green shooter

Chapter 57 Backward
Catania, like Palermo, is a team from Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea in southern Italy.This is a very inconspicuous small team, without any brilliant historical record, and most of the fans are locals from the small city of Catania.

Catania, who has been in the Italian Football League B for a long time, finally returned to Serie A again after 2006 years in the 2007-22 season, that is, last year.The newly promoted team that had just been promoted to Serie A performed well that season. With their excellent record at home, after 20 rounds of the league, the team actually ranked fourth.

However, after the riots in Sicily on February 2007, 2, the situation took a turn for the worse. Before the home game against Palermo in Sicily, hostile fans from both sides met and broke out a fierce conflict. The conflict resulted in the death of a policeman. Afterwards, Italian Football Association Commissioner Luca Pancali canceled all domestic football-related activities, including all league and national team games.

The president of the Catania club, Pulvellenti, has announced his departure from the football world.When the league resumed, Catania was sentenced to the remaining home games of the season to be held behind closed doors in a neutral stadium, and the team's state also declined sharply, winning 12 consecutive games until the end of April 2007. It defeated Udinese 4-1.

At the end of the season, Catania only won the 13th place. In the last round of the league, they defeated their relegation rival Chievo 2-1 to secure their place in Serie A, only two points above the relegation zone.

How to put it, our domestic fans need to learn the loyalty and support of foreign fans for the team, but we must not learn these bad things. Violent conflicts and even people's lives are lost, which actually violates the meaning of football.

Of course, many people may have heard of Sicily, which has beautiful scenery and simple folk customs. The famous Italian mafia base is located in Sicily.

Even today, the local law and order is really not good. If someone travels to Italy, don't leave alone, especially girls. Don't patronize to enjoy the beautiful scenery, you must pay attention to your own safety.

Back to this ordinary game, the players of the Torino team were a little confused and didn't know how to play.The reason is that the opponent, Catania, who was playing away, completely gave up the ball and adopted a defensive tactic, which is simply to put the bus.

In previous matches, only the Turin team was the one who placed the bus for others. Today, an opponent finally placed himself in a position weaker than the Torino team, and placed a bus in front of the goal for the Turin team.

The coach of the Turin team, Novellino, also had some headaches. He couldn't think of a good way to deal with it for a while, so he could only wait for the halftime break to make adjustments.

Speaking of training the team's defense, coach Novellino is a little confident in leading the team to fight back against a strong team, but now he is really at a loss to let them play ball-handling offense. Can he play ball-handling with these people on the field?he can not!
Some teams are like this. When they counterattack, they are accurate, but if they encounter an opponent who is unreasonable and just does not attack and defends with all their strength, they will not kick at once, because they have never practiced it. Even if the opponent gives them the ball, they are useless.

Turin always hit the outside of the opponent's penalty area every time they attacked, but they were blocked by Catania's layer after layer of defense and couldn't get in anyway.

Zhu Hantao ran back and forth weakly in the frontcourt. Facing Catania's dense defense, there was no space at all, and there were opponents' players everywhere.

No matter who it is, Rosina or Di Michele, as long as at least two players from Catania come up to grab the ball, they will not be able to get the ball.

In the No.203 minute of the game, Catania quickly counterattacked after stealing the ball from Di Michele, and the ball was passed directly behind the Torino defense.

There is a problem with the position of Torino goalkeeper Fontana, but it is no wonder that he is only a substitute goalkeeper after all. He rarely has the chance to play this season. Even the main goalkeeper Sereni can't guarantee 100% to block this kind of single-handed goal.

How to play this way, defending with all your strength and then looking for an opportunity to steal the opponent, isn't it a tactic that the Torino team used before? Why did they get beaten like this by others today.

After being scored, coach Novellino took a deep look at the opposite side of the bench. The Catania coach Silvio Baldini, who was very calm when his team took the lead, did not celebrate much. This old guy has something.

"Steady first, don't rush to attack, handle the ball reasonably, and minimize mistakes!" Regardless of whether the players on the field can hear it, Coach Novellino shouted loudly from the sidelines.

As Catania scored the first goal to take the lead, the Turin team gradually calmed down, and their impatience eased a little. They stopped attacking blindly according to the instructions of the head coach.

"The Catania team in Turin led [-]-[-] with the goal of striker Martinez. The Turin team where Zhu Hantao belongs seems to have found no way."

"Hey, it's really fun. Let's watch this game. Catania's tactics are very successful. They don't give you a chance to play your best counterattack, and just give up the ball. The formation shrinks and stabilizes the defense. This makes the Turin team very uncomfortable."

"How does the director think the Turin team should adjust?"

"The Turin team really needs to make tactical adjustments, and it will definitely not work if they continue to play like this. I think, hehe, as long as they can play the offensive ability of these players in the frontcourt, the Turin team still has a chance."

There was a strange scene at the Turin Olympic Stadium. Since Canania had already taken a one-goal lead, he did not attack. Almost all players retreated to the penalty area, leaving no room for the Turin team.

After the Turin team was hit by the opponent's counterattack just now and stole one from behind, they were a little too afraid to press all forward to the opponent's half to organize the attack.

In this confrontation, both teams did not attack, and the game scene was very ugly. The more than 1 spectators at the scene were not motivated. Only the most loyal fans of the Turin team in the South Stand were still shouting loudly, cheering for the home team.

Seeing that the first half was coming to an end, the referee Nicola gave 2 minutes stoppage time, Zhu Hantao made eye contact with his teammates, and Di Michele and Rosina nodded in understanding.

Rosina dribbles the ball on the left side of the penalty area. Rocco Sabato is in charge of defending Catania's right-back position. He is actually a left-back. Due to the tightness of the team's right-back personnel, let him defend on the right side today.

Di Michele was cruising down the right flank and Catania left-back Juan Vargas had to come over and stare at him.

The Peruvian is a very characteristic wide player. He is fast and strong. He has a pass but his defensive ability is average. A typical South American player is strong in offense and weak in defense.

However, this game has not given him any chance to perform so far. He must also follow the coach's arrangement and stay in the backcourt to be responsible for the defense on the side.

Zhu Hantao was standing in the penalty area, followed closely by Catania's central defender Trizzi. At this time, he stepped back to the edge of the penalty area. Trizzi did not follow and stood in front of the goal in the penalty area.

Rosina took two steps and crossed the ball to Di Michele, who suddenly appeared near the top of the penalty area and got the ball.

Catania's Ghanaian black midfielder Edu Saiyi and the experienced veteran David Bayoko greeted him. Di Michele attracted the two Catania midfielders to his body and immediately passed the ball back to Corini before breaking into the penalty area.

At the same time, Rosina also inserted into Catania's penalty area in an instant. Now there are three Torino offensive players in Catania's penalty area, and the two defensive midfielders were pulled out of the penalty area just now. Only two central defenders can stop them.

Corini sent a long pass into the penalty area and Torino had three points. Can they seize this opportunity to equalize at the end of the first half?

It was Dimichele who got the point!Di Michele, who is less than 1.7 meters tall, does not have the ability to head the ball. He can only choose to stop the ball and hit the goal, but there is not so much time in the penalty area for him to adjust his shot.

"Alas~" Zhu Hantao didn't need to look any further to know that the ball must be gone. The ball was not played like this. How could it be possible to score like this.

Sure enough, Di Michele's rushing shot didn't make any effort at all, and the weak shot was easily pressed down by Catania goalkeeper Ciropolito.

"At the end of the first half, Catania, who played away, scored a goal, and the score was zero to one. The home team is ahead, and the Turin team is temporarily behind."

"Hey, it depends on how the head coach of the midfielder Torino will make adjustments."

"Okay, audience friends, please take a short rest. I will be right back after the commercial. The second half of the game will continue to be brought by me and Director Zhang."

Zhu Hantao walked to the locker room. In the first half, there was nothing he could do. There was almost no chance to pass the ball to him. It was rare that one or two people would follow him when he got the ball. He was really unable to play with a big guy all over his body.

I still like to play against strong teams, because strong teams must attack Turin. It is impossible to have so many players involved in defense, and generally rely on overall tactics to defend. Defensive players also use their own experience and skills. Zhu Hantao can always find opportunities as long as he keeps running and looking for loopholes.

Playing against Catania, they were too unreasonable. They piled up people to defend, and almost let the [-]-pound Italian man hang directly on Zhu Hantao's body. The defense was really airtight, which made the Turin players feel uncomfortable.

Back in the locker room, the morale of the Turin team was low, they were all tensely relaxing their muscles to replenish energy, and they were not interested in chatting. The head coach Novellino walked in with his assistant coach, and the audience was quiet.

"We didn't play well in the first half. We were attacked by the opponent and lost a point first, but it doesn't matter, it's just a goal. I believe we can beat them after adjusting in the second half."

"Let me first apologize to everyone. I gave Catania a chance because my work was not in place and there were tactical problems. Then I will talk about your problem. Why can't I play with the ball after more than ten league matches? Are you only able to defend and counterattack?"

"It's okay to press up, and the defensive line must be unified. If the opponent intends to hit us behind us, just make an offside. Haven't you practiced it before? How about you? Are you stupid? Paul was the one who dragged you behind? What were you thinking at that time?"

Delefiola was named and criticized by the head coach, and he lowered his head and remained silent. He was indeed responsible for the conceded goal.

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