Volume 1 Chapter 387 Hat Trick (II)
Chen Yu's second goal almost made Panathinaikos completely lose his fighting spirit.
Thankfully, there was not much time left in the first half, and Fiorentina felt that the win was sealed and relaxed a little, giving Panathinaikos a breather and allowing the score to remain 0 until the end of the first half.
At half-time, Panathinaikos made a major change to the lineup and formation, with Masaleni bringing on two attacking players at the same time, and the formation changed from the original 44 to 43, and the attacking method naturally changed to long balls and wide crosses.
The Greeks' tactics were simple and rough, seemingly a bit outdated, but they were able to maximize the characteristics of Panathinaikos' tall, ferocious and impactful players.
The strength of the two teams was almost the same, Fiorentina relaxed on this side, Panathinaikos was desperate, the gap was not only filled, but the situation was reversed, becoming Fiorentina passive, Panathinaikos took the initiative, and Fiorentina was overwhelmed at the beginning of the second half.
Prandelli frowned from the sidelines, he could feel the change in the mentality of the Fiorentina players, and after sealing the win, the players were too relaxed to think that Panathinaikos was nothing more than enough to threaten Fiorentina, and as a result, the opponent was given more room to play.
Because at half-time, Prandelli had his players shrink back 10 metres and counter-attack, so he didn't make any changes and wanted to wait and see, as the opponents have not yet been able to pose a real threat to Fiorentina's goal.
However, Panathinaikos's offensive became more and more fierce, in the fifth minute of the second half, Panathinaikos's two forwards Dopps and Mitrios played a tacit cooperation, Dopps ferried a cross from the side to his partner, Mitrios received a header and pushed the ball to the top corner of the goal, Frey showed bravery, he maintained a good state with few chances to save, and slapped the ball out of the bottom line with one palm.
Another five minutes later, Panathinaikos produced another quality attack, midfielder Gonzalez dribbled the ball in the middle, the full-back passed the ball to the back post near the baseline, and Nelson, who came in from the back row, headed the ball against the post at the back post to give Fiorentina a major psychological blow.
Prandelli could no longer sit still after Panathinaikos' attack, and he saw that if the Greeks were allowed to play like this, Fiorentina's two-goal lead could not hold on to the final victory
"Jorgensen, you're ready to play."
Prandelli gave orders to his own midfielder Jorgensen.
Jorgensen has been sitting there wilting, his teammates scored goals he applauded, opponents shot he exclaimed, but the spirit has not been raised, it is no wonder that such a top club competition, no one does not want to play, not only Jorgensen, Bodinov, Montolivo, Gambellini and others are looking forward to playing.
Hearing the manager's order, Jorgensen jumped up as if he had taken a stimulant, changed his clothes and began to warm up on the sidelines, while the other substitutes all showed envy and disappointment.
Three minutes later, Jorgensen replaced Di Natale and Fiorentina's squad reverted back to 44.
Jorgensen can attack and defend well, excellent running ability, his play is to strengthen the control and sweep of the midfield, and Di Natale is on the field because the front court no longer needs a player who coincides with Chen Yu's characteristics, and now Fiorentina is still defending and counterattacking, with a Toni in front as a bridgehead, and a Chen Yu in the back to insert and pass, which is already a high configuration, and there is no need to waste the indicators of three strikers.
Jorgensen's introduction did not have an immediate effect, but it also strengthened the midfield's defence and control, cutting off Panathinaikos' attack on the left flank.
In the 70th minute, the Greeks began to fight back wildly.
Gonzalez passed the ball to the frontcourt, Dopps stopped the ball in the penalty area and turned in one go, shot, Frei knocked the ball out, Dopps followed up to shoot, Frey's second reaction was fast, he didn't fully get up, he hit the ball out again with one hand.
Frei's brilliant performance drew enthusiastic cheers from the Fiorentina fans in the stands, but the Fiorentina fans were also a little apprehensive as they saw the threat of the opponent's attack getting higher.
"Fall on the Greeks"
"Chan hat trick"
"3:0 I'll win 1,000 euros."
The fans shouted all kinds of slogans in the stands, looking enthusiastic and imposing.
In the 73rd minute, Chen Yu took the ball past a defender and rushed to Panathinaikos' penalty area, but was knocked over by Panathinaikos' midfielder Nelson from one side.
However, referee Bol let the Greek midfielder go and did not show the card, but only awarded Fiorentina a free kick.
This caused discontent among the Fiorentina fans, with clear and loud boos from the stands.
Fiorentina players also came to protest to the referee, hoping to give Nelson a yellow card, but referee Bol refused to change and stuck to his judgment.
Malicious fouls did not stop Fiorentina's determination to counter-attack, and Prandelli saw that his full-back Pancaro was not physically exhausted at this time, so he replaced Pancaro with Pasquier and continued to strengthen the attack and defense on the wing
Pasquier played only U minutes, Donadale broke the ball from the feet of Wattle and passed to Chen Yu, Chen Yu then passed to Tony, Toni took the ball into the penalty area, he wanted to shake the goalkeeper Gallinovic to shoot the empty goal, but Gallinovic, who did not play well in a game, was very good at saving the ball with a single goal, and he saved the ball from Toney's feet, leaving a little suspense in the game.
Eighty minutes later, with a score of 0 almost guaranteeing the last three points, Prandelli replaced Toney and replaced the youngster Pacini, which did not change the pressure on the opponent's backline.
With all three substitutions running out, Bodinov slammed his boots to the ground in anger when he saw that Pacini had a chance to play but not himself.
The game entered the last stage, Panathinaikos has lost his mind, coach Masaleni used up three substitutions, let go and Fiorentina to fight, even if it can't equalize, but as long as it scores a goal, it is good, this is the group stage, and if the score is the same after the worst, it may be a small score, so the Greeks don't want to give up.
The game became extremely fierce at the end of the game, and the fierce Fiorentina was beaten by the desperate tactics of the Greeks, and the last time it was almost reduced to its own half.
Seeing the situation so tense, the Fiorentina fans forgot to applaud and sing, and just nervously watched what happened on the field.
At this time, the expedition Panathinaikos fans finally showed up, chanting in Greek from the stands, cheering on their team and making them a little braver.
But hope is not always as quick as disappointment.
In the 85th minute, the new left-back Pasquier seemed to have endless energy, he stole the opponent's ball on the wing, and then scurried along the wing, quickly shaking off Panathinaikos's wide defense and hitting the opponent's half.
The youngster was a little lacking in the attack, and passed the ball to Chen Yu in the middle, but Chen Yu yelled at him, asked him to continue to step forward, and quickly passed the ball back to him.
Pasquier understood what Chen Yu meant at this time, and he stepped forward at high speed and went down the bottom along the side, while Chen Yu and Pacini outflanked the middle like two arrows to the penalty area.
At this moment, Fiorentina formed a three-on-two situation in the front, and it depends on how the youngster Pasquier handles the ball.
Pasquier saw that Chen Yu and Pazzini were almost on par with the opponent's central defenders, and he passed the ball decisively and crossed the ball to the middle.
The two strikers and two defenders in the middle saw the pass and accelerated at the same time, using a little bit of force to get the ball before anyone else.
Failure or success, goal or clearance, it's just two or three steps. At this moment, the more than 40,000 fans in the stadium finally saw Chen Yu's perverted explosiveness again, and the four of them were almost in unison at that time, but after Pasquier passed, Chen Yu was like a cheetah, his legs increased in frequency, and he kicked the ground solidly and powerfully, and in an instant, he surpassed the other three people by one position, and when he fell to the ground to tackle, he had thrown all three people out of the distance of two positions.
The tackle was less than three metres from goal, and goalkeeper Gallinovic had no chance to touch the ball and could only watch as it flew into the net in front of his eyes.
3∶0
The whole stadium was boiling, and the whole stadium was filled with the name of one person, "Chen Yu".
It wasn't a spectacular goal, but it was Chen Yu's third goal of the game, and Chen Yu scored his first hat-trick in the Champions League.
“aIIaaI”
The on-site commentators from all over the world shouted excitedly.
"Chen scored a hat-trick with three goals, one scored three goals and one person defeated Panathinaikos, he is not a man, he is a god, he is the god of war of Florence......"
“…… Chen Yu scored the third goal, Chen Yu, oh my God, he really scored a hat-trick"
"What a fierce explosiveness, what a terrible goalscoring ability, Chen Yu, he is a pervert"