Chapter 52: The Away Locker Room at St. Paul's Stadium (Second Update)

"The Champions League match against Lyon is Napoli's second Champions League group game and it's very important for them (). Because after drawing away from Liverpool, Napoli only have one point. If you can't take advantage of home field advantage. Beat the visiting Lyons and their qualification situation will be in jeopardy.

Lyon beat Zenit St. Petersburg 1 at home in the last round of the group stage. They currently lead the group standings.

If this match allows Lyon to win again, Lyon will continue to dominate the group (). And as long as Liverpool and Zenit St. Petersburg away have a win. Napoli, who have just one point, will be in a bad position. Liverpool wins, Liverpool is second, Zenit St. Petersburg wins, St. Petersburg is second. Unless they draw ....... But in the event of a draw, Liverpool is second, and Napoli doesn't know if they can finish third or fourth......

Not a good result anyway.

So in order to be able to take your destiny firmly in your own hands, the home game against Lyon. Napoli had to win.

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"Lyon are not the team that won the first seven consecutive championships in previous years, but we still can't take it lightly...... Mazzarri was analysing Lyon for the players in the pre-match tactical lesson.

Three games in six days, the time is too tight, and there are many things that are too late to do targeted i practice. So Mazari is a bit bottomless.

He doesn't know what form his team will be able to show against Lyon.

Of course, Napoli is not without it. At least Napoli have been thoroughly studied by their Serie A rivals. However, in the Champions League, Napoli is still mysterious enough that not all managers of European teams will know everything about Napoli.

The header tactic, which has become less and less powerful in Serie A, can still play in the Champions League.

Because the opponent does not know enough about Chen Yingying, as well as Napoli's tactics.

So this game has to hit Chen Yingxing's head with the idea.

Chen Yingying is happy about this arrangement, because it means that he will be taking on more offensive responsibilities. There will also be more chances to score.

He just loves to score goals.

'Their two centre-backs are pretty good at defending their air, so we try to pull them out before we cross...... , ().

For that reason, a lot of the work of this game cross will be left to the two full-backs. Because it is necessary to let Arshavin and Cassano enter the penalty area to attract the opponent's defense to Chen Yingying. Of course, they don't go in and fight the opposing defenders for headers. But as long as they can get into the box, they will be able to attract the attention of the Lyon defenders. To know this set of tridents. But none of them are nobodies. Chen Yingying is the all-time top scorer since the League Cup was restructured. Cassano became famous seven or eight years ago. Arshavin was the biggest discovery of Euro 2008. With these three people, it is impossible for any team's defender to defend only one of them. And let the other two people into the restricted area. And it doesn't matter.

Mazzarhi's tactics for the team are that at least two of the three people must be in the penalty area at the same time to disperse the opponent's defensive strength, whether it is Chen Yingying who attracts more, Cassano and Arshavin attract more, as long as they can attract some of them, they can create opportunities for others.

In previous Napoli games, Cassano and Arshavin were used as wingers. More often than not, they are active on the wings and not without them when they get into the box. But less.

This time, Mazari asked both men to go in. And not a feint, as long as there is an opportunity. Just run for the goal.

If they can show a form of threatening goal, it will naturally attract the attention of the Lyon defenders. At that time, Chen Yingying will also get a chance. The reverse is also true.

For this reason, Mazzarri even changed the starting formation. The 433 that Napoli has been playing since this season has been changed to the 343 that Napoli has been playing last season. Three centre-backs. Maggio was promoted from right-back to right midfield, while Sanchez was replaced at left midfield. The two will act as wide attackers and passers for the team. Many of the balls given to Chen Yingying will come from their feet.

It's not too risky. Because Napoli played a season last season, this tactic is more familiar to them.

The Italian side have started to adapt to Napoli's 343 as Rea has played in this formation for several seasons. But the Europeans are not used to it - the tactics of the back three have basically disappeared on the continent, and there are very few teams that use the tactics of the back three.

So Napoli can also "win by surprise" in Europe with the 343.

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In the away team's dressing room at the São Paulo Stadium. Even if the doors and windows were locked, you could still hear the loud noise coming from outside.

"Naples! Naples! Naples!. With an hour to go before the start of the game, the São Paulo Stadium was already full.

This is the first time in 18 years that the São Paulo Stadium has ushered in the Champions League match belonging to Napoli. Napoli fans flocked to the São Paulo Stadium from early in the morning, waiting to be entered.

They want to unleash all the chalkiness that they have been going on for eighteen years, just like Vesuvius.

Drown the incoming enemy Leon with chrysalic lava!

At this moment, they are doing just that. Amidst their shouts and songs, the Lyon fans couldn't make any noise at all.

Lyon's manager, Claude Puel, was just about to say something: "All right, gentlemen............

Then he was interrupted by the sudden cheers outside.

He had no choice but to keep his mouth shut. By the time the cheers had passed, the Napoli fans were a little weaker. He continued: "...... It's an away game and we're going to have a lot of difficulties............

Interrupted again. Outside, the Napoli fans sang with an impassioned and imposing voice.

Puel smiled helplessly. Then he spread his hands to his players and said, "I believe you should have a very deep understanding by now......

The away team's dressing room at the São Paulo Stadium is poorly soundproofed (). It's a little trick to deal with the away team and interfere with the away team. This stuff is not new, and many teams will have their own tricks to use against the away players.

It stands to reason that in the locker room, it should be a place where you can concentrate 100 percent and do what you are supposed to do. However, in order to interfere with the opponents, the visiting dressing rooms in many stadiums are not as good as expected. From playing loud music to venting foul-smelling gases into vents, to changing the temperature of the room and providing only cold water, these tricks are the motto of some veterans: "If you can drive your opponent crazy." Then he may not be playing normally......

A British medi-chalk study showed that the level of stress felt by a leading actor the night before the performance was equivalent to the injury of a car accident.

So are footballers under similar terrifying pressure? Answer: Yes. The live TV broadcast reflected the whole game, and the players were under a lot of pressure while gaining a huge amount of fame, what should they do if they performed badly in a live TV game? Immediately after the game, he will become a sinner who will be criticized by the media and spurned by the fans.

That's a lot of pressure.

Therefore, most players are actually very worried before the game, and some of them are even worried about the day before the game starts. If the home side take advantage of their home advantage and cause them some problems in the away dressing room. The impact on their status is even greater.......

The poor soundproofing of the visiting dressing room at the Stadio São Paulo is a trick of the Napoli club.

Everyone knows that Napoli is known as the "home of the devil", and the fans here are known for their extreme fanaticism. If the locker room is not well insulated. If the head coach keeps his voice quieter...... So before and during the game, everyone should use mobile phone short messages to communicate!

Puer is not the kind of person with a loud voice, and he waved his hand helplessly: "Forget it." Let's go out and warm up! ……

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When the Napoli players showed up on the pitch to warm up, they were greeted by tens of thousands of Napoli fans ().

The Napoli fans cheered on the team with waves of never-ending cheers, songs and shouts, while also continuing to put pressure on Lyon.

Lyon's players are also experienced, but Napoli are such crazy fans. Honestly, they're also not common......

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The Lyon players were clearly influenced by the Napoli fans, from the very beginning of the game. They just didn't get into the groove for a long time.

Puel sat on the sidelines. He wasn't anxious about the team not getting into shape. It doesn't matter if you don't score a goal, as long as you don't concede a goal. So if you haven't gotten into the groove yet, let's defend first. Just don't let the opponent score.

For this game, he was very well prepared, Chen Yingying's header was very powerful, he had already heard of it. To that end, he used Chris to partner Baumsson as the starting centre-backs, and one of the two centre-backs was that they both had good headers. ”

Among them, Chris's header is slightly better than Lanchou. The defensive ability in other areas is also comprehensive, and Baumson's air defense ability is particularly prominent, because he has a height of 1.90 meters, which is a natural advantage. He is the closest player in the Lyon team to Chen Yingying's height.

These two defenders, combined with Lyon's defensive system, should help them contain Chen Yingying's goal.

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Lyon seem to be slow to heat up, which is good news for Napoli, who will not be watching from the sidelines. Wait for Leon to get back in shape, and the two sides will fight again in a serious way - that's stupid.

Neapolitans have never been gentlemen, they are a bunch of cunning liars with a lot of tricks. And not ashamed, but proud. It's embodied in football......

Take advantage of your illness to kill you!

That's the wisdom of a team like Napoli.