Chapter 46 The Incredible Stadium

Nottingham Forest fans must still be upset about not being awarded a penalty for Jose Passarella's foul on Adriano Mok.  m

They don't care that the TV replay has proved Jose Passarella's innocence.

Anyway, they just want a penalty. As for whether they deserve this penalty, it doesn't matter at all.

After recovering, Lazio began to try to counterattack.

Nottingham Forest's corner kick went directly to the front of the goal, and then goalkeeper Ter Stegen directly kicked it out.

The football was received by Casemiro, who echoed the captain's words and passed the football to the front court.

The next should be a counterattack by Lazio.

However, Lazio's counterattack was completely unsuccessful.

Because Gotze received the ball, but was unable to control it. Not only that, he almost hurt himself!

When he stretched his foot to stop the ball, his supporting foot was not stable. Because there was a pit under his feet, he went over directly. In order to avoid getting hurt, Gotze had no choice but to give up stopping the ball.

He fell sideways to the ground.

The football flew far away.

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When Changsheng saw Gotze also falling to the ground, his heart tightened - no more players could be injured at this time!

Fortunately, Gotze quickly got up from the ground.

Changsheng could no longer think about how pity it was that the attack failed.

He saw some clues from Gotze's fall - the City Stadium's half in Nottingham Forest was the same as the half in Lazio, both were fucking rotten vegetable fields!

But why didn't the Nottingham Forest players show that they were playing on a very bad field?

Looking at their pace, it was normal. I thought the field on their side was very smooth...

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Seeing that Lazio's counterattack was gone,

Tony Twain laughed happily on the sidelines.

This was the battle strategy he had worked hard on for more than two weeks.

After returning from Rome with the team. He let the team enter closed training.

This week, he declined all interviews and offended many reporters for this.

But he had to do this, because only in this way could he give Lazio a "surprise".

Now it seems that it is as he wished.

Lazio certainly would not have thought that the grass of the entire city stadium would be exactly the same as the one they chose.

This was laid by the grass workers of Nottingham Forest Club who spent a whole night without sleep.

If it were just laying the grass, it would not be so troublesome, but it would be difficult to ensure that the grass of this stadium feels exactly the same as the grass of the No. 1 training ground at the Wilford training base.

And the closed training is naturally to let your players adapt to this rotten vegetable field-like grass.

Only in this way. Can we ensure that they will not be injured in the game.

Of course, the price is not small. In order to adapt to this kind of venue, Nottingham Forest had four players who were injured and could not participate in this game during training.

After paying such a heavy price, they naturally hope to get good results in the game.

This is the tactical arrangement of Nottingham Forest at their home ground.

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As for the question of why the grass of the city stadium has become like this overnight.

Changsheng has no mood to think about it.

And now is not the time to think about this problem.

Going in the air was originally a good idea. But now it seems that it is not feasible.

Even if the football is flying in the air, it can be unaffected by the field, but the players can't fly in the air and not come down, right?

That's not a football game on Earth.

Although Lazio was once called the "Universe Team" in its heyday, Lazio is still composed of earthlings, and it hasn't launched the "flying into the sky, my heart is flying" or something like that...

If the players don't run well on the field, it will affect their ball control. In this way, even if the ball comes in the air, you can't stop it. Just like Gotze's stop just now.

If it is a normal field, Changsheng believes that Gotze can definitely stop this long pass.

In this way, Lazio even has difficulty attacking.

So what should we do in the next game?

Football game. Even if you can't win, you can't lose.

This is Changsheng's plan.

So he made a decisive decision - to defend!

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Taking advantage of a dead ball opportunity, Changsheng called Goetze, the Lazio player closest to him, and gave him instructions.

Then Goetze ran onto the court. He conveyed his latest instructions to other teammates.

Everyone knew how to play the next game.

When Pisa restarted. Everyone saw Lazio shrinking its defense.

Just like when Nottingham Forest played Lazio away, Lazio also shrank its defense away!

"Lazio started to shrink its defense! This is really surprising... When will Lazio shrink its defense in the game?!"

Even the commentator was surprised.

Of course, there are people who understand.

"The quality of the turf in this game does not seem to be very good. From the perspective of our commentary box, we can see a lot of exposed sand. Before the game even started, a Lazio player was injured while warming up. Retired. Gotze's failure to catch the ball just now has a lot to do with the field. I think Lazio's sudden change of tactics must have realized that the field has a great impact on them. After all, Lazio emphasizes ground coordination. As a team, they need to pass the football back and forth on the turf. This is very demanding on the field. It is impossible for Lazio to play any threatening offense, so they can only choose to defend. …”

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After Lazio tightened its defense, Nottingham Forest basically dominated the court.

Nottingham Forest players, who were very familiar with the field conditions, bombarded Lazio's penalty area and the game turned into a half-time attack and defense early on.

Lazio's defense was under tremendous pressure.

Chang Sheng also had to start making substitutions early.

In the 30th minute, he made the first substitution, replacing veteran Messi with center back Ricardo Sepieri.

Strengthen defense.

Messi was replaced entirely due to tactical needs, not because his performance was not good enough.

Messi himself knows it too.

And let’s be honest. Playing on such a venue, he is also worried that he will be injured again, even more worried about this than young players.

Because he is older, both his joints and muscles are not as strong as before. Young players may sprain their feet when encountering some uneven ground, and then just move around and get better. But if he sprains his foot, I'm afraid he will be reimbursed for this season.

So when Chang Sheng replaced him, he was relieved.

So he walked to the sidelines. High-fived his teammates and completed the substitution ceremony.

When the media reporters saw this scene, they all began to look forward to some sideline stories between Messi and Chang Sheng after he came down, such as deliberately turning a blind eye to Chang Sheng's outstretched hand, or walking straight to the locker room with a stinky face... …

He was replaced in just thirty minutes. No one would be unhappy if he was replaced, right?

Not to mention a former world number one player like Messi.

But they were disappointed. Messi simply didn't have the performances they were hoping for.

After he came off the field, he hugged Chang Sheng, then walked to the bench, took the coat from the coach, put it on, sat on the bench, and started watching the game.

Expression is normal. Act normally.

Everything is completely normal!

It’s completely impossible to see why he was dissatisfied with this substitution...

The reporters in the media box looked at each other and couldn't figure out when Messi had such a good temper.

When he was in Barcelona, ​​whoever would have talked about taking him off early or letting him be a substitute for rotation. It is guaranteed that news of his dissatisfaction will spread the next day, and in the end it will most likely be the head coach who compromises.

But now, only thirty minutes into the game, he was replaced by the head coach. Messi said nothing!

If they knew that Messi was actually eager to be replaced, I wonder how they would feel...

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Messi was replaced. It means that Lazio's tactics have undergone a complete change.

Stop trying to win the game and hope not to lose.

Nottingham Forest will naturally not let Lazio get what they want.

During the closed training before the game, Tony Twain fully considered that Lazio would definitely shrink its defense after the game started.

In response to this possibility, Nottingham Forest has also made corresponding arrangements and training.

So they came prepared.

In the next game, Lazio was pushed into the penalty area by Nottingham Forest and looked very embarrassed.

Lazio, on the other hand, completely gave up attacking. As long as the ball was at their feet, they no longer passed it back and forth to delay time. Instead, they directly kicked the ball into the frontcourt with a big kick.

Of course, there was no one in their frontcourt, so Lazio didn't care about offense at all.

Under such venue conditions, even if it can only draw the opponent, it is already very good...

After all, Lazio was caught off guard by Nottingham Forest. They never expected that the venue that was normal when they adapted to the venue one day ago would change its appearance a day later...

Under a hasty challenge, it is not easy not to concede the ball.

Nowadays, Chang Sheng simply doesn’t dare to think about scoring a goal. This kind of football game is afraid of overthinking.

Once you think too much, you will expose your flaws and your opponents will catch you.

Safety is the most important thing. Chang Sheng is still a very conservative person at heart. When necessary, there is no obstacle to him sacrificing entertainment. He is not averse to draws, after all, a draw is better than losing the game.

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Chang Sheng stood on the sidelines and turned to look at Tony Twain next door. He thought to himself that this must be the fault of this Englishman.

Although I don't know how he did it...

But he won't just give up after the game is over!

Lazio lost a general in this stadium. If he just let it go, he would be claiming to be the boss of the Lazio players!

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