Chapter 129: Twenty minutes of stalemate
In the locker room of Piacenza, Conte's midfield speech was shorter than ever before. He even said only a few words and handed the game back to the young men in front of him: "Good job! Keep it going!"
Yes, after the team had a huge suppression on Bologna in both the scene and the score, Conte, as the head coach, did not feel that he needed to do anything else. With these players in the second half, all he had to do was to replace the right players at the right time.
The players were not surprised by the head coach's simple approach. It was definitely not just Liu Feng who had already played in the first half. The players of Piacenza all performed very well in the game, but Liu Feng, who scored the goal, performed more outstandingly.
Therefore, at this moment, every player is filled with deep confidence. Although they are surprised by the head coach's direct delegation of power to them, they also feel that it is natural.
After Conte finished his speech and signaled the players to rest, everyone started to do their own things. For a moment, the entire locker room began to talk and laugh. Liu Feng, the hero who scored twice in the first half, was surrounded by several friends in the team and started chatting.
"Feng, why are you in such a good state in this game?"
"Yes, Feng, I've never seen you show such a strong desire to score since the first second of the game."
"Does the goal today have any special significance to you?"
"Why do you just give your heart to one stand? Ah! Feng, is your girlfriend in that stand!!!"
"Ao! So that's it!"
I have to say that sometimes men gossip are equally terrifying. These straight football men gather together and they even discovered the essence of the problem in the end. With Scapelli's final touch, he woke up the dreamer, and the eyes of several players sitting next to Liu Feng's side looked at Liu Feng, all the eyes of the players looking at Liu Feng changed.
"I, um, you guys..." Liu Feng was already asked by his teammates' machine gun-like questions, and in the end he was even more flushed by several teammates saying this in unison, and his face turned red for a moment.
"Okay, okay, see what you have forced our captain into, and do you still want him to lead us to victory?"
On the side, Padalino, who was the most experienced in the team, finally couldn't stand it anymore. He came over and inserted the conversation between the crowd, and then ended the cheers of Scapelli and his friends with a heart-wrenching final blow: "And, if I remember correctly, you guys don't have the girls around you yet!"
"Tsk~, Padalino, you're so disappointed." Cassia, who was poked, took the lead in withdrawing from the battle group. He waved his hand and said that he was different from the other people: "I already have a goal!"
"Ha ha ha ha."
In the locker room, some older players looked at the group of 20-year-old young people and laughed. They seemed to recall their youth. At the age of 20, it was the stage when a player was in the beginning of love and career. That period was destined to be an unforgettable time for everyone to remember.
"Feng, don't worry, you will definitely be able to complete the hat-trick in the second half." Finally, the players' conversation ended with Naingran solemnly patting Liu Feng on the shoulder.
Not long afterwards, the sound of staff knocking on the door sounded outside the door of the Piacenza locker room. The whole team gathered their laughing expressions and stood up, and walked out of the locker room again.
No matter how much laughing, no matter how much fun, the competition is still the most important thing.
"Friends of the audience, welcome back. I am commentator Liu Jianhong. What I will bring you is the second half of Piacenza's home game against Bologna. We can see that the players of the two teams have already stood on the court."
"Shh!"
As soon as Liu Jianhong finished speaking, the referee blew the whistle to start the game. As Bologna stood in front of the serving point pushed the ball under his feet, the second half of the game officially began.
During the break, Bologna made a huge adjustment. After being scored two goals in the first half, the team's head coach was obviously quite dissatisfied with the players' performance. After the opening of the second half, the team had two new faces on the court.
Perhaps Piacenza's powerful offensive strength completely scared the Bologna coach's courage. Bologna, who used two substitutions, directly formed a 451 formation at the opening.
After the kickoff, they relied on their powerful midfield forces to control the ball within their own half-court range. After several presses failed, the three forwards of Piacenza could only temporarily slow down the rhythm of the offense and began to press effectively only at necessary moments.
As a result, the protagonist on the court changed from a forward player to a midfielder of the two teams. At the warning of Conte on the sidelines, Tozka and Marcisio moved forward with their respective positions and formed the structure of the central iron triangle with Naingran. The three of them supported each other and mixed with Bologna's midfield within the midfield.
However, on the football field, sometimes it is not enough to just blindly pile up the number.
On the court, two of Bologna's five midfielders were obviously forward players. At this moment, they showed obvious discomfort after being asked to participate in the organization and pressing of the midfield. Bologna lost the ball several times in the subsequent games and was intercepted by Naingran and the three men seized the opportunity on both wings to intercept the ball.
However, due to the excessive number of players, the other three midfielders can always fill up in time. Therefore, even though the ball was cut off, it was difficult for Piacenza to organize a very threatening attack for the time being.
Even if the ball was occasionally passed to Liu Feng and the other two, Bologna's defender was ready early.
As a result, the game was in a state of anxiety. The players of the two teams did not create much good opportunities twenty minutes after the kickoff. Neither Bologna, who was frequently strangled in the second half of Piacenza, nor did the trio of Piacenza's forward line, who were surrounded by groups, got better.
In this case, Conte, who had the initiative, began to make adjustments. Compared to the Bologna Turtle stream and locked in advance, Conte had a lot of room for adjustment, and he directly changed the team's formation.
In the 65th minute of the game, Piacenza used the first substitution and replaced the midfielder Nocerino with the right winger Aubameyang. The team then changed to 442, Liu Feng and Frogari became the team's double striker, and Nocerino joined the midfield iron triangle organization.
After this adjustment, Piacenza's midfield was greatly strengthened. With the participation of four midfielders with very good strength, the anxious situation of both sides' midfielders officially ended. As time passed, Piacenza took over the midfield again.
The first shot he fired after taking over the midfield directly declared Bologna's complete death.
Chapter completed!