Chapter 845: Devil's Schedule (9)
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After falling behind by three goals at one point, Lazio leveled the score with a frantic attack, turning Fiorentina's upcoming three points into a point, an outcome that no one had expected before.
When was the last time Fiorentina were tied by their opponents when they were three goals ahead? I'm afraid no one can think of it except for those die-hard fans. It is precisely for this reason that when this result appeared in front of people's eyes, almost everyone felt unbelievable - they didn't expect that this kind of gambling-like style of play really broke Florence!
In the post-match press conference, Heynckes took the initiative to take all the blame for the team's defeat on the road, saying that it was because he did not notice the changes in Lazio in time, so that the team was forced to draw by the opponent when the team was leading by a large score.
In fact, all Fiorentina players know that the reason why the team was lost by Lazio with three goals in a row and lost the three points that should have been in their hands was mainly because they were shocked by the opponent's desperate style of play, coupled with the unexpected injury of Nesta, the core of the defense, and Ferrara, who rushed on the pitch, did not even do a good job of warm-up activities to face the impact of Cruz and Inzaghi Jr. and others, which made Fiorentina's previous good situation fall apart in just half an hour.
Therefore, after the game, all the Fiorentina players were quietly reflecting in the away team's dressing room, and they could not forgive themselves for being frightened by Lazio's gambling attack and becoming the culprit of the team's draw! In particular, Effenberg was even more annoyed by this, in the eyes of the arrogant German Tiger, as the captain of Fiorentina, he would be knocked down by his opponent with such an unreasonable punch, which was simply the most unbearable moment of his career!
Therefore, when the players learned from the team's staff that Heynckes had taken all the blame on himself at the press conference, all the players felt a little ashamed, and at the same time sincerely felt very grateful that they could have such a righteous manager - obviously they were not strong enough to back down, but it was the manager who stepped up to stand up at this time. I believe that as long as you have a little conscience, you know who should be most grateful at this time.
As a result, although Fiorentina only got one draw in the thirteenth round of Serie A, Heynckes' reputation within the team has really risen to a new level!
However, although Heynckes took the opportunity to further enhance his prestige among the players, a medical report from the sports experts at the physiotherapy center made the German worried: Nesta had a preliminary diagnosis of an ankle ligament injury and would need to recuperate for at least two months!
Nesta's importance to the Fiorentina backline will not be repeated here, but after the world's No. 1 central defender is out due to injury, Fiorentina's originally impregnable defence looks to be going through a big test during this time, and whether Ferrara and Hyypia can become Nesta's qualified stand-ins will determine the quality of the Purple Lily's defense in the next two months.
With Fiorentina out of the way, let's take a look at the impact this game has had on other teams.
It can be said that Lazio's success story has inspired many managers, and the managers of various teams who are extremely good at using their brains have used their brains to find a set of tactics that can restrain Fiorentina through the case of Guò, especially those teams that are about to play against Fiorentina, and they are more concerned about this matter. In the eyes of these people, with Nesta, the backbone of Fiorentina's defense, out of action for two months, if they can develop another set of tactics to restrain the purple lily, then it will no longer be a pipe dream to take points from Fiorentina!
Four days later, in the final round of the Champions League group stage, AIK Solna, who visited the Stade Franki, were the first to replicate Lazio's tactics against Fiorentina, and the Swedish champions clearly wanted to take a chance in this game and compete with an in-form Galatasaray for a place in the UEFA Cup.
From the very beginning of the game, the players of Solna AIK were anti-guest-oriented, trying to disrupt the rhythm of Fiorentina's game with running and ferocious scrambles, and then create opportunities in this chaotic battle.
However, Solna, who is dominated by Nordic players, is quite simple and rough in terms of scrambling, often preferring to use close foul physical confrontations when defending, and has a lot of small movements in the game, unlike the top central defenders such as Nesta and Stam who are clean and clean.
If the rhythm is normal, then sooner or later, the Solna players will give Fiorentina a lot of free-kick opportunities in front of the field because of these rough defenses, and finally lose this game. However, I don't know if the referee of this game was because he read too many novels last night and his eyes were not very good, and he actually repeatedly let go of the foul actions of the Solna players against the Fiorentina players in defense.
If there were only one or two times, it could be said that the referee had limited vision and did not see it, but when Pirlo, who was dribbling the ball and changing his direction, was brought to the ground by the defender of Solna midfielder with a move that could almost be said to be a block, and the referee still did not say anything, the end of Fiorentina's game was actually clear.
Even though more than 40,000 Fiorentina fans at the Frankie Stadium cursed the referee angrily for this, the referee was still indifferent to what the visiting players did, and instead gave a yellow card to Zanetti and Inzaghi, who expressed strong dissatisfaction with his penalty, and even showed the latter a second yellow card in the 68th minute for faking a fall, and directly sent Pippo off the field with two yellows and one red!
In the end, in this game, which was full of small kicks and controversies with open shoulders and dark elbows, which can be said to be a collection of fouls, Fiorentina, who were playing at home, exchanged blanks with the Solna AIK team and ended the team's journey in the group stage of this season's Champions Cup with a draw!
Due to the fact that he had to deal with some affairs related to Adidas and the partnership, Zhuang Mingge did not watch the game at the scene this time, but after watching the game tape specially given to him by Antonio Nione, he couldn't help but scold: "TM is really a big forest, there are all kinds of birds, and someone dares to blow the black whistle on our Florentina head?" ”
Looking at the picture of Inzaghi being sent off the field by the referee with a red card on TV, as well as the scene of the Fiorentina players being thrown to the ground by Solna players in the game, Zhuang Mingge only felt a fire in his heart, and was constantly urging him to take countermeasures: "If the Champions Cup is full of such bastard referees to enforce the law, then the three major European Cups will be ruined by these guys sooner or later, it seems that it is time to have a good exchange with Franz." ”