Chapter 823: Galatasaray (1)

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After the league match with Parma at home, many media and experts began to take some interest in Heynckes' Fiorentina team, because the Purple Lily's two matches against Parma and Roma showed a lot of things that were very different from the Capello era, which made people feel bright.

Fiorentina's performance in these two games feels like a sophisticated machine, and every player becomes a part of the machine, performing their duties on the pitch and contributing to the team.

At the same time, the players did not lose their own characteristics or advantages because of serving the team as a whole, and under Heynckes's clever arrangement, they were able to play on their strengths and avoid weaknesses on the field, and then grasp the initiative of the game. For example, Roberto Carlos, the Brazilian left-back still has a lot of attacking freedom, and can decide whether to participate in the team's attack at any time according to the current situation on the field, forcing the players opposite him to have no extra energy to attack behind him; Rather than being firmly confined to his own half in the name of the overall situation, Carlos lost the right to attack, and at the same time, he directly exposed the weaknesses of the Brazilian defender's lack of height and average defensive skills to the opponent.

Many smart people have realized that although there are still many flaws in Florence's style of play, once Heynckes successfully integrates his tactical ideas of overall football with the individual characteristics of these Fiorentina players, then the purple lily will definitely burst into amazing combat power!

If they can play this level of tactical coordination so skillfully on the pitch, then the Purple Lily will soon get out of the shadow of Capello's departure and become the biggest obstacle in front of all the teams that aspire to win the Serie A and Champions League!

However, although many far-sighted people saw the direction of the development of Heynckes' Florentine, and also expected that the Germans after completing the run-in would inevitably do something in the Renaissance capital, they did not think that this tactic of Florence could smoothly complete the domination of European football - in their opinion, although Heynckes's tactics organically kneaded the players into a whole, while emphasizing team combat, Inevitably, the individuality and freedom of the stars are suppressed at certain times, making it difficult for them to express their wild ideas on the pitch, thus reducing the spectacle of the game and the difficulty of scoring the opponent's goal.

Just like Romario in the '94 World Cup in the United States and Davao Suker in the World Cup in France last year, if the then head coach of the Brazilian national team, Pereira Pereira or Croatia coach Blazevic, asked the lone wolf or Suker to increase their running to match their teammates, instead of letting them lazily wait in the penalty area for their teammates to take the initiative to pass the ball in front of them, then I am afraid that fans will not see two super goalscorers who have killed all sides in the World Cup, and if they do not have to become two parallel strikers who are panting on the field.

In fact, throughout history, European teams have relied heavily on the free play of star players, and it was not until Otto the Great Rehhagel led a real-life version of Greek mythology at Euro 2004 when he led a Greek team that did not even have a big star, that the tactical concept of football as a whole was truly taken seriously by the European football community. Before that, no matter how beautiful people said that football was a team sport of 11 players, but when it came to the critical moment, the coaches would only pin their hopes of winning on the flash of a superstar on the field, rather than relying on the team as a whole to win, such as Napoli that relied on Maradona ten years ago, Barcelona and Brazil five years ago that relied on Romario to attack the city, and Fiorentina Juventus, the sworn enemy in Serie A. A team that doesn't know how to score without Pierrot.

Although his tactics haven't received much attention, Heynckes clearly doesn't care what people think of his tactics. The German, who has been in European football for decades, knows very well that as long as he can implement these tactical concepts in Fiorentina to the end and lead the team to achieve enough eye-catching results, then there is no need for him to personally promote it, and someone will take the initiative.

Therefore, for the current Heynckes, instilling his philosophy into the minds of these players, organically integrating Fiorentina's original tactical system with his tactical thinking, and fine-tuning the tactical details according to the characteristics of each player, leading the team to play every game well, these are his most important tasks at the moment.

Now, after a full month of clash with Parma, Fiorentina are finally in the third group stage of the Champions Cup, this time against the mysterious Galatasaray club from Turkey.

One of the reasons why there is such a long gap between the two Champions League group stages is that the national team break is held at the beginning of October, but also because UEFA has arranged the group stage in this way. After all, when the main stage of the Champions Cup is expanded to 32 teams, it is natural that the eight groups will not be arranged in the same week as before, and in the eyes of UEFA, which is increasingly focused on market development and television broadcasting and commercial interests, this is undoubtedly a great waste of the Champions Cup's high-quality resources.

So, after splitting the matches of the groups, the situation that Fiorentina faces at this time will arise.

On October 18, the entire Fiorentina squad flew to Istanbul to prepare for the Champions League group stage to be held the following day.

The reason why the Fiorentina side arranged the time to go to Turkey so late is mainly because of Zhuang Mingge's construction, because there is only one person in Fiorentina who knows about the style of Turkish fans, especially Galatasaray fans. He knew very well that those Galatasaray fans were going to make any off-the-market moves in order to increase the team's chances of winning.

Historically, when AC Milan visited Istanbul, the bus was almost smashed by Galatasaray fans, and when they were acclimatized to the venue, there were endless insults and insults from the home team's fans, and even when they slept in the hotel at night, the fans dutifully interfered with their rest outside - this series of combinations, if they are not well prepared, no matter who will be hit.

So, during the two days and one night in Istanbul, all the players needed to do was get used to the pitch and then take care of the opponents the next night, leaving the rest to the club's staff.

I believe that after receiving Zhuang Mingge's reminder, the prepared Fiorentina players should not be like the AC Milan team in history, capsizing in the Istanbul gutter.