Chapter 220： The Achilles' heel of Naples

"What I want to tell you is that in modern football tactics, in an attack and defense, it is not safe for the defender on the defensive side to have one more person than the striker on the offensive side. Usually two more people are needed to ensure the stability of the defense. ."

"But this is for other teams. For our offensive players in Naples, I don't think it is safe to have two more players. I believe that you are absolutely capable enough to break through the opponent's defense..."

After the recovery training in the morning, Gao Shen held a summary and analysis meeting for the players.

Gao Shen conveyed all the things he analyzed and concluded with the coaching staff to the players, and at the same time expressed his confidence in the players. He believes that Napoli's offense is very powerful and his personal abilities are also very good.

If other teams can play three-on-four, then Napoli can do three-on-five, or even three-on-six.

Gervinho, Di Maria, Cavani, Sanchez and Pellet, no matter how Gao Shen lined up the trident, he is confident to do it, because these players have strong individual abilities and very complementary characteristics.

The players of Naples also admire Gao Shen. It can even be said that no matter what Gao Shen arranges, they will obey them unconditionally, especially after the 1-2 away loss to Rome, almost the whole of Italy was revelling and cheering.

This gives a feeling that everyone wants Naples to lose!

However, these talented young people are not convinced.

Why must Naples lose?

Serie B teams can't beat Roma?

Juventus can be sacked 5-0, but not Rome?

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The high purpose is to fully mobilize the fighting spirit and emotions of the players, and make them believe that Naples can completely beat Roma at the San Paolo Stadium, and even score three goals for Roma.

Facts have also proved that both the coaching staff and the players basically believe in advanced arrangements.

The reason is very simple. The Italian Football Association issued a notice and fax early in the morning, and Perotta was suspended for accumulating yellow cards.

This was arranged by Gao Shen from the first round.

In addition, Gao Shen will continue to practice the tactics against Roma in the next games and training. Whether it is the offensive tactics in the frontcourt or the defensive tactics in the back line, they are the key exercises for the team.

Among them, the back line is mainly concentrated in two places, one is the imprisonment of Totti.

Gao Shen wants Vidal to start, to ensure that when Totti retreats, someone will entangle him, and the central defender does not need to go forward too much, causing flaws behind him, which requires the team to practice repeatedly in training.

Another is the defense against Mancini on the right.

Although the core of Rome is Totti, Mancini's individual combat ability on the wing is also very threatening.

how to say?

Gao Shen misses Abeloa very much now.

He believed that if Abeloa was there, Mancini would not be able to play on the left at all, and he would have been strangled to death by Abeloa the whole game.

why?

The Brazilian winger can only play with his right foot.

In other words, when he played on the left, his right foot was on the inside.

If it was in Real Madrid, Gao Shen only needed to emphasize this point to Abeloa and let him stare at Mancini's right foot, then basically it was over. After a little practice in training, there would be basically no problem.

But not in Naples.

Garrick was repeatedly tricked by Mancini in the first round, and was even eaten by him one-on-one.

Gao Shen had to arrange special training for Garrick in training, let the right-footed attacking players in the team play the role of little Mancini, attack Garrick in training, to train his defense in the game, and at the same time let close players play the role of Mancini. Rakitic on one side, as well as Vidal, must pay attention to the protection of Garrick.

The right flank has become Napoli's defensive dead end.

The difference in player strength is really huge.

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On the weekend after the first round in Rome, Naples played at home and ushered in the 19th round of Serie B.

This is the first Serie B game after the winter break, and the opponent is Genoa, which is currently fifth in Serie B.

This is also a solid team.

Naples is currently a top performer in Serie B, but now, Gao Shen is focusing more on the second leg against Roma next week, and he is simply unable to distract himself from Genoa.

Even, training is basically carried out around Roma, which led to the team's poor performance against Genoa.

Before the end of the first half, the opponent scored a goal.

It was not until the 87th minute of the second half that Hamsik assisted Pellet and scored a goal to tie the game.

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After changing their invincibility in the first half, Naples performed poorly in two consecutive games after entering the second half.

This further aroused heated discussions among the media and fans.

Many media believe that in the game against Genoa, although Naples did not do their best and carried out a large rotation, the sluggish performance can be seen, which proves that the advanced team has encountered a bottleneck.

Using Genoa coach Gasperini's remarks after the game, he believed that the reason Napoli was invincible in the first half was that everyone was unfamiliar with this team.

"In fact, this is a problem that many dark horse teams will encounter."

"When you go through a cycle, all the teams have a deeper impression of you, and after you are more familiar with and understand your technical and tactical characteristics, many of your tactics and offensive routines will be difficult to work."

Gasperini believes that this will be more obvious in Italian football, because this is a country of tactics, and almost every game is a matchup of targeted tactics.

In fact, the implication of the Italian coach is that everyone has figured out the profound way.

The media reporter went a step further and thought that Gasperini's subtext was: so profound.

Gao Shen did not refute what the outside world said.

Even at the post-match press conference, Gao Shen only expressed his satisfaction with the team's performance. As for the rest, he didn't want to respond, because he knew that responding was useless.

Instead, it was De Laurentiis, the boss of Naples.

The irritable boss couldn't hold his breath, he directly stood up and supported Gao Shen, thinking that the reason why Naples did not do their best in the game against Genoa was because the team had enough leads.

"Everyone can see that we are focusing on preparing for the second round of the Coppa Italia, but why can't you see it?"

De Laurentiis also spoke rudely.

Regarding Gao Shen, he once again expressed his supportive attitude.

"I know why so many people don't want to see us, because they don't want to see Naples rise again, they don't want to see Naples rejuvenated, they're all afraid that they will tremble under Napoli's feet like they did. "

"But I want to say that no one can stop the rise and revival of Naples!"

De Laurentiis was so excited that he even revealed that at the Christmas dinner last year, Gao Shen told him in private that the plan was going well.

"He not only wants to win the Serie B championship this season, but also wants to reach the Coppa Italia final and even win the championship!"

"I'm looking forward to it, and I always believe that he will continue to bring surprises and surprises to us!"

De Laurentiis' words caused an uproar again.

Gao Shen said that he would score three goals for Roma, which is surprising enough. Now he still wants to win the Coppa Italia. Is it true that AC Milan and Inter Milan are dead?

You know, the Milan duo are in the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia.

Of course, what Gao Shen was talking about was wanting, shouting a slogan, and setting a goal.

But in the eyes of the Italian media and fans, even just slogans and goals are not enough.

As a Serie B team, you should do your part.

Perhaps, this is what De Laurentiis said, the media reporters from Rome and the north did not like to see Naples.

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It's different from Napoli's difficult 1-to-1 draw with Genoa at home.

In the 19th round of Serie A, in Roma's away game against Messina, the Red Wolves defeated their opponents 2-0 without any risk, and successfully scored three points. After continuing to follow Inter Milan, they took second place in the Serie A standings.

Yes, Roma got this ranking with real results.

After the 19th round, Inter Milan led with 51 points, a full nine points ahead of Roma. It can even be said that the Nerazzurri have basically won the Serie A championship ahead of schedule.

The real suspense is whether Inter Milan can win the Coppa Italia and make a breakthrough in the Champions League to realize the great dream of the Triple Crown.

As for AC Milan, even if the eight penalty points are not deducted, they are only fifth in Serie A.

After sending Shevchenko away, Ancelotti can finally stop playing two forwards and return to the four-three-two-one Christmas tree formation, but in this way, the defense is stable, But attacking is the problem.

After the 19th round, their goals were only ranked in the middle and lower reaches in Serie A, but their defense only conceded one more goal than Inter Milan and Roma. It can be seen that the attacking problem is very serious.

Everyone can see that because AC Milan was fined eight points this season, the focus of the game is not on the league, but on the Champions League and the Coppa Italia. They want to make breakthroughs in the two cups.

Inter Milan are also eager to make a breakthrough in the cup competition.

The tyrannical Nerazzurri have basically regarded the league title as a ban, and they are ambitiously heading towards the goal of winning a double or even a triple crown.

As for Roma, they also want to keep the second place in Serie A and at the same time strive for breakthroughs in cup competitions, especially the Coppa Italia.

This should be regarded as the most likely championship for Roma this season.

Spalletti also said in an interview with the media after the defeat of Messina that the Red Wolves would not give Napoli any chance.

"We will definitely win a victory at the St Paul's Stadium and double-kill our opponents to advance!"

In this kind of life-and-death knockout match, neither side is willing to admit defeat before the game.

Who will have the last laugh depends on the performance in the game.

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Gao Shen ignored the commotion outside and immersed himself in Fort Volturno to focus on preparing for Rome.

But the day before the match against Roma, Gao Shen received an unexpected call.