At the last moment of the game, the score was still 0:1, and Inter Milan, playing at home, was lagging behind.
Mourinho is anxious.
Cruz, Crespo, all the forwards who can be replaced were replaced.
This is Mourinho's typical style when he needs to go all out in on-the-spot command, relying on numerical suppression and increasing momentum to break through the opponent's defense.
Although a football game is not a simple mathematical problem of one plus one equals two, it is not that the more people, the better.
But Mourinho can occasionally achieve miraculous results by doing this.
This time, maybe I just hope to get miraculous results.
But……
But it doesn't succeed every time.
But when Lazio recovered all lines, adding more forward manpower only made Lazio's penalty area more crowded and less space.
Football is a game of space. The offensive team must work hard to create and utilize space, while the defensive team must work hard to compress and eliminate restricted space.
Now Inter Milan has lined up three forwards at once, causing Lazio's penalty area to be full of people. How can there be any space?
Just look at Inter Milan's midfielder passing the ball back and forth outside Lazio's penalty area but unable to find a suitable path for the ball.
They lack space.
Chang Sheng sacrificed time in order to compress the space. He could allow Inter Milan players to pass the ball back and forth outside, because he knew that it was not a threat to the goal. No matter how calmly those Inter Milan players took the ball, they had no chance.
Just no chance.
Mourinho frowned and stood on the sidelines with his hands in his pockets.
He was also very anxious when he saw that his team could not score a goal even though it had the advantage of possessing the ball.
A record of 114 unbeaten home games in the league...
Mourinho gritted his teeth.
Really unwilling!
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"The referee is looking at his watch. The game has entered stoppage time... Lazio still leads Inter Milan with a score of 1:0. There is not much time left for Inter Milan... If Mourinho still wants to keep
He has an unbeaten record of 114 consecutive league games at home, so his team must score a goal!"
The commentator is reminding Inter Milan.
Inter Milan's players also understand that time is running out.
So they don't have to worry about finding any openings.
Get the ball outside the penalty area. If you have a chance, pass the ball. If you don't have a good chance, just take a long shot!
Or simply pass the high ball from the wing to the middle, hoping that the three tall men Crespo, Cruz and Ibrahimovic can fight for the header.
As Inter Milan made the final sprint, Lazio felt tremendous pressure in front of the goal.
Even Jose Passarella is no longer as calm as before.
In the 91st minute, Crespo finally got a point in front of the goal, and then hit a powerful lion's head!
The ball went straight to the blind spot!
Some excited Inter Milan fans even jumped to their feet and cheered in advance!
But at this moment, a hand flew over and flicked the football out with the tip of his finger!
"Handanovic!! He made a world-class save!!"
After Crespo landed, he held his head in his hands and looked at the goal in disbelief.
His top shot was perfect, but he didn't expect Handanovic to throw it out with his fingertips!
Mourinho leaned back on the sidelines and looked annoyed.
At this time Chang Sheng also made the third substitution.
He replaced Cavani with Rocky.
Forward for forward, opposite position substitution.
This does nothing to strengthen defense.
Therefore, Chang Sheng's substitution is not intended to strengthen the team's defense.
Mainly to delay time.
Substitutions are made after injury time has entered. Even if there is a delay in the substitution, it is impossible to make another stoppage time before the injury time ends.
So making substitutions at this time is a good opportunity to delay.
Chang Sheng only used two substitution places before, and the third substitution place was never used, just waiting for this opportunity.
Of course, the premise is that he has great trust in his team's defense and knows that they cannot be scored by Inter Milan, otherwise it will be useless.
Now, Lazio's performance proves that they deserve the trust of their coach.
The dense and clean defense gave Mourinho's team no chance at all.
Cavani faced the boos from the Meazza stadium. He walked slowly to the sidelines, and then hugged Rocchi to complete the substitution ceremony.
At this time, there was more than one minute left before the end of the game.
Mourinho kept protesting to the fourth official on the sidelines: "They are delaying time on purpose!!"
Of course, such protests are useless.
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Crespo's header was Inter Milan's last great chance in the game.
But unfortunately, Handanovic's explosive save prevented Inter Milan's chance to equalize the score.
When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, the commentator shouted.
"One hundred and fourteen games! The league's unbeaten record at home! This ends!"
The TV broadcast instantly showed Mourinho's face and gave him a close-up shot.
"Everyone can see Mourinho's unhappy face. He does have reason to be unhappy. Because his team lost the game at home, and his unbeaten record of 114 home league games has become a thing of the past.
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The unhappy Mourinho didn't even come up to shake Chang Sheng's hand, but turned directly to the players' tunnel.
Of course, even if he wins this game, he will not shake hands with Chang Sheng.
His attitude towards Chang Sheng was very clear that they were definitely not friends. Since they were not friends, why should they be hypocritical? Anyway, neither of them cared about such things as demeanor.
As for Chang Sheng, naturally he cannot wait for Mourinho to shake hands with him. He knows Mourinho's character very well.
He walked onto the Meazza Stadium with his fists raised high, celebrating this difficult victory with his team amidst the boos of the Inter Milan fans!
He has won many victories, but today's one is definitely not the most beautiful, nor is it the most important.
But he felt that today's victory was particularly significant.
Because this is a victory achieved by the team under extremely difficult circumstances that can determine the league championship!
More important than three points is the courage shown by the team in this difficult situation!
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At the post-match press conference, a reporter asked Chang Sheng: "As a representative of offensive football, Lazio played very ugly in this game, even though they got three points in the end..."
Chang Sheng interrupted the reporter's question without politeness: "Ugly? To me, the cutest, most beautiful, and sexiest thing in the world is the three-pointer! I love the three-pointer more than anything else!"
"The Collapse of the Idol of Idealists," the media published this reporter's commentary after the game.
It elaborates on how Chang Sheng, as an idol of idealists, fell.
Chang Sheng didn't even have the thought to refute.
For these losers in life, they have obviously failed in life, but they use "I am an idealist" as a cover to cover up their incompetence and weakness. Chang Sheng has no time to argue with them.
People are having such a hard time, so you might as well not expose them...
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After all, there are only a few people who criticize Chang Sheng for losing his ideals. More media have no time to pay attention to such idiotic things. This kind of thing can only be done by the media that claims to be very literary and artistic.
The vast majority of the media are more concerned about the impact of this game on the trend of Serie A this season.
Lazio leads Inter Milan by as many as six points after winning away at Inter Milan.
With four rounds left in the league, this point difference can be said to be decisive.
If Inter Milan wants to win the championship, it must hope that Lazio cannot win three of the remaining four league rounds.
Judging from Lazio's current state, although it is impossible for them to maintain a complete victory in subsequent games, the possibility of winning only one of four games is still too low.
Moreover, Chang Sheng can completely abandon the Champions League, which has little hope, and focus on the domestic league. In that case, their physical fitness will no longer be an issue.
In any case, Inter Milan has little hope.
So in fact, after losing this game at home, Inter Milan has lost hope of continuing to compete for the league championship.
This is why Mourinho is so angry.
Not only did his unbeaten home league record come to an end, he also lost his hope of competing for the league championship.
What is the point of working hard for a season?
Isn’t it just for this championship?
There are now four rounds left in the league, but he has been kicked off the championship ring...
What a tragedy!
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After the game against Inter Milan, Chang Sheng still gave his team a whole day to rest, even though there was still the second leg of the Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich in the middle of the week.
The game against Inter Milan has fully demonstrated Lazio's current physical crisis.
After several consecutive high-intensity games, Lazio couldn't fight even if they wanted to.
Even if it is the Champions League semi-finals in the middle of the week, the winning team must rest their players.
Of course. Some media interpreted that this is because Chang Sheng has decided to give up his performance in the Champions League semi-finals.
Chang Sheng didn't talk nonsense to the media either.
In the Champions League semi-finals in midweek, against Bayern Munich at home, Chang Sheng still fielded the strongest lineup and had no intention of giving up at all.
Lazio drew with Bayern Munich 1:1 at home. Although they did not lose to them, they were eliminated by Bayern Munich with a total score of 2:4.
Since the UEFA Champions League was restructured in 1991, no team has been able to successfully defend the title.
Lazio, which has always won, was not able to escape this fate.
The media were not surprised that Lazio was eliminated. Everyone knew it after the second round against Manchester United.
Lazio was able to fight to this point with such a broken formation and did not give up until the end. It was only due to lack of strength that they were eliminated by Bayern Munich. Their performance was already very good.
Especially against Bayern Munich at home, knowing that they had no chance, they still played tenaciously, and finally drew 1:1 with Bayern Munich at home without losing the game.
As a former champion, they have maintained their dignity as European champions.
Being eliminated this time is really a crime not related to war... (To be continued...)
ps: The game is over perfectly, but I still hope that everyone will continue to support with monthly tickets, because this month, we have an ambition!