Chapter 128 The Reason for Not Winning the First Round of the League

In the draw ceremony in the evening, the eight seeded teams were the first to be seated. The ever-victorious Lazio was assigned to Group E as the seeded team.

The other seven seeded teams are Bayern Munich in Group A, Manchester United in Group B, Milan in Group C, Chelsea in Group D, Barcelona in Group F, Sevilla in Group G and Arsenal in Group H.

Then there is the grouping of the second-tier teams. Real Madrid, as the strongest team in the second tier, was drawn into Group C. They met the Serie A giants Milan. Inter Milan, the second strongest in the second tier, was drawn into Group F, and defending champion Barcelona. Another high-profile team, Juventus, is in a group with Bayern Munich.

Since then, the team draws for the third and fourth tiers have been uneventful, and there has been no death group in the absolute sense.

Lazio is in a group with Lyon, Liverpool and Debrecen.

Debrezen is a Hungarian league team.

The strength of this group is not strong, Liverpool has been in decline for many years, and Lyon is no longer the Lyon of the seven consecutive league championships. Debretzen hadn't even heard of it.

With such a group, it is very easy for Lazio to qualify from it.

In fact, since Lazio participated in the Champions League, they have basically not encountered too much trouble in the group stage. They can always easily advance to the first place in the group.

So for Lazio fans and the media, whether Lazio can advance from the group stage is not a suspense at all.

They are more concerned about how far Lazio can go in the knockout stage.

After the lottery ceremony, Chang Sheng told reporters: "The goal of the new season? Of course, I hope to go further than last season."

Lazio reached the semi-finals of the Champions League last season, going further than last season...

Isn't that the final?

Lazio is going to hit the Champions League final in the new season!

The reporters were a little excited.

If he wanted to ask Chang Sheng some more questions, Chang Sheng had already waved his hand and left.

Compared with him, Guardiola is still the most popular with the media.

On the one hand they are the defending champions,

On the other hand, it is naturally because of the grievances between Barcelona and Mourinho.

These two teams are together, what a gimmick.

Some people even think that this is intentional by UEFA.

Make a gimmick.

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After the draw ceremony, the first round of the league of the new season also began.

At this time, August is not over yet, but everyone no longer believes that there will be any players leaving Lazio.

Lazio's current situation is very good, the salary is reasonable, the most important thing is to be able to win honors, and there are indeed not many players who are willing to leave.

In the first round of the league, Lazio played against Atalanta at home.

Everyone is looking forward to this big victory to make a good start.

But the result of this game was 0:0, let alone a big victory, Lazio didn't even win!

For Lazio, coached by Chang Sheng, it is the first time that such a thing has not won in the first round of the league!

In the previous four seasons, Lazio won all the first rounds of the league, whether at home or away.

And this time he didn't win!

This is really...unexpected!

After the first round, not only the Roman media, but the entire Italian media were surprised.

As the defending champions, Lazio is still the biggest favorite to win the league this season. Moreover, Lazio did not sell a player in the new season, but instead introduced two midfielders. It can be said that their strength has not increased but decreased.

In the first round against an opponent as weak as Atlanta, it should be no problem to win at home. The only suspense is how many wins.

Who would have thought that Lazio was tied 0:0 by Atlanta at home!

A draw, and not a single goal!

For Lazio, who has outstanding attack power, such a result is really rare.

After the game, many media paid attention to the result of Lazio's draw. Those media who have always been unaccustomed to winning will naturally take the opportunity to ridicule and then take the opportunity to bad-mouth Lazio.

Some people also explored why Lazio could not win this game.

Unlike the fuss of the media, Chang Sheng himself seemed very calm.

"Before when we lost a game, everyone was paying attention. Now when we just draw a game, the media pays so much attention. What does it say? It says how strong we are. What ball So many idiots gloating over a single draw to get so much attention? Just us."

At the post-match press conference, Chang Sheng spread his hands calmly and said.

Of course, if the media wants to blackmail him, they can always find something to say.

The media said that Chang Sheng's calm face was pretended, because he didn't want to expose his weakness, or he was a dead duck with a stubborn mouth and didn't want to affect morale.

But in fact, Chang Sheng is really calm.

Let alone a draw, even if it was a defeat, he would be very calm.

Unsettled is because after encountering such a disturbance, one does not know the reason, so one cannot calm down and become more anxious.

Or there is another possibility that you know the reason, but you don't know how to solve it.

Now Lazio's situation does not belong to any of the above.

There are many reasons why Lazio failed to win in the first round. For example, in the first round of the new season, the state of the players is not very stable. Some are good and some are bad.

The state of the whole team is unstable, coupled with the poor performance of David Silva, the core of the offense in this game, it is not unbelievable that Atlanta did not win.

Player status issues are minor issues, which can be adjusted.

The key is David Silva.

Many media also mentioned David Silva's poor state in this game.

David Silva started the game. Before the game, everyone was very optimistic about his starting.

I also believe that after David Silva returns, he can help Lazio win the game better. After all, he is the core of Lazio's offense.

In the last few rounds of the league last season, David Silva actually returned, but at that time he played as a substitute and played very little playing time. Everyone knew that this was to let him find his game status. After all I haven't played a game for most of the season, and I still need to find my status after returning from injury.

So in fact, in the last few rounds of last season, David Silva's state was not good, but no one criticized David Silva, because everyone knew that he was looking for state, and it was normal to perform poorly. Then there is no need to look for the state.

But after a summer of training and warm-up matches to adapt, if David Silva still needs to find his status, it would be wrong.

Therefore, before this league, everyone is looking forward to Silva.

He didn't play in the Super Cup against Inter Milan, not even a substitute, so the first round of this league became his first official game of the new season. Everyone wants to see if David Silva has found his form after a summer of recovery.

The results were disappointing.

David Silva's performance in this game was described as "sleepwalking", which was a little insufficient.

He didn't miss the ball in the game, and he didn't miss a successful breakthrough. He couldn't say no, he didn't work hard, and he wanted to work hard, but he just couldn't make it through.

His previous sharp explosive power and breakthrough were gone, as if under some magic, all disappeared overnight!

During the warm-up match, this problem was not too obvious. In the official league, when he faced Atlanta's tight defense, after giving him less space, his breakthrough was gone.

Some balls, if it was him before the injury, he might speed up, then change direction, and sway the opponent.

But now, he accelerated, but he didn't break through the opponent, and he couldn't get rid of the opponent when he changed direction.

In the end, in desperation, he could only pass the football back.

There are also times when he thought he could pass the opponent, but in the end he handed over the football to the opponent.

Such a scene does not appear once or twice in this game, but often.

As long as David Silva has the ball and he still plays according to his previous playing habits, he will encounter these two results.

In the end, until the end of the game, he didn't have any good performances. After the game, he was bombarded by the media, thinking that he should be mainly responsible for the team's draw.

The influence of the media is great. After their hype, everyone believes that David Silva caused Lazio to fail to win this game against Atlanta.

Whether it is true or not, at least everyone believed what the media said.

This could be a big influence on David Silva.

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Lazio did not win the game, and Chang Sheng was very calm.

But the media bombarded David Silva so much, but Chang Sheng couldn't keep calm.

He can take the criticism from the media, but his players can't.

He wants to tie up for his players.

At the same time, he has to solve the problem of David Silva.

That's not a problem that can be solved by saying that I have repeatedly expressed my trust in David Silva in front of the media.

At this time, mouth cannon is useless.

Fortunately, Chang Sheng, as a time traveler, happened to know how to solve David Silva's problem.

Because in that time and space that Chang Sheng was familiar with, David Silva encountered almost exactly the same problem as now.

He has also been injured.

But this did not make David Silva fall, but achieved even greater glory.

Later, he became the core offensive player of the Spanish national team and Manchester City.

How did he get out?

Maybe David Silva can come out on his own, but since there is Changsheng, there is no need to let his disciples take detours, if they can let them take a shortcut to success, then take a shortcut.

The road is full of thorns, just go on your own.

There is no need to drag everyone along with you.