After a hard-fought one-goal win over Lazio at home, the FIFA-mandated international break time came, with internationals from various clubs reporting to the national team, and this period was a rare respite for Fiorentina, who were short of major players in the attack, suffering two tough games in a week, which made the young Vieri and Inzaghi feel a little uncomfortable.

After all, these two players were not model workers in Zhuang Mingge's previous life, Inzaghi was plagued by injuries from time to time throughout his career, and Vieri missed more than a third of the league due to injury every season even when teams such as Atletico Madrid, Lazio, and Inter Milan were prosperous, so he was called "Mr. Half Season" by fans.

Therefore, Ranieri has to be as careful as possible in the use of these two young players, in case he accidentally gets tired, and then Fiorentina will really have a "striker tragedy".

Fiorentina were given a week's rest after the Lazio tie until 12 November, a day between two international breaks, when they will face the first leg of the second round of the Coppa Italia, where Fiorentina travel to the northern Italian city of Udine to take on Udinese, a dark horse side that has quietly risen in Serie A this season.

For Udinese, who are promoted to Serie A this season, the team's performance after the start of the league can be described as amazing, with four wins, three draws and two losses in nine league games, especially the 1-0 home win over Juventus in the last game, which has made countless experts fall through the glasses.

When it comes to Udinese, one surname has to be mentioned, and that is Pozzo.

The most famous of the Pozzo family is Vittorio Pozzo, the Italian coach who led the national team to two Shijie Cup titles and was in charge of the national team for 20 years.

It is also thanks to the blessing of this old Pozzo that the Pozzo family has a very special status in Italian football, although they are not as rich as Berlusconi, Agnelli, Moratti and other families, but in the Italian football world, the Pozzo family has a wider range of network resources than these families, which is also directly reflected in the Udinese controlled by the Pozzo family.

For example, under the management of the Pozzo family, although Udinese is said to pursue the principle that there is no non-sale in the team, as long as the transfer fee is high enough, anyone can take it away, but almost no player in Udinese is poached at a low price by other teams using the Bosman clause or secretly encouraging players to make transfers.

Thanks to decades of hard work by the Pozzo family, Udinese's current squad is not as star-studded as the Serie A Seven Sisters, but it also has a number of talented players in its first team, such as German centre-forward Bierhoff, Danish right-back Hellwig, and Valerio Betoto, who is considered one of the greatest captains of Udinese's history......

Before the start of this match, Batistuta was banned from playing by the extremely responsible Dr. Carter as he had just recovered from his foot injury. At the same time, Rui Costa, Djokaeffe, Ferrara and Di Biagio have all been transferred to play in the European Championship qualifiers by their respective national team managers, and there is no way to play in the weekend's games.

And the next weekend after the match with Udinese, Fiorentina will go to the Alp Stadium in Turin to challenge the Bianconeri, perhaps with this factor in mind, so in the first leg of the contest with Udinese, Ranieri chose to send a set of substitutes + rotation players in the starting lineup, goalkeeper Guadalben, Fortunato and Zambrotta continued to start after the last game against Lazio, Virjoward and Filicano formed a central defensive partnership, and the midfielders were Effenberg, Tomasi, The combination of Kripa and Tacinadi.

Up front, Batistuta recovered after a two-week break, with Claudio Ranieri on the bench for him to get his groove in the game, starting with the pair of good friends Vieri and Inzaghi.

And this season, Zaccheroni, who just coached Udinese, still sent all the main forces in his hands, although Zaccheroni was called a crazy coach by many people because of his crazy attacking tactical style, but this does not mean that he was carried away by this achievement after achieving good results in Serie A this season, in fact, he is very sober, knowing that with Udinese's current player configuration, it is impossible to finish in the top six at the end of the season and qualify for Europe. If you want to make it to Europe, you have to start with the Coppa Italia.

As a result, Fiorentina's substitute backline was sadly tested by German giant Oliver Bierhoff in this game.

Although the current Bierhoff has not been baptized in the European Cup, and he is still quite immature in some of the handling of the ball, but at this time he has gradually shown the style of the "air bully in the penalty area", who is 1.91 meters tall and weighs 81 kilograms, and he suppressed the two central defenders of Fiorentina throughout the game. Filicano is seven centimeters shorter than him, and the Italian centre-back, who is not outstanding in bounce, is obviously unable to compete with the German center forward in heading; And Wiljoward's height is only 1.79 meters, at his peak he was regarded as Italy's most powerful marking central defender after Gentille, now 36 years old, although he still maintains a good competitive state, but in the face of the young and strong Bierhoff, Wiljovod still looks much older, with half Russian blood repeatedly falling behind in physical confrontation is proof.

Fiorentina, who were inferior defensively, also failed to open up the situation in attack, Vieri obviously has not fully grown, and he was completely targeted by Bettoto in this game, and he was sleepwalking on the field; And Inzaghi also had some tacit understanding with Effenberg after losing the fire support of Djokaeff and Costa, the two passing masters behind him, and the two never stepped on a point.

The three defenders in midfield didn't play much of a role in the game, mainly because Udinese, who had Bierhoff, had a rather simple and crude tactic, that is, the two wide players got the ball and crossed directly to Bierhoff's head and then bombarded it with a header, leaving the likes of Tomasi and Kripa with no space to play.

As a result, Fiorentina lost the Coppa Italia game when the attack could not open the situation and the defense was stubbornly suppressed by the opposing strikers, and Bierhoff scored a header in each half to lead Udinese to a 1-0 victory in the first leg at the Friuli Stadium.

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