Chapter 108 An Opponent Who Has Never Lost in the League

In the thirty-third round of the league, Lazio played against Atlanta at home.

Although the game against Bayern Munich will be three days later, Chang Sheng still sent all the main players he could in this game.

In the end, Lazio defeated Atlanta 1:0 at home, and finally there is no two-game losing streak.

And Inter Milan also defeated Naples 1:0 away.

The two teams are still only three points apart.

Three days later, Lazio went to the Allianz Arena to challenge Bayern Munich.

In this game, Faraoni finally got the chance to represent Lazio, and the first time he played turned out to be the semi-finals of the Champions League!

According to the regulations, players who are under the age of 20 and have played for the team for more than two years can be counted as players from the team's youth training system, and such players can participate in the Champions League without registration.

So there is no problem with Faragno's qualifications to participate in the Champions League.

Rafaoni himself may not have thought that he would play in the Champions League so soon.

However, he is not playing right back, which he is good at, but right center back.

When he first entered the youth training camp, he played as a right center back, but now he has switched to playing a right back for many years. Although there is a week for him to train and prepare, he is still a little nervous.

Before the game, Chang Sheng saw that he was nervous, so he comforted him: "Don't be stressed, just treat it as a warm-up match, Marco!"

In fact, Chang Sheng was also very helpless. Fortunately, he learned that Faraoni had played right center back, otherwise he really didn't know how to line up.

Gotze has played one game in the league, but his physical fitness is still pitiful. Such a state is obviously not able to participate in the Champions League.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't perform well, I'm afraid that playing this fierce game with unsustainable physical fitness will cause him to get injured.

My current team really "can't afford to be hurt" now...

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With such a lineup, you can imagine what they will encounter at the Allianz Arena...

Lazio eventually lost to Bayern Munich 1:3 away.

Handanovic received his third yellow card in the Champions League this season, under the suspension rules. He gets an automatic one-game suspension.

This is really worse for Lazio, which is already short of major generals...

And the failure of this game also made people lose confidence in Lazio's ability to advance to the final.

It was under such circumstances that Lazio ushered in the most important game in the league. The third was the fourth round. They challenged Inter Milan away!

Why didn't Changsheng let Gotze play in the Champions League? On the one hand, it is because Gotze's physical fitness is not very good. On the other hand, it is naturally for Gotze to play in the game against Inter Milan.

Fortunately, the suspension in the Champions League will not affect the league.

So Lazio can still form a strong enough lineup in the league.

Otherwise it's really hard to say...

In the last game against Bayern Munich, Balzaretti did not start the game, not because he was worried that he would receive another yellow card and be automatically suspended or something.

It's because Lazio will challenge Inter Milan away next. Compared with the Champions League semi-finals, this game is more important.

So Chang Sheng stayed in the Champions League semi-finals.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the first-team lineup is already stretched, Chang Sheng would send more substitute players to play.

Only after a large number of main players were injured. It is really difficult to distinguish between the main force and the substitute.

Before the match against Bayern Munich, counting injuries and suspensions, seven people could not go to Munich.

Originally, Lazio's first-team lineup was small. After the clean-up, there were only 21 first-team players this season. Counting Faranio recently, there are only twenty-two people.

As a result, seven people were missing... fifteen people remained... Chang Sheng couldn't even make up the list of eighteen people!

Therefore, when Lazio lost to Bayern Munich in the away game and was half kicked out of the final, there was no media mocking Lazio's achievements.

With such a remnant team, it is normal to lose the match against the mighty Bayern Munich.

Chang Sheng himself is very clear. So he gave up the Champions League game.

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It is very difficult to play Inter Milan away, and there is a statistic that can explain why it is difficult.

The league played thirty-three rounds, and Inter Milan played sixteen home games.

In these sixteen home games. Inter Milan has 11 wins, 5 draws and zero losses!

They haven't lost at home yet!

There is also a record that is very favorable to Inter Milan, or an advantage.

That is their head coach Jose Mourinho, who is very good at leading the team to play at home, whether it is the league or the Champions League. Especially the league.

You must know that the team coached by Mourinho is in the league, starting from February 23, 2002. After Porto lost 2:3 at home to Bellama, his team never lost at home in the league.

When he was in Porto, he was unbeaten in 38 league games at home, 36 wins and 2 draws, and there was even an astonishing record of 33 home games in the league.

Chelsea has remained unbeaten in 60 league home games, with 46 wins and 14 draws.

In the first season of coming to Inter Milan, there are currently 16 home games without a loss!

A total of 114 league games remain unbeaten at home!

This kind of achievement can be regarded as unprecedented and unprecedented.

Even Chang Sheng is inferior to the Portuguese in this regard.

Mourinho seems to know how to ensure his team wins at home.

He is like a priest, he can release buffs to the team at his own home court, improve their combat effectiveness, and make them fearless.

Not only in the league, but also in the Champions League, Mourinho's team also has a high home win rate. He has coached three teams to participate in the Champions League, and so far, he has only lost three home games in total.

With such a head coach who is good at playing at home, coupled with Lazio's recent injuries and exhaustion, it is only natural that everyone is not optimistic about Lazio.

Even many Lazio fans think that an away draw with Inter Milan is considered a victory.

In this way, the two sides are still three points away. With only four rounds left in the league, as long as Lazio keeps winning. You can win the championship one round in advance.

Lazio's extreme fan organization "Uncultivable Faction" is the reason for holding this view. In their radio program "Voice of the North Stand", they analyzed that Changsheng should choose conservative tactics in the away game and strive to keep a tie instead of a draw. Inter Milan counterattack, in that case, Lazio will definitely die miserably!

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Unlike previous games, Chang Sheng did not wait until two hours before the start of the game to submit the starting list, but announced the starting list at the pre-match press conference the day before the game.

Facing reporters, he took the initiative to throw out his list.

"Tomorrow's game? Handanovic will definitely start. No suspense? Jose Passarella, Chiellini, Balzaretti, Azpilicueta, Motta, Leders Ma, Candreva, Gotze, Cazorla, Cavani will also start."

He reported the starting lineup in one breath.

Then everyone discovered that Lazio still had an offensive lineup of 433 in this game!

And Motta and Gotze also started!

What does this mean?

This shows that Chang Sheng didn't even think about choosing conservative tactics at the San Siro and striving to keep the tie.

And Chang Sheng also talked about this issue later.

"Lazio are good at attacking and we will stick to our own style. As for what others think. That has nothing to do with us."

A reporter from Corriere dello Sport asked: "But the premise is to guarantee victory."

Chang Sheng asked him back: "How do you know we can't win?"

The Roman reporter said tit-for-tat: "Inter Milan has not lost one of the 16 home games this season, and Mourinho has even more..."

Chang Sheng interrupted him unceremoniously.

"Yes, yes, I know it all, it's nothing more than a 114-game unbeaten league record. But so what?" He shrugged and spread his hands. Ask this Roman reporter. "Haven't you heard of it? The so-called records are broken by people. The thing I'm best at is breaking all kinds of records!"

The reporters smelled gunpowder.

It seems that in this game, Chang Sheng really will not plan to keep the tie!

In this way... it will be much more exciting!

As for who wins and loses between the two teams, they don't care much about it.

Anyway, whether it is Chang Sheng or Mourinho, they are very annoying. In the end, they won the championship. They didn't like it.

They only hope that the two dogs can dog eat dog, as for the champion. Anyway, Milan, which is third in the league, is too far behind them, and it is estimated that there is no game.

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What Chang Sheng said at the pre-match press conference was quickly relayed to Mourinho through the reporter's mouth.

Mourinho is very calm about this.

"I think often he got one thing wrong. More than 100 consecutive home games unbeaten is not a record. I never think of this as a great record. This is the result. It shows our power at home. Only That's all. To beat Inter Milan at home, he will probably give it his all. Then pray for a lot of good luck."

Mourinho, who was sitting on the rostrum, pursed his lips and said with disdain. In the last round, his team let Lazio beat Lazio at the last moment of the away game. Mourinho can't swallow this breath. This time, it's an excellent opportunity for revenge!

This is the Italian media's favorite "dog eats dog" show.

They constantly sow discord between two people and provoke a war between two people.

Of course, they don't need to work so hard. These two people are born rivals, and they don't need to provoke each other to make each other look good.

Doing this now, it seems that Italian journalists are a bunch of villains...

That night, Italian TV stations were all watching the pre-match press conference for the game. The words of Chang Sheng and Mourinho at the press conference were analyzed repeatedly, hoping to understand the cards and strategies of the two coaches.

That's what sports shows on Italian TV like to do.

After analysis and analysis, they all agreed that Inter Milan, which is playing at home, has more advantages, and there are quite a lot of advantages...

"If Lazio chooses to defend, there is still a glimmer of life at San Siro. But now they often insist on attacking..." An expert curled his lips and shook his head in the camera. "He's looking for his own death!"