Chapter 242: Winter Champion!
The moment he saw Baggio passing Rossi, Baresi stopped his pursuit, and closed his eyes in despair, he knew the truth that time is not forgiving, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly, the golden defense line that dominated Europe more than a year ago is now full of holes.
Now, Tasotti, an old comrade-in-arms who has worked together for more than ten years, has been replaced by the younger Panucci, Costacuta has not been able to find his peak form since the American Shijie Cup, and Rossi, who guards the door, is no longer steady, and all kinds of low-level mistakes are endless...... Although he can still maintain the top defensive level in Serie A, how long can he hold on at the age of 35? One year, or two years?
While Baresi stood on the pitch and quietly contemplated his future, Roberto Baggio, who had extended the score for Fiorentina, ran to the sidelines to celebrate his goal with the crowd of Fiorentina fans.
For Roberto Baggio, who returns to Fiorentina for nearly $6 million plus two main rotation players, this return to Fiorentina is about proving to Lippi and everyone else who thinks he is no longer at his peak that he is still one of the top players in Shijie football.
However, when he returned to Fiorentina this time, he was surprised to find that the team was much stronger than when he left five years ago, both in terms of player quality and squad depth. Speaking of these players on the front line alone, Baggio originally thought that with his own strength, he could form a super striker with Batistuta to sweep across Europe without suspense, but it turned out to be tragic to find that the new Brazilian striker named Ronaldo in the summer won a stable starting position for himself with a series of goals at the beginning of the season, while Baggio was reduced to a rotation player in the team due to injury.
However, Baggio was not discouraged by this, after all, he was treated differently by Lippi at Juventus last season, and at that time, no matter how good his form was, he had to give up the starting position to the rookie Pierrot that the club had vigorously cultivated, and now he didn't have the opportunity to play because of his form, so Baggio was very patient and waited for his own opportunity.
Sure enough, Ronaldo first represented the Brazilian youth team in the World Youth Championship to give Baggio room to perform, taking advantage of the Brazilian's far away in Qatar, Baggio scored three goals in two rounds of the league, which made many critics who shouted "Baggio is quite old" shut their mouths.
Ronaldo's subsequent serious injury in training gave Baggio hope of returning to the main team, but the injury found him again at an inopportune time, and when he came back again, it was the teenager Philippe Inzaghi who competed with him for the main position.
Baggio himself admires Inzaghi's elusive off-ball movement and unusually sensitive sense of smell when a goal opportunity arises, and he thinks that even now he can't reach Inzaghi's level.
But Baggio also has an advantage that Inzaghi definitely can't match, and that is that he is the only player in the team who has the ability to dribble...... The exception is Djokaeff, who plays more of a midfield role in the team.
And Ranieri's attitude towards who will start the two seems to be determined according to the opponent's situation and the team's tactical needs, if you need to play a counterattack, then Baggio is naturally the first choice in the case of Ronal's multiple injuries, if the opponent is more of a stubborn type, then Inzaghi, who is good at seizing opportunities, will be the starter.
Under the pressure of such competition, Baggio looked quite excited after scoring the goal that extended the score, a goal that made him equal with Inzaghi as the joint second-highest scorer in the team and added a heavy weight to the manager's mind.
As the head coach of the team, Ranieri is naturally very clear about the fierce competition within the team, not only on the front line, but also on the midfielder's arrangement......
However, Ranieri is quite supportive of this healthy competition, and in his opinion, as long as it can be evenly matched, this kind of competition between players can bring more benefits to the team.
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After Fiorentina led 2-0, Capello was still reluctant to announce that he would give up the game, knowing that he was eight points behind the top team in the last 15 rounds of the league, which was an absolutely unbearable thing for AC Milan, who had dominated Serie A for many years.
In particular, his big boss, Mr. Berlusconi, the Italian media tycoon, has been touted by the media as "the best in the world" in the past few years. At the same time, having been elected prime minister of Italy once for his football, he naturally hopes that AC Milan can continue to add weight to his future second election with excellent results. If he doesn't bring a heavyweight title to the team for two years in a row, even if he finishes second in the league at the end of the season, he will probably be out of class.
Although Capello, who has become a famous coach in Europe, will not worry about leaving home even if he is fired, he still hopes to contribute more to the club after ending his career in Milan as a player.
As a result, Capello made some changes to the line-up before the restart, replacing the exhausted Savicevic with Marco Simeone, and putting the player in the second striker position as the team's forward midfield, and Boban, who replaced the veteran Donadoni, took over the baton of Savčevic as the new playmaker. Capello's message is very clear, he wants to attack at all costs to try to win.
After seeing Capello's substitution, Ranieri also began to deploy troops, Edgar Davies came on to replace Rui Costa, and the tinkerer planned to use the crazy scramble of the Dutch boar to block Boban's passing route, as long as the three Milan strikers on the field could not receive the pass from their teammates, then the so-called counterattack could not be talked about.
Although Boban Jishu is outstanding, but his fiery personality limits his development, in 90 because of a stadium brawl he was banned by the Yugoslav Football Association for four months as a result of missing the summer Italian Shijie Cup, and now with the age of the temper although slightly subdued, but this game he is under Davis's stalking old problems still have a tendency to recur. No, Boban, who had just been on the field for less than five minutes, swung his elbow at the Dutch because he couldn't stand Davies's frequent harassment, and the Dutch boar was very clever to dodge, but Boban's actions were clearly seen by the referee on duty, and he immediately gave a yellow card to the Croatian midfielder as a warning.
After seeing Boban get a yellow card for his defense, Davies worked harder and harder in the following time, almost like sticking to Bo, so that the Croatian midfielder had no energy to organize the attack - Davies's idea was simple, Milan's two forwards had his own two central defenders to deal with, Di Biagio was more than enough to defend Simeone, and Kripa who was in the position everywhere could guard against Albertini's insertion...... Since AC Milan has only a few players with independent offensive ability on the field, it is no problem to focus on Boban completely by himself!
The more than ten minutes of the game were spent in chaos, and AC Milan were unable to recover the score through a strong attack, and unfortunately lost 0-2 to Fiorentina.
With that, Fiorentina ended all their official matches in 1995 with a five-game winning streak in the league and won the honorary title of Winter Champion!
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