Chapter 192: Jerking off
Piacenza's winning streak is very fierce. In the standings, through this crazy four consecutive wins, the team directly rushed to the second place in the league. AC Milan, which was previously ranked second in the league, was left behind by one point.
As for the first place in the league, it has been occupied by Inter Milan, which has been in a stable state this season. The Nerazzurri now keeps a distance from the Second Corps behind him with a gap of eight points. Under Mourinho, this team has achieved ten rounds of unbeaten in the first half of the season, and this momentum is still in a trend of continuing.
So, to a certain extent, Piacenza, who has come to the second place in the league, has actually reached the peak of a normal team.
However, this young team still has its own problems: it is not stable enough.
This is also the headache that Conte has always had, because most of the players of the team are young players, and they all have the enthusiasm and passion of young people, which is naturally very conducive to the team's winning streak under good momentum, but it also has the disadvantage of not being as long-lasting as other players of golden age.
And at critical moments, this kind of disadvantage often makes things happen.
In the 29th round of the Serie A, Piacenza played against Atlanta at home.
Atlanta is a mid-range team that ranks tenth in Serie A now, but this does not affect the team's popularity among many people, because this team, which has no relegation and qualifying pressure, has been strongly advocating offense since the beginning of the season.
In their games, fans can always feel the collision of passion, which is naturally very attractive to fans.
Piacenza, who also has strong offensive ability, is worthy of Atlanta. Even Conte had made plans to play against Atlanta at home to please fans during training. However, when he took the players' status data a day before the game, he was in trouble.
Perhaps the excitement after the winning streak began to fall, perhaps because the players in the league played too hard in the previous rounds. In short, the day before the game began, Conte, who was deploying troops, found that the condition of these players under his command was in a downturn.
Even Liu Feng, who has always been stable and inconsistent, performed few times in various training sessions on the last day.
In this case, Conte naturally did not dare to play any counterattack anymore. When all the players were in a sluggish state, it was reliable to play a defensive counterattack. Therefore, Piacenza's formation in this game was also adjusted from 433 in the first two rounds to 4312.
Liu Feng and Cassia partnered as the team's double striker, Naingran served as the team's midfielder, Nocerino, Marchisio and the team's new player Raymondie formed a defensive connection behind Naingran, while the defense line continued the arrangement of the previous two rounds of the game. After all, Conte could use fewer players in this position.
After arranging a series of relatively conservative tactics, Conte announced his dissolution. Although the media kept describing how big the gap between the second and tenth league in the league was in the pre-match news, he knew very well that tomorrow would be a tough battle.
In a blink of an eye, before the game, the players of Piacenza came to the training base early. After a simple training, they were taken to the stadium by Conte and interacted with the home fans who entered the stadium in advance.
Then, when Atlanta arrived in Piacenza and entered the venue to warm up, Piacenza ended the hot field and returned to the locker room.
"I still hope you can cheer up today." Conte sat in the locker room with the final mobilization: "Our home court is here. If you want to see disappointed expressions on the fans' faces, just take out your condition during training."
"Coach, we don't want to lose!" Scapelli, who was sitting in front of Conte, responded loudly.
"Then let's show your true power!!!"
"roar!"
The locker room door rang after the last mobilization, and Piacenza's players walked out of the locker room under the leadership of captain Liu Feng. In the player passage, both opponents of the game performed very dull.
This is not a derby or a fight of revenge, nor does it have to do with the qualifications and relegation of the Champions League. For the players of the two teams, this is just an ordinary game, so the smell of gunpowder is not strong.
However, this does not mean that the two teams will walk friendly on the field after the game begins.
In the captain's rock-scissors, Liu Feng lost the rock-scissors, so he could only get the remaining field choices for Atlanta. After briefly communicating with the players, he chose to get closer to his fans' half-time, and the Atlanta striker was already standing in front of the serving point at this time.
"Shh!!!"
With a whistle, the game officially began.
"CCTV, CCTV, audience friends, you are watching the 29th round of the 2008-2009 Serie A season, Piacenza played against Atlanta at home. I am commentator Liu Jianhong!"
This game is ten o'clock in the evening in Beijing time, so there are more fans and spectators sitting in front of the screen than at other times. Liu Jianhong seemed to be more forceful when making the opening speech: "I will introduce the starting lineup of the two teams to you."
At the beginning of the game, both teams seemed very peaceful. Atlanta, which had the kick-off, did not rush towards Piacenza at the half-time as soon as the kick-off was kicked off, but instead dispatched the ball in his own half-time.
In fact, in many games, only your coach knows the status of your players best. Facing a team with four consecutive victories, Atlanta does not attack rashly without knowing its opponents.
However, this gave Piacenza a chance to slowly draw.
In the first twenty minutes before the game, the ball rights changed hands only three or four times. Neither team had a fierce offensive cooperation, and it was more about passing and controlling to pull the space.
Without the opponent's fierce attack, Piacenza's players finally slowly got into the state in these twenty minutes, and in the 20th minute, they successfully broke the ball that pushed Atlanta into their own half by the double-teamed midfielder of Sanming defending midfielders.
"Marcisio got the ball and he passed it directly to Naingran, who was running forward!"
The next moment, Piacenza finally began to try their first offensive cooperation. After the ball came to Naingran's feet, this rare player in the team who was in good shape rushed over from the Atlanta midfielder in front of him with a simple change of direction.
Then, after seeing a gap in Atlanta's middle, Nainglan directly chose to pass directly.
"Casia! He received the ball through the space, and he had a lot of room for shooting!!!" Liu Jianhong, who was sitting in the commentary room, was excited to see this scene, but the next moment he covered his forehead: "Shot! Oh, he actually made a plane..."
Chapter completed!