Volume 1 Chapter 157 Worse Worse

At halftime, Fiorentina did not make any substitutions, and Perugia, who was behind, simply replaced the underperforming defender Loreto and replaced striker Boothroyd, playing a three-striker and giving Fiorentina a go.

With only 45 minutes left to score two goals, Perugia has no choice but to fight hard, and besides, Fiorentina is now relying on individual ability to sneak attack, and it doesn't matter if there is one more defender or one less defender.

After the start of the second half, the game changed very subtly, Perugia's attack was extremely ferocious, completely disregarding the defense behind the desperate attack, all the players pressed to the center circle, and the goalkeeper also ran to stand more than ten meters away from the penalty area, almost pressing the three lines of Fiorentina into one line.

In this case, it is not good for Fiorentina's defense and attack, because the second point is not won at all, and the opponent is easy to form continuous offensive opportunities, but Fiorentina's players seem to only want to hold the 1:O lead, and the desire to attack is very weak, and even Chen Yu and Fandini are frequently back to defend.

The Fiorentina fans in the stands were extremely entangled, they were leading 1-0, they did have the capital to defend, and now the biggest goal was to advance, but 50,000 fans came to the scene, millions of fans waited in front of the TV, and everyone was very unhappy to see their team being abused by their opponents.

Perugia's attack was wave after wave, Fiorentina was like a small boat in the stormy sea, which could be destroyed at any time, and the Fiorentina fans were worried and depressed, and they were silent, except for the exclamations of the commentators from time to time, the silence of the whole stadium was terrible.

Fiorentina's commentator is a ball savvy, he explained to the fans the change in the situation in the second half: "From the point of view of the score, Fiorentina is now 1:O ahead, Perugia will be eliminated because of less away goals if he scores one goal, if he wants to advance, he must score two goals, if Fiorentina scores another l-goal, Perugia can also drag the score into extra time if he scores two goals, because the score in the first leg is 2:2, that is, whether Fiorentina scores or not, as long as Perugia scores two goals, You can come back to life, in this case, no one will give up the opportunity to give up their lives, Kosmi dares to boldly replace the defender, this is the reason, and for Fiorentina, scoring goals is not the most important, scoring goals is almost the same as not scoring goals, and not conceding goals is the most important, such a psychological state also determines the current situation on the field. ”

Fiorentina's commentator is very correct, in the second half, Fiorentina's energy was mainly used on defense, and now this account, Fiorentina's players are also very thorough, so Chen Yu and Fandini also put themselves into defense, just want to get through the 45 minutes.

Under the bombardment of Perugia, Fiorentina players and fans felt that the time was so long, every minute seemed to be as slow as the usual hour or two.

At this moment, Chen Yu finally understood what Di Livio meant by what he said to him before the game started, indeed, now he has deeply felt that a game can be as long as a whole season. A game can also contain a season's content. It's been 50 minutes! Mondonico sat in the dugout and looked at his watch. 53 minutes! Mondonico stood up and walked around and looked at his watch like a pins and needles, which is Mondonico's mood now, the opponent needs to score two goals, but the current momentum looks like the opponent can score at any time, and in this situation, if Perugia is lucky, he won't even need a minute to score two goals.

Cosmi was even more anxious than Mondonico, taking off his blue baseball cap and putting it back on, and occasionally rushing to the sidelines to yell at them.

Cosmi is not the owner, but Perugia is very important to Kosmi, and this is where he made his career, and Cosmi has not played professional football. Before becoming a coach, he worked as a primary school teacher for 9 years, before coaching the Serie A team Perugia, he did not coach a professional team, but the owner of the club club Gauci poached him to coach Perugia, and he lived up to expectations, in Perugia, he has achieved a brilliant record, has been ranked in the upper middle, is a famous giant killer, won the "Silver Seat" award in 2000, led Perugia to win the International Toto Cup this season, but at the peak of his career, because of Gauci is so happy, Perugia, who was weak on the bench, fought on two fronts and eventually had to play the relegation play-offs.

Cosmi doesn't want to be relegated, he doesn't want Perugia, who he has cultivated, to fall into Serie B, not every relegated team is as lucky as Fiorentina, maybe after relegation, it will sink forever, like many famous teams.

Seeing that the team had an absolute advantage, but still couldn't break the bottom layer of paper, Kosmi, who has always been known for his maverick, pulled his baseball cap down and beckoned to Brienza, who was sitting on the bench. Brienza jumped up from his seat and ran to Kosmi's side.

"Get on the field! Kill them! Just like in training! "Kosmi's order is concise and to the point, there is no tactic at this time, it is to play the player's individual ability, Brienza is very strong in breakthrough and can be used as a shadow striker, he goes up to use his breakthrough ability, closely follow the striker or one side to do a run without the ball, once the striker's attack is blocked, the shadow striker should immediately take the ball and break through, creating scoring opportunities.

Three minutes later, striker Brienza replaced midfielder Broy and Perugia had a staggering four forwards on the pitch, with just three defenders.

The new Brienza is not very tall, and he is a completely different type from Ravanelli, Salayeta and Boothroyd, he has excellent skills and can get into tight gaps, he roams between the gaps of the three strikers, and soon has two chances to shoot, the first time, Boothroyd squeezes out the gaps, he smashes defender De Cari in a small space, and stabs the ball with the foot of goalkeeper Sejas. The second time, Brienza made a quick feint from outside the box, shook off two defenders, and fired a powerful shot at the defender, which was deflected and the ball flew off the side of the post.

The two-footed shot brought more panic to Fiorentina, the game became more difficult for Fiorentina, now they have no attack only defense, the opponent can use their own characteristics to launch an offensive at any point, the second drop point and the third drop point are all under the control of the opponent, the time is just 60 minutes, for them, there is no end to the defense, which is completely different from what they thought at the beginning of the game, no one, including the head coach Mondonico, did not expect it to be so hard.

However, it is still more difficult than this, in the 67th minute, Brienza took the ball at the top of the arc of the penalty area, one by one a light change of direction, shook off Di Livio, and was about to enter the penalty area, Vantini arrived from behind him, stretched out his foot from behind the side and tackled, but Brienza moved quickly, Vantini was running for the ball, but Brienza went forward, Vandini did not touch the ball, but tackled Brienza. Force! Referee Rossetti's whistle blew. "Fake fall! Fake fall! "The fans in the stands panicked because Vantini had already received a yellow card and if he did it again this time, he would have been sent off.

But referee Rossetti saw it accurately and was not affected by the fans, and took out a yellow card to show Vandini.

"I didn't foul! He's a liar! ”

Vantini was anxious and folded his hands to defend Rossetti. He knows what an important game it is and if he loses because he is sent off, he is guilty of a lot.

But the referee was unmoved, pointed to the sidelines, and told Vantini to hurry out.

Captain Di Livio was also in a hurry, he came over and grabbed Rossetti and explained to him, "It was not a deliberate foul. Don't play your cards. ”

Rossetti watched Fiorentina players run over, and Perugia's players were also very moved, but the scene got out of control and he pulled out a yellow card to warn Di Livio.

Chen Yu knew that the matter was irreparable, but he suffered greater losses, so he quickly pulled Di Livio and his teammates aside, anyway, it was an iron bucket formation, in fact, there was not much loss to one less person.

Frustrated, Vantini stepped off the pitch and ran to the stands to keep an eye on the game. The game continued with Perugia's captain Zemaria taking a free-kick.

Fiorentina discharged almost eight man walls, so that Zemaria's free kick could not be penetrated at all, the penalty spot was at the top of the arc of the penalty area, the curling ball could not be played, Zemaria also cleverly chose to pass, allowing teammates to shoot from one side, but goalkeeper Sejas also showed a very high level at this time, Ravanelli's shot was punched by him.

Such a threatening free kick was blocked, Fiorentina did not have a chance to breathe, Perugia's defender Fresi got the ball and hoisted into the penalty area again, Perugia's three high forwards and tall midfielders were all competing in the penalty area, Fiorentina also put seven or eight people in the penalty area, the small penalty area was chaotic, the ball was kicked several times, and finally was punched out of the penalty area by goalkeeper Sejas, and Di Livio, who was standing at the front of the penalty area, headed again, and the ball flew to the midfield.

At this time, Perugia's defender captain Zemaria followed his chest to push the ball forward, and without waiting for the ball to land, he ran a few steps to keep up with a volley with the right instep.

The volley was powerful and heavy, with a sharp parabola, and it flew past the crowd in the box and plunged in front of the goal.

Zemaria's shot was from 30 yards out, and goalkeeper Sejas thought it was going to hoist the ball into the box, but by the time he got to the bottom of the line, it was too late to make a save, and he couldn't touch the ball when he leaped into the crossbar.

1:1, Zemaria equalized the score, the aggregate score became 3:3, Fiorentina led with more away goals, but as long as Perugia scored another goal, they will be relegated, and Fiorentina can only continue to play in Serie B.