The Era of Emerald

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In Lippi's defensive concept, the player's personal defensive ability has never been the most important part, but has quite high requirements for the player's running ability.In other words, the defensive system built by Lippi is more about compressing the opponent's offensive space and cutting off their passing routes through a large number of running of his own players, so as to complete the defensive task and allow his own side to get a quick counterattack Chance.

It is precisely for this reason that stars such as Robert Baggio, Ronaldinho, and Robben with average defensive attitudes are so unpopular with Lippi—the most unsightly thing about Silver Fox is that this kind of talent is outstanding A big-name player who is talented but never willing to devote more energy to defense.

However, after several experiences of being dismissed due to poor record, Lippi in this life has learned to be more or less obedient.At least this time after picking up Lazio's coach, Lippi did not deal with Ronaldinho and Robben as he did with Baggio back then, but let other players share the defensive tasks that should have been their responsibility, in exchange for the two Dedicated to the offensive end.

Judging from the current effect, Lippi's move is quite successful.Lazio can successfully avenge AC Milan this season, defeating their opponents and reaching the Champions League final for the second consecutive year is the best evidence.

However, in this Champions League final, Lazio's defense was not as impenetrable as it was against AC Milan in the semi-final.Whether it is compressing the offensive space or cutting off the passing route, the performance of the Blue Eagles players today can only be called barely passing.The defensive system that Lippi spent nearly a year building was completely missing in this Champions League final.Therefore, in the first 10 minutes of the game, what the fans repeatedly saw was that the Lazio players were slow in double-teaming or making up defenses when they were defending. As a result, the Fiorentina players easily passed with two or three feet. It created a picture of a one-on-one opportunity with the Blue Eagle defenders.

All in all, the defensive performance of the Lazio players gave Fiorentina a lot of opportunities to attack.If it weren't for the fact that Fiorentina players were quite obedient, didn't tamper with Mourinho's tactical arrangements before the game, never took the risk of attacking without sufficient confidence, and would rather mobilize Lazio's defense with passes from the outside, I'm afraid Cech would be the top player. The busiest one in the half.

There is a reason why Lazio will become so passive in this final, and the momentum of the Champions League semi-final battle with AC Milan is completely lost. "Andre (Pirlo) and the others are still not doing enough. The physical exertion of the Lazio players during this period has not reached the level I asked for before." Looking at the situation on the field, Mourinho calmly analyzed in his heart, " It seems that we have to postpone the time of the general attack for a while, otherwise, the rash attack is very likely to be quickly counterattacked by the Lazio players who still have more energy."

Although Fiorentina is now fully dominant on the field, for the cautious Mourinho, he cannot be too careful when facing Lippi, an old fox.Therefore, he would rather be conservative and let the players continue to use passes to force the Lazio players to run more on the field, and then launch a full-scale attack when they are completely unable to run!

After all, Lazio, which has the two sharp weapons of Robben and Drogba, is quite powerful in counterattack.Although Mourinho has great trust in the abilities of these players under him, just to be on the safe side, he still intends to let Lazio consume more energy, at least not to let the team worry about the defense when they are aggressively attacking.

Speaking of this, some people may have doubts: Since both Lazio and Fiorentina have reached the European Champions Cup final this season, and Fiorentina has also won the Serie A championship this season, according to the regulations, even the team that won the fifth in Serie A can also win. Can have the qualifications to participate in the European Champions Cup next season, why Lazio, who is already in the top five of the standings, still slammed against Parma in the final round, causing them to fall into a physical crisis in the Champions League final?

The reason is simple, don't look at Lazio still ranked fourth in the standings before the start of the last round of the league.In fact, before the start of the final game of the league, the points gap between the Blue Eagles and AC Milan in front of them, and Inter Milan and Roma behind them was very small, from AC Milan at No.3 in the standings to No.6. The difference between Roma is only three points.This also means that once Lazio loses in the last round, the Blue Eagles are likely to fall outside the Champions League!

Lazio ended up in this situation mainly because, halfway through the season, two of the team's absolute mainstays - Didier Drogba and Michael Essien - both responded in January this year. The call of the national team went to participate in the African Cup, which caused Lazio to face the cruel reality of losing its main center and midfielder in the middle of the season.

The absence of Drogba and Essien had a huge impact on Lazio. During the period when the two left the team to participate in the Africa Cup of Nations, the Blue Eagles suffered a wave of consecutive victories in the league. Not only were they separated by Juventus and Fiorentina, who were in the leading group , and was successfully overtaken by the Milan duo behind him, and entangled with them until the last round of the league.

This is the main reason why Lazio, who was able to defeat AC Milan and reach the final in the Champions League, showed great strength, but had to slam against Parma in the final round of the league battlefield.Because they have been unable to send the strongest lineup to the game for nearly two months this season!

Therefore, once they lose to Parma in this game, and the other three teams all win, then Lazio will fall to sixth in the standings and miss the European competition!

However, after leading Lazio to defeat Parma, who was struggling to qualify for the UEFA Cup, and get a ticket to the Champions League next season, Lippi and his Lazio players will face another dilemma-the exhausted power in Parma. They are so big that they don't have much physical strength to deal with the next Champions Cup final!

It is precisely because of Lazio's excessive consumption in the league that Fiorentina, who came off the bench in the final game, will have such a big advantage in this Champions League final, and according to Mourinho's arrangement, give full play Their physical advantage pushed Lazio into the abyss of failure step by step!

Seeing that the Fiorentina players with superior physical fitness kept tearing up the defense with passing and running, and made the Lazio players exhausted on the court, Lippi clearly realized that if he couldn't think of a way to get the team out of the immediate predicament , then they will give a thorough account of this Champions Cup final!