Chapter 111: Ugly Idealism

"Cazorla... cross! Cavani!!!"

Amidst the roar of the commentator, the football rolled into Inter Milan's goal, while Cavani got up from the ground with open arms and ran wildly in celebration, with his long hair blowing in the wind.

"Lazio leads Inter Milan 1-0 in the away game! The game has only started for seven minutes!!"

Chang Sheng on the sidelines jumped up, raising his arms and shouting.

This is what he wants, this is the situation he wants!

Lazio leads by one goal in the away game, and then they can slow down the pace and deal with Inter Milan slowly. At this time, they have a psychological advantage and are not even afraid of losing the ball. Because even if Inter Milan equalizes the score, a draw is an acceptable result, and Lazio still leads Inter Milan by three points.

Mourinho stood on the sidelines without any aggressive movements, but he pursed his lips tightly, his expression very dignified and serious.

Backfired, he wanted to take the lead at the beginning, but Chang Shengli took advantage of this mentality and broke Inter Milan's goal!

The current situation is very unfavorable to his Inter Milan.

Any fool knows what Lazio will do next.

It must be to slow down the pace, use the excellent pass and control ability to firmly control the football at their feet, so as to play a defensive role.

If you fight like this, what should you do?

Be sure to break their grip.

To break their control, they can only foul...

Use foul tactics to break their control, prevent their passing and receiving from flowing, and put pressure on them.

This leads to their own mistakes.

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Mourinho raised his hand and called Cambiasso down.

While Lazio was still celebrating a goal, Mourinho had already made targeted adjustments.

When the game restarted, as Mourinho expected. Lazio immediately chose recycling.

When Inter Milan attacked,

They hold the line.

But when they got the ball, they didn't rush forward to send a direct pass, but back and forth, pushing forward a little bit.

Advance halfway, see Inter Milan's defensive formation is tight. Lazio would also pass the ball straight back, all the way to the goalkeeper Handanovic.

Then hit forward again.

This slow rhythm made the Inter Milan fans drowsy.

But it also made them gnash their teeth.

They knew that Lazio was using their possession to legitimately buy time.

So when they saw Ibrahimovic pushed Candreva down and tried to grab the ball, there was cheering from the stands and although the referee's whistle sounded, Ibrahimovic fouled in First. But the fans of Inter Milan just like to see such a scene, and they are relieved to see it!

In the next game. Inter Milan's fouls increased significantly.

But these are not the kind of vicious fouls, but all kinds of small moves such as pushing and pulling people.

On the one hand, it increases the possibility of successful steals. If the referee didn't see the foul, or he thought it was not a foul, wouldn't he earn it? On the other hand, it is to interrupt Lazio's coherent and smooth passing cooperation.

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The two sides were so deadlocked.

Until the end of the first half, the number of fouls by Inter Milan was far ahead, but the score still remained unchanged.

It is still Lazio leading Inter Milan 1:0 away.

This score surprised many people.

Lazio's poor state has actually been reflected in this game. For example, their running is not as active as before, and their speed is not fast enough. There were even turnovers between passing and receiving the ball.

But Lazio was stunned to maintain the lead over Inter Milan by relying on this goal in the seventh minute of the opening!

However, during the intermission, everyone analyzed and analyzed, and they all believed that Lazio should not be able to persist in the second half. Their physical fitness has problems, as long as Inter Milan keeps putting pressure on them. It can make Lazio collapse.

So only leading by one goal is also a very dangerous thing for Lazio.

It is tantamount to putting them on the fire all the time, so that they will not live in peace for a moment.

This state of being unable to rest at all and having to go all out lasts for a long time, and Lazio will not be able to bear it.

"The idea of ​​​​foul tactics is correct. Use those non-serious fouls to put pressure on Lazio, forcing Lazio to consume more physical energy and increase their psychological burden."

"As long as Inter Milan can get a goal back in the second half, it can hit Lazio's morale and reverse the situation..."

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After the start of the second half, what Inter Milan did was exactly what these experts analyzed.

Use constant fouls and attacks to put pressure on Lazio.

Force Lazio to make more active mistakes, and then use these mistakes to continue to strengthen the attack and put pressure on Lazio.

For Inter Milan, this is a virtuous circle.

In theory, this is also the most likely way to defeat Lazio.

So in the second half of the game, Lazio was in a mess.

This disappointed many neutral fans.

Originally, they hoped to see a wonderful strong dialogue.

How can the competition for the first place in the league and the second place in the league be so embarrassing?

This is not a wonderful one-on-one at all, but rather like two hooligans rolling in the mud and punching each other...

This is far from everyone's imagination.

Of course, neither Chang Sheng nor Mourinho is obliged to be responsible for the perception of those neutral fans.

They just want to win now. Under the pressure of Inter Milan, Lazio reduced the kicks in the backcourt, but pushed the football to the front and back.

This is Changsheng's countermeasure.

In this way, even if the ball is intercepted by the opponent to counterattack directly, Lazio will have time to reorganize the defense line, so that it will not be like being intercepted at the front of its own penalty area, and then directly face the back line or the goal.

At first this approach worked. They burned the flames of the war to Inter Milan's half, and their own goals were much less threatened.

But Mourinho is not in a hurry.

Unlike the first half, the second half. Instead, he has been sitting on the bench.

He knows very well that Lazio has little physical energy left, and this kind of advancement is also very energy-consuming.

When the game time reached more than 60 minutes, their physical fitness should be at the most difficult time, and then began to decline.

Lazio will not be able to guarantee that they will always be able to advance football into Inter's half.

This is my chance.

Taking advantage of the opponent's lack of physical strength, they were completely suppressed in their half in one go, and then besieged their goal!

That's Mourinho's plan.

On physical strength. Inter Milan in single-line combat is much better than Lazio.

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In fact, Chang Sheng is also very aware of the current problems of the team. Even if he uses game skills to slow down physical consumption, it is still useless. When the basic physical fitness is not much, the effect of this skill is not great.

There was nothing he could do about it.

Physical fitness is the foundation, and no matter how sophisticated the tactics are, it cannot make up for the lack of foundation.

Lazio's stamina is still exhausted little by little.

In the 60th minute, he took the lead in making a substitution.

He replaced Gotze, who was completely unable to run, with Bonucci.

The team hit 532.

This means strengthening the defense.

Replace the physically exhausted Gotze early to prevent him from making mistakes in taking the ball on the court and let the opponent directly counterattack.

Mourinho turned his head and glanced at Chang Sheng. It's a smart substitution. But it also exposes how weak your team is...

Mourinho found an opportunity to convey his meaning to the court. The whole team stepped up their offense and put pressure on Lazio's goal!

Chang Sheng really knows that Lazio's current physical fitness cannot support the tactics of possession of the ball.

So he began to shrink the line of defense.

But his team didn't withdraw from the frontcourt to the penalty area all at once. If they didn't retreat to defend, it was called a defeat.

Similarly, he also organized one defense line after another to limit Inter Milan's offense, and at the same time delay time...

But this can't change the fact that Lazio was beaten by Inter Milan away.

Those who think that Chang Sheng is a representative of idealists, when they see this game. They were really stunned. They didn't expect Lazio, which advocates beautiful football, artistic football, and offensive football, to be the benchmark team of these three types of football in their minds. To be pushed down on the ground and beaten violently, with no power to fight back, only parry...

This Lazio... is really... too ugly!

Is this really a regular team?

As an idealist, shouldn't Chang prefer to lose the game and defend the glory and dignity of offensive football?

Even if it is death, do you have to die standing up!

How could he be so embarrassed as the protagonist?

Could it be...offensive football can only be at a disadvantage when facing conservative football like Mourinho?

These people have forgotten that if you only look at it from the scene. Inter Milan played offensive football, while Lazio...had been huddled in the 30-meter zone, becoming a thoroughly conservative football.

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Chang Sheng doesn't care how those people look at him and his team.

All he wants now is victory.

Since his team has a lead of one ball, he just chooses to stick to the lead of this one ball.

What kind of shit idealism...

Can idealism bring victory?

next game. Basically, Inter Milan besieged Lazio, and Lazio was unable to hide in its own penalty area.

The scene is even less beautiful...

This classic focus battle did not expect to end up like this.

Let a lot of people feel disappointed.

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In the 75th minute, Chang Sheng made another substitution, replacing the equally exhausted Cazorla with Giroud.

Then Lazio completely played a defensive defense, and made a long pass.

Now the defenders took the ball and kicked it straight forward, to Giroud.

If Giroud can get the ball, he will control the football to delay time, and he will not consider attacking at all.

If it doesn't work, then just kick the football out of the opponent's sideline in the second half.

Even if Inter Milan sends a throw-in, it will not immediately threaten Lazio's penalty area.

This scene makes it especially difficult for those idealists and fans of offensive football who regard Changsheng as their idol...

How can you decide the outcome with such an ugly game and Mourinho?

Don't you know what you mean to us?

Don't you know the heavy responsibility and hope on your shoulders!

It's a pity that Chang Sheng couldn't hear their inner monologue.

Even if they heard it, they would just curl their lips in disdain. (to be continued...)

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