Chang Sheng recommended Wang Qiang to Lotito the next day and asked the two of them to talk. ※※

Lotito is very interested in the olive branch thrown by the well-known Chinese company Wanda Group.

The two of them quickly got together.

What the two of them talk about or how they talk, Chang Sheng doesn't care.

He's got games to play.

In the quarterfinals of the Coppa Italia, Lazio's opponent was Napoli.

It's still quite difficult to challenge this team away from home, especially in the Coppa Italia, which is the most likely to win the title.

In the league, even Napoli knows that the struggle is futile, and Lazio's strength will destroy the suspense of the game from the beginning, so Napoli can't afford to fight Lazio in the league.

Between Napoli and Roma is the "Italian Sun Derby", and between Lazio is not a derby.

However, the Coppa Italia is different, and the Coppa Italia is directly related to honor.

There is no hope of league glory, and even without Lazio, it will be difficult for Napoli to win the league title.

The Coppa Italia is an exception, as the cups of various countries are considered "hotbeds of underdogs", and the Coppa Italia is no exception.

Those smaller teams, especially those in the middle of the table, are most likely to win the title and make it to Europe in the Coppa Italia.

Napoli will have to beat Lazio if they want to win the title.

Fortunately, this game is at their home stadium, and if it is an away game, Napoli will not struggle.

Since it is their home turf, Napoli has no reason to give up.

They are on their home turf, and their fighting power is still very strong.

The Napoli fans are quite enthusiastic. In terms of attendance, Napoli's Stadio San Paolo won't lose to Lazio's Stadio Olimpico in Rome.

That's the only thing they can rely on.

The Coppa Italia is a single-elimination tournament until it reaches the semi-finals. So as long as they can beat Lazio on their home turf, Napoli can reach the semi-finals.

and Napoli in the Coppa Italia quarter-finals. It's bound to be very intense.

However, home advantage alone is not enough, and Napoli will have to rely on the right tactics and the right strategy if they want to beat Lazio.

Napoli's manager has been replaced by Mazzal.

Speaking of Mazari, there is a story between him and Chang Sheng.

Back then, when he was still coaching at Regina. Meet Lazio, who has always won.

Lazio are battling Roberto Mancini's Inter Milan for the league title.

Pizza with Reggina is also a key match.

As a result, Lazio almost didn't win, and they were both 2-2 draws until stoppage time.

If Lazio can't win, they will be overtaken by Roberto Mancini's Inter.

In the end, thanks to an own goal by Lucarelli, Lazio were lucky to beat Reggina 3-2 away.

After the game, Chang Sheng comforted Lucarelli, who had scored an own goal, and praised Mazzalhi's performance.

After a few league rounds, it was Reggina's turn to take on Inter Milan.

In this game, Reggina did their best as always, and in the end they held the mighty Inter Milan to a draw!

The match was decisive for Inter Milan because of this draw. The gap was reopened by Lazio.

This ultimately led to another defeat for them.

This is the story between Mazari and Victorious.

A game. An own goal. A word of comfort finally earned Lazio the league title.

As a result, Mazzari is one of the few managers in Serie A football who has not verbally abused his usual winners.

Of course. This is not to say that the relationship between Mazari and Chang Sheng is good.

In fact, the relationship between Tsunesheng and Mazzari is very average, except for that time. Neither of them communicated with each other.

However, in an environment where everyone is full of prejudice and antipathy towards Chang Sheng, it can be regarded as a "good relationship" without quarrels.

However, Mazzari does not think that such a relationship will allow his team to escape the fate of Lazio.

It's not once or twice that he's played against Lazio, and he's well aware of his winning character.

This head coach is definitely the kind of person who doesn't recognize the six relatives.

If you really talk about relationships, isn't the relationship between Changsheng and Guardiola better than that between himself and him?

But what happened to Barcelona after they met with regular wins?

Not only do you lose badly on the field, but you also have to suffer the humiliation of winning off the field.

Winning against Barcelona is like facing a mortal enemy.

In fact, it is indeed a sworn enemy......

Mazzari has played against Lazio many times, he has tried a lot of play, and of course, he has lost both of them.

Not even a draw.

But those are leagues, and it's not the same as it is now.

Now it's the Coppa Italia.

It's a winner-taker!

And what about the league?

You can't win this game for 90 minutes, either you lose or you draw.

Although a draw is also remarkable, but for the ambitious, there is really nothing to be happy about.

The advantage of the cup is that a game, no matter what, you have to decide the winner, 90 minutes can't be played, then 120 minutes, if 120 minutes can't tell the winner, then the penalty shootout, anyway, there is always a result.

This gives the underdogs a good chance.

That's to hold on.

Hold on for 90 minutes, don't concede a goal, and drag it out until extra time.

Then hold on for 30 minutes, don't concede the ball, and drag it to the penalty shootout.

dragged it to the penalty shootout, and it was basically half the win.

The penalty shootout has little to do with the individual strength of the players, but more of a test of personal psychological quality and preparation for penalty kicks.

In this regard, Mazzarri is confident that his players will not lose to Lazio.

And then there's home field advantage.

At the time of the penalty shoot-out, the home stadium of Napoli was packed, and the Sao Paulo Stadium was bound to put a lot of pressure on the Lazio players. For example, Napoli fans will boo and all kinds of noises to disturb the Lazio players. Causing them to be distracted and thus kicking off the penalty.

As long as you are ready for a penalty, tell the players from the beginning to drag the game into a penalty shootout. When the game really goes to the penalty shoot-out stage. It is believed that Napoli has more than half the chance of winning.

Lazio's players could not have imagined that they would be dragged into a penalty shoot-out by Napoli away from home, completely unprepared.

When the game does go to penalties, the Lazio players will panic. There will be a nervous breakdown, there will be nervousness.

These negative emotions can affect the penalty shooting percentage of Lazio players.

So before the Lazio game, all Napoli's training time was spent on defending and taking penalties.

Jose Mourinho was in charge of Chelsea, when his side were held to a 0-0 draw by Tottenham Hotspur at home, and after the game, Mourinho commented on Tottenham's defence: "As we Portuguese are used to saying, they parked the bus in front of the goal. ”

Later, "bus tactics" became synonymous with "stubborn defense".

Mazzarhi's tactic was to park a bus in front of his goal.

The score of 0:0 was kept until the end of extra time, and the game was dragged into a penalty shootout.

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Lazio's side really didn't expect Mazzarri to drag the game into a penalty shootout, Napoli's defensive tactics. They all thought of it.

Because now most teams are facing Lazio. will choose defensive tactics.

Defensive tactics though there is no guarantee that they will certainly not lose. But at the very least, it's guaranteed that they won't lose too badly......

So Lazio are now used to playing against teams that stick to the table.

They also have experience in dealing with stubborn teams.

In Italy, there are few teams that dare to play against Lazio.

If Lazio can meet such an attacking team, then the whole team will have to smile crookedly - and finally score a goal!

It's just that there are so few such opportunities......

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Match against Napoli. In the packed São Paulo stadium, Lazio faced an impregnable wall.

Napoli completely abandoned the attack. Shrink the defense.

They all shrank into the box, focused on defending.

The Napoli players ran completely out of their physical strength, blocking Lazio's shots with their bodies.

Even if it's a foul.

They would rather give Lazio a free-kick, and there's an element of luck in it. But if Lazio were allowed to play the ball straight into the box for fear of fouling, it would be dangerous.

The defensive tactics of free-kicks, Napoli are also specially trained.

Anyway, during this time, the only thing Mazzari's team did when they were training was to practice defense, all kinds of defense.

And although their defense is a shrink defense, it does not mean that all the swarms are compressed in their own penalty areas. They are still hierarchical.

Despite the tight space, Napoli deployed three lines of defence inside and outside the box.

The first, and most outer, defence, is dominated by forwards and forwards, and its main role is to harass Lazio's midfielders.

Mazzalhi's idea is definitely not to give up possession in the 30-metre area, but to interfere with the opponent's playmaker as much as possible, so that the opponent does not easily organize the football.

The second line of defence is made up of the midfield. Defend Lazio's attack in the middle head-on, radiating both the wings and the back line. This line of defense is very important because it will play the role of a tandem front and back, which is not for attacking. Defence also requires a tandem of front and back.

The midfielders can support the defense of the forward line forward and increase the defensive strength of the back line backwards. If you shrink in the middle, the middle will be solid, and if you disperse to the wing, you will help the wing defense.

In short, they can be the second line of defense, but they can also be a guerrilla force, and they will go wherever they are needed.

The third line of defense is naturally the back line.

The defence of two centre-backs and two full-backs is the main defensive force of Napoli, they are real defenders, and their task is to put an end to all Lazio's attacks here.

Lazio's attack must end here, otherwise, Napoli are in danger.

Although there is still a goalkeeper behind the back line, for Lazio, if there is only one opposing goalkeeper left in the end, then the attack is basically considered a success.

So Napoli must avoid letting Lazio's attack face the goalkeeper directly.

For that, they must stifle Lazio's attack at the back.

This is Napoli's last line of defence.

These three lines of defense are the methods that Mazzari uses to deal with Lazio......