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

Chapter 242 The 38th round of Serie A, the decisive battle for the championship!
From Rome to Turin, the straight-line distance is about 530 kilometers, which is neither too far nor too close.

But for the Roma team, this is how far they are from the championship trophy.

As the center of Catholicism in the world with more than 700 churches and monasteries, the club specially invited priests from the Holy See to make a collective prayer for the players who believe in Catholicism in order to make the players better psychologically

Of course, for players with different beliefs, the club also specially hired a psychological counselor to ease the tension before the battle for the players.

These were Foti's ideas, and Mourinho accepted them all.

The stiff performance in the first half of the Coppa Italia final is still vivid in his memory, and he does not want such a scene to appear in the last round of the league.

He was not afraid that God would blame him for being ungodly, but that he was old and his heart could not bear it.

Although Mourinho has experienced many battles, he is fully qualified to say to other coaches, "What kind of game have I never seen?" Lore, reversal, comeback, and even collapse are too numerous to mention, but in the final analysis, In terms of psychology and spirit, the head coach is still a high-pressure and high-risk profession.

If you play well, you will be scolded by the opponent's fans, if you don't play well, you will be scolded by your own fans. Once the situation gets out of control, you may lose your job at any time. It's okay to be unemployed. When you open the Internet, the messages are full of curses and ridicule.

For professional coaches, being enshrined as a god is only a highlight of a very few people and a very few moments. It is the normal state of a career to leave the field sadly and be beaten by thousands of people.

Not only the head coach, but the players and other football practitioners are also under great pressure.

No, a few days ago, the famous agent Raiola became ill due to overwork and severe lung disease. He died within a few days after being hospitalized in an emergency.

All of a sudden, Pogba, Ibrahimovic, Dericht, Donnarumma, and Harland all came out to mourn him, which became a hot topic in football for a while.

Mourinho, who was born on January 1963, 1, was already 26 years old at this time. In addition to his arrogance and restraint, he also felt that his body was not as good as before.

I think that in the 2004 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, he took Porto to Old Trafford to challenge Manchester United. After the victory, he ran for tens of meters on the sidelines wearing an Armani coat.

Now?Even if he wanted to run, he had enough energy to spare.

As I get older, I have to direct the whole game from the sidelines. The pressure is heavy and the task is heavy. After the game, I will run for a while, panting.

In this regard, Riise is more Buddhist.

In the agent circle, with the gradual fame of Chen Xiaoliang and Cesko, although he is not considered to be of great importance, he is still a figure of prestige.

What's more, young and practical players with potential such as Malaysia and Kvaratsheria were signed.

He didn't work as hard as Raiola did, and he returned to work immediately after being rescued from the ICU due to lung disease in January.

Riise's idea is very simple, to have a work like Chen Xiaoliang in this life is enough for him to be proud for the rest of his life.

As for the other players, wherever Chen Xiaoliang pointed, he would hit them.

Although the two became a cooperative model for this reason, and Riise had to give Chen Xiaoliang part of his agency fee, but Riise, who had already made a lot of money as a player, was not short of money at all, not to mention, look at Mino Raiola, If you earn money, you have to spend your life.

At this point, another super agent, Mendes, seems more open-minded. He mainly monopolizes the agency rights of Portuguese players as his main business. Most of the business is handed over to his team. Unlike Raiola, who always intends to let his players continue to transfer to achieve a double harvest of player salaries and personal agency fees, he tends to send core players to giants and stay there for a long time. It will be less, but the personal connections and wealthy channels are more stable.

No, Riise, who was going to Turin with Chen Xiaoliang on the plane, received feedback from the team. The name Chen Xiaoliang gave him a few days ago - Enzo Fernandez is very interested in joining Roma, but Roma is not without rivals, A few days ago, AC Milan's chief scout Geoffrey Moncada (Geoffrey Moncada) had already personally traveled to Buenos Aires to watch Enzo's game live.

Although Moncada is only 35 years old, he had worked in Monaco for six years before joining Milan as chief scout in 2018.

In those 6 years, Monaco became a football black shop comparable to Benfica and Porto.

And Moncada not only went to the scene to watch the game, but also met with Enzo after the game, and personally expressed AC Milan's interest in him to him.

And the price given to AC Milan by River Plate is exactly what Chen Xiaoliang told Riise, 1200 million euros.

This made Riise once again feel that the relationship network behind Chen Xiaoliang was "unfathomable", and the tentacles of the intelligence system even extended to Argentina.

In addition to AC Milan, Roma director Pinto also "accidentally" learned from his old colleagues that the Portuguese Super League powerhouse Benfica has also contacted the Argentine and is willing to meet a one-time payment of 1200 million euros.

As the football director of Benfica who used to be in charge of transfers, Pinto knows very well that once a player enters Benfica, unless he is scrapped in the end, the price will not increase by 6-10 times, and the next player will never even think about taking him away.

Recently, this old-fashioned black shop has been recruiting players, specially picking those young, not yet famous players who are definitely going to be included in the World Cup roster.

The Portuguese national team's 21-year-old striker Gonzalo Ramos and 19-year-old central defender Antonio Silva, if you add Argentina's Enzo, then next summer after the World Cup, they will definitely be in the transfer market again. Make a lot of money.

They are also Mendes' clients. It's not that Mourinho has never played the idea of ​​19-year-old Antonio Silva. This little Portuguese fellow is worth 1500 million euros. Good performance, and has also been selected for the World Cup squad.

But Benfica opened its mouth and said 6500 million euros without a counter-offer, because this is the amount of breach of contract agreed in the contract.

Mourinho made a direct move to Farke, and then had to make Mendes give up the idea of ​​operating this transfer.

Mourinho did not expect that the competition between Roma and AC Milan would extend to a 21-year-old Argentine midfielder.

In view of the early intervention of AC Milan and Benfica, Pinto has joined forces with Riise.

The cabbage price of 1200 million euros, as long as it can roll in the World Cup, even if Argentina does not achieve very good results in the end, it is still a profitable business.

What's more, the club's transfer team has read the player information collected by Riise's team. All aspects of quality, especially defensive ability and running ability, are definitely better than the existing midfielders in the team except Chen Xiaoliang.

However, compared to the two clubs, Rome has an obvious advantage, and that is Riise.

Enzo currently has no authorized agent, and AC Milan has entrusted an intermediary, Martin Guastadisegno, who specializes in helping South American players transfer to Italian teams, to assist Moncada in handling Enzo's transfer. meeting affairs.

They want Enzo as a replacement for Casey, who is due to move to Barcelona next season.

But on Riise's side, they not only want to manage Enzo's transfer, but also want to be his exclusive agent. Their selling point is very direct and naked, but they can succeed every time-their team successfully In two seasons, Chen Xiaoliang has grown from an unknown Tottenham youth training product to the football pope of Rome.

And now there is a new success story, that is, Cesko, who is dubbed by the fans as the guardian of the pope. This guy's worth has also risen to 4500 million euros, and he has become the 2022 Golden Boy Award and Copa Award One of the popular candidates.

Enzo is very tempted. For a player like him, the first leg of leaving his hometown in Europe, he can land on a championship team in the five major leagues, and he can also play in the Champions League under a champion coach. It's a dream start.

And in view of Rome's current midfield configuration, old and young, there is only one Christian in his real playing years, and he is still a player with distinct advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, there is no choice between him and Chen Xiaoliang. Coexist on the court, and can also take turns to rest in intensive competitions.

But in the final analysis, the intention is only the intention, the acceptance of the offer and the finalization of the contract details are the key to the transfer, and the speed of Roma is still fast.

At this point, Pinto, who just won the Serie A Club Manager of the Year on May 5, has full motivation.

Owner Dan Friedkin has told him that if the acquisition of the club is successful in the first year, the club will hand over the general manager position currently held by the board of directors to Pinto, and let him take over the day-to-day management of the club in the future .

On this condition, anyone who changes will be full of motivation.

At this very moment, just as the club boarded a chartered flight to Turin, Pinto was already on a flight to Buenos Aires.

If you win the game directly, it is enough to have the boss when you win the championship. Honor and success are all about the leadership.

If he didn't win, then he would have finalized a transfer in Argentina to do big things with a small amount of money, which would be a compensatory performance.

There must be a reason why a 37-year-old Portuguese can be appreciated by an American owner in an Italian club.

After talking about the transfer, the plane has already landed.

The group got off the plane at the airport apron, got on the bus and rushed to the hotel.

For the first time, the club has arranged luxury single-person suites for all players, the purpose is to allow them to fully rest.

The fans in Turin did not express much hostility, but responded to the sentence, "The enemy of the enemy is a friend", especially those Juventus fans. They would rather Roma win the championship than the two old teams in Milan. The opponent is back on top.

After all, the grievances and grievances between the top three in the north are the longest and hottest competition in the history of Serie A.

But "Turin Sport" didn't think so, and used several full-page pages to publish a lot of reports that were not conducive to Rome.

Some are embellished, while others are simply nonsense.

For example, financial issues, saying that Roma is heavily in debt, will be punished by UEFA for violating the Financial Fair Play Act.

Another example is that there are many conflicts in the team. Mourinho completely reuses the newcomers he brought, and the old people in the club will be dealt with cleanly.

Coupled with two plausible photos, it really looks like that.

At the same time, the AC Milan Fans Association organized a group of fans to drive from Milan, which is only 120 kilometers away from Turin, just to boo Roma in the game.

There are even Milan fans who want to go to the hotel where they stay in Rome to set off fireworks and noise in the middle of the night to affect the sleep of the players.

But after warnings from the local city council and the police department, this bizarre idea failed to materialize.

2022年5月11日的早上，全队在训练场为了本赛季联赛最后一次合练的时候，福蒂也代穆里尼奥最后一次报出了联赛的首发4-2-3-1的名单。

And a few hours later, the same voice was shouted out by the live broadcast in the Stadio Olimpico in Turin:
No. 1, Patricio;
No. 3, Ibanez;

No. 6, Smalling;
No. 7, Pellegrini;
No. 8, Matic;
No. 9, Abraham
No. 12, Malaysia;

No. 17, Wellertou;
No. 19, Celik;
No. 20, Sesco;
No. 33, captain, Chen Xiaoliang!

The one who exchanged team flags and guessed sides with Chen Xiaoliang was Belotti, the captain who will compete in the last game in Turin and who is currently negotiating a contract with Rome.

For Turin, the head coach Ivan Julic still used the team's consistent configuration, and set up a 3-4-2-1 formation with three central defenders and two wingbacks.

However, the total value of 11 million euros for the first 1.1 players is still a bit shabby in front of Rome.

Especially the injury of the main central defender, the Brazilian Bremer, made the already bleak lineup even more mediocre.

In addition to Bremer, the other two central defenders, Ricardo Rodriguez of Switzerland and Sasa Lukic of Serbia, were selected for the World Cup list of their respective countries.

However, after the game started, the huge difference in mentality between the two sides was still fully revealed.

For the Roma team, which aims to counterattack and win the championship with a victory, this is a major final that must be won, so they played very hard.

Although Mourinho has set up an offensive configuration and formation, the players' desire to press up is generally very low. On the contrary, they will actively withdraw and participate in the defense when they lose the ball.

Under such circumstances, the Turin team, who had no desires and desires and only wanted to play the last game seriously, took advantage of the home court advantage to easily control the situation. The ball possession rate in the first 20 minutes after the opening was always above 60%.

The number of shots from the two sides was almost the same, but the difference was that under Roma's resolute and quick return defense, most of Torino's shots were hastily long-range shots from outside the penalty area, and none of them hit the goal frame.

In the 5th minute, Belotti took the initiative to withdraw from the penalty area, took the ball on the left side of the front of the penalty area, and was tripped by Matic in the physical confrontation. Turin got a free kick in a good position.

Lukic took a free kick and went straight to the goal, but the ball was blocked by Chen Xiaoliang, who was a human wall, and the ball bounced at Ibanez's feet and was cleared by his big foot.

In the 7th minute, Roma counterattacked quickly. After receiving the ball from the right side of the front field, Chen Xiaoliang directly passed the ball and hoisted it into the penalty area. Defender David Zima blocks with his body.

In the 14th minute, Chen Xiaoliang took the ball on the right side of the front of the penalty area after going forward.

In the 19th minute, Roma counterattacked again. Chen Xiaoliang once again covered the right side and sent a precise cross. This time it was Abraham who blocked the defense. Cesco shook his head from close range and was caught by the opponent's 33-year-old Albanian goalkeeper Berisha Fly out!

After 20 minutes, the head coach of Turin, Ivan Julic, couldn't sit still and walked to the sidelines to direct the team to change.

尽管排在第11的都灵落后第10名的维罗纳6分，领先第12的乌迪内斯3分，而且凭借胜负关系，即便本场输上100个球、乌迪内斯全取3分、两队同分的情况下都灵也依旧排在第11。

However, Chen Xiaoliang's performance of galloping all over the field and shoulder-to-shoulder offense and defense still aroused the interest of the former Croatian midfielder. He waved his hand and shouted, and the players on the field immediately followed the pre-match arrangement and began to target Chen Xiaoliang implemented their defensive arrangement.

In the 21st minute, Chen Xiaoliang caught the ball again, but at this time, in addition to Turin's left wingback Ansaldi defending Chen Xiaoliang from the front, Pobega and Brekalo, who were close to the left, were also surrounded. After coming over, a three-defense-one formation was immediately formed.

Coincidentally, these three players defending Chen Xiaoliang are also the most active three players on the field for the Turin team.

The 36-year-old Argentine Ansaldi, like Belotti, has a contract that is about to expire. Turin has notified him that he will not renew his contract. He himself hopes to win another contract through his good performance so that he can play in Europe. Continue your career.

Pobega and Brekalo came on loan from AC Milan and Wolfsburg. At the end of the season, they will return to their home team to compete for the main position of next season.

Especially the 1800-year-old Italian midfielder Pobega, worth 22 million euros, has been confirmed by AC Milan that he will no longer rent out next season and will stay in the team to play in rotation.

If he performed well in the match against the opponent who won the championship today, even pulled Roma into the water, and finally failed to win the championship, wouldn't he become the hero of his home team to win the championship? !

Seeing that the space for the three to double-team was getting smaller and smaller, and the space for passing the ball was also blocked, Chen Xiaoliang decided to take Ansaldi, who was the weakest of the three, into surgery.

He dribbled towards the inside twice in small steps, and suddenly slammed the ball, pushing the ball between Ansaldi's legs, and then immediately started at full speed, ready to use the human ball to forcefully shake off the encirclement.

The 36-year-old Ansaldi has played for Atletico Madrid and Inter Milan, but failed to gain a foothold.And let alone now, even when he was young, his speed was not enough to keep up with Chen Xiaoliang's explosive start.

However, the old soldier also has his own method. He swings his calf, stretches his calf, and then pretends to accidentally raise his hands and shake his head, watching Chen Xiaoliang tripped by him at high speed and then fell several times on the ground. Then quietly receive a yellow card from the referee, as if nothing happened.

This fall, because it was on the wing, fell in front of the Roma bench and in front of Mourinho.

The Portuguese's heartache was like falling on Xiaoliang's body and hurting Jose's heart.

Chen Xiaoliang was also depressed, this fall was really hard.

Moreover, the Turin Olympic Stadium, as its name suggests, is a professional comprehensive stadium just like the Rome Olympic Stadium. It used to be the main venue for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, not a professional football stadium.

There is still a lap distance between the football field and the auditorium, and because the floor drain and floor heating system do not meet the standards of UEFA five-star stadiums like the Bernabeu and Old Trafford, in order to prevent heavy rain and water accumulation, The edge of the pitch has a pronounced slope to allow rainwater to flow across the lawn to the surrounding depressions.

This also made Chen Xiaoliang fall directly down the slope to the outside of the field after being tripped by Ansaldi just now...

After getting up, Ansaldi gave him a provocative look, which means that if you come again, I will fuck you again.

Chen Xiaoliang was expressionless, but what he was thinking in his heart was: OK, you wait.

On the other side of the bench, Ivan Julich, who was watching all this, smiled and said nothing.

Anyway, the last game, anyway, no desire, anyway, Ansaldi will not be in the team next season anyway.

Foul is foul.

Even if there is a foul, Roma can't easily run wild at home.

What's more, at Rome's home court in the first half of the season, Turin's small loss by one goal made Ivan Julic very unconvinced.

He always believes that a head coach like Mourinho is nothing more than because the club has money and stars in his hands, and a non-rich team like Roma can rush to this position this season, completely relying on Mourinho I don't know where to get those two "little stars".

He just wanted to try, strangle Chen Xiaoliang to death, how successful this Roma's offense is, and whether it is worthy of sitting at the top of the league.

　Thanks to the executive director of the club [Grand Love Death] for the 2 monthly tickets!
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