Super Coach

242 Soul of Defense

At the Triglia training base in Rome, Capello looked at the players on the field with his hands in front of him, and was going to the last training session in Milan.

This season's Serie A is very intense, but it does not include the two strongest teams in the past few years, Juventus and Milan. These two teams have encountered troubles since the beginning of the season.

Juventus had 2 wins and 1 draw in the first three rounds, and the draw was a 2:2 draw with Milan, which is a good result; but the record of the Rossoneri is worse, they only achieved a record of 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss , and even fell to the middle of the league, but teams like Atlanta, Inter Milan, and Roma are tied for the league table with consecutive victories.

Among them, Rome is in the best state this season! 2: o wins Bologna at home, 4: o wins Lecce at home, 3: o wins Vicenza at home, Roma almost played three unbelievable victories in the first three rounds of this season, especially when they first joined the team The trident composed of Cresfang, Delvecchio and Totti is known as the front trident that did not lose to Inter Milan.

In everyone's eyes, Roma has become the team with the most championship appearance by virtue of their outstanding performance in the first three rounds.

But is that really the case?

Capello has returned to the 3-back tactic this season. The addition of Samuel has greatly strengthened Roma's defense. The midfield has hoarded 5 players, which makes Roma always able to oppress and surround the opponent in the midfield. , and then complete the massacre and aggression against the other party.

This is a brand-new tactical concept derived by Capello based on Inter Milan's tactics last season and combined with his own understanding. It is also a way for him to make his defensive-first football creed more in line with the Romans' tradition of offensive football. .

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

He wants to use this result to tell everyone that his team can also play offensive football!

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

He has no idea, because he knows that Inter Milan has a more thorough understanding of this tactic, and even in many aspects, Inter Milan is better than Roma, especially their set of encirclement and frontcourt this season. In the flanking tactics, it is obvious that the tacit understanding and response of the players is better than last season.

Yang Cheng focused on the UEFA Champions League, and his performance in the league was not as good, but he was the best in the UEFA Champions League. From this, we can see the horror of this Inter Milan team!

But from the time he played a substitute against Leeds United,

It can be seen that he is keeping his strength in the game against Rome, and he will do his best in this game!

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

Capello stood on the sidelines and seemed to be watching the training, but he actually compared the pros and cons of Roma and Inter Milan in his mind.

In the end, he came to a conclusion that the offense was almost the same as the midfielder, and the defense was inferior.

They are all tridents. The combination of Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Baggio may not be much better than the combination of Kress, Delvecchio and Totti, especially when the Roman trident is in a normal state.

In terms of midfield, purely in terms of personnel, Roma does not have an advantage, but they have more numbers, with 5 midfielders, which directly leads to Roma being at a disadvantage in the defense.

Capello has some headaches, especially for Roma's midfield organization in this game. Although Assuncao performed well in the first three games, they are not a strong team, and the oppression in the midfield is not too strong. He can behave more freely, but Inter Milan will definitely not give him such an opportunity.

This is one of Rome's biggest flaws!

Once the midfield is not functioning properly, it will lead to a complete freeze!

What I can think of, he must also think of! Capello sighed.

This season, Sensi invested a lot on the striker line. Kress and Cassano directly hua'ed them 100 million, but the midfield organizer that Capello wanted was nowhere in sight. If there is an Emerson like this at this time If he is a good player, he can be much more relaxed and the defense is not without hidden worries. Although the Brazilian Zago is only 20 years old, his state has declined a lot.

Roma's current defense can be described as an impregnable wall, but it is based on the strength of Samuel and Zebina, as well as the outstanding performance of midfielder Tomasi.

And I know very well that the opponents in the first three rounds of the league are not enough to bring great offensive pressure to Roma, and the test of this set of defenses is far less than that of Inter Milan, which has created the illusion that Roma is unstoppable today!

attack? Still keep?

This is a big problem that bothers Capello the most!

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

Cafu, the Brazilian winger Kafu is on the right. His speed is very fast. Inter Milan's left back Zambrotta posted it. The two started a confrontation on the wing...

Wow! The referee Corina ran over and blew the whistle for a foul by Gianluca Gianluca!

He fell to the ground until Cafu was pulled up friendly by Gianluca Gianluca, 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 did not play very actively at home, but was very stable. Offensive and defensive, and Roma is also patiently looking for opportunities, the two sides played very stalemate, and failed to create any chances!

I believe that this time, Roma will definitely make good use of this special opportunity of free kicks in the frontcourt!

Cafu kicked the ball out, point back, oops, there is no one in Rome to respond to the point behind, Buffon got the ball easily!

It's a pity that Roma's Zago stayed at the back, Zebina and Samuel didn't come forward either, which puts Roma at a disadvantage in the penalty area, Kress focuses on the front point, but Cafu But he was fined a little later!

Yang Cheng on the sidelines gave Buffon a thumbs up and praised the Italian national team, but when he turned his head, he glanced at Capello, who also walked out of the coaching bench with a serious face and stared at the field.

How is it, Paul? Yang Cheng walked back a few steps.

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

This is the running range of Zago, Zebina and Samuel. They generally don't leave their defensive area, including the indirect free kick just now. They are obviously afraid of Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Thomas in front. Xi, he has been in position too!

After recalling a few more data, Yang Cheng shook his head and smiled wryly, Whoever dares to tell me again that Capello played offensive football this season, I md will fight him!

Paul Baier smiled wryly. They were indeed guessing that Capello might play more aggressively in this game. After all, Roma was in a difficult situation before. Therefore, although Inter Milan played at home, they started to seek stability. First stabilize the situation, who knows? …

His so-called offensive football is actually taking advantage of the strength of the players to give strong pressure in the midfield, which is your so-called midfield crushing tactic, and then pin the opponent down, and then use Kress who can The forwards drilled out of the rocks to play gouging battles, so on the surface, it looked like aggressive football, but when they encountered strong players...

Yang Cheng ignored Paul Bayer's words, he felt that he had been fooled by Capello, and he was wrong!

When he came to the sidelines, he directly called Nesta over, Alessandro, step forward! Press up!

Boss, attack? Nesta asked after hearing this.

Yang Cheng nodded, Gong, just press it up, attack his mother

It feels really uncomfortable to be deceived. Although he guessed wrong, Yang Cheng still blamed Capello on it. Now he is eager to win the round!

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

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

In the 13th minute, Nedved dribbled the ball across the left side of the penalty area and suddenly hit the mén with his foot. The ball was like a cannonball. If it hadn't been for Zago and turned into a corner kick, Antonioli might not have defended it this time. Can live.

Baggio took a corner kick and the penalty was the forward point, but Lucio was blocked by Zebina ahead of time and destroyed it, wasting a corner kick in vain.

But after only 3 minutes, Inter Milan's offensive came again.

This time it was Zanetti's assault on the right. After cooperating with Van Bommel, he went down to the bottom line and made a cross. Barty beat Samuel's header in the penalty area, but his Argentine compatriot was very clever. , The interference was also well done, making Batty's header effortless and deflected.

In the 18th minute, Inter Milan intercepted the ball in the middle. Emerson sent a long pass to Van Bommel. The Dutchman directly found his compatriot Ruud van Nistelrooy at the front of the penalty area. .

The ball went over Zago's head and fell straight behind him. Ronaldo suddenly stepped up, passed directly through the defense of Zago and Zebina, and cut into the penalty area, but Antonioli reacted quickly this time, and attacked ahead of time. Ronaldo caught the ball before it came to a steady stop, and Paul's polo was not lost!

After that, Inter Milan began to attack Roma in turn, and the momentum of the home team was completely boosted by the booing of the players on the scene, especially when Inter Milan frequently created opportunities, the players on the scene were even more excited.

Capello frequently adjusts the situation on the field, but more is aimed at Inter Milan's offense.

The two wide players, Cafu and Chudera, began to protect their wings more, defending Zambrotta and Zanetti who frequently took turns, while Tomasi, Zago, Zebina, Sa Muel and others controlled the middle, freezing Inter Milan's front trident.

Sure enough, as Capello expected, when Inter Milan came up to play, Assuncao was tragically crushed by Inter Milan's midfielder. This Brazilian player, who is good at free kicks, was restricted by Inter Milan's midfielder. There is no room to play. As for Tomasi, he is tired of defending and there is no help for him at all.

To no avail, Capello can only let Totti back to respond.

Seeing this situation, Yang Cheng immediately signaled Baggio to hit Roma's central defender Zago!

For a while, Ronaldo and Ruud van Nistelrooy frequently rushed behind Zago from the assistants, and Baggio, Nedved and Van Bommel also actively passed the ball to the back of the Roma defense.

It must be mentioned that Samuel, an Argentine star born as a left back, was transformed into an excellent left center back by Capello after he came to Rome. Ge behaved very embarrassingly, but he behaved very eye-catchingly.

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

At this time, even if Capello signaled that the midfielder should hold back, there is nothing to do, because Inter Milan is crushing, and Roma can't even think about stopping the offensive like Xiang, let alone pushing Inter Milan out. Their half time is over.

Yang Cheng, who scored the goal sooner or later, is very confident about it.

Lucio suffered a very high defensive task in this game, and Kress is the player he should be careful about.

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