Chapter 162 Lazio's Highway

While applauding Handanovic's wonderful save, Chang Sheng was also thinking. m

In his memory, when Mourinho's Inter Milan won the Triple Crown this season, Eto'o was basically used as a defensive player a lot of the time. In the game, Eto'o can often be seen returning to the corner flag to participate in the defense.

No wonder some people joked that Eto'o made Mourinho use him as a full-back.

But in his current time and space, Eto'o is still a serious center forward in Inter Milan, scoring goals is the most important task, and he doesn't contribute much in defense.

He was wondering if this was the butterfly effect, one of the things changed by his arrival.

Did not expect to return to the original track.

Will Eto'o be discovered by Mourinho in this game to discover his defensive potential?

That's really hard to say...

For now, Chang Sheng doesn't worry much about Eto'o's return.

Eto'o is actually not good at defense. He was able to steal the ball just because Modric didn't expect Eto'o to grab it back.

This time Eto'o caught the Lazio team by surprise.

But next time they won't have such a good chance.

Modric will definitely pay special attention to his side when he has the ball, and other Lazio players will also pay attention to protecting him. In this way, it will be difficult for Eto'o to steal the ball again.

Therefore, when Eto'o missed the goal, Mourinho and Eto'o were so sorry.

Because they all know how difficult this opportunity is...

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Chang Sheng shouted Modric's name on the court.

Modric heard the boss's shout, and he quickly made a gesture to indicate that he heard it and would pay attention.

Then Chang Sheng called out the names of David Silva and Gotze.

Both of them said they knew what to do.

Although Modric will not let Eto'o take the football away from his feet again,

But at the same time, because of Eto'o's harassment, he could no longer calmly dispatch quality attacks from behind as before.

Lazio must step up the pace. Modric is going to pass the football right away.

To whom?

Give the two midfielders in front of him, and then he will move forward to attract the opponent's firepower, and then pass the football to Gotze and David Silva who retreated to respond.

Make full use of the space between Inter Milan's midfielder and central defender.

Lazio is about to start a counterattack!

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The game restarts. The fans of Inter Milan are still immersed in the regret of missing the golden opportunity just now.

Lazio is already planning a counterattack.

After Modric got the ball, his movements were much more concise. There is almost no need to observe frequently, just send the football forward. Then he ran forward himself to meet his teammates.

In this way, isn't the distance between him and Sissoko and others close?

Yes, that's the way to go.

Only when Modric comes up can he attract the three of Sissoko, Cambiasso and Muntari.

In this way, there will be the space between the back line and the forward line that is needed for constant victory.

That's where David Silva and Gotze can make the most of it.

really. Seeing Modric pressing forward, Sissoko felt a surge of excitement-damn, you coward finally came up!

He stared at Modric and saw that Modric passed in front of the two defensive midfielders Ledesma and Meirelles, so he stepped forward to intercept Modric from behind.

Ledesma gave the football to Modric, which made Inter Milan's midfielder recognize Modric as the most important core figure.

As a result, Sissoko and Muntari have not had time to surround Modric, and Modric has already passed the football with one kick.

He passed to Meirelles on the other side.

Meirelles did not pass back to Modric this time. He knows what to do.

He gave the football to David Silva.

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David Silva is not as dazzling as before he was injured. On the front line, his role and threat are not as high as Gotze.

But that's judged by striker standards.

The current David Silva is not a standard winger.

He's more of a frontcourt free agent.

Do you want to say what specific tasks he has?

No.

Chang Sheng never assigned specific tasks to David Silva, but just let him figure it out on the court.

Anyway, the offensive routines are those. David Silva, who is familiar with these routines, has rich experience, and he naturally knows what to do under what circumstances.

Some people hate routines, thinking they are boring and dull.

But that's just because they don't know how to use routines.

Chang Sheng is now trying to do one thing, which is related to new tactics.

That is to let the team practice various offensive routines hard in training, and let them gradually play freely on the court after they are familiar with all the routines.

The so-called free play is actually based on routines.

Don't talk about free play if you are not familiar with routines.

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After David Silva took the ball, he gained a relatively loose space.

This was because Modric pressed all the way to the front line, forcing Inter Milan's three-man midfielder to focus on him.

"David Silva! There are no defensive players around him! What's the situation?!"

Inter Milan defenders also noticed this situation.

David Silva has the ball, but the Inter defender is about ten meters away.

The midfielder of Inter Milan is five or six meters behind him.

And in the state of turning around, the speed cannot be raised.

Lucio saw David Silva making a long-range shot, and rushed up reflexively.

It is too dangerous for David Silva to take the ball in this position!

Anyway, his partner Samuel is marking Cavani, and there is no defensive task around him for the time being, so he should step forward to make up for it at this time.

He rushed up the first time, but David Silva didn't shoot, it was just a fake move, and then he sent the football to the empty space after Lucio came up.

Cavani is not in that direction, Lucio is quite relieved.

Only when he looked back. Only to find that a sky blue figure appeared there!

"Mario Gotze!"

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When David Silva got the ball, Inter Milan's defensive attention was on him. Gotze was temporarily unguarded, but he didn't rush forward immediately.

If he runs right away. It is clear to cooperate with David Silva. That would draw Inter Milan's defensive attention back to themselves.

Why is he bothered?

He just wants to make the opponent not notice him...

So he waited.

And David Silva didn't pass the football to him immediately, he rushed forward with the ball. He made a posture to shoot from a long distance, which made everyone focus on him for the time being.

Forcing Lucio to rush out.

At the same time, Gotze suddenly started and advanced at high speed. Go straight to the space left by Lucio.

And David Silva also turned his shot into a pass, pushed his right foot sideways, and sent the football over.

The timing of the pass was just right.

Gotze received the football and went straight into the penalty area!

Facing the attacking goalkeeper was Cesar, Gotze kicked a curve ball!

The football went around Cesar's hand from the side and flew into the goal from the far end!

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"Beautiful! Lazio equalized!"

"Mario Gotze! Super Mario!!"

"L!!! Gotze! Gotze! Lazio's exquisite teamwork! From the start of the attack to the final goal, Inter Milan didn't even touch the shadow of football!"

Chang Sheng on the sidelines saw the football fly into the goal. He clenched his fist and pounded hard.

Perfect!

This is the embodiment of his tactics!

As a coach, it is very fulfilling to see the tactical cooperation that exists in my mind finally being played out by the players on the field.

This sense of accomplishment is much better than playing FM games...

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"Damn it!" Mourinho saw that Goetze seized the space behind Lucio's forward pressure and scored the football. His annoyance was palpable.

He turned around directly, looked up at the stands and started chattering.

But in fact, no one could hear what he was saying.

He couldn't complain about Lucio for this ball, because it wasn't Lucio's mistake.

Who knows what David Silva will do if Lucio doesn't step up to fill in.

Although David Silva has not scored a goal so far this season. But what if he breaks the scoring drought in this game?

No one dares to bet on this kind of thing.

Whoever gets the ball is the most threatening player, and this will always be the top priority in defense.

Samuel is man-marking Cavani, and only Lucio can press the entire pair of goals.

How did you lose the ball this time...

It was entirely because Lazio pulled out the three midfielders in the midfield, which created a space in front of the defense, which gave David Silva an opportunity!

If there is a problem, he should scold himself first.

Didn't even want to play Lazio's tactics in the second half like this!

One ring after another.

The double midfielder, the midfielder is forward, the offensive core retreats, attracting the attention of the three midfielders, the two wingers retreat to respond, and finally they open up a highway from Lazio's backcourt to Inter Milan's goal!

In this way, they used this highway to send the football into the goal of Inter Milan.

Now Chang Sheng has a problem for himself.

The three defensive midfielders retreat and can control the area in front of the back line. But it will lose control of Lazio's midfield.

If we continue to maintain the current high-pressure situation, it will increase the pressure on the back line.

In fact, there is another way, that is, the back line presses forward with the midfielder as a whole, causing offside in defense.

But... It is not so easy to make offside, there must be special targeted training, and it must be arranged in advance.

There has never been a sudden adjustment to offside tactics in a game. Such a hasty offside will only make the defense continue to give gifts to the opponent's forwards.

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PS, this is the eighth update today, there will be a single chapter later.

thank you all!