Chapter 302: Undefeated Golden Body
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Fiorentina are one step closer to their treble dreams after winning the first leg against Atalanta, and as long as the team can play normally, winning the Coppa Italia should not be a problem.
Atalanta's players were disappointed to lose the first leg but quickly picked themselves up – with Fiorentina already locked up the league title this season, the Purple Lilies must play in next season's UEFA Champions League, so they would at least qualify for next season's European Cup Winners' Cup if they were at least guaranteed a runners-up finish in the Coppa Italia.
While Fiorentina were pushing forward on the domestic stage, the other semi-final of this season's European Champions League was finally decided, and Ajax won the first leg of the two-legged battle with Greek powerhouse Panathinaikos, first in the first leg of the contest with Inzaghi Jr. A sneak attack in the opening game, and finally forced the opponent to draw 1-1 away from home. Later, in the second leg, Van Gaal gave full play to the home advantage and the jishu characteristics of his players, and beat the five big and three thick Greeks with a tidal wave of attacks.
Three to zero! With an aggregate score of 4-1, Ajax, who was poached by major giants last summer and suffered serious blood loss, surprisingly reached the Champions League final in Zuihou!
After losing half of their squad last summer, Ajax still made it to the Champions League final with a jaw dropping the jaws of critics, and these self-proclaimed experts could not have imagined that it would be the half-crippled Dutch side who made it to the final.
Ajax were able to reach the Champions League final for two consecutive years, and there were some luck factors, such as La Liga champion Real Madrid and Premier League champion Blackburn were eliminated in the group stage, and French champions Monaco and Bundesliga champion Borussia Dortmund were drawn to Fiorentina's semi-zone.
Of course, it wasn't that Ajax's ability to reach the final was entirely due to luck, as manager Louis van Gaal's strategy and the hard work of the Ajax players also played a big role.
Many of the European giants who tasted the sweetness of the Bosman Act last summer once again set their greedy eyes on Ajax, and seeing Ajax's performance so powerful, they have already begun to plan to stage the second season of "Partition of Ajax" this summer......
The Littlemanning, Van der Sar, De Boer brothers...... These are immeasurable wealth and coveted resources of high-quality stars!
Putting aside the respective calculations of these giants, let's take a look at Fiorentina's match against Roma at their home stadium Stadio Frankie in the penultimate round of Serie A on May 5.
With Fiorentina already two league titles ahead of schedule and a second leg of the Coppa Italia final in a few days' time, Ranieri sent a large number of substitutes to the starting line-up against Roma, with the likes of Vieri, Tomasi, Verjovod and Guadalben all selected.
Roma are in a very delicate situation, with the G14 and UEFA agreeing to secure two UEFA Champions Cups and three UEFA Cup places next season, so Serie A teams are looking for ways to squeeze into the top five of the league. Roma are now sitting in sixth place in the league table, with fifth-placed Parma just three points above them.
Three points are not too much to say a lot less, but it is these three points that have become the barrier to whether the Roma team can get a place in Europe next season!
If Fiorentina can beat Ajax to win the Champions League, then Roma, who are currently in sixth place, will not have to be so nervous now. This is because under the current rules of the UEFA Champions League, the defending champions can get an additional quota place for next season's Champions League, so that Roma can get a place in the UEFA Cup under the recursive rules.
However, AS Roma did not dare to bet on this possibility, after all, pinning the fate of the team on someone else is a very unsafe thing in itself.
Therefore, the veteran coach Mazzoni sent all the main players in this game, Fonseca, Balbo and Totti formed the front trident, and the Brazilian central defender Aldair was in charge of the team's defensive position.
At the beginning of the game, the away Roma launched a fierce attack on the door of Fiorentina, and the "Fiorentina II team" composed of substitutes was obviously not mentally prepared for this, just 13 minutes after the opening whistle, Fiorentina conceded two goals in a row at their home stadium, and temporarily fell behind 0-2.
It was only after two blows in quick succession from Balbo and Totti that the Fiorentina players found their groove and began to launch a counter-attack under the leadership of Roberto Baggio and Rui Costa.
Although the Roma players began to shrink their formation after taking a two-goal lead and were instructed by manager Mazzoni to switch to defensive counter-attacks, it was still quite difficult to defend in the face of an attacking line composed of Vieri, Baggio, Costa, Inzaghi and others.
In the 37th minute, Costa went straight through the middle, and Robert Baggio, who received the ball at the edge of the penalty area, did not choose to stop the ball, and gently slipped the ball with his right heel with his back to the goal, and sent the ball to the feet of Inzaghi, who had successfully countered offside!
Inzaghi, who had formed a one-on-one momentum, naturally did not waste this good opportunity to score, looked up at the position of the Roma goalkeeper, and found that the opponent only held the near corner of the goal. So Inzaghi decisively pushed the far corner of the goal with the arch of his right foot, rewriting the score to 1-2, and Fiorentina pulled one back!
As the two sides entered a stalemate, Roma's trident fell silent after scoring two goals in the early stages of the game under the meticulous care of Fiorentina's defenders. Especially Totti, who is the most active of the trident, the young player is struggling under the close defense of midfielder Kripa, after all, Totti is not as good as Zidane, and there is no way to deal with such a man-to-man defense.
Although the Roma attack was suppressed, the Fiorentina attack did not improve much. After a goal was pulled back by Fiorentina, Roma retreated to hold on to the victory, but the tight space and the dense crowd in the box after shrinking the defence seriously hindered Fiorentina's equaliser.
No matter what time it is, cracking the iron bucket array is a shijie problem.
Towards the end of the game, Costa's long-range shot bounced off Aldair's body and Fiorentina was awarded a corner, but the score was still 1-2, with the home team in front and the visitors behind.
Since it was already one minute of stoppage time, this was also an offensive opportunity for Fiorentina's Zuihou in this game!
After observing the position of his teammates in the box, Costa took a deep breath and kicked the ball into the middle of the box!
"Oh! Vieri jumped! He jumped so high...... Incredible! He actually suppressed Aldale in the air! Top to the ball! Shake your head and hit the goal! ”
“Gooooal! The ball is in! In the minute of stoppage time, Fiorentina equalized with a header from Vieri! Fiorentina had previously held a 25-game unbeaten run in the league and Vieri's goal successfully kept Fiorentina on their unbeaten run! ”
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