Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 583
Verona is a city with a long history located in the Veneto region. In 2000, the city was rated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. There are two famous teams in this city. One is Verona once won the Serie A championship, and the other team is Chievo, commonly known as the giant killer.

Chievo's nickname Flying Donkey is closely related to Verona, because in history Verona was a team that had won the Serie A and participated in the Serie A long ago, and Chievo itself was not an urban team. A small team that grew up in a small village in Rhone has always been mixed in the low-level leagues.

Verona fans laughed at Chievo, if you can all make it to Serie A, then donkeys can fly to the sky!
Why do you have to say donkey?In fact, Verona fans deliberately said that about Chievo. There is a knight on Chievo's team emblem. The knight riding a horse is not a donkey. .During the 150 years when the Scala family ruled Verona, Cangrande was the most accomplished one: militarily, he conquered neighboring cities such as Padua and Vicenza; politically, he won the Holy Roman Empire. The emperor trusted him; culturally, he sheltered and funded a group of poets and painters such as Dante and Giotto.

But the real result is that the Verona fans were slapped severely. Chievo team was upgraded unexpectedly in the 2001/02 season. Come back to the Verona fans who were disrespectful before.

Nicknames like "Flying Donkey" were also called out. Verona fans had the purpose of humiliating, but this nickname turned into a complimenting nickname for their rivals in the same city.

Chievo has been hanging out in Serie A for a long time these years, and his record is good. He can often create problems for the rich teams, so he has also won the reputation of the rich killers. On the contrary, their rivals in the same city, Verona, have gradually fallen into the second division. Among them, it is difficult for the two teams to meet now.

After Calciopoli happened in 2006, the Chievo team picked up a bargain. They were originally the fifth place. Then Juventus was deprived of the championship and could not participate in the UEFA Champions League. In turn, Chievo qualified for the UEFA Champions League. Then this time The point has become their cup.

It's not enough to rush the ducks to the shelves. Chievo's own bench is not thick enough. Relegation.

Under the leadership of Pioli last season, the team achieved No.11 in the league and succeeded in relegation ahead of schedule. Pioli was appreciated by Zamparini and invited to coach Palermo. Lemo has qualified for the UEFA Cup, and Pioli naturally wanted to go further, so he left Chievo.

This season, Chievo invited DiCarlo back again. Zhang Yuan is no stranger to DiCarlo. When he was in Serie B, Mantova's head coach was DiCarlo. Rimini once played against them.

Di Carlo, who entered the palace for the second time, has led the team well in the new season. He has achieved 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. With [-] points, he is only one game away from Juventus. The key, the most important thing is that Chievo has never been afraid of powerful players.

Last season, Naples and Inter Milan overturned the boat here, while Juventus drew with Chievo in both rounds last season. In the new season, Chievo has played three games at home and has not lost a game.

At the pre-match press conference before this game, Conte was cautious. He was always worried that the team would be complacent, and deliberately reminded Juventus not to relax in front of the media.

And at this press conference, he also directly revealed that Zhang Yuan will take turns in this game and will not play, which made many media wonder why a player in good condition is not used.

"He has been a little tired in recent consecutive games. I plan to let him rest! We have other excellent players on the front line, and they can also perform well!"

The real reason is that Conte is not satisfied with Zhang Yuan’s training status. He thinks that Zhang Yuan’s mental state and competitive state are not good, so he made such a decision. From the end of the national team match day to this round of competition, Zhang Yuan is still If there is a few days of recovery time, fatigue should not be a particularly big problem. Even if there is, the last half is still ok, and fatigue is not the main reason.

Di Carlo has recently watched all the Juventus game videos in the new season. He has figured out Conte's routine. Conte seems to like to use a 433-[-]-[-] formation recently, setting up a single center forward, and a single center forward. The two games played by Zhang Yuanlai were played by Zhang Yuan. Zhang Yuan is not a traditional center forward and has a lot of retreats.

In this game, Zhang Yuan was not able to play, so Di Carlo guessed that Conte would play Vucinic, because Vucinic's type is actually similar to Zhang Yuan, only the difference in ability.

Sure enough, in the game on October 10, Conte still used 16, and the single center became Vucinic!
Di Carlo generally used 4312 in Flying Donkeys this season. Originally, he wanted to change the lineup and set up five midfielders in the midfield, but in the end he held back. The 4312 Chievo team is obviously more adaptable. Juventus let DiCarlo is very apprehensive. There are good and bad changes in the formation. Weighing the pros and cons, DiCarlo would rather choose a formation that is more familiar to Chievo players.

DiCarlo’s way to stop Juventus’ offense is to not aim too high at home and to be realistic. The actual basis is defense. The lines must be shrunk and compact, so as not to give Juventus any good chances.The second is to frequently use foul tactics and try to limit all threats to the midfield.

The battle between the two teams is far from a simple battle of wits and courage between two head coaches. It is most appropriate to use the butterfly effect to explain it. Many factors will lead to the direction of the game.

Juventus played very patiently in this game, which is also Conte's philosophy. The game lasts 90 minutes, and the time is not short. He always believes that Chievo will make some mistakes. As long as his team can catch Once will do.

In the face of Chievo's foul, Juventus was not aroused. The offensive system was running in an orderly manner. There were no suitable opportunities, shots were not easy, and the ball possession rate easily reached 65%.

DiCarlo's tactics were very successful. In fact, Juventus lacked a finalist. No matter how good the ball was, it was still difficult to create any effective opportunities.

0:0 in the first half, Conte was neither angry nor angry, he was still patient, but after 70 minutes in the second half, Juventus was still unable to break through the gate of Chievo, Conte became impatient, this is No way.

At the beginning of this game, he counted 3 points, but now it seems that the Chievo team is very difficult to deal with. Juventus has completed 7 shots, but what is the test for Sorrentino?It was zero, Sorrentino didn't even make a save, but Pelissier caused Buffon two tests.

Conte started to gamble again, replacing Vidal with Del Piero, Vucinic with Matri, Krasic with Estigarivia, Pepe and Estigarivia's position In advance, the formation changed to a 424 attack formation, trying to forcibly eat Chievo.

Di Carlo immediately adjusted his formation to 442, sticking to the wing, with a clear purpose of preventing Juventus from attacking the wing.

Juventus was at a loss. In the last 20 minutes or so, they contributed 6 shots and finally caused Sorrentino 2 troubles. It was just trouble, not defeating Sorrentino.

At the end of the 90-minute game, Chievo relied on tenacious defense and foul tactics to draw with Juventus at home. wins.

"We had a chance to win today. Chievo's defense was very successful today! They fouled too much!" Conte felt unwilling after the game. Chievo fouled up to 25 times, which is too much. Still quite critical.

"A lot of fouls?! I don't think this is a problem! Where is the team that does not foul?! This should not be where we are blamed, and I don't think there are some places that are fouls!" DiCarlo is not Kong Dee sees fouls the way he does.

Zhang Yuan did not play, and Juventus immediately failed to score. When the reporter asked Conte if Zhang Yuan's absence brought problems to Juventus' offense.

"No, we only scored one point today, and the problem cannot be attributed to whether one person plays or not. Our whole team should learn from this!"

(End of this chapter)