Referee Cragg looked at his watch and saw that it was time for the game, so the German referee blew the whistle for the start of the game!

The moment the whistle blew, Vieri, who was standing in the middle circle of the stadium, immediately kicked the ball to Ronaldo, announcing the official start of the Champions Cup final!

The alien who got the ball didn't choose to pass it back to Effenberg or Redondo behind him, but directly began to move forward with the ball!

Pierrot and Otero, the two Juventus strikers, rushed up to defend at the first time, although their defensive level was not very good, but what Lippi wanted was this kind of positive defensive attitude, whether he could break the ball and fall second.

For Italian coaches, they may be able to tolerate a player who can't defend against his opponent, but they will never allow that player not to defend!

In the face of Otero and Pierrot's attack, Ronaldo did not panic, after a set of acceleration, emergency stop, change direction, and acceleration again, the aliens have successfully killed the encirclement of the two!

However, Zidane and others, who were standing behind the two, did not go up to force Ronaldo after Pierrot was passed, but began to move backwards to compress the space in their own half.

"Cut, are you ready to defend at the beginning of the game?" Zhuang Mingge, who was sitting in the box, looked at the direction of the Juventus players and thought to himself, "Lippi, you shouldn't have planned to drag the game to a penalty shootout from the beginning, right?" That's almost two hours of play, can these players hold up? ”

Zhuang Mingge guessed correctly, in this game, Lippi had no intention of taking the initiative to attack from the beginning. Because through the experience of playing against Fiorentina so many times, the Silver Fox is clearly aware of how big a gap there is between his team and Fiorentina. Considering the huge lethality of Fiorentina's strikers in the counterattack, it would be tantamount to suicide if Lippi chose to take the initiative to attack. Therefore, Juve's attacking routine in this game is very simple, which is to lure Fiorentina to press the attack and then play the opponent's counterattack.

Pierrot and Otero's task is to stay in the front court and prepare to play Fiorentina's counter-attack, and by the way, there is a little bit of harassment; Zidane's task is to serve as a starting point for counter-attacks, as well as a second offensive when he intervenes with Di Livio and others to form a counter-attack, so as to make Juve's counterattack more layered.

As for the defense, Lippi gave a dead order this time, except for Pierrot and Otero, who stayed in the front court to contain them, everyone else had to participate in the defense; Even when necessary, even these two strikers have to retreat to their own half to participate in the defense!

Lippi's goal is very simple, which is to drag the opponent in front of him into a penalty shootout with an iron bucket of defense, and then fight Fiorentina at that time!

By the way, what Lippi wants to see most now is that Capello was also cautious about letting his team attack, and as a result, he managed to drag himself into a penalty shootout, and then beat Fiorentina through an exchange of penalties to lift the Bianconeri's second Champions League title in their history......

However, to Lippi's surprise, Capello actually showed his rather aggressive side at this time.

Seeing that Juventus chose to defend and counterattack, Capello stood up from the dugout, shouted twice at the players on the sidelines, and then made a gesture!

Zhuang Mingge, who often watched the team's training, immediately recognized it and realized that Capello was ordering the team to press the attack!

Noticing Capello's gestures, Ronaldo stopped being obsessed with playing alone in the front court, passing the ball back to Effenberg behind him, and then running forward - although his breakthrough ability is unparalleled in the world, not every game can be played by several people.

Even aliens need the help of their Earth teammates.

Effenberg immediately distributed the ball to Carlos, who was plugged in on the left, and then adjusted his running route according to the speed of the Brazilian's movement, so as not to crash headlong into the Juventus players' netting and find a way out.

As Effenberg moved, Di Livio stuck to the tiger and followed the tiger every step of the way, just in case he hit the door directly from this position. Unreasonable but unusually effective long-range shooting was a common trait of most German players in this period, and Di Livio had no interest in letting Effenberg experiment with it in this game.

Seeing that Effenberg was being targeted, and he didn't have any good breakthrough route here, Carlos had to turn and pass the ball back to Redondo, who was further back.

Due to Juventus' total retreat before, Redondo, who was quite far behind, did not come up to harass him when he got the ball.

When he advanced to the middle circle of the court with the ball, Redondo found that no one had come to defend him, and he couldn't help but be a little annoyed: You all followed so closely when Effenberg didn't take the ball, I had been carrying the ball for a long time, and you didn't have anyone to defend me, didn't you look down on me?

In fact, this is just Redondo's own thoughts, Pierrot did not come up to force the main reason because his position is too far behind, after all, the defensive strength of football games is still relatively loose, the front court pressing and running without the ball have not risen to the same high intensity as in later generations, and generally a player runs an average of seven or eight kilometers per game to be qualified. Under the guidance of Zhuang Mingge, a traverser, the current Fiorentina is playing football that has been ahead of others for fifteen years, except for the goalkeeper, the average running of players in other positions is almost more than ten kilometers per game!

This is also one of the reasons why Fiorentina's results will be so unnatural, the difference in the running of more than two kilometers per game per player is not a joke, it is enough for Fiorentina to form a local situation in the game, so as to tear apart the opponent's defense and score goals.

And this time, Redondo, who felt that he was being despised for a moment, observed the situation in front of him, and then directly sent a long pass with his left foot in the middle circle of the court!

The ball made a high parabola in the air, and after crossing the highest point, it went straight to the Juventus penalty area!

Vieri accelerated in the direction of the ball's flight, and he was ready to jump directly to the goal with a header the moment the ball fell, giving Juventus an opening package!

The Fiorentina fans in the stands couldn't help but cheer, and they were already imagining Vieri's header in their minds!

However, it was at this point that Blanc was where he should have been, as the French centre-back jumped up before Vieri was about to reach the ball and smashed it out of the box!

The battle between Fiorentina and Juventus has only just begun.