Chapter 1108: Focus Battle (Medium)

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After talking about Fiorentina's lineup, let's take a look at the starting eleven on Inter Milan's side.

In this game, Cooper still lined up his most often used 442 formation. The goalkeeper is Francisco Toldo, and the four defenders, from left to right, are Koko, Cannavaro, Materazzi and Zanetti; In midfield, Di Biagio and Zanetti formed a double midfield, while Turkey's rising star Emre and Portugal's fast horse Consicao played as left and right wingers respectively; Up front, it's a combination of Argentina's number one centre-forward, Hernan Crespo, and Romanian Adrian Mutu.

As you can see from this starting lineup, Cooper continued his cautious and conservative style in this game. Although the Argentine coach, who is known for his counter-attacking defense, has made Inter Milan one of the best defensive teams in Europe on the one hand, his iron-blooded defensive style supplemented by scoring tools such as Crespo and Mutu was also an important reason why the Nerazzurri were able to win the league last season; But on the other hand, Cooper's overly conservative style of play makes Inter Milan rely too much on the individual performance of the players in attack, and once they encounter teams with a rigorous enough defensive system and equal strength, such as AC Milan and Juventus, they can only rely on the players to play alone in the front court, and Inter Milan will often fall into a difficult situation without tactical changes.

However, despite such shortcomings in attack, the Inter Milan players played a fairly fluid attack in this game. Emre and Conceicao repeatedly attacked from both flanks, constantly attacking Fiorentina through the flanks, and delivering cannonballs to Crespo, who was ambushed in the penalty area in search of a killer; The Argentine centre-forward, on the other hand, continued to excel under the rotation of Stam and Lucio, and he caused huge problems for Fiorentina's defence as he continued to run in the box.

Although Crespo and Emre were both in good form in this game, the most eye-catching of all Inter midfielders was Adrian Mutu. The Romanian has a good link in the middle of the Nerazzurri's attack, and his presence has made Inter Milan's attack no longer as scattered as before, but organically pinched into a whole, with precise large-scale transfers and sharp breakthroughs in the middle of the field that have caused many holes in Fiorentina's originally tight defensive system, creating many scoring opportunities for teammates and himself.

On the other hand, on the Fiorentina side, although Lucio and Stam and others tried their best in defense, and they did not slack off in the game, but the absence of Nesta made the space behind them an area that Inter Milan could use to the fullest, and became a huge hole in Fiorentina's defensive system!

In this game, Nesta's importance to Fiorentina's defensive system was on the cards. Although the frontal confrontation ability of the central defense line composed of Lucio and Stam is strong enough, the defensive style is biased upward, and the result of their starting partnership together is that the weakness of the two's lack of ability to fill the position is infinitely magnified under the impact of Crespo and Mutu!

Lucio and Stam are still excellent at marking and tacking, but without Nesta's anchor in the backline, Fiorentina's defence has been repeatedly broken by Inter Milan, and the front of the goal is full of dangers.

"I miscalculated, I shouldn't have started Lucio and Stam at the same time." Seeing Mutu turn around and break through Lucio's defense again, Heynckes couldn't help but feel a little remorseful, "Lucio and Stam's head-on confrontation ability is indeed the world's top, but their ability to protect behind them is seriously insufficient, and their sense of filling positions is quite average." This combination doesn't have so many problems against less strong opponents, but when they come up against strikers like Crespo and Mutu, who are good at taking chances, it's a very serious weakness. ”

Although he was aware of the mistakes he had made in the line-up for the game, Heynckes couldn't think of any effective countermeasures. After all, there are only three full-fledged central defenders in the Fiorentina first team this season, and Nesta, who was rested in this game, did not even make the eighteen-man squad.

Although Zivo and Sun Jihai can both play in central defenders, Zivo must sit on the left side when Carlos is suspended, so that only Sun Jihai is the only player who can play in central defenders. And in a game of this level, it is naturally impossible for Heynckes to send Sun Jihai to play. After all, in the eyes of the Germans, the quality of the substitute defender is too different from Crespo, and if he is allowed to play, then Fiorentina's defense will have to be broken through by Mutu and them.

"It seems that this problem will only be solved when the transfer door opens in the winter." Thinking like this, Heynckes' expression on the pitch became much more serious, "If you can't find a qualified replacement for Nesta, I'm afraid it will be difficult to achieve good results on all three fronts with just three regular central defenders." ”

Just when Heynckes was thinking about the winter reinforcement, the score had changed: in the 31st minute of the first half, Zanetti sent a through pass to Conceicao under the pressure of Di Natale, who directly accelerated after winning the ball and cleanly passed Zivo, and then immediately crossed to the middle, and the follow-up Crespo leaned on Lucio and shot directly, the ball grazed Buffon's fingertips and flew into the goal, 1-0!

After seeing the referee signal for the goal, Crespo yelled excitedly, waving the headband on his head vigorously, while running under the stands where Inter Milan fans gathered to celebrate the goal with the fans!

Because Vieri did not join Inter Milan as he did in history, Crespo was able to sit in the Nerazzurri's main central striker position, rather than competing with another strong center forward to share playing time, so his form is naturally much more consistent than in his previous life, and it is also more of a headache for defenders - after all, a striker like Crespo, who is physically strong and has excellent shooting skills, can be said to be a nightmare for any backline!

No, just five minutes after the first goal, the Argentine centre-forward dribbled past his defender's Stamm, and then scrambled to push the ball before Buffon could block it, and broke the Fiorentina goal again!

In this way, Crespo scored the second goal of the game and helped Inter Milan establish a two-goal lead in this strong conversation!