Chapter 1210: Battle for the Top of the List (2)
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Since Fiorentina and Inter Milan are both the top giants in today's football, and this game is about the top of the table, the Meazza Stadium, which has always had an attendance of only seven or eight percent, was rarely full that night. Many fans who have not been able to buy tickets for various reasons are waiting at the stadium gate, hoping to get a ticket from the scalpers or be lucky enough to catch a refund.
However, the wishes of these fans may be difficult to achieve. You know, this head-to-head clash between Fiorentina and Inter Milan can be said to be the finale of this round of Serie A, coupled with the good publicity stunt of the battle for the top spot, so that the tickets for this game have been announced to be sold out early, and those scalpers who make a living by reselling high-priced tickets have also sold all their inventory under the money offensive of local tyrant fans. So, apart from the unlikely possibility of ticket refunds, there is no second way for these fans to enter and watch this key battle.
Now let's take a look at the starting line-ups of both teams for this match. On the home team's Inter Milan side, Cooper still stubbornly insisted on his 442 formation. Goalkeeper Toldo, the four defenders from left to right, Abidal, Córdoba, Materazzi and Zanetti, C. Zanetti and Emre stand parallel in the middle of the midfield, the wings are Cooper's Valencia favorites Keely Gonzalez and Dutch fast horse Mark van der Meyde, Argentina's center Crespo and Romanian international Mutu in attack. The above are the starting eleven of Inter Milan in this game.
Although Zhuang Mingge's crossing has changed a lot of things, Koko is still as depraved as in his previous life. Plagued by injuries, he not only failed to recover well, but also began to indulge in the rich nightlife of Milan, and his competitive form has dropped sharply, which is not at all comparable to the image of the tough guy who insisted on playing in the bloodied battlefield of the World Cup in South Korea and Japan a year ago.
With Koko suffering from injuries and signs of declining form since the end of last season, Facchetti bought French full-back Abidal from Vicenza as a replacement for Koko at Cooper's urging. Of course, at this time, they would not have thought that this Frenchman with an unpretentious style of play would actually be the most reliable one of Inter Milan's left wing-back positions in the past ten years after Bremer left!
Incidentally, the left wing-back has been a constraint on Inter Milan's progress. Facchetti's brilliance at left wing-back in the big international era and Bremer in the troika era have made Inter Milan fans very critical of their successors, and no matter who they are, they will be exposed to shortcomings and shortcomings that even the notoriously fastidious pundits and media have not seen. This move by the fans has made these players have not had time to play a game for Inter Milan, their strengths and weaknesses have been known to the Nerazzurri's opponents, and they have made targeted arrangements for them, so that their shortcomings are infinitely magnified in the game, and then become one of the magic weapons of the opponent's victory over Inter Milan.
It can be said that it is precisely because Inter Milan fans are overly picky about the left-back position that the left side of the Nerazzurri has always been a huge hidden danger at the back.
Good intentions do bad things, that's probably what it means~
If the once promising Koko was a self-depraved man, then Cannavaro's fate was more like a natural disaster. The defender has been plagued by a fractured tibia since last season and has never fully recovered from the injury, making it difficult for him to maintain a stable competitive condition, which has made many Inter Milan fans complain that the boss has bought another parallel defender.
After talking about Inter Milan's starting list, let's take a look at Heynckes' lineup. Although Heynckes is quite disdainful of Cooper's tactical play, the lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, not to mention that if Fiorentina is compared to a lion, then Inter Milan is at least a lion one size smaller than the purple lily, and the players are not allowed to have the slightest idea of contempt for him.
So, in this crucial battle related to the top position, the German coach sent his own deck of cards with the strongest combat effectiveness at present. The starting goalkeeper naturally belongs to Luigi Buffon in Gian, and because there is a considerable gap between the substitute goalkeeper Guadalben and him, the world No. 1 goalkeeper will definitely appear on the pitch as the last gate of the Purple Lily, unless it is a game of chicken ribs or a game that does not matter to the overall situation.
At the back, due to a Champions League game just played in midweek, neither Stam nor Carlos were included in the starting line-up, after all, these two are now veterans in their thirties, and their physical fitness and recovery ability have declined from their peak, so it is naturally impossible to let them. Therefore, Heynckes replaced the young and vigorous Zivo and Lucio in the starting line-up for this game, alongside Nesta and Zambrotta.
In midfield, in response to Inter Milan's weak defensive strength in the middle, Heynckes let Pirlo play alone in the middle, and De Rossi, Gattuso and Makelele were responsible for escorting him. At the same time, the trio are tasked with helping Zambrotta and Zivo in defence, and Van der Meyde and Keely Gonzalez are known for their prowess on the flanks, and Heynckes will naturally have to guard against this.
Up front, Vieri was forced to rest for this game, but the combination of Diego Milito and Inzaghi was enough to scare any team's backline.
After the players of both sides took their positions in their respective halves, Collina, who was the referee of the game, blew the whistle in his mouth to announce the official start of the game!
Due to the close relationship between Fiorentina and Inter Milan, the atmosphere on the pitch after the start of the game was tense and the confrontation and scramble between the players were fierce enough, without showing any mercy at their feet. However, despite this, the smell of gunpowder in the game is not very strong, even if it is a foul, it is basically going to the ball, and the party that caused the accident often apologizes to the other party afterwards, and there are no additional superfluous actions.
It is for this reason that there was no violent clash between the players - if the two sides of the game had been changed to Manchester United and Arsenal, I am afraid that they would have been fighting under the leadership of Keane and Vieira......