goals and Palermo with 15 goals are in front, AC Milan with 13 goals and Inter Milan with 10 goals, both behind Genoa.
Defensively, Genoa, who have conceded only three goals in eight rounds, are in first place, and Inter Milan is second in four goals in eight rounds, which can be regarded as a match between the two best defensive teams in Serie A.
It is precisely because of this data that some media analyzed before the game that the game is likely to be a boring game, and the process of the game also confirms that the media analysis does have a certain truth, if it is not an accident, it is likely that the game will end 0:0 so boringly.
The accident appeared in the 39th minute of the second half, and no one expected that it was actually Chen Zhuo's mistake that caused the goal to be conceded!
(5)
It was an attack from Inter in the middle. Halgia and Veloso blocked in the middle, and Chen Zhuo formed a triangle counter-attack with them, and cooperated with them to besiege the 18-year-old shadow striker Coutinho of the Inter Milan team.
With the cooperation of his teammates, he squeezed in sideways, stuck the position, blocked the opponent with his body and then turned around, there was no problem at all, this kind of triangle counter-robbery Chen Zhuo and his teammates have also cooperated many times.
Turning around, first get rid of Coutinho with a light kick, and then make a long pass to Scully, which is also a routine that has been coordinated many times in training, according to the speak. There can't be any problems!
But this time. When Chen Zhuo was about to make a long pass, he found that the opposing defender had raised his arm, and Scully was indeed in an offside position, and Chen Zhuo temporarily closed his foot. Prepare to take another step. At the same time, he raised his hand to signal Scully......
At this time, Chen Zhuo suddenly felt that he had been hit hard. It stands to reason that even if he pays attention to the front, it is impossible for Chen Zhuo not to notice that someone is approaching him. It is impossible to make such a low-level mistake......
Or, it can only be attributed to Chen Zhuo's reason that Rebecca helped him to actively adjust the regular cycle of the body, when several lines are in the trough and critical period at the same time, maybe there will really be a lot of problems!
Fortunately, Gasperini didn't know that this was Chen Zhuo's own adjustment to the state cycle for the Asian Games, otherwise, he would have been very angry.
Chen Zhuo was knocked and stumbled, and was hit by Inter Milan's 18-year-old Brazilian striker Coutinho! You know, that little guy is 1.75 meters tall and weighs 68 kilograms! And after Chen Zhuo recently strengthened his fighting muscle increase exercises, he has been steadily maintaining a weight of about 77 kilograms!
If Chen Zhuo takes advantage of the situation to the end, maybe the referee will punish Coutinho for deliberately colliding, after all, the body shape is there, but Chen Zhuo only stumbled, and he hasn't reacted yet!
This is also Gasperini's pressing style of play, once the ball is lost in any position, the first time to counter-rob on the spot, the original shadow striker has no defensive responsibility, but this does not affect Coutinho's defensive awareness and the right to steal!
This successful steal also made Inter Milan fans very excited, especially when it was the annoying Chen Zhuo who was knocked away, and Inter Milan fans collectively gave Coutinho thunderous applause!
Maybe it was little excitement after the success of the steal Chen Zhuo, or maybe the atmosphere of the scene made Coutinho's adrenal glands soar, after the steal, Coutinho turned around to get rid of Chen Zhuo, and in the face of the double attack of Halgia and Veloso, he actually took a forced passing action, pierced Halgia's gear and then squeezed between the two people, and then used a feint at the front of the penalty area to deceive Dainelli after a wonderful pass, Eto'o grabbed a point in the penalty area and broke through Genoa's goal!
Obviously, most of the credit for this goal goes to Coutinho, who assisted, and the 18-year-old Brazilian is also very excited.
The replay of this goal on the big screen and in slow motion of the live broadcast started without exception from Chen Zhuo's stumbling......
(f)
Conceding a goal in the 39th minute, it was not an easy task to deal with Inter Milan, who conceded the second-fewest goals...... Oh, now it's a tie for the fewest goals conceded.
Together with 3 minutes of stoppage time, Chen Zhuo tried his best in eight or nine minutes of Zuihou, trying to atone for the crime, and finally in the second minute of injury time, Chen Zhuo broke through from the right side with the ball personally, and when he shook Biabiani and Davide Thornton in a row to get a long-range angle, he was tackled by Davide Thornton from the side and won a free kick at the edge of the big penalty area.
In the end, Chen Zhuo punished a "classic dead end" with his left foot, and Cesar was almost able to make a meritorious service, but it was a slight gap that achieved Chen Zhuo's self-redemption.
After the end of this round, the Genoa team was forced to draw, and the second-ranked Lazio defeated Palermo 1:0 and got three points, tying Genoa in points, all 9 games, 7 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, accumulating 22 points, but Lazio temporarily relegated to second place with a goal difference.
AC Milan lost 1:2 at home to Juventus in this round, and the points stagnated at 17 points, still in third place, while Inter Milan was forced to draw by Genoa at this time, 3 points became 1 point, ranking fourth with 16 points, and Juventus rose to 15 points with the victory points in this game, and the ranking also rose to fifth place.
At the bottom of the table, Roma finally beat Lecce to claim their second win of the season.
Although Chen Zhuo scored a wonderful free kick and helped Genoa win a draw at Inter Milan's home stadium, he was still mercilessly given a low score by "Milan Sports Newspaper" after the game, commenting that if Chen Zhuo worked hard like Zuihou for eight or nine minutes in 90 minutes, Genoa would be able to achieve more than just one point!
(g)
"The player is a human being, not a god, this requirement of the media is obviously too high, and it is almost impossible to ask Genoa as a giant like Real Madrid and Barcelona, and it is not easy for Genoa to play the current results for such a configuration." Gasperini exonerated Chen Zhuo in an interview the next day, and now the media, including Genoa, are criticizing him.
The reporter asked: "Some fans believe that Patton has clearly saved their strength in the last two games in order to participate in their Asian Games, do you think this is possible, Mr. Coach?" ”
Gasperini replied: "For any player, there will be peaks and lows in his competitive form, as I said before, players are human beings, not gods, we can be hungry for victory, but we can't judge a player because of a draw, since I took over Genoa, the start of the season has been our best result in history, and now we are at the top of the table. For this game, fans used Patton's excellent performance in eight or nine minutes to criticize him for not giving his best for the first 80 minutes......
"But the Asian Games is just a low-level international competition, as far as I know, none of the players from South Korea in Asia who play in Europe have been sent back, and Japan has sent a team of amateur players, not only no players in this team who play in Europe, but also players who play in their J-League, I heard that they are all composed of players in the University League, so such a game, Mr. Coach, don't you refuse Patton to participate in the name of the club?" The reporter asked.
Gasperini thought to himself, how do you know that I don't want to refuse, I've discussed it with him no less than ten times, but this guy doesn't know which tendon is wrong, so he has to run back to participate in this kind of low-level competition!
"In this regard, our club respects the individual choices of the athletes." On the surface, Gasperini could only answer like this, and he couldn't say more.
After the ninth round of matches, Chen Zhuo will also leave Serie A for a while and return to Asia to participate in the Guangzhou Asian Games.
In particular, more than 70% of fans, including Chinese mainland fans, think that Chen Zhuo's move to participate in the Asian Games is stupid, and even claim that it is a brain-dead act, which makes Chen Zhuo feel mixed feelings about representing the "country" in an international competition for the first time in his life. (To be continued......)