Chapter 768: Dynamo Kyiv caught off guard
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In the eighteenth minute, Redondo, who was advancing along the left side with the ball, suddenly split the ball after attracting the attention of Luzny and Jaskovic, and Robert Carlos, who was inserted on the side, received the ball and crossed with his feet, and Vieri, who had been recuperating for half a month, pressed Khrovka and Vaschuk who defended him in mid-air, and the flying ball was directly a head-shaking attack!
Aleksandr Shovkovsky, who is the number one goalkeeper of the Ukrainian national team, saw Vieri's action and was ready to make a save, but the ball flew much faster than he expected, and the Dynamo Kyiv goalkeeper only had time to wave his arms before hearing the violent friction between the ball and the net!
1 to 0! Fiorentina, who were playing at home, took the lead and tied the aggregate score of the two legs at 2-3!
Vieri's goal was a huge morale boost for the Fiorentina players, who were still somewhat apprehensive when they didn't score. After all, players are human beings, and no matter how experienced they are in the tournament, the two-goal disadvantage caused by the defeat in the first leg has always weighed on their hearts like a mountain, secretly interfering with their performance on the court.
And now, with only one goal behind on aggregate, the big stone in the hearts of the Fiorentina players has begun to disappear, because two goals behind and one goal behind are completely different meanings!
What's more, Fiorentina also have an away goal in their hands. This means that as long as Fiorentina's players can continue to work hard and score another goal in the next time, while not allowing Dynamo Kiev to score, then the Purple Lilies will eliminate their opponents with the advantage of more away goals in the event of a draw on aggregate, so as to qualify for the semi-finals of the Champions League!
Therefore, it can be said that Vieri scored a crucial goal at a time when Fiorentina needed a goal to close the gap between the two sides, which not only strengthened the confidence of his players to turn the tables at home, but also dealt a severe blow to the morale of the Dynamo Kyiv players!
Looking at Dynamo Kyiv, Fiorentina's appearance that they were comprehensively suppressed in the first leg of the contest obviously created a false impression that the strength of this team known as the "European hegemon" is nothing more than that. I didn't expect that the reason why they were able to win easily that day was largely due to Fiorentina's own poor form, not because Dynamo Kyiv had really reached the point where they could be on an equal footing with the top European teams.
In fact, without the bonuses brought by Lobanovski's famous coach and Shevchenko's incredible form, the quarter-finals of the Champions League would have been the limit of what they could have achieved at the current level of the Dynamo Kyiv players.
Although Lobanovski had warned his players after the first leg that Fiorentina was really much more than what they saw in this match, let them not take this team lightly because they won. But it is clear that the Dynamo Kyiv players, who were somewhat carried away by the victory, did not really take the old manager's words to heart.
Even if Fiorentina didn't give it their all, there would always be an 80% level, right? This is what many Dynamo Kyiv players think in their minds after listening to Lobanovski's admonition.
As the saying goes, if you don't listen to the elderly, you will suffer in front of you. On this night, the young and energetic lads of Dynamo Kiev paid a terrible price for their previous dismissiveness towards Fiorentina!
Vieri's goal made the Kyiv Dynamo players confused for a while, they didn't expect that the strength of both Hrovka and Vaschuk could not stop Vieri's impact alone!
Let me be, what did this Italian center forward eat today, and he was so violent? Obviously, it wasn't like this in that game half a month ago......
Of course, the players of Dynamo Kyiv did not know that in that game, the whole Fiorentina team was strangely in a state of slump, and Vieri was no exception. In fact, the Vieri in the first round was at best a blue-collar coolie with an empty body; Vieri tonight is the invincible heavy tank familiar to Fiorentina fans!
The result of being caught off guard by the opponent was that after the restart, Dynamo Kiev did not have the indomitable momentum and confidence to win at the beginning, and they carefully fell backwards in their own half, that is, they did not dare to attack the area of 30 meters in front of the Fiorentina goal, for fear that the opponent would seize the opportunity to play a wave of counterattacks and score another goal.
Who made Fiorentina put Vieri and Ronaldo in the forward line, the two super killers, Vieri has already proved his form with a goal, giving them the first time to know the strength of the world's No. 1 center forward; If only Ronaldo's form in this game was similar to Vieri's...... Dynamo Kyiv's players can't imagine that their defence will be able to withstand the combined onslaught of these two top strikers.
Therefore, in their opinion, instead of taking the risk of attacking and being successfully defended by the opponent and then counterattacking and scoring, it is better to use the numerical advantage to firmly control the ball in the backfield and spend time little by little, so as to get a ticket to the semi-finals of the Champions Cup!
However, the little ones who are not experienced in the tournament have clearly forgotten the importance of whether their opponent in this match, Fiorentina, is willing to play such a drama with them.
Obviously, for Fiorentina, who are aiming for the title, they are absolutely unwilling to be a stepping stone to Dynamo Kiev's fame. According to Effenberg's words, Lao Tzu has not won enough championships, and when Lao Tzu gets tired of playing, it will not be too late for you to take the position again......
The visitors' untimely conservatism gave Fiorentina a chance, with Effenberg and Redondo leading the team to press forward and aggressively press up front!
Especially Gattuso, who got the chance to start with his wonderful watch in the last game, was even more incarnated as a treadmill qì in this game, and he could be seen wherever the ball rolled!
In the 34th minute, Husin's return pass to Vaschuk was tackled by Gattuso halfway, and the "butcher", who knew that his dribbling skills were not up to par, then immediately passed the ball to Vieri, who was not far away. The latter crossed his arm and arched his butt after receiving the ball, blocking Hrovka behind him, and then pushed the ball with his left foot and passed the ball to Ronaldo, who was inserted, single-handedly!
The alien who burst into the box with the ball didn't waste the opportunity to open the scoring and fired a clean right-footed shot that went past Shovkovski's ten fingers and into the far corner!
Two to zero! Before the end of the first half, Fiorentina levelled the aggregate score at 3-3!