Trapani's situation is not necessarily better than Chelsea's, and the injury to Delas, who has not played much, does not affect the overall situation, but what makes people anxious in this game is that Mascherano is suspended due to yellow cards, which makes Ranieri have to let Pizarro replace him, which is thought that Trapani will play in a different way, and he must have more control of the ball to fit Pizarro's technical characteristics.

Trapani's starting XI went like this:

Goalkeeper: Kameni

Defenders: McConn, Victor, Barzagli, Evra

Midfielders: Ballack, Pizarro, Essien

Forwards: Klose, Toney, Messi

Today, there were also substitutions in the front line, and since entering the knockout round, to everyone's surprise, the little-known youngster Di Maria is obviously more favored by Ranieri, and he squeezes the famous Klose and Toni to the bench from time to time!

Why?!

Claudio Ranieri actually values Di Maria's running attitude, he is willing to return to his own half-court defense from the forward position, and he faithfully executes what Ranieri taught him to think about his own back at all times.

In other words, Klose can't do Di Maria so well when they execute tactics, which is why Ranieri prefers to choose Di Maria, no matter what his defensive ability is, at least this attitude must be wanted.

But today's situation is different, the team has made some changes in terms of technique and tactics, the team may have more possession, positional battles will become the theme, how can you do without Toni and Klose, two strikers with super ability to grab points?!

Therefore, Ranieri's change of formation in this game has become difficult for even Mourinho to guess.

The importance of this game for both teams cannot be overstated, and Mourinho is not the first to be the coach who hopes to lead two different teams to the Champions League final. Trapani could reach the Champions League final for the second year in a row, an achievement that is not something that the average team can achieve.

In the history of both teams now, if Mourinho can lead Chelsea to the eventual title, even if he does not win the league this season, he can be considered to have built a Chelsea dynasty.

Similarly for Claudio Ranieri, if he can take over the treble with Trapani midway through this season, then Trapani could officially announce the formation of their first dynasty, the pinnacle of Ranieri's coaching career and Trapani's history.

Today's referee is from Spain, Hummetto, who was a witness to the Reds' miracle in Istanbul, and he did well in that game without making any big mistakes.

However, it is worth mentioning that although Mejuto has always been a famous Spanish whistle, the recent reviews have not been very good, and there are often some mistakes in the enforcement of La Liga, and Barcelona has suffered two losses in the second half of the season, losing four points. But that was all after a few weeks ago, when he said to Bilbao captain Etcheberia after overseeing Athletic Bilbao's home win over Valencia: "I wish you all the best in relegation!" Seriously, his words directly show that the Football Association is indeed taking care of the declining old powerhouse Athletic Bilbao, which also caused an uproar. But at least his consistent performances in the Champions League in recent years have determined that he is still an excellent referee in the Champions League.

Hugo didn't know anything about him, so he turned to Corina and asked Corina, the bald coach who is now the chairman of the Italian referees committee and is mainly responsible for refereeing.

I think he was also a world-famous celebrity back then, but he didn't show up much after he became the chairman of the referee committee, and today he took the initiative to ask the Trapani club for a ticket, and made a special trip to see this focus battle.

I had already said hello to Hugo, Hugo chatted with him for a few words, and people said that Hugo would be too wasteful to do this, after all, Collina is the head of the referee committee.

But that's okay, because Hugo doesn't have any position, Trapani's chairman is not him but Morek, and besides, it's a Champions League game, and Corina doesn't have to shy away from that.

Corina explained Hugo's background and history to Hugo, and Hugo nodded!

"I hope this guy is a fair guy, they're too good at using their bodies! I hope he doesn't enforce the law by the standards of the Premier League! "Hugo's Italian.

Zamparini and Corina both laughed, with Collina saying, "He's not going to be an English referee!" He has a lot of experience, but he's not a newcomer! ”

Ranieri played a little trick here, he wrote Li Tie in the list in the previous report, which meant that Trapani would not change his tactics, but when it came time to play, Ranieri lied that Li Tie was unwell and asked Pizarro to replace him.

So many of Mourinho's arrangements have been lost, and he originally planned to catch Li Tie's side kick, but now he has no way to say it.

However, Mourinho still grasped the crux of the problem, you can't let Trapani pass the ball into the box, so he does not advocate his team to shrink the defense immediately, but he allows the midfielder to grab the ball hard, and does not let Trapani's midfield triangle dominate the possession.

So the scrambling action on the court during the beginning of the game is very understandable, and there is frequent physical contact.

Messi became very excited after the opening, he frequently asked for the ball, according to Ranieri's tactical arrangement, Messi did not need to go to the midfield to receive the ball, which would lengthen the distance he ran, for the concrete defensive Chelsea, it is not easy to break through, the team needs more patience.

Ranieri's idea is to cross from the flanks and cause problems for the opponent!

Messi asked for this, and the midfielder thought that he might feel very good with the ball, otherwise he wouldn't have asked for the ball!

So after the opening, when there is a chance, teammates hand the ball to Messi's feet, Messi often rushes to the front position with the ball, looking like a straight smashing Huanglong, and his position often moves to the middle, interacting with Ballack, and the side seems to be without people.

Chelsea have struggled to defend against Messi, and they have made a series of small moves in midfield to eliminate Messi's next step, and Humeto has given a warning.

Mourinho frowned, he kept gesturing to Ranieri on the other side, what did he mean Mourinho didn't know, Mourinho just thought what it meant to dribble the ball to the middle?!

He suspected that it was Ranieri's trick to send Messi to the middle to create defensive pressure and fouls in Chelsea's midfield, don't blame Mourinho for thinking so darkly, there have been such things on the pitch.

Messi's one-man show didn't work well, Mourinho has relied on defense for so many years to start in vain, no matter how Chelsea defend in the Premier League this season, at least in the Champions League he relied on his solid defense to advance to the semi-finals.

The deeper Messi's breakthrough penetrates into the hinterland of the front of the Chelsea penalty area, the more he receives great interference, the space is too small, he is not omnipotent, the bag is in place, he can't help it.

Sometimes Chelsea players stop him with fouls, and sometimes they completely lock him up, and he can't break through and is easily intercepted by the opponent.

Messi adjusted his thinking and began to wait more steadily on his side, Trapani also adjusted his thinking, no longer centered on Messi alone, Pizarro and others began to control football.

Mourinho was reluctant to let Trapani control the ball easily, but unfortunately, they grabbed for a while and found that the pressing effect was not excellent, Pizarro was very organised, according to Ranieri's instructions, he was not in a hurry to pass the ball forward, and was always mobilizing the team to press as a whole.

Chelsea's midfield is worse than Trapani's, and Mourinho had no choice but to let the team's midfielder set up the first interception, which did not work, so he quickly retreated to the edge of the penalty area and deployed a bus to defend.

Trapani's stands were small and could not accommodate many spectators, but the momentum created was remarkable, and the Trapani fans watched the team occupy the top, climaxing even more, shouting loudly, and some fans came with blank banners and wrote "Londoner bastards!" with a pen on it. "My dog doesn't catch mice!" and so on to create pressure on Chelsea in the stadium.