Chapter 80: Crazy Zeman
The game on the field continued, the Lazio players were still attacking frantically, and Fiorentina was suppressed for a while and had no strength to counterattack.
Goalkeeper Toldo was once again "lucky" to resolve the opponent's shot with the help of the goalpost, and the Frankie Stadium at this time, the fans sitting in front of the TV at this time, and the Fiorentina players at this time all felt that the gate guarded by Toldo would sooner or later fall in the fierce attacks of the Blue Eagles. At this time, Zhuang Mingge, who was sitting in the VIP box and watching the game, secretly prayed in his heart that Lazio would never break through the door of his own team.
The occasional noise in the stands, the occasional exclamation from the fans, and the frequency of the opening less than ten minutes, speak volumes about how exciting the game was.
Some of the sky-blue Lazio fans in the stands were rejoicing at the team's brilliant performance, and in their opinion, Lazio was missing only one goal, but with the current trend, Lazio will win sooner or later......
But what Lazio fans who were so eager to see the goal did not expect was that the first goal came so quickly, but after the goal, Toldo, who had been devastated in the first ten minutes, showed a smug smile, and Lazio goalkeeper Maciegiani had to struggle to get the ball out of the net.
In the 11th minute of the first half, something happened that caught many Lazio fans off guard, Fiorentina, who had been suppressed by Lazio before, scored the first goal!
Djokaew's goal was sudden, Gascoigne had just finished a beautiful long-range shot, but just five seconds later, the ball magically appeared at the feet of Effenberg 30 meters away, and then the German sent the ball to Djokaew with a long ball close to the ground, and Zuihou was struck by the Frenchman...... Let's take a look at slow-motion replay...... It was Chiro Ferrara who launched this long pass counterattack! It was he who instigated this successful counterattack with a precise long pass! ”
Fiorentina's commentators were unsparing in their praise of their favourite team, while the Purple Lily fans at the Stadio Franqui cheered loudly for Ferrara, who orchestrated the attack, led by the DJ on the spot.
In this embarrassing situation, if you are a coach with average ability, you may be annoyed, timid, conservative, or emotional fluctuations because of your own momentary negligence...... However, Zhuang Mingge knew that the crazy Zeman would regard such a conceded goal as just an "accident".
Sure enough, a few minutes later, the broadcast camera focused on the Czechs again, which made Zhuang Mingge in front of the screen make a new discovery: the Czechs standing on the sidelines made a strange gesture towards Lazio's backline. I saw him raise his right arm and keep shaking it in the direction of the center line of the court, as if he had made a new deployment for the next game.
"What does that gesture mean, Zeman?" Only TV directors who are fully familiar with the temperament of the various managers in Serie A can capture the subtle close-up of the Czech coach, of course, Zhuang Mingge, who is at a loss, is really at a loss.
"Zeman's gesture shouldn't be to push forward the No. 6 defender, right? I just counted, and Zeman waved a total of six back and forth......" Karin also speculated about the meaning of the Czech gesture.
"Uh, Karin, I don't think it's that simple to sign......"
But the changes that occurred on the field made Zhuang Mingge speechless immediately, because as if to match Karin's guess just now, the Lazio young star defender actually began to sprint forward and rushed directly to the front line of the attack!
Glendoni! Number 6!
"I'll you, this Czech is really an offensive master!"
Zeman is not the only coach who is good at attacking, just like the Dutchman Cruyff is definitely better at interpreting the elegance and gorgeousness of the attack than the Czechs, Zeman's version of Lazio, to a large extent, has a strong Eastern European offensive style, just like the Soviet Union's tank advance in World War II, indomitable, and some are just steel-like.
Only such a desperate attack will make Lazio particularly eye-catching in Serie A, where defensive counterattacks are popular, and will make Fiorentina coach Ranieri standing on the sidelines extremely embarrassed.
When Ranieri, who has always been suave, shouts and shouts on the sidelines regardless of his image, in the Frankie Stadium, even the "layman" who comes to watch the game with the mentality of watching the excitement will be shocked by Lazio's madness of "either you die or I live".
As a direct result of Grandoni's increased involvement in attack, the midfield has become the main battlefield for the two sides, with the slight difference that Fiorentina see it as the front line of attack, while Zeman's Blue Eagles have used the midfield as their defensive position.
In this game, Ranieri was on the front line, and he sent a main forward combination of Batistuta and Filipe Inzaghi to Fiorentina. Originally, Ranieri wanted to use Barty's air superiority to pose a certain threat to the Lazio defense, and then Inzaghi, who was able to seize opportunities, looked for a killing opportunity behind Barty.
However, Ranieri didn't expect Lazio to dare to press the attack as soon as he came up, although this left a huge hidden danger for his rear, but considering Batistuta's feet jishu, Inzaghi's dribbling is even more miserable, and the only attacking player who can break through with the ball is Djokaev......
It has to be said that Lazio's tactics effectively restrained the Fiorentina striker pair.
As the game progressed, the two men in front had to face the grim fact that there were fewer and fewer opportunities to break into the opposition's penalty area and shoot calmly. It was not that the home team Lazio re-strengthened the weak backline, but in the long-stalemate midfield battle, Fiorentina was gradually suppressed by Lazio in their own half, and the two strikers who were responsible for the team's attacking tasks, Barty and Inzaghi, also had to retreat to strengthen the defense.
If it was just to prevent the opponent from overtaking the score, Zhuang Mingge, who was watching the game in the box, would definitely be more anxious than Ranieri on the sidelines. What Ranieri is doing now is just shouting loudly in front of the TV camera regardless of the elegant image, replacing Zhuang Mingge, he doesn't know if he will rush into the field and scold Inzaghi and others for being idiots a few times, but at least he will stand by Ranieri's side and yell:
"Brothers, hold me up, stand up to ......"
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Zeman, his offense is always for the sake of the offense itself - the offense that ignores his own defense is full of sacrifice and fearlessness. Therefore, in the first ten minutes of the game, Zeman exchanged his "fearlessness" for the rumors and dangers in front of the Fiorentina goal, and also exchanged his sacrifice for falling behind in the score.
Claudio Ranieri, who led the scoreline, continued his counter-attacking tactics as the storm intensified at the Frankie Stadium with an away goal.
With the strong Boksic in the centre-forward position, Signori and Di Vaio naturally swam smartly to the flanks, which was conducive to their speed advantage. The direct duel against the two full-backs, Lanna and Billindelli, is exactly what the two Lazio strikers enjoy doing. Once again, the ball was at the feet of Signoli, but this time, he opted for the first cross.
"Boksic in front of goal has been outflanked and he has gotten rid of the defensive ....... of Filicano"
The Croatian, who was ready to strike Zuihou, watched the ball pass over his side, and he didn't have time to turn around, but the striker's instinct told him that the ball was flying towards the front of the unmarked penalty area, where the Englishman Gascoigne was!
Three, two, one...... Facing the direction of the ball, Gascoigne completed the first run before the shot, he picked up his thick thighs, and he couldn't even wait for the ball to land......
“GOOOOOOOAL!!!”
1:1! Unrestrained runs, powerful shots, typical English goals! Lazio equalised on a chance that wasn't a chance, and it was Gascoigne who finally broke the goal drought. Gascoigne is not a striker, but Lazio fans have previously generally agreed that the Englishman who did not score was unforgivable. Gascoigne, who "accidentally" replaced Di Matteo, repaid the trust of coach Zeman with the equalizing goal, and perhaps at this moment, England coach Venables, who was far away in England, was secretly rejoicing in his heart.
"Good shot! Gascoigne actually scored! In addition to applauding, Zhuang Mingge was very surprised by this.
"Was there anything wrong with Gascoigne's goal?" Karin asked, confused.
"Uh, this ......" What else can Zhuang Mingge say, I can't say that Gascoigne why your kid hasn't slipped back to England yet.
Zhuang Mingge, who was on the Frankie Stadium, had already strongly felt the suffocating tension emanating from the court.
If the score is behind, the Czech will tell you to fight back, if the score is up, he will tell you what it means to take advantage of the victory, and if the score is dead, he will lead his Blue Eagle to be more crazy than other times, and the Czech's favorite thing to do is to tear the opponent's confidence to shreds with his crazy attack when the two sides are deadlocked.
Ranieri on the sidelines was keenly aware of this potential danger, and before the restart, he had always been conservative, and uncharacteristically called Effenberg from the sidelines and asked him to inform others that he was going to change his tactics in this game.
"Stefan (Effenberg)! Tell everyone! We're going to attack with the same crazy attack as that Czech madman! Completely crush this crazy team! ”