Chapter 406: Gathering the directors of all the families (guarantee
Completely different from his statement at the pre-match press conference, Manchester United's head coach Ferguson was very "violent" in the dressing room.
He seemed very excited and spoke loudly.
"Our performance in the first leg was perfect! Keep in mind your feelings in that game. This game is our best chance! We have been defeated by Lazio twice in a row. We must win in this game.
Winning the lottery! People say that Lazio is invincible and almost invincible, but I don’t believe such nonsense! There is no invincible team in this world, they must have weaknesses. You must be calm during the game and don’t let the blood rush to your head.
, just didn’t care about anything. The reason why we only lost one goal in the first round was because we were calm enough!”
"...This game is our home court. Old Trafford is not a place where they can run wild! We have to defeat them here and eliminate them!"
Ferguson's face turned red as he spoke, and his saliva flew everywhere.
You can see how excited he was.
It stands to reason that this old coach should rarely be so excited now.
His performance also illustrates the importance of Lazio in Ferguson's heart.
Ever since Lazio snatched his second Champions League title, Ferguson has never forgotten revenge for a moment.
So every time they played against Lazio, Manchester United seemed to be on drugs, very fierce.
This time is no exception.
That's because their boss Ferguson is more drugged than they are...
Ferguson dreamed of beating Lazio, not in the group stage, but in the knockout rounds or the final.
Defeating Lazio and winning the Champions League is the best revenge for him.
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When the players from both sides were waiting in the tunnel, the Old Trafford stadium's announcer was introducing the lineup of players from both sides, and applause and boos broke out in the stands.
The applause is for the Manchester United players, and the boos are naturally for the Lazio players.
Sitting on the coach's bench, Chang Sheng thought that it was a shame that Old Trafford introduced the players of both sides separately. If this were staggered, wouldn't Manchester United fans be schizophrenic?
In fact, there is really no need to boo Lazio like this... Lazio players have been trained for a long time, and this kind of booing cannot disturb them.
On the contrary, the Manchester United fans were so booed that they were speechless the next day.
My voice won't get better for a week just to watch the game... What's the matter?
Chang Sheng curled his lips.
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To the majestic music of the Champions League theme song, players from both Lazio and Manchester United filed into the stadium.
At this moment, the stadium was filled with applause and cheers. This was given to their home team by Manchester United fans.
As for the visiting team, there is no need to deliberately boo. Manchester United fans firmly believe that the thunderous applause and cheers are enough to put enough pressure on the players of the visiting team Lazio.
Then the captains of both sides shook hands, exchanged team flags, and picked sides...
After this series of ceremonies, the competition began.
When the referee blew his whistle, Manchester United's starting forward Rooney stepped on the football and gently pushed it forward. The football rolled into Lazio's half, and the game officially began!
"Hello, audience friends, welcome to watch the live broadcast of the 'Earth Defense Battle'!" The commentator started the broadcast of the game in a joking tone.
"This game is called the 'Battle of the Earth' by the media for a reason. The powerful Lazio is playing in the domestic league, the Champions League and the domestic cup this season, including the two Super Cups before the season and the mid-season.
Club World Cup... maintained a record of undefeated victory in all official games! Such a performance has never been achieved by a team before! Generally speaking, it is not easy to remain undefeated in the league for a season. Lazio unexpectedly
Maintain a complete victory! Such amazing results make Lazio as if they are from an alien planet. Their results are no longer what teams on earth can achieve..."
"In the first round of the game, Manchester United lost 0:1 away to Lazio. They are currently the most promising team to end Lazio's victory, so this game is also called the 'Earth Defense Battle'. So Manchester United really
Can it successfully defend the earth? Let us wait and see!"
In this game, Manchester United's tactics were offensive, but it was not the kind of crazy attack that didn't care about everyone.
We still have to be wary of Lazio's offense...
Lazio's offensive power ranks first in all of European football.
If Manchester United really doesn't care about anything and just relies on their home court advantage to attack Lazio crazily at their home court, they will definitely die crazy in the end...
Ferguson still has a clear understanding of this.
Manchester United's strategy is actually a defensive counterattack in another sense.
The first is to actively defend and ensure that the ball is not conceded first.
This is very similar to the tactical thinking adopted by Juventus in the game against Lazio.
Not conceding the ball first is a prerequisite for defeating Lazio.
Once Lazio scores the first goal, everything will be over.
As for the defensive method, naturally it is high position pressing.
This is also the method chosen by Juventus.
In fact, against Lazio's ball-control team, the most effective defensive method is definitely not shrinking defense, but high-position defense.
For example, now in the European competition, more teams have adopted high defense against Barcelona, and the effect is quite good. Although Barcelona may not necessarily be able to beat Barcelona, Barcelona's advantage in the game is not as big as before.
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Defensively, Manchester United definitely refers to the tactics of many European teams.
Without conceding the ball first, and then considering the match between Lazio and Juventus, it will affect Lazio's physical fitness to some extent. Manchester United must deal with Lazio patiently, consume as much Lazio's physical fitness as possible, and finally take advantage of them
When their physical fitness declined, Manchester United suddenly exerted their strength and scored a goal!
Score a goal and the game will be sent to overtime.
The thirty-minute overtime was a severe test for the physical fitness of both sides. However, Manchester United's main lineup did not play in the league last weekend, so he was confident that he had the upper hand in terms of physical strength.
Although Lazio rotated in the last round of the league, not all of them were rotated.
If the game goes into overtime, Manchester United plans to copy their away game style in the first round, dragging the score to a penalty shootout, and then compete with Lazio in the penalty kick. To this end, Manchester United has specially spent the past six years
I focused on penalty kicks during the day.
The Manchester United coaching staff also watched countless videos of Lazio penalty kicks, from which they studied and analyzed the technical characteristics and habits of each Lazio player when taking penalty kicks, as well as Handanovic's habit of saving penalty kicks.
Then write it into a video analysis report and hand it over to the coaching staff, who will conduct targeted training. If it really comes to the point of taking a penalty kick, then Van der Sar will receive a note with a detailed description.
Every Lazio player has the habit of taking penalty kicks.
Based on this note, the Manchester United coaching staff is confident that Van der Sar's penalty kick success rate will increase by 20%.
This is a very scary success rate...
Taking penalty kicks against Lazio was inspired by Napoli. Napoli had planned to do this in the Coppa Italia match against Lazio. However, they failed in the end due to insufficient physical preparation.
It can be seen that when preparing for the match against Lazio, Manchester United was indeed influenced by the experience of many other teams playing against Lazio. They referred to these battle cases and then summarized strategies suitable for Manchester United to implement.
It truly is a battle to defend the earth...
Manchester United, which has the best of all, is going to have a peak showdown with Lazio!
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At the beginning of the game, Manchester United took advantage of their opportunity to kick off the ball first and launched a fierce attack on Lazio's position.
This kind of high-position pressing also caused some trouble for Lazio.
Lazio's players had to speed up the passing game in the backcourt.
But the game has just started and it is not easy to get into the rhythm of the game.
So when Manchester United pressed him, he seemed to be in a hurry.
It can be seen that Manchester United has indeed made very detailed and sufficient arrangements at their home court this time.
There is a certain reason for the media to be optimistic about them.
Through high-position pressing, Manchester United took the initiative in the game.
In the technical statistics of the first ten minutes, Manchester United surpassed Lazio in many key statistics.
Of course, when Manchester United achieved this result, this time no commentator rushed to announce that Manchester United had suppressed Lazio and began to praise Manchester United.
They have also known for a long time that there is no point in suppressing Lazio on the scene. If they cannot take the lead in the score, this advantage will disappear.
Before Manchester United took the lead, these commentators did not dare to do so even if they wanted to praise them.
They are also afraid of "losing their character"...
However, they did not hold it for too long. In the 12th minute, Manchester United pressed high in the frontcourt and forced Chiellini to foul at the front of the penalty area.
The referee gave Manchester United a free kick only 23 meters away from the goal.
Then Rooney stepped in front of the football.
The Manchester United fans in the stands began to cheer collectively and cheer for Rooney who took the free kick.
Rooney is not Manchester United's leading free kick scorer, but he does have a record of scoring by taking free kicks.
And because he doesn't take too many free kicks and is not famous among free kickers, goalkeeper Handanovic does not know much about his characteristics and routes of taking free kicks and cannot effectively predict them.
, we really can only rely on reaction.
It's so close...
Once the football goes around the wall, it is very close to the goal!
It is often too late for the goalkeeper to react at that time.
Of course, if a free kick is too close to the goal, it is easy to lose control of the force and arc, causing the football to fly away.
Therefore, a free kick at this position has advantages and disadvantages for both offense and defense.
Lazio was well prepared, with six people lined up on the wall, completely blocking the near corner of the goal. Then Handanovic was on the edge of the wall, guarding the center of the goal.
This position will be slightly blocked from view, but it is close to both goal posts, so no matter which way Rooney kicks, he still has time to react.
The wall was finally completely set up and Rooney also set up the football.
Both sides are ready and are waiting for the referee to blow his whistle.
Old Trafford, which had been very noisy before, suddenly became quiet at this time, so everyone clearly heard the referee's whistle! (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster
