“Goooooooal！ The ball is in! The goal was scored by Fiorentina's new signing this season, Brazilian striker Ronaldo! A nice tackle to the ground! The commentator of the match praised Ronaldo's shot and did not hesitate to salivate, "Let's watch the video replay...... Originally, Barty's header pass was a little big, and the average player would not be able to catch up with the position where Ronaldo started, but the young Brazilian striker used his excellent explosiveness to complete the attack! ”

"Now that Fiorentina have a one-goal lead, can coach Louis van Gaal make effective tactical changes to bring Ajax back to the underdogs? Let's wait and see! ”

Van Gaal, who was standing on the sidelines, frowned, he could certainly see that Fiorentina had been attacking his right flank, but he didn't do much about it, after all, after the departure of last season's main right wing-back Reziger, Ajax's right side defense has indeed become an obvious weakness, and he has no players in his hands to fill this hole......

In the case that Blind and Gianni Keda have taken turns to fill in the positions and cannot completely stabilize Ajax's right side defense, Van Gaal cannot let more people help defend - after all, there are only so many full-time defensive players in Ajax, if they all fill the hole on the right side, then the rest of this back line will be even weaker, as the Fiorentina goal just showed, after attracting most of Ajax's defensive liliang to the right side, Djokaeau's cross sent Fiorentina players into a situation of more play and less in the box, which was more dangerous than simply being blown up on the right flank......

"Lads! Call them all back! Can't be suppressed by your opponent! Van Gaal made a tactical change of attacking instead of defending, standing on the sidelines and yelling, he asked the team to change their approach and stop competing with Fiorentina for midfield, and make full use of Overmars's speed advantage to allow Fiorentina to concentrate on his right flank.

From Van Gaal's coaching resume, it can be found that although the Dutch coach is Michels's all-attacking and all-defensive faction, his tactical thinking is more inclined to "all-attack", and he has relatively neglected a lot of the work of "all-defending", otherwise he would not have always given people a feeling of instability at the back when he coached Barcelona later.

Ranieri on the other side obviously heard Van Gaal's roar, and the tinker's temper was obviously not as short as Van Gaal, and he would not yell at his players in this situation, but just raised his right hand and waved it a few times in the direction of his goal, the meaning was quite clear:

"Give me back to participate in the defense, let these Dutchmen attack, and we will play counter-attacks."

With Ronaldo's explosive striker and rock-solid defense, coupled with Effenberg, who has excellent long passing ability, Fiorentina is naturally more comfortable in counter-attacking.

Although the Ajax players won the ball, they lacked the ability to attack after the departure of Kluivert, Kanu and others, and they simply had no ability to penetrate the steel defense made by Fiorentina!

"Look at the Fiorentina defense! The Fiorentina players who took the lead stepped up their defense, while Ajax, who were trying to equalize, couldn't even find a chance to shoot on goal! ”

After falling behind, Ajax stepped up their attack, but as the commentator said, they couldn't even find a chance to shoot under Fiorentina's tight defense - Ajax's attacking ability was not particularly good in general, otherwise they would not have been dragged by AC Milan's heavily slumped backline until the end of the game.

With two of the most high-quality and impactful strikers up front, Kluivert and Kanu, leaving on a free transfer, Ajax no longer have a striker up front who can play for his teammates and cut through the defence.

Littmannen's biggest problem is that the impact is not enough, and the body is not strong enough, maybe in a one-on-one situation the Finnish skates can rely on their own jishu to play the opponent dizzy, but the Italian team's defense has never simply relied on the individual ability of a player, but a whole well-organized system! In this case, Litmanning, as a protruding arrow, was naturally lost in the Great Wall of Steel of Florence.

As a result, the rest of the game began to get dull, Ajax basically couldn't find any chance in front of the Fiorentina defence, the only gain was a foul on Colini in the midfield and the referee showed a yellow card for the referee for too much action, although Ovimas can tear apart the Fiorentina defense on the wing with his own speed, but in the absence of a high post in the middle, such a move is meaningless.

What makes the whole Ajax team feel ashamed is that although they have been controlling the ball during this time, they have not even completed a shot, and the Fiorentina defenders will appear in their shooting route in time every time, so that although Ajax has many players with excellent long-range shooting ability, such as Laudrup, Ronald De Boer, and Littmanning, they still can't easily complete the shot, but Fiorentina has been threatening their door with sharp defensive counterattacks, During that time, the likes of Ronaldo and Djokaeff had good shots on goal, but they were unlucky enough to score the second goal of the game.

In the 37th minute of the first half, Ajax had their first shot on goal after conceding a goal - Ovimas used his speed on the left to force a break through Billindley's defense and forced a cross, Filicano's header was not far away, Laudrup got the ball and flashed out of space, Ronald de Boer, who was inserted from behind, followed up with a powerful volley, but because of the excessive force, the ball flew directly off the crossbar......

After finally scoring a shot, Ajax's morale, which was already declining, has risen a bit, after all, it is easy to hit the confidence of the players after a long attack and not even create a shot.

In the next few minutes, the Ajax players created a couple of chances, but they were still unable to do so in front of Fiorentina's steely defence.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, Van Gaal did not wait for his own players, but took the lead from the players' tunnel back to the dressing room with a straight face, obviously he was quite dissatisfied with the team's performance in the first half.

"Oooh! What do we see? Louis van Gaal left his players behind and walked into the tunnel on his own, and it was evident from the picture that he was very unhappy with his team's performance in the first half, and it looked like the Ajax boys were going to suffer at half-time. ”