Chapter 28 From Abnormal to Normal

Although there was no goal, Lazio's counterattack made Real Madrid know that even though Lazio was defending and delaying time, they could still hit the ball in front of Real Madrid's goal at any time to threaten Real Madrid's goal.  M

If Real Madrid didn't pay attention to defense, they would be waiting for Lazio to score another goal at the last moment!

Sure enough, this trick was quite useful.

When the game resumed, Real Madrid seemed very hesitant in attacking.

Of course they scored first, but they were afraid that they would not score and Lazio would score another goal instead.

There was still some hope when they were two goals behind, but they were really finished when they were three goals behind.

But if they didn't attack, falling behind by two goals would be the same as being finished.

In the last time of the game, Real Madrid struggled like this.

When they finally decided to go all out, there were only five minutes left in the game.

There was no suspense in this game.

When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, Real Madrid was still unable to break Lazio's goal.

In the end, this highly anticipated game ended with Lazio easily defeating Real Madrid 2:0 away from home.

Such a result and the course of the game really surprised people.

Everyone was looking forward to a well-matched game before the game.

Unexpectedly, it was an easy win.

This game is very similar to the game between Lazio and Juventus. Before the game, everyone was more optimistic about Lazio's opponent, but during the process, Lazio easily won.

This Lazio is really unpredictable. When facing weak teams, they can narrowly beat Udinese at home, or lose to Chievo.

Then when everyone is not optimistic about them, they can burst out with enough energy to defeat their opponents when facing strong enemies. And it's an easy win.

If you praise them for such a victory, they dare to lose to a team like Chievo at home in a blink of an eye...

So today's Lazio is really unpredictable.

"...But this also shows a problem. That is, the current Lazio does not have the dominance of the past. You know how Lazio played in the past? No matter how strong the opponent is, they will win, and they will win by a large score. At that time, they were like tireless robots, without any emotions. They were very stable, so stable that it made people desperate... What about Lazio now? The performance is sometimes good and sometimes bad, ups and downs. This is a manifestation of no dominance..."

Some media analyzed Lazio's problems in this way after this game.

What they said makes sense.

Lazio's dominance has indeed declined a lot compared to before.

Playing against a strong team, maybe the team players pay more attention. They will be more motivated involuntarily.

But playing against a weak team is somewhat unmotivated.

This is a common problem for many players, not just Lazio.

This is also the reason why there are upsets on the football field.

If the strong always beat the weak, how boring football would be.

There must be some surprises.

In fact, this is the normal football world.

In the past, Lazio could defeat anyone they met, winning the championship with all wins in the season and remaining unbeaten in 129 league games. Such things are abnormal.

Now Lazio has just recovered from abnormality to normality.

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After the game with Real Madrid, back in Italy, it is the city derby between Lazio and Roma.

Lazio challenges Roma away.

This game is naturally the highlight of this round of the league.

However, the suspense is relatively not as big as other games.

Because Lazio has never lost to Roma in the past, no matter how good their results are, even for two consecutive seasons, they have not won a championship.

Roma's best result is just a draw with Lazio at home, and this is the only time in the past 16 years.

Lazio still has a big advantage over Roma.

When playing against other teams, Lazio may have some ideas of underestimating the enemy and being lax, but it never has against Roma.

This is the meaning of the city derby.

The hatred between Lazio and Roma. That is very big.

Especially after the constant victory, this hatred has escalated.

Until now, people often bring up the fact that Sensi abandoned Changsheng to prove how stupid Roma was.

It was Roma who invited Changsheng to coach. But he became Roma's mortal enemy.

There are even human resources management textbooks that use this as a case to analyze for students. How to treat a useful talent correctly...

This really humiliated the Roma club.

And Changsheng's big mouth is still mocking Roma.

Every time after a long time, when everyone's feelings about this grudge gradually fade, Changsheng will definitely jump out to provoke Roma, and then let everyone review the grudge between Roma and Changsheng, and continue to laugh at how stupid Roma is.

Just provoking Roma again and again, many Roma fans really hate Changsheng.

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This time Lazio is away to challenge Roma.

This is a real away game.

In the past, Lazio and Roma played the same city derby, regardless of home or away, in the same stadium, except for the number of fans supporting each other.

The team was quite familiar with that stadium.

Later, with the completion and commissioning of Lazio's new stadium, the Wanda Stadium, the two teams completely separated.

Roma continued to guard their Rome Olympic Stadium. Although they also wanted to build a new stadium of their own, the Italian conquest was very careful about this. Since Lazio had become independent, Roma could not count on it.

So Roma now has to give a large part of its annual ticket revenue to the Rome City Council.

This made the Roma club very unhappy.

They believed that the Rome City Council favored Lazio and allowed the Lazio Stadium to become independent, so Lazio had a lot more financial income, and they were ahead of Roma in terms of economy. Because they were in a better financial situation than Roma, they could buy better players. They could invest more money, so the team's strength would be better than Roma, and the results would naturally be much better.

Roma believes that Lazio is in a very good virtuous cycle, and the beginning of this cycle is because the Rome City Council allowed Lazio to go out and build its own stadium.

This made Roma quite dissatisfied.

They think that in terms of the name of the club, they are the team that truly represents the city of Rome. Before Lazio rose, when people talked about the city of Rome, the first football team they would think of must be the Roma Club, not Lazio.

Now it's good. Lazio has become the most famous team in Rome, which makes their mortal enemy Roma Club feel really ashamed.

And Roma's complaints are naturally reasonable.

Because Lazio has indeed made a lot of money with this new stadium.

Because of the new stadium, they will have an additional 50 million euros in ticket revenue every year. This money is a huge sum of money for any club.

And relying on the Wanda Stadium. The commercial and residential real estate projects built in the surrounding area also made Lotito earn a lot of money.

Of course, over the years, Lotito has been accused of many things, such as "Italian red-topped businessman" and "communist running dog"... all because of Lotito's close cooperation with China.

There is a good example to prove that his relationship with China is indeed very good - let's not talk about the Wanda Stadium, which is named after a Chinese company, but the land around the Wanda Stadium. The Wanda Group from China is responsible for the construction of the commercial area, and the investment in the residential investment project is also a real estate company from China: Evergrande!

Why choose Chinese companies for investment? Lotito explained that Chinese real estate companies are in the largest and fastest-growing areas of the real estate market in the world. Therefore, they are experienced and efficient, and choosing Chinese companies is a guarantee of quality...

Many Italians who said this called him a traitor.

Lotito doesn't care.

There is nothing better than making money in hand.

At the same time, the Rome Municipal Government must support Lotito, because the Chinese investors he introduced have added at least 10,000 jobs to Rome.

Just solving the employment issue is enough for the officials of the Rome Municipal Government to thank Lotito.

Not to mention the other economic benefits brought about by this.

So the Rome municipal government is also very supportive of the Lazio club.

Those opponents of Lazio will always use this incident to show that Lazio's success is based on government intervention. Their success is a conspiracy of politics and economy, not a fair football victory.

This development model is despicable.

Lotito also turned a deaf ear.

As Changsheng said, those are "the distant barking of the negative dog".

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The Olympic Stadium in Rome is already a little unfamiliar to Lazio. They haven't played a home game here for ten years. They only come here once a year to play against Rome.

Two hours before the game started, many fans gathered here, all of them were Roma fans wearing dark red jerseys.

They seemed to be looking forward to this game.

This scene made many media feel strange-Roman fans look forward to the Rome derby? This will make people feel incredible when they say it out.

Because in the past 16 years, since Changsheng coached Lazio, Lazio has never lost in the Rome derby. This is true whether in the league or the cup.

Lazio is Roma's real enemy!

Lazio fans should be looking forward to the Roma derby every time, because it means they can beat their mortal enemies hard in 90 minutes.

Therefore, every time there is a Roma derby, the most active people seen by the media outside the stadium are Lazio fans.

Even in Lazio's away games, this is no exception.

Today, the situation is completely reversed.

What's going on?