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Chapter 201
After winning a brilliant away game, Naples did not continue to win in one go. After the second round of the league, Serie A and even major European leagues have entered a one-and-a-half-month intermission period. This period is a match day stipulated by FIFA. There will be two European Championship qualifiers during this period, and teams from other continents will also have friendly matches to play.

There are not many international players in Naples. Chu Ran returned to the Chinese national team to participate in a warm-up match, Maldonado returned to Paraguay, Grieg LS Laieta and Boliciano returned to Uruguay, and Hamsik returned to Slovakia. Although Ravic performed well in the last game, he could not get a place in the talented Argentine national team.

There are not many players who have left, so the training in Naples has not been greatly affected, and the daily training continues as usual.

Long Bisheng worked hard to adapt to the training of the new season. He already felt it in the last game. The tactics used by Rhea this season are quite different from last season, focusing more on defense. In this case, Zarajeta, who has better experience, running positions and speed than himself, has the upper hand in the competition for the main position. Last season, his outstanding performance is more because Naples has a considerable advantage in offense. Players on the wings and midfield can provide themselves with a steady stream of crosses and assists, so that they can maximize His characteristic.In this season, Naples' first consideration is defense. In this case, a striker with excellent personal ability to create opportunities and seize opportunities is Rea's first choice.

It’s not that Reia was conservative, but that in the first round of the league, Cagliari’s aggressive home attack was defeated by two counterattacks by the mid-lower team. In the second away game, defensive counterattack tactics were used to defeat the veteran team Udinese with five goals.
No need to think about it, Rea has already made his choice-of course it is a three-pointer. For a Serie A team, playing beautifully is not as important as a real three-pointer. What's more, Naples is not yet capable of playing really beautiful football.

Rhea's choice naturally has his own considerations, but for Long Bisheng, he has to work hard to adapt to the team's new tactical play, so that he can better adapt to the requirements of the head coach.

Training and maintaining state are things that Long Bisheng can do by himself, but the latter point—that is, if there is any problem with the competitor, he cannot control it, it depends on his luck.

Last season, Long Bisheng had good luck, but this season, his luck was not so good.

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On September [-]th, the third round of Serie A, Naples played at home against another strong mid-range team, Sampdoria. In the first half, Zarajeta received a free kick from Hamsik and hit the crossbar with a header. Then, before the end of the first half, he took advantage of a mistake in the opponent's defense to push the goal and opened the scoring. In the second half, Zarajeta showed his delicate skills and sense of cooperation as a South American player. The score was locked at two to zero.

On September 23, in the fourth round of Serie A, Naples drew [-]-[-] with Empoli in an away game. Although Zarajeta did not score, he kept causing trouble for Empoli's defense. There was also a wonderful volley after a chest stop that was blocked by the opposing goalkeeper.

Unbeaten in three rounds and without conceding a goal, Naples' defensive counterattack tactics have shown their strong strength. After four league rounds, they have accumulated seven points and ranked fourth in the standings, second only to Roma, Inter Milan and Fiorentina. They overwhelmed Juventus with a goal difference advantage-this result is quite amazing for a newly promoted team!

In these three rounds of the league, Long Bisheng sat on the bench for 270 minutes solidly—Sarajeta’s condition is really good, maybe it’s the reason why the Uruguay striker was suffocated when he was always on the bench when he was in Juventus.

After winning the ball, Rhea's life is naturally easier. Although the season has just started, being ranked fourth after four rounds doesn't mean anything—it's not uncommon for a newly promoted team to occupy the top of the standings after the first few rounds and finally fall to the point of relegation—but at least it is a good encouragement for the morale of the team and the confidence of the fans in the club.

So in the fifth round against Livorno at home, Rea also confidently continued to use the main lineup and tactics of the previous games, but he seemed to forget one thing. The opponents in those two victories were relatively strong and good at attacking. At home, Livorno can be regarded as an absolute underdog. Naples' defensive counterattack is useless, and the opponent's defensive counterattack is almost the same...

Livorno started this season poorly. In the first two league rounds, they lost [-]-[-] to Juventus and [-]-[-] to Palermo. After a half-month intermission, they recovered and drew two games in a row. In the last round, they led the defending champion Inter Milan twice at home. Although they drew with their opponents with Ibrahimovic's brace, their state is still gradually improving.

When the players came on the court, Rea was very happy to send them on their shoulders to let them play well, but after three or 10 minutes, his expression gradually changed-Livorno, who knew Naples' counterattack might be powerful, wisely adopted a defensive counterattack to deal with Naples' defensive counterattack in the away game.

Livorno's defenders stared at the outstanding performance of Sarajeta before, and in the densely populated Livorno half, Lavezzi's speed was useless. Only the organization of Hamsik's midfielder could create some threats, but this threat did not seem to cause too much threat to the gate guarded by Ameria.

Seeing that the first half was zero-to-zero, there were a lot of ball possession and shots in the frontcourt, but the threat was very small. On the contrary, the Livorno striker led by Tavano kept creating dangerous situations in the back line.

During the intermission, Rhea finally remembered Long Bisheng—the Chinese kid who scored the most goals last season but was almost forgotten by him this season.

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"Aaron! Work hard!" Chu Ran walked to the field with Long Bisheng while arranging his gloves: "Although you haven't played much in a month, but judging by your usual training performance, you should be in good physical condition."

Long Bisheng made a gesture to show off his muscles: "Always be ready!"

Long Bisheng was very excited to play for the first time this season—this is the time he was waiting for. When his competitors did not perform well or the team was in trouble, it was time for him to fight for his main position—the competition in the professional league is like this, the cake is so big, if you want to eat a piece of it, someone will not be able to eat it.

After playing, Long Bisheng realized that Serie A is different from Serie B (nonsense). Livorno’s two starting central defenders are Grandoni and Gallante. Although these two are not too famous, they are both veterans of Serie A. Moreover, both of them have played for Inter Milan. His form is not good, but the opponent is really difficult to deal with, especially in the case of returning to the defense with all his strength.

Faced with this situation, Long Bisheng was not in a hurry. He already knew that keeping a calm mind in the game is the most important thing, and now Naples has a strong midfielder. All he has to do is wait for his teammates to create opportunities for him.

"What are my strengths?" Long Bisheng considered while running. Compared with Glendoni and Galante, his experience is far behind, but his advantages are also obvious. One is youth, and the other is physical fitness and collision. After all, Glendoni and Galante are both veterans over [-] years old.

After figuring this out, Long Bisheng began to look for every opportunity to physically confront the opponent—Naples had much more attacks than the opponent, and such opportunities would naturally not be rare. Soon Grandoni and Galante could hardly resist Long Bisheng's strange power.

Under the unreasonable collision of Long Bisheng, Livorno's defense line was also a little loose. Fortunately, the veteran Ghanaian Kufuor, who only transferred from Newcastle this year on a free transfer, came back from the position of right back to temporarily stabilize the situation.

"This kid's body is really good, and he should be sent out in such a situation in the future." Reya smiled and said to the assistant coach beside him.

(End of this chapter)