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1Chapter 17: The determined Blue Eagle

Therefore, the Blue Eagles attach great importance to the two rounds of the two Coppa Italia semi-finals, and their ideas are very simple.I'm afraid that in case the league standings fails to qualify for the Europa League, it would be good to win a Coppa Italia and go to the European arena.

You must know that for Lazio, whose financial situation is not very good, it is a good idea to go to the Europa League every season. Although many teams look down on the Europa League, Lazio is not qualified to pick and choose Fourth, being able to play in the Europa League is also a good income for them.

Recently this year, seeing that almost all rivals in the same city can burn in the European war, their jealousy is also burning.So this season has come to this point, for this Coppa Italia they are really comparable.

Although the opponent in the semifinals is Juventus, Lazio must not be worried.Because they know that Juventus' goal this season is to defend the league title and then make a breakthrough in the Champions League.For the depth of the Juventus bench, which is not rich, they have no way to divide their forces to compete for the Coppa Italia.

So even though it was an away game, Lazio coach Peterkovic also sent out the entire attacking lineup.

The goalkeeper is the main player Marchetti, the defenders are Radu, Dias, Biala and Conco, the midfielders are Mauri, Ledesma and Hernanes, and the offensive line is Candreva , Lulic and old German center Klose.

This is almost exactly Lazio's attacking lineup.

As a guest, they didn't mean to be polite at all. They played offensively as soon as they came up, and they seemed to want to tell Juventus with firm determination: the tickets to the Coppa Italia final this season are ours, and you should concentrate on playing. League and Champions League.

Klose doesn't look like a player in his thirties at all, he is very active on the court.He kept bombing Juventus' backcourt with his high-altitude bombers frequently. Fortunately, Chiellini, Bonucci and Barzagli's prevention and control capabilities are also quite good, otherwise Juventus would be dangerous.

In the 7th minute, Lulici blazed the flames to the wing, and the Italian veteran De Qieli couldn't defend the opponent at all.Barzagli went over to the sideline to assist in the interception, but gave Lulic a chance.He decisively kicked up the high ball before Barzagli was in place, hanging Juventus' penalty area.Klose hit the ball with a high-altitude rush. Facing Bonucci's harassment, he successfully pushed the ball towards Juventus' goal.Fortunately, Buffon once again showed his top level of remediation, and he swooped sideways to hold the ball tightly in his arms.

After 3 minutes, Lazio made a comeback.Klose's active sidelines up front attracted Chiellini's attention, and he took the initiative to defend the experienced German.And Lulic also gave up the sideline and made an inside cut, and Barzagli didn't dare to be careless.But at this time, Hernanes passed the ball to Candreva, who has always been quiet.

Candreva received the ball in the middle of the front of the penalty area, and he did not go to Klose to cooperate.Instead, he raised his foot and shot angrily, and the ball roared straight to the Juventus penalty area.Bonucci looked at the strength of the ball, and felt guilty, if he was hit by the ball, he would not bleed and suffer internal injuries?He dodged subconsciously, but the ball flew into the small penalty area without hindrance.

Buffon was blocked by Bonucci, and when he saw Bonucci dodging sideways, he saw the ball whizzing towards him, and he had no time to make any moves.He looked up and saw the ball fly over his head and hit the crossbar.

All the fans in the audience were shocked and broke out in a cold sweat.

However, the crisis was not lifted because of this, the ball did not fly out of the baseline but flew into the small penalty area.Klose didn't know when he got to that position, he just found the ball's landing point, and then headed the goal again.Buffon also reacted, he jumped high and easily took off Klose's header.Although Klose's header was very threatening, the jumper just now was not very comfortable, and there was not much threat in a hurry, so Buffon easily dropped the ball.

Buffon didn't take the ball out immediately, because Li Zihan didn't start this game but sat on the bench, so he didn't think he could fight back quickly.

Buffon patted Klose on the shoulder in a friendly manner before shouting at his team-mates in front of him to pay attention.

The commentator is lamenting that this is completely a confrontation between two veteran players, Buffon and Klose.

In the end, the two sides went into the locker room with a zero-to-zero score at halftime. In the locker room, Peterkovic fully affirmed and praised the team's performance in the first half and encouraged them to make persistent efforts in the second half.In the Juventus locker room, Conte scolded the whole team bloody, expressing his dissatisfaction with the team's frequent defensive line, and what is even more dissatisfied is that there were no two decent games in the 45 minutes of the first half. counterattack.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. Lazio did not make substitutions, but Juventus Conte replaced De Qie Li with Lexi Steiner.It looked as though Conte was expressing his dissatisfaction with Lulic's frequent penetration of De Qieli's defensive area in the first half, but in fact it was Conte's attacking horn.

Sure enough, Lischsteiner, who is both offensive and defensive, brought Juventus's wing alive as soon as he came on the field.Several times and Isla launched an attack from the sideline, and the opponent's sideline was often aborted under the defense of Lisi Steiner.

But this is not a problem for Lazio, they are starting to look for opportunities in the middle if they can't do it on the sideline.Candreva and Lulic frequently went to the center to support and cover Klose, and the midfield formed by Ledesma and Hernanes was also extremely powerful.Without Vidal's support, Pogba suffered alone.Paduin and Marchisio are more capable of attacking, but they can't help much in defense. The 19-year-old Pogba has the opportunity to support Juventus' midfield defense tasks.

At No. 70 minutes of the game, Lazio finally found a chance.

Pardoin had a defensive error and he was easily dribbled past by Maury.Then Mauri distributed the ball to Ledesma beside him, and Ledesma volleyed vigorously without thinking.

Bonucci, who had made a mistake before, did not flinch this time. He took off and blocked Ledesma's long shot with his body, but he himself was knocked to the ground by the force.

Candreva followed up with the ball blocked by Bonucci and just made a follow-up shot. Without Bonucci's blocking, the ball flew into the small penalty area smoothly.

Buffon hastily struck out with both fists and kicked the ball out.At this time, Klose appeared at the bottom of the arc in the middle penalty area, and then completed a dive to the top facing the flying ball.Buffon failed to save the team this time, he was caught off guard by the sudden header, and when he stretched out his hand to block it, the ball had already passed him and flew into the net behind him.

Lazio took the lead 35-[-], and the commentator praised Klose's sword is not old.Even the commentator in the Naples area satirized Juventus for being beaten all over the ground by a [-]-year-old "old man".

However, Juventus' bad luck came because of this goal. Just 5 minutes after the goal, Chiellini was shoveled by Ledesma's tackle in the ankle in a fight in the backcourt.Rolling on the ground in pain, he didn't get up right away.Then the team doctor came on the field and made a substitution and a stretcher to the head coach Conte off the field, saying that Chiellini was seriously injured and would be carried off the field, and a substitution was needed to replace him.

Conte cursed, but not Lazio and Ledesma.Although the game between Lazio and Juventus was also full of gunpowder and action.However, none of them wanted to use "lethal tactics" in an unsportsmanlike way. They were more about expressing a determination and scaring each other.

And Conte could see clearly that Ledesma's tackle was completely running for the ball, and indeed he tackled the ball first.It's just that I couldn't hold back anymore and accidentally shoveled Chiellini down.So Chiellini is completely innocent.
Conte gritted his teeth and used up the last two substitutions.Cáceres replaced Chiellini who was injured and could not continue the game. Li Zihan replaced striker Giacherini and formed a "double fast" striker partner with Giovinco.

Then after the game restarted, Conte's substitutions achieved obvious success. Li Zihan and Giovinco are both speed forwards.The two of them often cooperated to make Lazio's backcourt uneasy, while Ledesma defended Li Zihan but couldn't guard Giovinco, allowing Giovinco to easily face the central defender and goalkeeper.And he defended Giovinco and let Li Zihan go. Hernanes can't help much defensively. His more ability is in the organization and scheduling of the midfield and forward offense.

Pekovic saw that the time was almost up, and immediately used all three substitutions.Mauritius and Hernanes were replaced, and two defensive players were replaced.The Czech high center Kozak, who is 1.9 meters tall, replaced the physically exhausted German veteran Klose.

One is to use this substitution to tell the team, give me full defense, we just end the game with a one-goal advantage, don't attack and don't let the opponent score.The second is to kill the little time in stoppage time.

However, as the saying goes, the more you are afraid of something, the more you will come.

Just after the replacement, Juventus took advantage of their lack of cooperation in the backcourt to complete a successful attack.In the last minute of stoppage time, Isla and Lischsteiner moved forward and became wingers.Giovinco took two of their defenders in the middle, leaving a small gap.

Pogba took a long shot in the middle of the front of the penalty area, and the ball flew into the small penalty area through the gap pulled by Giovinco.Marchetti made a successful save but couldn't, the ball was confiscated and he slipped.

Li Zihan suddenly started to rush into the penalty area, and then volleyed against the ball in the air.The ball crashes into the net amid Marchetti's desperate eyes