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Chapter 152 The Final Rivalry

While Piacenza successfully advanced, in another game, Lecce drew 1:1 at home with Abin Nulev, and finally advanced to the final round with a total score of 2:1.

Therefore, the two teams in the final round of the 2007-2008 Serie B promotion playoffs have settled here.

Lecce and Piacenza, who were third and No.4 respectively in the upper half, defeated their opponents in the lower half.

On June [-], Piacenza will still go to an away game against Lecce first.Four days later, the two sides switched home and away games to start the second round.

Compared with the hot scenes before Piacenza and Rimini, the enthusiasm about Lecce and Piacenza is not much less.

After all, the competition between the two teams will directly determine who has the chance to be promoted to Serie A next season, and Serie A is the highest pursuit for the entire Italian football club.

Before the game, celebrities of the two teams jumped out one after another to send blessings to their teams.

The Inzaghi brothers, who were born in the Piacenza team and have always been a good story in Italian football, even publicly stated in a program they attended that they would go to the scene to watch the final two games of Piacenza.

Giorgio Armani, the head of the Armani Group and one of the current shareholders of the Piacenza Club, couldn't restrain himself from jumping out on his social platform with joy, announcing that he would set up an additional promotion bonus for the team.

On the basis of the team's existing bonuses, he took out another 200 million euros as the final prize. As long as the team can be promoted successfully, from top to bottom, both players and staff will get a lot of money.

On the other side of Lecce, although the team nicknamed "Little Pepper" does not have the support of many famous celebrities, the fans who are as popular as the team name also give the team the greatest support.

The entire city of Lecce was covered with flags representing the colors of the team by fans, and fans in red and yellow striped shirts could be seen everywhere on the street.

Of course, Piacenza is not peaceful either. The fans had long held their breath after failing to reach the Premier League last season. Now that the team has come to the final step again, the excitement of the whole city is no less than that of Lecce.

All in all, the two cities were completely ignited by this final game.

So, let us turn our attention to the daily training of the two teams.

The two teams declined all requests for media interviews two days before the game. According to the intelligence collected by the scouts and the analysis reports of the assistant coaches, the coaches of the two teams are arranging the team's tactics in a targeted manner.

In daily training, the players have also worked hard. Whether they are the main players or the substitute players, there is no slack in them. They have already reached this point, and it is difficult for anyone to accept failure.

"Lecce is a team that relies heavily on the midfield." In the screening room before the game, Carney will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of Lecce's players and lineup for one to two hours every day.

"They have a midfielder like Jacques Massey. In the game, whether in terms of organization or defense, their transitions are always faster than their opponents."

Pointing to a player with the ball under his feet and looking up in the paused screen with the finger stick in his hand, Carney told his team members in deep words: "Giacoma has contributed a lot to this. So, don't doubt his ability, Racha, I need you to follow him closely at all times."

Unlike the fledgling Nainggolan, Jacques Massey has already integrated into the team after joining Lecce in 2001. As the team's current veteran and soul, he is like Lecce's brain.

Carney does not expect a midfield dominated by Nainggolan and Padalino to win the midfield competition. On the contrary, as long as Nainggolan can limit Giacomassi's performance, Carney is very satisfied.

Against a team like Lecce, it is natural not to use one's weaknesses against the enemy's strengths.

As for his own strengths, looking at Liu Feng, who is still silently wearing the classic sneakers that he hasn't changed since the first day he entered the team, Carney's urgent mood has become a little more stable. Any team is definitely very lucky to have a player like Feng.

"After playing, what I need you to do is to minimize the offense in the middle. The offensive route is mainly through cutting in from the left and right and scheduling long passes from the backcourt."

Constantly drawing various lines on the tactical board, Carney carefully informed the players of his arrangement for the game.He is using all his understanding of the game to choose the most feasible tactics for the team.

Being able to get to this point today, Carney knows very well that many times it is not his head coach who plays the main role.If it weren't for the players' outbursts in disadvantaged games one after another, his team's performance should only be barely in the middle.

Now, it's the final battle. Although he is under tremendous pressure, he doesn't want to disappoint the group of promising young players in front of him.

In order to better analyze the advantages and disadvantages of Lecce's tactics, he even found Mr. Francini, the experienced coach of the reserve team, for advice last night.

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"Boys, Lecce will be our last opponent this season. Beat them and you will have a completely different holiday."

After talking for a long time, Carney finally explained everything he had prepared. At the end, he put down the pen in his hand and looked at the players present.

"Whether it is fans or coaches, we have waited too long for the day when the team is promoted. I hope that each of you can play [-]% in the game."

"Understood, BOSS!"

Only when the players' trust in the head coach reaches a certain level, the players will affectionately call him BOSS.

Looking at the slightly tired Carney at this moment, all the players in Piacenza expressed their sincere respect to the novice coach who took over the team halfway.

After the last day of training, Liu Feng packed up his things and left the training base. After signing for a long time, he got into the special car specially driven by Chen Xu. Looking at the long-lasting fans outside the training base, he let out a long breath.

"What's wrong? Tired?"

Chen Xu chatted with Liu Feng while driving. After Liu Feng became Pi Yaqin's star player, his days of running to the training base and getting off work were gone forever, so Chen Xu temporarily became his special car driver.

"No, just looking at the fans, the pressure is a bit high."

In front of people close to him, Liu Feng does not hide his emotions very much. As a 19-year-old young man, he does have a lot of expectations on his shoulders.

"Xiaofeng, it's completely unnecessary."

Chen Xu laughed, obviously a little surprised that Liu Feng, who has always been calm, would say such words: "Everyone likes to watch it, but you don't have to put so much pressure on yourself for that Super Feng who is completely free to play football."

"Relax..."

While bowing his head and muttering, Liu Feng's cell phone screen suddenly lit up, and Yuan Xiao's profile photo flickered.

"The necklace is ready, come on!!!"

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