We agreed to play football together, and you will be the head coach?

Chapter 40: The Winning Hand, He Tianqi's Three Consecutive Changes

In the second half, Lazio did not make any positional adjustments.

In the 48th minute, Ribery received the ball, feinted a few times, and passed the ball to DiDonato.

The latter made a straight pass and Lucarelli, who came from the back row, chased after the ball.

But Juan Sorin got there first and cleared the ball out of the sideline.

In the 52nd minute, Ribery made a fake breakthrough towards the ball passed by DiDonato, but in fact he just stepped over the ball.

boom!
Ribery then passed the ball back to DiDonato.

Cesar, who was almost disoriented, found Ribery simply incomprehensible.

You don't dare to attack now?

"What's wrong with Ribery? He played much more conservatively in the second half." Huang Jianxiang also found the problem. "Not only did he not make any breakthroughs, but most of his receptions were just fake passes. Apart from slowing down the team's offensive rhythm, he didn't see any other effect."

"This kind of fancy show doesn't make any sense."

"He wasted a lot of his teammates' running."

"Lucarelli made several runs from the back line but to no avail."

"Quagliarela also repeatedly pulled the ball to the side, and DiDonato was sweating profusely."

In the 62nd minute, DiDonato was brought down by the opponent.

Palermo requested a substitution.

Three players stood on the sidelines at once.

Huang Jianxiang's eyes lit up: "He Tianqi has made a move!"

"Is he going to... replace three people in a row?"

"Too bold. This way, he doesn't have any room for error."

"Modric replaces DiDonato."

"Eduardo replaces Quagliarella."

"Ashley Young replaces Lucarelli."

"No wonder these three players are running so much on the field. It seems that He Tianqi has been prepared for this and is fighting a battle of attrition!"

Looking at the three new players, Cesar, Juan Solin and Diego Simeone all turned pale.

Whether they can defend against it or not is another matter, but their physical strength is a bit overwhelmed.

Simeone looked at Mancini.

Mancini is discussing with the assistant coach.

It seems that he is also ready to make a change.

Simeone felt a little relieved and told his teammates: "Hold on, keep staring at them!"

Cesar and Juan Sorin nodded.

On the Palermo side, Modric, who had just come on the field, made gestures to his teammates and came to Ribery and covered his mouth and said: "The boss said Mancini's tactics are conservative, his ability to adjust is not strong, and he is slow to respond to substitutions."

"We probably have more than ten minutes to use."

Ribery nodded excitedly.

He can clearly dribble past others, but he has to suppress his instincts. Do you know how uncomfortable this feeling is?
In the 64th minute, Modric passed the ball to Ashley Young.

The latter advanced with the ball on the wing.

Ribery slowly slid towards Cesar and then suddenly started.

Ashley Young immediately made a lob pass.

After receiving the ball, Ribery accelerated and shook off Cesar, then rushed towards Juan Solin.

Eduardo runs out of the penalty area.

Ribery passes forward.

Juan Sorin's position was mainly to defend against cuts inside and he was unable to do anything about the pass.

After Eduardo got the ball, he ran into the penalty area along the bottom line.

Before the Lazio center back could fully get over, he kicked the ball to the penalty spot with an inverted triangle.

Modric, who was entangled by Simeone, gave up his position voluntarily, but then went around Simeone. He was full of energy and was not afraid of taking a detour.

When he rushed forward, Simeone realized that he could no longer stop him.

boom!
Modric made a quick shot and hit the left side of the goal.

Mazzigiani, who was squatting on the right side, was out of reach and could only watch the ball go into the net. "GOAL!"

"He Tianqi's adjustments have once again produced miraculous results!"

"In less than three minutes, Palermo scored a goal!"

"This situation of scoring after substitutions seems to have become He Tianqi's trademark."

"The score of this game is 3-2, and the total score of the two rounds is 4-4. But Palermo leads Lazio with three away goals!"

"Mancini has not yet given a response. Does he think Lazio's current squad is good enough to deal with it?"

And the answer is… yes!
Mancini has already let all the excellent players play. If they are not good enough, then the young players on the bench will definitely not be good enough.

As for the two main players he brought with him... they will have a big battle with Porto in three days.

It would be best if you can avoid using the main players.

After all, Mourinho is said to be extremely evil.

"Let's wait and see." Mancini asked the assistant coach not to be impatient.

In the 67th minute, Ribery again dribbled the ball close to Cesar on the right.

The despair of the first half came back to haunt him.

He and Juan Sorin are strong in attack but weak in defense. Today he really tried everything but couldn't defend against Ribery.

Cesar called Juan Solin to join him.

Ashley Young came straight up from the touchline.

Ribery made a straight pass and easily penetrated Lazio's left side.

Ashley Young made a cross from the bottom.

Eduardo jumped up to interfere with the central defender behind him, causing the opponent to head the ball off target and almost creating an own goal.

Fortunately, Mazzigiani was focused and lifted the ball out of the baseline.

Ribery came to the corner area and took a tactical corner kick.

After receiving the ball, Modric made a fake pass with his right foot, shaking off a group of people in the penalty area.

boom!
Modric swung his foot a second time and sent a cross.

Eduardo, who was not very tall, did not jump in the first feint. The tacit understanding between him and Modric made him wait for a while.

So at this moment, he successfully took advantage of the opportunity between several tall guys and headed the football.

Mazzigiani didn't expect the ball to come from this position, and he had no time to save the ball.

"GOAL! Another goal!"

"The Croatian twin stars passed the ball to each other after coming on as substitutes!"

"The Lazio players raised their hands to indicate offside, but the linesman clearly shook his head."

"Eduardo was indeed onside, Modric's first pass completely messed up Lazio's offside line. Juan Sorin was too far back."

"The score is five to four!"

"Palermo is really ahead this time!"

"Lazio must score two goals to overtake them!"

"It's just unbelievable."

"You know, Palermo doesn't have a single international player in their squad. Lazio has six former internationals and one current international."

On the Lazio sidelines, the substitute players stood up and began to warm up.

In the 72nd minute, Lazio players stood on the sidelines preparing to go on the field.

Among them are two Lazio main players.

Forward Bernardo Corradi.

Giupese Favalli is the left back.

Both are internationals, with Favalli starting on the left for Italy.

He is not comparable to those out-of-date international players.

(Simeone, Inzaghi, Chiesa, Mazzigiani:???)

"The fourth referee is preparing a substitution card. Lazio will make a substitution after this dead ball...Oh! Ashley Young is speeding up with the ball on the wing."

(End of this chapter)