Chapter 831: Fighting Galatasaray Again (Medium)

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Galatasaray's starting line-up has not changed from the previous meeting, and they are still the same as they were in the first leg, a phenomenon that is naturally inextricably linked to their head coach Trim.

Being able to break into the title of "Emperor" in Galatasaray, the number one giant in Turkey, Trim's coaching skills are naturally undoubted, but this title also reflects the dictatorial character of the coach on the other hand. In the eyes of the manager, no matter how famous the player is, as long as he plays under him, he must follow his arrangement, otherwise what awaits this player will be endless suppression and cold bench treatment.

Historically, Trim has used this iron-fisted style to succeed in Galatasaray and Fiorentina, but there are two sides to everything, and the Turk's stubbornness and self-determination in charge of AC Milan made his journey into charge of the Rossoneri difficult, as the likes of Maldini and Costacuta simply didn't buy him. After all, they had all managed to get rid of the more famous Saki back then, and a mere triem was nothing.

As a result, Galatasaray's emperor ended up spending less than a season at Milan before he was sacked due to problems with his record and poor relationship with the decorated players.

Therefore, if a manager wants to gain a foothold in the top clubs, he must consider whether his character can manage the dressing room well, not to say that everyone can be convinced, at least so that the majority of players can agree with his decision, rather than disobey or simply ignore it!

However, although Trim's personality is not suitable for coaching a club like AC Milan, where players are extremely powerful and can even decide the fate of the manager in some way, Galatasaray, a local powerhouse who is a step below the top giants and has few privileged players who can threaten the manager's position, is very suitable for him to lead the team. Because in such a team, there will be no player to question his decision, and Trim can show his strengths, rather than being repeatedly hindered by the players.

And now Galatasaray is very suitable for this condition, although Haji and Popescu and others are famous and have this ability, but they are old and just want to earn more pensions in peace, they have no intention of competing with this strong manager. Hakan Suker is a legend of Turkish football, with a strong personality and ambitions to become the boss of the team, but his place in Galatasaray has been challenged by foreign players such as Haji and Taffarel. Therefore, until the likes of Haji and Tafarel are not leveled at Suker, Turkey's top centre-forward is not going to have anything unpleasant with Trim.

As a result, a combination of factors allowed the powerful Trim to take control of Galatasaray's dressing room, thus thoroughly implementing his tactical ideas in this team without much hindrance!

Some people may ask, since Haji and others can endure the dictatorship of Trim for the sake of their pensions, why can't they live in harmony with Hakan Suk and start a career together in Galatasaray?

The reason is simple, that is, the identities of the two are fundamentally different. After all, no matter how strong Trim may be, he is only a manager after all and will not affect Haji's status in the team too much - Galatasaray's high salary to bring in these twilight stars is not to deepen the depth of the bench.

Hakan Suker is different, although Haji is old, he still has the pride of being a former international superstar, and he is known as the "Maradona of the Carpathians", although he will naturally sell the face of Hakan Suk, the head snake of the land, but he will definitely not be willing to be subordinated to others to be a second leader. Especially when this so-called trump card did not have enough strength to suppress him, it was naturally impossible for the arrogant Romanians to obediently obey orders.

Therefore, for Galatasaray, the biggest problem for this team is the contradiction between the local gang led by Hakan Suker and outsiders such as Hadji, although this contradiction has been alleviated a lot under Trim's iron fist, and the players can occasionally work together on the field, but the problem is still objective.

Looking at Fiorentina's side again, Heynckes, who was determined to give Galatasaray a little color, was also the main force in this game. However, this time compared to the last meeting, the German made some changes in the forward line, with alien Ronaldo sitting on the bench and replacing him with Filip Inzaghi, who has been in a bit of a fluctuation of recent form.

The reason why Heynckes partnered Vieri and Inzaghi was not to choose the combination of Ronaldo and Vieri, who is considered by many to be the most powerful. This is mainly because after several actual combat tests, the German found that Shevchenko and Inzaghi did not work well together, and the two who were quite good at grabbing points in front of goal often overlapped on the field, and Fiorentina's offensive could not be fully developed, so that the threat of the attack was greatly reduced.

Therefore, in order to make the best possible use of the role of the two, Heynckes had to separate them from Vieri and Ronaldo to avoid the situation where one plus one is less than two.

Of course, the German coach also has the intention of using this game to let Inzaggitor find his form, after all, the number of games in a season is very large, and only three strikers in the team who can guarantee the efficiency of scoring goals are too unsafe, so it is a good thing for him and Fiorentina to let Inzaghi try his best to find the feeling of scoring goals.

In midfield, Gattuso replaced Claude Makelele, a young man who believes has good potential in defence, especially in man-to-man defence, and is a good midfield bodyguard despite his poor positional sense in defence. Therefore, sending him to mark the opposition's core players is really the most suitable.

In addition, at the back, Zambrotta finally returned to the starting line-up thanks to Heynckes, and the 22-year-old full-back's intimidating role in Istanbul made veteran Di Livio the German's first-choice at right-back.

Seeing that the players on both sides were already in their places on the field and nothing discordant happened, the Dutch referee Vigriff, who felt that the time was almost up, looked at his watch, and then blew the whistle to announce the start of the game!