Chapter 57: Finding Another Way (One Hundred and Twenty/One Hundred and Thirty-Four)

Originally, there were four Napoli players in the encirclement surrounding Ji Ming. They blocked all of Ji Ming's passing routes. Unless Ji Ming completely ignored the ball and kicked it randomly, they could not stop him.  m

Then in the middle of the encirclement, there was a Napoli defender who was closely guarding Ji Ming.

His main task was to interfere with Ji Ming. If there was a chance to steal the ball, he would steal it, but if the opportunity was not good, he would never make a move easily, so as not to be shaken by Ji Ming.

This was Napoli's arrangement for Ji Ming.

In fact, it was not aimed at Ji Ming, but at all Lazio's midfielders and frontcourt players.

As long as they had the ball, it was basically the same problem.

The only loophole was behind the players.

This was also left deliberately by Napoli. Anyway, the pass back was allowed, but it was not allowed to go forward.

Because this was already the outermost of Napoli's 30-meter area.

For Napoli, if Lazio could be stopped outside this line, it would be considered as keeping the enemy out of the country.

However, the Ji Ming they met this time was small, but not simple.

He only used a very concealed and fast lob to break through the Naples players who had been entangled around him.

Then the encirclement collapsed instantly.

The other Naples players did not care about other problems, and rushed up to attack Ji Ming from four different directions, hoping to stop him.

Because Ji Ming's personal attacking ability is very outstanding.

Even the central defender on the back line was attracted by Ji Ming's breakthrough.

It seems that although Ji Ming broke through a defensive player, he was surrounded by more defensive players, and the situation was still unfavorable to him.

So what will he do next?

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The football picked up by Ji Ming is still in the air. It takes time for the football to rise and then fall, and this time is enough for other Naples players to swarm up.

Squeeze Ji Ming into a sandwich.

So the situation is still favorable for Naples.

What should Ji Ming do?

Everyone's eyes are focused on him, and they are all concerned about this issue.

Most people think that Ji Ming will wait for the football to fall, and then try to get rid of it.

But what Ji Ming did once again proved why he was called a "genius"!

And why among so many outstanding Chinese overseas players, he was considered a superstar embryo!

After he sprinted around the Naples player who was defending him, he did not slow down, nor did he stop and wait, but jumped high!

Yes, he jumped up, and jumped very high!

It didn't seem like he was going to stop the football with his chest at all. It was a...header posture!

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"Header! Ji's header!"

As the commentator exclaimed, Ji Ming directly swung his head in the air and hit the football!

He swung the football into the gap in the ribs!

Because the attention of the Naples defenders was all attracted by him, they didn't react so quickly to the loopholes around them.

They couldn't react. Lazio's players reacted.

After Ji Ming passed the ball with his head, Cavani directly shook off the Naples central defender who was originally guarding him, rushed into the penalty area diagonally, and appeared behind the Naples defense line!

"Pass the ball! This is a pass! It's so imaginative! Cavani... beautiful movement, not offside! Not offside at all!"

In the commentator's excited commentary. Cavani used his chest to stop the ball for a moment, then swung his foot and shot!

A half-volley turn and volley!

The ball drew a small parabola, bypassed the ten fingers of the Naples goalkeeper in the air, and fell into the goal by rubbing the bottom edge of the crossbar!

"L!! Cavani! Edison Cavani!! Lazio opened the scoring in the 20th minute! They lead Napoli 1:0 at home!"

"Beautiful! Beautiful goal! Cavani's shot was wonderful, but the most exciting part was not his shot, but Ji's performance before that! It was completely personal. It fully demonstrated his imagination and excellent ball control skills! In the end, he used his head to pass the ball from the air to the empty space, which was even more amazing!"

"Oh my God! The whole of Naples was conquered by Ji's genius! The encirclement formed by many people was useless in front of his genius performance!"

Commentators from all over the world. At this moment, they all praised Ji Ming.

Compared with him, no one mentioned Chen Yingxiong anymore...

Compared with Ji Ming, Chen Yingxiong is simply a reckless man who can only do things by himself.

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Changsheng opened his arms and celebrated the lead with his colleagues on the sidelines.

Genius, genius!

In his heart, he also praised Ji Ming's performance.

When a player is in a stalemate. I'm afraid it's hard to come up with such a solution to break the deadlock in the air!

Ji Ming is not a player who is good at heading. His footwork is too good, so he doesn't use his head much.

Perhaps because of this, everyone ignores the threat from the air.

Ji Ming's lob pass seems to be to break through the defense, but in fact it is to create an opportunity for a header. He planned it all from the beginning.

This lob pass is clearly for himself.

He passed the ball to himself, ran and passed the ball himself, and finally broke through the encirclement of Naples.

Ji Ming has such a brain that it is hard to believe that he is only 20 years old!

At the beginning, he made a joke, but in return, he got a rare genius!

Chang Sheng now feels that he is so lucky.

When he said to Ji Leng: "Old Ji, your son has a talent for playing football." He really didn't think that this sentence would come true.

With such an outstanding player, Chang Sheng finally has the courage to look forward to the future of Chinese football... Will it be normal for our Chinese team to enter the World Cup finals?

When we participate in the World Cup qualifiers next time, will we not need to participate in any play-offs, and can directly get a ticket to the World Cup finals in the main competition?

Those things that were once very far away and very difficult for our Chinese football fans. Maybe they will become very simple in the future.

Maybe our goal and expectation is no longer just to qualify for the World Cup finals, but to expect to qualify from the group and become the best 16 teams in the world.

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When the ball flew into the Naples goal, head coach Cannavaro closed his eyes in pain.

He knew that this game would become more difficult to play.

If Chen Yingxiong still couldn't get out of the dead end, then this game would be really mysterious.

While the Lazio players were celebrating, Cannavaro shouted Chen Yingxiong's name, and then kept poking his temple with his hand.

He was asking Chen Yingxiong to stay calm.

How could Chen Yingxiong calm down at this time?

His friend Ji Ming's performance was so outstanding that the whole stadium was cheering for him. How could he be willing to lag behind?

Naturally, he couldn't let Ji Ming take the lead.

Chen Yingxiong not only didn't calm down, but became more passionate. He was so excited that he wanted to show his strength in the next game, let Ji Ming take a good look, and he was not inferior to him at all!

If Cannavaro knew what Chen Yingxiong was thinking. I guess he would be replaced immediately without hesitation...

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After Lazio players celebrated the goal, the game resumed, and Napoli's offense still relied on Chen Yingxiong.

Even if the opponents knew this, Napoli did not change.

On the one hand, they absolutely trusted Chen Yingxiong's personal ability, and on the other hand, Cannavaro did not change much. He only had so many cards in his hand now.

So in the past few seasons, Napoli's ranking has always been in the middle of the league, not too outstanding.

If it weren't for the arrival of Chen Yingxiong, who has very strong personal ability this season, and the fact that other teams in Serie A did not know Chen Yingxiong very well and their defensive strength was not enough, Napoli would not have been ranked so high. It went straight into the top three.

After Chen Yingxiong got the ball, he was still fighting with Jose Passarella.

This was not entirely because he was hot-headed, but also partly because of Napoli's own limitations.

Because Lazio put too much defensive pressure on Napoli in terms of offense, their midfield and backcourt players had a particularly heavy defensive task. The support for offense was not enough.

Cannavaro naturally knew that this was a winning strategy, which was to use Lazio's powerful attack to replace defense with offense.

Force Naples to retreat and reduce support for Chen Yingxiong.

In this way, even if Lazio also did not score, Lazio would still win the game with a score of 1:0.

So he had to make a decision now. What to do.

Should he be compressed by Lazio's attack and go back to defend, or take a gamble regardless of everything. Press forward to attack, try to equalize the score in the shortest time, and bring the game back to the same starting line?

Cannavaro thought about it and chose a relatively risky method, which was to let the midfield and backcourt strengthen the offensive strength, especially the two full-backs, to go up and assist.

Obviously, if Chen Yingxiong played against Jose Passarella with his back to the goal, there would not be any good results.

The 39-year-old Jose Passarella was almost a master in the back line.

He was experienced and was not something that Chen Yingxiong, a young man, could handle.

Napoli can't attack like this. They have to change their strategy and start from where Jose Passarella can't do anything.

For example, after the two wings fly together, they can cross the ball from the bottom, and then give full play to Chen Yingxiong's header specialty!

His kicking is his best scoring weapon. Four of Napoli's ten goals are headers.

If the team hadn't focused on training his ability to play with the ball and back to the goal recently, Chen Yingxiong would have used a header to solve Lazio...

After thinking it over, Cannavaro took advantage of a dead ball opportunity to pass his adjustment to the court.

The next step is to race against time with Lazio.

He knows that it is very dangerous to do so, and there will be many gaps in the back line.

He is fighting between himself and Lazio, who will score first!