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Seeing the linesman raise to signal that Morientes was offside, Raul shrugged his shoulders helplessly, kicked the ball to Toldo in front of him, and patted his hands on his head, and was surprised that he was actually made offside by the opponent's back, and pulled his own striker partner and best friend out of the penalty area, without arguing with the linesman because of this decision.

Although Raul didn't notice whether Morientes was actually in an offside position when he received the ball, the Real Madrid golden boy knew that unless it was a particularly obvious misjudgment or omission, it was pointless to argue with the referee about the correctness of the decision at other times, because most referees would not change their decision in order to maintain their authority. Moreover, even if Morientes did accidentally fall into Fiorentina's offside trap this time, it doesn't matter, after all, the game has just begun, and there is still a lot of time, and it is natural that he will not be able to get only one shot on goal.

It doesn't matter if you can't catch it this time, as long as you catch it next time. With that in mind, Raul and Morientes turned and headed towards their own half, ready to fend off the oncoming attack from Fiorentina with their team-mates.

After successfully resisting Real Madrid's opening dismissal with offside tactics, Fiorentina, who were playing away, quickly made a counterattack: Toldo kicked the ball forward in the penalty area, Vieri suppressed Kalanca behind him in the front of the middle circle of the field, and returned the ball to Effenberg, who came to receive it, and the German Tiger immediately distributed the ball to the feet of Robert Carlos, who was cutting in at high speed along the left side!

As Real Madrid's first choice at right wing-back after Panucci's departure, Salgado's ability can still be trusted. However, the advantages of this Real Madrid son-in-law are more reflected in the positive insertion of assist awareness and excellent side breakthrough ability, and the achievements on the defensive end are quite average, more with the desperate Saburo's defensive style and excellent physical elements to defend the opposing players, his defensive position and awareness are quite average, and the overly desperate style makes him look a little frizzy when defending, and it is easy to be deceived by some players with excellent skills.

And Carlos is not afraid of this kind of defender, you must know that in the group of full-backs, there are very few players who can compare with him physically, and Salgado is obviously not among them.

So, after receiving the ball from Effenberg, Carlos advanced all the way to the vicinity of Real Madrid's penalty area against Salgado's defense, and then flicked the ball to the right with his left foot, pretending to cut inside with the ball to attack Real Madrid's goal directly!

Noticing Carlos's movements, Salgado was immediately shocked, and hurriedly gave up his original plan to block the opponent from continuing to break through along the side, and instead rushed up to block Carlos's in-cut route! After all, Salgado, who is a teammate of Casillas, is naturally very clear about the strengths and weaknesses of his goalkeeper - his lack of good saves and long-range shots are the Achilles heel of his goalkeeper teammate. And what Robert Carlos does best is to score from distance! It's still the kind of long-range shot like a heavy artillery discharge!

Although the probability of high-quality long-range shots in the game is not high, if Carlos does kick it, it will be enough for Real Madrid to drink a pot. Therefore, regardless of whether Carlos's action is true or not, Salgado must go over and block Carlos' incision route!

After seeing that his actions had successfully deceived Salgado from his original defensive position, Carlos immediately turned the ball back, and then accelerated in a change of direction, leaving the Real Madrid right-back in front of him directly behind him, and crossed with his left foot directly before the Spaniard chased back and intercepted!

Seeing the ball fly into his own penalty area, Casillas, who was about to celebrate his 19th birthday, did not choose to attack and clear, but stood in front of the goal to defend tightly, handing over the task of clearing the siege to the two central defenders in front of him. Because he himself knows that defending the ball is his weakness, it is better to let the more professional Karanka and Campo handle it instead of taking the risk.

However, Casillas forgot about it, and although Karanka and Campo were more sure of defending high balls, Fiorentina had an even more dangerous figure, and that was Vieri, who was called a heavy tank by the fans!

Vieri arched his ass to the left in the penalty area, squeezing Karanka; Then he threw his shoulder to the right, arched Campo to the side, and then jumped high to meet the flying ball and hit the goal!

Although he was not good at saving high balls due to his height, his quick reflexes and accurate judgment made up for Casillas's lack in a large distance, and the future Spanish number one goalkeeper made a side save to clean up Vieri's header and press the ball firmly under him!

With Vieri's shot deflected away by Casillas, Fiorentina and Real Madrid's post-opening probing ended there. Next, it is up to the players who have a new understanding of the strength of their opponents to fine-tune the tactics laid out by the manager according to the actual situation on the field.

After an exploratory opening attack, the game quickly entered a stalemate.

On the Fiorentina side, although under the stimulation of Heynckes, the players' desire to win is quite strong, but because it is an away game, Redondo and Effenberg set the tone for the team in this game is to focus on stability, tighten the fence and not give the opponent a chance to hit the goal lightly, and then use a quick counterattack to break through the door of Real Madrid, so as to lay a good foundation for the team to advance to the final!

Compared to Fiorentina, who made up their minds to play counter-attacking and launched fierce pressing in midfield, Real Madrid's players looked very cautious on the pitch. Seedorf basically focuses on stability when organizing attacks, rarely rashly trying through balls with strong penetration but easy to be tackled by opponents, and more of a more secure horizontal pass and return pass; Instead of distributing the ball to the wings, Savio and others forced the breach, and then crossed to Morientes and Raul, allowing them to compete with Nesta in the penalty area.

To be honest, it's not surprising that Real Madrid is in such a situation. After witnessing the tragedy of Juventus and having just experienced the fighting power of Fiorentina, Real Madrid players who have a new understanding of the speed of the Purple Lily's offensive and defensive conversion are naturally reluctant to follow in the footsteps of the Bianconeri - if they are killed by Fiorentina at the Bernabeu Stadium 4-0, then by the end of this season, it is estimated that many players will be forced to leave Real Madrid because of this fiasco......

Don't think that this won't happen, know that even in the Mendoza era, Real Madrid, who won five consecutive La Liga titles, fell apart after being sent a 5-0 by AC Milan, who have three musketeers, in the Champions Cup. What's more, there is also a change of president of Real Madrid this year, in case the president changes, then the new chairman will definitely not mind cleaning up the old and young of the Sans era.

Therefore, for the sake of their own jobs, the Real Madrid players can be said to be cautious in this game.