Before this game, many people had imagined the matchup between Lazio and Sampdoria.
Especially Sampdoria fans, they fantasize about their team beating Lazio away from home, just like they defeated Inter Milan at home.
Then they can announce with their chests and heads raised that the Sampdoria team that dominated Serie A back then is back!
They also imagined many ways to defeat Lazio.
But when the game actually started, they realized that the fantasy was just a fantasy after all.
People who were full of expectations for Lazio before the game are now silent.
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In this game, Sampdoria's head coach Del Neri was not dazzled by the league's first ranking and went to the Stadio Olimpico in Rome to attack Lazio.
He chose to defend and counterattack.
Although Sampdoria's offense has been greatly improved this season.
Because they have Cassano who transferred from Real Madrid and Pazzini who transferred from Fiorentina.
But in this game, Del Neri did not dare to attack Lazio.
Nowadays, let alone Serie A, no team in Europe dares to compete with Lazio.
Confrontation is a dead end.
Let's use the tradition of Italian football - defense to deal with Lazio.
From a tactical perspective, Sampdoria made the right choice.
It is always better to defend than to attack.
They also successfully defended their goal in the first half and tied with Lazio 0:0.
This once made Sampdoria fans and commentators and reporters who liked Lazio lose very excited for a while.
I thought Sampdoria could really compete with Lazio.
As a result, in the second half, they discovered that they were really out of their depth.
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The second half was Chang Sheng's chance to test out that new idea.
David Silva, Cazorla and Modric can all organize attacks. Therefore, Changsheng does not assign specific tasks to them, nor does it tell them how to play. It just allows them to cooperate freely and seek opportunities.
As a result, Lazio's offense suddenly became incomprehensible in the second half.
I really can't understand it, because there is no pattern to follow. People don't know how Lazio's offense will play.
When Modric gets the ball, he is the core organizer and will be focused on by his opponents.
But he can pass the ball to David Silva.
David Silva's performance against Fiorentina in the last game proved his organizational ability and talent. Naturally, Sampdoria cannot take it lightly.
Then David Silva passed the ball to Cazorla.
In the eyes of Sampdoria, Cazorla's threat is naturally not as high as that of David Silva and Modric.
As a result, Cazorla used his breakthrough to disrupt the opponent's defense, and then gave the football to Gotze. Gotze took a shot from the corner of the penalty area!
The football drew a wonderful arc, bypassed Sampdoria goalkeeper Luca Castellachi, and fell into the round corner of the goal!
At this time, the second half of the game had only started nine minutes...
Italian gold medal commentator Fabio Caressa is naturally better than other commentators. He saw the problem at a glance and said: "Lazio's offense is hard to guard against!"
This is the goal of always winning Lazio, where everyone is the core player.
In order to make the attack difficult to defend against, in order to make the opponent at a loss!
The attack just now is a typical example.
Sampdoria defended Modric and David Silva, but they did not expect that Cazorla would become the player who delivered the final fatal pass.
Of course, if Cazorla is also guarded, it doesn't matter, Lazio still has midfielder Ledesma and golden boy Gotze who can step in.
In short, when Lazio's offensive starts to work, it must make the opponent feel desperate!
Leave them wondering what to do!
Let them finally feel that sitting down, closing their eyes and waiting to die is the only option...
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Dreams are full, but reality is skinny.
While Gotze and other Lazio players cheered for the goal, the Sampdoria fans in front of the TV and in the stands were silent.
They looked forward to beating Lazio on the road, but now they are falling behind Lazio.
Although only one goal behind...
But Sampdoria fans who have been watching Serie A all year round know that Lazio likes to play downwind. When they took the lead, the game almost entered their rhythm.
They play with ease, while their opponents find it extremely difficult.
So when Lazio took the lead, many Sampdoria fans were silent. They knew something was wrong.
Sure enough, Lazio then completely got into their rhythm.
Lazio, who had a one-goal lead and had the advantage in possession, played very relaxedly.
Once you relax your mind, your kicks will naturally get better.
Because there is no pressure, you can do whatever you want.
And being able to do whatever you want is exactly what winning requires the midfield and frontcourt combination to achieve.
When you do whatever you want, how can your opponent know what you are going to do next? How can they defend if they don't know what you are going to do next?
In the best box in the stands, assistant coach Rudy Gonzalez is standing there. He did not follow other colleagues to the coaching bench, but is here in the box.
His task is to take video of the game.
A tripod was set up in front of him, and a portable video camera was mounted on the tripod.
He was responsible for filming the game from an overall perspective, then going back and cutting out useless things, such as clips of the opponent's offense, into highlights of Lazio's offense, and then using them as reference material.
The coaching staff can use these videos to discover problems and potential of new tactics and make self-adjustments.
You can also show it to the players and tell them their gains and losses, where they need to pay attention, and where they need to improve.
Rudy Gonzalez watches the game through the camera's LCD screen.
Because the picture is very small and it is a long shot, the players look like small black dots.
Fans must not like this kind of broadcast picture, because they can’t see anything clearly. They want to see the players’ wonderful individual performances, beautiful dribbles and shots, and unexpected saves...
None of this can be shown from this perspective.
But as a coach, this perspective is just right.
He can see every player's running route and passing route.
Rudy Gonzalez looked at the court and couldn't help but admire the idea of winning often. It's really interesting.
Lazio still looks a little chaotic when attacking, but there are some shining points in the chaos.
The previous Mad Dog tactics regarded the team as a whole as a sophisticated machine, and the players were the various components of the machine. Everyone has their own role. As long as the coach sets the program, the machine will execute according to the program.
Although the efficiency is very good, the subjective initiative is somewhat poor, and since it is a machine, there are rules to follow, making it easy for experts to study thoroughly.
Chang Sheng is right. With the success of these two teams, Lazio and Barcelona, more and more teams will study how to defend them and how to contain them.
There will be less and less room for Lazio to play Tiki-taka in the future.
If you don't make progress, you will reach a dead end.
Even if they achieved nine seasons of success, perhaps the failure of the last season would be enough to bury them and the success of the previous nine seasons!
This new tactic now fully utilizes the creativity of the players.
Stimulate their imagination and initiative, from "what the coach asks us to do" to "what we want to do ourselves."
This increases the elusiveness of the tactics and makes it less easy for opponents to study them thoroughly. Because studying this tactic means studying every player in Lazio, which is not an easy task.
Of course, there are also disadvantages to letting the players perform on their own, that is, you cannot control their thoughts and performance. Sometimes everyone thinks that passing is better than shooting. If you pick up a player and your brain twitches, and blood rushes to your head, you have to do it yourself.
, the result was that the football flew away and the team lost the game...
This is the role of coaches.
By repeatedly studying the video of each game, we find problems, eliminate those choices that are obviously wrong, and tell the players that these choices must not be made.
The rest is free to play.
This is actually not a complete sense of free play, but there is no complete sense of freedom in this world. Everyone plays within a box, and this is what the so-called "dancing with shackles" means.
A scope must be defined so that it can be effectively controlled.
The video recording now is just for the purpose of defining the scope later.
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When Lazio's offense fully started, Sampdoria really found it difficult to defend.
As a result, they conceded two goals in a row in the subsequent game and lost 0:3.
Of course, if Lazio hadn't wasted a lot of offensive opportunities, for example because they played too chaotically, Lazio didn't know how to attack until the end... the score of this game might have been higher.
However, this game at least proved one thing to the Lazio coaching staff, that is, the new tactics proposed by Chang Sheng and Rudy Gonzalez are feasible and effective.
For a regular winner, this is a bigger gain than three points.
When the two coaches shook hands after the game, Delneri asked: "I have a question, Chang. Did you deliberately arrange the situation in the second half?"
Chang Sheng quickly spread his hands and shook his head, looking helpless: "This is not true. In fact, I am also very helpless... The players seem to be too excited..."
Delneri shook his head: "Yes, I can see that your own offense is also a bit messy... What a pity..."
Then he shook his head and walked away.
He was still muttering "What a pity, what a pity".
As for what he is regretting...
Chang Sheng could vaguely guess it.
That's why he told Delneri the truth.
This is Lazio's ultimate weapon in the future. He will only reveal it to his opponents if he has a mental problem.
Even if he was proud of this tactic, he wouldn't show it off everywhere.
Tactics are used to defeat the enemy and win, not to show off. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)
