There are still four league rounds before the game against CSKA Moscow.
According to the habitual strategy of winning, we must try our best in these four league games.
The purpose is to put pressure on second place Inter Milan.
The more ferocious Lazio performs, the greater the pressure on second-placed Inter Milan.
Because they will find that they cannot catch up with Lazio, and a hopeless war will sap their fighting spirit.
They will think that no matter how hard we try, we can't win...
What’s the point of such competition?
The goal of winning often is to make Inter Milan have this idea.
Once the Champions League quarter-finals begin, he has little time to tangle with his opponents in the league.
A large enough advantage must be established before then.
Or psychologically crush Inter Milan before then!
If we can lead by ten or twelve points, there will still be six rounds left before the end of the league, and it can basically be said that Lazio's championship is a foregone conclusion.
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In the twenty-ninth round, Lazio defeated Cagliari 2:0 away from home.
Inter Milan beat Palermo 1:0 away from home.
The two sides are still only eight points apart.
In the 30th round, Inter Milan defeated Livorno 3:0 at home.
Lazio defeated Siena 2-0 at home.
Only eight points remain.
In the thirty-first round, Lazio challenged AC Milan away from home.
Inter Milan will go to an away game to challenge Roma.
This was a war between the two cities of Milan and Rome.
The final result was that Lazio defeated AC Milan 1:0 in the away game.
Inter Milan defeated Roma 2:1 away from home.
But for Lazio, the price paid for this victory was a bit high.
Francisco Pavon was injured again during the game and may have to miss a month this time.
In addition, Belletti, who had just recovered from a two-month thigh muscle strain, started the game and only played for 13 minutes before he was replaced due to the recurrence of his old injury.
When the league enters the later stages, such a situation is always inevitable.
But this time, I am much more prepared for victory.
He won't be too worried because of the injuries of these two people.
Francisco Pavin has been injured many times this season, although each injury lasted only a short time, ranging from a week to a month and a half.
So this season his position gradually changed from the main player to the rotation.
What replaced him was the increasingly mature Chiellini.
Chiellini's current partnership with Jose Passarella at centre-back has been outstanding this season.
So far, Lazio has only conceded 11 goals in the league!
The number of goals conceded is the highest in Europe.
Jose Passarella, as the world's number one central defender, naturally contributed a lot to this.
But Chiellini's good performance is also one of the reasons.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to do it with the strength of one person alone.
Of course, it also has something to do with the team's tactics and the team's emphasis on defense.
Belletti has had very few playing opportunities this season because he is always injured.
This season, under the premise that he frequently used rotation tactics in winning games, Belletti only played in twelve games.
The main right back who provided strong assists last season has completely disappeared.
Chang Sheng knows that according to the original trajectory of history, Belletti's injury wave is coming.
His body has been completely destroyed. From the beginning of this season until his retirement, he has not enjoyed happy football for a day.
Comeback, injury, comeback, injury again, this is Belletti's entire life in the next few years.
Finally, he reluctantly announced his retirement in June 2011, when he was thirty-five years old.
He reserved his two most physically healthy seasons for himself.
The injury suffered in the game against Manchester United last season had a great impact on him.
On the second day of the match against AC Milan, Belletti made the winning call.
During the phone call, Belletti revealed his hope of returning to Brazil next season.
"The competition in European football is too fierce, boss. I want to go back to Brazil."
Chang Sheng knows that in that time and space, Belletti terminated his contract with Chelsea in July this year, then returned to Brazil and joined Fluminense.
But he wondered if he could change this person's fate?
Anyway, I changed his honor list...
Anyway, he lacked a video analyst, and he wanted Belletti to give it a try.
"Giuliano, do you want to stay and be a member of my coaching staff?"
Chang Sheng asked.
Belletti over there seemed to be thinking about it, but remained silent anyway.
Chang Sheng didn't rush him, just waited for his reply.
After about a minute or two, Belletti's voice rang on the other end of the phone.
"Thank you for your kindness, boss, but I would rather go back to Brazil."
After hearing his words, Chang Sheng was silent for a while. Judging from this tone, Belletti might still hope to return to Brazil and play football for two more years.
But actually...
Within a year of returning to Brazil, he suffered multiple injuries and only played nine games for Fluminense, starting three of them.
He was eventually terminated by the club in June, and he subsequently announced his retirement.
In other words, Belletti's fate cannot be changed even if he returns to Brazil.
On the contrary, if you stay with yourself, you can still be a member of a championship coaching staff.
But Belletti seemed to stick to his guns.
And it was impossible for him to tell the truth to Belletti.
How could I possibly tell him: "Don't go back, you will definitely get injured anyway...and then you will announce your retirement due to frequent injuries...so why are you bothering?"
I'm afraid that if it turns out to be true in the end, Beretti will think that Chang Sheng is cursing him.
It is even more impossible for him to tell Belletti that because he is a time traveler, he knows what will happen in the future...
So Chang Sheng finally sighed and agreed to Belletti's application to terminate the contract.
At the end of this season, Lazio Club will terminate Belletti's contract without compensation from either party.
Lazio club let Belletti leave the team, and Belletti will return to China to continue his career.
Last season, Chang Sheng did not let anyone go. This season has not even ended yet, and they have already decided who will leave.
With another sudden move, Chang Sheng discovered this time that Belletti was now thirty-four years old...
At this age, career has indeed come to an end.
To be honest, most of the players on Chang Sheng's team are very young, so Chang Sheng has not realized at all that there are actually players on his team who have reached the end of their careers.
Belletti's departure slightly touched his feelings of separation.
However, this did not affect the previous pace of Changsheng.
Life is like sitting on a train bound for an unknown distance.
There will be many stations along the way. When entering these stations, the bus will stop, and then people will get on the bus, and naturally, people will get off.
Different people will accompany you on every journey. Some people can only accompany you for one stop, some can accompany you for a few more stops, and only a handful of people will accompany you to the end of this long journey.
This is certainly sad.
But if you always miss those companions who have got off the bus and are unwilling to go forward, how can you possibly meet more new friends and enrich your journey?
Moreover, the car will not stop. Even if you get off the car midway, the car will not stop, it will only continue to drive forward.
If you're in a car, you have to accept this.
You may not remember the faces, voices and names of the first people who got on the bus, because you are always accepting new friends and seeing new scenery.
When you were in elementary school, you definitely didn’t know how exciting junior high school life was. When you graduated from college and got drunk with your college classmates and cried while hugging each other, you probably wouldn’t know that you knew each other in society.
Friends will also touch your heartstrings.
People always have to look forward.
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Looking forward, Lazio defeated Napoli 3:1 at home in the 32nd round of the league.
They also fielded their strongest lineup in this game.
Although Lazio does not have any main substitutes, the lineup still has to be divided into strengths and weaknesses.
The strongest lineup faces Napoli at home.
Lazio finally won their 25th consecutive victory of the season!
Of course, Inter Milan is also very strong.
They also defeated Bologna 3:0 at home.
As a result, until the start of the Champions League quarter-finals, Lazio was not able to widen the points gap as expected.
In the end, the two sides were still eight points behind.
If you can't widen the gap, there's nothing you can do about winning.
But you always have to look forward.
The quarter-finals of the Champions League are coming, and it would be too short-sighted to still worry about how the league is going.
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Due to physical considerations, this time the winning team did not take the entire team to Moscow.
It's too far there after all.
Traveling long distances is tiring.
So Chang Sheng knew that eighteen people were going to Moscow.
And most of the players on the strongest lineup didn't go.
Even if something goes wrong in the away game, Lazio can still make it back at home.
CSKA Moscow's home stadium is the Luzhniki Stadium, and this stadium is no stranger to winning games.
Lazio is no stranger either.
Because the first Champions League title in Lazio's history was won here.
However, this time the Luzhniki Stadium still felt a bit strange to them.
The game was not very comfortable to play.
Because this time the Luzhniki Stadium uses artificial turf.
The Luzhniki Stadium is originally an artificial turf stadium. Due to Russia's special climate, the cost of using artificial turf is lower.
The last time it was the Champions League final, UEFA required the use of natural turf, so the Luzhniki Stadium temporarily installed artificial turf, but the quality was very poor, and Lazio almost suffered a loss.
Fortunately, Chang Sheng was well prepared, otherwise it would be unfair if he lost the championship because of the turf...
The biggest difference between artificial turf and natural turf is that it is harder and has greater frictional damping. When running on it, it will cause greater damage to the knees because the reaction force fed back to the knees is greater.
The speed and trajectory of a football rolling on artificial turf and natural turf are also different.
Players who are used to playing on natural turf are not used to playing on artificial turf.
Although there was training to adapt to the venue before the game, it was still not that easy to adapt. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
