Chapter 422: Florence's Nemesis? (Medium)

In order not to be eliminated by Vicenza and to qualify for the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia, Fiorentina launched a fierce attack on the door of the home team from the beginning of the game, constantly seeking breakthroughs from the left and right flanks, and then passed the ball to Barty and Vieri in the middle, and the two high school forwards completed Zuihou's blow.

Capello's tactics worked, Fiorentina did manage to keep Vicenza at bay in the early stages of the game, slamming them down their half, and Glen Charles and Zambrotta taking turns on the right left Koko, known as Maldini's successor, scrambling to do so.

In the 11th minute, Glen Charles forced an acceleration to break through Koko's defense and then crossed a high ball, Barty pressed the opponent's central defender to shake his head and score, and Fiorentina took a 1-0 lead;

In the eighteenth minute, Zambrotta and Glen Charles played a one-two in a row on the right side, completely tearing apart the left defense of Vicenza and then the former completed the assist, and Vieri, who followed up in the middle, met the ball and shot angrily, rewriting the score to 2-0!

In the 34th minute, Vieri scored Fiorentina's third goal since the opening: Rui Costa took a corner kick from the right side of the box, Vieri grabbed the header before Ambrosini and extended the score to 3-0! It took Fiorentina less than half time to turn the aggregate score of the two-legged match into five to four!

If Fiorentina's players can keep that scoreline at full-time, the Purple Lilies can complete a super-bout comeback from two goals down in the first leg to progress from the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia and continue their contention for the Coppa Italia title this season.

However, the Fiorentina player's dream of completing a comeback lasted only half an hour before it was shattered again by the uninteresting Vicenza: in the 56th minute, Okocha split the ball to the left, Ambrosetti dribbled the ball up to speed, broke through Zambrotta's defence and crossed the ball, and Luca Toni in the middle did not reach the ball under the interference of Stam.

Seeing that the home team's attack was about to be destroyed by Nesta, at this time, Otero stepped up and pulled Vicenza back from the death line with a push before Nesta, and pulled a goal back for Vicenza while leveling the aggregate score at 5-5!

Since Fiorentina lost 2-4 at home to Vicenza in the first leg, even if Fiorentina wins 3-1 in this game and draws with Vicenza on aggregate, Purple Lily Zuihou will still be eliminated due to the lack of away goals.

Therefore, after Otero scored a goal, Capello, who had no choice, had no choice but to order the Fiorentina players on the pitch to continue the attack and try to score another goal in Vicenza.

However, it is also strange to say that in the first half of the game, Fiorentina can be said to play how to play, easily scored three goals against the opponent, but after the start of the second half, although the line-ups of the two sides did not change, but the Fiorentina players suddenly found that scoring goals began to become extremely difficult.

Both Barty and Vieri were still fighting for the spot in the penalty area, but their shots were always a little bit short of scoring, and Costa and others were either blocked by the Vicenza defenders or high over the crossbar, and the luckiest of them was just hitting the post......

With the 72nd minute of the game, Capello saw that his team could not break the deadlock, so he replaced his compatriot Barty with Crews and continued to stick to the tactics of flying on both wings.

What Capello didn't expect was that the newcomer he had just changed to the pitch would immediately bring him a surprise gift package.

In the 75th minute, Carlos broke through the defense of the Vicenza players and crossed from the left, Vieri's header was ferried, and Kruz, who had only been on the bench for three minutes, met the ball and scored angrily, rewriting the score to 4-1!

With this goal from Cruise, Fiorentina regained the initiative to qualify!

However, in the 82nd minute, Otero broke through the goal guarded by Toldo again with a free kick to bring the two teams back to the same running line, 4-2!

By this time, the game had completely entered the white-hot stage, and the players on both sides were desperately fighting for every opportunity on the court, and no one was willing to give up even the ball with equal chances.

For a while, people on the court turned on their backs.

Seeing this, Guidolin made one of his Zuihou substitutions in this game, replacing a defender with German teenager Michel Ballack, changing the formation of three, four, three, and preparing to do Zuihou by strengthening the long-range firepower in the midfield.

Guidolin's gamble paid off in an unexpected way, with a midfield of Ballack, Ambrosini, Okocha and Zauri putting on an astonishing display, intercepting Fiorentina's attacks and threatening Toldo's goal with long-range shots.

Coupled with the constant harassment of the first three strikers (especially Otero), the result was that in the 88th minute of the game, Toney received Ambrosetti's cross with a header, Okocha got the ball and passed the ball horizontally before Davis grabbed it, and Ballack, who was inserted from behind, kicked a shijie wave 25 meters from the goal!

The ball hung into the corner of the net, and Toldo didn't have time to react, and when he came to his senses, the ball was lying quietly in the Fiorentina gate.

Four to three! German teenager Ballack scored past Toldo's goal with a groundbreaking long-range shot to help the home team regain the lead on aggregate!

With the aggregate score trailing, Fiorentina launched wave after wave of attacks in the minutes of the game, and with no other way back, they put all their energy on attacking.

However, Vicenza's midfield quartet used active running and accurate positioning to disrupt Fiorentina's desperate attacks again and again, desperately opening up the opposition half to further delay time......

In the 93rd minute, when Cruise's header hit the crossbar of Vicenza and flew out of the bottom line, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game!

When the familiar whistle was heard, the Fiorentina players all collapsed on the turf with weakness, and Cruz, who scored a goal in the game, even hid his face and cried. Although Fiorentina won this match 4-3, I'm afraid no Fiorentina player will be happy about it right now, as they lost 6-7 on aggregate to Vicenza in the two-legged Coppa Italia duel!

All Florentines don't want to believe that Fiorentina, which was so strong that it swept almost all of Europe last year, was actually eliminated by the small ball club of Vicenza in the Coppa Italia!