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

Chapter 268 Can the last transfer save Roma's defense?

Chen Xiaoliang didn't play against Monza, and one less game means one less reward.

These five days of training are not complete, either on the road or in relaxation training. In order to let the players rest better, and in the away game, the team needs to take a bus to and from the training ground and hotel. Mourinho also restricted Chen Xiaoliang and their extra training behavior, especially Kwa, he ran 12.1 kilometers in the last game against Monza, and he was very active in front and back defense. Mourinho told him to take a good rest and keep his energy. to the game against Liverpool.

Therefore, in total, it took 4 days of training to increase the training value by 12 points.

Training value 24 → 36
Now I have to start saving training points to improve the ability above 15.

On the evening of August 8, in the away game against Udinese, Mourinho rotated again.

Defense Viña, Mancini, Ibanez, Spinazzola;

The defensive midfielder Enzo took a break and sent a combination of Matic and Cristant;

Chen Xiaoliang started as a central midfielder;

Left winger Zalewski, right winger Dybala, center Sesco.

The 4-2-3-1 formation continues to be used.

In order to deal with Rome's midfield, Udinese resorted to a 3-5-2 formation, with double midfielders plus a single central midfielder, plus two wide midfielders ready to retract at any time, vowing to kill Rome's central midfielder Entangled in his own capstan.

Udinese, nicknamed "Black Chicken" by the fans, put the two generals in the most critical positions of the left and right midfielders.

They are the captain on the field, the 32-year-old Argentine player Roberto Pereira, who joined Juventus from Udinese in 2015 with a transfer fee of 1500 million euros, helping Juventus win two Serie A titles and the Coppa Italia Champion, and then switched to the Premier League Watford for 1350 million euros.

Finally returned to Udinese in 2020.

The left midfielder Udogi is a Nigerian with Italian nationality. With a height of 188 cm and a weight of 67 kg, he has body, speed and physical fitness.

After the tempering of last season, this young player has also been further improved.

In this summer, he has been bought by Tottenham for 1800 million euros and rented back to Udinese for one year to continue training.

In addition, the team also spent a total of 1300 million euros to buy three more cost-effective rotation players including Berjay, Masina and Ebsse from CSKA Moscow, Watford and Angers.

Everyone saw that Roma had to reserve strength for Liverpool, but unfortunately, Udinese also saw it up and down.

What's more terrible is that the players in Roma themselves think that they should stay strong for playing Liverpool.

If you stay here, something will happen.

When the game progressed to the 25th minute, facing a 3-0 score, Chen Xiaoliang yelled at the back line for the first time on the court.

"Are you Tamade here to play football? If you don't want to play, take off your jersey and get out!"

Because of the strict management and control of racial discrimination, pornography, swearing and other behaviors by the major leagues, Chen Xiaoliang finally cursed "CTMD" in his mother tongue.

Many Italian fans didn't know what Chen Xiaoliang was talking about, but in the live broadcast room of Hongguo, the barrage of "traditional virtues" filled the entire screen for a while.

Although he has the absolute right to speak in the locker room, this power comes from his consistent treatment of every player fairly and the trust of the whole team, rather than relying on the status of the team and the trust of the coach to coerce others.

Therefore, when the team performed poorly in the past, he was at most a reminder and a warning, but it was the first time that he publicly criticized like this.

The back line that can be scolded, especially Mancini and Spinazzola, two native Italian players, have no temper at all.

Because the mistakes they made were really stupid, and even the two of them were a little lucky. Fortunately, the captain scolded first, so Mourinho would come out to calm the players' conflicts, otherwise the midfielder would return to the locker room, Mourinho I'm sure to spend 15 of the 14 minutes sneering at them in a two-pronged mode.

The first goal came in the 5th minute, when Mancini was surrounded by several opponents when Udinese captain Roberto Pereira delivered an innocuous cross from the right corner of the box. Under the circumstances, he whimsically stopped the ball with his chest and wanted to stop it directly to Patricio.

As a result, before Patricio could react, Udogi, who was behind Mancini, deftly intercepted the ball that Mancini pushed out with his chest, and then went directly to the top of the near corner before Patricio pounced. After poking the ball in, he immediately turned around and celebrated with his teammates, leaving only Mancini with a confused face and Patricio staring at him speechlessly.

The second conceded goal was in the 14th minute. Zalewski received a cross pass from Chen Xiaoliang and passed it back to Spinazzola behind him without a good breakthrough opportunity on the left.

The "great Italian left-back" didn't know whether he was too relaxed or too confident today. He chose to kick back without even looking at it, wanting to pass it back to Ibanez.

Who would have thought that Ibanez, who dribbled the ball forward in the backcourt just now, was not in the position that Spinazzola had imagined in his mind. Roberto Pereira has already firmly received the big gift package he sent.

Facing Roberto Pereira, who had entered the penalty area and had already formed a one-handed trend, Patricio immediately abandoned the goal and tried to block the ball before he adjusted his shooting posture.

As a result, the captain of Udinese lobbed the ball lightly and hit the goal. Mancini, who rushed back to block the goal, wanted to avenge the crime and rushed to the goal line to raise his leg to make a clearance, but he was still a step too late.

The superb performance on the court will inspire teammates, and the super ghost's disaster performance will also be transmitted to teammates.

Two goals behind, the midfielder played very impatiently, frequently made mistakes in coordination, and lost the ball. The mentality of the old goalkeeper Patricio was also obviously disturbed by the two teammates who made mistakes.

In the 25th minute, another 20-year-old German star midfielder Samardzic, who came from the Red Bull youth training system and came from the Leipzig Red Bull, took the ball from outside the penalty area to throw off the block of Christant, and shot with his left foot. After a bounce in the middle, Patricio didn't adjust his hand shape in time when he fell to the ground to make a save. The ball dropped after touching his palm and still rolled into the goal.

Udinese 3 to 0!

The glaring score finally made Chen Xiaoliang unbearable, and then he burst into anger at his teammates just now.

The 48-year-old Udinese head coach Andre Soldier, dressed in a black tracksuit, celebrated in front of the camera. Everyone on the bench jumped and shouted like the boss said that the year-end bonus will be 10 times this year. The nearly 25000 fans of the home team in the entire Friuli Stadium were all boiling.

Indeed, there is no place in the stadium ring that is calm, and all the heads and bodies that move up and down are like bubbles and waves in boiling water.

They deserve to party because they tore up the defending champions, the league leaders, and in a merciless way.

It is true that Roma made mistakes for all three goals, but those two goals would not have allowed two defenders to make big mistakes without the consistent running and pressing of Udogi and Roberto Pereira.

It is the old saying that has been said countless times: opportunities are for those who are prepared.

Those who are not diligent will miss the opportunity presented to them.

Although Mourinho temporarily restrained his anger because of Chen Xiaoliang's outbreak and didn't want to add fuel to the fire, he still couldn't bear to make a substitution.

That's right, he made a substitution in 25 minutes. Although he didn't get angry or shout at the players, his attitude of strong dissatisfaction with the team's disastrous performance must be clearly and unmistakably expressed.

The fourth official also confirmed with Foti again and again. After all, for him, he had never experienced a substitution in 25 minutes.

Malaysia replaced Spinazzola and Kvaratsheria replaced Zalewski.

But the obvious difference is that when Spinazzola was off the field, Mourinho had no expression on his face, and Foti stepped forward and asked the Italian left-back to go directly to the locker room to "calm down".

Then when Zalewski left the field, Mourinho put his arms around his shoulders and said a lot of comforting words.

The Polish teenager kept nodding, and he also fully felt the goodwill of the head coach.

After all, his fate is not because he played badly, but because the team now needs to greatly boost the attack, and he has become Spinazzola's "buried".

And Mancini is "lucky" to temporarily stay on the field.

It's not that Mourinho doesn't want to replace him, but that there is only Smalling as a central defender on the bench. Now that he is replaced, in case of another sudden change, there will be no one to replace the central defender.

As soon as the game continued, Mourinho, with a livid face, said to Forti: "Let Pinto get the agreement text of the central defender right away! I want to see the official announcement from the club's public relations department tomorrow morning!"

Foti didn't say a word to his immediate boss who was suppressing his anger, but just nodded and immediately walked to the sidelines to send a message to Pinto.

After a while, Pinto made a sweaty expression, and replied with a complaining sentence: "It is he who said to think about it again, and he is also the one who is in a hurry to ask for someone now. Let him wait tomorrow morning."

Seeing Pinto's confident answer, which meant that the matter had been settled, Foti immediately passed it on to Mourinho.

This made the "madman" who was about to turn 5 in five months feel a little more at ease.

The person he was referring to was Leipzig Red Bull's Croatian central defender Gwadior.

Mourinho's original idea was to find a permanent transfer, but the club searched around in Europe with a limited budget, but they couldn't find one that could meet Mourinho's price within the price of 3500 million euros. The one Rino asked for.

Pinto believes that according to Mourinho's request, the club must either find him a Terry reincarnation, the second generation of Samuel, or have to scratch a lottery ticket that is at least as good as Cesco's if not enough for Chen Xiaoliang. .

However, Pinto can become the general manager of a well-known European club at the age of 36, which shows that no matter whether he is strong in business ability, he must be very good at being a person.

Even if Mourinho is still hesitating there, his negotiations with the Leipzig Red Bull have never been interrupted, and the contract text and agreement are all ready, waiting for the head coach to make a final decision.

Fortunately, Gvardio himself is open to loaning or staying in the team. Staying at Leipzig Red Bull, he is the main force and can also play in the Champions League. Joining Roma is the same as the main force and the Champions League. The only difference is that Roma can still compete. Look at the Serie A champions.

Of course, Mourinho is also very attractive to him.

The team performed well in the first few rounds. Mourinho thought about stopping the transfer. He wanted to give the youth players a chance to play in the first team. He also told Pinto that it is better to save money and focus on Smash a high-value and powerful defender.

But in the end Pinto said something meaningful, which completely dispelled Mourinho's idea:

"Jose, what if we can't keep Chen next summer?"

When he heard this sentence, Mourinho didn't even know how to answer for a moment. He just told Pinto to continue the loan negotiations of Gwadiol.

Although the soon-to-be 60-year-old coach looks down on Pinto, who is much younger than him, after all, most of the team's transfers are not handled by the general manager at all. He is more like a business of negotiating terms and making paperwork. Manager, but I have to say that Pinto's words are very realistic and quite correct.

The reason why no wealthy club sent a fax to Roma this summer is mainly because Chen Xiaoliang just renewed his contract, and through Riise, he clearly expressed his determination to transfer this season to the agents and scouts who came to test the outside world.

But this does not mean that those giants will give up because of this.

Open the newspaper, click on the webpage, and you can see such things as:
"Ancelotti has agreed with Florentino to sign Chen Xiaoliang for 2 million next summer, and recreate Real Madrid's Champions League three-peat dynasty midfielder 2.0PLUS version"

"Laporta has ordered the club's transfer team to sign the Reds next summer even if they use three more levers. He is the key to Barcelona's dream team to reconquer Europe"

"Britain's richest man Ratcliffe has promised that once he buys Manchester United from the Glazer family, he will invest more than 3 million pounds in signings, and Chen Xiaoliang will be the most important part of it"

"Liverpool spent a transfer budget of [-] million yuan on Nunes because they couldn't buy Chen Xiaoliang this summer. Klopp has already forced the board of directors. If he can't buy Chen Xiaoliang next year, he will leave Liverpool."

"Manchester City's iron triangle, head coach Guardiola, director Soriano and football director Begiristan have been approved by boss Mansour, and will compete with Paris next summer regardless of cost. Chen Xiaoliang is even willing to provide Rome with a blank check. Red The combination of Chinese and Haaland will dominate the whole of Europe"

Yes, as long as fans dare to watch, there is no media that dare not write.

But there is no storm without waves, which indeed shows a problem. The attention of all the giants in Europe has already been placed on the 18-year-old Roma captain. Transfer offer.

For Rome, it is already clear at a glance how big the difference in the team's performance is with or without Chen Xiaoliang.When the wealthy family bought the person away, Rome held a lot of cash in his hands, and the boss would divide the amount as investment return, not to mention, even if he looked at the whole world, he would not be able to buy the same person again.

At that time, do you want to hit the honor again?What are you going to do?

Blessings and misfortunes never come singly. Today's collective sleepwalking performance on the field finally prompted Mourinho to make up his mind that he must go all out to strive for higher honors this season.

Gwadiol's confirmation also means that Roma has finally completed the team's last transfer this summer, reaching a loan agreement with the Bundesliga Leipzig Red Bull with a loan fee of 400 million euros and a mandatory buyout clause of 7500 million euros.

But far can't quench the near thirst. Even Dybala had to train with the team for a period of time before he could integrate well, not to mention Enzo and Kwa who came to the team earlier.

And like Gwadiol, who has played two Bundesliga games on behalf of the Leipzig Red Bulls, it takes a few days to even recognize people after arriving in the team. One or two weeks to adjust.

The score behind 3-0 on the field is the real deal.

The substitutions were changed, Mourinho expressed his opinion, Chen Xiaoliang roared, and the rest can only be seen to what extent the players can adjust on the field and where the result of the game will go.

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