Chapter 108 An opponent who has never lost in the league
In the thirty-third round of the league, Lazio faced Atalanta at home.
Although the game against Bayern Munich was three days later, Chang Sheng still sent out all the main players he could in this game.
In the end, Lazio defeated Atalanta 1:0 at home, finally not losing two games in a row.
Inter Milan also defeated Naples 1:0 away from home.
The two teams are still only three points apart.
Three days later, Lazio went to the Allianz Arena to challenge Bayern Munich.
In this game, Faraoni finally got the chance to play on behalf of Lazio, and his first appearance was in the semi-finals of the Champions League!
According to regulations, players under the age of 20 who have played for the team for more than two years can be counted as players from the team's youth training system, and such players can participate in the Champions League without registration.
So there is no problem with Faranio's qualification to participate in the Champions League.
Raffaoni himself may not have thought that he would play in the Champions League so soon.
However, he was not playing right back, which he is good at, but right center back.
When he first joined the youth training camp, he played as a right center back, but now he has switched to a right back for many years. Although he was given a week to train and prepare, he was still a little nervous.
Before the game, Chang Sheng saw that he was nervous and comforted him: "Don't be stressed, just treat it as a warm-up match, Marco!"
In fact, it was very helpless to win often. Fortunately, he learned that Faraoni once played as a right center back, otherwise he really wouldn't know how to arrange his troops.
Gotze has played one game in the league, but his physical fitness is still pitiful. In this state, he is obviously unable to participate in the Champions League.
It doesn't matter if he doesn't perform well, I'm afraid that playing in this fierce game when his physical fitness is unsustainable will cause him to get injured.
My current team really "can't afford to be injured" now...
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With such a lineup, you can imagine what they will encounter at the Allianz Arena...
Lazio eventually lost to Bayern Munich 1:3 in the away game.
Handanovic received his third yellow card in the Champions League this season during the game. According to the yellow card suspension rule, he will be automatically suspended for one game.
This is really adding insult to injury for Lazio, which is already short of major generals...
Moreover, the failure of this game also made people lose confidence in Lazio's ability to advance to the final.
It was under such circumstances that Lazio ushered in the most important game in the league, the third and fourth rounds. They challenged Inter Milan away!
Why did Changsheng not let Gotze play in the Champions League? On the one hand, it was because Gotze was not very physically fit, and on the other hand, it was naturally to allow Gotze to play in the game against Inter Milan.
Fortunately, the suspension in the Champions League will not affect the league.
Therefore, Lazio can still field a strong enough lineup in the league.
Otherwise it's really hard to say...
In the last game against Bayern Munich, Balzaretti did not start. It was not because he was worried that he would get another yellow card and be automatically suspended.
It's because Lazio will challenge Inter Milan away from home next. Compared with the Champions League semi-finals, this game is more important.
Therefore, Chang Sheng retained his strength in the Champions League semi-finals.
In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the first team lineup was already stretched thin, Chang Sheng would have sent more substitute players to play.
But after a large number of main players were injured, it was really difficult to distinguish the main players from the substitutes.
Before the game against Bayern Munich, including injured players and suspended players, seven people were unable to go to Munich.
Lazio's first-team lineup originally had a small number of players. After the purge, there are only 21 first-team players this season. Recently, including Faranio, there are only 22 players.
As a result, there were seven people missing... fifteen people left... Chang Sheng couldn't even make up a full roster of eighteen people!
Therefore, when Lazio lost to Bayern Munich in an away game and was half kicked out of the final, there was not much media mocking Lazio's results.
Such a broken team encountered the powerful Bayern Munich. There is no shame in losing the game, it is normal.
Chang Sheng himself knew it very well, so he gave up the Champions League competition.
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It is difficult to play Inter Milan away from home. There is a statistic that can explain why it is difficult.
The league has played thirty-three rounds, and Inter Milan has played sixteen home games.
In these sixteen home games, Inter Milan has won eleven, drawn five, and lost zero!
They haven't lost at home yet!
There is also a record that is very beneficial to Inter Milan, or it is an advantage.
That is their head coach Jose Mourinho. He is very good at leading the team to play at home, whether it is the league or the Champions League, especially the league.
You must know that the team coached by Mourinho is in the league. Starting from February 23, 2002, after Porto lost 2:3 at home to Berama, his team has never been in the league again.
Lost at home in the league.
When he was in Porto, he was undefeated at home in 38 league games, with 36 wins and two draws, including an astonishing achievement of 33 consecutive home league wins.
Chelsea remained undefeated at home in 60 league games, with 46 wins and 14 draws.
In my first season at Inter Milan, I have played 16 home games without losing a single game!
A total of 114 league home games remain unbeaten!
Such achievements can be regarded as unprecedented and unprecedented.
Even Chang Sheng cannot compare to the Portuguese in this regard.
Mourinho seems to know exactly how to ensure his team wins at home.
He is like a priest who can release buffs to the team at his home court, improving their combat effectiveness and making them fearless.
Not only in the league, but also in the Champions League, Mourinho's team has a high home winning rate. He has coached three teams in the Champions League and has only lost three home games so far.
With such a head coach who is good at playing at home, and Lazio's recent injuries and exhaustion, it is natural for everyone not to be optimistic about Lazio.
Even many Lazio fans believe that a draw with Inter Milan in an away game is considered a victory.
In this way, there are still three points between the two sides, and there are only four rounds left in the league. As long as Lazio keeps winning, they can win the championship one round ahead of schedule.
Lazio's extreme fan organization "Uncultivated" is the leader who holds this view. In their radio program "Voice of the North Stand", they analyzed that the winning team should choose conservative tactics in away games and strive to maintain a draw instead of drawing a draw.
Inter Milan fights against each other. In that case, Lazio will definitely die miserably!
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Unlike previous games, Chang Sheng did not wait until two hours before the start of the game to submit the starting list. Instead, it announced the starting list at the pre-match press conference the day before the game.
Facing reporters, he took the initiative to throw out his list.
"Tomorrow's game? Handanovic will definitely start, there is no suspense? Jose Passarella, Chiellini, Balzaretti, Azpilicueta, Motta, Ledes
Ma, Candreva, Gotze, Cazorla and Cavani will also start."
He announced the starting lineup in one breath.
Then everyone discovered that Lazio still had an offensive lineup of 433 in this game!
And Motta and Gotze also started!
What does this mean?
This shows that Chang Sheng has no intention of choosing conservative tactics at San Siro and striving to maintain a draw.
And Chang Sheng also talked about this issue later.
"What Lazio is best at is attacking. We will stick to our own style. As for what others think, that has nothing to do with us."
A reporter from Corriere dello Sport asked: "But the premise is to ensure victory."
Chang Sheng asked him: "How do you know we can't win?"
A reporter from Rome said tit for tat: "Inter Milan has not lost any of its sixteen home games this season. Mourinho even has..."
Chang Sheng interrupted him unceremoniously.
"Yes, yes, I know it all. It's just an unbeaten record of 114 league games. But so what?" He shrugged and spread his hands and asked the Rome reporter. "Haven't you heard of it?
? The so-called records are meant to be broken. What I am best at is breaking all kinds of records!"
Reporters smelled the smell of gunpowder.
It seems that in this game, Chang Sheng is really not going to keep a draw!
In this way...it will be much more exciting!
As for who wins and loses between the two teams, they don't really care.
Anyway, no matter whether it's winning games or Mourinho, they all hate it. In the end, they don't like winning the championship.
They just hope that two dogs can bite dog. As for the championship, AC Milan, who is third in the league, is far behind them and there is no chance of it.
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What Chang Sheng said at the pre-match press conference was quickly relayed to Mourinho through reporters.
Mourinho was very calm about this.
"I think Chang made one thing wrong. Being unbeaten in more than 100 consecutive home games is not a record. I have never regarded this as a great record. This is a result, which shows our power at home. Only
That's all. If he wants to beat Inter Milan at home, he will probably do his best and then pray for a lot of good luck."
Mourinho, who was sitting on the rostrum, curled his lips and said with disdain. In the last round, his team was defeated by Lazio at the last moment in the away game. Mourinho still can't swallow this breath.
This time is really a perfect opportunity for revenge!
This is the "dog eats dog" show that the Italian media likes to watch the most.
They constantly stir up trouble between two people and instigate war between them.
Of course, in fact, they don't have to go to such trouble. These two people are born to be enemies, and they can make each other look good without provocation.
By doing this now, it seems that Italian journalists are just a bunch of villains...
That night, Italian TV stations were paying attention to the pre-match press conference of this game. Chang Sheng and Mourinho's words at the press conference were repeatedly analyzed by them, hoping to understand the trump cards of the two coaches.
and strategy.
This is what sports programming on Italian television likes to do.
After analysis, they all agreed that Inter Milan, which plays at home, has an advantage, and there are quite a few advantages...
"If Lazio chooses to defend, there is still a glimmer of hope at San Siro. But now they often insist on attacking..." An expert pouted and shook his head in the camera. "He is seeking his own death!" (To be continued...
