Chapter 73 Cosmic Team (One Hundred and Thirty-Five/One Hundred and Thirty-Six)

Chang Sheng did not fall into the pit dug by the media until the end.

He insisted on not evaluating the referee.

This frustrates those who are waiting to teach him a lesson.

I thought to myself, how come Chang Sheng, who usually speaks carelessly and has a bad mouth, suddenly changed his sex?

After losing the game against Chievo, Chang Sheng actually didn't take it too seriously.

Undefeated in the first season, this is something I dare not even think about. There is always a loss, and the performance of the players is not stable enough, especially after the UEFA Cup knockout rounds started.

Now that he has decided to win the UEFA Cup, the top four in the league will do.

Chang Sheng decided to focus on the UEFA Cup.

In a few years, the UEFA Cup will be gone, and he will not even be able to win this championship.

Just like collecting things, out-of-print things are always the most valuable.

If the UEFA Cup is not out of print, it is far inferior to the Champions League. But once it was about to be out of print, Chang Sheng seemed to collect it and put it away.

In the middle of the week, Lazio ushered in their opponent Zenit St. Petersburg in the UEFA Cup quarter-finals.

Chang Sheng knows how difficult Zenit St. Petersburg's away game is when the weather is cold.

It can still feel a little cold in Italy at the beginning of March, not to mention St. Petersburg further north.

So what Changsheng has to do is to let the team win as many goals as possible in the first round at home.

It's not a question of whether to win or not, but how many wins.

If it's just a score like 1:0 or 2:1, then Lazio has to be prepared to work hard when they go to the away game.

The impact on the entire next season will be very far-reaching.

Chang Sheng is unwilling to do this.

He wants to ensure a big win in this game.

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in their home field. Lazio had their pace maxed out from the start of the game,

Regardless of whether they can persist until the end with such a rhythm game.

Even the commentator is doubting whether Lazio, who played like this, can maintain this rhythm throughout the game.

Changsheng has only one requirement for the team-goals as fast as possible and as many goals as possible.

Ten minutes into the game, Lazio took the lead.

Pandev opened the scoring for the team.

Five minutes later, Lazio scored another goal. This time it was José Passarella who headed in from a corner to extend the lead.

Next, Zenit St. Petersburg began to recover the formation. They realized what Lazio was going to do - they wanted to kill the suspense of the two rounds at home!

Naturally, Zenit St. Petersburg cannot let them succeed.

So Advocaat ignored the situation and asked the whole team to return to defense to compress Lazio's space and time.

But at this time, Zenit St. Petersburg has fallen into the rhythm of Lazio. They are not used to the fast pace and they are led by Lazio without any rules.

Before the end of the first half, another goal was conceded.

Intermission. The players were asked to eat to recover their strength, and took a good rest for 15 minutes. The high rhythm continued in the second half.

When Chang Sheng found that some players could not persist, he decisively replaced them.

Make sure that the speed of the whole team will not be slowed down by the decline of a certain player's physical fitness.

In the seventy-fifth minute, Chang Sheng had already used up all three substitutions, and then he began to slow down the pace, began to control the ball, and used it to defend.

At this time, the score of the game was already 4:0. Lazio almost killed the suspense of the second leg.

Changsheng's fast-paced and high-confrontation style of play made Zenit St. Petersburg helpless and at a loss.

The rest of the time becomes garbage time.

Zenit St. Petersburg was beaten heartlessly. I didn't grab it much.

Until the end of the game, the score did not change again.

Lazio beat Zenit St Petersburg 4-0 at home.

Reporters believe that Lazio has advanced to the quarterfinals ahead of schedule.

But Chang Sheng didn't see it that way.

"4:0? They still have a chance at home. I don't think it's time to start celebrating now."

At the post-match press conference, Chang Sheng said so.

Advocaat looked very frustrated: "We lost, I don't want to lie, in fact Lazio performed very well, their football is like coming from an alien planet, and we are not on the same planet at all... the second round? do not know……"

Since then, the ever-victorious Lazio has gained a nickname.

"Space Team"!

When Chang Sheng saw such a title in the media, he almost spit out the milk in his mouth while drinking milk.

Space team?

Isn't that Barcelona's dream three team?

Back then as a fan. Everyone teased each other on the forum. When it comes to Barcelona, ​​they use the universe team to refer to it. The title is not always connotative.

Unexpectedly, now my team replaced Barcelona and became the universe team...

Chang Sheng doesn't know what kind of mentality everyone will have when they call Lazio the Cosmos team in Chinese forums...

The "Cosmic Team" Lazio defeated Reggina 3:1 in the next league, while Juventus was tied 0:0 by Milan at home. The point difference between the two sides narrowed from three points to one point. Juventus are in a very dangerous situation again.

Chang Sheng publicly mocked Juventus for not living up to expectations in the post-match press conference.

In the UEFA Cup away game in the middle of the week, Lazio lost 0:2 in the ice and snow and howling wind in St. Petersburg. But still advanced to the quarterfinals with a total score of 4:2.

Chang Sheng is approaching one of his goals this season-the UEFA Cup champion step by step!

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Lazio has drawn a good draw in the UEFA Cup.

Their opponent in the quarter-finals is Sevilla.

A Spanish team.

As soon as he played against the Spanish team, Chang Sheng felt very relaxed and relaxed.

Because he is no longer familiar with the Spanish team.

Sevilla has gradually grown up in La Liga in the past two years. After the absence of Valencia's suppression. The rise of many teams in La Liga football is likely to compete with the traditional duo all day long.

This Sevilla team is very different from the Sevilla team that Chang Sheng had contacted at the beginning. There are many powerful stars in the team.

But they are all old acquaintances of Chang Sheng.

Their main goalkeeper is Palop. Yes, the same Palop who came off the bench for Canizares in the ever-victorious Valencia. After Chang Sheng left Valencia, he was also eager to find a new world, so he applied to leave. Soler, who was troubled by the debt problem, sold him to Seville without saying a word.

In addition, Sevilla also had Daniel Alves, the main right back of Barcelona, ​​forward Saviola, who was loaned from Barcelona, ​​and Luis Fabi, the main forward of the Brazilian national team in the World Cup in South Africa. Jarno, the star of hope in the Brazilian midfielder Renato, the famous high center forward Canoute, and the excellent Spanish winger Jesús Navas. Puerta, who later died of a heart attack at an early age, is still alive today.

It is no wonder that such a team will win two consecutive UEFA Cup championships in the next two years. Under the leadership of Juande Ramos, it will beat Real Madrid, Barcelona and other giants to become the best team of the year.

But Chang Sheng is not afraid of them.

He is very familiar with Spanish football and Spanish teams, and he knows how to deal with Sevilla.

And looking at the other three groups of opponents, their strength is not very good.

Maybe just a Schalke 04 is still a bit capable.

Sofia Levski was Lazio's defeat in the group stage.

Rapid Bucharest and Steaua Bucharest are both Romanian teams. Although Steaua Bucharest is a giant in the Romanian league, they have entered the European arena. Now they have long since lost the threat.

Basel and Middlesbrough from Switzerland are similar in strength, but they are not a threat to Changsheng.

Lazio only needs to solve Sevilla. It basically cleared the obstacles to winning the championship.

Fighting in the UEFA Cup is obviously faster than fighting in the league.

The UEFA Cup quarter-finals start at the end of March, and there is only one and a half weeks to go, with two league games in between.

There is not much time left for Chang Sheng to prepare for the battle.

In order to prepare for the UEFA Cup, Chang Sheng gave up the league.

In the 30th round of the league, they challenged Inter Milan away.

In the first half of the season, in order to win, Chang Sheng insulted Mancini by all means and angered him. Let the team win the game.

Now Chang Sheng has no interest in the outcome of the game, so he seemed peaceful before the game. He doesn't care if he wins or loses. His heart is already in the UEFA Cup.

As a result, Lazio lost 1:2 to Inter Milan in the away game and lost the second game of the season.

After the game, in response to a reporter’s question about “Does losing two games mean that Lazio has started to go downhill”, Chang Sheng replied: “Juventus lost earlier than us. Are they going downhill?”

The reporter was left speechless by the rhetorical question.

Chang Sheng took advantage of the victory to pursue: "In the future, don't ask such stupid questions. When Lazio loses ten games in a row, you can come and ask. But is there really such a day?"

Losing ten games in a row, Changsheng's coaching career, whether it is in Getafe. Still in Valencia, even in Rome, where his personal coaching career was at its lowest point, he never lost ten games in a row...

So, that day may never come.

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Lazio lost again, while Juventus won again, and the point gap between the two sides was widened again, becoming a four-point difference.

But with eight rounds left in the league, Juventus don't feel safe at all.

Lazio's performance this season has shown that any miracles they create are normal and possible.

In order to secure a bigger lead, they have to go all out.

Juventus are right to have this idea.

Because in the next thirty-first round, Lazio defeated Sampdoria 2:0 at home, while Juventus was tied 1:1 by Rome at home.

The difference between the two sides has narrowed to two points.

Although Rome and Lazio are rivals in the same city, Rome is also a rival to Juventus. Maybe their defeat or draw with Juventus will give Lazio an advantage, but it is absolutely impossible for them to surrender in the face of death.

So Rome objectively helped Lazio...

At least not like Atletico Madrid, who intentionally lost to Barcelona by a large margin in order to disgust their rivals in the same city, Real Madrid. It is still a bit of morality in Rome... To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (.) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.