At the Roma Tetriglia training base, Capello watched the players on the pitch with his hands folded over his chest for his final training session in Milan.

Serie A has been a tight season but does not include two of the strongest teams in recent years, Juventus and AC Milan, who have been in trouble since the start of the season.

Juventus won 2 and drew 1 in the first three rounds, and the draw was a 2:2 draw with AC Milan away, which is a good result; However, the Rossoneri's record is relatively poor, they only have 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss, and even fall to the middle of the league, on the contrary, teams like Atalanta are tied for the top of the league with Inter Milan and Roma with consecutive wins.

Among them, Roma is in the best form this season! With a 2-0 home win over Bologna, a 4-0 away win over Lecce and a 3-0 home win over Vicenza, Roma have almost won three incredible games in the first three rounds of the season, especially the trident of Cressfang, Del Vecchio and Totti, who joined the team at the beginning, and is known as the front trident that does not lose to Inter Milan.

In everyone's eyes, Roma has become the most championship-looking team with their excellent performances in the first three rounds.

But is that really the case?

Fabio Capello has returned to a back three this season, and the addition of Samuel has greatly strengthened Roma's backline, with five players hoarded in midfield, which allows Roma to always press and surround the opponent in the midfield, and then complete the slaughter and aggression of the opponent.

This is a new tactical concept that Capello has derived from the tactics of Inter Milan last season, combined with his own understanding, and it is also his football creed in order to make his defensive football creed more in line with the tradition of Roman's attacking football.

Or it can be said that this is a kind of compromise with reality for him, and an attempt at himself!

He's going to use this result to show everyone that his team can play attacking football too!

But when you meet Inter Milan, can you play like this?

He didn't know the bottom of his heart, because he knew that Inter Milan had a more thorough understanding of this set of tactics and even in many aspects, Inter Milan was better than Roma, especially this season with their set of midfield siege and flanking tactics, it is obvious that the tacit understanding and echo of the players is better than last season.

Yang Cheng focuses on the Champions League, and his league performance is slightly inferior, but he is unbeatable in the Champions League, which shows the terrible thing about this Inter Milan!

But from the fact that he came on as a substitute against Leeds United, it was clear that he was playing against Roma and he would give his all in this game!

There are many things that no one has said explicitly, but Capello and Yang Cheng both see each other as their strongest opponents to win the championship this season, so they are both eager to win this game, and they are racking their brains to think of countermeasures.

Capello stood on the sidelines and looked like he was watching training, but in fact, he was comparing the advantages and disadvantages of Roma and Inter Milan in his mind.

In the end, he came to the conclusion that the attack was almost the same in the midfield, and the back line was inferior.

It's all tridents, and the combination of Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Baggio is not necessarily much better than the combination of Crespo, Del Vecchio and Totti, especially when the Roma trident is in full swing.

In terms of midfield, Roma do not have an advantage purely in terms of personnel, but they are more numerous, with five midfielders, which directly leads to Roma being at a disadvantage at the back.

Capello has some headaches, especially for Roma's midfield organization in this game, although Asunção has performed well in the first three games, but it is not a strong team, and the pressure in the midfield is not strong so that he can play more freely, but Inter Milan will definitely not give him such a chance.

This is one of Rome's biggest flaws!

If the midfield doesn't work, it will lead to a freeze!

"What I can think of, he must have thought of!" Capello sighed.

Sensi has invested a lot in the front line this season, Crespo and Cassano directly spent 100 million on them, but the midfield playmaker that Capello wants is far away, if there is a player like Emerson at this time, he can be much easier, and the back line is not without hidden worries, although the Brazilian Zago is only young, but the form has dropped a lot.

Roma's defence is impregnable at the moment, but that is based on the strength of Samuel and Zebina, as well as the excellent performance of midfielder Tomasi. ,

And I know that the opponents in the first three rounds of the league are not enough to bring great offensive pressure to Rome, and the test of this set of defense is far less than that of Inter Milan, so it has created the illusion that Rome is now unstoppable!

Attack? Or shou?

This is the big problem that bothers Capello the most!

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On November 2, Meazza Stadium, in the fourth round of Serie A, Inter Milan played Roma at home.

"Cafu, Brazilian full-back Ka spoke on the right side of the fast forward, he was very fast, Inter Milan's left wing-back Zambrotta quickly pasted up, the two started a confrontation on the wing..."

Wow! Referee Corina ran over and blew the whistle for a foul on Zambrotta!

Falling to the ground, Cafu was kindly pulled up by Zambrotta, and both of them looked at each other and smiled.

"Roma got an indirect free kick on the right side, which was also the most threatening scoring opportunity for the first time in the game, because from the beginning, Inter Milan, who were playing at home, did not play very actively, but organized the attack and defense very steadily, and Roma was also patiently looking for opportunities, and the two sides played very closely, and failed to create a chance!"

"I believe that this time, Roma will make good use of this special free kick opportunity in front!"

"Cafu drove the ball out, at the back post, oops, Roma didn't have anyone to pick it up at the back post, Buffon got the ball easily!"

"It's a shame that Roma's Zago stayed at the back, and neither Zebina nor Samuel stepped forward, which put Roma at a disadvantage in the box, Crespo focused on the front post, but Cafu penalized a post!"

Yang Cheng on the sidelines gave Buffon a thumbs up and praised the Italian goal, but when he turned around, he swept past Capello, who also walked out of the dugout with a grim face and stared at the field.

"How's that, Paul?" Yang Cheng took a few steps back.

Paul, Bayer turned the laptop so that Yang Cheng could see the data on it.

'It's the range of movement of Zago, Zebina and Samuel, who generally don't leave their defensive zone, including the indirect free-kick just now, obviously afraid of Ronaldo and Ruud van Nistelrooy in front of them, and Tomasi, who is also always in position!'

After Yang Cheng called a few more data, he shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Who dares to tell me again, Capello has played offensive football this season, and I will fight with him!" ”

Paul Baier smiled bitterly, they are indeed guessing that Capello may play more actively in this game, after all, Roma was in a state of strength before, so although Inter Milan is playing at home, it has started to seek stability, first stabilize the situation, who knows...

"His so-called offensive football is actually to use the advantage of the player's strength to give strong pressure in the midfield, which is your so-called midfield crushing tactics, and then force the opponent, and then use Crespo, a striker who can drill water out of the rock, to play a chisel battle, so the scene looks like an offensive football, but when it comes to strong uh..."

Yang Cheng ignored Paul Baier's words, he felt that he had fallen for Capello, and he was wrong!

When he came to the sidelines, he called Nesta directly, "Alessandro go 10 meters ahead!" Press it up! ”

"Boss, attack?" Nesta asked.

Yang Cheng nodded, "Attack, press it directly, attack his mother's""

It feels really uncomfortable to be deceived, although he guessed wrong, but Yang Cheng still blames Capello, and now he is desperate to get back a game!

Frankly speaking, Roma's players are still the same, but the tactics and mentality are very different.

Especially when Inter pressed up, Roma's players began to defend passively.

In the 13th minute, Nedved cut the ball horizontally on the left side of the penalty area, and suddenly hit the goal with his feet, the ball was like a cannonball, if it hadn't touched Zago and turned into a corner kick, it is estimated that this time Antonioli may not be able to hold it.

Baggio sent in a corner, which was the first post, but Lucio was blocked by Zebina and disrupted, wasting a corner opportunity.

But just three minutes later, Inter Milan went on the offensive again.

This time it was Zanetti's assault on the right, and after combining with Van Bommel, he went down to the bottom line and crossed, and Barty pressed Samuel's header in the box, but his Argentine compatriot was very clever and interfered well, so that Barty's header could not be sent and had to be deflected. ,

In the 18th minute, Inter Milan broke the ball in the middle, Emerson handed it to Van Bommel, and the Dutchman made a long pass and directly found his compatriot Vanney at the front of the penalty area.

The ball went over Zago's head and fell straight behind him, Ronaldo suddenly accelerated, directly through the defense of Zago and Zebina, and cut into the penalty area, but Antonioli reacted quickly this time, attacked in advance, saved Ronaldo's unstable ball, and tried to keep the Roma goal open!

After that, Inter Milan began to take turns to press Roma's attack, and the momentum of the home team was completely pulled up in the cheers of the fans at the scene, especially when Inter Milan frequently created opportunities, the fans on the scene were even more excited.

Capello frequently tweaked the situation on the pitch, but more often for Inter's attack.

Cafu and Blowra began to protect their wings more, defending Zambrotta and Zanetti who frequently took turns forward, while Tomasi and Zago, Zebina, Samuel and others controlled the middle and froze Inter's front trident.

Sure enough, as Capello expected, when Inter Milan pressed up, Assunção was tragically crushed by Inter Milan's midfielder, the Brazilian player who is known for his free kicks was restricted by Inter Milan's midfield and had no room to play, as for Tomasi, he was tired of defending and could not help him at all.

Later, Capello had no choice but to let Totti retreat to respond.

When Yang Cheng saw this situation, he immediately signaled to Baggio to play Roma's central defender Zago!

For a moment, Ronaldo and Ruud van Nistelrooy frequently attacked Zago's back from the support department, and Baggio, Nedved and Van Bommel were also active in passing the ball to the back of the Roma defence.

Samuel, the Argentine star who came to Rome as a left wing-back, was transformed into an excellent left centre-back by Fabio Capello, and when Inter Milan began to attack with pressure, Zago was ruthless, but he was very impressive.

If it weren't for his frequent filling and defense, Roma's goal would have been pierced by Inter Milan several times!

At this time, even if Capello signaled that the midfield should hold on, there was no way, because Inter Milan crushed it, and Roma didn't want to stop the Ruxiang attack, let alone push Inter Milan out of their half.

Yang Cheng, who will come back sooner or later, is very confident about this.

Lucio was given a high defensive task in this game, and Crespo was a player he had to watch out for.

Yang Cheng spoke very highly of Crespo, "Even if your defense is impregnable, Crespo can carve a channel on it, he can be said to be the most impactful striker in today's football, and he will not lose to Vieri!" ”

Therefore, Lucio began to guard Crespo carefully, especially when he saw that Inter Milan's attack was slow to open the situation, he couldn't help but be more careful, because he knew that the more times like this, the easier it was to be counterattacked by the opponent.

Sure enough, when Inter Milan attacked and reached the middle, Tomasi stuck in advance and cut off the ball passed to Baggio, and quickly handed it to Totti, who turned to get rid of Emerson who stepped forward to press, and did not hesitate to go straight behind Celucio.

At this time, Lucio was a little forward, because he wanted to prevent Totti from getting rid of Emerson, and he wanted to help defend and make up for it, so when Totti passed, Lucio immediately called bad and immediately turned to chase back.

Zanetti got around Crespo and whenever Lucio came forward, he took care to fill him, but Crespo quickly played the ball down the right and handed it to the forward left wing-back.

After the Frenchman received the ball, Zanetti saw Lucio return to defense, and immediately shook Crespo and went up to follow him, but the blow went directly to the bottom line and crossed!

Crespo rushed straight up and was about to score with a header at the near post!

But in the crucial moments, Nesta showed a mustache centre-back who was calm and wise, but more importantly brave, as he and Crespo were hedged at right angles, with neither side having the speed of the city, but the Italian jumped early and flicked his head to get the ball out.

But he was controlled by Crespo, who couldn't hold back, to fly out a few steps and fell heavily to the ground. ,

Lucio chested the ball and he saw Nesta fly, but he didn't hesitate too much because he knew it was a very good opportunity.

If he stops and doesn't attack, it's a waste of Nesta's desperate effort!

The ball came to Emerson's feet and the nearest Tomasi immediately wrapped around him.

"Here!" Lucio threw his hands up and rushed forward.

The ball soon came in front of him, and he saw the Brazilian accelerate to catch up, and after winning the ball, he took advantage of the situation and pushed hard, and then caught up.

Lucio, who rushed up, was like a heavy tank, invincible and directly broke through the Roman backline.

Capello immediately realized that something was wrong in this match, and immediately shouted loudly, "Behind Zago!" ”

At that moment, Samuel had to make a choice between retreating behind Zago or pressing forward to keep Lucio on his feet, as there was no one else near the backline.

He ended up choosing the latter, so when he shifted his center of gravity and heard Capello's cry, he immediately realized that he had committed an irreparable mistake.

Lucio got up and passed, half-high ball, Zago was constantly chasing back, but Ronaldo was much faster than him, lifted before him, got the ball and went to the right side, that is, Samuel's district city, directly past Zago, and then hit the goal from a small angle, it was easy!

“GOalllll”

"A very sharp counterattack from Inter Milan finally broke through the Roma goal!"

Capello's team defended very strongly, but Inter Milan used a sharp counterattack and skilful coordination to show everyone that no matter how impregnable the defense is, "it will collapse in front of Inter Milan!" ”

"It was a very quick counterattack, from Nesta's header clearing, to Lucio and Emerson's one-two, and then to Lucio's pass, the whole process only took more than ten seconds, and Inter Milan completely destroyed the entire back line of Roma!"

"Capello is slow to annoy, and he is hateful, because he is too conservative, too conservative!"

"The outside world has already given an answer that Roma's defense is not impregnable, and Zago is definitely one of the big hidden dangers, but Capello still chose to defend and counterattack, and now he has to pay the price for his choice!"

If Capello hears these comments, he will be so angry that he will vomit blood, because he is convinced that even if he changes to attacking tactics, this game may not be pleased, because Inter Milan obviously started with his aggressive attack.

At the end of the day, Roma's problem lies in two places, one is a central defender and the other is a playmaker midfielder!

The Inter Milan players cheered excitedly after Ronaldo's goal, but many people ran back as soon as possible and went directly to the penalty area of their own half.

After being knocked off by Crespo, Nesta fell to the ground, and at this moment the team doctor was rushing into the field to diagnose him.

Yang Cheng was anxious on the sidelines, because he was worried that if he injured a Nesta, even if he scored another old goal, he would not be able to count it, because the latter's performance this season is too good, he almost dominates the entire back line of Inter Milan, and he brings stability and soul to this back line!

He almost conquered everyone in Inter Milan and conquered all the players from the warm-up game, Yang Cheng even put his heart into him and gave him the position of the core of the defense, and this time he repaid Yang Cheng with his fearless and brave performance at a critical moment to ensure that the goal was not lost!

Yang Cheng would rather lose this game than lose Nesta!

Because he is an indispensable member of the current Inter Milan team, the soul of Inter Milan's defense! ）