Chapter 61: The Last Chance

Everyone thought Lazio were going to put on a good attack, with the Lazio fans waiting for the goal and the Juventus players tightening their strings, waiting for a chance to counter-attack.

To their disappointment, however, when Liverani received the ball, he quickly passed the ball back.

Of course, in order not to be too naked, he changed the object of the pass this time and passed the football to another starting central defender, Francisco. Pavon. Another Spanish centre-back.

Francisco. After Pavon crossed the psychological hurdle, he made rapid progress - this is natural, because the winner has used this skill on Pavon, and with the superposition of the effects of other training skills, Pavon's progress is indeed rapid.

The excellent performance on the pitch in turn boosted Pavon's self-confidence. Since his confidence has grown, he has been even more successful on the pitch – and it has become a virtuous circle.

Now Francisco. Pavon has affirmed that he has chosen to come to Lazio and that he has made the right choice.

At the same time, he had no doubts about Chang Sheng's words.

Because it was better for Pavon to be at Lazio.

And so it was!

Compared with the Italian central defenders, the Spanish central defenders are lacking in defensive ability, and the world-class central defenders are more than Italy's, Baresi, Costacuta, Maldini, Nesta, Cannavaro...... These are world-class. And what about Spain? Only Hierro and Nadal are world-class.

However, the Spanish centre-back's technique and ability to play the ball are better than those of the Italian centre-back. For example, Hierro is a strong attacking central defender, and Hierro can often be seen launching and organizing attacks with the ball in games.

The winning mad dog tactics required the Spanish centre-back's ability to pass the ball, and the Italian defender couldn't meet his demands. So in Lazio, the starting main force will be Jose. Passarella and Pavon, the young pair. Especially Pavin, when he was asked to play the main team. This news has caused many people to laugh at it in Spain.

Everyone laughed at Lazio, who won many times, and didn't even have the money to buy a decent central defender, so they could only eat leftovers that Real Madrid didn't want.

But the result?

Fifteen league games have passed, and Pavon is the team's main central defender and has performed well.

Now it's the turn of the pro-winning media to ridicule Real Madrid – you have become Lazio's main centre-back with bad players and have done well. If this trend continues, Pavon's selection for the Spanish national team will not be a problem...... So in the final analysis, it's not that there is a problem with the ability of the person Pavon, but that Real Madrid does not use the person well! It's good now. Let their most hated Chang Sheng pick up the cheap.

Pavon didn't rush to pass the ball forward after getting the ball, but passed the ball horizontally to his central defender partner Jose. Passarella.

After all, the time he has been with Chang Sheng is too short, and his face has not yet been cultivated, so he is a little thin. So instead of letting the ball stay at his feet for a little longer, he passed it right away. It's a good thing he didn't move forward. It can be regarded as a winning tactic that has left a mark on his heart.

Ibrahimovic sees football return to Jose. At Passarella's feet, he came up again to grab it.

Unfortunately, this time, he still couldn't break the ball. He even interfered with José. Passarella couldn't do it, and Passarella turned and passed the ball to goalkeeper Handanovic in the penalty area - and after a circle, the ball was back to square one......

Juventus, no. It should be said that Ibrahimovich worked in vain.

Ibrahimovic won't go up to grab Handanovic this time.

He angrily waved his hand to complain to the referee.

But what is there to complain about?

People just pass the ball back and forth, and there is no rule that says that players on the same team cannot pass the ball more than six times in a row.

It's just that it's really stalling for time......

Everybody knows it, but you can't help it, because the rules don't say it's not allowed to delay so much.

Even if DeSantis favors Juventus. There is no way to punish Lazio on this ground.

Capello spread his hands on the field, also looking helpless and angry.

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Juventus are clearly not going to give up on this game just like that, especially since they are only one goal behind.

So in the next game, they suddenly changed their strategy. It's no longer about staying in your backfield and waiting for Lazio to come up. Instead, they pressed out to besiege the Lazio players.

Of course, they knew that Lazio would immediately adjust their tactics and use the same tactics as in the first half.

But that's what Juventus wanted.

Because in the first half, it was still a normal opponent. It was a normal game with them. If it was against Lazio in the second half, it would be a completely abnormal game, and there is no way to talk about winning or not winning such a game.

They would rather risk letting Lazio score a goal than get the game back on track.

At least Juventus can still have a chance to win, otherwise, Juventus has no chance at all.

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Chang Sheng did not continue to fall in central midfield, as the pressing of Juventus players put Lazio under pressure.

After all, this team has only just been exposed to this set of tactics for less than half a year, and there are many places that are not mature and perfect, and the understanding of this set of tactics is not thorough enough. The reason why they have been able to achieve good results is only because the other teams in Serie A are less familiar with them than they are......

Once their opponents have reacted and studied Lazio's tactics thoroughly, I am afraid that they will not have such good results.

Chang Sheng has long been prepared, so Chang Sheng will take advantage of this time to desperately score points, the game that can be won is definitely not even, and the game that can be scored is never 1:0. In order to be able to take advantage of each other's win-loss relationship and goal difference if there is a chance to compete with each other in the future.

Seeing Juventus come up to press, Chang Sheng decisively changed his tactics.

The two sides attacked and defended each other, and the game returned to its normal rhythm.

In the second half of the game, although everyone flickered to attack and defend, no one was able to score.

Juventus had two great chances, but Ibrahimovic didn't take them all.

And what about Lazio? The same is true.

The game went into stoppage time. Juventus realised they only needed one more goal to get out of the way, so they went even more frenzied.

They launched wave after wave of attacks towards the Lazio goal.

At this time, Lazio is useless even if they have excellent possession, this is a "hard" defense. It's not about your ability to keep the ball, it's about your ability to defend.

During this time, José. Passarella radiant.

He's got the height, he's got a header and he's got a great head-on tackle.

After Ibrahimovic was entangled by him, there was little to be done in this match. In stoppage time. He tried to make a last-ditch effort, but unfortunately he ran into a stable Jose. Passarella.

The young Spanish centre-back is as steady as a rock, emotionless, but stubbornly stuck to his position.

In the end, Juventus was pressed for time and simply kept sending high crosses from two wings. Hope is pinned on a header from two high school forwards, Trezeguet and Ibrahimovic.

Unfortunately, Ibrahimovic's heading ability is just too poor - in his two seasons in Valencia, Chang Sheng has not practiced Ibrahimovic's header, but his footwork has become more and more perfect.

He didn't expect that he would one day benefit from the decision he made.

Jose. Passarella simply threw Ibrahimovic to Pavon and ran to go one-on-one with Trezeguet. This is a naked disregard for Ibrahimovic, so Ibrahimovic against Jose. Passarella was dissatisfied.

But so what?

When it comes to golf, he is really no match for Pavon and Passarella, and even Nedved is more of a threat than him.

The contest between Passarella and Trezeguet is thrilling. It looked like Trezeguet had chances to hit the ball into the net on several occasions – but he hit the ball but Jose. Under Passarella's interference, it is either too high or too positive.

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It stands to reason that three minutes of stoppage time should be enough for this game. Because the second half was generally smooth, I don't want the first half to have arguments and disputes caused by a misjudgment.

But in fact, the fourth official gave five minutes of stoppage time!

As soon as stoppage time came out, the Stadio Olimpico remembered a huge boo.

Everyone saw that glaring green "5".

But boos can't change the decision of the referees.

Chang Sheng didn't make a big fuss with the fourth official, he just spread his hands. Once again, express your displeasure.

He's already used up all three substitutions, so there's no way to use substitutions to stall for time at this time.

He also didn't dare to let his players defend by using the ball at the back to defend with their feet on the ball. Because the Juventus players are getting bigger and bigger, some of them are already foul actions, and the referee DeSantis chose to turn a blind eye. Lazio players fell to the ground frequently, but he did not blow the fouls of Juventus players.

Chang Sheng is not an idiot, so he naturally knows very well what is in it. But he didn't put all his energy into arguing with the fourth official, quarreling with the referee, arguing with the opponent.

He asked his players to be concise and concise in defence. If you have the ball, you will directly kick forward, and don't even think about a quick counterattack. At this time, the football is as far away as possible from your goal.

Lazio held out like this for five minutes, and Juventus still did not score.

Lazio fans are ready to cheer the victory.

But referee DeSantis still had no intention of blowing the whistle to end the game.

Time continues to jump and the game continues to play.

It's been almost half a minute.

The boos in the stands grew louder.

The referee ignored the referee and the Juventus players made a last-ditch effort.

It's almost a minute since the timeout.

Even assistant coach Rudy. Gonzalez couldn't resist rushing to the fourth official to question DeSantis' injury time.

"Doesn't he know how to count?"

Fourth, the officer pretended not to hear.

Six minutes of stoppage time went in.

The boos continued, and even the Lazio players began to protest to referee DeSantis.

Juventus are still on the attack.

With six minutes and 30 seconds of stoppage time, Juventus had the best chance of the game!

They stared at the boos and knocked the football into Lazio's dangerous zone.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic picked up the ball in the middle of the left and Trezeguet was on the right side of the middle, where he was completely devoid of a Lazio player.

He raised his hand to Ibrahimovic for the ball, and as long as Ibrahimovic passed the football, he would be able to seal his throat with a sword!

"This is Juventus' chance-" even the commentator realized and roared.

Lazio, on the other hand, were angry and worried - if Trezeguet scored the football, there would be no place to cry!

At this moment, Ibrahimovic was seen raising his foot...... Shot!

He shot and he ignored Trezeguet, who raised his hand to ask for the ball!

He has full confidence in his marksmanship and if Trezeguet is sure to get the ball into Lazio's goal, he will be even more sure!

Because he is more motivated to beat Lazio than Trezeguet!

Then, everyone watched as the ball flew high off the crossbar and landed on the track behind the goal......

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ps, the four more were sent, asking for a monthly pass~~~