Chapter 409: Trip to Japan (4)

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This time, the Toyota Cup match was scheduled for December 1, 1996, a full five days later than the historic Juventus match.

This change is actually thanks to Zhuang Mingge's little butterfly flapping its wings, and it was at his suggestion that UEFA President Johansson made up his mind to expand the UEFA Champions Cup a year earlier, which greatly increased the number of matches in the group stage, and the result was that the Toyota Cup match originally scheduled for the end of November collided with the Champions League.

Johansson, who has been committed to expanding European football, naturally cannot allow Fiorentina to postpone the Champions Cup to Japan, which is thousands of miles away, to play the Toyota Cup, and Zhuang Mingge, who has a good relationship with Johansson, has no intention of turning his face with the other party in this kind of matter. In any case, although FIFA is nominally the boss of the various football associations, in fact, Fiorentina's top boss is still Johansson's UEFA, and it is really not worth it to be put in small shoes by the other party for this matter.

In this way, Fiorentina sent some people to negotiate with River Plate and the tournament organisers, and the match was postponed to December 1.

The time soon came to the night of the game, and what Zhuang Mingge didn't expect was that on this night, the entire Tokyo National Stadium would almost become the home of Florence!

I saw that almost all the four stands of the stadium were filled with fans with the Fiorentina logo, and many of them wore a Fiorentina home team uniform on the outside, rendering the entire stadium a purple color; The number of fans supporting River Plate is far inferior to Fiorentina, and Zhuang Mingge only saw a small number of fans wearing River Plate jerseys in a corner of the opposite stand, desperately brushing their presence.

"Haha, Chairman Corleone, I wonder if you're happy with the mood tonight?" Just when Zhuang Mingge was stunned by the scene in front of him, Saburo Kawabuchi walked into the VIP box with a smile on his face.

"It turns out that this is the credit of Chairman Kawabuchi, I was still wondering in my heart just now, when did my Florence have such a great appeal in Japan?" Seeing Saburo Kawabuchi walking in, Zhuang Mingge immediately reacted to what was going on.

It must have been Saburo Kawabuchi who quietly publicized a series of cooperation projects between Fiorentina and the Japanese Football Association to the Japanese people below, so that the status of Fiorentina club in the hearts of Japanese fans skyrocketed in just a few days, coupled with the Japanese Football Association and a Japanese consortium in private to build momentum for Fiorentina, which made the Japanese, who should have maintained a neutral attitude, support Fiorentina one-sidedly.

After all, how old are River Plate compared to Fiorentina, who have a close relationship with their home country's football? I believe this is what most Japanese fans think at this time.

"I guess, President Corleone, you must be wondering how many River Plate fans will come into the stadium to watch this game, right?" Saburo Kawabuchi was smiling proudly at this time, and he was like an old fox.

"Uh, how many are there?" Zhuang Mingge naturally asked curiously.

"According to the data transmitted by the stadium, only 1,143 fans from Argentina came to cheer for River Plate, and the rest are all here to cheer you on."

Only more than 1,000 Argentines from afar are supporting River Plate, and the Argentine giants are really sad...... Zhuang Mingge thought gloating in his heart. He didn't say anything against this, after all, Saburo Kawabuchi's actions were quite beneficial to Fiorentina, and besides, it wasn't a black whistle or a match-fixing, so he didn't need to say anything.

Is it fair to River Plate? I'm sorry, Zhuang Mingge thinks that he is not in the mood to sympathize with his opponents, and let Fiorentina and Italian football become the top existence of the whole Shijie, which is his goal.

As soon as the game began, Fiorentina launched a fierce attack on the gates of River Plate, because Capello's tactics for this game were to play fast and speed up the pace of the game against River Plate.

After all, these South American players are quite good, they have long been accustomed to using their individual jishu and some cooperation in the game to form a threat to the opponent's goal, if Fiorentina insists on competing with them at the foot of the jishu or playing the iron bucket formation, it will definitely die a miserable death.

After all, River Plate's midfield is a combination of Ortega, Francescoli, Cruise and Salas, whether it is to play a tough game or play a small jishu, it can be said that it is more than enough.

With a fast-paced attack, River Plate's fragile defensive system was directly exposed to Fiorentina's forwards, and the likes of Berizzo and Ayala simply could not withstand the combined impact of Barty and Ronaldo head-on, and only in this way could Fiorentina find the dawn of victory in this game.

Fabio Capello's tactical set-up gave Fiorentina's players the upper hand at the start of the game.

Just three minutes into the game, Redondo sent a long ball from 40 meters away near the center circle, Batistuta pushed the ball into the middle on the run, Ronaldo, who was inserted from behind, directly volleyed from about 20 meters from the goal, the ball grazed the crossbar and flew off the bottom line, and the whole attack process was not even half a minute.

It's not that Dias couldn't see Capello's set-up, but he couldn't keep his side in control of the midfield.

Despite having a midfield maestro like Francescoli on the pitch, Capello's back three made a huge difference at the moment, with Redondo, Di Biagio and Davies covering the entire midfield and enough to make River Plate's players cautious when attacking.

What's more, the Dutch boar once again played the role of plasticizer today, closely following the 35-year-old prince of Uruguay, obviously intending to make River Plate unable to play its own rhythm and could only follow the pace of Fiorentina.

So, under the fast-paced style of play of the players on both sides, Fiorentina, who had been prepared for a long time, took the lead in scoring!

In the twenty-fourth minute of the first half, Redondo went straight in the middle, and after receiving the ball, Effenberg did not stop the ball, but decisively chose to divide the ball at the front of the penalty area.

Batistuta in the box made a header on the run, and the god of war, after attracting the attention of Ayala and Berizzo, suddenly lowered his head and let the ball fly over his head!

When Ayala and Berizzo saw this scene, their hearts were immediately terrified! Because they know that they have been deceived by Barty's actions!

At this moment, Robert Carlos, who had an assist from the left side at high speed, received the ball from Barty in the penalty area, and hit the goal with his feet about ten meters away!

The ball whizzed past Boggs and the River Plate goalkeeper had time to wave his arm before the ball rubbed against the net!

Fiorentina lead 1-0! A solid step towards the first Toyota Cup title in the club's history!