Chapter 1352: A Glimmer of Hope
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Now let's take a look at the starting line-ups for tonight. As for Fiorentina, Mourinho and Fiorentina players are full of fighting spirit for the second leg of the clash with Lazio due to Mancini's previous rhetoric at the press conference after the first leg, and they are determined to give the carried away Mancini a good look at the Frankie Stadium. Let this guy who gives a little sunshine know that Fiorentina is not a team he can arrange at will, and the consequences of angering the purple lily are definitely unbearable for him!
The position of the starting goalkeeper naturally belongs to Buffon, although Mourinho has decided to ensure the league title as the top priority at this time, but this does not mean that he will choose to give up this crucial battle outright. After all, now that the team has reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, and the players have not been plagued by injuries, and Fiorentina will face either a desperate mid-table team or a relegation team in the next few rounds of the league, it is not unavoidable for Mourinho to give Lazio and Mancini a look at it with his main players in this game.
At full-back, in order to defend the dangerous magical wings of Ronaldo and Gyuli, Mourinho decisively chose Zivo and Zambrotta, while Carlos, who had dropped much more physically, was on the bench. The starting centre-backs are still dominated by Nesta and Lucio, and neither Gambellini nor Thiago Silva have the strength to compete with them for the starting spot.
In midfield, Mourinho fielded the strongest combination of Claude Makelle, Andrea Pirlo and Ballack. Capable of attacking and defending well and having a lot of experience, they are able to deal with the vast majority of situations that happen on the pitch and are Fiorentina's strongest link at the moment.
In the forward line, with Diego Milito in the middle, Vincent and Cristiano Ronaldo on the wings, one left and one right, this set of attacking tridents, which has proven to be powerful this season, is enough to cause countless problems for Lazio's backline that has not yet completed its metabolism!
On Lazio's side, Mancini, who is determined to completely secure the position of Lazio coach with a Champions League title, is also the main force. Petr, Maxwell, Favali, Mex, Pancaro, Davies, Deco, Stankovic, Ronaldo, Giuli and Drogba, that's the Lazio starting eleven for this game!
Compared to the beginning of the season, after more than half a year of adaptation and running-in, several new signings introduced by Lazio last summer have successfully become members of the main team, so that the greatly strengthened Blue Eagles can make a splash this season and go all the way to the semi-finals of the Champions League. Tonight, they will face Fiorentina under the leadership of manager Roberto Mancini to secure a ticket to the Champions League final.
After the start of the game, Lazio chose to focus on the counterattack as Mourinho expected. Except for Xiao Luo and Jiuli, the other players all retreated to their own half to participate in the defense, and their intentions were naturally self-evident.
"What a stupid choice." Having a preconceived notion of Mancini, Mourinho naturally has a scoffing attitude towards Mancho's many options in the formation, "Indeed, in the case of winning the first leg, it is a good idea to choose to defend and counterattack. But Mancini seems to have forgotten the important point, which is that Deco is never a good spot on the counter-attack! ”
Mourinho's words are true, Deco's strength is that he has a good view of the overall situation, passes steadily, and is willing to obey any arrangement of the manager, but because Deco is too steady in his passing options, his passing is not as full of aura as Pirlo and Costa, which reduces unnecessary mistakes and wastes a lot of valuable time. As a result, Lazio often need to spend more time on counter-attacks to advance into the opponent's half, thus giving the opponent the opportunity to rearrange the defense.
As for the other two Lazio midfielders, Stankovic has long been regarded as a Nedved-style player, and it is natural to see that his strengths lie in running and long-range shooting, and passing, especially long balls on counter-attacks, is not his strong point. Davies had a knack for quick shots in his prime, but at the age of 32, he's no longer the Dutch boar who can run all over the field. With Mancini more in need of him to contribute on the defensive end, Davis, who has limited energy, naturally doesn't put much attention into the attack.
It would be possible to pull Ronaldo back and let the Brazilian elf take on the task of playing the ball on the counter-attack, but then the only force that the Blue Eagle can devote to the counterattack is Gyuri. Whether he can snatch the ball in the midst of the likes of Nesta and Lucio is a matter of predictability.
Leaving Giuli alone to take on the entire Fiorentina backline and Gianluigi Buffon, the world's number one goalkeeper, Mourinho doesn't think the Frenchman has the ability. If Giuli had this quality, then he would not have been compressed by rising stars such as Ronaldo and Ribery and left Fiorentina for a main position.
To sum up, Mourinho did not believe that Lazio's counter-attack could create a sufficient threat. In other words, by the time they passed the ball across the half, it was estimated that Fiorentina would have already laid out the defensive line by then......
So, under the deliberate arrangement of the two managers, Mancini and Mourinho, the battle started in the Lazio half first. Under Pirlo's command, the Fiorentina players worked steadily and steadily, pulling the Eagles' defence through constant passing and cross-shifting, thus creating opportunities to get up and down the ball. The Lazio players tensed their nerves and defended the 30-meter area in front of the goal, ready to intercept the opponent's pass and directly counterattack quickly to teach Fiorentina to behave!
However, it seems that Lady Luck did not favor the Blue Eagle today, and Lazio's plan was hit hard before it could be implemented. Just five minutes into the game, Ballack's long-range shot from 30 meters in front of the goal was recklessly touched by Mex, and then changed the line, hit the right post and bounced into the goal!
1 to 0! Just five minutes into the game, Fiorentina relied on a goal full of luck to pull one back and see a glimmer of hope of qualifying for the final!