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Chapter 203 Siena's Shrinking
On September 2008, 9, it was still 21:[-] pm BJ time, and the third round of Serie A match between Piacenza and Siena at home was about to begin.

As a small team, Siena knows how to avoid relegation. After the thrilling relegation in the 05-06 season, it has been able to stay in Serie A for three consecutive seasons. However, the club's investment is still quite small, which is not easy in such a fiercely competitive Serie A.

As a club that has clearly defined its goal as relegation from the very beginning of the league, Siena's scoring strength is definitely top-notch.

A strong team keeps one point, a weak team gets three points, and a direct competitor for relegation?Then do it to death.

There is no doubt that Siena's game, whether it is the formation of troops or the speeches of the players and the head coach before the game, the information revealed is that Piacenza is regarded as a strong relegation opponent.

With a 451 formation, a strong defensive player in the starting lineup, and a striker who is famous for his speed on the bench, Siena's tactical arrangements can be known almost without speculation.

First rely on the bus tactic to consume the opponent's physical strength, and then when the physical strength of the two players is exhausted, the fast forward player will deliver a fatal blow. This is Siena's common tactic in recent years. It is simple but quite easy to use.

Because, Siena's head coach Alberto Malesani has long polished the team's tactics to the extreme.

It is a big event for a small club like Siena to change coaches, so as long as the coach's performance in leading the team is in the past, they will not change coaches easily, and Malaysani, the coach who led the team to relegation one after another, naturally has no reason to be replaced.

In this way, it naturally gave him enough time to polish his lineup and tactics. The nearly 60-year-old coach has a deep understanding of Italy's famous chain defense, and he has also instilled this concept for the entire team.

In terms of defense, he has maintained the concept of full defense. Although he is a bit stubborn, it is quite useful for the team to hold on to the score. It can be said bluntly that even the forwards of this team can take on the role of defenders if necessary.

Conte and Piacenza have never encountered such an opponent, so the whole Piacenza team was a little confused when they saw the opponent put the bus out from the very first moment.

Therefore, the first half of this game became the most uncomfortable and ugliest game played by Piacenza for a long time.

The opponent is like a big turtle shrunk in its shell, no matter how lured it is, it will not show up, which makes Piacenza's tactic of trying to draw the opponent's formation in his own half is useless.

And once Piacenza's offensive players go deep into the Siena half, they must face endless entanglement defenses.

All kinds of disgusting little moves that did not follow the fouls, as well as the almost seamless defensive replacement, made Piacenza's offensive players quite uncomfortable. Not to mention Cassia, who is not good at his feet, even Liu Feng played quite embarrassingly.

Facing the opponent, when he tried some difficult fancy moves, he would be interrupted by other defensive players who rushed over. In the end, Liu Feng found that the simple change of direction was the best.

However, a simple change of direction in such a dense defensive situation requires constant turning and stopping, which consumes a lot of energy. However, in order to help the team open the situation, Liu Feng can only bite the bullet in the end.

In the first half, the entire Siena team had only one shot, and this shot didn't even hit the goal frame, while Piacenza relied on Liu Feng's penetration in the center and left to complete an effective attack.

But Siena's bus was disgusting, and Piacenza's first-half shots were limited to three in the end.

Except for one shot that Liu Feng cut in from the left and hit Siena's right post because of interference from the opponent's full-back, the other two shots were confiscated by Siena's goalkeeper Gianluca Pegolo.

"Well, Siena's bus tactics made this a pretty dull game."

Liu Jianhong felt helpless watching the players of the two teams walk into the locker room silently. Siena's tactics would indeed make the sidelines of the game look very ugly: "However, Afeng still had a few wonderful performances."

Many fans in front of the TV were already a little sleepy at this time. If Liu Feng hadn't had a few flashes of inspiration and made a few beautiful breakthroughs and passes on the court, it is very likely that many fans would have fallen asleep directly.

"The coaches of both sides should make some changes in the second half."

Liu Jianhong naturally didn't believe that Siena came here for a draw from the beginning. Although their style of play was very unpopular with the fans, it had to be said that it was quite effective. In the second half, as long as the Piacenza players were in good shape, Malesani would definitely use his butcher's knife.

"Padalino, get ready to replace Nocerino in the second half."

"Good coach."

In the Piacenza locker room, Conte has already made up his mind after the situation in the first half of the game. The best way to deal with Siena's defensive style of play is to take the lead. He does not believe that the opponent will shrink into the turtle shell when they are behind.

So replacing Nocerino with Padalino, who has a strong offensive ability, became Conte's first move: "Racha, you press forward directly after Padalino comes on, and we play four forwards."

"no problem."

Calmly dispatching troops, Conte decided to change the formation directly if the situation did not change at the beginning of the second half.

The change from 433 to 424 can be said to be the most slippery change that Conte played at this time. As long as it is used properly, the team's offensive ability will definitely be greatly improved. As long as it leads Siena quickly, it is very casual to choose other formations.

"Cheer up, the opponent's highly concentrated defense is definitely more mentally draining than yours!"

Conte looked at the players who were frustrated by Siena's defense and shouted loudly in the locker room: "What you have to do now is to open their gates and completely disable their buses."

"Roar!"

On the court, the mentality of the players is definitely an important factor in determining the direction of the game.

Siena and Piacenza are currently in this kind of competition. If Siena really relies on a single-handed bus to block Piacenza to 10 minutes later, the blow to Piacenza once Malesani changes is absolutely devastating.

But again, if Piacenza takes the lead in breaking the game, their process of ending Siena will also be devastating.

In such a situation, the chances of both sides can be said to be half and half, so the rest depends on the performance of the players in the second half.

　Chapter 2 is here. The last chapter should be chapter 28. I made a typo in Twitch, but it doesn't affect the reading. Please forgive me.

　　
　
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