The sixth professional football player who started with Manchester United

Chapter 114 Rome 3
"Crack! Crack! Crack!" Mazari, who returned to the locker room, first looked around at his players, and then clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention.

"Guys, everyone's performance in the first half was very good, so we were able to not only defend successfully, but also lead the opponent. In the second half, the opponent will definitely continue to strengthen their offense, so we will let them roll out their formation, Jack, Matt Oh, you two must pay attention to defending the opponent's core players, do you understand?"

"Understood!" "Understood."

Both Dabao and Kovacic nodded.

"However, we are not blindly defensive. We must pay attention to the local pressing in the midfield and the frontcourt. The intensity must be high. Be careful not to allow them to easily organize passes and use our numerical advantage in the midfield to force the opponent's attack. The forwards drop back into the midfield and then entangle them, miring their organization. In a word, it makes the opponent very uncomfortable."

"Yes."

"Rodrigo, your performance in the first half was very good, but now the tactics need it, I need to replace you, Freddie, you play in the second half, Jack, your position is one step forward, stand behind Ricardo , once we form a steal, don’t get too entangled with the opponent in the midfield, and quickly send the ball to our two wings, understand?”

Mazari demonstrated formation changes on the blackboard and explained everyone's requirements.

Finally, the 15-minute break came and players from both sides appeared on the court.

Both head coaches have made adjustments to their lineups.

And from the adjustment of these two substitutions, we can see the tactical intentions of the coaches of both sides in the second half.

Inter Milan replaced forward Palacio with Guarin. After Guarin came on, he appeared in Dabao's position, while Dabao stood between the two midfielders and Alvarez.

Suddenly Inter Milan's formation on the field became a strange 32131.

Roma's Rudy Garcia also made a substitution, and Pjanic replaced Ljajic.

Roma's formation in the second half became a 442 formation.

Although a forward was replaced, it is obvious that Rudi Garcia wanted to increase his competitiveness in the midfield. Pjanic is an attacking midfielder, so for Roma, even if a forward was replaced, Their offensive ability has not declined much. On the contrary, in Rudy Garcia's opinion, the increase in the number of midfielders has strengthened their offense even more.

Soon the second half of the game started with the referee's whistle.

As Mazzarri expected, at the beginning of the second half, there were no tests. Roma, which was lagging behind, launched a crazy attack across the board.

For Inter Milan, although Mazzari emphasized the difficulties during the intermission, the sudden onslaught by the opponent still made Inter Milan's defense suffer a huge test and threat.

In the 49th minute of the game, Pjanic, who had just been substituted on the Roma side, suddenly pulled to the wing and played a two-on-one through ball with Torresidis, helping Torresidis get rid of the defensive player and then led the way. The ball went down, and then Torresidis sent a cross.

Destre in the middle rushed to the goal.

Fortunately, Handanovic reacted very quickly and was focused. He made an instinctive save and blocked the opponent's header off the crossbar with one hand.

Inter Milan escaped a disaster.

Immediately following Roma's corner kick opportunity, Nainggolan's corner kick actually drew a weird arc. No one in the penalty area touched it, and finally slipped past the goal.

From the slow-motion camera, you can even see that the hair of Piachini, who is closest to the ball, has already touched the ball, just a little bit. As long as the ball touches it, Handanovic basically cannot stop it. .

For a while, there was danger in front of Inter Milan.

Roma's offensive momentum is getting higher and higher.

Even for as long as ten minutes, football was running in Inter Milan's half.

However, gradually after passing the previous waves of attacks, Inter Milan gradually adapted to the opponent's offensive rhythm, and gradually improved both in defense and counterattack.

In the 59th minute of the game, Dabao’s sudden acceleration made Pjanic make some mistakes in passing the ball. The strength of the pass was a little weak, which caused the football to be intercepted by Guarin. After Guarin got the ball, A change of direction on the spot got rid of the opponent's counter-grab, and then sent a through ball to the front of Kovacic on the other side.

After Kovacic caught up with the ball, he didn't stop the ball but sent it directly to Dabao's feet.

After Dabao received the ball, he looked up to observe his teammates, and then sent the ball to Icardi's head with a long pass.

After Icardi leaned on the opponent, he grabbed the first landing point, and then headed the ball in the direction where Dabao came to meet him. Dabao, who was in a high-speed state, took the first step to control the ball and directly slammed it straight.

Icardi's anti-offside shot was only the last shot because he could not completely get rid of Benatia's entanglement, so the shot failed to gain strength under the interference of the opponent, causing the football to be directly thrown by DeSantia.

Icardi knelt down on the ground remorsefully.

Inter Milan missed an excellent opportunity. If the goal is scored, then the game will be stable for Inter Milan.

However, Inter Milan's counterattack was not without its benefits. This attack immediately stopped Roma's offensive momentum. Because of Inter Milan's counterattack, the entire Roma defense began to realize that the opponent's offensive strength was not a weak team. If another goal is accidentally scored by the opponent, then the game will be over.

So after Inter Milan's counterattack, although Roma was still attacking on the field, in fact, the pressure on Inter Milan was not as great as it was at the beginning of the second half.

As time goes by, the situation of the game becomes more and more favorable to Inter Milan, because time is getting less and less, and some players are becoming a little impatient.

The same goes for the two head coaches on the sidelines. A smile gradually appeared on Mazzarri's face, while Rudy Garcia's expression became more serious.

But just when the situation became more and more favorable to Inter Milan, a scene that no one expected appeared on the field.

De Rossi suddenly intervened and Pjanic continuously passed and received the ball on the left side. Pjanic kicked the ball over the top and sent it to the wing. Romagnoli intervened in the back row and then quickly reached the bottom. After that, a cross was sent, but Inter Milan's defense did a pretty good job on this ball. Guarin also helped defend to the wing, but Romagnoli's cross seemed to be of poor quality, and he actually sent it A half-high ball was played, and the football changed direction after crossing Guarin.

Obviously football met Guarin.

(End of this chapter)