Chapter 352 The Foundation of Modern Football

Unlike the first match between Lazio and Milan in the first half of the season, Milan has changed a lot.

Ronaldinho was completely dismissed, and he was reduced from a main player to a substitute in Milan.

Pato's position has long been lost due to continuous injuries.

The only Brazilians who can really play in Milan are Thiago Silva and Robinho, and Robinho is not an absolute main player.

After abandoning Ronaldinho, Allegri built the team around Ibrahimovic.

The whole team serves the Swedish tower.

Ibrahimovic has the freedom to fire on the court that he has always dreamed of.

He can do whatever he wants, but no one else has such privileges.

In the midfield, he mainly uses a muscular lineup. Except for Pirlo, everyone else is "black and hard" who can run well.

The most prominent one is Boateng, who was loaned from Genoa this season.

The Ghanaian international was originally a pure defensive midfielder, but under Allegri's transformation, the black midfielder actually has good offensive ability.

With Boateng, Allegri can completely abandon Ronaldinho.

He doesn't need Ronaldinho's football style. Milan is more iron-blooded and tougher under his transformation, and of course it doesn't look as good as before.

But although Milan's fans are fans of wealthy clubs, they are not glass-hearted. If it doesn't look good, it doesn't look good, as long as they can win.

Victory is more beautiful than anything else.

Under Allegri's transformation, Milan's performance began to rise steadily, and eventually became the second in the league today.

His Milan's defense in the midfield is very tough. Players like Boateng can not only attack, but also retreat to defend, and his defense is what he is best at.

Allegri plans to use this to deal with Lazio.

Accumulate heavy troops in the midfield and backcourt to play defensive counterattacks with Lazio.

It mainly relies on players like Boateng to carry out close interference with Lazio's ball players in the midfield.

Allegri saw it. Lazio's advantage lies in their physical fitness and running.

Good physical fitness and running a lot, this is why Lazio can gallop in European football.

To beat Lazio, you must run more than them. Better physical fitness than them.

Maybe Milan can't be better than them in the whole season. But in one game, there is still a chance.

A month before the start of this game, Allegri began to use rotation frequently, in order to ensure that the team has sufficient physical fitness when facing Lazio.

Now he is sure that the team is ready.

In this game, Milan will compete with Lazio.

He wants his team to be the first team to beat Lazio this season.

This is a loud slap in the face for those who think that they lack experience and qualifications and will not stay in Milan for a long time!

I did what no one in Europe did!

Who of you dares to talk nonsense?

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January 29th. The first game of the 23rd round of the league kicked off at the San Siro Stadium.

From the first minute of this game, Milan showed their running.

They ran tirelessly in every corner of the stadium. Comparing physical strength with Lazio.

After seeing Milan's tactical arrangement, Changsheng felt really amused.

In just two games, he saw two completely different ways to deal with him.

It seems that these opponents have really tried everything to defeat Lazio.

They have thought of every possible way.

In order to deal with Lazio, Naples came up with the idea of ​​dragging the game into a penalty shootout.

And in order to defeat Lazio, Milan started with physical strength.

To be honest, the methods these two teams came up with were not wrong.

Mazzarri wanted to drag the game into a penalty shootout, naturally combined with the characteristics of the Italian Cup single-game elimination.

In theory, his idea was right.

But he did not take into account the actual situation, that is, Naples' physical strength.

In the face of Lazio's continuous attack, even if it is defense, physical energy will be consumed very quickly. Can the players of Naples hold out for that long?

The final result proves that they can't hold out for that long.

Allegri's method is not wrong now.

Some people say that the reason why Lazio can dominate European football is because they play -taka to perfection, but what is the reason for playing it to perfection?

It's physical fitness.

Lazio's physical fitness is much better than other teams.

This is the most important thing.

No matter what tactics, physical fitness is required to complete.

Physical fitness is the foundation of modern football.

It's like you have to dig the foundation before you build a house. Without the foundation, the house can't be built, let alone built high.

Physical fitness is the foundation of modern football. You must have physical fitness before you can talk about other things.

If a team does not have the most basic physical fitness, it will not be able to gain a foothold in professional football.

If a team wants to have greater ambitions and wants to win a championship, even a league championship, it must have better physical fitness than the average team. Otherwise, even if you play well at the beginning of the league, your physical fitness will not be able to keep up after half of the season, and your results will naturally decline. How can you win the championship then?

Whether it is Lazio or Barcelona, ​​the teams that have dominated European football in the past two years have a significant outstanding feature, that is, physical fitness.

Barcelona's physical fitness is also very good.

It was Lazio and Barcelona that greatly increased the average running distance of players in each game. In the past, a player who could run more than 10,000 meters in a game was considered very outstanding. Now, except for the goalkeeper, almost everyone in Lazio and Barcelona has an average running distance of more than 10,000 meters per game.

So in recent years. There is a famous saying in football: "Victory and championships are won by running!"

The results of Lazio and Barcelona fully illustrate this point.

Under their leadership, more and more teams have begun to pay attention to physical fitness - in fact, they also paid attention to it before, but now they pay more attention to it.

For example, in Germany, Dortmund's head coach Klopp emphasizes physical fitness and running. His training intensity is also top-notch in the Bundesliga.

The reward is that Dortmund currently ranks first in the Bundesliga after 19 rounds of the league, with 15 wins, two draws and two losses, and 47 points. Eleven points more than Leverkusen, who ranks second!

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To be honest, Milan's approach of competing with Lazio in physical strength was correct. Relying on the fact that they could run faster and were more willing to run than Lazio, they had a slight advantage in the first half.

And relying on this advantage, they took a one-goal lead in the first half.

For Milan, this is not easy.

How long has it been since they have led Lazio in a game?

"Pirlo! A beautiful free kick! Inzaghi jumped up in front to compete for the header. Although he didn't hit the ball, he shook Lazio's goalkeeper Handanovic. This caused Handanovic's judgment to go wrong. He was at a loss when the ball flew into the goal!"

In the commentator's shouting. Inzaghi was running wildly to celebrate the goal. Just looking at his celebration, it would be like he scored the goal. But it was actually Pirlo.

Pirlo did not run wildly. Instead, he stood in place and raised his hands. He made a celebration gesture, and his teammates around him swarmed up and surrounded him.

On the sidelines, in front of Milan's coaching bench, Allegri and his coaches also rushed out of their seats, cheering and hugging everyone they saw.

However, when Allegri and the people around him were celebrating Milan's goal, Changsheng sat in his seat on the Lazio side without even moving his butt.

The expression on his face also seemed very calm.

He didn't seem to be worried about his team.

He really had nothing to worry about.

There was still a half-time left in the game, enough for him to make a comeback.

He had already made up his mind about how to deal with Milan.

Before the game, he didn't expect Allegri to adopt such a method, so he didn't make targeted arrangements, which led to Milan taking advantage.

But there was still a half-time break, and he could completely turn the situation around.

Changsheng seemed full of confidence.

Because there was really nothing difficult to deal with.

The methods to deal with Allegri's Milan and Mazzarri's Naples are actually the same.

That is physical fitness.

Work hard on physical fitness.

Allegri used physical fitness to deal with Lazio, and Changsheng also used physical fitness to deal with him.

The reason why Mazzarri's tactics were not finally implemented was that his players' physical energy was consumed too quickly, and they could not keep up with the rhythm of the game, and finally collapsed.

And what about Allegri's Milan?

The situation is actually the same.

They ran like crazy in the first half, like mad dogs more than Lazio.

Doing so certainly gave them an advantage.

But it also cost them a huge price, that is, their physical energy consumption was very high.

In fact, Milan should be very tired now, but Pirlo's goal made them forget about their physical energy temporarily.

However, once their offense is no longer smooth, when they can't gain an advantage on the field, they will find that their physical energy is running out.

By then, what is waiting for them is a collapse!

Changsheng turned his head and glanced at Allegri who was still celebrating the goal.

This head coach is going to exchange tomorrow for today... taking the physical energy of the first half in exchange for the advantage of the first half.

If this is the case, what is there for him to celebrate now?

It's been thirty-four minutes, and it's only ten minutes away from the end of the first half.

And his team is only one goal ahead.

Using the second half's energy to gamble on the first half's performance should be to let the team score more goals in the first half.

If you are only leading by one goal, what's the point?

A one-goal lead is the most fragile. As a head coach, would he not know this fact?

If you are not leading by at least two goals... you should be embarrassed to say that you used this tactic.

If you are only leading by one goal, what will you do when the team's energy is exhausted in the second half? Watch Lazio catch up and eventually surpass the score?

Then what are you busy doing for so long?