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Chapter 347 Give Enough Pressure
Time never stops because of anyone's entanglements.

With the overall morale and state of the Piacenza team not good, the time for the game is getting closer.

An hour before the start of the game, the Inter Milan team arrived at the Leonardo Stadium under the leadership of Mourinho. They completed the warm-up despite the boos of the Piacenza fans, and then returned to the locker room to wait for the start of the game.

The home team, Piacenza, has already completed the hot field under the leadership of Conte. At this moment, they are in the team locker room, listening to the coach explain the tactics of this game for the last time.

In the absence of Liu Feng in this game, Conte arranged a formation of 442. Flocari regained the starting opportunity and served as the team's double forward with Aubameyang, who was the shadow striker.

In the midfield position, Conte activated Padalino, the team's main rotation player. The four midfielders were positioned in a diamond shape. Padalino served as the team's midfielder, Nocerino and Nainggolan lined up behind him, and Marchisio was behind the first two.

On the defensive line, Conte did not change, from left to right is still Vitale, Scarpelli, Astori and Wolfer. De Silvestri, who started frequently last season, has now become the team's first substitute for full-backs.

When explaining tactics, Conte actually didn't say much.

As the most popular head coach in recent years, Mourinho's style of play is well known to everyone. His unsolvable defensive ability and terrifying quick counterattack level are the characteristics of his team. Any coach will focus on these points when playing against him.

Conte is naturally no exception. In fact, before Liu Feng was injured, he tended to wrestle with Inter Milan just as he did in the first half of the season. After all, the team has won five consecutive victories. Facing such a strong opponent is a very good opportunity to sharpen the players.

It is a pity that now, after Liu Feng is injured, everything is destined to be different. Piacenza's tactics have changed from focusing on offense at the beginning to focusing on possession of the ball in this game.

In order to curb Inter Milan's terrifying counterattack ability, a formation of four midfielders with deep positions is arranged to ensure that every space is covered by players, and then the distance between players is compressed to ensure that they can quickly cooperate with each other in defense. This is Conte's preparation for this game.

As for whether these preparations will work after facing Inter Milan, we can only see the next game.

When the staff came to the locker rooms of the two teams and knocked on the door, the two teams walked out of the locker room and entered the player tunnel at the same time. Unlike the last match, this time the team's vice-captain Maurantagno was replaced by Liu Feng who walked in the front row of Piacenza.

"Good audience friends, welcome to the scene of the No.20 third round of Serie A. I am the commentator Liu Jianhong."

During the commentary, Liu Jianhong's mood was obviously not high, but as a professional commentator, he still cheered up to give the fans high-quality commentary when the game was about to start: "Oh, the camera swept over Afeng in the auditorium, and he didn't seem to be in a bad mood."

For this game, Liu Feng, who was not included in the squad, naturally couldn't sit on the team's bench. He, who got two VIP tickets through the club, was sitting with Yuan Xiao, who came from Milan, watching the situation on the field.

When the sharp-eyed field controller gave Liu Feng the camera, there was a lot of commotion at the Leonardo Stadium. The fans kept looking for Liu Feng's position through the camera. The fans who were lucky to sit near Liu Feng hurriedly reached out to Liu Feng to cherish this hard-won opportunity to be next to the team's biggest star.

After the position was exposed, Liu Feng, who was still wearing a peaked cap, simply took off the cap, showed his very friendly smile to the camera, and then made a gesture of sticking out his thumb to cheer for the team.

“Piacenza!!!”

The fans were naturally willing to cooperate with their big stars. As Liu Feng pointed his finger at the team on the field, they made a loud cheer for the team together.

"Okay, the referee blew the whistle to start the game, let's see what surprises this match between the third in the league and the first in the league will bring us."

After a simple interaction with Liu Feng, the camera returned to the court. After the referee blew the whistle to start the game, Inter Milan, who won the captain's right to kick-off, took the lead to take the ball.

After receiving the ball pushed by Crespo in front of him, Ibrahimovic, who was standing in front of the serving point, knocked the ball in his direction with his heel, then turned and ran towards Piacenza's half court. The situation on the field was about to explode.

In this game, Mourinho formed a 4132 formation. On the forward line, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Crespo partnered as the team's double forwards, and Dejan Stankovic and Figo served as the left and right wings in the midfield.

Such a lineup is undoubtedly much stronger than the immature Piacenza in terms of thickness and strength. The next game is destined to be a very difficult challenge for Piacenza from the very beginning.

In fact, in the first 3 minutes after the start of the game, Inter Milan directly put enough pressure on Piacenza.

After the kick-off, the ball was passed from Inter Milan's frontcourt to Cambiasso's feet in the backcourt. Before the Piacenza players pressed up, Cambiasso directly distributed the ball to Figo on his right.

Figo dribbled the ball forward from the right. Before the head-on and the rushing Nainggolan collided, he made an emergency stop and changed direction and directly passed the ball in parallel to Vieira who was responding in the center.

After receiving the ball, Vieira had already observed the positions of the two striker teammates before receiving the ball, so he did not give Padalino a chance to interfere with him at all, facing the ball from Figo with a straight kick, he stuffed the ball at the feet of Ibrahimovic, who was running in Piacenza's half-court.

At this moment, there was no defensive player in front of Ibrahimovic, and Marchisio, who was closest to him, was more than three meters away, and when he took the ball, he directly made a move that shocked the audience.

"Vieira's beautiful through ball, Inter Milan's attack directly hit the hinterland of Piacenza's midfield, and the ball reached Ibrahimovic~, Ibrahimovic! He shot directly! This is a lob shot from a very long distance!!!"

Yes, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who always has the characteristics of not surprising the ball on the court and endlessly dying, chose to shoot the first time he got the ball after he was optimistic about Maurantanio's position in advance.

And this shot, while full of absurdity, posed a great threat to Piacenza.

"Maurantanio is retreating quickly, the ball is too fast, he can't catch up, the ball, the ball has fallen towards the goal frame!!!"

At this moment, countless Piacenza fans were almost desperate. In the next second, their home team was about to lose the first goal just 3 minutes into the game, but the next moment a sound of nature saved them.

"Duang!"

Maurantanio swears that he has never loved the sound of iron hammering so much in his life, but when he hugged the ball that bounced off the crossbar tightly in his arms, he loved it...

　Chapter 2 here!

　　
　
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