Unlike the first match between Lazio and AC Milan in the first half of the season, AC Milan has undergone great changes.
Ronaldinho was completely dismissed, and he was reduced from the main player to the substitute in AC Milan.
Pato's position has long been out of control due to consecutive injuries.
The only players from the Brazilian team who can really compete in AC Milan are Thiago Silva and Robinho, and Robinho is not yet the absolute main player.
After ditching Ronaldinho, Allegri built the team around Ibrahimovic.
The entire team serves the Swedish ziggurat.
Ibrahimovic has the freedom to fire on the pitch that he dreams of.
He can do whatever he wants, but no one else has that privilege.
In the midfield, he mainly uses a muscular lineup. Except for Pirlo, the others are all "black and hard" who can run well.
The most prominent among them is Boateng, who is on loan from Genoa this season.
The Ghanaian international was originally a purely defensive midfielder, but under Allegri's transformation, the black midfielder also had good offensive abilities.
With Boateng, Allegri can completely abandon Ronaldinho.
He doesn't need Ronaldinho's football style. Under his transformation, AC Milan is more iron-blooded and tougher, and of course the football is not as good as before.
But although AC Milan fans are fans of a wealthy club, they are not glass-hearted. If they don't look good, they won't look good, as long as they can win.
Victory is more beautiful than anything else.
Under Allegri's transformation, AC Milan's performance began to rise steadily, and eventually became second in the league today.
His AC Milan's defense in the midfield is very tough. A player like Boateng can not only attack but also retreat to defend, and his defense is what he is best at.
Allegri planned to use this against Lazio.
Accumulating heavy troops in the midfield and backfield and playing defensive counterattack with Lazio.
Mainly relying on players like Boateng to personally interfere with Lazio's ball players in the midfield.
Allegri finally figured it out. Lazio's advantage lies in their physical fitness and running.
Good physical fitness and a lot of running are the reasons why Lazio can compete in European football.
If you want to beat Lazio, you have to run more runs than them and have better physical fitness than them.
Perhaps throughout the entire season, AC Milan will not be able to do better than their physical fitness. But in a game, there is still a chance.
In the month before this game, Allegri began to use rotation frequently in order to ensure that the team had sufficient physical fitness when facing Lazio.
Now he's convinced the team is ready.
In this game, AC Milan will have an arm-wrestle with Lazio.
He wants his team to become the first team to defeat Lazio this season.
This is nothing less than a resounding slap in the face to those who think that they lack experience and have average qualifications and have only been coaching AC Milan for a short time!
I did what no one in Europe could do!
Who of you still dares to talk nonsense?
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On January 29th, the first game of the 23rd round of the league started at the San Siro Stadium.
This game started from the first minute. AC Milan showed their running.
They galloped around every corner of the pitch tirelessly. Their physical strength was even greater than that of Lazio.
After Chang Sheng saw AC Milan's tactical arrangements, he really felt dumbfounded.
In just two games, he had seen two completely different methods of dealing with him.
It seems that these opponents are doing everything they can to defeat Lazio.
I have thought of every possible way.
In order to deal with Lazio, Naples came up with a way to drag the game into a penalty shootout.
In order to defeat Lazio, AC Milan started with physical strength.
To be honest, the methods these two teams came up with are all right.
Mazzarri wanted to drag the game into a penalty shootout, which naturally combined the characteristics of a single elimination in the Italian Cup.
In theory, his idea is correct.
But he didn't take into account the actual situation, which was Naples' physical ability.
Facing Lazio's constant attacks, even on defense, physical energy will be depleted very quickly. Can Napoli's players last that long?
In the end, it turned out that they couldn't last that long.
Now Allegri's approach is also correct.
Some people say that the reason why Lazio can dominate European football is because they have mastered tiki-taka, but what is the reason for their mastery of tiki-taka?
It's physical fitness.
Lazio's physical fitness is much better than other teams.
This is what matters most.
No matter what the tactics are, physical fitness is required to complete them.
Physical fitness is the foundation of modern football.
Just like you have to dig a foundation before building a house. Without a foundation, the house cannot be built, let alone built high.
Physical fitness is the foundation of modern football. You must have physical fitness before you can talk about other things.
If a team does not have the most basic physical fitness, it will simply not be able to gain a foothold in professional football.
If a team wants to have greater ambitions and win a championship, even a league championship, it must have better physical fitness than the average team. Otherwise, if you start the league well, your physical fitness will not be able to keep up after halfway through the schedule.
If you get higher, your performance will naturally decline, so why win the championship?
Whether it's Lazio or Barcelona, the teams that have dominated European football in the past two years have one outstanding feature, and that is physical fitness.
Barcelona's physical fitness is also very good.
It is Lazio and Barcelona that have greatly improved the average running distance of players in each game. In the past, if a player could run more than 10,000 meters in a game, it was considered outstanding. Now, except for the players of Lazio and Barcelona,
Except for the goalkeeper, almost everyone runs more than 10,000 meters per game.
So in recent years, there is a famous saying in football: "Victories and championships come by running!"
The results of Lazio and Barcelona fully illustrate this point.
Under their leadership, more and more teams are beginning to pay attention to physical fitness - in fact, they also paid attention to it before, but now they pay more attention to it.
For example, in Germany, Dortmund's head coach Klopp emphasizes physical fitness and running. His training intensity is also top-notch in the Bundesliga.
The reward is that Dortmund currently ranks first in the Bundesliga after nineteen rounds of the league, with fifteen wins, two draws and two losses, with 47 points. Eleven points more than second-ranked Bayer Leverkusen!
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To be honest, AC Milan's approach of competing with Lazio for physical fitness is correct. Relying on being able to run better and being more willing to run than Lazio, they still had the upper hand in the first half.
And relying on this advantage, they took a one-goal lead in the first half.
For AC Milan, this is not easy.
How long has it been since they were ahead of Lazio in a match?
"Pirlo! A beautiful free kick! Inzaghi jumped up in front to fight for the top. Although he did not hit the football, he shook Lazio goalkeeper Handanovic. This caused Handanovic's judgment to go wrong.
.He was helpless as the ball flew into the goal!"
Amidst the shouts of the commentator, Inzaghi was running wildly to celebrate the goal. Just looking at his celebration, you would think it was because he scored the goal. But it was actually Pirlo.
Pirlo did not run wildly. Instead, he stood there and raised his hands in celebration. His teammates swarmed up and surrounded him.
On the sidelines, in front of AC Milan's coaching bench, Allegri and his coaches also rushed out of their seats, cheering and hugging everyone they saw.
But while Allegri and the people around him were celebrating AC Milan's goal ecstatically, Lazio, the winner, sat in his seat without even moving his butt.
The expression on his face also seemed very calm.
Doesn't seem worried about his team.
He really had nothing to worry about.
There was still one half of the game, which was enough for him to make a comeback.
He already has a plan in mind to deal with AC Milan.
Before the game, he did not expect Allegri to adopt such a method, so he did not make targeted arrangements, which resulted in AC Milan taking advantage.
But there is still an intermission, and he can completely turn the situation around.
Chang Winning appears to be full of confidence.
Because there really is nothing difficult to deal with.
The methods to deal with Allegri's AC Milan and Mazzarri's Napoli are actually the same.
That's physical fitness.
Work hard on physical fitness.
Allegri used his physical strength to deal with Lazio, and Chang Sheng also used his physical strength to deal with him.
The reason why Mazzarri's tactics were not ultimately implemented was that his players were exhausted too quickly and could not keep up with the pace of the game, eventually collapsing.
And what about Allegri's AC Milan?
The situation is actually the same.
They ran like crazy in the first half, more like a mad dog than Lazio.
Doing so certainly gave them an advantage.
But it also cost them a huge price, that is, they consumed a lot of physical energy.
In fact, AC Milan should be very tired now, but Pirlo's goal made them temporarily forget about their physical fitness.
However, once their offense stops flowing smoothly and they no longer have an advantage on the field, they will find that they have very little physical energy left.
By then, what awaits them is a collapse!
Chang Sheng turned around and glanced at Allegri who was still celebrating his goal.
This head coach plans to trade tomorrow for today...exchange the physical fitness of the second half for the advantage of the first half.
If that's the case, what does he have to celebrate now?
It's been thirty-four minutes, and it's only been ten minutes since the end of the first half.
And his team only led by one goal.
Using the physical fitness of the second half to bet on the performance of the first half should allow the team to score more goals in the first half.
What's the point if it's just a one-goal lead?
A one-goal lead is the most fragile. As the head coach, does he not know this fact?
At least two goals ahead... You are embarrassed to say that you used this tactic.
If you only lead by one goal, in the second half, when the team's energy is exhausted, what are you going to do? Watch helplessly as Lazio chases the score back until it finally overtakes the score?
