Chapter 229 Lazio Rhythm (56/134)

When Lazio scores a goal, it means that the game has entered the "Lazio rhythm". This term is now very famous, and it is like thunder.

Lazio's opponent, Mazembe's head coach Ndiaye must have heard of it and knows what it means.

Leading Lazio will be able to take it easy as they use their strong possession to keep the football firmly at their feet and drag it out until the end of the game.

If Mazembe's players want to grab the ball, they have to press on, and there will be empty space behind them.

Lazio can immediately play a sharp and fast counterattack.

Anyway, no matter what you do, the team that falls behind is a dead end.

Therefore, the "Lazio rhythm" is also known as the "Reaper's rhythm", which means that any team that allows Lazio to enter this rhythm will basically die in the end.

With Mazembe's strength, don't think they can go against the sky.

It was good to be able to try to keep the balance before.

What sustains them is the fact that they haven't conceded the ball. This is their source of strength. As long as there is still a tie, then they still have hope, and it will be a penalty shootout.

But once Lazio takes the lead, there is nothing Mazembe can do.

The tactics they arranged before the game were all defensive. For this reason, Mazembe's head coach Ndiaye has put a lot of effort into it.

You must know that defense requires discipline, and African players are not very disciplined, so it is difficult to get them to concentrate on defense desperately.

Ndiaye did it.

It can be seen how much effort he has put in.

But it is also because his tactical arrangements before the game are all defensive, and he even sacrificed offense for the sake of defense.

He didn't arrange how to attack in this game at all.

The team's mind is how to defend.

It's not that he didn't think about what to do if Lazio scored first.

But he is not qualified to consider this issue.

If Lazio scores first,

Then the game is over.

There are no flukes.

That's what he thought.

He put all his bets on his team being able to keep a clean sheet for 120 minutes.

He knew it was hard, but he had no choice but to do it.

This is the only way to possibly beat Lazio.

But now it seems that he failed.

His team still conceded the ball.

Actually. In the first half, he was surprised that his team didn't concede a goal.

Especially when Lazio took three consecutive goalposts, he really thought that God was on their side.

But the second half finally returned to reality, the cruel and cold reality.

N'Diaye bowed his head on the sidelines as Lazio's players celebrated their goal.

His body seemed to lose all strength. All softened.

Although this result is predictable and reasonable, how can his team beat the mighty Lazio?

But when this reality really appeared, he found that he couldn't let go of all this, but was still very unwilling.

I've put in so much effort, me and my players have blocked everything, let's accept this result honestly, without any other thoughts... How is that possible?

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"Lazio finally scored! Their goal was long overdue! But it was too late until the 60th minute! This is because Mazembe was very tenacious today! They held on for 60 minutes, Just conceded the ball...it's amazing!"

"This result is predictable for us. Lazio is strong and they deserve to lead, but we still have to applaud Mazembe. Their tenacious performance today shows us how embarrassed Lazio is..."

The commentators also fully affirmed Mazembe's performance.

But Ndiaye would not be happy if he could hear it.

Because as the head coach, his sole purpose in leading the team is to win.

If you can't win, there is nothing to be happy about your performance.

He and the team have put in so much effort, not for the praise of these bystanders. at this time. Praise and sympathy are equally hypocritical and frivolous.

He just wants to win. All his efforts are aimed at winning, if not winning. That would be pointless.

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Lazio's lead not only made Ndiaye bow his head, but also caused Mazembe to collapse.

Although they are only one goal behind, this is the most dangerous situation.

Being just one goal behind makes Mazembe's players feel that if they attack they can equalize and the game is back on the same starting line.

So they will attack like hell. Want to score goals.

In this way, they will definitely not care about what is behind them.

As a result, the defense line pressed forward as a whole, leaving a lot of space behind.

These are what Lazio likes.

When Pep Guardiola's Barcelona "Dream Three" got into trouble because of the opponent's high-pressing defense and iron barrel formation, Lazio welcomed their opponents to press up and defend because they had speed. They can counter-attack, so Lazio are not at all afraid of a aggressive-looking pressing up front.

This is why Chang Sheng insists on adding speed to the team's tactics, even at the expense of possession.

Because he knows the future development direction of world football tactics.

It is impossible for any tactic to conquer the world, nor can it dominate the world football for a long time. Because the opponent will not allow you to use this set of tactics to make them unable to fight back. They have come up with various methods to contain you. Maybe ninety-nine percent of these methods will fail, but as long as you still If one percent can be successful, then this one percent will be promoted.

Taka is now facing such a situation.

Changsheng has been relying on taka to cross European football for almost ten years. It is already surprising that the vitality of a tactic is so tenacious.

Over the past ten years, opponents in European football have come up with many ways to deal with Changsheng.

Ten years is enough time for other tactics to develop to a relatively mature stage.

Such as placing a bus, such as defensive counterattack, such as foul tactics... all kinds of tactics. There are endless.

And Chang Sheng is also very aware of this, so he is always trying to improve his tactics and incorporate other tactical advantages into taka.

When he was in Valencia at the beginning, he added two defensive midfielders with excellent defense and tough style on the basis of pure taka, which gave taka some iron and blood temperament. It solves the problem that the traditional taka waist cannot be hardened.

Then he began to introduce the superstar system, allowing Ronaldinho to give full play to his personal talents on the basis of taka.

This change helped him break through the predicament in the European arena and won his first Champions League title.

Later in Lazio, he started to win often and speed up, a change that made his team more aggressive.

Now he tries to play multi-core taka again.

He was never resting on his laurels and kept improving.

But Guardiola wants to return to the traditional taka, and Chang Sheng can't convince him, so he has to let the facts convince him.

Although Guardiola's Barcelona won a six-time crown, everyone didn't know much about his Barcelona at that time. In addition, those Barcelona players are just at their peak, and the key is that Messi is too clueless...

Now when everyone figured out what Barcelona was doing, they were in trouble.

In La Liga, they have been entangled by their rivals Real Madrid this season, and the competition between the two sides is very fierce.

In the Champions League, their advantage is not as big as before.

On top of that, his team lost to ever-victorious Lazio in a two-taka duel.

This had a great impact on his philosophy.

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Mazembe after the restart. The offense has been strengthened, and they are pressing across the board. Attack Lazio's goal, hoping to equalize the score as soon as possible.

At this time, the gap in strength became more and more obvious.

Mazembe's players are inferior to Lazio in terms of personal skills and overall cooperation.

Their offense wēé could not reach Lazio's goal, and their goal was repeatedly harassed by Lazio's counterattack.

Five minutes later. Lazio seized the opportunity of Mazembe's attack across the board and the defense line was empty, and played a beautiful counterattack. Gotze shot the football into Mazembe's goal.

2:0!

Lazio are two goals ahead.

The theoretical suspense of this game is gone.

Lazio won!

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In the next game, Chang Sheng began to make substitutions.

He made substitutions one after another. The three substitution places were quickly used up.

Naturally, his substitution was not to adjust his tactics, but to allow more players to play.

This game has been won, and it's time for him to reward more players.

Being able to play in the Club World Cup is also a reward.

After Mazembe fell behind by two goals, he also completely lost his spirit and fighting spirit.

Ndiaye also started to make substitutions.

Like Chang Sheng, his substitution is not to change the score and the situation, but to let more players feel the atmosphere of the Club World Cup, so that they have the opportunity to play against a strong team like Lazio.

The next game officially entered garbage time.

Lazio also slowed down and they needed a rest.

After slowing down the pace, Lazio's game is not good.

Because it is passed back and forth. Moreover, most of such inversions happen in the midfield. This kind of inversion of the pass has no technical content at all. Even if they pass a hundred in a row, no one will think it is beautiful...

Everyone likes to see the pass and cut cooperation is the kind of attack to the front of the opponent's penalty area, and then tear the opponent's defense line through a series of continuous fast passes and cuts. Passing is difficult and thoughtful.

It's not like you pass it on to me, I pass it on to you, you pass it on to me, and I pass it on to you....

But Chang Sheng doesn't care whether everyone likes it or not.

He hopes the team will get rest through this slowing down.

Even if this kind of scene was maintained until the end of the game, he would have no pressure.

It's not like he didn't let his players do this with boos all over the sky...

Thinking back to the opening ten minutes of the Copa del Rey final between Getafe and Mallorca... Jose Passarella and his central defender partner were in the backcourt, you pass me, I pass you, for ten minutes...

When the commentator saw this situation, he understood that the real Club World Cup final... was over.

"Lazio only took ten minutes to resolve the battle, and then returned to calm. Their strength has become stronger. It only takes ten minutes to play a game of the level of the Club World Cup final... Poor Mazembe, they lasted for sixty minutes and then died in Lazio's ten." To be continued...