Greenery on the back

Chapter 450 Dissent in the locker room
I saw that in the siege of the Inter Milan generals, Gretzka did not pass the ball to his teammates who came forward to help.

This is not because of his unique style of play, but because Inter Milan's defense is perfect, blocking all of Gretzka's passing routes and not giving him any chance to pass the ball at all.

Gretzka had to choose to break through with the ball.

But after he narrowly passed one of them, Sammy immediately broke the ball.

After Sami got the ball, he immediately distributed the ball to the opponent's right.

He knew that Yue Feng on the left was difficult to deal with, so he no longer wanted to play Empoli's side.

Uchida Maren on the right is not the opponent of Inter Milan's left midfielder. After the opponent directly shakes him away, he passes the ball to Mukoko.

As soon as the ball reached Mukoko, Harland on the other side began to move, tearing up Empoli's defense.

With the lesson learned from last time, Yue Feng quickly ran to You Lei's side this time, and defended Harland together with him.

The Norwegian high center didn't take the two Empoli defenders seriously. He relied on his body and speed to continue looking for open spaces in the opponent's penalty area.

No. 2 Yulei was quickly pushed aside by the 194cm Harland, but No. 11 Yue Feng still followed his opponent like a shadow.

Mukoko saw someone blocking his teammate, so he had to change his tactics and directly dribbled the ball into the penalty area.

Mukoko is a player whose appearance is very different from his reality. He looks close to retirement, but his actual age is only 26 years old.

He has a strong body but is a skilled player, and he is less than 180cm tall, but his header skills are quite superb.

If this guy hadn't become famous too early and was well known by Empoli players, Luca and Simon would definitely think that Mukoko was an easy person to deal with.

Seeing the opponent coming, Simon first stepped forward to entangle, while Luca took the opportunity to intercept from the side.

But Mukoko's feet are extremely flexible and fast. He only swipe and push the ball, and then passed between the two Empoli defenders, directly blasting the opponent.

Immediately, he pushed from a small angle and easily scored the ball into Empoli's goal.

2-0!

Empoli goalkeeper Alberto has never seen such a quick pass and shot, and he stood in place with dementia.

Ranocchia held his head in his hands helplessly. This was not a problem with the players, it was because the opponent was too strong.

The agile goalkeeper Rezger, the passable and shootable Mukoko, the powerful high center forward Harland...

Coupled with the defensive giants Sami and Pirola, how does this make Luca, a Serie B player, play?
Looking at Mukoko who was celebrating his goal wildly with his teammates, Ranocchia had only one feeling in his heart:
despair!

Two goals behind, Empoli's midfielder Goretzka couldn't hold back, and he stormed the opponent's backcourt again after kick-off.

But Empoli's midfield configuration obviously couldn't move Gretzka, and they played several consecutive waves without success.

Inter Milan's tactics are obvious. They fight Gretzka heavily in the midfield, completely limiting his performance.

While others pass the ball to Harland or Mukoko as much as possible, and let the two go to attack the city.

This style of play left Empoli with nothing to do.

Their 532 formation has a small number of midfielders, and the backcourt players are still afraid of Inter Milan's double forwards, and they dare not step forward to support easily, and Inter Milan gradually seizes the weakness and fights fiercely.

As the ball passed by Gretzka to the frontcourt was intercepted, Inter Milan counterattacked again.

The ball was passed directly to Mukoko, who abused Luca and Simon again and passed the ball to Empoli.

At this time, Harland and Agome rushed forward at the same time.

Seeing his teammates Youlei and Thomas standing beside Harland, Yue Feng had no choice but to defend Agome nearby.

But Harland is not something that those two can guard against.

After the Norwegian big man made a forced breakthrough, he followed up with a non-stop kick and hit the goal directly, breaking through the ten fingers of Empoli goalkeeper Ah Berto again.

3-0!

The first half is not over yet, Inter Milan has established a three-goal lead and a stable win situation.

After finally reaching the intermission, and returning to the locker room, most of Empoli's players drooped their heads, not knowing what to do next.

Just when the head coach Ranocchia was thinking about the tactical arrangements for the second half, Gretzka first stood up.

"The effect of our five-back defense is not very good. I suggest that we change back to 352 in a while. We must strengthen our offense. Only by attacking desperately can we recover the score."

Without waiting for Ranocchia to say anything, captain Luca first retorted: "Our five defenders may not be able to defend Harland and Mukoko. If we change back to 352, then I am afraid that we will not be able to stop these two defenders." people."

"Luka, there are only three players in the midfield. It is difficult for me to organize an attack." Gretzka was right. In the first half, he was stared at by the opponent and could not get close to the Inter Milan penalty area.

"We are going to play dense defense. Your position should be a defensive central midfielder, not an attacking midfielder." Luka said here, with the meaning of blaming the opponent in his words.

In fact, part of the reason for the three goals conceded in the first half was that Gretzka was too involved in offense and ignored the defense of the midfield.

"Nonsense, how do you get back the score if you don't attack?" Gretzka was also a little annoyed.

In his opinion, they are so much behind their opponents, if they don't attack, it will be a dead end.

"Gretzka is right. We have no other way. We have to attack hard in the second half. If we can get a goal back, it is a goal, otherwise we will definitely lose." Mateucci was uncharacteristically this time and did not stand with Luca.

The team did not play well defensively in the first half, and the bearded man also wanted to rely on Gretzka to play a few decent offenses to try.

But several backcourt players disagreed, thinking that Inter Milan's defense is also quite strong, if they attack rashly, it will be 0-4.

Faced with strong external pressure, two opinions began to emerge within the Empoli team, the offensive faction and the defensive faction were at a stalemate.

As the head coach, Ranocchia heard that both sides had some truths, and he couldn't make up his mind for a while.

"Ahem," he saw that Yue Feng had been silent, so he cleared his throat and asked, "Yue, what do you think?"

Yue Feng listened to the argument between the two parties just now, and disagreed with Gretzka's idea very much.

Captain Luka was right. The team had formulated a defensive counterattack strategy before the game, but Gretzka's desire to attack was too strong, and he didn't even think about defending.

And the chance to score a goal almost at the beginning of the game also made several people in the frontcourt mistakenly believe that they have the ability to play against Inter Milan, which is why they deviated from the predetermined tactics.

After pondering for a while, Yue Feng looked at the crowd and said: "I don't object to the team attacking aggressively when they are behind. This is indeed a way to win the game. But I think it will be a dead end to do so against Inter Milan."

(End of this chapter)