Chapter 587: Smooth February (6)
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After the start of the match, the Fiorentina players playing at home took the lead in attacking the Juventus gate with tens of thousands of fans cheering on!
In the face of the home team's attack, Juventus's defense was still quite good, Di Livio and Torricelli quickly retreated to the full-back position to participate in the defense, so that the Bianconeri's formation changed from 352 to 532 all of a sudden.
Of Juventus' three centre-backs, Montero and Iuliano were responsible for keeping track of Vieri and Ronaldo respectively, while Blanke, who was dragging behind, was tasked with dealing with the ball that the two accidentally missed...... Of course, if they leak out Fiorentina's players, then Blank's job will be to fill in the positions of his teammates in the first place.
Although the biggest weakness of the three-centre-back formation is that this style of play is extremely demanding on two wide players, the long back-and-forth sprints on the wing often make the players unable to take care of the ribs of the penalty area in defense, thus exposing this area directly to the opponent's attack.
But now the game has just begun, and the Bianconeri are still all out of the line, with a back five and two midfielders making Juventus' defensive line look very solid, so this fatal weakness is naturally greatly concealed.
It is precisely for this reason that in the first 20 minutes of the game, although Fiorentina's attacking enthusiasm was indeed very high, and they worked very hard to find opportunities to score in the game, but under the tight defense of Juventus players, the home team did not get any good chances to score, but was almost attacked by Pierrot in the 18th minute of the game with a counterattack opportunity.
After that, in order to better defend Juventus' counter-attack, and also to get them out of that turtle shell, the Fiorentina players began to gradually move back under the joint command of Redondo and Effenberg, and no longer blindly pressed the attack as before.
The Juventus players, who had been given breathing space, knew that there must be some conspiracy on their opponent's side to slow down their attack, but due to the team's huge disadvantage in the standings and the arrogance of being a member of the giants, they quickly forgot about this worry.
Since you were able to suppress us with your attacks before, we will be able to suppress you in the same way! That's on the minds of most Juventus players at the moment.
As a result, the Bianconeri, who had recovered their strength, had a great offensive under the organization and dispatch of Zidane. Di Livio and Torricelli began to cut in from the flanks, with Otero digging in and out of the Fiorentina penalty area trying to find a suitable spot to shoot, while Pierrot dropped back slightly to act as a link between the midfield and the attack.
However, what the Juventus players didn't expect was that less than five minutes after they switched from defense to attack, Fiorentina seized the opportunity to break through the goal with a counterattack!
Di Livio's cross to Otero was headed out of the box by Nesta, and Redondo didn't stop the ball after receiving the ball from outside the box, and passed it directly to Effenberg, who was dangling near the center circle of the pitch.
At that time, Juventus' defenders had returned to their respective defensive positions, but they forgot that although they were born and raised in Germany, the tiger was never the kind of person who followed the rules - Effingberg, who got the ball, pushed forward more than ten meters and shot directly from 38 meters from the goal!
Effenberg's foot is extremely powerful and very fast, and without waiting for Deschamps and Blank to react, he has already broken through their carefully built backline at once, and went straight to the gate guarded by Peruzzi!
With a number of teammates blocking his view in front of him, Peruzzi didn't spot the long-range shot at the first moment. So, when Peruzzi finally noticed the ball, it was too late.
1 to 0! Fiorentina lead!
Seeing Effenberg's kick, which can be said to be a very unreasonable goal, Lippi, who was standing on the sidelines, was so depressed that he wanted to hit the wall: Fiorentina is too lucky, right? Unexpectedly, at this distance, you can blast out a wave of the world! How can this make people defend!
In fact, whoever encounters this kind of thing will be very depressed: obviously their own defense is quite good, but the opposing player relies on a sudden feeling to score a goal.
Therefore, after conceding the goal, the Juventus players had no choice but to grit their teeth and continue to attack, and this gave Fiorentina more opportunities to score.
Di Livio and Torricelli assisted and left a large gap behind them, which were used over and over again by Carlos and Ronaldo, easily forming a breakthrough on the wing, attracting other Juventus defenders to come up and defend and then complete the cross, and Vieri and Effenberg, who followed up in the middle, completed the last shot.
Although Lippi replaced Iuliano with Pesoto at half-time, the move came a little too late as Fiorentina had already taken a 3-0 lead on the pitch.
Seeing that Lippi changed his tactics, Capello also made a substitution adjustment quite badly. Ze Roberto came off the bench and defensive midfielder Tomasi came off the bench, which raised Fiorentina's defensive quality up a notch, and dragged Juventus into a strangulation battle in midfield, greatly slowing down the opponent's attacking momentum.
In the end, Fiorentina defeated Juventus 3-0 at the Frankie Stadium to further extend the lead to as much as 16 points!
And this also means that Fiorentina only need to win seven more of their last 12 league games to win the Serie A title this season!
Four days later, with Yu Yong beating Juventus at home, Fiorentina ushered in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.
Dortmund this season can be said to be extremely unlucky: first of all, a group of dressing room bigwigs disobeyed discipline and forced away the meritorious coach Heathfield; Immediately after that, the main striker Riddle left the UK due to contract renewal issues, resulting in the loss of the Hornets; Then Matthias Summer, who is regarded as the best libero in German football after Beckenbauer and Mateus, and Portuguese defender Paulo Sousa have to announce their season reimbursement due to a growing knee injury!
As a result of this series of changes, although Dortmund still has many big-name stars, including Andrés Muller, its combat effectiveness has declined significantly, and it cannot be compared with the team under Heathfield in previous years.
Therefore, the Fiorentina boys defeated Dortmund led by Scala in this game, and finally ended the first leg of the contest with a score of 5-0!
At the same time, with this 5-0 victory, Fiorentina also ended this smooth sailing February with a perfect end!