Chang Sheng's calmness and calmness made the Lazio fans watching on TV feel at ease.
This Chinese man has unknowingly become their backbone.
As long as he doesn't have any problems, Lazio will have no problems.
Chang Sheng's face is calm now, which means that he is confident. He must have expected Manchester United's tactics, so he will arrange countermeasures.
So people expected Chang Sheng to step out of the coaching bench and make adjustments.
However, they never saw Chang Sheng's butt leave the coaching bench.
What's going on?
They were surprised and puzzled.
Couldn't he see the difficulties the team was facing?
Could it be that he saw it but was at a loss what to do?
Really impossible!
How could there be anything that could make Chang Sheng at a loss?
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Ferguson is also paying close attention to the winning streak.
He just wanted to see what adjustments Chang Sheng would make.
As a result, Chang Sheng didn't make any moves. He sat on the coach's bench with his legs crossed, looking very leisurely, as if the team that didn't even have a threatening shot within ten minutes did not belong to him.
But how could it not be his?
Ferguson frowned, wondering why Chang Sheng was so leisurely.
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The reason why Chang Sheng is so laid-back is because he fully trusts his players.
As the team with the strongest offensive power in Europe today, most of the opponents they encounter choose conservatism.
They will park one, two, or even three or four buses in front of their door.
So Lazio has a lot of experience in dealing with defensive teams, and they know what to do.
Although Manchester United's defense is tight, it is not to the point where it can break through human cognition. Lazio's players have seen too much of this level of defense in normal games, and they know how to deal with it.
He didn't even need to make adjustments on the sidelines, they knew how to adjust themselves.
For example, Lazio's players have obviously accelerated the speed of passing back and forth. At the same time, their passing is more forward and has risky characteristics.
Of course, this will reduce their ball possession rate and give more ball possession opportunities to Manchester United.
For example, there were some through balls that seemed unnecessary, but Lazio would continue to pass them, and the football would easily fall to Manchester United.
Then it was Manchester United's turn to control the ball.
From the outside, it seems that Lazio's passing errors are increasing and they are losing patience little by little, so their offense becomes simpler and rougher.
This is a good thing for Manchester United.
Because it will make their defense easier.
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This is how Lazio has adjusted itself.
From the perspective of others, this adjustment is idiotic - how can you adjust yourself over and over again, only to make yourself worse? This is not as good as before!
At the very least, Lazio's previous performance will not allow them to lose possession of the ball easily and will not give Manchester United too much possession of the ball. This will give Manchester United more offensive opportunities.
Anyway, in everyone's opinion, after Manchester United showed their defensive toughness and determination, Lazio's performance became worse and worse.
This will not make people full of confidence in Lazio, it will only make people doubt whether they are too confident. In fact, Lazio's performance is not as good as they thought...
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Ferguson was also watching the pitch with a frown.
Lazio is fine outside the thirty-meter area, can pass the ball back and forth, and can still pass the football at high speed.
But once they enter the thirty-meter area of Manchester United, their patience will disappear. They constantly try all kinds of through balls, over the top and not over the top...
When everyone gets the ball at their feet, their first reaction is not to pass the ball across to open up space in Manchester United's defense, but to pass the ball directly!
Then nine times out of ten, such a pass will end in failure.
It's only been twenty minutes since the game started. Are Lazio so impatient?
Or is it that they are used to scoring first, so when they find that they can't score for a long time, their mentality becomes unbalanced?
He turned his head and glanced at the coaching bench next door, and found that Chang Sheng was still sitting on the coaching bench, but he was no longer crossing his legs, but was communicating with the two assistant coaches beside him.
Are you discussing changes on the field?
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Chang Sheng and his assistant coach were indeed discussing the changes on the field, but they were not feeling headaches about the situation.
"This is really a smart change! Now let's see if our opponents will take the bait!" Di Matteo marveled at the players' self-adjustment.
Rudy Gonzalez said: "It's not enough. If you want your opponent to take the bait, you have to cooperate with your players."
Chang Sheng nodded: "That's what I was thinking about."
Then he finally got up from his seat.
But he didn't rush to the sidelines to yell or dance.
That would be too exaggerated.
And he was afraid that if he yelled like this, the players would think they had done something wrong.
No, they did nothing wrong.
On the contrary, they did a great job!
Chang Sheng thought that he, who had always been sitting on the coaching bench with his legs crossed, now stood up and walked to the sidelines for the first time. Just this action was enough to explain everything.
Opponents will think they are dissatisfied with the players' performance.
So the impatience shown by Lazio was not intentional, but really because Lazio was anxious.
In this way... opponents will be easily fooled.
This is the adjustment Lazio players have made themselves.
They kept passing the ball forward during the offense, which many people viewed as a sign of impatience.
But it's not entirely correct.
They look quite anxious, but this action is not just to make others think they are anxious, it also has a practical effect.
That is, if it succeeds again, wouldn't Lazio make a profit?
If the goal is scored like this, Lazio will no longer need to deceive the opponent. They will use this lead to make a big fuss and make the opponent fall into Lazio's rhythm.
Therefore, although this adjustment of constantly passing the ball forward is small, it has the effect of killing two birds with one stone.
On the one hand, it is of course deceiving the opponent, but on the other hand, it is also a sign that Lazio has strengthened its offensive performance.
So what does this kind of deception do?
When the football is always at the feet of Lazio players, Manchester United players will defend with peace of mind and concentrate on defending without thinking about anything else.
Therefore, even if Lazio uses their excellent passing and receiving skills to increase the ball possession rate of the game to 99%, it is meaningless - when the opponent is determined to defend, Lazio still has such a ball possession rate.
It's possible to win, but what's the use? Possession that doesn't translate into goals is useless.
To break Manchester United's dense defense, they have to make their defense less dense.
Why isn't it dense?
In fact, it is to let them attack.
How to get them to attack?
Give them the football.
It's so simple, but the idea is so bold and imaginative.
Because no matter what the situation, it is very dangerous to easily hand over possession of the ball to your opponent.
When football is no longer under your control, you have no way to control the game.
Therefore, other teams will control the ball very strongly. Ball possession rate is also an important data in the game technical statistics.
Lazio decided to do the opposite.
Giving possession of the ball to the opponent is to induce the opponent to misjudge the current situation.
When Manchester United players can always get the ball easily, they will have the illusion that Lazio's offense is nothing more than that. We defend very well and the opponent's offensive state is very bad.
After having this illusion, they are prone to other unnecessary thoughts.
That is - since we can often intercept the opponent's passes, why don't we consider attacking their counterattacks?
Although our goal in this game is to maintain a 0:0 draw in the away game.
But if we can score, even just one goal, we have an advantage, right?
In this way, even if they score a goal next and the score is 1:1, the result of the tie remains the same, but we have one more away goal!
Isn’t this much more cost-effective than 0:0?
And looking at Lazio's aggressive attack, there is space behind them. Our Rooney still has a speed advantage. As long as they make a successful counterattack, they will take the initiative in this game!
This idea will definitely be very tempting for Manchester United who are struggling to defend.
So, when Manchester United really did this...
By then, they will see Lazio's fangs and claws exposed!
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When Lazio did this before, not only did Ferguson think it was strange, but the Manchester United players also found it strange because Lazio's attitude changed too suddenly.
There was no transition from being patient to suddenly becoming impatient. It was as if someone flipped a switch and they collectively switched their behavior patterns.
This will inevitably make them suspicious.
But when they saw Lazio's head coach finally put aside his actions for the first time in this game, walked to the sidelines, folded his hands on his chest, and stared at the court with a serious expression.
They realized that it must be true, Lazio is indeed impatient because they have been unable to break our goal!
Look, even their head coach was angry now, so he stood up from his seat.
You must know that before, he had been sitting on a chair with his legs crossed, looking very leisurely. However, in the eyes of Manchester United players, his appearance was really hateful, and it meant contempt for Manchester United!
Now, when I see Chang Sheng standing on the sidelines with a solemn expression, Lazio players are still trying to pass, pass and pass.
The Manchester United players didn't know why, but they were a little relieved.
They have a sense of victory.
Even though they have nothing yet...
But they were full of confidence in the future. Just as Chang Sheng hoped, they began to have more ideas.
They are not only satisfied with 0:0, they also want to win! (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)
