Chapter 202: The Unexpected (5/134)
In the league, they are ten points ahead of Inter Milan, and the whole person who wins is relaxed.
He had been stretched up before.
Now the string can finally be loosened so that it doesn't break.
At this time, he doesn't even care much about the outcome of the next league - no matter how he plays, he may lose four out of five league rounds, right?
So in the league, you can put it in a proper way, and don't let the players push too hard.
lest they be hurt.
Shift your energy to the Champions League and prepare for the Champions League...... Semifinal.
Pep Guardiola is looking forward to this meeting, so why not win often?
He had clearly told Guardiola before that even if Guardiola flew out to preach, it would be absolutely impossible to defeat him.
Pep Guardiola was noncommittal at the time, obviously a little unimpressed in his heart.
Football is round after all, why can't I beat you?
Now this is an opportunity to win in front of Guardiola and say: You just can't win me, I will do what I say!
Although the personal relationship between the two is very good, it is that this fight has nothing to do with personal relations.
This is a battle of ideas, but also a battle of will.
Pep Guardiola believes that his set is better, which is the direction of Tiki-Taka's future development. Chang Sheng had a heated argument for this, but was not able to convince Guardiola.
Chang Sheng also realized that in the face of these ideological battles, it was useless to be stubborn. You can never convince your opponent with your mouth. Because he firmly believes that he is right.
Then only speak with facts and tell him that his philosophy is wrong.
Why is it wrong?
Because you can't win me.
You're going to prove you're right? Alright, come and conquer me. If you can't even win with me, how can you be embarrassed to say that you are right and I am wrong?
Chang Sheng's and Guardiola's arguments are dry. In the end, no one was convinced.
Perhaps from that time on, both of them had such an idea in their hearts - then lead their respective teams to see the real chapter in the game!
In addition to the battle of ideas, there is a battle of will.
Pep Guardiola is a disciple who studied with Chang Sheng, and now that he has flown out, if he is allowed to beat Chang Sheng, what will the Catalan media say? I'm afraid that it will immediately blow to the tide en masse.
Guardiola has not played against Chang Sheng before, and the Catalan media can't wait to praise Guardiola and belittle Chang Sheng.
This kind of remark made Chang Sheng very unhappy. He certainly doesn't complain about Pep Guardiola, but he certainly won't be happy about the remarks.
He hated the practice of praising one person and trying to belittle another. It seems that two people have to be pitted against each other in order to show the greatness of one of them.
These people's brains are either two-dimensional, single-threaded. There can only be one good. If this person is good, that person must be bad.
In addition to yes is if, except for 1 is 0, except for good is bad.
There is no pluralistic mindset at all.
Pep Guardiola is really good and his achievements at Barcelona are a testament to the high quality of coaching that comes out of winning permanence. At the same time, this is also the act of putting gold on Chang Sheng's face.
Who doesn't want their disciples to become famous when they go out?
But can Pep Guardiola's success justify his failure?
Chang Sheng was very unhappy with this kind of brain-dead remarks.
In order to get the idea in check, this Barcelona has to die even more......
So if Barcelona is eliminated by Lazio in the end, it can be said that it is all your Catalan media's own fault!
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Half a week after the end of the 33rd round of the league, Lazio welcomed Inter Milan at their home stadium.
It was the second leg of the Coppa Italia semi-finals.
In the first leg, Lazio beat Inter Milan 2-0 away, taking away not only one victory, but also two away goals.
And in that game, Mourinho also protested against the referee's decision. Invited to the stands.
In this game, Mourinho could not direct the game from the sidelines.
Inter Milan are in a worrying situation.
The league champions, they have no hope.
I want to fight for the Coppa Italia, and the manager is not on the sidelines.
Public opinion believes that Inter Milan has lost.
Lazio thinks so too.
Results when the game starts. They were caught off guard by Inter!
In the first half, Lazio fell behind 0:2!
The narrator was speechless.
“…… Such a game...... Inter Milan has come back to life! ”
On TV, the faces of the victories were pale, and the players of Inter Milan were celebrating!
On aggregate, Inter Milan and Lazio drew 2:2! And they also offset Lazio's advantage of two away goals!
The televised broadcast reached Mourinho, who was standing in the box.
There was no expression on his face.
It seemed to be exactly what he expected.
For this match, he prepared Lazio very seriously before the game. It also makes full use of the Lazio players' own pride and contempt.
Finally hit Lazio by surprise!
But this was only the first half......
There are forty-five minutes left in the second half, which is Lazio's home stadium after all. Once Lazio came to his senses. Things are still going badly for Inter.
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At half-time, the Lazio players, who were often victorious, scolded one by one.
"Do you still want to play? If you don't want to kick, get out of the reserves! In the first leg, we were two goals ahead, and when we got to our own home stadium, we were able to make them back! How did you do that? Is something wrong with my tactics? Or is there something wrong with your mentality?! Do you think Inter Milan is dead? I'm telling you this is a cup, not a league! Cup competitions are a hotbed of upsets, and anything can happen! ”
After scolding enough, Chang Sheng began to arrange the tactics for the players in the second half.
Lazio once again offered a multi-core tactic.
Ledesma came on in for Mereles in the second half.
In this way, in Lazio's midfield, there are three midfielders who can organize, Motta, Ledesma and Hernanes.
Rocchi went down and Cazorla went up, all to increase the playmaking ability of the midfield.
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In the second half, Lazio was awakened by the constant victory, and then adjusted their tactics and relaunched the offensive against Inter Milan's goal.
Jose Mourinho was not allowed to go to the dugout to direct the game, he could only do it in the box and pass on the information to the assistant coach below by phone.
The Coppa Italia ban is not as strict as in the Champions League. So some of the little actions of the head coach are also turned a blind eye.
Italy is like this, it pays attention to human relationships and does not pay so much attention to rules.
Otherwise, how could anyone say that Italy is the China of Europe?
In some places, the customs of the two countries are quite similar.
At the beginning, the phonegate incident caused a lot of uproar. And now? Many of the people who had been banned from playing football for many years were now active in Italian football, and their bans were reduced again and again, and finally they were simply reduced and pardoned in advance......
Except for Utus' Moji and Girawudo, who are the worst, the other coaches and managers have nothing to do.
You can see the live broadcast in the box. Because there is a TV in it.
Mourinho's previous attention was on the pitch and he didn't care about the TV.
However, as soon as the second half began, his attention was quickly drawn to the TV commentator.
Fabio Careza is talking about changes to Lazio in the second half.
'In the second half, it was often Ledesma, obviously. He wants to improve his control in midfield. Ledesma has gone through the experience of Chang under Chang in the past two seasons, and has changed from a pure defensive midfielder to a player who can both attack and defend. This season, in particular, his improvement has been very noticeable, and he has been delivering all sorts of precise passes in the midfield position, and he looks like a Pirlo .......
'Lazio has had some interesting changes this season. In the past, they had a fixed person to host their game attack, for example, it was Modric before he was injured, and Modric was injured. It became Mota. Ledesma is in charge of the defensive sweep and will certainly hand over the football to the above two men when the defense is successful. David Silva and Cazorla are pure wingers, and their task is to score and cross in a hurry. It's very simple and very specific. It's clear what everyone should do at a glance. ”
"Since this season, though, Lazio has slowly undergone some changes. For example, Ledesma is hard to say, whether he is a midfielder or a midfielder...... He's also higher up in the field than before. He became an offensive and defensive hub. He still defends and sweeps in midfield, but there are moments. He would also suddenly transform into characters like Modric and Motta. Think about how Lazio's second goal was scored in the first leg of the Lazio league match against Inter Milan, and David Silva's phoenix-like goal came from an assist from Ledesma! ”
"Let's talk about Luka Modric, who has been playing further and further back this season, from a midfielder to a central midfielder and now a midfielder. In the last two months of Pisa, Modricki has been fixed in the midfield position. But the Croatians' defensive prowess really can't be complimented...... Do you often don't know? He knew that he didn't put Modric in this position to let Modric defend! ”
'David Silva's transformation now seems to have been successful as well, with Cazorla really versatile up front, playing as a midfielder as well as a striker...... These changes are manifested on the football field, and that is that Lazio's attack looks like a mess...... But the problem is that they win every time! ”
Mourinho was also studying Lazio's tactics, and after hearing Fabio Caresza, the Italian gold medal commentator, something suddenly crossed his mind.
He thought about the first time he played Lazio in the league of the season, when Lazio had won the game, as the commentator had said, with a bit of confusion in attack.
At that time, he thought about two possibilities, one was that Lazio kicked it unconsciously, and the other was that it was done deliberately by Lazio.
If it's the latter, the problem is serious.
Inter's head coach stared inside the pitch and listened to the narrator Carreza's introduction.
frowned.