Football: Starting from the Ronaldo Template

Chapter 188 The 35th round of the Premier League, the Champions League semi-finals begin!

4 month 19 day.

Vibrant pitch.

"Pretty!"

"Lingard took a left corner kick and Smalling jumped up and scored with a header!"

"In the 29th minute of the first half, Manchester United took the lead in breaking the deadlock and taking the lead!"

"Bournemouth, currently ranked 44th with 12 points, is no longer expected to top six in the league, so its performance at the end of the season is not positive."

"This is good news for Manchester United. They don't have to put in much effort to win this game and can focus more on the Champions League semi-finals seven days later."

The smile on Zhan Jun's face grew stronger.

He has watched Chu Feng grow from a bench player from the beginning of the season to now, getting closer and closer to the first league championship in his life.

"By the way, the first Chinese player to win the Premier League championship was Dong Fangzhuo. If it hadn't been for injuries, maybe they would have had a chance to meet at Manchester United."

Zhang Lu suddenly sighed with emotion.

"It's better not to open the champagne in advance. Manchester City beat Swansea 5-0 yesterday. Their form has not been greatly affected, but has become stronger."

Zhan Jun recalled Manchester City's reversal in the 11-12 season.

Although the story sounds wonderful, if it happened to Xiao Chu, he would be somewhat unable to accept it.

As the two chatted, time continued to pass.

The 70th minute of the second half.

Chu Feng continued his fiery form in the previous game and completed two consecutive breakthroughs. After entering the penalty area, he was tripped by a defensive player.

Beep!

The referee blew the whistle decisively and pointed to twelve yards.

Penalty kick!

Manchester United's first penalty kicker is Mata, and the second penalty kicker is Lukaku. However, he has never taken the initiative to take a penalty kick since conceding points at the beginning of the season.

"Chu, work harder! Don't let Salah open the gap. I haven't seen the Golden Boot Award yet!"

Mata handed the ball to Chu Feng magnanimously. He is indeed a kind and gentle player.

"Juan, thanks!"

Chu Feng had no reason to refuse.

No athlete can refuse honors, and he is no exception.

But Salah's recent record is appalling, with the number of goals scored reaching 34.

According to the memory of his previous life, Salah only scored 32 goals by the end of the season. It is probably because he changed the course of history and made Salah explode into a small universe.

Chu Feng is also under great pressure, but sometimes his mentality is too anxious, which leads to deformation of shooting movements.

After the referee blew the whistle, Chu Feng took a deep breath and quickly approached the goal.

boom!

As a dull sound sounded, the football went straight to the lower right corner of the goal.

Although Bournemouth Begovic guessed the right direction, the angle of the shot was too tricky and he failed to touch the football.

After the game restarted, there was no big disturbance and it ended with 0-2.

Manchester United won this game and continued to lead the Premier League standings.

At about eight o'clock in the evening, everyone returned to the Carrington training base, said goodbye to each other, and then went back to their homes.

Chu Feng first went to the cafeteria to eat some food, then returned to the dormitory to wash up, and then began to study the Roma game video.

Roma have been a force to be reckoned with in Europe over the past few years.

Although there are many times when there is a lack of funds in the rent-to-own process, the vacancies are often filled by sellers.

But they continue to find players with different qualities and are able to combine young strength with aging stars.

After replacing Rudy Garcia and Spalletti one after another, Di Francesco's unique and precise pre-match arrangements gave Roma a burst of energy.

3-0 Chelsea is enough to make people sit up and take notice.

But they even led the team to reverse the desperate situation of falling behind Barcelona 1-4 and staged a game worthy of being written into the history of football tactics.

Chu Feng mainly studied Roma's defensive strategy, that is, how to block Barcelona's strongest element, Messi.

To put it simply, there are only two words to block!

Because Roma uses a three-centre-back formation, they can use their numerical advantage to suppress Messi. Coupled with the numerical advantage and active interceptions in the midfield, Barcelona's offense is almost muted.

In the first half, Messi only touched the ball 6 times in the frontcourt, and only 1 touch in the penalty area.

How should we break through?

Chu Feng brought himself into the game and tried to crack it through his personal abilities.

He woke up from a dream half an hour later. His vision was too narrow. Looking at the overall tactics, his ideas instantly became clear.

Roma is accustomed to using high pressure to force opponents to pass long balls in the backcourt, thereby using their height advantage to compete for high-altitude balls.

This trick works well against Barcelona.

After all, among Barcelona's frontcourt players, only two are over 1.8 meters tall, namely Rakitic and Suarez.

But Manchester United is completely different.

Their giant formation will definitely not fall behind in the competition for high-altitude balls, and can even have a certain advantage.

But since he can think of this, Di Francesco can naturally do the same.

Chu Feng analyzed for more than half an hour, and then went to study the players facing him.

Fazio, a former Tottenham player, moved to Roma this season for 320 million euros. He successfully made 5 steals and 11 successful tackles against Barcelona.

Florenzi

De Rossi.

It has been 01 years since he started playing for Roma in 17.

Perhaps many fans are not familiar with him, but when it comes to the three major pains in football, he is the first victim.

Starting in the summer of 2009, he began to serve as Roma's vice-captain. He did not wear the captain's armband until Totti retired in the 16-17 season.

Although he has entered the end of his career, he has rich game experience and is also an indispensable spiritual leader of Roma.

Chu Feng watched the game video carefully and quickly became familiar with the technical characteristics of several players.

Seven days passed in a blink of an eye.

Rome.

The capital and largest city of Italy has a history of 2500 years, so it is called the "Eternal City".

View from the sky.

Rome was founded on seven hills in the plains lower than the Tiber River.

According to legend, Romulo, the founder of Rome, was raised by a she-wolf.

Therefore, the emblem of the city of Rome is a she-wolf nursing a baby. It is also the team emblem of Roma Football Club.

The bus with the Manchester United logo on it drove slowly towards the Olympic Stadium in Rome. Chu Feng sat at the window seat and admired the city of Rome through the glass.

There are Baroque-style buildings on both sides of the street, from which you can see profound traces of history.

"All roads lead to Rome, Chu, do you have the same proverb over there?"

McTominay asked curiously.

"Of course, for example, water flowing thousands of miles back to the sea actually means the same thing."

Chu Feng nodded.

McTominay suddenly sighed, "I heard that racial discrimination in Rome is very serious. I wonder if we will be discriminated against today?"

"Don't pay too much attention, I won't talk about you anyway."

Chu Feng has heard the same news before. The most serious racial discrimination in Italy is Roma and Lazio. They will not even let their own players go. They have reached an obsessive state. When Ibrahimovic played for Juventus and Milan before, he seemed to have been called "Gypsy" by Roma fans.

Pogba didn't escape either.

There are endless "chimpanzees" and "niggers".

Chu Feng hates racial discrimination. If it weren't for the good atmosphere in the Manchester United team, he would probably have suffered the same treatment.

Even so, he was often discriminated against by Europeans during his youth training period.

Soon they arrived at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. As a UEFA five-star venue, it can accommodate a total of 10.5 spectators.
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Pre-match press conference.

Mourinho responded calmly and simply to reporters' questions.

"Tactically, we have to have the upper hand and I think Manchester United should be in the final."

"Unfortunately, sometimes football doesn't give you what you deserve and Roma are a very good team with a great coach and players."

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The conference room next door.

Di Francesco is very humble.

"Mourinho is a great coach. He led Inter Milan to the Triple Crown and restored Italian football to glory, so he deserves people's respect."

"But that doesn't mean Roma will back down."

"Chu? No, we want to restrict not only him, but the entire Manchester United team!"

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After half an hour.

In the players tunnel.

Dzeko and Lukaku hugged. The former spent several years in Manchester City and became friends with the latter inexplicably.

The rest of the team members held on to the caddy in silence.

Chu Feng looked at both sides of the tunnel and suddenly discovered that the photo of Totti taking off his pants seemed to have been taken after Roma won the championship in the 01-02 season.

And the stars of Roma history.

Ancelotti, Conte, Falcao, Giannini

Soon, under the leadership of the referee, the players from both sides took steps and walked out of the tunnel.

The light in front of Chu Feng's eyes gradually expanded, and finally turned into endless red.

Pompeii red!

Then he heard cheers like a mountain roar and a tsunami, which made his eardrums tremble.

Italian fans are really crazy.

Chu Feng complained in his heart.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this unique football culture that Serie A was so prosperous around the 20th century and was known as the "Little World Cup".

However, with the economic downturn, Serie A gradually declined.

"Good evening, audience friends!"

"What we are broadcasting for you now is the 2017-18 Champions League semi-finals."

"Roma vs. Manchester United!"

"Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides."

"Attack from right to left, the one wearing the red jersey is Roma, they have a 3-5-2 formation, the goalkeeper:."

"The same starting lineup as Roma's reversal of Barcelona, ​​Di Francesco arranged a double center, the purpose is to strengthen the attack, it seems that he is determined to win at home."

"As for the dense defense line in the midfield and backfield, it can cut off the ground supply channel of Manchester United's frontcourt, and then use the five defenders in the defensive formation. The numerical advantage formed in the backfield can delay the opponent's counterattack using long passes and offset the impact of high pressing. risk."

"A very sophisticated pre-match arrangement, but the effect it can achieve depends on the performance of the players."

"Attacking from left to right, the one wearing the black away jersey is Manchester United. They have a 4-2-3-1 formation. The goalkeeper:."

"It is the formation with the highest usage rate and winning rate of Manchester United this season. It performs well on both the offensive and defensive ends. Xiao Chu served as the left midfielder in this game."

"Roma wing defender Manolas has a transfer price of up to 4300 million euros this season. His single defense level is very superb."

"The duel between Xiao Chu and Manolas is the highlight of this game and will largely determine the outcome of this game."

"I hope Xiao Chu can perform well."

Zhan Jun briefly recounted the information from both parties.

Although the Champions League match started at three in the morning, the number of people in the live broadcast room was still close to 10 million.

For Chinese fans.

Watching a Manchester United game every week and following Manchester United news on weekdays seems to have become a part of life.

After all, it is a very happy thing to witness the rise of a Chinese player.

In that vast land, countless people looked at Chu Feng in the picture, with endless expectations rising in their hearts.

The screen was flooded with barrage like snowflakes.
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[Manchester United has a technical advantage. I think there is a high probability of winning this game. 】
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[Yundel and Shalawi did not start. I think Di Francesco is still a bit conservative. If the offense cannot put too much pressure on Manchester United's backcourt, the pressure on their own backcourt will be great. 】
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[Nainggolan, De Rossi, Kolarov and Dzeko are all 30 years old. Manchester United only needs to survive the first half]
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[So the most important thing in this game is the head coach. Mourinho needs to establish the time points for phased efforts and the deployment of troops when attacking at different times. As long as the timing can be grasped well, Manchester United can even win easily. Next game. 】
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The camera returned to the green field.

With the referee's whistle.

The game officially begins!

amid deafening cheers.

Roma's formation quickly moved forward, with the two fulcrum-type centers moving forward crazily and the wing forwards pulling wide.

Manchester United players could only keep retreating.

But the formation did not become chaotic and still looked orderly.

A very classic low defensive stance.

After nearly a whole season of training, Manchester United already has a real sense of stability.

After successive transfers.

Roma has advanced past half-court, De Rossi received the ball near the center circle, and then passed the ball diagonally to the right.

Florenzi stopped the ball with ease.

He is not a traditional explosive full-back. He basically relies on his good passing and passing skills to promote the attack on the left side.

Without waiting for Ashley Young to grab the ball, Florenzi kicked directly.

The football spun violently and flew towards the edge of the penalty area.

Dzeko and Schick occupy the most dangerous areas, and Nainggolan and Stroman quickly insert from the back row to provide sufficient connection points.

Facing interference from Smalling and Phil Jones.

The Czech center fiercely grabbed the first goal and headed back.

Nainggolan followed up and fired furiously.

boom!

The football was like a cannonball blasting towards the goal. Amidst the annoyed and regretful sounds of the Roma fans, it scraped against the goalpost and rolled out of the bottom line.

"Roma created a threatening attack right from the start! If Nainggolan had been more lucky, I'm afraid the score on the field would have been rewritten."

"The boys of Manchester United seem to have not entered the state yet. They should be more active in the frontcourt. De Rossi cannot easily separate the sides, nor can the Roma players pass the ball without interference."

"The camera showed Mourinho on the sidelines. He looked extremely angry."

All the Manchester United players were shocked. When they heard the looming roar in their ears, they all took deep breaths several times.

After the opening shot, everyone restrained their contempt.

(End of this chapter)