Chapter 933: Decisive Battle against Valencia (9)
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Gerrard's through ball to Mendieta was blocked by Redondo halfway through, and the Argentine midfielder immediately distributed the ball to Carlos, who was inserted in time, and allowed Farinos, who tried to counter-attack on the spot, to save an empty save.
Carlos, who received Redondo's pass, did not move forward with the ball, but immediately sent a precise long ball to find Vieri, who was entangled with Pellegrino in the frontcourt!
Vieri once again showed the fans his unrivalled power as he leaned back seemingly effortlessly, knocking Pellegrino, who was close to him, two steps back, before turning and distributing the ball to Ljungberg on the wing!
Although Ljungberg's pace is not outstanding, the Swede will clearly have the upper hand against the 35-year-old Carboni. After leaving the Italian veteran behind in the contest of speed and rushing to a position parallel to the line of the big penalty area, Ljungberg slowed down and adjusted the tempo, and then got up and passed the ball directly into the Valencia penalty area before Carboni could entangle himself!
Seeing Ljungberg's cross fly high into the Valencia penalty area, Pellegrino was about to jump up and clear the ball, but Vieri pit the Argentine defender with a feint!
'Ljungberg's cross was cleared by Pellegrino's header...... Wait a minute! It's topped! Pellegrino is on top! Vieri deceived the Argentine centre-back, and his feint with his header was almost like the real thing, and Pellegrino didn't tell the difference at all! ”
And just like that, thanks to Vieri's inducement and Pellegrino's misjudgment, the cross from the director Zì Ljungberg crossed the latter's zone and landed exactly in the Valencia penalty area!
Djukic, who was tangled with Shevchenko, couldn't get his feet to clear the ball out of the box, and Pellegrino, who was still in mid-air, couldn't reach it. Therefore, when Effenberg, who inserted the attack from behind, got the ball, Djukic and Pellegrino could only stare at the German, and there was no energy left to block the opponent!
After getting the ball before the Valencia defenders cleared the ball, Effenberg adjusted slightly on the spot and then picked up his right foot and fired a powerful volley!
The ball pierced Canizares' fingers like a cannonball, and then it swooped into the gates of Valencia!
In this way, in the 56th minute of the game, Ljungberg shook off the opposite Carboni and crossed from the right, and Effenberg, who was inserted behind, scored hard in the penalty area to expand the score to 2-0!
Effenberg's goal was undoubtedly another blow to the Bats, as the Valencia players, who had not yet recovered from conceding the first goal, watched the Fiorentina players celebrate their goal on the sidelines, but were devastated by another goalkeeper.
The reality of being scored twice by Fiorentina in just five minutes made the Valencia players finally realise the gap between them and the top giants. This is not only reflected in the individual ability of the players, but also in the diversity of tactics, Valencia is far inferior to Fiorentina!
You must know that with Valencia's current player configuration, the only tactic suitable for them is defensive counterattack, and the lack of height and physical confrontation ability of Claudio López and Angulo on the front line makes the Bat Legion only choose to take the ground route more when attacking, and Yan Zòng lacks the ability to attack positional battles!
Some people may say that even if López lacks the height to directly threaten Fiorentina's goal, and there is a long-range shot as a weapon to attack the attack, Mendieta and Farinos are very good at their back-insertion long-range shots, and they will definitely help Valencia break up the opponent's defense.
The idea is indeed good, but please don't forget that among the four midfielders of Valencia, only Gerard, who plays as a midfielder, is more than 1.8 meters tall, and the other three are all under 1.75 meters tall! This means that Valencia's midfielder, like its forward line, lacks the necessary height and strength!
So, don't look at Lenos and Mendieta, who have scored a lot of goals this season and scored a lot of long-range shots, but most of them have also come in Valencia's quick counter-attacks, with Lopes or Kili Gonzalez using the break to attract the attention of the opposition defenders and then passing back to the middle to create a goal, which is rarely seen in positional battles.
Therefore, when Cooper gave up the play of fighting with Fiorentina with defensive counterattacks and chose to take the initiative instead, the outcome of this game was actually doomed, and the only suspense was when the purple lily would score the goal to break the deadlock, so as to completely take the initiative into their own hands!
In other words, unless Valencia's character is on the charts, or Fiorentina's attacking players are collectively in poor form today, the Bat Legion will be in a fool's dream tonight to win the Purple Lily and lift their first Champions League title in the club's history!
However, thinking about Cooper's "second in ten thousand years" in his previous life, Valencia wants to pin her fate on it, no matter how you look at it, it is a bit extremely unreliable......
"It seems that if you want to make a breakthrough next season, you must bring in other types of players, so as not to be targeted by opponents because of a too single style of play, and you will be in a dilemma when facing a team that defends and counterattacks." Cooper, who had realized that the defeat was irretrievable, gave his players a defensive contraction to avoid being scored more goals by Fiorentina on the counter-attack, Cooper, who was sitting in the dugout, thought, "It seems that it is very necessary to bring in a high school striker this summer." With such a high point as support, it can not only bring more changes to the team's attacking tactics and strengthen the team's ability to attack in positional battles, but also make better use of the crosses of Keely Gonzalez and Mendieta, and at the same time give full play to the attacking ability of the midfielders! ”
Although Cooper did not know that there was an old saying in the far east, "sail against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat", this did not prevent the Argentine coach from realizing Valencia's shortcomings at this time and starting to improve it. If the current set of anti-counter-tactics is not changed, then Valencia, which has been eaten by the opponent, will inevitably suffer a Waterloo next season!
As a result, the introduction of a high school striker was put on Valencia's summer recruitment schedule by the Argentine.