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

Chapter 226 Rome City, Caesar Returns!

Charhanoglu saw that Chen Xiaoliang was coming towards him, and was going to have a one-on-one meeting with this kid from the Red Country.

Although Chen Xiaoliang has long been famous, in the eyes of older players, he is still just a fledgling second-year freshman.

Whether it is the Copa Award or the Golden Boy Award, it is indeed a novelty, but there are not a few winners who later disappear from everyone.

Although Charhanoglu's defensive ability and confrontation ability are very average, he thinks that he can still rely on his old skills to deal with Chen Xiaoliang, who is not good at dribbling and has ordinary skills.

However, this Turk, who is dubbed the "King of Chaball" by some fans, has also paved the way for himself in his heart. Once Chen Xiaoliang uses his speed to force himself, he will not be able to prevent it.

But this is in the middle of the road, and there is simply no space to pass people.

Chen Xiaoliang didn't have as much inner drama as Charhanoglu. While observing the movement ahead, he dribbled forward with the ball. When he came in front of Charhanoglu, he flicked his right foot to move forward to the right.

Of course, this kind of basic small change of direction will not just pass Charhanoglu. He immediately moved sideways and blocked his body in front of Chen Xiaoliang.

Chen Xiaoliang turned his back with the ball, separated the space between Charhanoglu and the ball with his back, then turned his head and glanced to the right, and his upper body, waist and hips also turned to the right.

Charhanoglu was afraid of Chen Xiaoliang's speed, seeing that he was going to turn right to pass others, he immediately adjusted his center of gravity to the right, ready to move ahead of time to block the way.

Unexpectedly, at the moment when his center of gravity shifted, Chen Xiaoliang swiped the ball to the left with his right foot, made a simple and neat turn, and put his left hand on Calhanoglu's back to block the situation, immediately making the Inter Milan midfielder dry. clean.

"Oh!?"

Although it was an away game, many fans in the stands still couldn't help but exclaimed.

Even the Roma players on the bench couldn't help but look at each other.

With just one stop, one sway, one turn, and one pass, the teammates who should go forward have already landed in their proper positions.

Seeing that Charhanoglu was passed, Varela immediately rushed over at full speed to intercept Chen Xiaoliang.

Chen Xiaoliang has already passed the ball to Celik who left Perisic behind by running without the ball.

Celik dribbles forward and Dimarco blocks it.

After Chen Xiaoliang took the ball, he immediately ran to the front left. Barrera took advantage of it, quickly stopped the speed and ran back, but at this pause, Chen Xiaoliang had already run behind him.

As a simple and extremely practical full-back, Celik is a standard model player who has great ability, contribution and role, and completes all the tasks assigned by the coach without compromise.

Facing DiMarco, he will never have any extravagant thoughts, trying to rush, pass, show his footwork, and fight for speed.

This is the most important reason why he can replace Karlsdorp, who is much better physically than him, but his brain is always short-circuited.

Seeing that Chen Xiaoliang had escaped, Celik immediately pushed his right foot to the center and passed the ball into his path.

The two completed a beautiful two-over-two cooperation on the wing.

After receiving the ball, Chen Xiaoliang continued to take the ball forward. Outside the penalty area, only Brozovic was the only one Inter Milan could defend against.

The Croatian midfielder hurried over and ran to Chen Xiaoliang's left side 5 meters outside the penalty area.

But at this time, Chen Xiaoliang's dribbling speed had already increased. He raised his left hand to prevent Brozovic from squeezing his upper body, and then he was about to rush into the penalty area.

At this time, Zaniolo on the right side was cruising on the right side of the penalty area, and Dimarco, who had just blocked Celik, was watching him;

In the middle, De Vrij and Cesco are entangled. Now all the teams playing against Roma know that sending a strong high school defender to stare at Cesco is the primary task of curbing Roma's attack;

On the left, Skriniar and de Vries stared at Pellegrini and the forward Malacia and Wellertu respectively.

The two midfielders were all passed by Chen Xiaoliang with the ball and without the ball, which instantly caused the pressure on the defense to come to the three central defenders and the single midfielder!

Brozovic knew that Chen Xiaoliang couldn't be allowed to push in anymore, and if he was allowed to rush in, the central defender had to come to defend, because if he didn't come to defend, Chen Xiaoliang would immediately form a one-handed situation.

And once he gives up marking the target and comes to defend Chen Xiaoliang, then Chen Xiaoliang can pass the ball to the missed person at any time!

In short, once you are overwhelmed, it will be a disaster!
These thoughts flashed through Brozovic's mind. He knew that it was too late to use his speed to block the position, so he stretched out his arms to wrap around Chen Xiaoliang's waist and pulled back hard.

"Beep!"

Chen Xiaoliang did not fall, and Brozovic tried his best to make the foul look gentler, so as to reduce the penalty that the referee will inevitably come.

The referee Osatu naturally understood the player's intention to do so. He ran over and showed Brozovic a yellow card, and then began to talk to the headset.

Before the players came around, he ran out first, and stretched out his hand like a traffic policeman, telling the players not to come to him for arguments.

The reason for this is very simple. Osatu did not see clearly whether Chen Xiaoliang was inside or outside the penalty area when the foul occurred.

Time passed by minute by minute.

42 minute...43 minutes...

Osatu was still listening to the words in the headset until he made a square shape with his hands and ran to VAR.

Obviously, Osatu came today with a mission.

The Serie A professional league is well aware of the refereeing problem in the league, but the lack of determination and courage to reform and the innocuous misjudgment and punishment have not been able to improve the status quo of referees' repeated mistakes.

But in such a major event that has attracted worldwide attention and will affect the final championship of the league, they still sent the best referees they could.

The 46-year-old Osatu became an official FIFA referee in 2010 and participated in the enforcement of the 2012 European Cup and the 2014 Brazil World Cup qualifiers and other competitions.

In the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Osatu served as a video assistant referee to enforce the 1/8 final between Croatia and Denmark.

Participated in the UEFA Champions League law enforcement from the 2012 to 2013 season, and in 2020, he law-enforced the UEFA Champions League final between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich.

It is also because of his good performance that season that he was selected as the best referee in the world in 2020 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics.

However, it is worth mentioning that although the organization is well-known, it is not an official organization under FIFA. It was founded by a German in Leipzig, and was later sponsored by the UAE royal family to set up its headquarters in Abu Dhabi. In 1991, various data of world football began to be counted.

The organization attaches great importance to data, and all rankings and results are based on data, but how to make data weight fair is always a problem.

At this point, the opinions from players to fans cannot be unified. For example, for a striker, how should the weight of a goal and the weight of an assist be set?
If they are all 1 point, then some people will say that assisting is actually much more difficult than scoring;

If the goal is set to 1 point and the assist is set to 2 points, some people will also say, why is it 2, not 1.5, not 1.3?

Because of this, many results of the agency are only used as reference factors by some authoritative agencies rather than decisive factors.

But in any case, Osatu is indeed the best referee in Italy at present.

At this moment, he would rather spend more time and let the game stop for a while, but also figure out where the foul happened.

Everyone knows that the media and fans will analyze the playback video frame by frame after the game. Once such a key game sparks controversy, it will inevitably set off endless saliva and doubts.

Lou Yichen: "It's really hard to judge this ball. I don't know if there are any other angles of view. After watching it many times, I still can't see whether it is outside or inside the penalty area."

Liu Yue: "The main reason is that the foul is a coherent action. If it is the first pull-down action, it is outside the penalty area. If it is a pull-down, it is considered a foul, and it seems to be inside the penalty area."

Lou Yichen: "Seeing that the head coaches of both sides are putting pressure on the fourth official, you know how important this penalty is to the two teams!"

While Osatu was dealing with the penalty, Charhanoglu was in a daze.

He looked at Chen Xiaoliang in a daze, and couldn't help wondering:

Will he dribble?He dribbled past me?
Not by speed, not by body, but by dribbling? !
Since being passed just now, Charhanoglu has been walking back at a walking speed, while watching everything that happened in front of him.

How can a person achieve such great progress in one season?
He played against each other for the first time half a season ago, but he still dare not dribble too much in offense, he can only play the ball with one kick, or pull the ball to the side to make a cross, and he can't even stop the long pass well. My brat, why are you so good at shooting long shots and passing people?
Time goes on.

In the 44th minute, after watching the replay 10 times, Osatu finally turned around and ran towards the court.

"Beep!" While making a VAR gesture, he pointed to the penalty area line!
A free kick was awarded to Roma on the penalty area line on the right side of the goal!

He called Chen Xiaoliang and Handanovic, and explained that at the moment the ball was fouled, both the ball and the person were on the penalty area line, so even though they fell to the ground and fell inside the penalty area, a free kick was still awarded.

However, Brozovic's yellow card is undeniable. It was an intentional foul. If there were not a few defenders behind him, and the foul action was relatively restrained, otherwise it would not be an exaggeration to show a red card and send off.

The two captains didn't say anything more, and everyone knew very well that this was called a bowl of water, giving Roma a free kick that couldn't be closer, and allowing Inter Milan to escape from a penalty kick.

While the three were talking, the rest of the team members ran over one after another.

"How to kick? Do you want me to push the ball and you hit the goal?" Pellegrini walked up to Chen Xiaoliang, covered his mouth and asked him.

Chen Xiaoliang was thinking while observing Inter Milan's defensive arrangements.

It is very difficult to hit the goal directly with a free kick at this distance. It is easy to hit the wall if it goes around the wall.

And if you play in coordination, the depth space is too small, if you pass the ball to the open player to shoot, as long as the opponent reacts in time, it is relatively easy to fill up the defense.

After a while, the Inter Milan's six-man wall was lined up in the referee's continuous motion to retreat.

Dzeko, Brozovic, Charhanoglu, and Perisic are tall in the middle, and Lautaro and Dumfries are slightly shorter on both sides.

The remaining four man each mark the main target in the penalty area.

"Beep!" Osatu blew his whistle, indicating that free throws are allowed.

Chen Xiaoliang stuck to Pellegrini's ear: "You try that...", but his hand kept pointing to the upper right corner of the goal.

Handanovic, who was directing the defense from behind the wall, yelled: "Don't be fooled!"

Inter Milan players also know it in their hearts.

Before the game, the coaching staff had already reminded them that Chen Xiaoliang and Pellegrini deliberately misled the opponent's players several times before kicking close free kicks.

Therefore, the coaching staff particularly emphasized that everything should be executed in accordance with the established defensive tactics and not be interfered by the opponent's behavior.

But the operation of the two still affected Handanovic more or less.

What if the face-to-face is really as pointed, kicking the top corner of the near corner?

He involuntarily moved half a step to the left.

Chen Xiaoliang stepped aside, and Barrera stared at him intently.

Pellegrini stepped back six or seven meters, took a deep breath, and then took small steps to run!

Seeing him like this, several players lining up the wall hurriedly hugged his right shoulder with their left hands, covered their chest and face with their elbows as much as possible, and covered their crotch with their right hands to ensure that the content filled in the gender column would not change.

Pellegrini ran to the ball, stepped on his left foot, and swung his right foot very much!

Even at that moment, the expression on his face became very ferocious!
Seeing this, Handanovic immediately moved a step to the right!
With such a distance, there is almost only one possible route to choose to blast the goal vigorously, which is to attack the other half of the goal that is not covered by the human wall!
It must be so!
No wonder they kept pointing to the upper side of the near corner of the goal just now!Just trying to trick me into moving to that side so he can kick this side!

While thinking about it, Handanovic has already made a save, ready to face a heavy blow like a meteorite.

Lou Yichen: "A free kick!"

"Good shot!!!"

"Totally fooled the defensive player! At the moment of shooting, I chose to push a quick ball with the arch of my foot!"

"The ball rolls past the foot of the jumping wall!"

"Handanovic didn't react, just watched the ball roll into his own goal!"

Liu Yue: "This is Pellegrini's ninth league goal this season,"

Fake!

These two guys!
On the field, Handanovic, who watched Pellegrini rushing to celebrate wildly under the stands gathered by the Roma fans, kicked the post next to him hard.

Still cheated!
Pointing to the upper left corner of the goal, I made a strong run-up, which made me think that I was blasting the right goal, but the result was a low and flat ball stealing the lower left corner!

In the 45th minute, Roma tied 2-2!

Mourinho instantly relaxed his brows and smiled.

Equalizing the score before halftime will undoubtedly be a blow to the opponent's psychology.

After the celebration, the Roma players, urged by the referee Osatu, ran slowly towards their own half.

Lautaro kicked off, Roma defended a wave, the 3-minute stoppage time ended quickly, and the first half also ended.

Back in the locker room, Mourinho asked Pellegrini when he entered the door: "Who the hell came up with this idea?"

Pellegrini laughed out loud and pointed at Chen Xiaoliang.

Mourinho smiled crookedly, and said to the team members: "You have to be careful of this guy, he has a bad stomach, and you will be willing to count the money for him someday if you sell us."

After joking, he pointed to the tactical board and began to explain Inter Milan's offensive focus today.

In order to deal with the quick counterattacks that repeatedly posed threats today, Matic was nailed to the backcourt, and could even receive deep into the penalty area to act as a temporary central defender when necessary. No further insertion is required.

In addition, Celik's side is also dominated by the backcourt, and Weiletu will help Zaniolo complete the task of attacking from the side.

Mourinho must keep all slow players in the backcourt as much as possible, so as to avoid the embarrassment that the defense is completely unable to catch up with Inter Milan's rapid advancement in the frontcourt.

Regarding Mancini's absurd steal in the first half, Mourinho didn't say much, but picked up the number tile representing Lautaro and said loudly: "Our defense is mainly blocking! Except for Dzeko, the frontcourt players among them are not too tall, but the frequency of their feet is relatively fast!"

"Don't shoot blindly, use your body to block their shooting path!"

"Especially such a striker, who can't even score an empty goal, what do you have to be afraid of?!"

"If Brozovic's shot didn't choose to try to steal but blocked his space firmly, he would probably have chosen to cross or hard shot to cheat a corner kick."

"So calm down! Don't forget how to mark people in the zone just because the defense changed back to the original style of play today!"

"Maybe some of you will think that if the backcourt does not press up, the frontcourt will not have time to retreat, and the frontcourt will cause a disconnect."

"It's okay! Our disconnection means they will be disconnected too!"

"When the three lines are close, their advantage is in the midfield, but when the three lines are far apart, the advantage in the midfield will be in our own hands!"

Then, he looked at Chen Xiaoliang and Wei Letu:
"Run for me! Use at least 30% more running distance than the opponent to make up for the disconnect between the front and back courts!"

Hearing this, Wei Letu couldn't help but glanced at Chen Xiaoliang, thinking: The coach treats you like a lunatic, don't drag me...you can run 16 kilometers in one game, and I have to throw up on the sidelines after running 13 kilometers...

No matter, do your best!
Finally, Mourinho began encouragingly summing up:

"In 50 BC, on this land, a civil war broke out between the great Caesar and his old rival Pompey over who could dominate the fate of the Roman Republic."

"Those pedantic, stupid senate chose to support Pompey, thinking he was the right man. But Gaius Julius Caesar decisively defeated Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus and pursued Pompey to Egypt."

"Finally, Pompey was killed in Egypt by those who succumbed to Caesar's prestige, and Caesar then marched into Asia and wiped out his last serious enemy."

"Then he sent the elder a battle report with three words written on it."

Mourinho paused and looked around at everyone in the dressing room, players and coaches.

Everyone is listening quietly.

"VENI VIDI VICI!"

"I come, I see, I conquer!"

"You should have heard of this history."

"Now, those nonsense media and those self-righteous experts all think that the two teams in Milan City are stronger than us, as if it is only reasonable for them to win the league championship!"

"Guys! Show off your manly looks tonight! In the second half, let the ladies on the opposite side feel the charm of men!"

"And with a victory, both Milan teams can't sleep tonight!"

"Let all Italy surrender at the feet of Rome!"

Chen Xiaoliang stood up and led everyone to shout slogans.

This famous quote from Caesar was the only sentence he said to the packed media when he first arrived in Rome and participated in the first press conference!

The whole season has come to the most critical closing stage. At this moment, no words can better express the desire of the Romans for victory and honor than this sentence and this period of history!

"I come, I see, I conquer!"

"I come, I see, I conquer!!"

"I come, I see, I conquer!!!"

　Thanks to the executive director of the club [Yiyang 233] for the 2 monthly tickets!
　　Thanks to the executive director of the club [Yiyang 233] for sponsoring!

　　Thanks to the senior director of the club [Chen Zhu Zhu Zhu] for the 5 monthly tickets!
　　Thanks to the senior director of the club [Leaving Jiachao] for the monthly pass!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)