Chapter 181 Mourinho VS Chu Zhongtian
Chu Zhongtian scored three consecutive shots without a goal, but the cheers from Rhine Neka Stadium resounded through the sky, and lasted for five or six minutes before gradually stopping.
The TV broadcasting agency was also constantly replaying the three consecutive heavy shots. The commentators and commentators analyzed how these three shots were more powerful than the other... "Shot out, then rebounded back, and then Chu combined the two forces, and combined with his third shot, which formed such a rapid shot!"
The stretcher was carried up, but Cambiaso refused to be carried down. He was still awake. He didn't want to be too weak in front of his enemies at the enemy's home court, so he refused to be carried down. Although his breath was still breathing, he still covered his chest with the help of the team doctor and slowly walked to the sidelines.
Inter Milan fans in the stands applauded Cambiaso. Although they were kicked by Chu Zhongtian in the game, it was not embarrassing.
At the same time, on the domestic Internet, the discussion about Chu Zhongtian's three-tip continuous shots was also in full swing.
"Damn it! Lin Dan is so fucking powerful!"
"In the past, Bruce Lee was called 'Li Sanjiao', I think we can also call Chu Zhongtian 'Chu Sanjiao' now!"
"It's so terrifying! Cambiaso was knocked to the ground and couldn't get up for a long time... What kind of power does this mean?"
"The egg is powerful! The Greater Chinese cannon is powerful!"
"Fuck! If you scored the last kick, it would be wonderful! You will definitely score the top ten goals in the Champions League this season, and you didn't run!"
"I burst into tears, and there are also players in China who can make a name for themselves in international football!"
"Even though I'm an Inter Milan fan, I hope this goal is in... It's so fucking wonderful!"
...※※※The protagonist who praised and praised this game was not complacent. He reminded his teammates to continue attacking and continue to put pressure on Inter Milan.
"This is a good opportunity!" He clenched his fists and congratulated his teammates and said, "Their morale and self-confidence must have been affected! So we must continue to attack! Continue to shoot from a long time! If they don't come out, then we will hit until they come out to press us!"
Chu Zhongtian was not worried that long-range shots would be a waste of opportunities. He felt that he was in good shape for several years, and his shooting accuracy was very high. In addition, long-range shots could also cause the goalkeeper to lose his ball and make the defense in the penalty area confusing. These could create opportunities for teammates ambushing in front of the goal to make a follow-up shot. The last reason was that in the two weeks before the game, Hoffenheim practiced long-range shots more than once in training, just to deal with Inter Milan's intensive defense.
This is true. After the game started again, Inter Milan's formation was obviously divided. Some players followed the pre-match instructions of head coach Mourinho, conserving the compactness and stability of the formation, and firmly defended the 30-meter area. However, some players felt that if they continued like this, they would be beaten by the opponent sooner or later, and wanted to rush out and press and regain the initiative.
The result is that their defense has become loose.
Chu Zhongtian swung his foot, and Sneider thought he was going to shoot from a long shot again, so he rushed to press, but he didn't expect Chu Zhongtian to push the football over under his feet.
Direct pass!
The football was received by Ibisevic, who was retracing, and then he distributed the football to Eduardo who was leaning towards the middle.
The Brazilian rubbed his feet and rushed inward. Inter Milan players thought he must have made a breakthrough this time, but they didn't expect that Eduardo, who leaned forward, had a breakthrough just a fake move. He knocked the football back with his heel and gave it to Chu Zhongtian again.
Chu Zhongtian directly raised his feet and passed the ball against the football. The football passed over the heads of the Inter Milan defensive player and fell into the space on the left side of the penalty area. When Salihovic was connected to the football, there was not even an Inter Milan defensive player around him!
"Chu's pass once again tore through Inter Milan's defense! Salihovic received the ball! He shot directly-"
The football was saved by Cesar.
"If Inter Milan finally advances, then the best player in this game must be Julio Cesar! If Hoffenheim advances, then the best player in this game is Chu! There is no suspense!"
"Our defense is in chaos!" Cesar got up from the ground and shouted. He was very dissatisfied with his teammates' performance.
Also dissatisfied was Mourinho, who was yelling off the court to keep the players in the formation. But no one listened to him, and the players in the game were no longer under his control. Some were frightened by Chu Zhongtian's continuous shots, and planned to just huddle in front of the goal to defend until the end of the first half, and then threw the problem to the head coach, asking Mourinho to tell them what to do in the second half. Some were angry and wanted to push them out to attack Hoffenheim and show their courage to Inter Milan.
Inter Milan, which was originally a solid piece, broke from the inside, which was simply a great opportunity for Hoffenheim!
Chu Zhongtian took their "fair and real" tactics to the extreme. Last time, Sneider thought he was going to shoot from a long shot, but he made a straight pass, and then organized a very threatening attack, forcing Cesar to make a wonderful save. This time he received the ball on the edge of the penalty area. Inter Milan players thought he was going to pass directly, so they all looked at their side. Unexpectedly, Chu Zhongtian swung his feet and shot from a relatively remote place. The football actually hit the goal frame.
It was Cesar who made a wonderful save again, lifting the football off the crossbar!
"Corner kick!"
Hoffenheim won a corner kick, and Inter Milan players returned to the goal to defend, and they also discussed the current situation facing the team... "We must push out and attack! We cannot be passively beaten in front of the goal like this!" Etoo was very dissatisfied with the team's shrinking posture.
"The passive defense will sooner or later lose the ball!" His allies are forwards Diego Milito and Pandev. As offensive players, their role in defense is very small. However, the team has been unable to send the football forward, and they cannot play their role. This makes them very depressed.
"No, if we push it out, there will be more room for us to be used by the other party. Have you all forgotten what kind of person Chu is?" Samuel disagreed with doing so.
"We should guard until the end of the first half and let the coach tell us what to do!"
"But can we hold until the end of the first half like this? Every time they shoot, I feel like they will lose the ball..."
"Don't we have lost the ball yet? They only scored one goal, which means our defense was successful!"
Cesar watched everyone still arguing at this opportunity, and was a little impatient. It was not the time to attack or defend, because Hoffenheim's corner kick was about to be taken.
"What are you doing when you are staring at them!" He pushed Pandefu in front of him.
Every corner kick of Hoffenheim tests the psychological quality of Inter Milan defensive players, because they have no idea what kind of tactics Hoffenheim is. They seem to have prepared dozens of different set pieces to deal with them. The front point, mid point and back point are all ordinary things. It is not surprising that changes in the penalty area and outside the penalty area are not surprising. Hoffenheim's corner kick tactics seem to be no different, but they all undergo some completely different changes in details, making Inter Milan players unable to defend.
Do you remember the corner kick from Hoffenheim at the beginning of the game? Everyone thought they wanted to play the tactical foot ball, but they were sent directly to the goal, almost letting Simonic score a goal.
This time, Chu Zhongtian stood next to the football again. So is this a tactical foot ball or a direct corner kick?
Salihovic quickly revealed the answer, and he kicked the football to Chu Zhongtian beside him.
"Create an offside!" Lucio shouted and raised his hand to rush forward, signaling the defense line to follow him to press forward.
Chu Zhongtian did not pass directly to the penalty area. He passed the football to the other end of the court with his big foot. Kolarov inserted it from behind and received the ball, and did not offside!
After Kolarov received the ball, he took advantage of the fact that Macon had not yet forced it to the bottom line. He did not make a direct cross because he was worried about Inter Milan's offside tactics.
This is particularly mentioned by the coaching team during training. If you play this tactical corner kick, you should be extra careful about Inter Milan's offside. So after receiving the ball, you should not directly cross it, even if there is someone in front of the goal, because you will be offside. After receiving the ball, you should go down to the bottom and get yourself close to the bottom line and then cross it. In this way, even if there are teammates behind the opponent's entire defense line, as long as you are closer to the bottom line than him, then this attack will not be considered offside.
This time, Kolarov broke through and made a cross after breaking the bottom. Van Nistroy and Ibisevic formed a double ghost slap in front of the goal.
Unfortunately, Cesar was very focused and took the lead in attacking. He beat the football with both fists before Ibisekic!
"Oh! What a pity, Hoffenheim's attack is very threatening!"
※※Time always passes quickly in such high-paced games. When everyone thinks about looking at the time, it is only six or seven minutes before the end of the first half.
The score is still 1:0, and Hoffenheim, who plays at home, is temporarily leading.
But this is not what Hoffenheim wants, they want more goals and lead more.
Chu Zhongtian still remembers the first leg of the game between the two sides. He played 1:1 in the first half. It seems that Hoffenheim, who is visiting, performed well. He should be very satisfied with the result, but in fact? The situation suddenly changed in the second half, and Hoffenheim was defeated by Inter Milan in one fell swoop.
Such a scene cannot be repeated as to how it is.
Another goal must be scored before the end of the first half, so that even if there are any changes in the second half, Hoffenheim will have more room for maneuver.
But as the end of the first half approaches, the differences within Inter Milan seem to be disappearing rapidly - since the first half is over with six or seven minutes left, why don’t we keep going? After nearly forty minutes, are there still six or seven minutes missing?
The gaps and loopholes in the Inter Milan defense line are closing and disappearing. How can we make a breakthrough again?
Chu Zhongtian decided to make another adjustment that his opponent would never expect.
Taking advantage of the dead ball, he gestured to his teammates and made a secret code - change the formation!
Generally speaking, the decision to change the formation is made by the head coach on the sidelines, but now Rangnick has given Chu Zhongtian the greatest freedom. As a player, he has the right to change the formation and playing style on the court according to the situation. Rangnick's role is to watch him off the court and observe whether his adjustment is effective. If it is invalid, it must be replaced in time to avoid being used by the opponent.
Chu Zhongtian's transformation of the team is to turn the current team's 442 into 433, and they also play 433, and it is more aggressive.
But his 433 is not arranging one of Salihovic or Eduardo to play the striker. He is the one who goes up to play the striker!
The success of the previous libero tactics is that they arranged a scavenger centre-back to suddenly insert in the offense, one more person than the opponent in the offense, resulting in an unpredictable effect.
If you ban Chu Zhongtian, you really want to let the opponent have one more self in the penalty area. Since his debut, he has never played a forward, although he had been a center in the football school, that was too long, and he believes that no matter how awesome Mourinho's scout is, he cannot find out his own history. So he doesn't have to worry that Mourinho will be prepared for it. Playing forward by himself must be something his opponent would never have imagined. He can enter the penalty area and be a qualified disruptor, disrupt Inter Milan's defense and create opportunities for his teammates.
Chu Zhongtian guessed well. Although he had frequently entered the penalty area and shot during the game, he was still a midfielder and not a striker.
Now he is going to become a striker.
Of course, this set was also practiced by the team. Chu Zhongtian and Hoffenheim's coaching team studied everything that might happen in the game in the past two weeks, then found the corresponding solutions and then trained.
Hoffenheim's training is originally high-intensity, and they are even higher than the former Bundesliga teams. Logically speaking, Hoffenheim players should be used to this kind of training intensity. However, in the past two weeks, the players have been complaining because it is too hard... But in order to defeat Inter Milan at home, to complete a shocking reversal, and to turn the tables, no matter how hard or tired they are, they have to grit their teeth and endure it.
Hoffenheim quickly completed the change of the lineup. When Inter Milan discovered that he had come, Chu Zhongtian had already completed a header in the penalty area.
Sana was single midfielder, Eduardo and Salihovic leaned towards the middle, forming an isosceles inverted triangle with Sana in the ribs, leaving the wing to Baker and Kolarov. At the same time, Ibisevic and Van Nystruey went to the wing, and Chu Zhongtian directly inserted into the middle. During the process of defensiveness to offense, Chu Zhongtian retreated and responded, and the formation looked like a long diamond-shaped midfielder 443. Once it hit the opponent's 30-meter area, it became 433.
The reason why Chu Zhongtian did such a formation change was because he calculated that Inter Milan would fight to the death in the past few minutes, but could not counterattack and could not pose any threat to Hoffenheim's goal, so Sana could deal with it alone.
※※※ Mourinho first discovered the new situation on the sidelines. During this period, Hoffenheim was pressing Inter Milan to attack, and Mourinho sat firmly on Diaoyutai. But he found that Chu Zhongtian did not go back most of the time, and was in the penalty area. This did not match his previous performance... What is this?
He looked at it for a while and found that Hoffenheim had changed his formation, 433!
Inter Milan's defense is not suitable for this extra striker. Originally, Lucio was in charge of Van Nistruei and Samuel was in charge of Ibissevic, and now suddenly one more is out, and it happened to be stuck between Lucio and Samuel, which made the two people very uncomfortable.
Don't defend, right? It's definitely not possible. Defensive? Who will defend? Lucio goes, who will watch Van Nistruei? Samuel goes, who will defend? Who will adjust the full-back to make up for defense? What should I do on the sidelines? Hoffenheim's wing attack is quite sharp. Then transfer the midfielders back, but are Salihovic and Eduardo, the two front midfielders, vegetarians? You must know that Hoffenheim in today's game is very unexpected and gives them "surprise". Who knows who will pass them at what time and low-key to whom and what kind of deadly ball.
This is a real "touching the whole body"... Chu Zhongtian was like nailing a nail into Inter Milan's heart, making the other party extremely uncomfortable.
Hoffenheim launched an offensive, Chu Zhongtian took a little step back, turned his back to the attacking direction, and asked Salihovic, who was holding the ball.
As a center, the most important skill is the ability to hold the ball behind your back. There are many forwards, but not many can be centers because not everyone has the ability to hold the ball behind your back. Thanks to the football school training that Chu Zhongtian participated in when he was a child, he has learned some skills of holding the ball behind your back.
At this moment, he caught Salihovic's ball and did not rush to turn around, but leaned against the defender. The person who came to defend him this time was Samuel, and Ibisevic handed over to Macon, and the person who replaced Macon was Etoo... The players from Inter Milan around him had already rushed to him. Samuel was still trying to intercept the ball from behind him. He shook his ankle and quickly passed the ball back. However, he did not give Salihovic, but Eduardo on the other side. Eduardo quickly passed the ball to Baker on the side. After Baker received the ball, he made a cross. The football hit Sanetti's leg. There was a very small change line. Van Nistruei, who followed up in the middle, did not hit the ball, and of course Cesar did not save the ball. The football came out, causing a burst of exclamation in the stands.
※※※"This won't work..." Mourinho said with a frown and shook his head.
He really didn't expect that the second round, which was originally a formality, would be like this. His team would probably lose or even be eliminated.
"That Chu played against the striker was too unexpected for us." The assistant said from the side.
Mourinho nodded in agreement: "We must find someone to defend him specifically, and we can't let him be so active again..." He thought for a while, rushed to the sidelines and shouted to Mota inside: "Mota! Go back to the central defender! Keep an eye on Chu!"
Hoffenheim changed to play 433, Inter Milan also changed to play 523, facing each other and not giving in to each other.
Chapter completed!