Fame with a ball

In the 13-14 season, the second round of Serie A, Juventus played against Sampdoria at home.

Because the UEFA Champions League group stage will start in three days, and we still have to challenge Werder Bremen away, so in this game, Capello put half of the team's main players on the bench.

Samptoria is a traditional strong team in Serie A. In those years of Serie A football, they could occasionally go to the European arena for a turn, and even broke into the Champions League final once, but unfortunately they failed to win the cup.Italian marshal Lippi and Mancini have all played for it.

In fact, none of the teams that can stay in the top league all the year round is a good one. Juventus, half of the team's main force failed to play, wants to successfully capture the sailors (the nickname of the Sang team), even if they have the advantage of playing at home. very very difficult.

In addition, Samptoria's playing style is a beautiful offensive football that is rare in Italy, so Juventus played a 442 concrete defensive tactic in this game. They don't want to win. As long as the game can be tied, Juventus made money.

Lin Zhigao and Verratti sat side by side, observing the situation on the court while talking in a low voice.

Verratti is dancing and describing to Lin Zhigao the embarrassment of De Qie Lie's public courtship to Cecily, but was rejected, and his movements are cheerful like monkeys.When he raised his head unexpectedly, he saw Capello standing in front of them, frowning and looking unfriendly.

Verratti immediately fell silent: "Teach, coach..."

Capello sat down next to Verratti and asked blankly: "Are you happy that the team is behind?"

Verratti looked at the scoreboard and suddenly realized that just as he was dancing with Lin Zhigao, Samptoria striker Nicola Pozzi scored a goal, and Juventus is currently one point behind .

"I'm sorry, boss. I just forgot to pay attention to the situation on the field." Verratti's eyes suddenly lit up: "Why don't you send me on the field? I will definitely play well to make up for my mistake just now!"

Capello thought for a moment and said, "I'll talk about it after I observe for a while."

The first half ended with a score of 0:1. After the start of the second half, Capello fine-tuned the team's formation. Iaquinta and Vucinic formed an offensive duo, but because Ta has been on the field for 45 minutes. His physical strength gradually weakened after the start of the second half, and most of the team's central and defensive players were still sitting on the bench. After 60 minutes, Juventus still failed to equalize the score.

The Italian commentator muttered to the microphone: "Could it be that Capello is really going to give up this league game for the Champions League match in three days? He hasn't shown signs of substitutions yet. In fact, based on Lin's physical fitness Look, if he plays now, it won't affect his state in the Champions League group stage three days later. We all know that Lin's physique is amazing, and he can't see how he is panting after playing the whole game. However, this may also explain from the side, Coach Capello really cares about this season's Champions League, he wants to put an end to all possible foreseeable unfavorable factors..."

Just when the commentator's voice just fell, Capello suddenly stood up from his seat.

Lin Zhigao and Verratti immediately stared at his every move with wide eyes, and at the same time released a strong longing wave in their eyes, hoping to impress Capello and let him play.

Knowing that the number of substitutions is limited, Capello is unlikely to replace both of them at once, so the front of the two is a good buddy with shoulders and backs, and behind it is you pulling my jersey and I pulling your ball. When Capello didn’t notice, he still glared at him from time to time—these childish actions stunned the fans in the stands behind the bench. Once it is down, it will be uploaded to Youtube when it is ready to go home.

After standing on the edge of the court and walking around, Capello strode towards the bench and waved his hand: "Go and warm up!"

Lin Zhigao rushed to the warm-up area excitedly, but before he could run two times, Capello grabbed his jersey collar: "I'm not talking about you, it's Verratti."

Verratti cheered, made a face at Lin Zhigao, and then ran to warm up like flying.

Lin Zhigao returned to the bench wearily.

Capello walked slowly and sat beside him. After a moment of silence, he suddenly said: "I asked Verratti to warm up, are you angry?"

Lin Zhigao glanced at Capello, shook his head and said, "No."

"You are not allowed to play in the hope that you will be in a good state in the Champions League three days later." Capello explained a sentence that is rare in a century.

"But." Lin Zhigao thought for a while, and still said: "Even if I play the whole game today, it won't affect my state three days later."

"Everything happens just in case."

"Then I promise..."

"You can't make any guarantees for things that haven't happened yet." Capello glanced at Lin Zhigao lightly and said, "You don't want to miss any league games because you want to be the top scorer?"

"...Yes." Lin Zhigao licked his lower lip, and looked at Capello's expression carefully: "If I lose to a forward who is really stronger than me, I will be convinced. Less, and lost the Golden Boot. I know that Ibrahimovic will definitely play the entire league in Milan, without missing a game, and the newspapers mentioned it."

"AC Milan was assigned to Group G during the draw this year, and they have great hopes of qualifying."

Lin Zhigao looked at Capello, not understanding why he suddenly mentioned the Champions League.

"The top scorer in Serie A is nothing. There are five Golden Boot awards in the five major leagues every year. There are also Russian, Scottish, and Portuguese leagues... many, many leagues. However, there is only one top scorer in the Champions League."

Lin Zhigao stuttered suddenly: "I, that, the top scorer in the Champions League, this is too..."

"To be honest, I don't think it is so difficult for you to get the top scorer in Serie A." Capello shrugged: "But the Champions League Golden Boot is more challenging than the League Golden Boot, isn't it?"

After saying this, Capello stood up and went back to his coach's bench.

After Lin Zhigao stayed for a few seconds, he suddenly realized - Capello just said that it is not a problem for him to win the league golden boot?Even still inspiring him to challenge for the Champions League Golden Boot? !

God, this iron-blooded coach has not been dropped!

Lin Zhigao couldn't help shouting at Capello who was leaving: "Boss, are you particularly optimistic about me?"

Capello's footsteps almost staggered—was there someone so cheeky to ask the question?

……

As mentioned earlier, in the UEFA Champions League, it is far more advantageous to go first and then host than to first host and then away.Now because Juventus is listed as the first seed echelon, it is rare to enjoy such treatment in the Champions League group stage.

On September 9, the first leg of the UEFA Champions League group stage, Juventus challenged Werder Bremen away.

Werder Bremen is a Bundesliga team based in the city of Bremen, a city in northwestern Germany not far from Hamburg.The performance of this team has been ups and downs. When it is good, it can often come to the Champions League to play soy sauce. When it is not good, it even has the last train in the league.

Klose, Diego, Bauman and other superstars spent their career peaks here, as well as the current Real Madrid superstar Ozil, who originally played for this club and only transferred to Real Madrid after the World Cup in South Africa to go.

As soon as the plane landed in Bremen, Lin Zhigao felt the difference between here and other places.Bear the brunt of course is the weather, Turin in September is still very hot, there is no pressure to go out in short-sleeved shorts, but in Bremen, people here have already put on long-sleeved jackets.

The Bundesliga is the only country among the five top leagues in Europe that only has 36 league rounds. Because the winter in Germany is too cold to play a normal league, so every winter when other leagues are still playing hot, Bundesliga players They are already on vacation.Juventus' lucky game against Werder Bremen saved them from the cold winter in Germany, otherwise, Germany at the end of November will definitely give them a good look.

In 11, someone once made a data comparison of the home stadiums of major European league clubs. They wanted to know where the most terrifying home stadiums in Europe were. In the end, the data company came to a very surprising conclusion——

The South Stand of Dortmund's home court is the most terrifying home court in Europe.

Not the Bernabeu, not Camp Nou, not San Siro or Old Trafford, not even White Hart Lane and Anfield, but it is Signal Iduna Park, home of Bundesliga team Borussia Dortmund!

Many fans didn't believe this survey result, but after they actually went to Signal for a walk, they had to admit that this data was correct.German football fans, who behave so rigorously in life, once they meet football and beer, the burning energy is simply crazy!Their enthusiasm, even the British fans will feel ashamed when they see it.

Werder Bremen fans are such a group of people.

The Weser Stadium can only accommodate 4 fans, but the cheers they erupted before the game seemed like 5 to 7 people could shout out.

When the players from both sides played, the Juventus players were all hurt by the loud noise in the stadium.Looking at the stands, the Werder Bremen fans with oil paints were waving their arms, opening their mouths and shouting loudly, and they didn't know whether they were cheering for their own team or scolding Juventus. Well, none of them could understand the German Lin Zhigao they were muttering.

In this game, Werder Bremen's head coach Schaaf formed his usual 4231 formation, while Juventus played a defensive counterattack.In fact, before last season, as long as Juventus participated in the game, the evaluation given by the fans was only two words "dull". Good striker's sake.

After Capello took over the Bianconeri again, he also played defensive football for two or three months, but the results were not good.Until he reactivated Lin Zhigao and used it more and more smoothly, Capello gradually discovered that Lin Zhigao's sharp offense matched Juventus' solid defense line is a match made in heaven, so now Juventus is also getting better and better. I am more used to playing defensive counterattacks.And occasionally try total attack and defense, all with good results.

After the players from both sides shook hands, the referee blew the whistle to start the game.

Werder Bremen had the right to kick-off, and almost from the moment the whistle fell, Bremen striker Arnautovic kicked the ball straight into the Juventus half.

Bremen's other strikers and midfielders also rushed into the Juventus half to meet Arnautovic.

This is a symptom of attacking football.

The next actions of the Bremen players also revealed their tactics in this game-attack, attack, or attack!

Arnautovic dribbled the ball straight into the Juventus half. After encountering fierce defenses from Chiellini and Caceres, he lobbed the ball to teammate Borowski, who received it. In the end, he didn't pass back to kill time, but was looking for opportunities to make a breakthrough.

Verratti never thought that there would be teams that dared to launch such a fierce attack on Juventus at the beginning of the game. Doesn't the whole world know that Juventus' defense is the best?So he scratched his head in confusion: "Why are Bremen players so bold?" Lin Zhigao ran past him, and dropped a contemptuous sentence by the way: "I knew you definitely didn't do your homework before the game! "

Bremen, which does not attack, is it still called Bremen?

Student Verratti, you should read the information carefully.

……

In the commentary room of CCTV [-], Liu Jianhong and Zhang Lu stared at the big live broadcast screen with great interest.

"Actually, I have been looking forward to the match between Juventus and Werder Bremen since the draw of the Champions League." Liu Jianhong said with a smile: "One is good at defending, and the other is attacking with all his strength. What kind of sparks will be sparked between them?"

"To sum up Werder Bremen under Schaaf in one sentence, that is-the sturdy offense does not require defense!" Zhang Lu also nodded and said: "In the Bundesliga, I like to watch Werder Bremen the most. May's game. They are always bloodbathed or bloodbathed by their opponents, there seems to be no dull moment."

Liu Jianhong said: "Me too. Because their football is really good-looking, and they can always have shocking reversals, either come back or be turned back. Winning shocks the world, and losing also makes ghosts and gods cry. I I remember that in the 10-11 season, after the entire league was played, there were only a few games with less than four goals."

"I remember some fans of the Green and White Legion in China described Werder Bremen this way-we can't score seven goals and we will lose seven goals. In short, we must score seven goals! Hahahaha!"

Liu Jianhong coughed: "Let's stop talking about Bremen, let's talk about Juventus."

Zhang Lu nodded and said, "I think this game will be very good, but the result will not be suspenseful."

Liu Jianhong asked: "Are you optimistic about—?"

Zhang Lu replied without thinking, "Juventus."

Liu Jianhong smiled: "If it was in the past, Juventus, who were defensive in tactics, met Werder Bremen, who was aggressive in tactics. It's really hard to say which team will win. Because their team's offense depends entirely on the center. In a team, the forwards are rubbish, the defense is useless, the defenders walk the whole game. But right now, Juventus have a good chance of winning because they..."

"There is Lin Zhigao." Zhang Lu interrupted.

The two looked at each other and laughed.

"There is only one question left."

"How many goals will be scored in this game?"