Chapter 250: Winter Hurricane (3)
“Gooooal! The ball is in! It was Ambrosini who scored the goal! This was the 64th minute of Fiorentina's home match with Vicenza, and the commentator of the game, Rao, burst into cheers, "Now the score on the field is 1-1, and Vicenza can really be regarded as Fiorentina's biggest sufferer this season." ”
Rao is right, Fiorentina, who have only lost two games in Serie A this season, one of which is the second round of the league against Vicenza. In that game, the Purple Lily, who had a four-goal win over Torino, suffered Waterloo at home in Vicenza.
Before the game, many people thought that the Purple Lily, who had learned their lessons in the last match, should be able to easily beat the promoted team this time, and until then they thought so. However, to their surprise, Vicenza managed to equalize!
Fiorentina coach Ranieri, who was standing on the sidelines and commanding, could be said to be very depressed at this time, before the Vicenza equalizer, Fiorentina had been in control of the situation on the field, and in the 21st minute of the first half, Fiorentina took advantage of a passing error in the Vicenza midfield to launch a wave of rapid counterattacks, Djokaeff received Baggio's pass and scored lightly, opening the scoring for Fiorentina.
In the next 40 minutes, Fiorentina mostly pressed the opponent to play, and the reason why they could not expand the score can only be attributed to bad luck, for example, Fiorentina captain Batistuta kicked the ball into the arms of the Vicenza goalkeeper in the face of most of the empty goalkeepers at the beginning of the second half......
Fiorentina had done a great job of defending before Ambrosini's goal, and Ranieri couldn't blame anyone for the goal, except to say that the opposition players were too brave - the young midfielder dared to rush over and jump high to grab a cross from Ambrosetti in the face of a combined Davis and Di Biagio, and pressed two Fiorentina midfielders to smash the ball into the back of the net...... It's not something that the average player can do.
Vicenza were more determined to follow through with their manager Guidolin's counter-attacking tactics in the ensuing period, and Fiorentina, unwilling to settle for a draw at home, had to continue attacking.
Five minutes after Vicenza's equaliser, Fiorentina attacked from the left and Lanner played a wide pass to Djokaef in front of him, who played a one-two with Rui Costa in the middle and slotted into the Vicenza penalty area, only to fall short on the Zuihou Frenchman, whose shot went wide of the far corner and grazed the post.
In the 73rd minute, Rui Costa's pass was intercepted by Di Carlo halfway, Zauri split the ball in the middle, Ambrosetti broke through Zambrotta's defense on the left and crossed the ball low, Vicenza striker Otero received the ball and shot directly at the goal, Toldo flew up and lifted the ball off the line. The subsequent corner kick from the Vicenza team was also snatched by the soaring Toldo before Ambrosini and was confiscated directly before him, without giving him a chance to head the goal.
As time wore on, Fiorentina's players began to recall the league game they had been held to a draw by Roma, the same as now, when they couldn't score goals no matter how they attacked, and the Romans equalised in the second half with just four counter-attacks.
Are we going to repeat the same mistakes in this game? Many Fiorentina players had such a thought in their minds at this time, and as time went by, this thought became more and more intense in the players' minds, which caused the pace of Fiorentina's attack to involuntarily slow down a lot.
Fortunately, not all Fiorentina players chose to give up the game, Batistuta and Roberto Baggio still fought on the pitch, the former to fulfill his responsibilities as captain of the team, and the latter to prove with a solid Serie A title that he left Juventus definitely not because he was not as good as the young Pierrot, but only because of the attitude of the Juventus hierarchy and the manager that put him at a disadvantage in the competition.
And it was a delicate combination of these two players in the 85th minute of the game that helped Fiorentina take the lead again: Davies made a timely steal in the middle circle of the court to intercept Zauri, who was dribbling the ball to observe the position of the Fiorentina defense, and the Dutch boar who broke the ball immediately passed to Robert Baggio, who retreated from the front, who turned the ball and turned past Ambrosini, who rushed to defend him at the first time, and then rushed directly to the penalty area of Vicenza with the ball!
The central defender of Vicenza did not choose to rush up with Roberto Baggio's prestige, but first firmly set up his defensive position, blocking Baggio's direct shot path as much as possible, while also leaving a small space for himself to react when Baggio broke through with the ball.
But how could Baggio, who has been honing in Serie A for many years, be stumped by such a defense, he first made a feint to make the opponent mistakenly think that he was going to break through with the ball, and then with a flick of his right ankle, he passed the ball through the gap that was exposed when the opponent moved!
Batistuta, who started early, overtook his defending Belotti to receive the ball at the moment of Baggio's pass, and then pierced the Vicenza goal with his trademark blast to lock the score of the match at 2-1 and finally avenged the first-leg matchup.
After a hard-fought 2-1 win over Vicenza, Fiorentina have won 10 and drawn 2 of their last 12 Serie A games and are well on 47 points at the top of the table.
The most frustrating team for Fiorentina's victory is of course AC Milan, who are second in the league this season, with 11 wins, 6 draws, 2 defeats, and 39 points.
However, Milan have been unlucky to meet a Fiorentina side in great form this season, and although the Purple Lilies have been in trouble in many games, they have all won Zuihou and taken all three points, which makes the Rossoneri eight points behind leaders Fiorentina after 19 rounds of the league!
Such a huge gap in points has led many commentators to assert that this season's Serie A title will still belong to defending champions Fiorentina!
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