Godfather Of Champions

Everyone was wondering about Lippi's substitution, and unceremoniously questioned his substitution adjustment.

But the protagonist who was so questioned sits calmly on the coach's bench, as if Balotelli was not replaced by him.

Or he didn't see Balotelli's mistake at all...

In fact, of course he saw it, he knew it clearly. It's just that he can't express his dissatisfaction with the player who just changed into the field. He sat on the sidelines with a calm face, but he was conveying such a message to the players——

Don't worry, we still have time and opportunity, don't mess around.

The players all felt relieved after seeing such a calm head coach on the court.

The head coach didn’t panic, why are we panicking?

Even Balotelli, who had just made a mistake, thought so.

In fact, Balotelli knows what this European Cup means to him. Before the European Cup, the agent had told him that if he wanted to leave Nottingham Forest smoothly, he had to show a convincing performance in the European Cup. Only then could he be able to lobby around.

In Nottingham Forest for two seasons, he has gradually lost his reputation in European football. At this time, I have to work hard like a newcomer.

Balotelli, who has this idea, is very positive. Although there was a mistake, he didn't take it seriously, he just wanted to score or assist teammates.

Balotelli played as a forward in the Forest, but in this game, he played as a forward on the right. His main task is to help the team attack on this side, cross the ball and let Forty fight for the top in the middle. However, this is not enough to give full play to his greatest feature.

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The Italian team's Giovenco made a sudden inside cut on the left. He passed Walcott, who was caught off guard. When planning to make a further breakthrough, he was brought down by George Wood.

The referee whistled and awarded Italy a free kick on the left side of the penalty area and gave Wood a verbal warning. Wood was also clever and didn't come forward to argue. He didn't go to Qiao Wenke, but Qiao Wenke was so thin that he almost fell down at the first half. He didn't even bother to argue with the referee.

Seeing that the Italian team had won a free kick, Balotelli hurried over from another wing and held the football in his hands. The teammates all know Lippi's latest arrangement, and Balotelli has officially taken over the penalty for all frontcourt set kicks on the court.

The English are no strangers to Balotelli's free kicks. In the Forest team, he and Bell usually take the penalty. Balotelli used free kicks to break through the gates of those Premier League teams.

Now seeing him put the football on the ground, looking like he was about to take the penalty, the English fans in the stands booed disturbing him.

In the sky boos, Balotelli's kick went above the crossbar.

The English fans cheered for victory, while Balotelli looked at the turf under his feet with some chagrin. There seemed to be some unevenness there, which made him kick when he got up.

Judging from this free kick, Balotelli still did not find the state, which gave the commentators an opportunity to attack and criticize Lippi.

Fortunately, you can't hear the TV commentary on the coaching bench. Otherwise, I really don't know how many head coaches will leave the game and rush to the commentary booth behind to find people who only know how to talk.

Balotelli underperformed twice in a row and Lippi remained unmoved. He has made up his mind. Now that everyone has changed, what can he regret? As long as it's not a major mistake, he can't just replace others, right? The precious substitutions are not so wasteful.

Balotelli's performance was poor, but the England team did not dare to take it lightly. Because they used Italy's contempt for the underperforming Abangrajo in the first half to open the door to the reinforced concrete defense. During the intermission, Dunn also warned them not to underestimate the enemy and be careful.

So when Balotelli got the ball from the wing, Joe Matoke didn't mean to relax at all. Although they are both teammates of the same club, they are now their own masters.

Balotelli was about to force a breakthrough. Although he passed Joe Matoke, he was blocked by Tangning who had caught up behind him. After this delay, Joe Matoke caught up again, and the two of them locked Balotelli outside and forced them to the corner flag.

Balotelli saw that he couldn't complete the cross, and it seemed difficult to break through, so he retreated to the second place and wanted a corner kick. As a result, after the kicked ball hit Joe Matoke, it did not directly bounce to the bottom line. Instead, it bounced back in a ghostly manner, hitting Balotelli's calf on the face bone and then popping out the bottom line...

This time I didn't even get a corner kick, and the linesman pointed the flag directly to the small penalty area, which meant goal kick.

In the second half, England fans were sitting in the stands near the back of the England goal. Seeing that Balotelli failed to make a corner kick, but instead gave a goal kick, the fans in that area burst into laughter.

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"He is completely looked down upon by our people..." Des Walker sighed. For the forest team player, the England coaching staff has thoroughly studied. Thanks to the poor performance of the Forest team in these two seasons, Balotelli's state has also become bad.

If he didn't know how to understand Dun En, he would really have guessed whether all of this was a conspiracy... what a coincidence!

Before the game, the coaching staff of England analyzed everyone in Italy and made targeted arrangements for their different characteristics, regardless of how many of them can play.

Balotelli is naturally among them. At that time, the team's coaching staff analyzed two possibilities. First of all, Balotelli will definitely not start, but he may come off the bench because he is a very characteristic player with excellent set-pieces. And if the England team is to use a steady counterattack against Italy, breaking the dense defense is a problem that Lippi needs to consider. At this time, Balotelli can play a very good role.

Then he may play forward or right midfielder after he comes on the court, because Balotelli can do both of these positions. So two different arrangements need to be made-what do we do when he is a forward? What should we do when he is a full-back?

When he was a full-back, Dunn required both full-backs and full-backs to actively return to defense, minimize the chance of Balotelli passing, and cut off the connection between him and others, and try to let him fight alone.

Judging from the letting go just now, Joe Matoke and Downing did this very well. They blocked Balotelli's line of shots one after another with double-teams.

For this final, Dunn did a lot of work, and now it has all been reflected.

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Balotelli performed in general in sports. After being blocked by the England team several times, he started to pass more instead of breaking through with the ball himself. He knew that he had been targeted by Dun En. When playing in the forest team, he has often heard about the legend about that man. He always said that he was magical. It seemed that he was not a football coach, but a wizard in medieval legends with the power to deceive people. . Every staff member of the Vilford training base always looked admiring when talking about Dunn, but he didn't feel much about the club's chairman, Mr. Evan Daugherty.

Although he was frozen in the campaign, Balotelli was not very worried. Because he still has a weapon, that weapon can never be frozen by the English. It's just that he wants to make his feet warm up now...

Facing Joe Matock's blockade, Balotelli forced a pass. Although the football bypassed his teammates in the Forest, it was a little too tall... Even if Forty is two meters tall, it is enough. No such "passing".

"It seems that his condition is really bad..." This time even the Italian commentator couldn't help shaking his head.

Then Balotelli tried a long shot from outside the penalty area. This time the shot was quite accurate, but it was too correct and Joe Hart was in his arms.

"Aha! This is his best performance since he played!" Mortensen sneered.

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In fact, Balotelli is not the protagonist, and Lippi did not ask others to pass the ball to him in Italy's offense to open the gap from him. De Rossi is still responsible for scheduling, he is the core of the Italian team, and Giovinco is also very active at the front of the penalty zone, which makes England's defensive players a headache and nervous.

As time went on in the second half, the Italian team's offensive became more and more fierce. Great posture to come out of the nest.

Lippi also noticed the time. At this time time is the most precious. There are now twenty minutes before the end of the ninety-minute game. These twenty minutes may not seem to be short, but they can actually pass in a blink of an eye. If you don't hurry up, as time goes by, the Italian players will only get more and more impatient, and the winning balance will tilt towards the English.

Something must be done.

Lippi thought about it in his heart, and gave a few words to the assistant coach Ferrara sitting next to him.

Ferrara nodded while listening, then got up from his seat and walked to the sidelines, waving gestures from the opposite side. Then, I saw Italy's two full-backs started and then added assists.

Italy's full-backs were on the offensive, and England immediately felt the huge defensive pressure, especially on Joe Matoke's side.

Lippi allowed Giovenko and Balotelli to change positions while allowing the full back to assist. Balotelli doesn't have much effect on the right, anyway. It's better to switch to the left and face the more defensive Richards, not to break through the cross, just to hold the opponent. Italy's main attack direction changed to their right, England's left.

Paroski also ran to the right to pull and join in the fun. Three arrows were fired, and Joe Matoke and Downing couldn't stand it.

Tangning is not the kind of player who is good at defensive. If he is required to defend full-time, the effect is not good.

Dunn frowned as he watched below, then he turned around and said to assistant coach Des Walker: "Go and call back Cohen and Vaughan who warmed up."

Walker knew what he was going to do, nodded and ran away without saying anything.

When Vaughan heard that Dunn wanted him to go back, he was still a little surprised. It's just a routine to come out to warm up. The coaches always put up a group of players to warm up regularly, and he is naturally among them. But the next second he thought of the words Dunn said to him at the end of the intermission.

He looked down at the T-shirt under the collar of his shirt.

I have been soaked in sweat, I hope the writing on it will not be blurred.

Vaughan and Cohen appeared in front of Dunn at the same time. Dunn glanced at them, didn't say much, and began to arrange specific tactics.

For Chris Cohen, Dunn’s request is focused on defense. It’s not a problem to ask him to go up to help Matoke and reduce his defensive pressure. It is not a problem to always let Wood fill the wing, because there is still Aquilani in the middle. And De Rossi.

As for Vaughan...

Before arranging tasks for him, Dunn raised his head and glanced at him.

"James, are you still worried about me not letting you start?" he asked.

Vaughan is not a fool. If you honestly say "Yes, I still can't figure out why this is so", then he's done. He just shook his head: "I listen to you, boss."

This is a bit reluctant, how could Dunn not be able to hear it? But he didn't care, what he wanted was this effect. "Regardless of why I did this, I just want to know, do you still have enough passion and desire for the game? Now I let you play, are you going to surprise me, or will I be confused until the end of the game?"

"Nobody wants to mix up, boss." James Vaughan didn't force it at all. "This is the final of the European Cup."

Vaughan felt that Dunn’s asking such a question was really an insult to him. Which professional athlete wants to get to the end in such a big game?

Who doesn't want to score one or two goals in such a game to stay in history? Wouldn't it be better if he could become a hero who saves the team from crisis?

Dunn looked at Vaughn with a bad expression, and was happy.

This is the effect he wants. Hold Vaughn for these seventy minutes. If he still doesn't hold the fire, it would be a failure.

"Well, don't say I didn't give you a chance, James." Dunn's current appearance fell into Vaughan's eyes, somewhat "cheeky". Just give twenty minutes. Is this a chance?

However, it's all like this now, let alone twenty minutes, ten minutes Vaughan. He didn't say other nonsense, just nodded, unwilling to delay time.

Dunn saw his thoughts and stopped talking about other things, and directly told him about the task: "Your task is very simple, Vaughan. It's like the semi-finals, scoring goals. You are playing at this time, it is the Italian defenders. When the physical strength was the weakest and the energy was the least concentrated, they pressed heavily, there must be a lot of space behind, and I caught it."

Vaughan nodded.

Dunn pushed him again and pushed him to the sidelines. Then he took two shots behind his back, hoping that he could understand the profound meaning.

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"The England team requests a substitution!"

Just as Gerrard tripped Aquilani, who was rushing up, on the field, the Italian team won another free kick at the front of the penalty area.

The referee signaled Balotelli to wait for another free throw, and England wants to substitute.

Tangning, who was building the wall, glanced at the sign in the hands of the fourth official off the court, and then got out of the wall and walked slowly to the side of the court. Chris Cohen replaced Downing.

Then Abangraho also turned to the sidelines under the reminder of his teammates. James Vaughan wants to replace him.

Both of them got the latest instructions from Dunn on the sidelines when they got off the court-

"Slow down! Come down! Don't run!"

So the two men moved slowly to the sidelines amid the dissatisfied protests of the Italian football fans. Completed the handover with Cohen and Vaughan.

Dunn shook hands with Tangning first, and then gave Abang Raho a hug: "Good job, kid, ha!"

Abangraho was the one who made him the starting point. He scored the only goal in the game so far, which is not ashamed of him. Of course it's a good compliment.

If this is ancient China, Abang Raho would definitely say "I will be fortunate to live up to my mission!", but now he just asked cheerfully: "Boss, shall we be champions?"

Dunn nodded vigorously: "Yes, who else can it be besides us?"

When he said this, he looked at the stadium. Vaughan and Cohen had just played, and both were drilling into the wall. The English and Italian were fighting around the wall.

There are 20 minutes left in the game, I just hope that it’s over, don’t have any more complications... (To be continued, if you want to know what’s going on, please visit www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading !)

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