Chapter 391 Lazio's Self-Adjustment

Changsheng's calmness made the Lazio fans watching on TV feel at ease.  M

This Chinese man has become their backbone without knowing it.

As long as he is fine, Lazio will be fine.

Changsheng is calm now, which means he is confident. He must have expected Manchester United's tactics, so he will arrange countermeasures.

So people expect Changsheng to walk out of the coaching seat and make adjustments.

But they never saw Changsheng's butt leave the coaching seat.

What happened?

They were surprised and puzzled.

Couldn't he see the difficulties the team encountered?

Could it be that he saw it, but he was at a loss?

It's impossible!

How could there be anything that could make Changsheng at a loss?

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Ferguson is also paying close attention to Changsheng's movements.

He just wants to see what adjustments Changsheng will make.

As a result, Changsheng did not make any move. He sat in the coaching seat, crossed his legs, and looked very relaxed, as if the team that did not have a threatening shot in ten minutes was not his.

But how could it not be his?

Ferguson frowned, not understanding why Changsheng was so relaxed.

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The reason why Changsheng was so relaxed was because he fully trusted his players.

As the most powerful offensive team in Europe today, most of the opponents they met chose conservatism.

They would park one, two, or even three or four buses in front of their goal.

So Lazio has a lot of experience in dealing with stubborn teams,

they know what to do.

Although Manchester United's defense is tight, it has not yet reached the point where it can break through human cognition. Lazio's players have seen too much of this level of defense in normal games, and they know how to deal with it.

He doesn't even need to make adjustments on the sidelines. They know how to adjust themselves.

For example, now Lazio's players have obviously accelerated the speed of passing back and forth, and their passes are more forward, with adventurous characteristics.

Of course, this will reduce their possession rate and give more possession opportunities to Manchester United.

For example, some straight passes seem unnecessary, but Lazio will continue to pass, so that the ball will easily fall to Manchester United.

Then it is Manchester United's turn to control the ball.

From the outside, Lazio's passing errors are increasing, and they are losing patience little by little. So their offense is simpler and rougher.

This is a good thing for Manchester United.

Because it will make their defense easier.

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This is the self-adjustment made by Lazio.

In the eyes of others, this adjustment is stupid - how can you adjust it back and forth, but make yourself worse? This is worse than before!

At least Lazio's previous performance will not let them lose possession easily, and will not give Manchester United too much possession. In this way, Manchester United will have more offensive opportunities.

In any case, in the eyes of everyone, after Manchester United showed their defensive hardness and determination, Lazio's performance has become worse and worse.

This will not make people full of confidence in Lazio, but will only make people doubt whether they are too confident. In fact, Lazio's performance is not as good as they think...

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Ferguson also frowned and looked at the court.

Lazio is fine outside the 30-meter area. They can pass the ball back and forth and still pass the ball at high speed.

But once they enter Manchester United's 30-meter area. Their patience will disappear. They keep trying all kinds of straight passes, over the top and not over the top...

Everyone's first reaction when they get the ball at their feet is not to pass horizontally to tear open the gap in Manchester United's defense. But to pass it directly!

Then in all likelihood, such a pass will end in failure.

But the game has only started for 20 minutes. Is Lazio so impatient?

Or are they used to scoring first, so when they find that they can't score for a long time. Will their mentality be unbalanced?

He turned his head and glanced at the coaching seat next to him, and found that Changsheng was still sitting in the coaching seat. But he was no longer crossing his legs, but communicating with the two assistant coaches beside him.

Are they discussing the changes on the field?

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Changsheng and his assistant coach were indeed discussing the changes on the field, but they were not worried about this situation.

"This is a really smart change! Now it depends on whether our opponents will take the bait!" Di Matteo was amazed by the players' self-adjustment.

Rudy Gonzalez said: "That's not enough. If you want your opponents to take the bait, you have to cooperate with your players."

Changsheng nodded: "I was thinking about this."

Then he finally got up from his seat.

But he didn't rush to the sidelines to yell and dance.

That would be too exaggerated.

And he was afraid that if he yelled so loudly, the players would think they did something wrong.

No, they didn't do anything wrong.

On the contrary, they did a great job!

Changsheng thought that he had been sitting in the coach's seat with his legs crossed before, but now he got up and walked to the sidelines for the first time. Just this one action was enough to explain everything.

The opponent will think that they are dissatisfied with the players' performance.

So the impatience shown by Lazio is not intentional, but because Lazio is really anxious.

In this way... the opponent will be easily fooled.

This is the adjustment made by the Lazio players themselves.

They keep passing the ball forward in the attack, which many people think is a manifestation of impatience.

But it is not entirely correct.

They look very anxious, but this action is not just to make others think that they are anxious, but it still has a practical effect.

That is, if it really succeeds again, won't Lazio make a profit?

If the goal is scored like this, then Lazio will not have to deceive the opponent anymore. They will use this leading advantage to make a fuss and let the opponent fall into Lazio's rhythm.

So this adjustment of constantly passing the ball forward is small. But it has the effect of killing two birds with one stone.

On the one hand, it is naturally deceiving the opponent, and on the other hand, it is also Lazio's strengthening of the offensive performance.

So what is the use of this deception?

When the ball is always at the feet of Lazio players, Manchester United players will defend with peace of mind, concentrate on defending, and don't consider anything else at all.

So even if Lazio uses their excellent passing skills to increase the ball possession rate to 99%, it is meaningless - if the opponent is determined to defend, Lazio may be able to achieve this ball possession rate, but what's the use? Possession that cannot be converted into goals is useless.

To break Manchester United's dense defense. You have to make their defense less dense.

How to make it less dense?

In fact, you have to let them attack.

How to let them attack?

Give them the ball.

It's that simple, but this idea is bold and imaginative.

Because no matter what the situation, it is a very dangerous thing to easily give possession to the opponent.

When the ball is not under your control, you can't control the game.

So other teams will control the ball very strongly. Possession rate is also a relatively important data in the technical statistics of the game.

Lazio just wants to do the opposite.

Giving possession to the opponent. It is to induce the opponent to misjudge the current situation.

When Manchester United players can always get the ball easily, they will have an illusion that Lazio's attack is just so-so, we defend well, and the opponent's attack is in a bad state.

With this illusion, they are prone to have other unnecessary thoughts.

That is-since we can often intercept the opponent's pass, why don't we consider counterattacking them?

Although our goal in this game is to keep a 0:0 draw away from home.

But if we can score a goal. Even if we only score one goal, we will have an advantage, right?

In this way, even if we are scored by them next, the score will be 1:1. The result of the draw has not changed, but we have one more away goal!

Isn't this more cost-effective than 0:0?

And watching Lazio's attack press forward, there are empty spaces behind them, and our Rooney has a speed advantage. As long as they make a successful counterattack, they will take the initiative in this game!

This idea must be very tempting for Manchester United, who are struggling to defend.

So, when Manchester United really does this...

At that time, they will see Lazio's sharp teeth and claws!

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When Lazio did this before, not only Ferguson felt strange, but also the Manchester United players felt strange. Because Lazio's attitude changed too suddenly.

There was a lack of transition from patiently passing the ball to suddenly becoming impatient. It was as if someone flipped a switch and they collectively switched their behavior patterns.

This inevitably led to their suspicion.

But when they saw that Lazio's head coach finally left his actions for the first time in this game, walked to the sidelines, crossed his arms, and stared at the field with a serious expression.

They realized that it should be true, Lazio was indeed impatient, because they had been unable to break our goal!

Look, now even their head coach was angry, so he stood up from his seat.

You know, he had been sitting on the chair before, with his legs crossed, looking very leisurely. But in the eyes of Manchester United players, his appearance was really hateful, which meant contempt for Manchester United!

Now, seeing Changsheng standing on the sidelines with a solemn face, Lazio's players are still trying to pass directly, pass directly, and pass directly.

Manchester United players didn't know why they felt relieved.

They had a sense of victory.

Even though they had nothing yet...

But they were full of confidence in the future. Just as Changsheng hoped, they began to have more ideas.

They were not just satisfied with 0:0, they wanted to win!