Chelsea arrived in Rome on Monday to begin preparations for the semi-finals.

They borrowed the training base of the Club of Rome in Rome.

This is still the initiative of the Club of Rome to contact.

In fact, Chang Sheng is right, he never thinks that he represents Italian football, nor does he think that his Lazio is fighting for Italian football.

Almost all European countries lack a sense of great unification.

This is true in Spain, and it is also true in Italy.

The Northern Alliance has always looked down on the Capital Circle and the South, and the Capital Circle has looked down on the poor ghosts of the Northern Alliance and the South. And the poor ghosts of the south look down on anywhere north of them.

Fighting for Italy? No kidding!

Italian interests have a fart to do with us!

The waiters at the Naples hotel could all say to the reporter wearing the jersey of the Italian national team: "Hey, brother! Here, there is no Italy, only Naples. ”

So even if objectively speaking, Lazio FC is indeed fighting for the interests of Italian football, AS Roma will not cheer them on and bless them.

They took the initiative to help Chelsea Football Club in the hope of seeing their city rivals fall in the semi-finals.

When Roma were knocked out of the quarter-finals, they didn't want to see their city rivals do better than they did.

This kind of thing happens a lot in European football, so it's not surprising to blame Roma.

In some cases, it is not out of hatred.

For example, if a team wants to go to Manchester to play Manchester United, they naturally cannot use Manchester United's Carrington training base, so they can only use Manchester City's Carrington training base.

If there is a team playing Manchester City, then they can also use Manchester United's training base.

European football is very open to this kind of helping each other. Because who knows if your team will need that kind of help too?

It's stupid to refuse someone else's request for help.

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Chelsea trained at their training base in Rome for two days, Wednesday evening. At 7:45 a.m., they set foot on the turf of Rome to the Stadio Olimpic.

The Stadio Olimpico was brightly lit and the stands were packed.

As far as the eye can see, it is all a blue ocean.

Passionate Lazio fans have turned the stadium into their home turf. The 3,000 Chelsea fans were concentrated, but they were not visible in the yellow Chelsea away shirt.

Reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League for the first time, Lazio fans burst into great enthusiasm.

When the players were not yet on the pitch, the live radio introduced the Lazio players one by one, and cheers rang out from the stands.

Every time a person's name was announced, there was a thunderous cheer.

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When the game starts. Grant was soon on the sidelines.

With only three minutes into the game, Lazio had committed two fouls, one of which knocked Frank Lampard to the ground.

If you only look at the second leg of the quarter-finals, everyone would think that Lazio, who have won many times, will insist on playing this kind of flashy attacking football in the Champions League.

But actually, Lazio told everyone. They also have a very tough side.

In the face of Lazio's tough attitude towards the game, Chelsea did not seem to be very comfortable.

As Analysed by Wins, this Chelsea side is under-motivated.

The Champions League, they've already won it once, and that sense of urgency and hunger isn't so obvious.

Unlike Lazio - none of the Lazio squad have won the Champions League. In the Champions League championship of Real Madrid's centenary celebrations, Pavon was blown up by a winning Valencia at the beginning of the season, so he lost the opportunity to play in the first team. Didn't even play in the Champions League. That year's Champions League triumph naturally had nothing to do with him. The least he needs to be on the squad for the Champions League is the one he has to win the gold medal for, and Pavon was only in the group stage that season and didn't play a single game, waiting until he reached the knockout stage. Real Madrid reported the list of players again and took Pavon down.

Later, Pavon continued to play some Champions League games at Real Madrid, but never won the Champions League again.

Such a team, of course, lacks experience in the Champions League. But they are scrappy and full of energy.

It's completely different from Chelsea.

In addition, Chang Sheng is a manager with experience in winning the Champions League. He can convey his experience to his players.

It can more or less make up for the lack of experience in the team.

After three seasons of training, Lazio's tactical execution ability is the best in the world.

Chang Sheng said to play how they wanted, and they played as they were.

Chelsea hit the iron plate this time!

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Fifteen minutes into the game, Chelsea were unable to take any advantage.

They were suppressed by Lazio and could not hold their heads up.

Lazio were already sharp in attack, and now their hardness in defence is also a headache for Chelsea.

The Chelsea players didn't expect Lazio to play like this at home, they were not mentally prepared, and then as soon as they were forced by the Lazio players, they were in a hurry and made all kinds of mistakes.

Lazio capitalised on their mistake and scored first in the game.

In the 22nd minute, Lazio intercepted the ball in front of the court through a siege, and then launched a direct counterattack.

Luka Modric fired a powerful long-range shot directly from outside the box.

Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech made a save and was caught by Benzema, who was ambushed in front of the goal, to shoot with his foot raised!

Football hits the net!

"Benzema! Karim. Benzema! Nice follow-up! He's in the right place! ”

When Benzema kicked the ball into the goal, the Stadio Olimpico erupted in loud cheers.

The cheers almost turned the entire stadium upside down!

"Lazio have a one-goal lead at home! They had a head start on their way to the finals! ”

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After conceding the goal, Chelsea tried to mount a counter-attack. However, they were stubbornly blocked by the entire Lazio team in midfield and at the back.

The constant win emphasises a tough defence in order to prevent Chelsea from scoring away goals.

Generally speaking, scoring away goals will boost the morale of the away team and make the away team play more calmly.

This is what Changsheng does not want.

He's going to demoralize Chelsea and send them into complete panic.

One team has lost its cool. There is only one dead end left.

When Chelsea attacked, they were always blocked by two or three players and then the ball was cut off.

Even if they pass the ball, it will be difficult to organize an effective attack.

Because their passing routes were blocked by Lazio.

Lazio, on the other hand, made it difficult for Chelsea to press forward and created more shooting opportunities for themselves. The more shots you have on goal, the more goals you score.

This kind of high-level pressing is not yet mainstream in Rijkaard's Dream II team, and it is in Pep Guardiola's Dream Three team that it is really carried forward.

However, Pep Guardiola's Dream Three team is most afraid of an iron-blooded team like Chelsea.

Then why Lazio who used the Dream Three team tactics. Can the hair children restrain Chelsea?

Quite simply, because Lazio is tougher and more iron-blooded than Chelsea.

Pep Guardiola's Dream Three lacks this hard-nosed style. For a long time, they have been criticized for being too soft, falling down at the first touch, faking falls, and relying on referees...... And so on has become the label of Barcelona. Whether they admit it or not, whether they want to or not, the vast majority of fans see Barcelona this way.

In Lazio, you can't see fake falls for profit, you can't see your teammates fall to the ground, and a group of people run to besiege the referee, and you can't see the "actor" who falls down at the touch and then covers his face with his hands and peeks through his fingers.

Lazio have the tactics of Barcelona. Draws on the strengths of Barcelona. At the same time, they have the same iron-blooded spirit as Chelsea.

It's almost invincible.

So even someone like Pacheco has to admit that the only way to beat Lazio is to tear them down from within.

Or, just wait for time when they're at their peak. Began to go downhill because of the loss of motivation to move forward and the reason to continue fighting.

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Lazio, who were leading by one goal, played more comfortably, while Chelsea, who were behind, played more and more impatiently.

Until the end of the first half, Chelsea were unable to equalise.

If it weren't for Cech's excellent performance. Their goal has probably been penetrated three times......

But it is difficult to defeat four fists with one hand, and it is difficult for a tiger to defeat a pack of wolves.

Cech probably won't last long.

If the situation still does not improve in the second half. Or let Lazio press Chelsea to play.

At half-time, Chang Sheng did not praise the players' performance, but made them work harder.

'We're only one goal ahead of Chelsea! That's not going to work at all! If Chelsea come home from a one-goal defeat on the road, it's a win for them. So we have to score more goals. Put more pressure on Cech! ”

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Grant made adjustments in the second half, and if Lazio were allowed to press and beat him in the second half, Chelsea would be dead.

So the tactics had to be adjusted, and that was ...... Defend and counterattack.

Reduce the kind of inverted foot pass in the back and midfield, everyone shrinks into the 30-meter area, and if there is a ball, go directly to the front court to find the "monster" Drogba.

It doesn't matter if you can't score a goal on the counter-attack, as long as you don't concede a goal.

There is no shame in losing 0:1 away, or even a victory.

In this way, when you return to your home stadium, you will have room to maneuver.

That's the good way to do that.

Winning soon spotted Chelsea's change.

Grant: This is going to win less than lose......

I must not let him succeed.

Lazio are not afraid to defend intensively, and their tactics dictate that they will encounter this situation many times in the game.

Teams that are not as strong as them will choose to shrink their defense, and there are not many teams that dare to play against them.

Against a team that defends heavily, Lazio has two options. One is to use the constant inverted feet to attract the attention of the opponent's defense, tear apart the defensive line, adjust the opponent's defensive center of gravity through constant passing, and then gradually increase the speed until the opponent's speed of adjusting the defensive center of gravity can no longer keep up, and the fucking defense line will naturally have holes.

The other way is to shoot from distance and set pieces, which are conventional tactics and can be used by a team.

The first is Lazio's unique recipe.

Anyone can pass the ball, and it is not a problem to fall back and forth. But to pass the ball with purpose, to be able to quickly find the opponent's flaws in the pass, then it is not a team that can do it.

Not to mention that it all is done with a very fast pass.

Sometimes watching Lazio's pass backwards is like the video has been sped up. The opponent gradually lost the way in this exhaustion, and finally allowed Lazio to find a flaw and then ...... Fatal with one hit!