Chapter 397: The Battle of Rome
Just look at these players to know that Roma are aiming to win the title this year, in fact, the last time they won the league title was not particularly far away, it was in 1993, but the number of championships in Roma's history is still very small, except for the 1993 one, and then it will be 1943.
Roma, who have been soaring all the way this year, came to Meazza this time at Inter Milan's home stadium, and they also planned to overturn Inter Milan here.
Looking at Roma's starting line-up, you can also see that they sent their strongest 11 men, the formation is 532, goalkeeper Antonioli, three central defenders, Samuel, Zago and Aldair, the wings are Cafu and Candela, three midfielders, Tomasi, C. Zanetti and Totti, two forwards Del Vecchio and Batistuta.
This is the strongest lineup that Roma can play out now, and Vincent should be glad that he is so clever in snatching Emerson in the summer, if you add Emerson, Roma will really be incredible.
In midfield, Tomasi and Zanetti are now in the middle, with Cafu and Candela flying on both wings. Roma's midfield interception is fierce, and Cafu and Candela on the wings can go up and down, which is terrifying, but Inter Milan's two wings are also world-class, and their collision will be a confrontation of sparks.
Inter Milan are still in a 442 formation today, with four defenders Zanetti, Blanco, Materazzi and Thuram, four midfielders, Emerson, Pirlo, Seedorf and Jugovic, and two forwards Hakansok and Chiesa.
This is the regular formation of Inter Milan, but two high points are used in the center-back configuration, because Roma's two forwards Batistuta and Del Vecchio are not low in height, in order to prevent the pressure, Fan Shang simply put two tall central defenders on the field.
Roma's current routine is to rely on interceptions and pressing in the middle, and then attack mostly on the two wings, and the impact of Cafu and Candela is still very strong.
Today is also one, Tomasi and C. Zanetti put on a posture to block Inter Milan as soon as they opened, and the two were not ready to attack, but they were mixing back and forth in the midfield to disrupt Inter Milan's attack in the middle.
To be honest, Inter Milan actually relies on attacking from the middle, Jugovic and Seedorf are two full-backs, but they often cut into the middle to attack and organize, and it makes sense to say that the two are double forwards.
Therefore, Rome's blockade of the middle is still relatively limited to Inter Milan's attack, and the two teams are on the right side in the middle, and it depends on who can open the breakthrough on the side.
Candela vs. Thuram, Cafu vs. Zanetti, absolute pinpoint vs. Maimang, although Candela has been a hardcore substitute in the French national team, his quality is absolutely world-class, especially now that he is in his prime.
In the 4th minute, Tomasi and C. Zanetti worked together to steal the ball at the feet of Pirlo, and then gave it to Candela on the side without thinking about it, Candela was honestly holding back his strength in front of Vinchan, because Vincent had always trusted Lizarazu when he was in the French team, and he didn't give Candela any chance at all, and he wanted to use his performance today to tell Vincent that he was no worse than Lizarazu.
The first line of defense against Candela was actually Yugovic, although Yugovic also made moves, but as an offensive player, his defense was still a little rudimentary, and Candela left Yugovic behind him with a change of direction and acceleration.
The real confrontation came this time, Candela vs Thuram, a confrontation between a pair of French teammates. To be honest, this kind of confrontation will often occur during the training of the national team, but because it is training, both sides are restricted, and there is no real confrontation. But now it's different, Candela didn't say a word before he found Thuram and prepared to compete with him.
The two know each other very well, one forward and one backward, seemingly careless, but in fact, it is a step-by-step killing machine, every movement of Candela affects Thuram's nerves, and every step of Thuram's foot will also make Candela speed up his thinking and pace.
The two came to the bottom line like this, and Candela saw that there was not much space, so he gritted his teeth, made an emergency stop, and then slammed the ball forward before he could stand firm.
This move would have flashed a cross before, but this time, when Candela was about to get up and cross, Thuram's long legs were also in this position, and the most excessive thing was that the ball was not a corner, but was broken out of the touchline by Thuram, and Roma only got a throw-in near the corner flag.
"Yes," Vincent said in his heart, "Sure enough, he has lived up to the expensive transfer fee, and now Thuram is definitely the world's No. 1 right-back, by the way, let's see what Cafu has to offer."
Vincent set his sights on Cafu and Zanetti's side, and with Candela's first attack failing, Cafu also ushered in the first chance of the game.
Seedorf seemed to have copied Yugovich just now, or even inferior to Yugovich, he just glanced at Cafu with his eyes, and then took the initiative to surrender his gun and let it go.
This time it was Brazil that met Argentina, Cafu and Zanetti began to fight on the wing, Cafu did not run to the bottom line like Candela this time, but first shook a shot to the baseline, and then closed his feet and cut inside the middle.
Zanetti didn't eat feints, closely following Cafu, not leaving an inch, but not out of his feet, Kafu's breakthrough and passing line.
Cafu continued to dribble the ball forward into the penalty area, and then the defenders had no reason to let him go, Zanetti and Blanco caught Cafu one after another, and the latter poked the ball away from his feet.
Roma are frustrated by the lack of attacking on both flanks, and if he doesn't open up, goals can be a problem, let alone win games.
So Roma tried the middle again, although Totti is a Roman prince, but in the one-on-one with Emerson, he also can't take any advantage, not only that, Totti, who is alone in the middle, has to face Emerson and Pirlo's double attack several times, although Pirlo's defensive ability is insufficient, but it can still play some blocking role.
Capello is now standing on the sidelines with a gloomy face, he didn't expect Inter Milan to restrain Roma's attack so much, and his team's attacking routine now seems to be ineffective, and some measures need to be taken to deal with it.