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

Chapter 287 The Legend of Hungry Wolf
When the Roma team arrived in Salzburg non-stop, the fourth largest city in Austria with a population of about 20, the eighth round of the Serie A match was all over that night.

那不勒斯主场3比1都灵、亚特兰大主场1比0佛罗伦萨，两支球队都是6胜2平保持不败，积20分排在前2位，罗马则以6胜1平1负积19分位列第3。

AC Milan and Juventus also won their respective victories, ranking fifth and eighth respectively.

Inter Milan, which was repelled by Roma in Meazza, has 4 points with 4 wins and 12 losses, ranking 9th after Juventus with goal difference.

After only two days of rest, the whole team ushered in the Champions League group match against Red Bull Salzburg.

Faced with a tight game and relatively weaker opponents, Mourinho almost put on another starting lineup.

Right back Viña, left back Spinazzola, the two center backs are Smalling and Ibanez;

The defensive midfielders Cristante and Volpato started, and the central midfielder was handed over to Pellegrini;
Left winger Zalewski, right winger Dybala, and center Abraham.

On the opposite side of them is the masterpiece of Red Bull.

Mourinho even suspected that their coach, the German Jaisler, sent the 37-year-old Austrian left-back Ulmer to deliberately increase the average age of the starting 11 players.

Because after leaving out the veteran, the oldest of the remaining 10 people is the 24-year-old Swiss goalkeeper Kuhn, and the average age of 23.1 years has dropped directly to 21.7 years.

This is a crazy number, which means that in other teams, those young players who have just left the U21 reserve team and are preparing for the first team debut are already the main force in Salzburg Red Bull.

And, they're not playing badly.

Last season, also relying on this young guard, they won 22 wins, 17 draws and 4 loss in the 1 rounds of the Austrian Super League regular season, accumulating 55 points, 2 points ahead of the second-placed Graz Storm.

In the championship play-offs, according to the Olympic Super League system, the regular season points are halved and brought into the play-offs, and the teams ranked 1-6 will play home and away round-robin games.

结果萨尔茨堡红牛以27分开始，10轮比赛8胜1平1负，再次以52分的最后积分，领先第2名15分的巨大优势获得联赛冠军，直接进军欧冠正赛。

When the commentary in the broadcast room reported the Salzburg Red Bull's starting lineup and the ages of the players one by one, those old fans who usually have rich experience in watching football couldn't help being amazed.

波黑右后卫德迪克20岁、塞尔维亚中后卫帕夫洛维奇21岁、法国后腰杜亚斯19岁、挪威左边前卫赛沃尔德21岁、克罗地亚前腰苏西奇20岁、瑞士前锋奥卡福22岁、巴西前锋费尔南多23岁。

The players in Roma only understood today why the 18-year-old Cesco can start many times in this team, and Red Bull plays in kindergarten.

Facing the patronage of the hot Roma, this game naturally attracted the attention of the whole world. Red Bull is also sparing no effort to show their monster supermarket to the major clubs, as if the subtext is:
Red Bull is your home, and the little demon can take it at will.

However, compared with the four traditional European clubs Benfica, Porto, Monaco and Dortmund, their reputation is completely polarized. Doing business with Red Bull has always made big clubs and scouts very happy.

Here, the Red Bull Department relies on its super global scouting network and youth training system to create a mass-produced monster model. If some players are really kicked out, they will not sit on the ground and raise prices. , No premium Fan Ge’s style of not selling 3-5 times is completely different, and the premium of 2-3 times the Red Bull series is already considered very high.

Their goal is to establish a long-term cooperative relationship with those wealthy teams, and continuously send out the enlightened little monsters to achieve stable transfer income.

Abraham, who had just passed his 25th birthday, stood on the court and suddenly felt that he was already an old man. After the opening game, his feeling became stronger.

Facing the defending Serie A champions, the boys of Red Bull Salzburg are like wolf cubs waiting to be fed, just like Rangnick's high-position pressing tactics developed when he was the sports director of the Red Bull department. No matter which part of the stadium Roma is on tonight Regional possession of the ball will definitely encounter the pressing interception of the Salzburg Red Bull.

The full implementation of the 5-time substitution system also contributed to the prevalence of high-position pressing.

physical strength?What is physical strength?
This group of young players couldn't be more clear, they just run, they can't run anymore, and there are a group of teammates younger than themselves on the bench who will replace them.

And unlike Inter Milan's inexperienced midfielder Aslani in the previous game, most of the children of the Red Bull Salzburg have had more than two seasons of training in the domestic league, and they are not recruits at all. Eggs are comparable.

Although he is still inexperienced in the UEFA Champions League, especially when facing teams with different styles in other countries' leagues, he is quite experienced in attacking and defending on the court.

In the first half, the two teams drew 0-0. Red Bull Salzburg had 3 threatening shots, and Abraham also received Zalewski's inverted triangle cross and hit the post once.

Easy side to fight again, Mourinho still did not make substitutions.

For one thing, he thinks his rotation is good enough to deal with young opponents tonight.

Secondly, two days after returning to Rome, they will face Lecce at home, and then rest for 3 days, and then meet the fourth round of the Champions League group stage, and then play against Salzburg Red Bull at home.

And he is targeting a home game against so far unbeaten league leaders Napoli later this month.

Fighting on two fronts and leading in points made him think more carefully about the team's next steps.

It's a pity that Abraham and Christian's two must-goal shots in the second half hit the crossbar, which still prevented the situation from going in the expected direction.

In the 87th minute, the Salzburg Red Bull, who was pressing across the board, made a pass from the left side of the center back Pavlovic, and the right midfielder Argentine Capaldo made an offside header and broke through Patricio's goal.

However, when the Austrian was about to celebrate the lore, in the 91st minute, Pellegrini took advantage of a free kick outside the penalty area, and with the cooperation of Dybala's fake action, he directly kicked the arc kick and scored for Rome. 1 point.

In another game, Liverpool beat Glasgow Rangers 2-0 at home.

3轮过后，罗马2胜1平积7分，利物浦2胜1负积6分，遥遥领先积2分的萨尔茨堡红牛与1分的流浪者，晋级淘汰赛的前景已经基本明朗。

Chen Xiaoliang didn't play in this game, and he didn't get a dime reward for the mission. However, in the league after returning to Rome, he maintained a good state of consecutive goals. In the first half, he received Kwa's goal in the counterattack With a pass from the wing, the near post outflanked the shot and scored 1 goal first, which finally helped the team beat Lecce, which is ranked 2th in the standings, 1-13.

The other goal was a header from Pellegrini's corner kick in the 55th minute of the second half, which was also his first goal after joining Roma.

In the 86th minute, Lecce took advantage of Roma's defensive slack and scored a goal, which only slightly made the home team nervous, but failed to change the outcome.

There is not much to pay attention to in this game. Lecce goalkeeper Falcone, who made 8 successful saves after the game, won the best of the game.

But the media were surprised to find that after 9 rounds of the league, the person who ranked second in the scorer list and only 2 goals behind Osimhen, the top scorer, turned out to be Chen Xiaoliang, while the previous No. 2 Lautaro was still the scorer. 2 balls are ranked 7rd.

What's more, among these 8 goals, there was not a single penalty kick, and they were all goals in sports games.

Roma captain puts Serie A forwards to shame

"Chen Xiaoliang is on the path of Lampard and Gerrard"

"The man chasing Haaland across Europe is actually a midfielder"

Relevant reports and analyzes have become a hot topic for a while.

相比上赛季各项比赛总计13球23助攻的数据，本赛季才踢了2个多月，11场比赛里贡献了9球6助攻，场均制造1.36球，在五大联赛仅次于为曼城出战12场贡献19球3助攻、场均制造1.83球的“魔王”哈兰德。

Considering the completely different positions of the two on the field, this even made Mourinho feel incredible at the press conference, bluntly saying that he did not assign special offensive tasks to Chen Xiaoliang during the team's training.

Of course Chen Xiaoliang knew what was going on. Last season, the points were all added to other places. This season, he finally got the shooting...the goals will increase.

However, compared with Lampard, who scored 843 goals in 261 games, and Gerrard, who scored 794 goals in 206 games, he still has too much to go.

However, there is a good saying that records are used to be chased and broken by future generations.

The 1-1 draw with Roma at home gave great confidence to the teenagers of Red Bull Salzburg who came to the Italian capital as a guest.

However, they forgot one thing, Mourinho did not play a real ace in that game.

Before the start of the game, Chen Xiaoliang sorted out the resources accumulated by the system.

对阵国米，打进4球获得赛后评分满分10分的他毫无悬念的当选全场最佳。（5点），外加4个进球（8点），这场比赛总共获得了16点训练值（23→39）与1张体力恢复卡（4→5）。

Getting the "Big Four" for the first time triggered a dazzling achievement:

[The achievement of scoring four goals in a single game for the first time in his career has been achieved]

[Achievement Rewards: Shooting, Heading, and Long Shot Choose two +1]

Although the header is both offensive and defensive, it needs to be bounced as a guarantee. What's more, instead of rushing into the penalty area and fighting the opponent's central defender to compete for the header, it is better to take advantage of the cross on both sides.

Shot 15→16, long shot 15→16
Achieved a hat-trick again, which also allowed him to complete the [hat-trick in the next game] [reward: any technical attribute +1] for the second time.

Since the points rewarded by this task cannot be used for attributes above 18, in line with the principle of practicing one and refining one, and matching the existing skills of [good at long-distance shooting], he increased the long-range shooting from 16 to 17.

Defeating Inter Milan and winning Barrera also gave him two chances to draw Inter Milan's star card.

One draws the pinnacle Mateus mid-range long-range attribute card (5 minutes), and the other gets the pinnacle Vieri confrontation attribute card (5 minutes).

The positive incentive system and the super high rewards brought by the battle against the giants have made every victory after the battle against the giants, especially when I have shown my prowess against Inter Milan twice, I have achieved a considerable increase in efficiency .

The next game against Lecce was not so much tricks.

1张体力恢复卡（5→6），1个进球（2点），其他任务3点，总共获得了5点训练值（39→44），以及这6天通过训练积攒的24点训练值一并收入（训练值44→68）

If you can get 12 skill points in this game, you can get 80 training points through the season BUFF [When you gain skills in the new season, you can get the same amount of training points], and then increase the attribute by 1 point.

This kind of feeling that you can improve your attributes just a little bit is completely different from the mentality of accumulating from scratch after finally saving a certain amount of training value, and it becomes single digits, and the motivation it brings is also different. of.

Not only did Chen Xiaoliang have clear personal goals and strong motivation, Mourinho also issued a death order before the game.

Liverpool challenged the Glasgow Rangers away. Although they are in a bad situation in the Premier League, he absolutely does not believe that Klopp will lead the team to overturn in the Champions League.

That being the case, if Rome wants to keep the first place in the group, it must win the game in front of it.

Otherwise, in the Champions League round of 16 knockout rounds, it is very likely that very difficult teams such as Real Madrid, Bayern, Manchester City, and Paris will be drawn.

What's more, Mourinho also put down a cruel sentence in the locker room before the game:
"Whether you go to Qatar to play the World Cup next month or not, I have given you a rest in the first few games. If you don't play well tonight, then you can go directly to your national team to report. You don't need to come to the next games. .”

Abraham, who was going to be a substitute for Sesco in this field, muttered:
"No one took me to the World Cup..."

The locker room, which was still serious just now, suddenly burst into laughter. Mourinho picked up a towel and covered Abraham's head: "Then go home, Southgate won't take you, and I won't take you either." .”

Chen Xiaoliang stood up and walked to the middle, following the old rules, leading the players to shout:
"In the past few days, everyone has understood. The coach actually asked us to attack the youngsters on the opposite side from the first minute. I thought I heard it wrong at first, but I didn't expect the coach to be serious."

"Guys, wait a thousand years, wait another thousand years."

"The last game was tied, and today at our home, we let them know what the sky is high and the earth is thick."

"There is nothing else to say, just one word, do it!"

Everyone gathered around, put their hands on the shoulders of their left and right teammates, bent down and shouted:
"Dry!"

The Austrian media was still blowing the news before the game, saying that the Salzburg Red Bull is likely to create a miracle. After this group of young people are familiar with the rhythm of the Champions League, if they can win this game with an upset, they can come from behind. In the seemingly bright Group A, he made a breakthrough and advanced to the knockout round as the second.

Although it is often said that the UEFA Champions League was restructured in 1992, when the European Champions Cup was officially renamed as the UEFA Champions League, the framework for the participation of 8 groups and 32 teams was the 1999-00 season, the curtain call of the European Cup Winners’ Cup established afterwards.

But at that time, the teams that entered the top 16 still needed to be divided into four groups, and then played two rounds of group matches, and the top 2 in each group entered the top 8.

The current round of 16 is a knockout format, which was determined in the 2003-04 season.

The reforms of that season made the European powerhouses uncomfortable, and finally created the most unpopular Champions League in recent decades.

Porto coached by Mourinho, Monaco coached by Didier Deschamps, Chelsea coached by Ranieri and Deportivo coached by Irureta entered the semi-finals, and Porto finally won the cup.

Against the background of the strong team competition system and the establishment of club points, since then, European football has completely entered the era of giants.

The winners of the subsequent 18 championships were all monopolized by those world-renowned giants.

Coupled with the effects of broadcast ratings, event influence, topic marketing and other factors, some tacit and invisible interventions are also escorting the giants.

For example, the lottery, the home whistle of the giants, etc., although these factors can only play a small role in the intervention of the final victory, the giants still have to rely on their strength and performance if they want to win to the end, but the balance of strength and weakness is already clear. In fact, even if there is a 1% inclination, the final result will show a significant inclination.

The current Champions League is no longer a hotbed that can frequently upset small and medium clubs.

Those young boys from the Salzburg Red Bull who had just entered the rivers and lakes were still full of pride and ambition when they walked into the stadium from the player tunnel, "dare to call Rome a new day", but after the whistle blew, they realized , If my side can be called a pack of wolves waiting to be fed, then it is at most a pack of wolf cubs, and the 11 people on the opposite side are the real legends of hungry wolves.

Viña, the full-back who is about to represent Uruguay in the World Cup, has been pushed on the right by Mourinho since Malaysia joined and Spinazzola recovered from injury, and he often has to fight against the strong defender and the weaker defender. Celik vie for the starting spot.

Mourinho's must-kill order today allowed this player with South American football's offensive blood in his bones to completely let himself go.

Only in the 3rd minute of the opening, he received a pass from Enzo on the right, dribbled the ball from the wing and cut to the center.

After taking a few steps, he found that he couldn't get rid of the opponent's left midfielder Sewald, so he hit Chen Xiaoliang who was advancing in the middle.

However, right after the ball was played, Binia told his captain his intentions by running. He turned from behind Seward and went straight into the penalty area. Rub the ball on the back of the foot in the direction of Binia's forward thrust, and the ball arrives!

Facing the well-timed pass from Chen Xiaoliang, Binia jumped lightly and hoisted the ball into the far corner before the goalkeeper Kuhn could react!

Roma 1-0 head start!

In the 9th minute, still under the transition of offense and defense, Gwadiol blocked the opponent's striker Okafor's shot in the backcourt. Christante made a long pass. After receiving the ball from the left, Kwa dribbled the ball all the way to the front of the penalty area.

Facing the central defender Soler who stepped forward to intercept, Kwa once again resorted to a two-pass and one-kick wall cooperation. He knocked the ball to Chen Xiaoliang and then suddenly went forward. Chen Xiaoliang sent a through ball. After receiving the ball on the left side of the small penalty area, Kwa wanted to He crossed the goal, but was blocked by Soler, who caught up with him at the first moment.

The ball changed direction and rolled towards the penalty spot. Facing the wallet that was just in front of him, Dybala kicked his left foot immediately, and the ball hit Seth, who was about to catch the cross pass from Kova just now to grab a shot. Cole's leg bounced into the goal!

The players in the middle of the Salzburg Red Bull immediately raised their hands to indicate offside, but Soller, who was defending Kwa, rushed to the bottom line, and the goalkeeper Kuhn did not attack, and both of them were clearly behind Sesco.

Even though the goal turned into an assist, Dybala was still very happy and jumped directly on Sesco's back, letting him wave behind his back to celebrate.

Less than 10 minutes into the game, two combined punches from the left and the right completely bored the young Salzburg Red Bull.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. How ambitious I was before the game, but now I am facing an abyss.

But the uncle and brothers on the opposite side didn't want to feel sorry for the little brother at all.

Facing the 20-year-old Bosnia and Herzegovina right-back Dedic, Kwa, who returned to the starting lineup, can be said to have whatever he wants. No matter how he lives, Dedic is crying suddenly, like a little doll who is bullied by older children in the community. Ball yelled "I'm not playing anymore" and ran home crying.

In the 18th minute, Christant dribbled the ball forward from the backcourt, and Chen Xiaoliang retreated from the frontcourt to respond.

Christante passed forward to Chen Xiaoliang. Chen Xiaoliang looked at Kwa who was going forward without the ball on the left. During the retreat, he knocked his right foot behind him. The ball came to Kwa like a corner under his feet. In front of him, Kewa trotted all the way into Dedic's defense zone.

He first dribbled the ball with his right foot and took a few steps in the direction of the cut-in center, and then suddenly swiped the ball with his right foot to the baseline, and the whole person quickly changed direction and rushed to the left.

Dedik turned around and followed with all his strength, and saw that Kwa swung his left foot up to make a pass. He immediately fell to the ground and stretched his legs to try to tackle the ball.

Unexpectedly, Kwa's left foot fell, but he dunked the ball back. Facing Dedic who fell to the ground, he changed direction again chicly, cutting inside and rushing towards the middle of the penalty area.

Soler, who was also played by Kova just now, rushed over again, but this time Kowa did not choose to play a small game with him again, but directly paddled the bottom of the ball with his left foot, and made a half-high cross !
At the end, Dybala, who was wandering on the outside, suddenly inserted from behind the 37-year-old left back Ulmer, dived forward and headed the ball towards Kuhn's far corner!

3 to 0! 19 minutes!

If it weren't for the security guards in the stands trying to maintain order, some crazy Roma uncles would strip off their shirts, jump off the stands and rush into the stadium to kiss Mourinho and Roma players!

And Rome is also red-eyed, but they haven't fought such a rich battle in 800 years!

After a few rounds of attack and slight adjustments, in the 33rd minute, Dybala took a tactical corner kick from the right. He no longer knew how to defend correctly. The Salzburg Red Bull never saw Chen Xiaoliang waiting near the corner flagpole.

Chen Xiaoliang took a tactical corner kick and made a direct cross!
Recently, I have always used the skills of rushing in to grab points, supplementary shots, piercing Yang with a hundred steps, and helping teammates to take the head of the enemy from thousands of miles away. It has been useless for a while.

Although the opponent's left midfielder Sewald finally reacted, rushed towards Chen Xiaoliang and jumped high, raised his left leg to block the pass, but his steps were slow, and there was no chance for him to struggle?
The ball drew a strong inward spin almost close to the baseline, and then flew from the baseline to the middle of the penalty area and the penalty spot.

Veteran Smalling, who started the game, jumped up high with almost no defensive pressure and comfortably hit the ball with Cesco and Gwadiol sharing the defensive attention beside him.

4 is better than 0!

It was too easy, too easy, even though it was the iron tree blooming and scored the first goal of the half-season, but Smalling looked at the children who were ashamed and ashamed, but he was not ashamed to celebrate passionately.

The camera shows the Salzburg Red Bull bench, the coach has a zombie face, and the players are dejected one by one.

Mourinho's gift to children

Corriere dello Sport has already edited the headline on the front page of the newspaper for the next day. It is a pun, not only saying that a big victory will make the young people of Rome transform into a kingly mentality, but also insinuating the young players of the Salzburg Red Bull I finally experienced the first adult lesson in my life where I was taught to be a human being.

Already out of order, but still want to struggle in the heart of the Red Bull Salzburg tried every attack with all their might.

But when it comes to the game, the leading side is surprisingly relaxed, no matter how they play, while the lagging side is getting more and more anxious, and the more they play, the more out of shape their moves and tactics are.

In the 45th minute, the first half has entered the overtime period of only 1 minute. Roma played a quick counterattack. Gwadiol kicked forward in the penalty area. Sesco retreated and returned the ball to Chen Xiaoliang. Chen Xiaoliang Adjust one step and go straight forward, Enzo has already rushed to the front.

Enzo, who had just arrived in Europe and hadn't made a fuss in the Champions League, saw the red on the Salzburg Red Bull jersey and rushed forward like a bull in heat.

Although Sesco retreated to make the ball and immediately turned back to advance, but the score was played like this, and everyone agreed that his teammates could act recklessly.

Enzo took a step inside the penalty area, not giving the opponent's goalkeeper Kuhn a chance to attack, looked at the near corner, and slammed down with his left foot.

However, he did not push the far corner, but used pure vision and ankle feints to trick Kuhn into taking a gamble on his right side.

As a result, the ball quickly rolled into the goal against the turf on the left hand side of Kuhn, whose center of gravity was shifted.

5 is better than 0!

After scoring the goal, Enzo rushed to the camera on the sidelines excitedly, and touched the hem of the jersey with his hands down.

This made Mourinho nervous, thinking that he was going to take off his clothes to celebrate, and quickly called other players to rush to stop him.

Although everyone is really excited and excited, it is really not worth the loss to get a yellow card for no reason in this kind of group match where there is no suspense about the outcome.

Fortunately, Enzo just lifted up the jersey, revealing the sports vest inside, on which was written a blessing for his 2-year-old daughter, and put his right thumb into his mouth, making a gesture of sucking a pacifier .

Enzo fell in love at the age of 18, and had a daughter with his girlfriend at the age of 19.

At this moment, the camera immediately showed his beautiful girlfriend Valentina in the stands and the lovely little daughter in his arms.

In the jubilant live broadcast room, a screen full of bullet screens rushed out:
【Enzo, I'm sorry, you can go to Qatar to compete with peace of mind, and leave the matter of entrusting your wife and son to me】

[My lord father-in-law, please be respected by my son-in-law! 】

[Although I'm 26, I don't mind calling you: Father-in-law! 】

...

During the intermission, Mourinho praised the team fiercely, and then replaced Chen Xiaoliang, Kwa, Sesco, Dybala and Enzo.

He really let the team attack with all their strength, but he really didn't expect that the team's state would be so good today, and the group of little babies on the opposite side would be so vulnerable...

After all, it's only the group stage, and it's not a good thing to be too high-profile, and it is easy to become the target of other teams' criticism in the future games.

It's useless to laugh early, the real winner is the last laugh.

In the end, in the second half, Pellegrini sent an assist to Gwadiol in the right set-piece attack, helping him score with a header.

The Salzburg Red Bull also took advantage of Roma's foul in corner kick defense and scored a slightly face-saving goal with a penalty kick.

6 to 1, creating the biggest score in the Champions League so far this season!
　Thanks to the club's chief director [Yu Qingfeng] for the 2 monthly tickets!
　　Thanks to the senior director of the club [Yi Daoxiao] for the 14 monthly tickets!
　　Thanks to the senior director of the club [kkura] for the monthly pass!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)