On December 15, 1993, Prato played Foggia at home. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info this season's Coppa Italia has undergone a reform, as several big teams complain that the heavy Coppa Italia schedule is too long, delaying their participation in the three major European cups. Therefore, from this season onwards, all six rounds of matches before the semi-finals will be decided by a single game, and it is not until the semi-finals that the two-legged system of home and away will be restored.

Spalletti lined up the strongest lineup in his hands, Vieri partnered with Inzaghi in the front, Doni, Dunga, Veron and Ma Minyu in the midfield, Zanetti, Fan Zhiyi, Ayala, and Pesoto lined up on the back line, and the goalkeeper did not need to be considered, naturally it was Toldo.

The Foggia side is also the main force, unlike Prato's 442 formation, which has both offense and defense, Foggia discharges a 433 offensive formation. Up front, Brian Roy is the left winger, and he is a product of the Ajax Academy, who won the League Cup with the team in 1992, and he is known as the "New Holland Three Musketeers" along with Bergkamp and Witzheg. During his two years at Foggia, Roy has been the team's top scorer.

On the other side, Igor Kolivanov, who plays as a right winger, is also the No. 1 fierce man, a talented former Soviet Union U21 national team, who made more than 140 appearances for Dynamo Moscow before the age of 23 and was the main player of the Russian national team.

In terms of midfield, three players, Roberto Lombardi, Giovanni Stropa and Di Biagio, are all future Italian internationals, and Andre Seno is the captain of the team on the back line, a famous star of the future Inter Milan; Jose Chamot, a future Argentina international, was a key player in helping AC Milan win the Champions League. The goalkeeper is Francisco. Mancini has also played for Lazio, Napoli and many other Serie A giants in the future.

If Capello is the most conservative coach in Serie A, then Zeman is definitely the craziest coach in Serie A. Zeman believes in pure attacking football! His team is fearlessly discharged 4-3-3 pure attacking lineup, what he needs is a passionate victory, even if it is a failure, but also the pursuit of the excitement of the game, absolutely "rather for the jade than for the tile"! His unique personality and attacking football philosophy have injected distinctive characteristics into the teams he has bred: fiery passion, devastating and decaying attack, and smooth coordination like mercury.

From the current lineup, you can vaguely see the crazy team that dared to compete with the Milan Three Musketeers to score goals, and there is Petrescu on the left back in that team, this guy who will become famous in Chelsea in the future, can score 23 goals in a season as a defender, there is Italian international Pasquil Padalino at center back, and there is shooting maniac Signoli on the forward line, the owner of the Serie A Golden Boot last season; There is also Bayano, who formed the BABA combination with Batistuta in Fiorentina, and Ruben at Inter. Sosa forms the arrow of the forward line of Igor Shalimov.

However, since last season, Cassiro's business has gradually gone into trouble, and in order to keep his company, he has begun to sell stars against Zeman's wishes. Signoli moved to Lazio, Shalimov joined Inter Milan, Bayano left for Fiorentina and Squire Padalino left for Bologna, before selling key strikers Medford and Petrescu this season.

The once extremely sharp offensive squad is now only half a team left, especially the departure of Signoli, Bayano, and Shalimov, and Foggia, who has lost his strongest spearhead, has gradually revealed his true colors this season, and recently, there has even been news of Cassiro's corruption, and the Italian court has intervened in the investigation of this matter. In fact, it also led to Zeman's eventual departure from Lazio after this season.

Although the team is a little stormy, Zeman is known as the "devil coach", not only the training intensity is high, but also very demanding, and even there are regulations on the way the players eat, for example, two people can only drink one bottle of mineral water when they eat a meal, and it is said that drinking too much water during a meal is not conducive to digestion. However, the taste of southern Italian meals is already salty, athletes tend to be thirsty, and training is very expensive. Even his protégé Signori has joked that Zeman can only succeed in the south, because the warm temperatures allow players to recover after intense training.

This shows Zeman's iron fist, and his control of the team is very strong. After the opening, the Foggia team continued Zeman's usual style, launching an all-out attack on Prato without much probation.

However, contrary to expectations, Foggia's attack did not play as well as it should. Dunga came up and looked at Di Biagio, the offensive and defensive transition hub of the Foggia team. The future Italian national team's main defender has begun to show his potential as a superstar in recent seasons. Not only is the defense fierce, but also very strong organizational skills. Its ball distribution is accurate, its tactical literacy is excellent, it has a strong sense of the overall situation, and it has the "unique skill" of passing the ball with a long hand. The Foggia team seems to play a very ferocious pressing tactic, completing the offensive and defensive transition at the moment of grabbing the ball, and catching the opponent off guard, but in fact, most of the attacks are still launched from him, but Di Biagio has excellent awareness, he will appear at the moment of his own side to win the ball, and tear apart the opponent's defense with his pass.

Prato seems to have completely seen through this, and took the initiative to let Dunga entangle Di Biagio, although Di Biagio will also belong to one of the world's top midfielders in the future, but now only 22 years old, he will not be able to fall behind the experienced Dunga.

In addition, Prato's two extremely fast full-backs, Zanetti and Pesoto, did not actively step forward to assist in this game, but chose to shrink inward, looking at Foggia's two nimble wingers, Roy and Kolivanov, on left and right. Even the two full-backs, Doni and Ma Minyu, shrank back, cameo in the midfield position, withstood the two midfielders Lombardi and Stropa in front of the Foggia team, these two people often staged a good show of shooting and scoring in front of the penalty area under Zeman's crazy attacking system. However, unfortunately, Doni and Ma Minyu also have the physique of not running to death, and their physical strength may be better than that of Lombardi and Stropa.

In the blink of an eye, the game went on for more than 20 minutes, and the Foggia team felt like they were stuck in a mud pit, how to play and how to feel awkward, how to play, and it felt like the other party had a clear guess of your moves, even what you were going to do next, which way you were going to break through, and which foot you were used to passing the ball with they all knew it, as if they were stripped naked in front of the opponent, and there was no secret at all.

In fact, the Foggia team was indeed targeted. As early as the beginning of the season, Chen Lin established the focus of this season, not the C1 League, but the Italian Cup. Prato's reputation in last season's Coppa Italia defeat to Inter Milan gave him a lot of inspiration that if he wants to quickly expand his influence, he will have to play against strong teams. The Coppa Italia is the only way. As for the C1 League, it's not that it's not important, but when Chen Lin gathers the names of Vieri, Inzaghi, Dunga, Veron, Toldo, Zanetti, and Ayala into one team, if he can't win a small C-League, isn't he a little too wasteful? So the Prato club has sent the most scouting team to every team it has met in the Coppa Italia this season, just like this time, as early as more than a month ago, when it was determined that the next opponent was the Foggia team, the Prato Scouting Department sent a five-person team to Foggia to feed back Foggia's recent games, training, and injury information, and the club also has two people who are responsible for collecting the video of Foggia's games in the previous season, the personal information of all the main players and the personal information of the head coach Zeman, The dedicated assistant coach and technical secretary of the athletic department are responsible for analysing and collating this information and providing advice to coach Spalletti. For the past 20 days, the team has been training according to the information gathered, and the Prato players know even better than their opponents themselves about the opponents they will play.

Zeman stood on the sidelines with his hands folded, his brow furrowed slightly, and he was not surprised that his team was being targeted, which is something that all teams can do. In fact, he also investigated the information of the Prato team before the game, but unfortunately it was rewarded. Unlike the Foggia team, the Prato team is only a third-division team, and the third-division league is not televised, so it is difficult to find the video of the previous games, and this season, the Prato team's home stadium tickets are selling extremely hot, not to mention the people he sent, it is difficult for the Prato locals to get a ticket, so his assistant only watched a game of the Prato team away from home, and got the information, and it is said that compared to that game, Prato replaced nearly half of the lineup in this game, and it is even more impossible to target.

However, Zeman's face was still expressionless, and he stood quietly on the sidelines, observing the situation on the field.

Around the 30th minute of the game, Zeman suddenly took advantage of a dead-ball opportunity to call Chamot, who was closest to him, and whispered a few words. Then make a forward gesture towards the team.

Chen Lin frowned when he saw it, and he still wanted to press forward? At this time, the back line of the Foggia team is already close to the midfield, and there is a large empty space behind them, so they are not afraid of the Prato team counterattacking?

However, after the Foggia team conceded several goals, Chen Lin gradually saw some clues. None of the defenders sent by Zeman are physical, but they are fast and flexible, and once the Foggia team concedes the ball up front, their forward line and the three fierce defenders in the midfield will counter-attack on the spot, and even if they can't grab it, they will delay Prato's pass, and at this time, the back line will quickly return to the defense. Normally, the defenders will be very chaotic in the process of such rapid chasing, and it is easy to create holes. And at this time, we have to mention the goalkeeper of the Foggia team, Francisco. Mancini.

With Zeman's high-pressure defensive system all over the pitch, Zeman needs a good goalkeeper who can not only make good saves, but also have a clear mind on the pitch to quickly organize the team's backline. Francisco Mancini joined Foggia at the age of 19 but quickly became a regular in the team, thanks to his exceptional ability. At this moment, Francisco Mancini shouted loudly in front of the goal, directing the defenders to put them in place, and in an instant the messy backline became orderly.

Due to the Prato front, Inzaghi's speed is not fast, Vieri is a scrambling header in the eyes of outsiders, several midfielders, Ma Minyu, Dunga, Veron, Doni are not good at speed, and the only two fast horses in the team, Zanetti and Pexoto, are held back. So Zeman's crazy and adventurous move turned out to be a clever move.

After moving the back line forward, the Foggia team has a shorter distance to attack, and there is less time for Prato to react between attack and defense, even if Prato knows every player in the Foggia team, but there is no time to react, it is in vain. For a while, there was a lot of noise in front of Prato.

In the 38th minute of the first half, Ma Minyu took the ball on the left side, and was about to quickly pass to the front court to counterattack, Foggia midfielder Lombardi rushed over, making Ma Minyu hesitate in his heart, and finally chose to control the ball first, but it was this hesitation that a strong surge came from the other direction, and the right winger of the Foggia team, the Russian Kolivanov, did not know when he arrived behind him, and the ball was suddenly lost. Kolivanov broke the ball and immediately crossed it, where a figure ran up quickly. It was none other attacker of the Foggia team, in addition to Di Biagio, the Argentine boy Jose Chamotte, who acted as a libero. Chamote found Roy on the front line with an imaginative through pass, and Roy got rid of a standard switchback run, instantly shook off Zanetti next to him, and drove straight to Toldo with the ball. Although Toldo's attention was already very focused, Roy's ball was extremely tricky, and Toldo could only sigh at the ball in the end. 0:1 Prato trails behind Foggia at home.

"I really deserve to be one of the famous coaches in Serie A football in the future, and it only took 30 minutes to see the characteristics of players like Prato, and he also came up with such a wonderful move." Chen Lin couldn't help but sigh, it's just that the one sitting in the coach's seat on his side will not be easy to match in the future, so it's up to him to see how he responds.