Chapter 128 Test
With Degan's Atlanta this season, it feels like the kind of crazy team. Once the momentum is played, it will be difficult to suppress it. After Degan equalized the score, Atlanta's offensive became more and more serious. It is getting more and more fierce, and the scene looks like they are even playing against the Roma team.
The backcourt kept kicking high balls, and they played directly in the penalty area of the Roma team. Who let them have a strong center like Digan? High, Mex can only follow the non-stop frog jumping behind him.
Speaking of which, there is nothing unusual about Atlanta's tactics, but they are very targeted. Although they are not good-looking and have no ornamental value, they are very effective.
These Roma fans, who were as lively as the Chinese New Year just now, are also quite honest. Although they are football farts, they can tell anyway, knowing that this final is definitely not as good as they thought.
The direction of the wind changed in just one shot. You must know that these people were still praising the might of the Roma team before, as if no one in the world could stop them from winning the championship.
Unexpectedly, Degan scored a goal at a critical moment, and the situation on the court immediately changed drastically.
After Digan equalized the score early, although the Roma team's offense was still vigorous under the leadership of Totti, but once Atlanta launched a counterattack, the Roma team immediately seemed helpless, Mex's ability was not enough question, but Digan suppressed him firmly.
Now Spalletti can't sit comfortably on the coach's bench. Ever since Degan equalized the score, he got up from his seat and walked to the sidelines. He hasn't returned yet, with his brows furrowed, thinking about the situation on the field. How to break it.
Judging from the scene, Roma's ball possession rate still has an advantage, but what's the use of ball possession rate at this time, just thunder but no rain, can't score goals, and the goal is still under the test of Atlanta.
Spalletti has always been a pragmatic head coach. What he wants is not the ball possession rate, but the offensive efficiency. No matter how many shots, no goals are useless.
On the other hand, Atlanta played simply and rudely. Every time the high ball was kicked from the backcourt, as long as other players responded in time, they could always form a shot, which caused Spalletti a headache.
Panucci and Chivu don't dare to go up and participate in the attack now, because no matter who Mex and Ferrari are, they can't deal with Digan, a powerful center, when they are alone, while Pacini and Montolivo, Noah Cherino's counterattack speed is very fast. If the two full-backs rush up at this time, it is very likely that they will not be able to recover.
Obviously, this situation cannot continue forever, but how to solve it?
To be honest, Spalletti has not thought of what to do. The only thing he is looking forward to now is that Atlanta's crazy attack rhythm can slow down by itself.
Although Atlanta's tactics are effective, their style of play also consumes a lot of physical energy, because the Atlanta players in the defensive counterattack always have to repeatedly sprint from back to front, and then from front to back. The consumption is obviously much greater than that of the Roman team.
Knowing that the game can be dragged into overtime, as the physical consumption intensifies at that time, the little physical energy left will not be able to support them to continue this kind of back and forth.
By then, what will be left of the weak offensive Atlanta?
Isn't what they can rely on most now is a sharp counterattack?
Atlanta without counterattack efficiency is like a tiger without fangs and sharp teeth, but it is just a slightly bigger cat, maybe not as scary as a cat.
After making up his mind, Spalletti also relaxed a lot, made several gestures to the players on the field, then turned and walked back to the coach's bench.
Spalletti's decision is undoubtedly correct. Atlanta's physical reserves were very imperfect before the start of this season. In the second half of the season, it was entirely luck and Degan's outstanding performance that supported the team's progress. .
Their physical fitness has long been a problem, and now they use this kind of tactics that consume physical energy, and the problem soon appeared.
At the 80th minute of the game, Lazzari rushed back from the frontcourt to the backcourt again, cleared the ball at Ducourt's feet, and then fell to the ground and didn't get up. Instead, he pinched his left leg with both hands. Calf, the expression looks very painful.
Seeing the referee Collina, the whistle sounded immediately.
The Atlanta player Maxwell who was closest to him ran to pull his leg up, straightened it and then pressed hard. This is the simplest and most effective treatment for people with calf cramps.
Roma fans will of course think that this is the Atlanta player deliberately delaying the game time, because it has been 80 minutes, and there are boos at the scene, which are all issued by the Roma fans.
Contrary to the views of the fans, the Roma players have already received Spalletti's instruction, and they are not in a hurry. One by one, they walked to the sidelines to replenish water. Dacourt stood outside the sideline with a football in his arms. , Watching Atlanta's players rushing around, without urging them.
Anyway, procrastinating the game time now is good for Roma, but Atlanta should hurry up. If they don't take advantage of the momentum after the equalizer and score goals as soon as possible, the morale will gradually drop.
At that point, Atlanta would be on Rome's chopping block.
So the Roma players don't mind at all whether they really have cramps or use cramps to delay the game time. On the contrary, they are happy to see the results.
After being dealt with in an emergency, Lazari stood up again and entered the game. They now all know that they must take advantage of this momentum and score another goal in the shortest possible time.
However, judging from the way Lazari walks, he is still a little limping, and the impact of cramps is still on him.
Seeing this, Mandolini did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly asked Zenoni to warm up. He had already planned to replace Lazzari. After Nocerino came to the team, Zenoni changed from an absolute main force to a As a substitute player, he is slightly inferior in terms of strength alone, but Zenoni is stronger than Lazzari in terms of offensive ability. Mandolini is replacing him at this time, and he definitely hopes to use Zenoni's physical strength to attack the Roma team. defense.
Mandolini also knows that the team's physical fitness cannot last for too long. Atlanta has played with such high intensity for a whole season. For the first league championship in the team's history, it has almost exhausted all of Atlanta's energy. It is really here. At the end of the road, perhaps a single straw can crush them to death. The Atlanta players on the field now are completely fighting for willpower with the Roma team.
Perhaps only Digan's physical fitness is considered good. Since Montolivo returned from injury, he has been playing games intermittently. The role of the player is really important, and Mandolini is planning to replace him now, let Jimenez play, and use his physical strength and speed to finally hit the Roma team's defense.
Mandolini's side is planning a substitution, and Palesti is also planning to make a substitution over there. He decided to replace the Greek Delas, who is the highest defensive player in the Roma team, three centimeters taller than Digan.
Mex is obviously not Deegan's opponent on the field now. Although De Las's turning speed is slow, and when defending, his movements are rough and easy to get cards, but at this time, it is obvious to use the tower of De Lass to deal with Deegan. It couldn't be more appropriate.
The head coaches of the two sides strategized in the last ten minutes of the game. Atlanta decided to fight hard and finish the opponent within 90 minutes of the game. Spalletti wanted to avoid the edge and use drag tactics to drag down Atlanta's physical fitness. , and then beat Atlanta in overtime.
Spalletti wanted to procrastinate, but forgot one person, that is Degan. Will Degan give him a chance to procrastinate?
Degan is also very aware of the fact that the physical strength of his teammates is rapidly depleting. Of course, he can't help them retain their physical strength, nor can he replace them and gallop all over the field, both attacking and defending.
What can he do?
It's simple, score a goal!
As a striker, as the team's main scorer, Degan only needs to score a goal. As long as he can score another overtake goal, the game will be won.
However, if Degan wants to score another goal, it is obviously difficult for him alone. It is impossible for him to complete that kind of 1VN super goal in every game. That kind of goal not only requires strength, but also luck. Now if you want to score a goal , He needs the support of everyone, especially his good friends Pacini and Montolivo.
But now when he turned his head and saw Montolivo running crookedly and shaking his head helplessly, Degan hurried over.
"What's the matter, Ricardo?"
Montolivo shook his head, laughed at himself, and said, "Sorry! Rhodes! I may not be able to continue the game!"
As he spoke, he thumped his leg. Everyone in the team knew that Montolivo's previous leg injury had never completely healed, but in order to help the team compete for the championship, he made a hasty effort, and every game had to rely on Closed needle analgesia.
Degan also knew about Montolivo's current physical condition, so he patted him on the back: "I'm surprised that you can persist for 80 minutes, Ricardo! It doesn't matter, leave the rest to me Bar."
Montolivo looked very depressed, he lowered his head, so Degan just put his arms around his neck, whispering in his ear to comfort him, and the two walked to the sidelines together.
There, Jimenez was ready, standing on the sidelines after the warm-up, waiting for Montolivo to come down, and standing with him was Zenoni, who was ready to replace Lazzari.
The Atlanta fans at the scene burst into applause when they saw Montolivo and Lazzari leave the field. They knew very well that Montolivo and Lazzari had done their best for this championship. The two also raised their hands high and applauded in response to the enthusiastic fans.
Roma also took advantage of this opportunity to complete the substitutions. Dellas replaced Mex. Lazzari and Montolivo ended up with physical exhaustion and physical problems. Mex was due to psychological problems. The problem is, he was completely suppressed by Degan throughout the game, and there was nothing he could do about it. This was a huge blow to a big star who was used to being praised by people.
The game restarted, and the Roma team advanced along the middle lane unhurriedly, and they were not in a hurry to score the ball into the 30-meter area of the Atlanta team. They just kept wandering outside. What they have to do now is not easily Lose the ball and prevent Atlanta from counterattacking.
Atlanta wanted to attack, but because of the rapid decline in the team's physical fitness, Degan obviously felt that his support in the frontcourt was decreasing, and even Pacini couldn't rush forward every time he counterattacked, so Many times he can only fight alone.
The reason why Degan's long pass and counterattack is threatening is because Degan has the support of his teammates around him. He jumped up to fight for the first spot and ferry the football to his teammates. It is because of this cooperation that he was able to give Roma The line of defense creates a threat.
But now that Montolivo is off the field, Paccini has no energy, and Jimenez can't stand alone when he comes up, and he often has to return to defense.
In many cases, Degan has to find a way to solve the troubles and create opportunities by himself, instead of waiting for his teammates to pass the ball to him. He's working harder than before, trying his best to create chances.
Although the situation was getting more and more critical, Digan didn't even frown. Even if he was alone in front of him and lacked support, he still had to run. If he wanted to be the winner, he must first not give up, and then he had hope. If you even give up on yourself, then even God cannot save you.
Although the current situation is suppressed, there is nothing to complain about. Isn't that how he got here in most cases throughout the season?
This is just one of the necessary bridges in a game. If you can't even cope with such a little difficulty, why do you want to win the championship.
Atlanta once again launched a long pass from the backcourt, and now Atlanta's tactic looks more helpless.
Degan grabbed the point, and Draas didn't come up to compete with Degan for the header at the first time, because he knew that it would be a little difficult to grab the ball, and Degan lacked supporting teammates around him, even if he The first point was controlled by Digan. As long as he could block Digan's way forward, Digan would be helpless. It would be so easy to single out the entire defense line alone.
Digan obviously knew this too. Although Paccini was running hard, he was too far away. Jimenez pulled to the side, but was defended by Paccini.
So Digan turned around and took a long shot, but the ball was way too far!
When he shot just now, it was too reluctant. Although Digan has outstanding ability, as a striker, he needs strong support from the midfield.
But Digan didn't have the heart to be upset, he didn't have time to worry about it now, what he wanted was to score goals, and what he wanted was to win the game.
As the game progressed, Atlanta's counterattacks became less and less, and it was obvious that they were at the end of their strength.
Roma's confidence was high, and once, Totti almost broke the goal. If Taibi and the goal post hadn't played bravely together, Atlanta would have lost.
At this time, Mandolini on the sidelines also seemed extremely anxious. In this situation, he hoped that someone could stand up.
Atlanta needs someone to step up and say the word.
Albertini got the ball in the backcourt, and the Roma players rushed up to surround him again. They often did this during this period, making it very difficult for him to play forward.
Seeing that he couldn't pass the football directly to the front, Albertini had to pass the football to Nocerino next to him.
At the same time, Nocerino was also being watched. It was even more difficult for Nocerino to play the ball forward, so he had to pass the football back to Albertini, who didn't care about adjustments. When he was running, he looked up and observed, and found Digan's position.
When Nocerino passed the ball, he kicked the football with one kick. The ball almost ran through the entire stadium, and it was a ground ball. If it was a high ball, it would take too long to fly in the air. The Roman defenders would have enough time to deploy their defenses, so it would be difficult to catch them by surprise. And even if the high ball is passed, it will only let Degan fight for the first landing point. No one can get the second landing point. If the second landing point cannot be controlled, this kind of attack is meaningless at all. Right to the Roma team.
So Albertini chose the ground ball this time, so that at least the football can reach Digan's feet, and there is still a chance to fight.
Degan received the pass from Albertini on the right side of the center circle. In front of him was the entire half of the pitch and several defensive players of the Roma team.
And his teammates are still far away from him, and it is difficult to form a cooperation. Basically, Digan is now a loner and can only choose to fight alone.
There was not much time left in the game, Degan made up his mind, turned around and pushed the football forward, started to accelerate, and rushed towards the half of the Roman team with the football.
Roma's defensive players immediately began to retreat, some defended, some supported, and some were ready to form protection at any time before retreating to the penalty area.
Spalletti also rushed to the sidelines, shouting loudly: "Force him to the side! Make him to the side!"
Spalletti knew the danger of Degan, and seeing that his plan was about to succeed, he didn't want any accidents at this time.
At this moment, in front of Degan, there are all enemies, and he charged forward without hesitation.
Degan has a big heart, and he likes to play the role of a hero very much. The more unfavorable the situation is, the more confident he is. At this time, the strict defense of the Roman team is like a little boy on the road to becoming a king in his eyes. After crossing the obstacle, his road to world champion will be one step closer.
bring it on! Roman! I am not afraid of you!