Chapter 75 You Are the Most Suitable Striker for Us! [First Update]]

"Welcome to join us, Lee!"

Buffon finished.

Pirlo, another big boss of the team, also stood up and expressed his welcome to Li Mo.

But I don't know why.

Li Mo always felt that Pirlo looked at him in a strange way.

However, it was not easy for him to ask questions in this kind of conference room situation.

Prandelli introduced his coaching staff to Li Mo.

Then everyone took their seats.

Prandelli started a new tactical meeting of the national team.

The tradition of the Italian national team is to play defensive counterattack tactics.

Defense is the soul of Italian football.

However, Prandelli tried to incorporate more "gorgeous elements" on the basis of Italian defense.

His team starts off with an emphasis on some "ball control."

In this regard.

Veteran midfielder Pirlo is undoubtedly the brains of this team.

His flash of threatening passing is the key to breaking the deadlock for this Italian national team.

In the tactical meeting, Prandelli did not emphasize anything new.

As for Li Mo.

He is very familiar with the tactics currently played by the Italian national team - the tactics he played in AC Milan's youth training system since he was a child are the basic version of the current Italian national team's tactics.

Any football powerhouse.

They all have their own football genes.

This gene runs from the national team at the top of the pyramid to the basic youth training system.

What kind of football the players played when they were young will basically be what kind of football they play when they get to the national team.

Each national team has a different style.

This is why the battles between strong teams in the World Cup are so exciting.

Brazil's gorgeous, individualistic Samba style football.

A collision with a German tank that emphasized discipline, impact, and speed.

The showdown between Spain's 433 system, which is as gorgeous as a waltz, and Italian football, which performs defense like an art.

These different styles of football make the entire football world extremely exciting.

As for Li Mo.

This is also the benefit to him from joining the Italian national team.

He is a player who grew up in an Italian football environment.

His understanding of Italian football is almost engraved in his bones.

at this point.

This has been reflected since he started training with the Italian national team.

In an internal training match.

Pirlo's long pass found Li Mo accurately.

Li Mo didn't wait for the ball to hit the ground and directly chose a side volley shot to blast the ball into the goal.

This goal detonated the Italian national team's training ground.

"He is a truly Italian striker!"

Prandelli was excited.

He hopes to add something more "technical" to Italian football.

Except for Balotelli.

The forwards available to the Italian national team include Cassano, Osvaldo, Gilardino, Insigne and others.

But these people are still almost boring to see in Prandelli.

It wasn't until Li Mo appeared that Prandelli suddenly realized.

The love of my dreams is actually him.

Pirlo gave Li Mo a thumbs up.

But he didn't run up to celebrate.

He muttered: "How come this kid doesn't have as strong a gene as Martina Li Shengli?"

"What did you say? Andre?"

Montolivo asked from the side.

"nothing."

Pirlo shook his head and said.

Although Li Mo is Prandelli's dream striker.

But in the game against the Netherlands, Li Mo did not start, but sat on the bench.

In this game, Prandelli put up a 41,221 formation, which was quite Italian.

Buffon is of course the starting number one goalkeeper, with Bonucci partnering Barzagli as center back, Abate as right back, and Thornton as left back.

In the midfield, Pirlo serves as the single defensive midfielder, and in front of him are the two midfielders Montolivo and De Rossi.

In front of these two are two technical midfielders, Shalawi and Candreva.

Balotelli is at the front.

Such a formation is obviously an experimental formation, which is also the purpose of the friendly match, which is to experiment with various tactical ideas and test the team's training results.

The Dutch team playing at home did not send all its main players.

For example, Robben is on the bench.

Head striker Robin van Persie started the game.

In the 33rd minute of the game, Van Persie scored in the penalty area and the Dutch team led 1-0.

This score remained until the second half.

Sixty minutes into the second half.

Prandelli saw that the team's offensive end was unable to open up the situation.

He began to prepare for substitution.

"Lee! Marco! Go warm up!"

Prandelli said to Li Mo and Verratti on the bench.

Before Li Mo joined the team.

Verratti, born in 1992, is the youngest player in the Italian national team.

On the court, the Italian team has a bunch of veterans who are over thirty.

these years.

The Italian national team does seem to be a bit out of control.

Wait for Pirlo, Buffon, Barzagli, De Rossi and other old guys to retreat.

It's not certain whether there are any newcomers in Italy who can take over.

Hear what Prandelli said.

Osvaldo and Gilardino on the bench both had dark eyes.

They all know it.

The appearance of Li Mo made their appearance order further backward.

Not to mention them.

If Prandelli planned to play as a single striker, even Balotelli would have to be Li Mo's substitute.

Soon, Li Mo and Verratti finished warming up and came to the sidelines.

Prandelli pulled Verratti to explain the tactics, and the team's midfielder had to work hard to take back the control of the game.

As for Li Mo.

He only had one sentence.

"Hit the ball into the goal!"

This is what Li Mo is best at.

Prandelli believed that he didn't need to say anything, Li Mo would know what to do!

Verratti replaced Candreva.

And Li Mo replaced Shalawi.

In this way.

The team's formation switched to 4312.

Pirlo, Montolivo, De Rossi three midfielders, Verratti played as attacking midfielder, Balotelli and Li Mo double center forward.

Although Verratti is young, his influence in the midfield is obviously stronger than that of Candreva, who wanted to pass the opponent's defense line as soon as he got the ball and ran for a long time without getting the ball many times.

His appearance and Pirlo formed a configuration of two organizing cores in front and behind.

The midfield confrontation and defensive capabilities brought by Montolivo and De Rossi were also released.

The midfield tasks were clarified.

This gave Italy an advantage in the midfield.

The leading Dutch team also deliberately began to shrink its defense and play counterattacks.

Dutch coach Van Gaal is also experimenting with various tactical options for the Dutch team.

As for Van Gaal, he actually knows very well that the current strength of the Dutch team in the midfield and backcourt is very weak.

The only top stars in the team.

That is Robben and Van Persie.

Therefore, he prefers a double forward defensive counterattack routine-442 or 532.

After seeing the substitutions on the Italian side.

Van Gaal also made tactical adjustments.

He let Robben play, forming a double forward with Van Persie, and changed to a 532 formation with three central defenders.

Friendly match?

Neither side pursued the result too much, and they were both running in for their own tactical purposes.

It just so happened that Italy wanted to test the offensive strength of Balotelli and Li Mo's double center forward partnership, while the Dutch team wanted to see the defensive counterattack ability of their 532 formation.

The two sides were considered to be on the same page.

The sidelines were a bit dull for a while.

Italy was in the middle of the field, but it was difficult to find loopholes in the Dutch team's defense for a while.

Verratti was able to help the midfield control the ball in an orderly manner.

But it was a bit sluggish, and there were no more forward passes.

Li Mo's running position was still focused on the opponent's defensive weaknesses and was ready to exert force at any time.

His efforts paid off in the 73rd minute of the game.

Verratti had difficulty finding a gap to pass the ball when he received the ball in the frontcourt, so he could only choose to pass it back.

The football was passed back to Pirlo.

Pirlo began to look up at the frontcourt.

As soon as he saw Pirlo looking up, Li Mo's eyes lit up, and he and Pirlo met eyes across half the court.

Li Mo immediately started horizontally, and when Pirlo passed the ball, he immediately moved forward!

Pass, run, just right.

Pirlo's long pass was like a cruise missile, running through the court and flying towards the Dutch team's penalty area.

And Li Mo's sudden forward insertion also completed a beautiful offside. He stared at the ball sideways, and before the Dutch goalkeeper Krul attacked, he stopped the ball in the penalty area with his chest, and then waited for the ball to land and shot it with his left foot, hitting the reverse angle!

Facing this shot.

All Krul could do was wave his arms.

"Li Mo! Beautiful! Successful offside. Shoot! The ball went in!!"

The Italian commentator shouted.

"This is a typical Italian goal!"

"The midfielder directly connected with the forward, and the forward seized the opportunity accurately and sent the ball into the goal!!"

"Li Mo's handling in front of the goal was very calm. He stopped the ball, observed, and shot. Every step was made after calm thinking and judgment. He predicted the reaction of the Dutch defender and goalkeeper!"

"This is the most suitable striker for us Italy!!"

The Italian commentator said excitedly.

After scoring the goal, Li Mo opened his arms to welcome the Italian players who came to celebrate.

The camera also locked on Li Mo.

"Italy has found a striker who is truly worthy of reliance."

Van Gaal frowned.

Pirlo made a long pass to find Li Mo.

Although the two cooperated in a formal game for the first time.

But this time the connection still seemed quite tacit-this is because they have the same football thinking.

The Italian scored a typical Italian goal to equalize the score.

Van Gaal shouted a few words on the sidelines, asking the Dutch defender to pay more attention to the space behind him, but he did not intend to make a substitution.

Since the team's defense is to be tested.

The stronger the opponent's offense, the better.

After Li Mo scored the goal, the game was not much different from before.

The home team of the Netherlands continued to defend and counterattack, looking for Van Persie and Robben in front when they had the ball.

Italy was still slowly controlling the ball in the midfield, waiting for the next opportunity.

The next opportunity came soon.

It was the same routine again.

It was still a long pass from Pirlo.

The football was less than two meters above the ground, passed quickly through the midfield, and fell in the space between the Dutch team's defense line and the goalkeeper.

This time, the Dutch defenders noticed Li Mo's advance.

Blind pulled and dragged, trying to stop Li Mo's advance with a foul.

But Li Mo accelerated and made the slightly thin Blind stagger, while he rushed into the penalty area without slowing down and raised his foot to stop the ball.

This time Krul attacked in time.

He rushed up quickly and blocked the angle.

Li Mo originally planned to shoot directly, but when he saw that Krul was too close to him, he gave up the idea of ​​shooting directly.

He pulled the ball to his feet, flicked it with his left foot, and pushed it one step to the middle.

Krul reacted at this time, he chose to pounce on the football that Li Mo had pushed.

Krul is a goalkeeper with very fast reactions - famous for his ability to save penalties.

He studied Li Mo before the game.

Li Mo is not the kind of player who is good at using technology to surpass others, although he is very fast.

This time, even if the flying dive could not get the ball away from Li Mo's feet, it could block most of his shooting angles.

However.

What surprised Krul was.

Li Mo's reaction was much faster than his.

He flicked his left foot, and then quickly dribbled!

A movement similar to a cow's tail. Of course, the movement was not as large and cool as Ronaldinho's.

The movement was large, and the speed was not fast.

But the effect was very good. This dunk dribbled the ball to his right foot.

At this time, Krul was diving to Li Mo's left.

So.

But Li Mo raised his right foot and raised his toes.

When the football flew over Krul, the only reaction he could make was to raise his foot as much as possible to try to block the ball.

But

In the end, he could only watch the football pass over his toes and fall towards the goal behind him.

When Li Mo got the ball in front.

The Italian commentator had already started chanting.

"Li Li. Li. Li Mo!!"

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!"

In the commentary booth, the Italian commentator jumped up.

He shouted in the somewhat quiet Amsterdam Arena.

The Dutch fans crossed their arms.

The Italians broke through the defense twice in a row by connecting the midfielder with the forward.

Master Fan, is your tactic really working?

Prandelli on the sidelines raised his arms and shouted.

He and his assistants are now full of confidence in the future of the Italian team.

There are a group of old guys such as Pirlo, De Rossi, Barzagli, Buffon, etc.

Plus the two young men Li Mo and Balotelli.

At least in terms of current combat effectiveness, the Italian team is not inferior to any team at all.

What?

What do you say when Pirlo and others retire?

Prandelli can't do anything about that.

He is not the president of the Italian Football Association.

This time Pirlo seemed to have woken up.

He seemed very excited.

After seeing Li Mo score, he ran 50 meters - this is probably more than the number of sprints he made in a game.

He paid this price to rush up just to celebrate the goal.

You can imagine how excited Pirlo was.

"Great! Great! You are really great!"

"You are the most suitable striker for us!"

Pirlo patted Li Mo's head and shouted.

Inzaghi who is faster, better in technique and stronger in body!

What is the concept?

The kind of assists that can be numb!

Balotelli was a little unhappy: "Deputy Captain, what about me? Am I not suitable?"

"You?"

Pirlo glanced at Balotelli.

"You are not bad either?"

Balotelli grinned.

"Li, look, the deputy captain praised me."

"Ah, yes, yes." Li Mo couldn't help looking up at the sky.

There is something wrong with the brain of his national team striker partner.

It's a bit difficult.