Chapter 1238: Busy December (Saturday)

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With the team staying in Japan for one more day after the game, when the Fiorentina team arrived in Italy by plane, there was only a little more than a day left before the start of the 12th round of Serie A with AC Milan!

With a serious lack of preparation time and the players feeling tired from the short period of time they have crossed the Eurasian continent, AC Milan are far more likely to win than Fiorentina, who are in a state of physical crisis. Even though the match was played at Fiorentina's home turf, it was mostly assumed that AC Milan had a better chance of being the winner.

After all, although Fiorentina are still quite strong this season, as mentioned before, the continuous double matches and long journeys around the world have seriously affected the Purple Lily's fighting power, so they can only face the tough battle against AC Milan with a tired body.

You know, AC Milan this season has also shown strong strength and consistency, not to mention that they still come into this game with a relaxed attitude. No matter how you look at it, Fiorentina have no hope of winning at home.

At this time, even the most hardcore Fiorentina fans would not think that the sleepy Purple Lilies had the possibility of beating AC Milan in this game. In other words, even if Fiorentina only get one point in this game, or lose by one or two goals to the opponent, the fans are acceptable.

However, just when the media and pundits were overwhelmingly inclined to AC Milan's easy away victory, Fiorentina, who were not favored, handed over a shocking answer after the start of the game, slapping the so-called experts in the face!

In this 12th round of Serie A, facing AC Milan, which is playing at home, Fiorentina played at home under the arrangement of Heynckes, relying on the numerical advantage in defense to resist the offensive of the Rossoneri. The central defence of Lucio, Nesta, Makelele and Gattuso kept the Ukrainian duo of Rebrov and Shevchenko firmly in the air, completely cutting them off from their team-mates behind them.

While Seedorf, Kaka and Baronho have all tried to reconnect with the striker, their efforts have been futiled by the likes of Ballack and Andrea Pirlo, as well as the close scrutiny of the likes of Claude Makelele. If these passes are directly destroyed or cleared by the opponent, the most unbearable thing for AC Milan's players is that after their planned attack fails, Fiorentina will often take advantage of the situation to play a wave of extremely threatening and fast counter-attacks.

In the face of such a situation, even the well-informed Seedorf and others were helpless for a while, so they had to slow down the offensive for the time being, and pay attention to the protection of the rear and the accuracy of the pass while organizing the attack, so as to reduce the possibility of being counterattacked by the opponent.

In this way, it is naturally impossible for the AC Milan players who have scruples in their hearts to devote all their energy to attacking, and Heynckes' goal of solid defense has been achieved.

I have to say that the power of Heynckes' bucket formation is really powerful, directly abolishing AC Milan's two strongest firepower points, so that the Rossoneri's offensive was paralyzed from the beginning of the game. At the same time, he gave full play to the technical characteristics of Vieri and Vincent, and played AC Milan's aging back line in the most simple and crude way.

After all, these two players have not played a minute in the Toyota Cup, and they have been spectators in the stands for a full 90 minutes, so their physical strength can be said to be the most abundant in the current Fiorentina team, that is, the jet lag that has not been completely reversed will have a certain negative impact on their competitive form.

At the same time, in the coach's bench on the side of the pitch, Ancelotti, who was full of confidence before the game, was also anxious at the moment. He didn't expect Heynckes to sacrifice this big killer weapon in the game, and he didn't expect Shevchenko and Rebrov to get lost in the Fiorentina iron bucket formation and not be able to get in touch with his teammates behind him!

As a manager, Carlo Ancelotti's tactical skills are world-class, his pre-match set-up is a master, not to mention his ability to adjust the atmosphere in the dressing room and unite the team. However, despite Ancelotti's merits, no one is perfect, and he also has two very fatal flaws. One of them is that once Carlo Ancelotti fixes the main lineup, then he will not easily make any changes, even if the later players have talent and potential, he will not make changes to the main lineup without special circumstances.

This is one of the reasons why AC Milan went from bad luck after the phonegate incident in the previous life. Ang Fatman's conservative employment strategy has made Gourkuff, Abate, Antonini and other youngsters have no hope of coming out at all, and would rather overuse Favali and Jankulovski, who are getting worse and worse, than give these young people a chance to prove themselves.

The other is mainly reflected in Ancelotti's on-the-spot command. An Fatzi's level in this regard can only be regarded as barely qualified. His tactical adjustments and substitutions are very rigid, and they are always the same: Serginho is on the left-back when there is no man, the substitutes for the right-back and centre-back are Costacuta and Simic, the striker needs to adjust and go to Tomasson, and the midfield runs out of energy, so Rui Costa and Brockie rotate according to the situation......

This lack of variation and new tactical adjustments made it very difficult for AC Milan to play games when they couldn't open up the game on the pitch...... If they were passive from the start, the Rossoneri would have ended up with little better results unless someone could break out.

In this game, this weakness of Ancelotti was infinitely magnified by Heynckes. An Fatzi, who made a mistake in the pre-game arrangement, couldn't keep up with it step by step, and was completely led by the Germans.

In the fourteenth minute of the game, Pirlo stole Baronho's pass to Kaka and sent a long pass over the top, Vieri, who was still in his prime, relied on his passing power to squeeze away Maldini and received the pass, and after attracting Grandoni to come forward to wrap up, he passed to Vincent, who cut in from the left side of the penalty area, who received the ball and formed a single knife, and then shook off the abandoned Dida to push the far corner of the goal!

1 to 0! Fiorentina, who were not favored before the game, unexpectedly scored first in this key matchup!