Due to injuries and age, Di Livio has not been on the pitch for a long time, and even rarely comes off the bench, but Di Livio has been training seriously and hard, as a strict professional player, a Fiorentina captain who is about to retire, Di Livio is keen to step up when the team needs his help. That's why Busso would dare to bring a long-lost Di Livio on the pitch in such a final.

Di Livio is indeed much worse in age and form than the players on the field, but he has two advantages that other players, even Chen Yu does not have, one is that Di Livio is the only player who has participated in the Italian Cup final, and has participated twice, once at Juventus and once at Fiorentina. The second is that Di Livio is the spiritual leader of Fiorentina, and the encouragement he brings to players and fans after the 39-year-old comes on the pitch is difficult for Chen Yu to do.

Di Livio is a good runner and a good tackle, and that hasn't changed because he's getting older, he still runs like a young man when he comes on the pitch and commands every player loudly, criticizing or cursing at them.

"Don't be afraid, it's just an ordinary game"

"Mikoli, you should be quicker"

"Chiellini, you pig, don't you know what to do?"

"Bastard Maresca, you're not a marshal, and it's not a prom here, you have to run."

Di Livio and Chen Yu's style as captains is obviously different, Chen Yu is relatively quiet and introverted, and uses more actions than words to motivate teammates, while Di Livio is more extroverted and better at using words to encourage teammates. Legend has it that Trapattoni took Di Livio to the final week of the World Cup instead of the high-profile Baggio, who was interested in Di Livio's ability to motivate his teammates.

Fiorentina's players couldn't help but cheer up under this new stimulus, and they also became tough, and the three lines worked together to press Juventus, and the scope of the pressing continued to expand, forcing the Inter players to gradually move away from their own penalty area.

Seeing the changes that have taken place since Fiorentina came on the pitch, CC commentator Huang Jianxiang commented: "...... The 39-year-old veteran Di Livio brought a new atmosphere to the team, his active movement on the right flank led the whole team, and I could hear him accusing and scolding from the sidelines, he was still the same little warrior and aggressive mouse in the Bianconeri...... Compared with the restrained and ruthless Chen Yu, Di Livio is more incendiary on this occasion...... Obviously, the veteran captain Di Livio was using his last game to teach Chen Yu a lesson, telling him that he should command his teammates in this way during the game......"

Whether Di Livio consciously taught Chen Yu his experience or his own game habits, Chen Yu learned a lot from him in such a tense and difficult final.

In the UU minute of the game, Fiorentina gradually drove the Inter Milan players out of the penalty area, only the strikers Vieri and Martins in the front of the Fiorentina penalty area, and only the forward Veron of Inter Milan operated in the 30-meter danger zone of Fiorentina, and the other players only had a chance to enter when attacking.

'Chan we need a goal. Taking advantage of the opponent's throw-in, Di Livio ran to Chen Yu's side and whispered to him, "We complete the strategic defense, and give them another fatal blow, we will collapse, and our morale can be maximized, this task seems to be completed only by you."

Chen Yu's ability to read the game is also very good, and he also saw the morale of Fiorentina and Inter Milan, saying: "The goal is handed over to our forward line, and the defense is up to you." ”

Di Livio laughed: "It seems that our task is a little heavier. ”

"The veteran is out, a top two, I believe in you."

Chen Yu saw that the ball was moving to Inter Milan's backfield, and immediately ran over to force it.

Inter Milan opened the game with a 15-minute attack, both physically and mentally in need of a rest, at this time Fiorentina did not give them time to breathe, Chen Yu and Di Livio are good at grasping the rhythm, as soon as the opponent wants to rest, they immediately lead the players to more force and wider pressing.

Fiorentina's flexible tactics made Inter Milan's players very uncomfortable, they had already attacked, and they were definitely unwilling to be pressed by the opponent in turn, but they were a little tired, and they could only barely lift their spirits to play against Fiorentina.

In the first minute of the game, Chen Yu received the ball in the front court, Davis kicked the ball from behind him, kicked Chen Yu down on the turf, and referee Rossetti awarded a free kick.

Davis was not satisfied with this decision, he thought that he had kicked the ball first, and ran over to talk to the referee, and Chen Yu had not yet gotten up and made a look at Di Natale, Di Natale started quickly, Chen Yu got up and pushed the ball with the arch of his foot, the ball flew to the bottom line of Inter Milan, Chen Yu also ran towards the penalty area of Inter Milan at high speed, ready to pick up Di Natale.

The Inter Milan players raised their hands in protest and signaled Fiorentina to serve the ball in violation of the law, but referee Rossetti waved his hand and thought there was no problem with serving the ball.

“…… Fiorentina took a quick free-kick and Inter Milan made such a mistake, as an experienced giant, such a low-level mistake is really a bit undeserved...... It should be that they are slacking off mentally defensively......"

The on-site commentator analyzed.

Fiorentina attacked very fast, Inter Milan has not had time to organize a good defensive formation, Di Natale has hit the bottom line, and Chen Yu's amazing speed and explosiveness have also been fully exerted at this time, it turns out that Inter Milan is proud of having a fast horse like Martins on their front line, and now, they finally see what Fiorentina's fast horse looks like, and Chen Yu is taller, heavier, and runs with more momentum, like a roaring high-speed car. In the blink of an eye, he rushed to the Inter penalty area.

After Di Natale went down to the bottom line, he still had time to observe the situation inside and outside the penalty area, and found that Chen Yu had rushed to the penalty area line like lightning, and he immediately knocked the ball against the turf to the penalty area.

Goalkeeper Toldo didn't dare to attack, the speed of this cross was very fast, if he couldn't get it, he would expose the entire goal to the opponent, he could only stand on the goal line in horror and anxiety to watch Chen Yu and his defender grab this point.

At the front of the big penalty area, Chen Yu has thrown Davis without a trace, Mihajlovic and Materazzi can't keep up, seeing Chen Yu about to enter the penalty area, Materazzi was furious, and he couldn't suppress his anger anymore, he reached out and grabbed Chen Yu's jersey and pulled it back, but Chen Yu's speed was too fast, the impact was huge, Materazzi couldn't hold it, and grabbed Chen Yu's arm again.

Materazzi is tall and strong, compared with an ordinary player, Chen Yu was pulled by him like this, he couldn't rush up anymore, and staggered into the penalty area.

"Penalty for a foul"

"It's him Materazzi again"

"A red card must be a red card"

The Fiorentina fans in the stands jumped up in anger, they waved their fists and roared, very angry at Materazzi's foul, in their opinion, it was a must-score opportunity, Chen Yu would not let go of such a goal.

Chen Yu lay on the turf in the penalty area and gasped, but did not make any moves, he knew very well in his heart that this was a very obvious foul, he did not need to put any pressure on the referee, and the referee Rossetti had to make a fair decision.

The players in the stadium stopped, and all eyes were on Rossetti and Materazzi

Materazzi came to Rossetti with excitement, "The referee this Chinese faked fall"

Rossetti glanced sideways at Materazzi, "You didn't pull him"

Materazzi said: "It's normal physical contact, we're all fighting for position. ”

"Nonsense" Di Livio ran over and angrily scolded Materazzi, "Chen has already surpassed you by one position, what position are you still grabbing, you are pulling people to foul, you should be red carded." ”

Referee Rossetti was very aware of Materazzi's foul, and he mainly weighed whether sending Materazzi off would affect the spectacle of the game, but when he heard angry roars from the entire stands, Rossetti made up his mind and pulled a red card into his pocket to send the irascible centre-back off the pitch.

The score is behind, and if there is one less player, this game will not be played.

The Inter players gathered around to plead with referee Rossetti, knowing that once the card was taken out, it would not be taken back.

However, Rossetti was determined, and even if the Inter Milan players pleaded again, he was unmoved, resolutely took out the red card, and reached out to the sidelines to point to Materazzi to get out of the game quickly.

Materazzi was furious, but helpless, he took off his jersey, scolded and walked out, and when he walked past Chen Yu, he scolded viciously: "Little piggy, you wait, we still have time to meet." ”

Chen Yu smiled coldly, "I'll wait for you." But don't leave halfway. ”

"Phew"

Materazzi opened his mouth and spat at Chen Yu.

Chen Yu reacted quickly, Materazzi opened his mouth, he avoided it on one side, and the spit happened to spit on the goalkeeper Toldo.

Referee Rossetti saw it clearly and he immediately recorded Materazzi's actions on the red card. Materazzi's irrational behaviour will certainly bring him a heavy penalty from the Italian Football Federation after the game.

Mancini on the sidelines witnessed all this happening, at the beginning, he still wanted to rush into the field to find Rossetti theory, but after being pulled by assistant coach Orsi, he also accepted his fate, and immediately let the substitute central defender Burdisso change his clothes on the field and replace the attacking midfielder Emre, although now Inter Milan needs to attack, but the lack of central defenders is absolutely not good, must first complete the back line, and then consider attacking.