football world number one

Chapter 459

In the third round of Serie A, Piacenza will go away to challenge Palermo. This team achieved ninth place in the league last season and is a true mid-range team.

Selling the players trained every year and earning some income from transfer income is the biggest pursuit of this small club.

However, in this summer window, everything is different. Perhaps it is Piacenza's strong rise as a dark horse that has stimulated the club chairman of Palermo. This season Zamparini directly spent 1500 million euros to sign several powerful players one after another.

Argentina's rising midfield star Pastori, Banfield's main defender Bertolo, and even the powerful goalkeeper Rubinho introduced from Genoa, a series of signings all showed Zamparini's ambition.

You know, unlike other teams whose sales and purchases are roughly the same, Palermo's income from transferring players this season is only 398 million euros, and the rest of the money comes from the chairman's pocket.

The Italian media, which is always good at irony, once used the example of Palermo to mock Milan, which was so insignificant this season and even made a fortune by selling people. Old Bei could only bite the bullet and say that we can win the championship without signings.

In short, if you look at this team from the perspective of last season, Piacenza will definitely suffer a big loss. Conte is very sure of this, so he is quite cautious in deploying troops.

In view of the opponent's strong midfielder, Conte once again arranged a 442 formation, except that Ganso was still firmly seated in the front midfielder of the team, and Nainggolan was moved forward from the midfielder to behind him.

The task Conte gave Nainggolan was very simple, that is, to follow the opponent's midfielder Pastori to death.

According to the data of Conte's coaching staff's follow-up survey, he is a player no less than Ganso. Even due to his strong body, Pastore is more like a player who meets the requirements of modern football than Ganso in some respects.

The other two midfielders are Ramirez and Nocerino. They are separated on the left and right sides, behind Ganso and Nainggolan. They form the second line of defense in the team's midfield when defending, and insert from the left and right wings when attacking.

As for the second striker in this game, in addition to the hard-hitting Liu Feng, Conte gave Cassia the opportunity to start the season for the first time as a reward for scoring a goal when he debuted in the last round of the league.

On the defensive line, there is no change in the left and right full-back personnel. On the central defender, Miranda suffered a small injury in training.

Therefore, on the morning of the game, the players who entered the team's roster took the team's bus to the away game again.

Barbera Stadium, when the Piacenza players stepped into it, the Palermo fans who had been waiting for a long time gave them a warm welcome-deafening boos.

Faced with such routine operations, the players who were used to it did not react much, and even kept a relaxed smile. Everyone began to warm up as always, and returned to the locker room with the coach after the warm-up was over.

At this moment, Conte's heart was even more agitated, because he found that his players seemed to be acting too easily.

"I emphasize again that this is not an easy game. If you can't maintain a good attitude, we are likely to lose this game."

"I understand the boss, you have said it more than once!"

"Ha ha ha ha."

Scarpelli responded loudly, and the players responded cheerfully. Conte shook his head and stopped talking. Maybe this state is more conducive to the team's victory over the opponent?
However, after the start of the game, the direction of the game did not develop in the direction Conte expected.

When the two teams settled down on the court, the Palermo players were obviously more stable than the relaxed Piacenza team. Those who chose the right to kick off were still very calm after the game started. They formed a lineup of 433. Through the connection and cooperation between players, they once firmly grasped the ball.

If it weren't for Nainggolan's continuous interference with Pastore, the core of Palermo's ball delivery, the ball would have been successfully inserted into Piacenza's defensive loopholes several times.

Due to the reduction of strikers, Liu Feng and Cassia's high-position pressing did not seem to be so effective. In order to save energy, the two had to slow down after the opening wave of pressing and began to wait for their teammates to create opportunities for themselves.

In the first 10 minutes of the game, the possession time of the two teams was maintained at [-]-[-], and Piacenza accounted for [-]%.

After discovering that the players were not as relaxed and comfortable on the court as they were off the court, Conte loudly reminded the players on the sidelines several times to pay attention to defensive coverage, and kept ordering the midfielder to increase possession of the ball. However, these instructions had little effect in Palermo's steady pace.

After 10 minutes, with Palermo's sudden acceleration, the situation began to find a deflection.

Piacenza, who was forced to play around in the opponent's rhythm, obviously felt a little uncomfortable after the opponent accelerated his offensive and defensive speed. There were various loopholes in both the midfield coordination and the backcourt deployment. As time went by, these loopholes began to be magnified.

Finally, when the game came to No. 40 minutes, Palermo, who played steadily, ushered in his own chance.

That was a mistake made by Nainggolan when defending Pastore. The 187cm tall Pastore overwhelmed the 1.8-meter-high Pastore in a header fight and hit the ball.

After getting rid of Nainggolan's containment, Pastori felt that everything became so comfortable. In good condition, he broke through the defense of Nocerino in the half and made another breakthrough, and came to Piacenza's left midfield area with a simple change of direction.

Ramires hadn't had time to press on the midfielder who had already caused the Barbera stadium, and the opponent had already sent the ball.

"Pastore's through ball, the ball was sent directly into Piacenza's penalty area!"

As a commentator, Liu Jianhong became excited for the first time in this game, but it was not for the Piacenza team.

On the court, at the next moment, Scarpelli, who was obviously a beat slower, was left behind by Palermo striker Fabrizio Miccoli.

The striker, who had been very active since the start of the game, chose to shoot the ball as soon as he got the ball. The ball rolled directly over Maurantanio, who was too late to make a save, and rolled into the goal.

"The goal, the goal! Miccoli, he broke the deadlock first for Palermo at home!"

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