Chapter 574: Before the Winter Break (3)

Will Ancelotti, who was one move worse before the game because of Capello's psychological warfare, be able to recover this disadvantage in the game? The answer, of course, is no.

In the attack, although Parma's players relied on their youth and momentum to attack the door of Fiorentina again and again, they did little in front of the Fiorentina backline led by Nesta, not that Crespo did not work hard enough, but because Parma's control of the game was too weak.

Fiore and Zemaria are just good individual strikers, and they can only be used as sapper players without a big picture; Dino Baggio is a top-class defensive midfielder who is also a must-have with his long-range shots from behind, but he can't be the pivot of the team's transition in the midfield position like Redondo; So in fact, the core of Parma's organization is still Stanic in the forward midfield position.

Therefore, once Stanic is targeted by Redondo, the threat of Parma players to the Fiorentina goal is greatly reduced, and without the Croatian midfield scheduling, Parma's attack seems to be very lively, but in fact, the thunder is heavy and the rain is small, and it cannot form a threatening shot at all.

Looking at Fiorentina's side, the presence of Redondo, Effenberg, and Rui Costa makes the home team look gorgeous in terms of passing and cutting coordination, making all the fans who came to the scene to watch the game feel that the trip was worthwhile; Coupled with the individual assaults of Ronaldo and Ze Roberto, Parma's players simply could not withstand the Fiorentina attack.

"I didn't expect Capello to be able to make his team come up with such a wonderful attacking football, it seems that this game is in trouble." Seeing the players on his side running around like headless flies under the continuous and rapid passing of Redondo and others, Ancelotti frowned and began to think about ways to deal with Fiorentina's tactics.

Ancelotti naturally did not expect that Fiorentina's passing and cutting combination may seem gorgeous, but in fact Capello still adheres to his pragmatic style - the midfield master trio passes only to pull out space for Ze Roberto and Ronaldo to pass the ball, and the two Brazilians' assault is to attract more than two Parma defenders to pack, so as to create a heads-up opportunity for Vieri in the middle.

After all, neither Cannavaro, nor Sansini, nor Dino Baggio are opponents of Vieri, who is beginning to mature, in a one-on-one situation. So if Vieri singles out any of them, his chances of scoring will be greatly improved.

Therefore, in this match-up, Vieri, who is strong and not slow, became the center of attention on the field, first receiving a cross from the wing of Ze Roberto in the eighth minute of the game to head the goal for the team!

Then, in the twentieth minute, Ronaldo, who advanced with the ball, cleverly distributed the ball to Vieri after bringing Dino Baggio and Cannavaro to his side, who used his body to stare his Argentine veteran San Sini to get the ball, and without waiting for Buffon to attack, he directly picked up his left foot and volleyed vigorously on the line of the big penalty area, and the ball went into the net, 2-0!

Coming from two goals down made the Parma players start to panic. Although many of them have a lot of experience, this time they are against Fiorentina, the hegemon of European football, and the fact that they are two goals behind so quickly, combined with the fact that their own manager is in the middle of it, makes many of them a little uncertain. And this directly led to some low-level mistakes on the pitch of Parma players.

Seemingly infected by this panic, Cannavaro made a big mistake in the game - he accidentally tripped the alien in the box while defending Ronaldo, and the referee decisively awarded a penalty. Vieri, who was given the penalty by his teammates, scored his hat-trick in the game!

However, Vieri's goalscoring performance didn't end there. Although Carlo Ancelotti replaced Fiore in a desperate way, while dropping out of Zemaria to right wing-back and pushing Sancini into the back of the midfield to strengthen the defence, how could this stop Vieri from kicking the head?

In the 48th minute, Ronaldo cut inside with the ball from the side, passed Benarivo and Cannavaro in succession and passed the ball to the center of the penalty area, Vieri ate Thuram and hit the goal with his feet, Buffon made a save but still couldn't prevent the ball from going into the net, 4-0!

Although Chiesa fought bravely in the second half, relying on individual ability and a small combination between Stanich and Crespo helped the Dairy Army chase two goals in a row in the following game, which once gave Parma fans the hope of winning points away from home.

But unfortunately, Vieri, who was completely insane by the silence, completely destroyed the fighting spirit of the Parma players with his fifth goal of the game - he received a ball from Ze Roberto on the edge of the penalty area, and then turned and volleyed hard, scoring a goal that was very similar to Barty's GOAL, and fixed the score on the field at 5-2!

In the end, Fiorentina defeated Carlo Ancelotti's Milk Army 5-2 with Vieri's magical performance of scoring five goals, and won the 11th round of Serie A, widening the points gap with second-place Inter Milan to seven points, and the top position is quite secure.

Four days later, Fiorentina have their last game before the winter break, when the Purple Lilies host Atalanta in the thirteenth round of Serie A.

With the loss of midfield centre-on Mofeo and centre-forward Lucarelli in succession, and the return of veteran Lentini to Torino City this summer, Atalanta have undoubtedly failed in their efforts to recruit them. Doni is the only one left to support the once flashy attacking line, and the extremely conservative tactical style of the new coach Mondoniko is incompatible with Atalanta's passionate young guards...... Although Atalanta conceded a lot fewer goals than in the same period last season under Mondonico's tutelage, the defensive ability of Atalanta players is very limited, making this defensive improvement based on a large sacrifice of attacking power has always made it difficult for Atalanta to win, and the record of the 1 team has plummeted.

The spicy Capello naturally took advantage of the shortcomings of this Atalanta team that was too much defensively strong and not enough attacking power, so he fielded a very attacking line-up just like the game against Parma.

The result of the big home win over Parma four days ago was undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the Fiorentina players, who were physically and mentally exhausted by the intensity of the competition. As a result, in the last official match of 1997, the morale-boosting Fiorentina sat at the Stadio Frankie and defeated the visiting Atalanta.

Due to the lack of attacking power of the opposition, the Fiorentina players put most of their energy into attacking, with only the central defensive duo of Nesta and Stam remaining at the back, responsible for keeping an eye on Doni, the arrowhead of the Atalanta team, to prevent the opponent from attacking their own counter-attacks.

In this way, Fiorentina gave the fans another wonderful goal performance in this game: Batistuta scored twice in the game, Inzaghi and substitute Kruse scored a goal each, Effenberg scored a long-range shot from 30 meters out in injury time, and Fiorentina beat Atalanta at home, bidding farewell to a wonderful 1997 for Fiorentina with a score of 5-0.