Chapter 191: UEFA Super Cup (4)
Although Ranieri may seem very conservative at times, he is clearly not stupid, and the tinkerer who is proficient in tactical changes soon spotted the weaknesses in Ajax's tactics.
Taking advantage of a dead ball, Ranieri called Billindelly, who was closest to him, whispered some of his tactical changes to Billindelly, and after making sure he had memorized them all, he put his right wing-back back on the pitch before the referee on duty went to the sideline to trouble him, and Ranieri smiled kindly at the referee on duty, Friske.
Frisker is obviously not as ruthless as the famous bald referee Crawford, and will not give Ranieri a red card just for smiling at him (the allusion comes from an NBA regular season game between the Mavericks and the Spurs, and the Spurs' main player Shifo Duncan was ejected from the game by the referee on duty Crawford twice in a row for being on the bench), and the Swede saw that the Fiorentina players were back on the court in time, so they didn't rush over to give Ranieri another warning or anything.
Zhuang Mingge sat in the box and watched Frisker on the TV screen, the 32-year-old referee can be said to be one of UEFA's key training targets, and his control of the game situation and some foul decisions are also quite hot.
But who would have thought that ten years later, the whistle would be overwhelmed and Mourinho would be seen talking closely with Rijkaard at half-time? The most deplorable thing is that there is no direct evidence at all to show what the two said at that time! As a result, Friske, who suffered death threats from Chelsea fans, had no choice but to announce his retirement.
Louder than Lindley's words were quick, and Ranieri's latest instructions were delivered to every Purple Lily player present after Collini's free-kick went over the crossbar.
When they wanted to repeat the old trick to attack the Fiorentina goal, they were surprised to find that no matter how they switched positions, the Fiorentina players did not show the same panicked look as before, but calmly controlled the passing space of the Ajax players, making it difficult for Ajax to attack without wing support.
After curbing the fierce offensive of the Ajax players since the opening, the holes in the Dutchman's defense gradually leaked in front of the Fiorentina, and the counterattack is about to begin!
According to Ranieri's pre-match arrangement, Fiorentina's counter-attack was mainly concentrated on the right side of the Ajax team, in addition to Lanna who was inserted along the left side, Djokaeff and Ronaldo also took turns running to this side to chase Bogard. Ranieri does not ask them to force their way into the penalty area, after all, Fiorentina is in the middle, and Batistuta is a top center forward! As long as they can deliver quality crosses, they can pose a huge threat to the undersized Ajax backline!
After all, Bogard is a centre-back, and his defense on the flanks is far less familiar than his defense in the middle, not to mention the fact that Fiorentina are still chasing him. At the same time, the most important point is that although Bogard has excellent physical attributes and the potential to become a top star, his personality and early experience have limited his development, and he often does not work hard.
As a result, under the impact of Lanna, Djokaeff and Ronaldo, Bogard felt that his performance was worthy of the salary given to him by Ajax, and naturally he would not defend desperately, because he felt that it was not worth it to hurt himself for the game.
However, the rest of Ajax's players naturally don't watch their defensive problems go wrong, Blind and Gianni Keda began to go to the right side to fill in the position, but they can't put all their defensive attention on their own right side, because these people in the middle of Fiorentina are obviously not vegetarians, and letting them hang around in the middle will make Ajax's situation more dangerous......
However, when the attack is strangled, how long can Ajax's backline hold on?
In the twentieth minute, Djokaeff burst into flames after receiving a pass from Lanna on the left.
In the face of Bogard, who rushed over for the first time, Djokaeff played a beautiful little jishu, first stopped the ball to lure Bogard to steal with his feet, and when Bogard finally couldn't help but stretch out his foot and poke the ball, the Frenchman came to a beautiful pull ball and turned around, pulled the ball back with his left foot, and then gently knocked it with his right heel, lightly dodged Bogard's steal, and then accelerated to break through to the middle, looking like he was going to cut into the penalty area and shoot directly with his feet.
What happens when a player of Djokaew's caliber cuts into the box? The Ajax players knew very well that they couldn't just let him burst into the box, so veteran captains Blind and Gianni Keda both lunged on the Frenchman to try to stop him from breaking through.
However, at the moment when the two of them rushed out of the penalty area, Djokaeff quickly kicked the ball in the direction of the left sideline again, and he immediately accelerated along the route of the ball, throwing both Blind and Gianni Keda behind him at once!
This change of direction allowed Djokaeff to finally get rid of Ajax's encirclement and interception!
After completing the breakthrough, Djokaeff looked up to observe the situation in the penalty area, and then decisively crossed with his feet!
Djokaeff passed a high ball, because Blind and Gianni Keda had just rushed up to make up for the defense and had not yet rushed back, at this moment there were only two Ajax players in the Ajax penalty area, including the goalkeeper, while Fiorentina's players were full of three!
Frank De Boer looked at the ball flying towards the penalty area, feeling extremely helpless, the team's penalty area actually had Batistuta, Ronaldo and Effenberg three opposing players, and at this time the players of their own side returned to the penalty area to participate in the defense, it was only himself and goalkeeper Van der Sar!
Are all the people in the front court dead?! Withdrawing a little bit to take care of the defense would be dead?!
Frank de Boer cursed inwardly as he kept his eyes on the ball's course, praying that he could get it out before the Fiorentina players did.
But apparently God did not hear De Boer's prayers, and a tall figure rushed ahead of him to the ball!
It's Batistuta! Obviously, in the contest of high-altitude balls, the God of War with a height of 185 cm has an advantage over De Boer with a height of 179 cm!
However, De Boer obviously will not just give up, and his body secretly exerts his strength, trying to make Barty unable to exert his power smoothly in the air, so as to sabotage this attack of Fiorentina!
But this is naturally difficult for the Argentine god of war, I saw him meet the ball lightly, the ball flew up again, fell to the right side of the penalty area, and it was a purple figure that was rushing to that position!
"Ronaldo! He's going to shoot...... No, it's too far away to catch up...... Caught up! It's a tackle shot from the ground! ”
The ball tackled by Ronaldo flew close to the ground towards the Ajax goal, and Van der Sar could not block the shot despite stretching his body as best he could!
1 to 0! In this UEFA Super Cup contest, Fiorentina scored first!