Chapter 1147: Their Choice (Medium)
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With Juventus' starting line-up out of the way, let's take a look at the starting eleven on Fiorentina's side.
The goalkeeper is still Gianluigi Buffon, and although he is not as good as his predecessor Toldo in terms of collective honours (without a Serie A title, Italy missed the Delaunay Cup due to injury), this does not prevent him from being the world's number one goalkeeper. On the back line, the right wingback is still Zambrotta's world, and Sun Jihai, who has a significant gap in strength, is unable to compete with him at all; The left wing-back has changed from Robert Carlos to Christian Zivo, after all, although the Brazilian is still in the prime of his career, the age of 29 still has a negative impact on Carlos's physical fitness, and appropriate rotation is conducive to him to maintain a more consistent and excellent performance; As for the centre-back, Heynckes decided to put his trust in Lucio after much thought, putting Stam on the bench and putting the Brazil international and Nesta in the middle of Fiorentina's game tonight.
The midfield is Fiorentina's strongest link, even if Heynckes rested Ballack for the Champions League knockout round in midweek, but the presence of Albertini and Pirlo is enough to ensure Fiorentina's midfield control, coupled with Gattuso's super sweeper, the Purple Lily's defensive hardness in the midfield is also enough to guarantee. On the forward line, due to Carlos's truce, in order to ensure the attack power on the left side, Heynckes chose to send Vincent, who has a stronger impact, instead of Di Natale, who is more versatile but has no outstanding characteristics; Vieri continued to play as a starting centre-forward, and his task was mainly to turn his team-mates' passes into goals; As for the last man in this attacking trident, it was not Gyuli that most people expected before the game, but Diego Milito, a guy who did the work of a center forward in the skin of a winger.
Leaving Fiorentina alone with the responsibility of the entire right winger, Milito returning to the middle to partner Vieri, is one of the tactics that Heynckes has used most often in recent seasons. After all, with both Carlos and Zambrotta on the wing, Fiorentina don't need to reserve too many players in the winger position, as they can do most of them well. Therefore, before Giuli joined Fiorentina, only one winger was played, and the other side was completely handed to one of Carlos and Zambrotta, which became one of Heynckes's usual tactics.
And in this way, after adding Milito, who is good at grabbing points and also has a kick to do the ball, Vieri's pressure in the penalty area has naturally decreased a lot, and the probability of scoring has also increased a lot. After all, with such a passable and shooting partner, Montero will have to weigh carefully before defending Vieri, and if they all go to guard Vieri and miss another man and cause the team to concede a goal, they can afford to take such responsibility.
That's the benefit of having a superstar player on the team, who often has a huge advantage in one-on-one situations, forcing opponents to focus more on them and create more scoring opportunities for teammates; In turn, teammates will play a role in containing defenders and pulling space, creating one-on-one situations for these superstar teammates.
Returning to the game, although the players and managers of both sides had a war of words before the game, which added a lot of gunpowder to the game, but after the game started, both teams did not immediately attack the opponent's goal, but invariably chose to play steadily in their respective halves. The side with the ball patiently controls the ball at their feet, looking for possible breakthroughs in front of them; The other side starts from the center circle of the court, preventing the opponent from taking advantage of the width and depth of the court to attack, compressing the opponent's available space in the attack, thereby reducing the possibility of conceding the ball.
Despite the slightly dull and boring game, the Fiorentina and Juventus fans in the stands did not slow down the frequency of cheering for their teams, but cheered for the players on both sides even harder!
Compared with Fiorentina, who has Vieri's super goalscorer, Juventus relies more on Nedved and others to threaten Buffon's goal on the offensive end, Trezeguet and Pierrot look more like setters in volleyball than main attackers at this time, making the ball for their teammates behind them seems to have become their main business, and scoring goals has become a secondary task.
There will be such a situation, and it is naturally inseparable from Lippi's pre-match arrangement. You know, although Carlos is not in the starting line-up, it is still very difficult to break through Fiorentina's steel defense from the front. Both Lucio and Nesta have strong frontal defensive ability, and the presence of Zambrotta and Zivo makes it difficult for Trezeguet to get many chances in the box. Therefore, in this case, it would be unwise to let the players directly attack the Fiorentina backline, and it would be better to take advantage of Gattuso's lack of protection at the front of the line and increase his long-range shots from outside the box.
Although Lippi can be said to have exhausted his calculations in order to win the game, it was Fiorentina who scored the first goal. In the twenty-seventh minute of the game, after nearly half an hour of tug-of-war, Fiorentina finally broke the deadlock with Vieri's powerful volley in the penalty area and rewrote the score to 1-0!
The temporary deficit did not discourage the tenacious Juventus players, who continued to attack methodically according to Lippi's tactics after the restart, with no indication that they were now the side behind the score.
"Defending with all the energy and covering the whole midfield, it's rare for a core player to defend so hard." Sitting in the VIP box of the Frankie Stadium, Zhuang Mingge, who was enjoying the treatment of hugging left and right, couldn't help but sigh a little, "It seems that Juventus is not the French shooter who threatens us the most, but these two midfielders." If we don't keep an eye on them, I'm afraid we'll suffer a lot of losses. ”
Sure enough, before the end of the first half, Nedved broke Buffon's 10-finger pass with a long-range shot from 25 yards away from the goal, helping the Bianconeri tie the score at 1-1!
In this way, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, Fiorentina and Juventus temporarily shook hands and made a draw, waiting until the second half to decide the winner.