Football: The butcher in the midfield at the start, the magic bird stunned

Chapter 188 From an interview with "French Football"
4 minutes of stoppage time.

In the final stage of the game, Roma played very calmly. From the three-goal lead to being tied, to surviving a catastrophe, the crossbar saved his life, and leading again at the last moment.

Matic and Wellertu kicked further and further back, and in the end they almost assumed a three-back midfielder posture with Chen Xiaoliang, assisting the defense to defend Juventus' three-way attack.

Juventus wanted to chase. Morata and Kulusevski seemed to be affected by the arrival of Vlahovic, and they worked very hard, but to break this dense defense, there is only a high point in the middle, and there is no peripheral support. With breakthroughs and long shots, it is very difficult to score goals purely with headers.

Coupled with the loss of time every minute and every second, Chen Xiaoliang and Matic frequently retreated to the penalty area to help fight for the top. Juventus had a lot of chances to get the ball from the wing, and even replaced McKennie at the last moment , put on Keane and rushed, but it was still unavoidable that the away game fell short and lost by one goal.

After the final whistle sounded, the fans of the home team in the Olympic Stadium were reluctant to leave, and the players of Roma also walked around the stadium in groups, thanking the fans for their support and encouragement.

Using four words to describe their hearts at this moment is definitely not the ecstasy of "overjoyed", but the luck of "the rest of their lives".

Just imagine, if it weren't for Juventus' extensive injuries in the backcourt, scoring two more goals with some luck, plus a crossbar rescue, this game faced Juventus, which was unbeaten in the previous 2 rounds, and the result was really good. Hard to say.

But still the same sentence, football has no ifs, only results.

After the game, Randucci still represented Allegri in the interview with reporters in the player channel, and he expressed his disappointment in the loss that could not be concealed.

In his eyes, the team has continued its previous good performance and is clearly on the right path of recovery, but today it really lacked some luck, which made the balance of victory and defeat tilted towards the home team.

When it was Mourinho's turn to be interviewed, he did not deny Landucci's statement.

"Football does require a bit of luck, and that's happened to me a few times in my career. But that's part of football, there are always uncontrollable factors.

Just like after the ball flies from the player's feet, no one can predict the flight trajectory of the ball. If the player can completely control the flight path of the ball, then every ball will be a dead end.

Some of them entered, some were rushed, and some were blocked by the door frame when they were running towards the dead corner.

The most important thing is that we won today and continue to maintain a favorable position in the league, which is enough.

As for being chased for three goals in a row, they are Juventus. They were unbeaten in the previous six rounds, and they paid a sky-high price to buy the striker with the most goals in the league. It is not surprising that they can do this, but we will also summarize when we go back. Find the problem and end him, so that such things will try not to happen again in the future. "

In the dressing room, Roma's players were tired and relaxed.

A fierce battle is finally over, the body is tired, and the soul is relaxed.

Only Ji'an, while accepting congratulations from his teammates, was shirtless and holding his mobile phone, repeatedly watching the online replay of his previous goal.

Seeing Mourinho come in, with a slight smile on his face, Weiletu also joked, saying that Mourinho bought Jian a pair of shoes, and he scored the lore goal. If the whole team distributed a pair of shoes, then everyone Can score.

Although Mourinho is in a good mood, he is not happy enough to be willing to joke casually.

The defensive loopholes shown by the team are really too big. In addition to the factors of preparation and tactical arrangement, he also knows in his heart that many things have reached the limit. To put it bluntly, he has touched the ceiling of player ability.

He can only jump so high and run so fast, his anticipation ability can only be so at most, and he is not too young, and it is very difficult to obviously "increase the ball", like reborn.

An excellent head coach is here to guide a group of excellent players to achieve 1+1>2, so that 11 people on the field can twist into one rope, advance and retreat freely like one person, and integrate offense and defense.

But the most basic things, the lowest level of mistakes, such as falling from the top, watching the ball instead of people, and the gap in ability, such as being shaken and failing to compete for the top, are all the result of basic training since childhood, not adult team coaches. Completely remodeled.

The first team is not a youth team, and there are no spare opportunities for them to try and make mistakes again and again on the court.

Once a serious mistake is made, not to mention the players will be accused by Wanfu, even Mourinho himself will be packed and go home.

After all, Matic is still old. He had already started to decline when he went to Manchester United, and now he has already passed his peak period.

When facing the middle and lower reaches of Serie A, he can still take care of both offense and defense with ease, but once he faces players of the level of Dybala, Kulusevski, and Chiesa Jr., the 33-year-old makes him only as good as he is. Can be left and right, struggling to maintain.

But what's ridiculous is that such Matic seems to be better than Kristant.

Fortunately, the cross beam helped today, and at the same time, after Chen Xiaoliang was withdrawn, he finally blocked Dybala and Kulusevski's turns to cut inside.

Thinking of Chen Xiaoliang retreating, Mourinho couldn't help but think of Joao again.

Forget it, the past is in the past.

Compared with Joao, who had been with him for more than two years, when Faria, who had assisted him for 2 years, left, he was most at a loss and was not used to it.

Sometimes Mourinho thinks when he is alone, is he getting more and more stubborn as he gets older?
He doesn't know either, he only knows that in one game after another, in one training after another, in the face of the opinions of the board of directors, the suggestions of the coaching staff, the thoughts of the players, the report of the team doctor, and the information of the scouts , he can only make decisions constantly.

Each time, he believed he was right.

Thinking of this, Mourinho suddenly felt a little tired, no longer tense, and said some relaxing words to the players.

After all, I am 60 years old, and I have been fighting for most of my life, and I am still fighting, so I will inevitably feel a little powerless.

Fortunately, the opponents in the next three games are not strong, namely Cagliari, Empoli, and Genoa.

除了恩波利位居联赛第13外，另外两个对手都在降级区内，卡利亚里积15分倒数第2、热那亚12分倒数第1。

After that, there will be a quarter-final of the Coppa Italia. The opponent is not known yet, and the draw will have to wait.

The opponent is also unknown, and there is also the first round of the Europa League knockout round, but that will have to wait until early March. Before that, the second place in each group will play a round of play-offs with the third place in each group of the Europa League. The winner will enter the lottery.

Mourinho was not the only one who cared about the match schedule. On the bus back to the base, Chen Xiaoliang was also watching the latest league standings on his mobile phone.

After this round, the rankings of the front row teams have not changed.

威尼斯主场0比3毫无悬念的败给AC米兰，仍然积15分位列第18名，后者则积46分高居榜首；
那不勒斯1比0主场小胜桑普多利亚，积42分坐稳第4，与本轮输给罗马、积36分的尤文图斯仍然有6分领先优势；
Inter Milan beat Lazio 2-1 at home at Meazza, with 46 points, temporarily ranking second;

I thought that the score of 4 to 3 in this game was enough, but I didn't expect that Atlanta played the home team 2 to 6 at Udinese's home stadium Friuli, which not only overturned the home team and gained enough goal difference, With 35 points in the standings, they are pressing against Juventus to rank 6th, and still maintain a sense of oppression against the Champions League.

Unfortunately, Mkhitaryan's shot against Juventus was refracted, so Chen Xiaoliang's assists were not counted in the end, so his assists in this game stayed at 2, which is the same as the hat-trick in the system league task The reward passed by, but still with his outstanding performance, he won the best of the game with a score of 9.3.

A total of 12 hours of training value and 1 physical recovery card were obtained.

Training value 7 → 19
Stamina Recovery Card 0 → 1
By the way, the reward for the cup match against Lecce in the last Coppa Italia was also collected.

However, facing the low-prestige Serie B team, without scoring or assisting, Chen Xiaoliang, who clocked out of get off work after 60 minutes of playing, only got 5 skill points, and he could not enjoy the domestic cup. Double Reward] BUFF bonus.

Skill value 46→51
According to the current growth rate of points, it will only become more and more difficult to increase the attributes quickly, especially if the main attributes have risen to a certain level. Consumes doubled training value.

I have no choice but to rely on daily training accumulated over time to accumulate more training points.

But the next day, Chen Xiaoliang still had a free job to pick up.

The other party contacted him directly without going through his agent. Not only did he not take any money, but he had to cooperate with the other party.

There is no other reason. This is the personal interview with the Copa Award winner that Pascal Ferre, the editor-in-chief of "French Football", had already arranged through the Club of Rome.

This is the most authoritative football magazine in the world, and it is also the organizer of the Golden Globe Awards. Under the pressure of public opinion created by "Turino Sport" and Portman, the other party can still let the Golden Globe winners still follow the pre-set rules. Chen Xiaoliang had no reason and could not refuse to cast a vote based on personal criteria.

But compared to the award ceremony, this interview is much easier.

Chen Xiaoliang, dressed in casual clothes, met Pascal Ferre, editor-in-chief of "French Football" and Florent, senior editor of "L'Equipe", in the living room of the Trigoria base. Torsh.

The latter has just conducted an exclusive interview with the seven-time Ballon d'Or winner Messi, and also wrote Messi's personal autobiography.

This combination of interviews is enough to see the importance that "French Football" attaches to this interview.

You know, this football magazine is actually a branch of L'Equipe, and they all belong to the editions Philippe Amaury Publishing Group.

After a brief introduction, the two cameramen turned on the cameras from different positions and started the interview which is expected to last for 2 hours.

However, Chen Xiaoliang said in the letter back to the other party through the club that he can ask anything, but don't ask about things before he came to Europe to play football. The reason is also very simple-"family privacy".

This is also the result of Chen Xiaoliang's deliberation. First, he couldn't tell the reporter that he didn't know how to play football at all. The ability he acquired quickly was purely through the awakening of the system after time travel, not to mention his family and classmates in this life. It has nothing to do with football. Many Red Country media have interviewed schools and classmates because of their fame, which caused a lot of trouble.

Therefore, he set the scope of questions in advance on the grounds that he did not want to cause trouble to relatives and friends in his hometown and leak other people's privacy.

In Europe, although this kind of reason may make people feel high-sounding, it is absolutely in line with political correctness. Professional and authoritative media like "L'Equipe" and "French Football" will never intentionally violate this taboo of.

However, for the two people who are scheming and have interviewed many stars, even if they can't ask in this field, they still have some things that can "make things difficult" for Chen Xiaoliang and create newsy topics.

After chatting about some basic content, such as the recent state, life in Rome, relationship with teammates and coaches and other "warm-up" issues, Pascal Ferre, editor-in-chief of "French Football", began to raise controversial topics:
"In your mind, who is the best midfielder in football today?"

Chen Xiaoliang also knew that the real problem was starting to come:

"If you follow the ranking of this year's Ballon d'Or, it should be Jorginho, Kante, De Bruyne, they are the three midfielders in the top 10, and of course there are others, such as Mount and B Fernando. , they are also in the top 30, they are the best midfielders in the world."

Ferre: "In addition to the top 10 midfielders, you only mentioned Mount in the subsequent candidates, but did not mention the 24th Pedri and the 26th Barrera. We all know that the former is you Kepa The main competitor for the award, and even defeated Ni in other similar awards, and the latter is your midfield competitor in Serie A, and even the last time you two played against each other, it seemed that there was some unhappiness."

Chen Xiaoliang smiled slightly: "Because there are too many excellent midfielders in the top 30, I can't name them all. For example, Modric, who is ranked 29th, I didn't mention, but he is definitely the best midfielder on the planet." One of the good midfielders, I went to the Bernabeu to see him play live, he is really strong."

Ferre: "You didn't answer me, Pedri and Barrera, are they the best in your mind?"

Chen Xiaoliang: "According to the standards of the Golden Globe Awards, of course it is."

Ferre: "What if you follow what you think?"

Chen Xiaoliang: "I still think that each of them is excellent, but I often watch videos of De Bruyne playing football, especially his choice of many passing routes, as well as Kante, Casemiro and so on."

Torsh: "What about players in other positions, will you pay attention to their games? Such as Messi and Ronaldo."

Chen Xiaoliang nodded, and sneered in his heart, what should come will definitely come.

"Who do you like better?"

"I haven't met Ronaldo. It's a pity that he didn't go to the Golden Globe Awards ceremony. I was lucky enough to have a short exchange with Messi after the ceremony. He is a very humble person, and his humility is beyond me. unexpected."

Torsh: "At that pizzeria?"

Chen Xiaoliang nodded: "I heard that there are many people going to that store now?"

Torsh: "Yes, it has become an internet celebrity shop in Paris, and the photo you took together is placed in a prominent position, and almost everyone who goes there, regardless of whether they are consuming or not, has to take a photo with the photo.

So, your answer is Messi? "

Chen Xiaoliang: "I have never met Ronaldo, and I can't and don't want to judge someone I don't know. I just hope to have the opportunity to play against him on the court."

Torsh: "Purely in terms of football skills? Whose football do you like more?"

Chen Xiaoliang: "De Bruyne."

"Hahahaha." Both Torsh and Ferre laughed.

Chen Xiaoliang: "I am a midfielder, and those two superstars are both forwards, so I definitely prefer midfielders in terms of skills. In addition to De Bruyne, the earlier players include Makelele. I often use To play like him."

Ferre: "There are some criticisms that your football is too fierce, even rough, and it is easy to injure players. What do you think?"

Chen Xiaoliang: "I only received a yellow card for taking off my jersey to celebrate."

Ferre: "But you often tackle the other player at the same time"

Chen Xiaoliang: "Football is a sport that allows physical confrontation. As long as things are allowed within the rules, you can make full use of them. Defensive players need toughness to show determination, and at the same time deter opponents to damage morale. For me, the stadium is like a battlefield. , You must continue to fight until you end up on the field.”

Ferre: "Many people still regard you as a defensive midfielder, but you not only rank first among all Serie A players in steals and interceptions, but also rank first in running distance and assists, especially assists. Contributed 1 assists in one game, 1 assists not only ranked first in Serie A, but also No.2 in the five major leagues. The closest to you is Bayern's Muller, who has 14 assists, and Paris's Mbappe, he has 1 assists.

We wonder how this is done?You know, the player you most admire, De Bruyne, has only 5 assists this season. "

Chen Xiaoliang scratched his head: "Those assisted balls are sometimes due to the strength of teammates, and sometimes it is luck. For example, the ball passed to Matic in the last game was actually passed in a panic. I didn't expect it to be hit right. The shot is very beautiful.

The other is the team's style of play. We mainly focus on defensive counterattacks, and we don't have too many short passes in counterattacks. Usually, the opponent's defense space will be relatively large in this case, and our frontcourt players are relatively fast. Both are faster, and most of the time all I have to do is pass the ball. "

Ferre: "Can it be understood that you have taken on a lot of last-pass tasks in the team?"

Chen Xiaoliang: "Well, compared to De Bruyne, I don't need to undertake a lot of midfield passing and dribbling tasks. In addition, Manchester City pays great attention to ball possession, and many attacks are often distributed from the center to the wing. Then he comes back from the wing and shoots, so he has a different role than me."

Torsh: "You mentioned Manchester City. You must know that Guardiola also wants to buy you from Glasgow Rangers. Why didn't you choose to go?"

Chen Xiaoliang: "I want to play more, and I may sit on the bench for a long time after going to Manchester City."

Thor Xu seemed to have discovered the loophole in Chen Xiaoliang's words, and immediately asked pointedly: "You mean that Roma's midfielders are far inferior to Manchester City's?"

Chen Xiaoliang naturally understood the trap of his words: "No, Mourinho knows me better than other coaches. After all, he discovered me at Tottenham."

Torsh: "Do you like Guardiola's football?"

Chen Xiaoliang: "Why not? I like good football."

Torsh: "There is a higher stage, and Manchester City's current state is also very good. Guardiola's tactics rely heavily on the midfielder. Will you regret not having a choice? They are the favorites in the Premier League and the Champions League. You can only play in the European Cup."

Chen Xiaoliang: "I still have a lot to improve, and so does the team. The process of improving with my teammates is very satisfying, just like before the start of the season, many media predicted that our results were between 4th and 5th. .

And now we are ranked 3rd, only 2 points behind AC Milan, but 5 points ahead of Juventus, which is 8th, and the Europa League and Coppa Italia are also going smoothly, so I think we will be able to win some championships at the end of the season .

What happened with Manchester City is over, I am in Rome now, I am very suitable for this team. "

Seeing that Chen Xiaoliang didn't take the bait, and didn't take the bait, the two senior reporters stopped playing tricks.

The three chatted for nearly 50 minutes on various topics about football, such as referees, VAR, World Cup, European Cup, training methods and so on.

Near the end, Ferre said that the next question will be the last one.

Ferre: "Fifa and UEFA have clearly expressed their opposition to the sudden announcement of the UEFA Super League by those giants, and most of the national football associations have also clearly opposed it, including many well-known players.

You are not a European player, and you have not participated in national team competitions. You don’t have to worry about FIFA’s threat of suspension for supporting the European Super League. So from a relatively neutral point of view, what do you think of the European Super League plan? "

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