Football: The butcher in the midfield at the start, the magic bird stunned

Chapter 194 Chen Xiaoliang's First Overtime Match!

Being able to take advantage of the opponent's inattention to equalize in the first half was very important for Mourinho.

And the price is completely affordable, it's nothing more than a waste of a substitution.

In the past, only 3 people could be replaced in a game, and 1 place was more important. Now all the first-level competitions in Italy are closer to UEFA, and it has been changed to 5 substitutions. Except for withdrawing the main force to rest when the score is leading, Ou rarely uses all 5 substitutions at other times, so this price can indeed be said to be "negligible".

He repeatedly explained the main offensive routines used by Atlanta on the tactical board, and once again emphasized the importance of allowing the team to retreat and attract the opponent to attack.

After all, the last time the two teams played against each other was also here. At that time, Roma was in full bloom and won a big 1-4 away game.

Then he also warmed up Pellegrini, Zaniolo, Zalewski and others, ready to play at any time.

The 10 minutes passed in a flash, and the stadium staff had come to remind them that it was time to return to the court.

While clapping his hands to encourage the players to stay aggressive, Foti stayed at the door and watched the players leave one by one, but he did not leave.

Similarly, seeing that Mourinho did not leave, Chen Xiaoliang did not leave either.

At the beginning, the few players who left didn't realize anything, but after halfway through, the remaining players realized that things were still not good, and hurriedly left this place of right and wrong.

Until Mourinho, Foti, Chen Xiaoliang and Karlsdorp who leaned silently in the locker were left in the locker room.

Foti looked at Chen Xiaoliang and raised his eyebrows.

Chen Xiaoliang understood immediately, and stepped forward to Mourinho: "Let's go, coach, everyone needs you on the sidelines."

Foti immediately answered: "There is me here, and you are needed outside."

The two sang together, not only implicitly expressing that now is not the time to expand the conflict, but also praised Mourinho, expressing that the team cannot do without him for a minute and a second.

Mourinho saw that the two said so, and it was inconvenient to have another attack, so he put down the marker, turned and left.

"Beep!"

After the start of the second half, both teams played very conservatively.

In cup competitions, winning or losing is determined by one game. There is no such thing as a goal difference or a tie to determine rankings. Whoever can have the last laugh is the only winner.

Then the equalizer before halftime still gave Roma a great psychological advantage. Although Atlanta's ball possession rate was still high, they still couldn't find a good way to meet Roma's tight iron barrel formation.

In the cross, although the three central defenders of Roma turned slowly, they relied on their height advantage, and headers were their strengths. Chen Xiaoliang and Matic also retreated from time to time to help fight for the top, and forced kicks to pass high balls. Atalanta The two center forwards don't have any advantage.

Shooting long shots or inverted triangle shots, there are two midfielders lined up in front of the penalty area, and the two wing backs are often retracted. Not to mention the dense penalty area, once Chen Xiaoliang retreats to help defend, the ball is easy to be broken.

So I saw that Atlanta often passed from left to right, and then from right to left, just to surround and not to fight. Once Roma's midfielder made a fierce attack, he would pass a long pass back to the backcourt, allowing the central defender to reorganize the attack .

But football is round after all, and players are all human beings. No matter how sophisticated tactics and strategies are, there will always be deviations.

In the 55th minute, after Atlanta took a corner kick from the left and was ejected by Smalling, De Roon caught up with the ball and moved to the empty right. Tebauer dribbled the ball into the penalty area and made an inverted triangle pass to the penalty kick.

Atlanta's two centers, Malinowski and Boga, immediately fell to the ground and wanted to shovel!

However, before the ball rolled to their feet, a long dark leg stretched out and poked the ball first!

"Shoot!"

"Backed by Xiaoliang!"

"Atalanta players raised their hands one after another, indicating that the goal has been scored!"

"But the referee didn't say anything, and raised his wrist, pointing to the bracelet he was wearing!"

"The goal-line technology has been approved by FIFA and has long been popularized in major competitions. Once the ball crosses the goal line as a whole, the device worn by the referee, usually a wristband, will send out a signal."

"The eagle eye system in the stadium will also broadcast to the video referee team in time."

"So at this point, the probability of misjudgment is almost zero."

While He Wei was explaining, he suddenly exclaimed "Ouch".

"This ball, is this ball Abraham going the wrong way?"

"Did he treat his own goal as the opponent's goal?"

"This is a shoveling action!"

"Fortunately, Chen Xiaoliang, who was defending the near post in the corner kick defense, hadn't left yet, and the ball was blocked by him. Otherwise, Patricio would have never been able to save the ball."

"Abraham stretched out his hands after getting up, and apologized to his teammates again and again."

"The camera was shown to Mourinho again. It can be clearly seen that the madman originally had some gray hair, but it was almost completely white after he came to Rome. This is the result of worrying."

"Karlsdorp was substituted in the first half, and many fans had already left messages in the live broadcast room, saying that Mourinho had reached the stage of catching an insider again. Now it seems that Roma is almost going to have another insider."

Chen Xiaoliang helped the team escape, and Roma played more carefully.

In the 66th minute, Pasalic's long-range shot was refracted and flew high out of the baseline by Wellertu, and Atlanta won another corner kick.

Chen Xiaoliang and Celik were still guarding one side of the goal post.

However, when he retreated, he told Abraham to stay in front and not to come back.

8 people are enough to defend corner kicks, so why add another one to add to the chaos.

And seeing that Roma keeps both forwards in front, it will also restrain them from staying in the backcourt with one more person, reducing the pressure on corner kick attacks.

This time, Atlanta's high ball did not pose any threat. The ball flew across the middle, and no one hit it. Matic, who was chased out, unloaded it.

Seeing that Rome was about to counterattack, two nearby Atlanta players immediately surrounded Matic, ready to force the ball at his feet, and the rest of the players, except the two forwards, immediately told back to defend.

The battle-hardened "Horse Forward" is not the kind of Abraham who would make mistakes in his busy schedule.

He rubbed his left foot and made a long pass straight forward.

Cescola, who switched positions with Abraham, went to the left of the middle circle, ran forward a few steps to meet the landing point, and jumped high. Jim Siti had nothing to do with him in the air defense of this position. Sesko nodded the ball back with his head.

Welletu, who was plugged in, caught the ball, and Binha on his left has also plugged in.

Facing the pressing of De Roon next to him, Welletu went straight to the front left, and Viña strode forward to catch the ball.

De Jongen had no choice but to turn his head and chase Viña again. The Uruguayan left back dribbled the ball and ran for more than ten meters. Seeing that he was about to be overtaken by De Jongen, he dunked with his left foot and pushed the ball to the middle with his right foot.

Just when he and Wei Letu were working together, Chen Xiaoliang rushed up from the penalty area!
Stamina Recovery Card 3 → 2!

Chen Xiaoliang ran faster and faster. In front of him, there were only three defenders, Jim Siti, Zappacosta and Frouler.

Among them, Jim Siti was watching Cesco, Zappacosta was watching Abraham, and Froule retreated while keeping parallel with the other two teammates and maintaining the existence of the offside line.

In an instant, a three-on-three situation in the middle was formed on the court!
[Xiao Liang, get up! 】

[Master Liang, cut him in the middle! 】

[Direct one-stop burst shooting! 】

Chen Xiaoliang's running speed with the ball is obviously not as fast as the fans' keyboard speed in the live broadcast room. In just a few seconds, a series of new comments have appeared under the live broadcast room.

"Xiao Liang is still dribbling the ball, but no one steps forward to block him!"

"The other players behind me obviously couldn't catch up!"

"Xiao Liang is about to take him to the front of the restricted area!"

"Cesko suddenly changed direction from left to center!"

"Froule didn't pounce on Xiao Liang, but chose to block Dasco!"

"Xiao Liang turned to the right, and he has reached the top of the penalty area!"

"It's still changing direction, it seems to be trying to widen the shooting angle!"

"Sesco runs backwards! Go left!"

"Xiao Liang's legs are up!"

"Froule jumped on it!"

"It's a feint!"

"Xiao Liang continues to lead to the right!"

"Kick up again!"

"Zappacosta jumped on it!"

"Abraham was let out!"

"Xiao Liang picks the pass!"

"The ball flew over Zappacosta's head!"

"Abraham!!!"

"The ball is so high!"

"It seems that this day is destined not to belong to the Englishman on the field!"

Just a moment ago, when Zappacosta was about to turn around and pounce on Chen Xiaoliang, as soon as his center of gravity changed, Chen Xiaoliang made a pass.

Abraham, who was only less than 3 meters away, jumped high and directly shook his head to attack the goal. Musso had no time to react.

But in the face of such a huge goal, Abraham, who just "cleared" his own goal precisely and almost scored an own goal in the dead corner, turned the ball too high.

Chen Xiaoliang, Cesko, and Weiletu behind them all stopped, panting heavily, and looked at Abraham in astonishment.

There was an explosion in the comment area.

[Amauri has found a successor in Italy, the new generation of iron guard Abraham]

[Let me tell you a joke, Great British Emperor Star]

【联赛24轮7球、欧会杯8场3球、一个前锋踢了24场比赛，才进了10个球，竟然花了4000万欧元】

[Chelsea's abandonment of the duck neck has long shown that he is embarrassing and useful, I really don't know what Bird likes him]

[Go away early, Wu Lei is better than him]

[That is, the martial arts base can reach the goalkeeper anyway, and increase the number of shots on goal for the team (dog head)]

Mourinho on the sidelines had mixed feelings.

In the first half, the Dutch full-back, who was given high expectations, conceded a goal at the beginning and finally equalized the score. Seeing the team gradually gaining momentum, in the second half, he was played by the England forward he handpicked.

If you don't seize this kind of opportunity, you will be punished by your opponent!

Looking at the dejected Abraham, Mourinho had to make a substitution and replaced him with Zaniolo.

Zaniolo received a red card in the last league game and was suspended for two additional games for verbally attacking the referee. Mourinho originally wanted him to start in this Coppa Italia.

However, the tall stature and tough style of play of Atlanta's defense still made Mourinho choose Abraham, who is slightly better against him, at the last moment.

It has to be said that the decision made under rational circumstances is correct.

After Zaniolo came on the court, he could only cruise in the frontcourt. With his style of play and confrontation ability, although he was 190 tall, he was completely unable to stand up to the siege of Palomino and Zappacosta in the case of close confrontation .

This also left only Cesc as a fulcrum in the frontcourt of Rome, and the tactics of using high balls to attack the gaps between the wingbacks and central defenders on both sides were greatly reduced.

Demiral, who is in the middle, can hand over the middle to Palomino at any time and move to Jim Siti's side to defend Sesco.

And why did Mourinho choose high-altitude ball play?
Even He Wei in the broadcast room saw the signs.

"After 70 minutes of the game, the running response ability of both sides has obviously changed."

"The defensive side has to constantly react according to the offensive side's transfer, and it is the side that consumes more energy."

"At the same time, Mourinho's quick counter-attack style makes the players, after getting the ball, use a high-speed sprint of about 50 meters to run out of offensive opportunities just like Xiao Liang's long-distance attack and assist just now."

"Every time you run back and forth like this, it consumes a lot of energy."

"In the case of this decline in physical strength, it is obviously more and more difficult to carry out complex passes in the middle, because the physical fitness of the players on the field is no longer able to complete the counter-pass in high-speed running."

"So we see that Roma are increasingly adopting long balls to pass through Atlanta's midfield and reduce the number of players involved in the offense to counterattack. This saves effort, but the success rate becomes straight. decline."

On the coaching bench of Atlanta, Jens was calm and full of confidence.

He knows that his physical reserve training program after coming to the team, especially during the winter break, has been fruitful.

This is an important guarantee to support the team's comeback in the second half of the season and strive to enter the Champions League for the fourth consecutive year.

What's more, although this civilian team ranked third in the Champions League group stage and was forced to move to the Europa League, the progress of every competition is what the club pursues, and it is also Gasperini's consistent goal in recent years. doing.

Therefore, the team must have a good level of physical fitness to cope with the next three-line battle.

Mourinho made another substitution.

Pellegrini replaces Wellertu, and Malaysia replaces Viña.

But he didn't let Chen Xiaoliang retreat, but let Pellegrini go to Wellertu's original midfielder position in the left half.

The team came to the away game just after playing the league, and they had no time to rest, and now they met a team that was trained by Jens, a master of physical training in the football circle, for a period of time. He needed Chen Xiaoliang's abnormal running Dynamic ability to maintain the pressing pressure on Atlanta's midfield.

Once even this little pressure is removed, Atlanta will control the ball and organize more recklessly.

As time passed by, Gasperini also made three substitutions.

As the end of the second half approached, Atlanta's physical advantage became more obvious, and the range of offense became greater.

Their conspiracy is simple. Before the finale, when one of Rome's spirit and body can't hold on, they will give a fatal blow, and then advance to the next round.

However, they also underestimated the toughness of Mourinho's coach.

Regardless of whether you are bombing from high altitude or conducting on the ground, the 8 players in the midfield and backcourt will block the water and cover the ground.

Until the stoppage time of 95 minutes was all used up and the referee blew his whistle, Atlanta failed to knock on Roma's goal.

According to the rules, the two sides will enter overtime.

Although they had made plans, the coaches of both sides did not expect that the game would really come to this point.

Before the start of overtime, there is only a 5-minute rest period. Players from both sides will not enter the locker room, but will be near the bench on the sidelines, and the team doctor and physical coach will help them recover or massage to relieve fatigue.

Today, with the rapid development of sports science, team doctors will use cooling spray to spray players' calves, ankles and groins to reduce the soreness caused by high-intensity friction and exertion, and use the freezing feeling brought by low temperature to relieve pain. Mask fatigue.

Mourinho warms up Kumbra and Cristante.

Although 4 people have been changed, the rules stipulate that there will be another substitution in overtime.

He didn't say anything more to the players, or arrange any tactics.

The current situation is very obvious, one side is the main attacker and the other is the main defender.

Even in Mourinho's football philosophy, he sees this as a way for his team to "dominate" the game.

No matter how the opponent's offense is played, he is helpless. This invincible state is of course proof of dominance in the game.

And he only needs one counterattack, a counterattack that can seal his throat with a sword, and he can take away the final victory.

"The next match between the two sides will be on February 2th, the 14th round of Serie A."

"That is to say, no matter how exhausted the game is, as long as there are no injuries, 7 days is enough for the team to recover."

"So judging from the current deployment of troops, neither Mourinho nor Gasperini intends to give up the game, and is ready to fight to the end."

"Meet the brave to win on the narrow road!"

"Although there was no opening and closing scene, I really didn't expect it before the game, and the game was played for this sake."

"Camera pans over players on both sides preparing for overtime."

"Compared to the more complicated expressions and eyes in the second half, the eyes of the players at this moment have become much clearer."

"Maybe they no longer have the extra energy and stamina to think about things other than the game, and those little episodes that happened in the game are temporarily erased from their minds."

"Now before them, there is only one way to win."

"And overtime is the best test of both sides' will to survive!"

The players of both sides returned to the court under the reminder of the fourth official.

This is also the third time the game has switched halves.

"Beep!"

The referee blows the whistle for overtime!

"Zhongyang TV, Zhongyang TV."

"What you are watching is this season's Coppa Italia quarter-finals and Atalanta's home game against Rome."

"The two sides drew 90-1 in the 1-minute civil war, and now the game has entered overtime!"

"This is also the first time for Red Country player Chen Xiaoliang to play overtime. The last time he was in Glasgow Rangers in Scotland, he was also in the quarter-finals, but it was the quarter-finals of the Europa League. The Red Devils, Manchester United, they drew in the second leg and it went to extra time."

"However, in that game, Xiao Liang did not get a chance to play because of a torn ankle ligament, and the Rangers were also blocked by Manchester United from the semi-finals."

"Today, history is repeating itself again. I don't know what kind of match will be against Xiao Liang in the next 30 minutes!"

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(End of this chapter)