Chapter 757: Twin Stars Shine in the City of Water (Part II)
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When the Fiorentina players all walked into the dressing room dejected under Capello's gaze, the door of the dressing room was slammed shut by Capello, blocking all the eyes from the outside world, and giving these people who tried to peek into Fiorentina's internal affairs any chance.
However, there is no such thing as an airtight wall in the world, and while Capello inside the door was in the dressing room denouncing the players for their bad performances in the first half, and at the same time trying to boost morale, rumors began to spread outside the door that "Capello scolded the players at half-time, thinking that they did not deserve to wear the Fiorentina shirt at all".
In fact, these self-proclaimed well-informed people did not hear anything at all. After all, the sound insulation quality of the dressing rooms provided by the Venetian side is quite good, and with Capello's volume, people from outside must put their ears to the door if they want to hear the sound inside the room with the door locked.
So, whether these rumors are true or not, I'm afraid no one knows except Capello and the Fiorentina players.
However, most fans don't care about the authenticity of these news, for this kind of gossip that has not been officially confirmed, people generally have the mood of playing soy sauce onlookers, and rarely take these news seriously, at most it is just a fun, and if you are serious, you will lose.
Well, that's all for gossip, let's get back to the game in progress.
After returning to the pitch, the Fiorentina players, who had experienced a full range of Capello hair dryers, launched a fierce counter-attack at the beginning of the second half, forcing the home team to abandon the intention of tangling with the Fiorentina players in midfield, and deploy heavy troops in their own backfield, ready to put up many of the best barrels of Italian teams to resist the continuous attack of the purple lily.
However, although the Venetian players took a full retreat to resist Fiorentina's attack, the huge gap between the two teams in terms of players' individual abilities and technical and tactical concepts made the Venetian players still look very weak in the face of Fiorentina's weakened version of the three-dimensional attack.
Inzaghi, who had become almost invisible in the first half, finally began to exert his power, using his keen nose in front of goal to constantly threaten the Venetian goal, and scored twice in the 48th and 55th minutes to help Fiorentina close the score to 2-3!
Inzaghi's partner Di Natale also found his shot on target soon after, and the young striker volleyed in from a tight angle after receiving a free-kick from Andrea Pirlo in the 68th minute.
In this way, Fiorentina miraculously tied the score at 3-3 when they were once three goals behind their opponents!
Tying the score at 3-0 was a blow to the entire Venezia squad and their period fell to the bottom - after all, unlike Fiorentina, this small club team that has been mixed up in the lower leagues for many years is full of veterans and lacks the belief to fight for the team to the end. So when Fiorentina equalized the score, the momentum of many Venetian players suddenly fell to the lowest point, thinking that since the opponent has the ability to erase the gap of three goals in more than 20 minutes, then no matter how much they resist, they may only be doing useless work.
Although there were still a few young and energetic players on the field, such as Recoba and Mutu, who were unwilling to announce their surrender in advance before the game was over, most of the Venetian players had already chosen to give up in their hearts, and their cousins on the field began to become less active, secretly preparing for the next league game.
However, Fiorentina's players did not take advantage of the opportunity to extend the score, perhaps because Inzaghi and Di Natale had used up all the good fortune of Fiorentina for the day. In the following games, although Fiorentina took advantage of the low morale of the Venetian players to continue to launch onslaught, and created a lot of scoring opportunities, but for some reason, the ball just couldn't be sent to the door of the Venetian team smoothly.
Whether it was Inzaghi's goalmouth scramble or Pirlo's sudden cold arrow outside the penalty area, Fiorentina was never able to complete the score overtake, and the players could only look at the Venezia goal in frustration after every attack, wondering what happened today, one unlucky thing after another?
As the saying goes, blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular. On this sunny afternoon, the Fiorentina players, who were facing a long-term inability to attack, had a clearer understanding of this sentence.
In the 88th minute of the game, substitute Deco's pass to Gattuso was intercepted by Recoba, who then sent a long pass over the top that broke through Fiorentina's entire backline in an instant!
At the same time, Mutu, who was inserted into the attack, received a pass from Recoba in time, leaving Materazzi and other defenders behind, and singled the ball!
Mutu did not waste the best scoring opportunity of Venice in the 45 minutes of the second half, and the Romanian, who was moving at full speed, did not give Materazzi and others a chance to make up for their mistakes, deceived the attacking Toldo and pushed the ball into the empty goal, 4-3!
Recoba and Mutu used their brilliance and outstanding football talent to skillfully complete a classic defensive counter-attack to help Venezia rebuild the lead at the end of the game!
After Mutu scored, the Fiorentina players did not give up and in the final minutes of the game, they desperately launched several charges towards the Venetian goal, completely pinning the home team players into the half!
However, Fiorentina launched several attacks, although they eventually formed a threatening shot, but the result was not satisfactory, and the ball never crossed the most crucial white line in front of the goal!
In this way, when Inzaghi hit the left post of the goal in the last second of the game and bounced off the bottom line, the referee did not give the Fiorentina players time to make amends, and decisively blew the whistle in his mouth!
Thanks to Recoba's hat-trick and Mutu's late strike, Venice won 4-3 at home to leaders Fiorentina to deliver the Purple Lily's fourth league defeat of the season and three crucial points for the club.