It was Pizarro's misfortune. During the halftime break, Gasperini had just arranged tactics and asked the defense to focus on marking Pizarro in advance, and hinted that retaliation could be used. However, not long after the game started, he took the initiative to provoke Chen Zhuo, and
Or a deliberate foul.
There is a reason why Gasperini made arrangements to deal with Pizarro. In the first half, Totti committed a diving foul, but the Chilean midfielder took advantage of the referee's favor and repeatedly committed a foul.
He used harmful actions against the Genoa players, which angered the Genoa players to retaliate and take the card.
In terms of Roma's offensive tactics, Totti is the nominal core, but Pizarro is the actual core. He plays the role of connecting the three lines and connecting the offense and defense in the Roma team, and plays a pivotal role in the Roma team's offense and defense.
function.
Connecting the three lines and connecting offense and defense is what Totti's attacking midfielder should do originally. As Italy's unreplicable attacking midfielder, Totti has had his glory and achievements. This cannot be denied, but just like the previous analysis,
Like Del Piero, despite declining competitive form and physical fitness, he still refuses to accept his old age and cannot even accept being the second core of the team. When there is such a mismatch between psychology and real strength, the overall level of the team is dragged down.
It is certain.
Although the 30-year-old Pizarro is short in stature, he has superb skills with his feet and strong ball control ability. In the tactical system of Spalletti, Ranieri's previous Roma coach, Pizarro was already Roma's midfielder.
The core player on the field, his scheduling and organization are extremely critical.
However, injuries have always been one of Pizarro's shortcomings. Even now, Pizarro's knee surgery has not been done. It has been delayed from the Super Cup to now, which has been delayed for more than a month. Pizarro has been so strong.
With.
After Pizarro was carried off the field on a stretcher for treatment, the game continued. Ranieri felt more relieved after confirming that it was not a knee injury, and no substitutions were arranged for the time being.
Just now, the Genoa team took the initiative to kick the ball out of the boundary. Now the Roma team threw the ball to the opponent with a throw-in. Although the scene was heated, the basic etiquette between the teams was still followed by both sides.
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Due to Chen Zhuo's action just now, the boos against Genoa at the Rome Olympic Stadium were a few decibels louder. Especially when Chen Zhuo took the ball, all kinds of boos and abuses came and went, making the noisy people deaf.
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The Roma team passed the ball to Totti again. Chen Zhuo retreated to steal the ball and protected the ball with his body. When Totti pulled him from behind, Chen Zhuo fell backwards and pressed heavily on Totti.
When Totti fell, Chen Zhuo raised his hands in the air, and the referee had to call Totti for a foul.
Marcorosi did not allow Chen Zhuo to have a head-on conflict with Totti. Although Totti pulled and pushed when breaking away from Chen Zhuo, the referee would not give Totti a yellow card for such small actions.
Chen Zhuo, who was pulled away, faced the overwhelming boos, shook his head and waved his fingers arrogantly toward the stands, and shouted word by word in Italian to the Roma fans in the stands: "You have no right to say that you are fans! You guys!"
You are discrediting Roma football! You are discrediting Italian football!"
It is impossible to hear Chen Zhuo's voice in the noise of mountains and tsunamis, but lip reading experts can quickly tell more people what Chen Zhuo is saying. Chen Zhuo's mouth shape is very standard.
In fact, you don’t need a lip reader, you can figure it out by watching the slow motion carefully.
In an environment where nearly 100,000 people gather, it is very easy to be disturbed by the group and behave irrationally, forming a "collective unconsciousness". In this situation, this basic condition is almost met. For the scene
For the fans, no matter what Chen Zhuo said, this action of shaking his head and waving his fingers was a provocation to them. A large number of riot police in the stadium rushed into the stands to participate in maintaining order.
When Chen Zhuo fell down in slow motion, he opened his hands without any elbow movement, but when he fell to the ground, Chen Zhuo's body was pressed against Totti's legs, and Totti's legs fell below.
The intertwining was very painful, and he tried his best to pull and break away. It looked like he was kicking and hitting Chen Zhuo.
When the big screen showed these scenes in slow motion, the Roma fans in the stands actually cheered and applauded, and many Roma fans even pointed their thumbs down, making a death gesture in the duel.
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Chen Zhuo's provocation caused chaos on the court. Marco Rossi ran over and grabbed Chen Zhuo's shoulders and shook him a few times, signaling him not to do stupid things. Chen Zhuo shook his head and said: "Don't worry, captain, I'm sober."
Very! You see, several of their players ran to complain to the referee, and two of them supported Totti to care about his injury. Outside the field, Pizarro has not fully recovered, and their backcourt is full of holes..."
As he spoke, Chen Zhuo broke away from Marco Rossi and ran in front of the ball, shouting: "Mr. Referee! Mr. Referee!"
Surrounded by two or three Roma players who asked the referee to severely punish Chen Zhuo, the Roma players and the referee turned their heads together. Chen Zhuo spread his fingers and pointed at the ball in front of him, meaning "Is it okay?"
The referee took the opportunity and said to the Roma players: "Okay, okay, he's about to take a free kick, why don't you get back to defense quickly!"
When the Roma players started to return to defense, Chen Zhuo had already started to run. Seeing that it was too late to retreat, a Roma player simply rushed towards Chen Zhuo as a tactical interference. At most, it was ruled that he had not retreated by 9.15 meters.
Let them kick the penalty again, which will buy time for the teammates to retreat into position...
During the run-up, Chen Zhuo found a player running towards him, blocking the path of his long pass to Rafinha on the right. Moreover, this guy was so aggressive that he wanted to come over and kick him.
, Chen Zhuo changed his routine in the last step of the run-up, strengthened his calf strength, and hit the ball hard. The ball flew directly towards the chest of the Roma fans who were flying over!
"Boom!" There was a muffled sound, and the rushing Roma player was hit hard on the chest by the high-speed flying ball as if he had been shot. Due to his habit of running at high speed, after being hit by the ball, the player's body appeared.
tilted violently backwards.
After Chen Zhuo kicked the ball, he immediately made sideways jumps to dodge and protect himself in order to avoid being injured if he collided head-on with the player. Even so, Chen Zhuo did not escape. Chen Zhuo's hip joint
The replacement hit the player's body, pressing the player who had begun to lean backwards and fell heavily to the lawn...
(Four)
This scene seems familiar. The frantic fans, the noisy stands, and the players who fell to the ground after being hit by Chen Zhuo's ball. This scene also appeared once in the warm-up match against Inter Milan.
The one who had just been shot and fell to the ground was Roma's main center back, French international Mexes, who is now the absolute core of Roma's defense. Roma's defensive tactics revolve around him. As the commander of the rear, Mexes stayed behind to maintain the formation.
Complete; the footwork that ordinary defenders don't have is also his advantage. Long passes from the backcourt can often directly tear apart the opponent's defense. In this regard, he is similar to Chen Zhuo.
Compared to the player who almost fainted after being shot in the Inter Milan game, Mexers' body is obviously much better. At 1.87 meters tall and 82 kilograms in weight, he is also relatively strong.
After being hit by the ball and falling to the ground, Mexes immediately knocked Chen Zhuo off his body, then turned over and knelt on the ground, supporting his body with both hands, gasping for air with his mouth open, and his stomach kept rising.
Sour water...
Chen Zhuo obviously did not commit a foul on this ball, and the Genoa team continued to take free throws. The Roma players interfered with the ball just now and made another free throw. However, Mexes achieved his goal, and the Roma players basically retreated in place.
Meikes remained in that painful position for a full minute, and then he hunched over and moved out of the field with the help of the team doctor. He couldn't tell others about this uncomfortable feeling. In response to the team doctor's questions, Meikes was
Kes waved his hands, indicating that he should stay in this position and squat for a while. It was so uncomfortable!
Within five minutes, Chen Zhuo "killed" three Roma players in a row. Midfielder Pizarro was still receiving treatment on the sidelines and did not play. Totti was also sprayed with aerosol on his knee by the team doctor. Now the defense
Core Mexes was "indirectly injured" by Chen Zhuo again. The Roma team really doesn't know if they can continue to play this ball...
Regarding the referee's "softness", Roma fans booed unreasonably, and the referee was also very angry. Of these three goals, none of them were committed by Chen Zhuo on his own initiative or intentionally. They were all Roma's faults.
Players who provoked Chen Zhuo in the past are asking for it! In this kind of ball, you can't give Chen Zhuo a foul and give him a yellow card. That's the rhythm of wanting to change careers after enough of this profession.
Roma coach Claudio Ranieri is not a fiery person, so he scratched his head when faced with this situation. He casually said that the free kick was in Genoa's half, but now Roma has three players missing on the field, especially from the back.
The absence of core Mexes means there is a big hole in the defensive system on the field!
However, there is no timeout rule in football matches, unless there is a substitution, but these three players are not included in Ranieri's substitution plan. The relatively rigid Ranieri sent out the referee's one or two minutes to help.
With Totti, who was the least injured, and Pizarro, who was injured five or six minutes ago and still had a slight pain in his chest after exerting force, Mexes was not able to play yet, so he could only use 10 men for a while.
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In the absence of Mexes, Roma's defensive ability is undoubtedly greatly reduced, and Pizarro can only participate in the defense in a symbolic way. Although Totti also participates in the defense, he does not run or fight, so he is basically a
It's just wooden stakes. At this rate, the Roma team actually has only half a defense line left!
According to Gasperini's request, Chen Zhuo should have sent the ball to Rafinha on the right. Rafinha dribbled the ball and cut inside. Chen Zhuo moved from the center to the right. During the halftime break, he said
It's very clear.
But the default situation is different. Now the strength of the entire central axis of Roma's defense is damaged, and Mexes, the core of the defense, is not even on the court. This situation was not available when Gasperini was making tactical arrangements!
Chen Zhuo made a set of gestures to his teammates, then raised his hand to Rafinha from a distance, took a run, but passed it to the left midfielder Criscito who was closer to him, and then quickly followed a straight line from the middle.
Running forward, Criscito dribbles the ball from the left and cuts inside, and Kaladze goes down. This is another offensive tactic!
Yes, that's right! Pizarro's defense is on this line. With only half his strength left, he can't stop Criscito from cutting inside. Then, whether Criscito moves to the wing,
Whether Kaladze crosses the ball or knocks it across to Chen Zhuo who intervenes in the middle, it is a challenge for the Roma defense without Mexes!
When defending Criscito's cutback, Pizarro committed another foul and tackled Criscito. This foul was so obvious that it was unjustifiable for the referee not to impose a penalty. Criscito had already passed the ball.
Salo, Criscito's tackle was a whole beat too late, and he also raised his legs. Even if he was given a straight red card, it wouldn't be an exaggeration!
After hesitating again and again, the referee gritted his teeth and gave him a verbal warning without even giving a yellow card, because Pizarro already had a yellow card in the first half, and even if he was given a yellow card, he would be sent off...
The referee's performance has been turned from criticism to scolding by many fans. Mainland fans commented on weibo that the referee's law enforcement level is not even as good as some referees in the Chinese Super League. This kind of naked favoritism for the home team is obvious.
It looks like either he has taken a lot of money from Roma, or he is a loyal "brainless fan" of Totti.
After repeated confirmations and disputes about the location of the foul, the final penalty point was no less than 3 meters further back than the foul point! It was originally supposed to be 37,78 meters, which was the edge of Chen Zhuo's "best shooting range" of 35 meters.
, but now the penalty spot is more than 40 meters away, which makes it a little more difficult to score directly.
More importantly, although Pizarro's foul turned Genoa's backcourt free kick into a frontcourt free kick, the controversial time in the middle, coupled with the repeated confirmation of the penalty spot and the distance from the wall, further delayed the game.
After two or three minutes, until Mexes returned to the field, the referee blew the whistle to indicate that the free kick could be taken...
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The overwhelming boos and curses hit Chen Zhuo's eardrums. He retreated fifteen or six meters behind the ball, leaving a long approach distance.
After the referee's whistle sounded and the moment Chen Zhuo started his run-up, the decibel level of the noise at Rome's Olympic Stadium was almost like the roar of a jet engine, as if it was about to overturn the roof of the stands of the stadium, which can accommodate 100,000 people.
Chen Zhuo ran at his own pace, swinging his legs, and his calves hit the ball like a steel whip... (To be continued.)
