Chapter 541 - UEFA Super Cup (5)

Falling behind by two goals, the attack is lacklustre, and the defense is full of holes...... This shape has reminded many Barcelona players who experienced the Champions League defeat three years ago the fear they had forgotten.

No way! Nothing can be said to make this happen to Barcelona again! With this in mind, Guardiola began to plan to retreat the formation a little, at least to compress the space at the back, so that his own backline would not always be successfully broken through again and again by the hateful Ronaldo.

However, not everyone in Barcelona agrees with Pep Guardiola's idea, and several players up front, such as Figo and Enrique, have not experienced the defeat firsthand, and they are eager to get back into the game and continue to attack the Fiorentina defence in the front.

As a result, something happened that Guardiola did not expect - the players in the front court were burying their heads in the attack, while the players in the midfield and backfield were planning to shrink the defense, and the disagreement between the two sides directly led to the disconnection of Barcelona's on-field formation!

'There's nothing to see in this game anymore, Barça's formation is completely disjointed. Seeing this situation, Zhuang Mingge couldn't help but be overjoyed, "If Van Gaal doesn't make adjustments and let the Barcelona players on the field agree on the same mind, unless God possesses it, then Fiorentina's victory in the UEFA Super Cup is already a certainty." ”

As the head coach who once led the Ajax youth army to the top of Europe, it is naturally impossible for Van Gaal not to see the team's current problems, and the Dutchman shouted loudly on the sidelines, regardless of the image, asking everyone to continue to press the attack and not scruple to defend!

In Van Gaal's view, since the team is now behind in the score, it is better to press the attack aggressively than to shrink the defense for fear of continuing to lose the ball and losing the last chance to turn the tables, anyway, in this kind of game, there is no difference between losing one goal and losing ten goals in terms of results.

Van Gaal's idea was good, but he overlooked an important point, which was the state of mind of the Barcelona players at this time.

When he was coached by Ajax, Van Gaal's players were either highly professional veterans like Rijkaard and Blind, or young people with little prestige such as Kluivert and De Boer brothers, so for coach Van Gaal's arrangement, they would obediently implement Van Gaal's tactical intentions even if they didn't understand; In the minds of Barcelona's players, especially those of former Dream Team members, Van Gaal does not yet have enough authority to convince them of his tactical adjustments in the face of adversity.

Think about it, when the opponent scored two goals in a row with two counterattacks, the team was down 0-2 on the field, and the manager's prestige in the team was still insufficient, how many players would agree with the manager's seemingly deadly tactical adjustment?

The players at the back will certainly not be happy with Louis van Gaal's changes anyway.

For example, Nadal, who was under Ronaldo and Vieri's ** wolf bèi for most of the half, at this time he was extremely dissatisfied with Van Gaal's requirements, if it weren't for his quality as a professional player, he could control his feelings, and those hot-tempered players would have scolded him on the field: still attack? What else do you not see besides attacking, how wolf I have been by these two Fiorentina strikers? Can't you just think of a way to strengthen the team's defense?

Nadal is not the only one who thinks so, but Baljuan, Ferrer, Guardiola and others, who suffered from Fiorentina's counterattack in this game, also have the same opinion in their hearts. After experiencing the glory of the Cruyff period, they were very uninterested in some of the behaviors of Van Gaal, an outsider, and said that even if the world-famous old Robson coached in Barcelona, he had to have a good relationship with us local players, and you Van Gaal was that onion? As soon as we took office, we brought a bunch of our fellow countrymen and former subordinates, not to mention, and wanted to use them to replace our place? Tired of being crooked, right?

In this game, Van Gaal did not think about how to improve the defense when the score was down, but blindly asked the players to press the attack, which caused them to be even more dissatisfied, and many of them began to think that Van Gaal planned to use this game to make his descendants go to the top, rather than wanting to win this game.

Van Gaal's weaknesses in handling interpersonal relationships were laid bare in this game, due to his own stubbornness and lack of necessary communication and communication with the players, Van Gaal's iron-fisted management methods have only just begun in the team, causing dissatisfaction among the team veterans.

And under the domination of this dissatisfaction, Nadal is naturally even less likely to follow Van Gaal's orders and play according to his own ideas.

Seeing that some Barcelona players did not follow the manager's arrangement, but still insisted on playing with their own ideas, and the overall formation of the guide was out of touch, the Fiorentina players couldn't help but be overjoyed: Isn't this a clear opportunity to give us a chance to further expand the score?!

Taking advantage of your illness is one of the main points that Capello and Claudio Ranieri taught the Fiorentina players.

Faced with such a good opportunity, the Fiorentina naturally did not let it go lightly, and immediately stepped up the pressing of the Barcelona attacking players, while Vieri and Ronaldo in the front field also began to adjust their movement to receive passes from the back more easily.

In the 72nd minute, Figo's dribble on the right was tackled by Davies and Carlos, and then Fiorentina launched a quick counter-attack. Although the Barcelona players shrank their defence and halted Ronaldo's speed, they lacked strength to face the rampaging Vieri and lost again. The new Italian center forward pulled out of the penalty area and received Redondo's through ball, then turned and scored with a powerful left-footed volley to make it 3-0!

Faced with a three-goal deficit, the Barcelona players had no choice but to press the attack aggressively, but ten minutes later, substitute Inzaghi used a counterattack to sneak up again, and the score became a bloody 4-0!

In the end, when the referee Merck blew the whistle for the end of the game, the score was fixed at 4-1! As the game entered stoppage time, Rivaldo took advantage of a set-piece in front of him to score a face-saving goal with a pretty beautiful free-kick.

In this way, Fiorentina, the winner of the Champions Cup, defeated Barcelona the Cup Winners' Cup at the Louis II Stadium! For the third time in a row, he became the king of kings in European football!