Chapter 927: Decisive Battle in Valencia (3)

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"It's weird, isn't it said that Mendieta is the heart of this Valencia team, why do I think Gerard and Farinos have a lot more time on the ball than him?" Seeing Valencia cowering in the backcourt and not taking the initiative to attack, little Groz, who felt very bored, couldn't help yawning, and then asked Zhuang Mingge a question. She had been expecting the much-praised Mendieta to do something amazing in this game, but the reality was a little disappointing for her.

"Rebecca, Mendieta is indeed the core of this Valencia team, but unlike many team cores, although he enjoys a high degree of attacking freedom in Valencia and most of the team's attacks are also planned by him, his role in Valencia is only the team's spiritual leader and attacking playmaker, and the task of sorting out the rhythm of the game in the midfield is someone else." Zhuang Mingge expressed his understanding of Grosz's depression, after all, the vast majority of fans like to play against fierce games, and such a dull defensive battle is really not interesting in their opinion.

"Could it be that Tony, Valencia, like us in Florence, have adopted the tactics of the rear of the organizational core?" Hearing Zhuang Mingge's words, Karin immediately reacted and said in disbelief, "Mendieta is just a front, but the person who actually controls the overall situation is Herard behind him?" ”

"Well, it's not all like that." Zhuang Mingge scratched his head with some annoyance and said, "Now it seems that the reason why Valencia did this is not because they realize the superiority of this tactic, but because of the personal characteristics of the players. Gerard and Farinos both have good organisational skills and a big picture view, so they are nominally central midfielders, but they do what Fernando [Redondo] did for us in Fiorentina. However, due to the lack of personal ability, I had to let the two of them share the job. So to be exact, Mendieta is not a front, just because Gerard and Farinos share his work on the organisational side, allowing him to put more energy into the attacking end of the pitch and not have to spend it on grooming the team. ”

Looking at Gerard and Farinos, who could still control the ball steadily under the harassment of Vieri and Shevchenko, Zhuang Mingge had a lot of thoughts in his heart. Who would have thought that this season would be the most brilliant year in the entire careers of these two young midfielders who have shocked European football? Who would have thought that Valencia, who had such a good table, would welcome their first division of the continent this summer, and that the golden four midfield would fall apart after only one season?

Herard, who came through La Masia's academy, returned to Camp Nou for a whopping $24 million, and since then he has exhausted his talent on the bench, never reproducing the bravery of Valencia, and finally disappearing from everyone; Farinos, who is worth $18 million, was completely lost in the star-studded Inter Milan, bidding farewell to the top league stage before the age of 30 and spending his days in the Spanish Second Division; Not to mention the history of Mendieta's downfall, almost everyone is suffocated by Mendieta's unexpected fall in Lazio, and this incident has also made Serie A the most feared survival of Spanish players!

Of Valencia's four midfielders, only Keely Gonzalez ended well, with the Argentine winger responding to Cooper's call to join Inter Milan after the Bats won the league title and two Champions League silvers. However, at an advanced age, he earned a pension after a few years as a substitute for the Nerazzurri before returning to play in Argentina before retiring with dignity at Rosario Central.

Just when Zhuang Mingge and Karin were communicating, the Valencia players who had been cowering for a long time in their own half finally moved!

Originally, after the failure of the attack, the Valencia players planned to use the same trick they used in Spain, deliberately showing weakness to the opponent by shrinking the defense to attract the opponent to press the attack, and then use Mendieta's precise pass to play a counterattack, and the speed of Claudio López and Angulo to complete the final blow.

I have to say that Valencia's small abacus is really good, and it can indeed receive very good results against those La Liga teams who regard attack as their life. However, Cooper and his Valencia players clearly forgot a very important point, that is, this time their opponent is Fiorentina from Italy, the country that created the chain defense system!

For the Fiorentina players who have been through countless major tournaments, what kind of storms and waves have they not seen? Therefore, the Fiorentina players had no intention of being fooled at all, let alone deliberately being fooled and had no intention of getting away with it. So, in the face of these little tricks used by Valencia, the Fiorentina players also played a defensive counterattack after the start of the game!

When Fiorentina also put on a defensive counterattack, everyone, including the Valencia players, was dumbfounded, they didn't expect that Effenberg's discipline would be so lacking and dare to play a war of attrition with them in the much-anticipated Champions Cup final!

This is not the same as the script that was promised! Doesn't it mean that if you adopt a shrinking defensive tactic, the opponent will definitely press the attack, and then the opportunity for your own goal will come? How Florentine

Valencia players, who have not had much contact with teams outside of Spain, obviously don't know that in the eyes of Fiorentina, the top giants of Serie A, as long as they can win, then there is no tactic that cannot be used, so that they will not fall into the trap of their opponents for the so-called face.

I'm sure anyone who has watched a football game knows how boring this game can be when both teams on the pitch start to play defensive counterattacks! Especially when it was exactly five minutes after the opening whistle and the first shot of the game came in, and it was Mendieta's unthreatening long-range shot from outside the box, the crowd yawned from the stands.

Despite the boredom of the spectators, Valencia's players did not dare to let their guard down. After all, these Fiorentina players have the ability to decide the game in an instant, and if you miss one carelessly, then Valencia's situation will be dangerous!

In this case, Valencia, who did not want to expend energy in this defensive battle with Fiorentina, had to choose to take the initiative. Because with the current situation in Valencia, they simply cannot afford to fight this war of attrition!