The first thing to do is to strengthen defense, which is something Gasperini has repeatedly emphasized.
In last season's Serie A, both Udinese and ** were known for their poor defense. Udinese conceded 59 goals, ranking fourth among all teams, and ** was better than Udinese. Siena is even worse, conceding 61 goals, tied for second with the relegated team Livorno. The only team that has conceded more goals than them is the relegated team Siena, which has conceded 67 goals.
This is a game between the worst defensive team among the teams that were not relegated last season and the second worst defensive team. Teams with worse defense than them were all relegated.
You must first defend yourself well, and you must also find ways to tear down the opponent's defense. Especially with Chen Zhuo in the tactical offensive system, Gasperini is even more eager to win the game against these mid-to-lower teams. The relegation points can then give ** a chance to get closer to the European competition.
In terms of offense, Udinese and ** are also almost the same. Last season, ** scored 57 goals in total, while Udinese scored 54. There was only a three-point difference.
The total number of goals scored** is 3 more than Udinese, and the total number of goals conceded** is 2 more than Udinese. The final points are 9 points more than Udinese, and the ranking is also **9th. , Udinese is 15th. In terms of scoring efficiency, ** is obviously better than Udinese.
To make a comparison with similar names, the two teams are both at home and away. Udinese had 10 wins, 5 draws and 4 losses in 19 home games last season, scoring 35 points out of a total of 44 points. The remaining 9 points they have are obtained in 19 away games. Udinese has 1 win, 6 draws and 12 losses in away games throughout the season.
In terms of "away away bugs", ** is not much better than Udinese. In 19 away games last season, they scored 13 points with 3 wins, 4 draws and 12 losses. Like Udinese, they are both in Serie A. The team with the worst away results.
With all the data out there, even though Chen Zhuo performed well in the warm-up matches, European bookmakers still looked down on the ** team mercilessly.
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Di Natale, who was born in 1977, is already 33 years old. Di Natale, who only started playing in Serie A at the age of 25, is a "late bloomer" than Luca Toni. Di Natale, who was born in October 1977, is only older than Luca Toni. 5 months younger, just last season, when he was about to turn 33, he really broke out and won the first Serie A Golden Boot Award in his life. At this time, many players had already retired honorably.
This season is Di Natale's seventh season playing for Udinese. As the captain of Udinese, the 33-year-old Di Natale is also the most beloved, popular and star of the team and the city.
The Udinese team's biggest reliance this season is Di Natale. The top scorer in Serie A last season contributed) goals, accounting for 54 of the Udinese team's goals last season. More than half of the goals, the number of goals in the season is also the number closest to Luca Toni's single league goal record of 31 in the past 30 years, which is a full 7 goals more than the second-ranked Milito.
The matchup for such a role must be Chen Zhuo, which is why Chen Zhuo will be regarded as an "enemy" in every city other than his own team.
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Although Chen Zhuo carefully analyzed the late-blooming Serie A top scorer last season before the game, it was only when he was defending face to face that Chen Zhuo discovered that Di Natale's speed and flexibility were much faster than in the TV tape!
The latest formation today is a formation between 4-3-3 and 3-4-3. It looks like four lines of 3-1-3-3, with a 10-meter line between the back line and the midfield line.
The "1" in the space is Chen Zhuo. When he is marking and fighting in the middle, it is "3-1-3-3". When he retreats to the back line, it is "4-3-3".
By midfield it was "3-4-3".
Ruud van Nistelrooy, who has just been loaned to the team, is on the substitute list for this game. Whether he will replace Luca Toni or co-star with Lula Toni is also a highlight of this game.
Di Natale's ball control and dribbling abilities are among the best in the entire Apennine Peninsula. In this close contact, Chen Zhuo deeply felt the striker's ball control, dribbling and passing ability.
His skills are comparable to those of Ambrosini and Pirlo, and even rival those of Baggio at his peak. No wonder Baggio once commented that Di Natale is the most skilled player in the Italian team.
Faced with Chen Zhuo's blockage, Di Natale calmly moved to the wing, and then skillfully passed it to his teammates in the back row to form a coordination. Passing skills are also one of Di Natale's special skills. Last season
Di Natale, who exploded in the small universe, was in the previous 6
He is not unknown in each Serie A season, but is known as an assist forward. In the 7 Serie A seasons that Di Natale played, he contributed a total of more than 80 assists. Almost every year, the statistics are goals and assists.
"Two pairs".
Chen Zhuo did not dare to be careless. He did not rush to try to steal Di Natale head-on. Instead, he used his position and movement to squeeze Di Natale from the center to the sideline, while not giving him a chance to get away easily.
, preventing him from easily breaking through and entering the threatening "hinterland", and then letting his teammates cooperate to press and encircle him, and steal the corresponding players after Di Natale's kick, destroying Udinese's offense.
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This season, Udinese coach Guidolin has coached this team for the second time. In several warm-up matches this season, Guidolin has adopted more intensive defensive tactics.
In order to avoid gaps in defense, there were only two players roaming in the opponent's half for more than 80 of the 90 minutes. In the only 10 minutes of counterattack, Udinese invested the most troops.
That is 4 players, which means that Guidolin has raised his defense to the extreme.
In addition to Di Natale, these two players who are playing in the ** team, there is another player who is Chilean forward Sanchez. He was born in 1988 and Alexis Sanchez is not yet 22 years old.
When this talented boy was discovered by Udinese scouts, he was not yet 18 years old. At that time, Udinese paid the Chilean Colo-Colo a transfer fee of no more than
00,000 euros, in 4 years, Udinese’s current external quotation is already 40 million euros, and Sanchez’s annual salary has also been paid by Barcelona to the level of 3 million euros. If nothing else, this is already a Chilean young man
In his last season at Udinese, perhaps after the winter break, the 22-year-old boy will already be wearing the jersey of a certain giant team.
There are three defenders on the back line who are not involved in assists. 10 meters in front of them is a single midfielder, and 10 meters ahead are two defensive midfielders. The three midfielders are divided into two defensive levels. They basically arrive.
There is no forward movement near the midline, and the huge half in front is given to Di Natale and Sanchez, while the other two players are more likely to roam around the two wings.
Gasperini's original imagination was to use "Veloso-Chen Zhuo-Ranocchia" to form a central defensive chain to lock the frontcourt combination of "Di Natale-Sanchez". He was still a little worried.
But he did not expect that Chen Zhuo would not suffer at all from defending speedy players. This "central defensive chain" successfully froze Udinese's offensive combination.
For Udinese, due to the lack of effective support from teammates, several cooperations between Di Natale and Sanchez were destroyed by the superior defensive system. In the first 15 minutes, Udinese tried to launch from the back three times.
Chen Zhuo accurately judged the path of the ball and made steals!
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It's just that Udinese's dense defensive formation with up to 9 players huddled in the half court was really difficult to deal with. **'s attacks failed again and again, and they couldn't even get close to the threatening area. The scene seemed very boring.
In the big plan for this season, Gasperini's goal is the European War, and the points required for the European War are at least 55, and preferably 60 points. Therefore, Gasperini made a detailed breakdown and obtained points at home.
No less than last season’s 11 wins, 5 draws, 2 losses and 38 points. Compared with last season’s 3 wins, 4 draws and 12 losses, we must reach 7 wins and 1 draw, 6 wins and 4 draws, 5 wins and 7 draws. In short, at least
You have to get 22 league points.
In this decomposition plan, Gasperini needs to grab a lot of points at the beginning of the game, and then when the two fronts battle after the Italian Cup starts in December, and when the team has injuries and suspensions and needs to make a choice,
Having capital allows you to choose more calmly.
As a mid-range team like **, they must carefully calculate every victory and every point. This is where Gasperini's ability lies. He scored 3 more goals than Udinese.
Even with 2 more goals conceded, they have 3 more wins and 9 points than Udinese, and are only 4 points behind the European war.
In this game against Udinese, in Gasperini's plan, it is necessary to obtain these three points. In terms of player strength, the "Di Natale-Sanchez" combination is the top striker combination in Serie A.
It's a pity that there is a lack of midfield organization. If this pair is changed to his own team, Gasperini believes that he has the ability to play in the Champions League team!
More importantly, this is the second-worst defense in Serie A. Although coach Guidolin has been there to support it, it still has a long way to go before it can be fully adjusted. It’s time to grab points before their defense transformation is completed.
It is the most realistic!
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Gasperini, who was off the court, was holding a tactical board in his hand and kept sketching, Criscito and Rafinha were pulling from the left and right sides, and Scully and Palacio were running straight lines from the two ribs.
, Luca Toni served as the ferry in the middle of the tactical support point, but hit a wall in front of Udinese's "iron barrel formation". Until the 60th minute of the game, the scene did not open up.
Gasperini took the lead in making tactical adjustments. He replaced all two forwards, Scully and Palacio, and replaced them with 19-year-old Zucculini and 34-year-old Ruud van Nistelrooy.
