When the match between Lazio and Tottenham Hotspur began, the Lazio players quickly began to admire their boss.
The boss is right, Tottenham Hotspur's front two wings are very sharp.
Especially their left wing.
The Tottenham Hotspur No.3 who looks a bit like a monkey looks like an F1 car!
At the beginning, the Lazio players were a little lax when defending him, giving Bell an opening, so Bell unceremoniously passed the football from that place.
When he picked up his speed, it was like a gust of wind, blowing past Lazio's right back Azpilicueta.
By the time Azpilicueta reacted and turned around to pursue him again, Bale was already five or six meters away from him.
"God, this Welshman is so fast!"
exclaimed the Italian commentator.
Bell broke through Azpilicueta and finally passed the ball. Crouch followed up in the middle and pushed the ball high.
But when Crouch jumped up to fight for the top, many Lazio fans felt chilled because the tall guy was too tall!
Let him head the ball in front of the goal, will Lazio still be good?
Fortunately, due to the interference of Jose Passarella, Crouch got the upper hand.
When Chang Sheng saw this scene, he stood up from his seat, then quickly walked to the sidelines and shouted inside: "What did I say? Be careful on both sides! Don't take it lightly!!"
In fact, he didn't need to remind him that Lazio's players realized that they really couldn't take it lightly.
Tottenham Hotspur's wing attack is really sharp!
Fortunately, Giroud was injured before this game. Otherwise, if Giroud had hit the ball, it might have been scored...
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Next, Lazio followed the tactics established before the game and strictly guarded the two flanks. They did not give Bell and Lennon a chance to rush forward.
Especially Bell. After seeing his speed once, Lazio will now choose to shrink the defense immediately when defending him.
When dealing with speedy players, the most important thing is not to give them room to sprint.
Lazio tightened its defense and did not give Bell any space to add up his speed. No matter how fast he was, it would be useless.
Then Lazio took advantage of the huge gap in overall strength to bombard Tottenham Hotspur indiscriminately, leaving Tottenham Hotspur without much time to consider attacking.
A two-pronged approach was used to achieve fame in this game. In the end, the Welsh flying wing Bell, who was famous in Europe, was killed in his infancy.
If Bell doesn't show his performance at all in this game, I don't know if he will still attract the attention of those wealthy clubs in the future...
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Bale quickly felt the changes at Lazio.
When he wanted to continue to use speed to break through, he found that the opponent did not give him the space to do so.
If he forces a breakthrough, the final result is likely to be that the football goes out of the bottom line...
The opponent's three defense lines are arranged very delicately. He can break through the first player with his speed, but the football he passes out will be destroyed by the opponent's second defensive player.
Because the gap between each defensive player is not big or small, it is very reasonable. It will not allow Bell to speed up to pass two people, nor will Bell use his speed to break through them one by one.
After Bell tried several times, they all ended in failure.
He had to change his playing style and go to the center.
However, at this time, Bell had just transformed from a left back to a left winger. He was still more comfortable playing on the wing. He had no idea about the center. Naturally, he couldn't do it well when he temporarily moved to the center.
Because people like Jose Passarella, Chiellini, and Ledesma are not just for show.
He switches places with Lennon again. He goes to the right.
The result is the same as on the left wing.
And not only him, Lennon also encountered such a problem.
Tottenham Hotspur's sharpest weapon. The two wings were flying together, but they were restricted by Lazio.
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Seeing this, Redknapp simply ordered his team to shrink their defense and launch a defensive counterattack in the away game.
Anyway, they are playing away from home, and in the group stage, they don't have to fight too hard.
It would be best if we can maintain a draw in the away game.
Redknapp also doesn't want to compete with Lazio for first place in the group.
He knew that if he got serious about winning, his team would have no chance.
So Tottenham Hotspur's initial idea was to compete for second place in the group.
In the first two rounds of the group stage, Tottenham Hotspur achieved an unbeaten record with one win and one draw, ranking second in the group behind Lazio, which had won two games.
For a team that participated in the Champions League for the first time in 48 years, it is indeed not easy to achieve such results.
It's no wonder that Tottenham Hotspur wants to compete with Lazio on the road.
Of course, after they discovered the strength gap between themselves and Lazio, they quickly adjusted their tactics.
In the next game, Tottenham Hotspur basically shrunk their defense and did not go out in their own half.
But Lazio didn't bombard their half either.
Because Chang Sheng is very concerned about Tottenham Hotspur's two wings. If Lazio really presses all the way, it will simply give the opponent an excellent opportunity to counterattack, and Bale and Lennon will have a place to play.
Therefore, no matter what time it is, the four members of Lazio's defense must ensure that they are in their own positions. If they are victorious, they would rather sacrifice the assists of the two full-backs than be defeated by the opponent's counterattack.
Changsheng attaches more importance to Tottenham Hotspur than to AC Milan.
This may seem strange.
But actually this is normal.
Because if anything in this world is taken to the extreme, it will make people scared.
Lazio, who has always won, is fast enough, but their overall advancement speed is fast.
When it comes to the speed of individual players, no one from Lazio can match Tottenham Hotspur's two full midfielders.
Especially Gareth Bale.
At that time, Wenger went to Southampton to recruit people. He fell in love with Walcott, who was said to be able to run track and field. But in fact, Bale, who was roommate with Walcott, was also very fast.
No matter how sophisticated Lazio's tactics are, or how outstanding the individual abilities of Lazio's players are, as long as there is an opening and Bale moves the football forward and maximizes his speed, all of Lazio's previous advantages will be gone.
When these two things, speed and strength, are brought into full play, they can have simple and effective effects. As the saying goes, miracles can happen with great force, miracles can also happen with speed.
Changsheng does not want to be like Benitez's Inter Milan, becoming a foil for Bale alone, letting the four people in his defense take turns to provide green leaves for Bale and set off Bale's excellent speed.
That game between Tottenham Hotspur and Inter Milan was like a perfect advertisement for Bale.
Since then, Bell's net worth has soared and he has become a hot celebrity throughout Europe.
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Because the defenders were all in the backcourt to defend against Tottenham Hotspur's possible counterattack, Lazio's offense seemed to be lacking in level.
But there's nothing you can do about it, it's better than losing the ball.
Tottenham Hotspur had to shrink their defense and had no chance to score.
So the two sides lived on the same street.
The England commentator was delighted with Tottenham's performance.
"...It seems that Lazio is quite afraid of the pace of Bale and Lennon. So they did not press forward across the board. Without the support of full-backs, Lazio's offense was not as powerful as usual... Redknapp did a great job!
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The current situation is like this. If a team can face a challenge without conceding the ball, even if the situation is embarrassing, that will be enough to make their supporters happy.
You must know that there are many teams that cannot even do this. They were overwhelmed by Lazio's devastating offensive from the very beginning...
But if Lazio is stumped in this simple way, then it will be impossible for them to become the Triple Crown champion.
Without the assists from the full-backs, Lazio still has an attacking lineup in the frontcourt.
As long as these people perform normally, they are enough to give Tottenham Hotspur a drink.
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In the 41st minute, seeing that the first half was about to end, Redknapp came to the sidelines and signaled Tottenham Hotspur players to further shrink their defense to prevent Lazio from scoring at the last moment.
As long as they can hold a 0:0 score in the first half, it will enhance the confidence of the players and help the team return to White Hart Lane with a draw.
To be able to bring home a draw from the Stadio Olimpico in Rome would be amazing!
Tottenham Hotspur's players responded to their manager's latest instructions and tightened up even more.
This is even more detrimental to Lazio's offense.
Under such circumstances, Lazio accelerated their attack.
Various quick passes and quick runs, constantly trying to pass into Tottenham Hotspur's penalty area.
Tottenham Hotspur adopts a zone defense. The advantage of this is to ensure that their defense zone will not be disrupted by Lazio's fast passing and running tactics, and there will not be an obvious gap in a certain place.
But there are also disadvantages, that is...it's easy to mark people and not be tight! Because they don't mark people in the defensive zone...
Especially against those players with flexible movement...
Lazio's starting center in this game is not Cavani, but Klose.
The German veteran striker's movement is quite flexible.
When the game reached the 43rd minute, the first half was about to end. Lazio launched another attack.
After a series of dazzling passes and moves, David Silva suddenly passed the football from the left into the penalty area with a half-high ball.
It was a gap, but with neither player present, it didn't look like much of a threat.
But when the football dropped, everyone was surprised to find Klose there!
"Klose——!"
Not offside?
Not offside!
Because Klose penetrated from behind!
At this time, the shortcomings of Tottenham Hotspur's zone defense were exposed.
Klose received the ball almost unguarded. He calmly stopped the football with his chest, followed by a volley!
Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Gomez, who ran to block the near corner, made a save but failed to save the ball.
The football flew past his fingertips and went straight to the far corner!
Then, in full view of everyone, he hit the far post and bounced into the goal...
