Chapter 449: Touching Florence

Montella did a really good job in Fiorentina, he didn't arrive in Fiorentina before the team was barely relegated in the 11-12 season, and then he came to Fiorentina to improve steadily, and got the Europa League ticket for two consecutive seasons, ranking fourth in both seasons, but unfortunately now the fourth in Serie A can't even participate in the Champions League play-offs, and can only play in the Europa League. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Europa League is not important to many Serie A teams, and basically they can't hope to be eliminated early, at least not particularly concerned, and the importance is not as important as the league.

Of course, Fiorentina can reach this point today, and it has something to do with De La Valle's operation in the past two years, buying players in the football market is like scratching the lottery, and it may also win the jackpot or lose it, at least in the past two years, Florence's ability to scratch lottery tickets is not bad.

However, the current situation is not so easy for Fiorentina, the introduction of Mario Gomez from Bayern Munich before the season, which is a lot of money, is a rare investment of the De La Valle brothers, as a result, this gentleman is a glass man, after arriving at Fiorentina injured and suspended, so far only a few appearances.

Then, in January, Fiorentina's leading scorer Rossi was injured again in a match against Livorno.

Rossi is undeniably a good striker, but he is also a striker who has been tormented by injuries, whether it is at Villarreal or Fiorentina, he plays very well when he is injured, but the only bad thing is that he has too many injuries.

As soon as he was injured, in fact, Fiorentina's reliable striker was gone, and Fiorentina hurriedly loaned Matri from Milan after the winter break, but Matri's goal efficiency was really not high, so Fiorentina's attack is now experiencing great difficulties.

Secondly, Fiorentina is more tired than Juventus, they are not out of the Italian Cup, and they are fighting on three fronts, and the fatigue level is greater than that of Juventus.

As a result, Fiorentina have not been in great shape lately, with three league games without a win, two of which have been lost at home and only a draw away from Parma.

Against this backdrop, Fiorentina welcomed an away trip to Juventus.

The good news for Montella on March 9 is that Gomez is finally back and can play, but because it is about to meet Juventus in the Europa League, both him and Juventus have made the necessary rotations.

Juventus are already in league form, and this game is only meaningful to Zhang Yuan because they are against Fiorentina, with the focus on the Europa League.

As for Fiorentina, they are currently fourth, fifth-place Inter Milan are four points behind them, and third-place Napoli are seven points above them, it will certainly not be easy to chase, it is important to keep a distance from fifth, so they will definitely hope to beat Juventus in the league.

Then there is a factor that affects Fiorentina, although the Europa League can go as far as it can, but it also depends on the situation, when the opponent is Juventus, Fiorentina is absolutely 100% want to kick Juventus out, so Montella will always stay for the Europa League in midweek.

Everyone has this mentality, this league is naturally not very good, and it feels like everyone is going for a draw.

Zhang Yuan's in this game was of course replaced by Llorente, Tevez was in good shape, but Conte also had to give Llorente a chance.

In the first half, everyone seemed to shrink back and dare not let go, and in the second half, they played a little passionately but there were not many opportunities, and finally in the 68th minute, Zhang Yuan broke through the door of Neto with a free kick from 24 meters away.

Juventus also completed their revenge on Fiorentina with this goal, and Zhang Yuan was also elected as the best player of the game.

Montella's tactics in this game were criticized by a lot of media after the game, and the last time they played Milan, Juventus did not look like Juventus, and Fiorentina did not look like Fiorentina in this game.

Montella's team is more focused on ball control tactics, relying on the strong impact of the two wings to create opportunities for the forwards, but today's Montella's team likes to use long passes too much, and Gomez is not playing like this.

How do they know that the long pass rush has the advantage of long pass rushing, that is, it will not consume too much physical energy, the playing style is simple and direct, and for Fiorentina, which does not have an advantage in physical fitness, it is definitely not a bad idea to use Gomez as a high school striker.

Juventus was not all good news after this game, Zhang Yuan and Tevez were rather weird two people who felt discomfort in training, Tevez felt discomfort in his ankle ligaments, and Zhang Yuan felt discomfort in his thigh muscles.

In the Europa League on the evening of March 13, neither of them played but sat on the bench, and today Juventus partnered in the front line with Giovinco and Llorente.

Montella's Fiorentina were all the main players in this game, Pizarro and Valero, who did not appear in the previous game, also showed their hideous faces in this game.

Juventus got off to a great start, scoring early in the 3rd minute, Marchisio picked up a cross from the left side of the penalty area, Giovinco unloaded the ball on his chest, and Vidal fired a powerful right-footed shot into the near corner, 1-0.

Such a quick goal was really unexpected, Zhang Yuan and Tevez high-fived each other on the bench, as long as the first goal was much better.

But then the game entered the rhythm of Fiorentina, the usual rhythm of Fiorentina, the combination of Pizarro and Valero is the metronome of Fiorentina midfield, Juventus and Fiorentina have played each other in the last two years, as long as they are on the field, the midfield has no advantage at all, and the advantage of possession has changed hands.

In the first half, Fiorentina's 4:2 victory over Juventus at home was the masterpiece of their directors, and this game was indeed the same, Juventus scored first, Fiorentina did not panic, and in the midfield composed of Pizarro and Valero, he controlled the initiative on the field through passing and control.

Some good chances were created, but Ilicic and Matri were really not good enough to take them.

In the 79th minute, Fiorentina equalized, Pizarro made a long pass from the backfield, Gomez came out between Bonucci and Ogbonna, stopped the ball and hit the far corner with a low shot in the face of the attacking Buffon, 1-1.

Although Gomez has a lot of injuries, after all, he still has a sense of smell and his body is very strong, and neither Bonucci nor Ogbonna can keep him.

Zhang Yuan scolded in a low voice on the bench: "What is he, can you enter like this?!" I was somewhat dissatisfied with Bonucci and Ogbonna, the two strong men closed the door like this, not only him, but also Conte on the sidelines were loudly scolding the two central defenders.

And Bonucci blamed Ogbonna on the field, why did he come here?!

In the final analysis, it is still a tacit understanding between the two people, of course, when it comes down to quarrels, they are just on the court, which is not a big thing that affects unity.

1:1 is also the final score of this game, this result is not good for Juventus, because this is a European competition, it is about away goals, Juventus has already lost one move.

Zhang Yuan still didn't play in the weekend game against Genoa, and Tevez did return to partner Llorente up front, but Juventus' fatigue was on full display in this game, and Genoa's home stadium has never been Juventus' blessed land.

Juventus were also beaten hard by Genoa, and in the end they only relied on Pirlo's free-kick to beat Genoa 1-0, and Buffon was of course one of the big contributors, he blocked Genoa's penalty in front of goal.

Meeting Fiorentina for the third time in half a month, Zhang Yuan finally returned to the starting lineup after a week.

Before the start of this game, the club's top management went to the dressing room to issue a must-kill order to the Juventus players, and the lottery was opened, and the desire to lift the Europa League trophy at the Juventus Stadium was revealed.

Juventus' players are scrappy, it's a life-and-death battle, and there is no way back for Juventus.

Juventus launched a fierce attack on Fiorentina after the opening, and Montella appeared to be a bit conservative in this game, more conservative tactically, hoping to delay Juventus' attack with possession.