Lord of Greenery

Chapter 200 Evolution
Although Rhea didn't know that Laurentiis was preparing a replacement list, he also knew that his position was a bit dangerous.

From the perspective of the whole season, his performance in leading the team is not bad, even quite good.

Naples is not a giant, and it is already a pretty good result to be ranked in the top four of the league.

However, everything depends on comparison.

Before the winter break, Naples is still eligible to play a two-person game with Inter Milan to compete for the top spot in the standings.

By now, Naples is almost unable to keep the Champions League seat.

After 16 rounds, Naples has 36 points, Milan has 30 points, and Naples leads by 6 points.

After the four rounds of the league, Naples scored 39 points and Milan scored 40 points, even overtaking by 1 point!
With such a huge advantage, they lost it all in just four league rounds!

Such a huge gap, even someone like De Laurentiis, who has seen big winds and waves, really can't stand it.

Amidst the doubts from the outside world, Rhea knew he had to do something.

Before the 21st round of the league, Rea called the players for emergency training.

In order not to be disturbed by reporters, this training is still closed.

However, in the eyes of the reporters, the so-called training was just a cover, a lie told by Rhea to avoid reporters' questioning.

"Napoli are finished, they won't even get the last place in the Champions League."

"If it wasn't Naples, who would be No.4?"

"Rome is not in good shape, Lazio has been unstable, it should be Fiorentina."

"The next game is Naples vs Fiorentina."

"If we lose this game again, the morale of Naples will be completely lost."

This is the benefit of closed training. The players in Naples can't hear the outside discussion at all.

Even so, the morale of the players is not high, rather it is quite low.

What journalists know they naturally know.

Naples can't afford to lose the next game against Fiorentina.

The truth is understandable, but it is by no means so easy to do it.

Fiorentina is now a strong team in Serie A, even if the top three in the north collide with them, it may not be able to please them.

Even Naples, which was in excellent form in the first half of the schedule, only scored a 0:0 with Fiorentina at home!

The 21st round of the league will be held at Frankie's home court in Florence.

When he was in good form, he sat at home and failed to win Viola. Now his form has fallen off a cliff and he has to go away. Can he win?
Of course, football games are not calculated in this way. The unpredictability of the outcome is the biggest charm of football.

But in the same way, because of various reasons, outsiders must be more optimistic about Fiorentina, and the same is true for Naples players.

A game that can't afford to lose is hard to win.

The players all felt a heavy pressure.

It happened that at this most anxious time, the head coach Rhea made them anxious, saying that they wanted to train a new formation.

"What's the use of changing formation at this time?" Hamsik complained.

Slovaks are irritable.

After entering the second half of the league, his performance is incomparable with the first half, because his physical strength is not very good, and his physical fitness is quite average.

Let alone Hamsik, who is now a good boy, even if he grows a beard and shaved his mohawk in the future, he will still be a traditional midfielder with a delicate body and a soft body, which is in stark contrast to his appearance.

This kind of style of play matches his current image of a refreshing niche.

In the more competitive second half of the season, his form will inevitably decline.

After 3 games in the second half, he had no goals or assists, no major mistakes, but no outstanding performances either.

It is no exaggeration to say that during this period of time, Li Ze was the only player in excellent form in Naples.

Hamsik desperately wants to get back the feeling he used to have, instead of wasting time with the head coach!
It would be fine if Rhea put on a well-founded formation, but what is their formation now?
4231!

A formation that puts the utmost emphasis on defense!

The goalkeeper still rotates with Jezzo and Navarro, the defense line is Santa Croce, Cannavaro, Contini, Maggio, the double midfielders are Gargano and Blasi, and the three central midfielders are Lavezzi, Hamsik, Li Ze, and Sarajeta acted as lone forwards.

Compared to the original formation, the current one puts more emphasis on defense.

But the problem is that Naples has never practiced this formation.

No matter how good and suitable this formation is, if the players are not used to it, there is nothing they can do.

What made Hamsik even more incomprehensible was that Reya said such a sentence.

"The next game against Fiorentina, we will play like this."

Fiorentina is Naples' direct opponent for the Champions League place!
It is no exaggeration to say that if Naples aims to be in the top four, then the game against Fiorentina is more important than the game against the top three in the north!
For such an important game, the time before the game was actually used for training?
Hamsik was incomprehensible.

"Unchanged, can we win according to the current state?" Reya plausibly said this, and didn't think there was anything wrong with him at all.

Hamsik had no choice but to follow the head coach's arrangement, but kept complaining in private.

"He's just messing around!"

"I think it's a good thing." Li Ze disagreed with him, "Let Sarajeta be a supporting center, and we will have more opportunities."

Putting Sarajeta in the single center position is to make him attract more attention and create opportunities for Li Ze and the others.

Nominally, Sarajeta stands in the middle position, but actually his role on the court is that of a blue-collar player, playing the role of Benzema.

"4231 is Mourinho's favorite formation, will he use it?" Hamsik asked, "Anyway, I haven't seen him use it before."

"Whether he is familiar with him or not, he must at least make some changes." Li Ze laughed, "We can't let everyone get used to losing, so we have to make some changes. Changing the formation will only give everyone the illusion of 'strengthening defense' , is better than doing nothing.”

Hamsik still frowned, still disagreed in his heart, but did not refute anything.

Seeing his appearance, Li Ze knew that he was also in a hurry.

During this period of time, his state was not good, which affected his mentality a little.

He is usually quite serious, but now he gives people a sullen feeling all day long.

If it weren't for everyone knowing that Slovaks don't like to laugh, I'm afraid they would have thought someone provoked him.

In fact, Li Ze didn't think Rhea's adjustment was useful—

Naples' biggest problem now is defense. Naples has conceded 4 goals in the last 8 games!Can concede 2 goals per game!
In Naples' defense, Santa Croce's inexperience is a time bomb, Contini and Blasi's full-time defense are average, and Maggio and Gargano are both offensive and defensive, but they are both stronger than defensive.

It can be said that Naples' defense line counts down, and only Cannavaro Jr. has a strong and steady performance.

Compared with the defense lines of the top three in the North and even other strong teams, Naples' defense seems a bit shabby.

Li Ze washed the ground for Rhea in front of him, just to give Hamsik confidence.

In fact, Li Ze himself was not very confident.

The more he thought about it, the more unreliable Li Ze felt, and he couldn't help but said, "Why don't we just play high-ranking oppression."

(End of this chapter)