When Lazio scores a goal, it means that the game has entered the "Lazio rhythm". This term is now very famous and popular.
Lazio's opponent, Mazembe's head coach Ndiaye, must have heard of it and knows what it means.
The leading Lazio will be able to deal with it calmly. They can use their strong possession to firmly control the football at their feet and then drag it until the end of the game.
If Mazembe's players want to steal the ball, they have to press forward. If they press forward, there will be space behind them.
Lazio can immediately launch a sharp and quick counterattack.
No matter what you do, the team that falls behind will be doomed.
Therefore, "Lazio rhythm" is also called "the rhythm of death", which means that any team that allows Lazio to enter this rhythm will basically die in the end.
With Mazembe's strength, don't think they can defy the odds.
It would have been great if we could manage to stay even before.
What supports them is the fact that they haven't conceded a goal yet. This is the source of their strength. As long as it's still a draw, they still have hope and can wait until the penalty shootout.
But once Lazio takes the lead, there is nothing Mazembe can do.
The tactics they arranged before the game were all about defense, and Mazembe's head coach Ndiaye put a lot of effort into this.
You know, defense requires discipline, and the discipline of African players is not very good, so it is difficult for them to concentrate on defense desperately.
Ndiaye did it.
It shows how much effort he put into it.
But it is precisely because his pre-game tactical arrangements were all about defense, and he even sacrificed offense for the sake of defense.
He didn't even plan how to attack in this game.
The team's focus is on how to defend.
It's not that he didn't think about what would happen if Lazio scored first.
It's that he is not qualified to consider this issue.
If Lazio scores first, the game will be over.
There is nothing left to chance.
That's what he had in mind.
He bet everything on his team's ability to hold out for 120 minutes without conceding a goal.
He knew it was difficult, but he had no choice but to do it.
This is the only possible way to beat Lazio.
But now it seems that he failed.
His team still conceded the goal.
In fact, he was surprised that his team didn't concede a goal in the first half.
Especially when Lazio scored three consecutive goals, he really thought God was on their side.
But in the second half, we finally returned to reality, the cruel and cold reality.
When the Lazio players celebrated the goal, Ndiaye lowered his head on the sidelines.
His body seemed to have lost its strength and became limp.
Although this result is predictable and reasonable, how could his team defeat the powerful Lazio?
But when this reality really appeared, he found that he could not look away from it all, but was still very unwilling to do so.
I have put in so much effort, my players and I have blocked everything, so that we can honestly accept this result without any other thoughts... How is that possible?
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"Lazio finally scored! Their goal should have come long ago! But it didn't come until the 60th minute! This is because Mazembe was very tenacious today! They held on for 60 minutes.
Just lost the ball...it's amazing!"
"This result is predictable for us. Lazio is strong and they should take the lead, but we still have to applaud Mazembe. Their tenacious performance today showed us how embarrassed Lazio is..."
The commentators also fully affirmed Mazembe's performance.
But Ndiaye would not be happy if he could hear it.
Because as the head coach, his only purpose in leading the team is to win.
If you can't win and perform well, there's nothing to be happy about.
He and the team have put in so much effort not just to be praised by these onlookers. At this time, praise and sympathy are equally hypocritical and frivolous.
He just wants to win. All his efforts are for victory. If he can't win, it's meaningless.
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Lazio's lead not only made Ndiaye lower his head, but also caused Mazembe to collapse.
Although they were only one goal behind, this was the most dangerous situation.
Because being only one goal behind will make Mazembe's players feel that if they attack, they can equalize the score, and then the game will be back on the same starting line.
So they will attack hard to score goals.
In this way, they will definitely not care about what is behind them.
As a result, the defense line pressed forward as a whole, leaving a lot of space behind them.
These are things Lazio likes.
When Guardiola's Barcelona "Dream Team" was in trouble because of their opponents' high pressing defense and iron barrel formation, Lazio very much welcomed their opponents to press up and defend because they have speed. They can counterattack, so
Lazio is not afraid of the seemingly aggressive frontcourt press.
This is why Chang Sheng insists on adding speed to the team's tactics, even at the expense of ball control.
Because he knows the future development direction of world football tactics.
No one tactic can conquer the world, nor can it dominate world football for a long time. Because your opponents will not allow you to use this set of tactics to defeat them without the ability to fight back. They have come up with various methods.
To contain you, maybe 99% of these methods will fail, but as long as there is still 1% that can succeed, then this 1% will be promoted.
tikitaka is also facing such a situation now.
It has been almost ten years since tikitaka has dominated European football for almost ten years. It is surprising that a tactic has such tenacious vitality.
Over the past ten years, rivals in European football have come up with many ways to deal with the winning streak.
Ten years is enough time for other tactics to develop to a relatively mature stage.
Such as setting up a bus, such as defensive counterattacks, such as foul tactics...all kinds of tactics emerge in endlessly.
Chang Sheng also knows this very well, so he is always trying to improve his tactics and incorporate other tactical advantages into tikitaka.
When he first played in Valencia, he added two defensive midfielders with excellent defense and tough style to the pure tikitaka, which gave tikitaka some iron-blooded temperament. It solved the problem of traditional tikitaka's inability to strengthen the waist.
Then he began to introduce the superstar system, allowing Ronaldinho to give full play to his personal talents on the basis of tikitaka.
This change helped him break through the difficulties in the European arena and win his first Champions League championship.
Later at Lazio, he began to win more and faster, and this change made his team more aggressive.
Now he is trying to play multi-core tikitaka.
He never rests on his laurels and keeps making progress.
But Guardiola wants to return to the traditional tikitaka. Winning can't convince him, so he has to let the facts convince him.
Although Guardiola's Barcelona won a six-time crown, everyone still didn't know much about his Barcelona at that time. In addition, the Barcelona players were at their peak, and the key was that Messi was too incomprehensible...
Now when everyone figured out Barcelona's routine, they were in trouble.
In La Liga, they are tightly entangled by their archrival Real Madrid this season, and the competition between the two sides is very fierce.
In the Champions League, their advantage is not as great as before.
The most important thing is that in the duel between the two tikitakas, his team was completely defeated by the always-victorious Lazio.
This had a great impact on his philosophy.
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Mazembe stepped up their attack after the game restarted, and they attacked Lazio's goal from all fronts, hoping to equalize the score as soon as possible.
At this time, the gap in strength became more and more obvious.
Mazembe's players are inferior to Lazio in terms of individual skills and overall coordination.
Their offense could not threaten Lazio's goal, and their goal was repeatedly harassed by Lazio's counterattacks.
Five minutes later, Lazio took advantage of the opportunity when Mazembe pressed forward and left the defense empty, and made a beautiful counterattack. Gotze shot the ball into Mazembe's goal.
2:0!
Lazio was two goals ahead.
There is no theoretical suspense in this game.
Lazio wins for sure!
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In the next game, Chang Sheng began to make substitutions.
He made substitutions one after another and soon used up all three substitution places.
Naturally, his substitutions were not to adjust tactics, but to allow more players to play the game.
This game has been won, and it's time for him to reward more players.
Being able to play in the Club World Cup is also a reward.
After falling behind by two goals, Mazembe completely lost his spirit and fighting spirit.
Ndiaye also started to make substitutions.
Like Chang Sheng, his substitution was not to change the score or the situation, but to let more players feel the atmosphere of the Club World Cup and give them the opportunity to play against a strong team like Lazio.
The next game officially entered garbage time.
Lazio also slowed down their pace and they needed a break.
After slowing down the pace, Lazio's game didn't look good.
Because they just pass the ball back and forth. And most of these passes occur in the midfield and backcourt. This kind of pass and pass has no technical content at all. Even if they pass a hundred passes in a row, no one will think it.
Beautiful...
Everyone likes to see the pass-and-cut coordination, which involves attacking the front edge of the opponent's penalty area, and then tearing open the opponent's defense through a series of rapid passes and cuts. The pass is difficult and there are ideas.
This is not the kind of trick where you pass it to me, and I pass it to you, and you pass it to me, and I pass it to you...
But Chang Sheng doesn’t care whether people like it or not.
He hopes that the team can get a rest by slowing down the pace.
Even if this situation lasts until the end of the game, he will feel no pressure.
It's not like he hasn't asked his players to do this despite the boos from the sky...
Thinking back to the first ten minutes of the Copa del Rey final between Getafe and Mallorca... Jose Passarella and his center back partner passed the ball to each other in the backcourt for ten full minutes...
When the commentator saw this situation, he understood that the real Club World Cup final... was over.
"Lazio only took ten minutes to resolve the battle and then returned to calm. Their strength has become stronger. To play a match of the Club World Cup final, they only need to exert their strength for ten minutes... pitiful
Mazembe, they persisted for sixty minutes, and then died in Lazio's ten minutes." (To be continued...)
