Chapter 477: A Good Start
For Fiorentina fans, in the previous seasons they suffered a lot, because of financial problems, after being relegated to Serie B and then relegated to Serie C, fortunately at this time, as a team with a long tradition, they received help from all sides, the arrival of De La Valle allowed them to regroup a group of players, and a year later returned to Serie C, at this time, Italy, a country that pays more attention to human feelings, expanded its army in Serie B. And when Cosenza, a team that was supposed to return to Serie B, had financial problems, the Italian Football Federation let Fiorentina return to Serie B on the grounds that Fiorentina had made outstanding contributions to Italian football, at this time they also redeemed their former name, the former stadium, and began to officially compete in Serie B, and then, after a year of Serie B competition, they defeated Perugia in the play-offs and successfully returned to Serie A. But in the late stage of consecutive defeats, in the end can only narrow relegation success, and after the start of this season, under the coaching of Prandelli, after the introduction of a number of outstanding players, their results began to become very good - the first four rounds of the league their results are the same as Inter Milan, are three wins and one draw, ranking third in the league, second only to Juventus who won all four games, such a performance, let Fiorentina fans rekindle hope - even if it is not realistic to win the league championship for the time being, this season towards the European arena, There's still hope for a Champions Cup, right? And at this time, meeting Inter Milan seems to have become a litmus test for them!
What kind of performance they can play against Inter Milan also seems to be a testament to what they can achieve in Serie A this season.
So when thousands of Fiorentina fans came to Milan to cheer on their team before the weekend, and while Inter Milan have been doing well this season, who can guarantee that they will be able to beat Fiorentina when they face the challenge of Chelsea? In Dick's previous habits, Inter Milan would have rotated a lot before such a game, and this is also an opportunity for them.
'Fiorentina are used to a four-four-two, and in midfield, Jorgensen and Fiore are the heart of their playmaking and Montolivo doesn't get a lot of time on the pitch. Jorgensen is a player with excellent ability on the wings and midfield, while Fiore is more adept at organising in the middle, so of their two midfielders, Donadale is used to defending in the middle, while Brocki is active in the middle and on the right to fill in for Fiore. On the forward line, they are a combination of speed and technical strikers and center forwards, Bodinov played well in Lecce last season, he has a large range of activities, dribbling and long-range shooting ability are okay, Pazzini is a standard center forward who grabs points in the penalty area, his other abilities are average, but the scoring ability in the box is very good, so in this game, the first thing we have to do is to control their midfield, so that their midfielders are difficult to create opportunities for their forwards, there is no passing in the midfield, Pazzini's threat is hardly a concern, even if he has scored four goals in his first four games. ”
Dick told all the players in the tactical meeting that against the Fiorentina players, even if he didn't do a lot of homework, he knew what to do with them - Jorgensen was his old player and he knew what he was capable of, and Pazzini ...... Later generations judged the performance of the two at Inter Milan, and also let him know how to deal with Pazzini - under Leonardo's hands, the Brazilians played a crazy offensive tactic, and the whole team fed Pazzini alone, Pazzini's performance was very good, and he scored more than a dozen goals in half a season, and when he started the second year, he successively replaced Gasperini, Ranieri and Stramaccioni, and paid more attention to defensive goals and relied on the individual ability of the striker, Pazzini immediately became unable to score, That's the difference between having midfield support and not having midfield support, and a pure goalscorer like Pazzini can do very little without midfield support.
Dick didn't say much about the offense, but only talked about how to deal with the opponent's offensive line, that is because in terms of offense, Inter Milan has many ways to score, and Fiorentina's back line is not particularly strong, although Ujfarusi, Gambellini, Pancaro are all very good defenders, and Frei is also a very good goalkeeper, but Inter Milan faces more top defenses, so many offensive players and a variety of offensive tactics, what's the matter, can also poke a few big holes in the opponent!
Dick naturally had such self-confidence.
On the evening of the 25th, the match was ushered in at the Meazza Stadium, and in the cheers of the Inter Milan fans, Inter Milan stood in the midfield and began to fight with the opponent.
Dick also made some rotations in this game, Cesar returned to the position of the main goalkeeper, all the main players in the backline returned, the combination sent by the midfield to hide Sneijder and Perrotta, Yaya Toure started two consecutive games with Mascherano in the middle, Stankovic went to play on the left, Figo on the right, and the forward partner became the best partner Adriano and Toney.
Obviously, Dick also values this game, and against strong teams in a row, in addition to rotation, the stability of the main lineup is also a must, and a large number of substitutes were sent in the last game to meet the three consecutive games.
Inter Milan launched a fierce attack from the start, and in the fourth minute they created a pretty good chance, Figo played a long pass on the left side of the right, Stankovic got rid of the defense of Ujfarusi and crossed, Adriano shook his head under the cover of Toney, Frei made a wonderful save to block Adriano's header with one hand!
However, you can hide once and can't hide the second time, only three minutes later, after a failed attack by Fiorentina, Inter Milan played a beautiful counterattack, Yaya Toure passed through the midfielder Adriano, Adriano began to break through with the ball, attracted the attention of the opposing defenders and then distributed the ball to Tony, Toni took the ball and faced the two defenders and passed the ball from the middle of the two defenders to the side, Figo plugged in at high speed on the right side, and after receiving the ball, he raised his foot and sent a beautiful pass to the penalty area, Adriano, who followed up, met the ball and pushed it directly in the penalty area, and Frei couldn't make a save even if he was good, and the ball went into the net!
In this goal, the passing of several frontcourt players was pleasing to the eye, Toney's split was just right, and Figo's cross also showed his passing skills - Adriano's shot was almost scored in the small penalty area, so close that Frei couldn't attack, which shows how subtle his pass is!
"Inter Milan have so many attacking players up front...... It's no wonder they've been able to score so many goals! Adriano, Toney, this is a top striker who can score 20 goals in a single season, plus Figo's assist, and the midfielders behind him also have good scoring ability, such Inter Milan does have the capital to move towards the glory of the era of big Inter Milan! ”
In the next game, Frei became the busiest player on the field, Inter Milan's attack wave after wave, and Frei, who had played for Inter Milan for a season, also played his good form, high and low, constantly blocking Inter Milan's shots.
And Stankovic got rid of it once, Ujfarusi also performed quite well, although the Czech defender played at right-back, but under Inter Milan's suppressive attack, he continued to disrupt Inter Milan's attack in the penalty area, Figo's cross, Adriano's shot in the penalty area were destroyed by him in advance.
Inter Milan had been attacking for more than ten minutes before slowing down the pace of attack, Fiorentina launched a counterattack, Bodinov took a free kick, Ujfaru crossed from the side, Pazzini grabbed in front of Cannavaro and shook his head to attack, but Cesar blocked the ball with one palm, and Materazzi immediately cleared the ball with a big foot.
"Cesar is doing very well as well...... In such a back-and-forth attack, his reaction was well played, and Dick was still very accurate in seeing people! ”
Looking at the situation on the field, Fiorentina's head coach Prandelli frowned, he was pressed like this by Inter Milan, which he didn't expect, the Fiorentina players on the field are not unhelpful, their running and state are similar to the previous games, but they are still suppressed by Inter Milan - this can only show one problem, Inter Milan's overall and individual ability is indeed far more than Fiorentina, if it weren't for the wonderful play of Frei and the defenders, I'm afraid Inter Milan have already taken a two-goal lead!
Sure enough, before the end of the first half, Inter Milan seized the opportunity to score again, Materazzi made a direct long pass from the backfield, Toni carried Gambellini at the front of the penalty area and pushed the ball down, and the follow-up Adriano made a direct volley, when Ujfarusi desperately came up to block, Adriano passed a direct pass, and Tony, who landed on the ground, quickly turned around and shook off the unsuspecting Gambellini, caught up with Adriano's direct pass in the penalty area, and stabbed Frei in the face of the attack, Frei couldn't do anything faster when he fell to the ground, the ball flew past his feet and into the door of Florence!
After the start of the second half, Prandelli made two substitutions in a row, Pasquel, who had a stronger ability to assist, replaced Pancarlo, and Fiore, who was completely targeted by Inter Milan, also went down, and he was replaced by the teenager Montolivo, such two substitutions did make Fiorentina's attack have some improvement, in the 60th minute, after resisting Inter Milan's continuous attacks, Fiorentina passed through Montolivo in a counterattack, Pazzini grabbed in front of Materazzi and fell to the ground to shoot, and finally broke through Cesar's ten fingers.
However, in the next game, Inter Milan once again controlled the situation on the field, although Frei saved Tony, Figo, Stankovic, Yaya Toure shots in a row, but Inter Milan still locked the victory in the 87th minute, Figo crossed after consecutive breakthroughs, and Cruise, who came on as a substitute Adriano, gave the ball to Tony, and Tony scored twice with a relay header in the air, completely locking the victory for Inter Milan!
3-1, Inter Milan defeated Fiorentina, who was on the same point as themselves, at home, and made a good start for this three consecutive games against strong opponents!