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

Chapter 341 The Second Step of the Triple Crown Red and Yellow Team Football
The Roma team took the high-speed train back to Rome the next day with a relaxed and joyful mood. Next, they will have two games at home, the most important being the latter game - the Coppa Italia final against Juventus.

Benefiting from the adjustment of the rules at the beginning of the 2007-08 season, the Coppa Italia final was reformed with reference to the English FA Cup, and the final venue was fixed at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, the capital, which is the home court of Rome. One more unnecessary journey and fatigue.

The best player of the last game was Inter goalkeeper Onana who made seven successful saves.

陈小亮获得了9点基础技能值，加上国米的翻倍系数，就是18点技能值（86→104）、18点训练值（54→72）与1点突破点数（6→7）。

The card of [Aristocratic Mission] gave a card that Chen Xiaoliang regarded as a treasure:

[Peak Inter Milan Ronaldo pendulum card (one time)]

[Function: single-handedly choose to dribble past the goalkeeper and control the ball 20]

[Incidental skills: Good at shooting after passing the goalkeeper]

Although the chance of scoring is relatively high when one-on-one with the goalkeeper, there are still cases where the goalkeeper saves a single goal.

But with this card, it basically means that this single shot will definitely be converted into a goal.

As for the new skills, Chen Xiaoliang is [good at long-distance free kicks], [good at dribbling the ball from the side], [good at choosing angles], [good at fancy dribbling], [good at dribbling to get rid of double-teams], etc. After reading and watching among a large number of skills, I ran out of ideas for a while.

Some are not suitable for him for the time being, such as free kicks, low basic ability, and skills are useless.

Some are not in line with his positioning for the time being, such as [good at dribbling the ball from the side] and [good at anti-offside], those are the jobs of wide players and forwards.

At the beginning, he kept thinking about Manchester City's midfielders, Rodri, Stones, Akanji, Dias, what are the characteristics of those people, and how to unlock their skills for them, but after much deliberation, coping If you can't handle this, you might not be able to handle that, so it's better to use your strengths.

He runs his side, and the bright moon shines on the river.

Finally, Chen Xiaoliang unlocked his favorite extraordinary action:

【Good at passing the ball】! ! !
Skill value 104→4
This skill can not only increase the start-up speed and ability to get rid of people after bursting in a wide space, but also improve the ability of small skills such as crotch piercing in a narrow range.

Every time he unlocked a new skill, he would go to the training ground to find those good friends to try, so today Perrone became the worst victim.

Whether it's a group half-court tactical drill or one-on-one in extra training, Perrone is either lowering his head to protect his crotch today, or turning around to find the ball from which side of his body Chen Xiaoliang walked over...

This would have changed that the upright Enzo was still in the team, and he would definitely fight Chen Xiaoliang to the end, even if he fouled him by pulling his jersey, he had to be stopped.

Perrone came late and was on loan. He knew that he was young and important in the team, not to mention that his partner was the captain Chen Xiaoliang who was in full swing. Complaints, just asking to go to the captain's house for dinner at night.

The drunken man didn't mean to drink, Chen Xiaoliang laughed and agreed immediately, thinking: You boy was waiting for me here...

But he didn't just stare at Perrone. Gwadiol was also the focus of his training today. However, since the Croatian became famous in the World Cup and the baptism of Rome for a whole season, he is now experienced. They have reached a very high level in terms of self-confidence and ability. With Chen Xiaoliang's current dribbling of 15, even with the blessing of new skills, it is not too difficult to use human balls to pass Gwadiol in a small space. easy thing.

After all, the central defender is the last line of defense, and he will not press forward too easily. There is no chance to beat him with a burst of forced speed.

With such a powerful training object, Chen Xiaoliang probably knows how to continue to improve in the next month.

Just before the next league game, he trained with full attendance and extra training for two days (training value 72→80), and he directly used these points for dribbling attributes.

Dribble 15→16
Training value 80 → 0
To break the melon-style Manchester City's midfield strangulation and protect the ball from double-teaming in multi-person areas, speed and body alone are definitely not enough. Dribbling will be the most important ability.

On the evening of May 5, Roma played against Salernitana at home. Chen Xiaoliang, still as a symbol of the main force that complies with the principle of fair play and must play, led a group of substitutes and youth players into the stadium.

But this day was very special to him.

Before the game, Serie A President Lorenzo Cassini personally presented the Serie A season MVP trophy to Chen Xiaoliang on the sidelines.

Another award that has been confirmed as the best midfielder of the season will be awarded together with the best in other positions until the end of the season.

If the performance of 8 goals and 16 assists in the league last season and winning the first Serie A MVP can be said to have been born out of nowhere, then the historical performance of 21 goals and 17 assists in the league this season is not only well deserved, but also worthy of the name. Who am I.

However, it is worth noting that this award established from the 2018-19 season is the highest individual award officially issued by the Serie A League for Serie A performance.

In addition, the most authoritative award in Italy is the best player of the season established in 1997 and issued by the Italian Professional Players Association (AIC). This award will be held in October every year for all players who play for Italian clubs , and don't just look at the performance of Serie A.

Last year, the award was awarded to Leo who scored 14 goals and 12 assists. Chen Xiaoliang won the best midfielder and best team awards, which caused a lot of complaints. Look, the suspense of Chen Xiaoliang's award has long since disappeared.

While accepting the award, the announcement in the stadium loudly told all the fans who came to the scene that today is their captain's 19th birthday!
On behalf of the city government, the mayor of Rome presented a trophy symbolizing the golden key of the city, giving Chen Xiaoliang the status of an honorary citizen.

After the start of the game, everything was as usual. Salernitana, who had no worries about relegation, played very relaxed. The players on the Roma side were also passionate. The two teams launched waves of offensives against each other.

In the 19th minute, all the fans stood up and applauded and sang the birthday song. Team flags, posters and the No. 33 jersey were waving around. Mourinho also replaced Chen Xiaoliang with Perrone at this moment. While walking to the sidelines, he raised his hands to applaud the fans.

Mourinho didn't want to send him to play today. In such an irrelevant game, there is no need to let the main players play in vain. As for the main players who must play according to the league regulations, let Pellegrini, Abraham and others " Make up the number" will do.

However, the club notified in advance that there would be a birthday celebration and a small awards ceremony. Mourinho believed that these were the courtesy that Chen Xiaoliang deserved, so there was such a 19-minute formality.

In the end, Roma defeated Salernitana 56-1 by virtue of Perrone's long-range shot on the opponent's defender's arm in the 0th minute. Abraham scored the only goal of the game.

陈小亮也蹭了队友们的福利，上场19分钟，赚到了3点训练值（0→3）和2张体力恢复卡（2→4）。

Juventus flew directly from Germany to Rome the next day. They eliminated the Bundesliga team Bayer Leverkusen in the Europa League the day before to advance to the final.

Allegri believes that it is more pragmatic to qualify for the Champions League as the Europa League champion than to count on the penalty points of the league to be cancelled.

Their opponent will be the Red Devils Manchester United.

But before that, Juventus also wants to fight for the Coppa Italia. Although Rome is full of momentum and sits on a familiar stadium, the Coppa Italia champion can also guarantee a qualification for the Europa League next season. Juventus, who are ranked 7th in the league, desperately need points.

Mourinho didn't expect the fat in his mouth to fly away, and winning the league early also gave the team's main players a lot of rest time.

Even after the Coppa Italia final on the 24th, the main players in the last two rounds of the league can maintain a low-consumption rotation until the Champions League final 18 days later.

So he made sufficient mobilization before the game.

He told the players that it is great to win the league again, but from a historical point of view, only the league championship does not leave too many traces in football history.

The Champions League is of course the highest trophy. For many stars, a Champions League cannot be obtained in their entire lives.

If the team achieves the double title of the league and the Champions League this season, it will be enough to comfort every player's career and let Europe remember Rome in five to ten years.

But if you want to achieve one of the few triple crowns in the long river of history, then tonight's cup championship, which seems to be the least important, has become a natural moat for many teams that have dominated for a while.

Since the establishment of the UEFA Champions League, there have been only 7 triple crowns. The three before the restructuring are:

1966-67 Soviet Super Celtics;
Ajax in the Eredivisie in 1971-72;
Eredivisie Eindhoven in 1987-88;
After the restructuring of the UEFA Champions League, there are four teams that have won the Triple Crown or more six times, namely:

1998-99 Premier League Manchester United;
2008-09, 2014-15 La Liga Barcelona;
Serie A Inter Milan in 2009-10;
2012-13, 2019-20 Bundesliga Bayern Munich.

This term, coined by sports writer Charles Hatton in an American newspaper in 1930, was originally used to describe Gallant Fox, an invincible horse that won three first-class championships in five weeks. The scope of a sport of football has spread all over the world, but there are very few teams that are qualified to own it.

In other words, whether you want to be famous for a while and be forgotten in a few years, or go down in history and stay in the annals of history forever, it depends on tonight.

These words will put some pressure on some veterans, such as Matic, Smalling and Patricio.

They are used to cruel competitive sports, and they know how difficult it is for a team to reach this point, and what it means to miss it.

But for those young players who have just debuted for a few years, especially young players who are still hoping to become famous with one goal and become famous in one battle, there is no more attractive incentive than this.

The ideals of some players are no different from those of migrant workers. It is nothing more than becoming a first-line star, enjoying Bai Fumei, and reaching the pinnacle of life. Not enterprising.

Working hard is to stop working as soon as possible, and in a few years, you can earn money that other people can't earn in a lifetime, so you don't have to play music and dance.

That night, the starting list was released. The prudent Allegri will not use up and then make a surprise attack like Inzaghi. His starting list is the same as the recent league starting list, but the formation has also been changed. The popular three-back system:
Goalkeeper Szczesny;
Danilo on the left of the three central defenders, Bremer in the middle, and Gatti on the right. After Sandro was injured, Gatti, who had been playing in the low-level leagues the previous season, gradually became the right central defender under Allegri;

The two wing backs are Kostic on the left and De Sciglio on the right;

Three midfielders Rabiot, Locatelli and Pogba, this is also Pogba's second game after returning from injury;
Di Maria, the forward forward, and Vlahovic, the forward forward.

Poor little Chiesa is still on the injury list, and Vlahovic, like Barrera, is no longer judged as an old enemy because he has lost three games in a row to Chen Xiaoliang.

这套3-5-2的阵型在下半赛季为尤文图斯挣回了很多分数，要不是被罚分，他们现在将以73分力压国际米兰排在联赛第3。

Roma returned to 4-2-3-1. In addition to the four-man team in the frontcourt, the midfielder Cristant partnered with Wijnaldum, and the central defender Gwadiol partnered with Mancini were regular main players. Only Spinazzola and Viña's starting full-backs today are slightly different from the pre-match media predictions, but it is also reasonable.

In addition to the suspense of whether Roma can retain the Triple Crown in this game, there is another highlight, that is, the Italian Football Association has used a woman as the referee for the first time to enforce the Coppa Italia final.

Maria Caputi will become the first female referee in the history of Serie A in 2022. Although she has not yet shown outstanding ability in whistleblowing, at least she has not made any major mistakes in serious misjudgments.

The Italian Football Association chose among a bunch of senior male referees. They felt that whoever they chose would be called "convicted criminals" by the media, so they decided to use Maria Caputi in an ingenious way. When encountering a controversial incident, "pity the fragrance and cherish the jade" to reduce the turmoil on the court.

Under her witness, Chen Xiaoliang and Danilo, as the captains of both sides, finished guessing the side and returned to their own half.

Chen Xiaoliang, who didn't have any special ideas at first, was attracted by the behavior of one person, and that was Pogba, whom European football hadn't seen for a long time.

Without the colorful and strange hairstyles that caused criticism in the past, the French seem to look a lot calmer, but it seems that they only stay at the level of appearance.

He was pointing to the sky with his hands on his chest, muttering something in his mouth.

If it were any other player, Chen Xiaoliang knew that he must be performing a religious prayer ceremony devoutly, but Pogba's weird expression, the strange eyes he looked at himself, and the witch who was previously dubbed "Borg Seven" by his brother and fans broke the news. The incident of cursing Mbappe with magic tricks made Chen Xiaoliang really suspect that he also invited an African wizard to cast a curse on himself...

But he never believed in this set of strange things, he laughed in his heart, Africa has African spells, and the red country also has red country spells.

"Bounce!"

After Chen Xiaoliang finished reading silently in his heart, the referee blew his whistle, and the competition for the Coppa Italia officially began!
Vlahovic kicked off and kicked Pogba, Pogba responded to Danilo, and Juventus' overall formation began to press forward significantly.

Roma looked up and down, and there was no suspense. Allegri was still the same way.

In the front, Di Maria turned to the left, Vlahovic slightly turned to the right, and in the midfield, Pogba and Rabiot came to the vicinity of the offensive third area, only Locatelli trailed behind, on both sides, Kos Tiche and De Sciglio have crossed the half court and continue to advance.

Roma did not retreat as a whole. They had been prepared for a long time, and their double defensive midfielders blocked Juventus' double midfielders and directly started man-to-man marking in the area, unless the two midfielders retreated out of the attacking third area. scope.

Chen Xiaoliang is in the middle, ready to cut off the ball from Juventus's backcourt to the midfield at any time.

Dybala and Kwa follow behind the Juventus wing-backs. They can double-team with the full-backs immediately after the ball is transferred, and they can also attack forward as soon as the offense and defense switch.

This formation is in the midfield, which is a bit like the feeling of man-to-man marking in basketball. It is a midfield forcing defensive tactic specially arranged and practiced by Mourinho recently.

Capello, who was a guest commentator for Sky Sports Italy, immediately saw that Mourinho was aiming for the Champions League final. It's just a sword stone.

As soon as Capello's words fell, Bremer, who had the ball in the backcourt, had already passed the ball to Pogba, who had advanced some distance.

If it is said that for Juventus or French fans, Pogba is a former genius in their hearts, then in the hearts of Mourinho and Manchester United fans, this guy should be a complete devil.

No one can deny his talent, but no one can say that he is not crazy.

One body with two sides, no one can tell what he is, maybe the final answer can only be in Pogba's thoughts. To put it more simply, it depends on his mood today.

Obviously, today's Pogba is very excited and fighting, and he starts to move forward as soon as he catches the ball.

As soon as Allegri saw the fighting spirit of his generals, he immediately frowned and thought: It's broken.

Mourinho smiled coldly in his heart, he knew the Frenchman in front of him very well.

When other players are fully committed, they make the best choices at the best time, but when Pogba is fully committed, he often has one ball in his hand and the world is mine.

Pogba ran less than 3 meters away with the ball, and a figure who had played against him stopped in front of him.

Chen Xiaoliang, a native of the Red Country, No. 33 of Glasgow Rangers, a rough guy who can only tackle and run around, learned some furry shooting skills from Gerrard, took advantage of Roma's super-level performance, and played a wave Inflated social status.

That's right, in Pogba's eyes, that's how he sees Chen Xiaoliang.

It's no wonder that any player who played against Chen Xiaoliang two years ago, no matter whether it was the Soviet Super League or the Europa League, would not believe that one person can undergo such earth-shaking changes in more than two years.

At this point, Pogba, who has always been abnormal, seemed to be normal for a while.

But Chen Xiaoliang immediately let him understand that there is an idiom called "Scholar farewell for three days, treat each other with admiration".

"Don't stick to the ball! Pass!" Rabiot's reminder sounded like playing the piano to a cow. Seeing that Pogba was about to dribble past Chen Xiaoliang, Rabiot was ready to start running back, cursing as he ran: "The reason why this idiot was injured for half a year is because his head hit the ground, right?!"

A second later, Chen Xiaoliang and Pogba were like two Japanese samurai fighting with swords in the Warring States period. The moment they flashed past each other, the winner was already determined.

Pogba's dribbling ability is actually quite good, and his physical fitness can be regarded as the first-class level among technical midfielders, but his feet are too long, resulting in a long dribbling frequency, coupled with his arrogant and arrogant personality. The defect made him not pay attention to Chen Xiaoliang at all.

Chen Xiaoliang easily poked the ball forward with his toes in the gap between his two dribbles, and rolled across his crotch, combining the two skills of "good at close defense" and "good at passing the ball", Continuously breaking, taking a trip, and taking a counterattack, he rushed forward in an instant.

Pogba found that the person had passed and the ball was gone, so he had to turn around in embarrassment, and then began to jog towards his own half as if he was resting.

The young Perrone, Volpato and others off the field were stunned. They couldn't help turning their heads to look at Mourinho and Allegri, wondering why it's 2023, and Such a lazy player can gain a foothold in the five major leagues. How talented is he so that the rich head coach can endure such actions.

If it were them, they were a little inactive and not fast enough to return to defense during training. They had been scolded by Mourinho for a long time, and they didn't even think about going to the game.

Chen Xiaoliang took the ball up to speed, and Rabiot, who turned back in advance, wanted to intercept diagonally, but found that his speed could not catch up at all.

In front of Chen Xiaoliang, Locatelli greeted Pogba's family in his heart and stopped Chen Xiaoliang.

He didn't know whether the French brothers Borg Seven and Borg Nine were among the people he greeted, but in short, the look of thinking about swordsmen on his face couldn't be hidden, and it turned into anger and rushed towards Chen Xiaoliang.

Chen Xiaoliang is not Pogba. Before approaching Locatelli, he passed a diagonal pass to Kwa on the left.

After the two rounds of the Champions League, the Georgian football king deeply studied his own gains and losses against Dumfries, Damian and Skriniar, including being killed by Calabria in the entire game against AC Milan. In particular, he improved his own style of play based on the lessons learned from staring.

I don't know if he plays a certain card killing game, but in short, during the extra training with Chen Xiaoliang, he figured out the sentence: being able to advance and retreat is a real magic weapon.

After receiving the ball, Kwa met Gatti from outside the penalty area on the left side. He faced the inside of the penalty area and Gatti faced the sideline. On the right side of his body, De Sciglio, who was chasing back, also arrived, forming a formation with Gatti. Double-teaming, it seems that they are about to grab it.

Kevara ran back with the ball, as if he was going to pass back to Spinazzola who was behind him.

Seeing this, De Sciglio immediately wanted to go around and intercept Kwa's pass.

The moment De Sciglio pounced, Kwa, who was brought back, immediately wiped the ball with his right foot and turned around, slipped between the two of them, passing them all in an instant!
Totti, who was sitting next to Capello and served as a guest commentator, stood up excitedly, still shouting "It's coming! It's coming soon!" The beautiful host Di Lita Leo shouted Ta's cheeks were flushed.

Kwa rushed to the left corner of the small penalty area, and Bremer could no longer stick to Sesco, so he gave up defense early and rushed to Kwa.

Georgia's king made an inverted triangle with his right foot, and glanced back at Sesco and Chen Xiaoliang in the middle of the penalty area, and then passed to the far post on the other side of the small penalty area!
The Argentine and the stranger Juventus used to be most familiar with, Paulo Dybala threw off Danilo and rushed into the penalty area to slap his horse. He seemed to vent his anger at the ball and shot a shot less than two meters away from the goal , Szczesny, who was still sealing Kwa at the near post, had no time to pounce on the far post, so he had to look at the ball sadly.

The ball exploded into the net, and because of too much force, it was bounced out by the net again.

But this has not affected Dybala running to the sidelines to celebrate passionately.

In the stadium, one side is red and yellow, and the other side is black and white. There are security personnel separating each other.

At this moment, the red and yellow side is like a tumbling flame, watching the scoring heroes on the sidelines celebrate with all their hearts, while the black and white moment is like stagnant water, but they are booing neatly, reprimanding their former players.

Dybala said in an interview before the game that if he scores a goal, he will definitely celebrate:

"Juventus is a thing of the past. It is only natural for me and my teammates to celebrate goals."

He paid no heed to the boos from the other side of the field, and his last game at Juventus seemed to float before his eyes.

In his heart, as much as he couldn't forget the tears he shed in the last match at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, he wanted to use goals to fight back against those past events and people who questioned him.

"Beautiful, old Di!" Chen Xiaoliang's loud congratulations brought Dybala back to reality.

Dybala didn't speak, he pulled up Kwa, who passed the ball to him, and Chen Xiaoliang, who launched the attack, and hugged their necks tightly!

Trusting his teammates and being trusted by his teammates, he is sure that he is enjoying the happiest period of his career!
As for Roma, it took a 1-31 lead in just 1 minute and 0 seconds, and the second step of the Triple Crown has already begun!

(End of this chapter)