Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 62 The First Battle with Genoa

On June 6, Rimini ushered in Genoa who came from afar at home. Genoa is in the northwest of the Italian peninsula and Rimini can be regarded as the middle, it is indeed a long way.

Naturally, there will be enthusiastic fans at the scene. Docelia is wearing the red and white Rimini jersey like other fans, and Mai Xuewen protects her like a bodyguard. People eat tofu, but there are so many fans around, it is inevitable to be eaten tofu.

Docelia was very excited, but worried. Many fans had the same mentality as her. There were reasons why the media did not look favorably on Rimini. One of the reasons was that Rimini itself was not as good as Genoa. Rimini has never played any play-offs before, and they are far away from the play-offs. Genoa is a veteran team. In the 04-05 Serie B season, they were originally Serie B champions. Identity will return to Serie A.However, after investigation by the Italian Football Association, they played match-fixing in the last round and finally sent them to the third division. However, the background of the old strong team was reflected at this moment. B. In the 05-06 season, they won the third place in the league. If they hadn't lost the chain at a critical moment, they would have completed a double jump and went directly to Serie A. How could they compete with Rimini for the last place now?The third reason is that Rimini is too civilian. There is no star in the team. Zhang Yuan is definitely not a star. Now his name is at most a child genius, but Genoa has several famous stars. At the critical moment A flash of inspiration from a star may affect the trend of the game.

Docelia pushed Mai Xuewen with her hand and asked, "How is Zhang Yuan?"

"How about what?" Mai Xuewen asked back.

"I mean how is the state, like how is the mental state?"

"Oh, he has always been fine! Nothing special like before!"

"Do you think he will score in this game?"

Mai Xuewen shrugged, pointed to the sky and said, "Then you should ask God, I don't know!"

"Hey, I just asked you, not God!" Docelia stretched out her hand and twisted Mai Xuewen's arm, foreign women would act like a baby.

"Oh, I, I said, of course I will score!" Mai Xuewen tried his best to free his arm from Docelia's clutches, woman, really, did I say that if I can enter, I can enter, then I don't want to change my career to become a fortune teller.

Docelia is satisfied now, this is the answer she was looking forward to, the answer she wanted!Many fans regard Zhang Yuan as Rimini's hope for advancement, the key!

No wonder they think so. Zhang Yuan has scored 13 goals for Rimini in the second half of the season, and also contributed a few assists. Zhang Yuan always stood up at critical moments, whether it was goals or assists, Although Zhang Yuan also lost and drew in Rimini, overall his winning percentage in Rimini is quite high. In the first round of the play-offs, Zhang Yuan scored both home and away games, so the fans I will regard Zhang Yuan as the key player. As long as Zhang Yuan can score, Rimini will have hope.

So many fans at the scene held up the "Lightning Boy" sign and sang the song compiled for Zhang Yuan.

Although it is Serie B, after playing for half a season, Zhang Yuan will no longer make a fool of himself in away games like before. Just like Ricciuti taught him, he turns a deaf ear to everything. Even the shouts of the home team fans are for him Scream, he also learns to listen but not hear.If he can't do it, he will chat with his teammates around him. For example, today he can't do it at all, because this is the first round, he thinks it is very important, so he chooses to chat with Jada next to him in the player channel .

After the ceremony ended and the game officially started, Akori was completely dumbfounded, because Genoa did not use the usual 343, but 352, more precisely, 3511, the striker is Diwayo, and the approximate midfielder is Adalton , five midfielders, two full-backs, three central midfielders in the middle, and three defenders behind.

Gasperini is not a fool, on the contrary, he is a very capable coach. It is impossible to know where Genoa's disadvantages are. There are some loopholes in Genoa's central defense. The reason is that the defensive ability of Genoa's central players is not strong. On the contrary Their organizational skills are not bad, what should I do?Defensive players can be added to fight, but Gasperini really has no ideal candidates, so he chose a path that he believes kills two birds with one stone, adding an organizational midfielder and reducing a striker. It is the center that forms a local advantage. Strengthening ball control can reduce the pressure on defense. The second is to increase the organizational midfielder, which can further strengthen the penetration of the center and set Genoa's main attack direction as the center.

So he arranged it like that, and in fact his arrangement caused problems for Arcori and Rimini, big problems.

Rimini's central defense mainly relies on two midfielders, but it is very difficult for the two midfielders to face three central midfielders and Adalton who retreats from time to time. It should be said to be very difficult, just like the warm-up. Slips around, is hard to steal the ball from the opponent, and is easy to penetrate.Once Ricciutti and Moscaldeli on both sides move to the middle, the opponent will hit the ball to the side, turning the attack from the center into a side attack. Adelton is still a key figure. He is slow, But the pass is very good, he can also protect the ball, and it plays a big role when Genoa switches sides. Rimini didn't mark him specifically, which was a mistake.

In the 10th minute of the game, Genoa scored a goal. Genoa midfielder Julic and his teammates cooperated and dribbled the ball towards the Rimini penalty area. Borgia pulled him down behind him. The referee awarded a free kick. The ball was far from the goal There are about 30 meters, which is considered a long way, but Genoa's left midfielder Leon, a Honduran player, took a free kick quickly and trickily, directly over the wall and into the upper right corner of the goal, Handanovic failed to pounce this ball.

Genoa took the lead in the away game. The fans couldn't believe it. Such a free kick was scored because they underestimated Genoa's offensive methods. Genoa's free kick is very good. Ang is a master among them, and in Serie B, they also staged this kind of free kick direct goal.

Akori also ignored this before the game, but even if he paid attention to it, it was useless. Bolkiah's foul was necessary. The three of Wayo faced Rimini's two central defenders, and he had to make an early move, but he didn't expect Leon to be able to advance so far.

Watching the Genoa players celebrate wildly, Zhang Yuan was very depressed. It can be said that he did not work hard. He ran very actively, but Genoa was in control of the midfield, and the support from his own midfielder was almost zero. Richito just sticks to him naked, and follows him no matter where he goes, at least drive Zhang Yuan to the center circle, and prevent Zhang Yuan from receiving the ball. In fact, the number of touches by Zhang Yuan in the first 10 minutes is embarrassing zero.

Akeli felt that if he did not make any adjustments, he would really have to wait to die. How to adjust?He really couldn't find a better way, so he changed it to 352?This is not a good idea for him. Once Rimini changed to 352, Genoa is likely to adjust it to 343 again. The center of attack will be adjusted to the side. Hit both sides of Rimini. The opponent also has good players on the side. Move the ball. Going to the wing and playing three central defenders in the gap on the wing also made Rimini uncomfortable.

Akori thought over and over again and decided to take another approach, which is to recycle the formation, and the midfielder and the defense line are closer together, so that the defensive area is at the front of the penalty area, relying on the defense and midfielder to contain Genoa's midfield penetration, although Doing so may be mobbed, but Akori has no better choice now, at least he didn't think of it.

In this way, Zhang Yuan and Jeda in the frontcourt will definitely be more alone, but Akori can only pin his hopes on Zhang Yuan now.

After adjustments, the situation in Rimini seems to be much better, mainly because with the shrinking of the defensive area, Genoa's pass and cut coordination in the middle has been greatly restricted, but they are not in a hurry, they are leading, so Gaspe Lini's countermeasure is to try to control the ball at his feet from the outside to the feet. Zhang Yuan also returns to his own half to participate in the defense, but his defense is really bad. That is not his strong point. Talk is better than nothing for Meany.

Then the whole first half passed without any haste, the score was 0:1, and Genoa took the lead in the away game.

After a depressing first half, Akori did not find any good solution, but it is not an option to keep defending for a long time. What should he do in the second half?How is this possible, my side is backward, if I don't attack, I will die in the end.

At the beginning of the second half, Akori made tactical adjustments. Not attacking himself is the way of thinking. There is only offense, but not strong attack. If Genoa catches another defensive loophole and scores another goal, Rimini will really be over.Therefore, the two defensive midfielders still do not go forward, but the two full-backs Ricciutti and Moscaldelli have to go up. The team should use more long passes, so as to avoid short passes from being caught by Genoa. Encircle and suppress, attack Genoa's backcourt defense space.

He arranged it like this, but Genoa also made adjustments in the second half, completely adjusting the attacking formation to a defensive formation. The advantage of the 352 formation is that you want to attack, and the two sides of the midfield can move forward. Defense, the two sides can be used as full-backs. Gasperini is not a stunned young man, and the knockout game is not a league. He can attack unscrupulously. To make adjustments, for Genoa, the advantage of one goal is very big. As long as the advantage of one goal is kept in the away game, it is a very good ending. Even if the advantage of home and away goals is not considered in the play-offs, Gasperini is confident. Genoa made it impossible for Rimini to score two goals at home.

In this way, Akori's arrangement has no effect. Even if it is to be effective, it can only depend on the on-the-spot performance of the players on the field. It is a pity that Rimini's players did not have any shining performance on the field.

Akori wanted to advance the formation, but he was afraid of Genoa's counterattack, so he kept hesitating. As a result, in the last 10 minutes, he replaced Baruso and Cristiano, intending to give the frontcourt some support in the midfield. Support, but it was too late, Rimini still failed to find any absolute opportunities.

The score at the end of the game was 0:1. Genoa won the away game. The Rimini players worked hard. Although they created some opportunities, they were not absolutely good opportunities. In the end, they failed to prevent Genoa from playing at home. Take away a win.

Such a result naturally made Ducelia and the fans very sad, but they still treated the Rimini players who were leaving the field with applause and cheers. The players did their best.

(End of this chapter)