Chapter 108: Overhead! Rome takes the lead!
"Beep!" The second half begins!
After the two sides adjusted themselves and tried a few times, they soon returned to the stalemate!
Wu Lei cherished the opportunity of making his debut in this official match very much and started running and pressing in the frontcourt without sparing any energy!
Chen Xiaoliang, who returned to the single defensive midfielder mode, also re-entered the state of large-scale coverage.
Hamsik and Gervinho, who were active in the first half, soon felt the sudden increase in defensive pressure!
Although these two were known as the "second Nedved" when they were young, one for his speed and the other for his physical strength, they are both 34 years old now. Several quick counterattacks in the first half consumed a lot of their physical strength.
When they saw Chen Xiaoliang, who was only half their age, coming to defend after the formation change, the two did not take it seriously at first and just thought that the young man was pretty good at clearing the ball with his headers.
In the 53rd minute, Pellegrini's long shot from outside the penalty area lacked power and was caught by the opponent's goalkeeper Cakir.
Cakir immediately launched a counterattack with a thrown ball, and the central defender Hugo still made a long diagonal pass to Gervinho!
Left-back Binya, who was embarrassed by Gervinho throughout the first half, received a "friendly reminder" from Mourinho during the halftime break, asking him to play with confidence instead of always looking back and forth for fear of being dribbled past!
Knowing that Niles was sitting on the bench and was eyeing him covetously, he no longer had any distracting thoughts in his mind and rushed towards the ball falling from mid-air!
The two men competed for headers in the air, but with only a 1 cm height difference between them, neither of them hit the right part!
The ball hit Binya's head and bounced to Hamsik behind him!
Hamsik took the ball and moved forward!
Gervinho leaves the wing and moves diagonally towards the middle!
There was no defensive player behind Roma's left-back Binya, so he had to press Hamsik!
The Slovak Footballer of the Year made a clever pass, and the ball rolled between Binya's feet to Gervinho who was advancing forward!
The cooperation between these two old demons made the home team fans very excited.
Although the old Ivory Coast international is old, his physical foundation is still there!
He used to be a famous one-on-one king!
After taking a few steps and getting started, he accelerated with a dribble and carried Ibanez, who came to defend, behind him with his shoulder!
Mancini subconsciously wanted to come over to defend, but just after taking a step, Giannini, who was rushing up from the offside line beside him, drew his attention back!
Seeing that Gervinho had stepped into the penalty area and had a one-on-one opportunity, the home team fans in the stadium shouted excitedly, and a white shadow rushed over!
When Gervinho saw someone approaching, he immediately raised his leg to prepare for a shot!
Before the ball left his feet, Chen Xiaoliang's feet had already reached it!
"Bang!" With a loud bang, the ball was hit by two feet at the same time and bounced high!
Chen Xiaoliang stood up and held Gervinho to prevent him from jumping comfortably. Ibanez jumped back and gently headed the ball towards goalkeeper Patricio.
After getting the ball, Patricio rushed forward like a rugby player, holding the ball in his right hand and waving his left hand forward to signal his teammates to press forward!
He came to the edge of the penalty area and threw the ball directly to Zaniolo in the center circle!
Zaniolo was once described by Mourinho as a player that every coach wants to have, with good physique, good skills and good brains!
He dribbled the ball through, facing two opposing defenders and passed the ball to Pellegrini on the left!
Pellegrini received the ball and passed it directly to Mkhitaryan!
At this time, the entire right side of Trabzonspor had not retreated yet!
Mkhitaryan adjusted his position and made a direct cross!
Zaniolo, who is 190cm tall, rushes in to compete for the header!
Point forward! Too high!
At this time, a short figure ran to the back and jumped lightly!
Use the arch of your right foot to cushion it!
The distance is too close! Turkish goalkeeper Cakir stretched out his body but it was too late to block it!
The ball goes in! Number 14!
The commentator at the stadium said in a tone without any passion:
In the 54th minute, Roma scored a goal, the scorer was No. 14 Wu Lei.
There were not many Roma fans traveling with the team for this game, so apart from a few people including the Roma players who were celebrating, the rest of the stadium was filled with boos!
However, in the Red Country live broadcast room, the fans were completely delighted!
Barrage:
[This counterattack has the flavor of Mourinho's Real Madrid! ]
[It’s worth staying up late! Damn, I’m going to be unable to sleep later! ]
[The shooting skills of these Roma players are not good. They wasted several chances! ]
[I never expected that the one who saved Mourinho was Wu Lei! ]
【The King of Wuqiu comes to Rome! 】
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Wu Lei was very excited after scoring the goal!
Chen Xiaoliang was also very happy!
The two ran towards each other and embraced each other passionately!
In front of the TV, Barisic, watching this scene, clapped a few times, then silently opened a bottle of beer. However, the taste of the yellow liquid seemed a bit sour at this moment.
Other players of the Roma team also gathered around and patted Wu Lei gently to express their congratulations.
Wu Lei smiled and thanked every teammate, especially Mkhitaryan who assisted, and the two hugged each other.
However, Chen Xiaoliang who was standing by could see clearly that while the other players were fine, captain Pellegrini and Zaniolo had blank expressions on their faces when they came over to celebrate, which seemed like they were just doing it perfunctorily.
The game continues!
Trabzonspor, who was playing at home and trailing by one goal, made personnel adjustments, replacing four players at once, almost all of whom were tall players.
Among those who were substituted was Gervinho, who was replaced by a Danish striker, Cornelius, who is 193cm tall.
Now, the air defense alarm in the Rome restricted area was completely sounded!
The Turkish team seems to be not from the Turkish Super League, but from the English Championship!
No matter if they are at the bottom or 45-degree angle on both sides, as long as there is an open space, they will make a high cross when they see their teammates in the Roma penalty area.
Joao glanced at the Trabzonspor bench:
"Jose, Newton seems to have made sufficient preparations for this game. It's time for us to make a substitution."
The Newton that Joao mentioned is Trabzonspor head coach Eddie Newton.
He played for Chelsea for many years and won two FA Cups with the team. After retiring, he returned to Chelsea as a coach and followed Di Matteo, Grant and Scolari. In 2015, he served as assistant coach to Dutch coach Hiddink, who took over Chelsea for the second time in a critical moment.
So in the eyes of Mourinho and Joao, it was completely expected that he could lead the team to play such English football.
"Let Smalling warm up, replace Mkhitaryan in the 65th minute, and let Wu Lei go to the middle to play as a double striker with Zaniolo." Mourinho said to Joao.
However, as the fourth official was about to raise his card, the game took another turn.
In the 63rd minute, Hamsik got the ball in the midfield, but Cristante did not press forward. The Slovak player, who had enough space, made a long pass with just the right strength and accuracy to the right-back Perez!
Viña lost his position again and did not put any pressure on Perez.
Perez made a cross from the bottom line and accurately found Cornelius who had just come on the field. The tall Danish guy pressed Ibanez and jumped to head the ball, but Patricio had no reaction!
In just a few minutes, the home team equalized the score!
Ibanez, who is 185cm tall, was very unhappy, but there was nothing he could do!
He was a little shorter than Cornelius in height and weight, and coupled with the inertia of the attacking player when he ran towards the header after a run-up, he could not block the header at all when jumping from the spot.
Mourinho's plan changes, Roma makes substitutions!
No. 31 Spanish winger Carles Perez replaced Mkhitaryan, forward Marayol, who was loaned from Real Madrid, replaced Zaniolo, Smalling replaced right back Karsdorp, and Niles replaced Binya who was repeatedly dribbled past!
Zaniolo was very unhappy when he was substituted and didn't even high-five Mourinho.
At this time on the field, Malayol and Wu Lei formed a double striker, Carles Perez and Pellegrini moved behind the striker on the left and right, Cristante roamed in the midfield, and Smalling did the job of right back that he often did in Manchester United, but his activity area was more like right center back.
Mourinho is ready to release the formation and attack. Today it's either you die or I die, and we must decide the winner!
The full use of the quota means that Veretout, Diawara and Shalawi have no chance to play.
Diawara kept complaining to Weletu in a low voice, and seemed to be very dissatisfied.
On the court, the ball returned to the center circle and the game continued.
The away goals rule in European competitions was cancelled at the start of this season, so now the two sides are back to square one.
After running for more than sixty minutes, Chen Xiaoliang felt that his physical strength had been almost consumed by half, and he prepared to use the physical strength recovery card as usual.
Who would have thought that the system would sound a prompt at this time.
