Chapter 216: Revenge (I)
"What the hell is going on?" When Carter walked to the sidelines, a frustrated Ranieri grabbed Carter and asked anxiously.
"Barty fell to the ground in the collision just now, and the support leg sank into the turf." Thomas Carter reluctantly spread his hands and explained to Ranieri, "The preliminary estimate is that Gabriel's injury should not be very serious, just a sprained ankle, and he will probably have to rest for about a week before he can play again." ā
āF*U*C*Kļ¼ā When Ranieri heard Carter's diagnosis, he couldn't help but blurt out a curse, Fiorentina's forward manpower was already overstretched, and now he was injured again, and he was still his own captain, which can make Ranieri, who is usually honest, angry.
As everyone knows, it is quite terrible for honest people to start a fire, because they can easily concentrate the pressure and dissatisfaction accumulated for a long time to explode at a certain point, and the destructive power caused by it will naturally increase geometrically.
Furious, Ranieri rolled up his sleeves and prepared to run on the pitch to make a big move, which frightened the Fiorentina players sitting behind him: You say you are in your forties, and you are not asking for your own death to go up and fight a group of young and strong lads in their twenties?
Just as a group of people were tugging and pulling on the sidelines, a firm and loud voice came from above Ranieri's head:
"Boss! Let me play! Now that I'm the only striker on the bench, I'm going to let those despicable Madridians know that all the intrigues won't break us Fiorentina! ā
Vieri's words calmed Ranieri, who knew that even if he rushed to the pitch to find trouble with Sanchis, it would be useless, and if he didn't get it right, he would be severely punished by the referee and UEFA, and the penalty of a few Champions League games was a fatal blow for Fiorentina, who desperately needed to establish themselves on the European stage.
"Christian (Vieri)!" Ranieri, who calmed down, yelled, scaring Vieri into a tremble, "Hurry up and play for Lao Tzu!" If you can't win this game, I'll hang you on Gate 1 at Frankie Stadium and wait for the New Year! ā
"No problem, chief! I don't have a problem if you can't win this game and you make me into ham. Vieri excitedly took off his training jersey after getting permission from Ranieri to play, revealing the purple jersey underneath.
Barty's accidental injury made Vieri, who was sitting on the bench watching the game, also quite angry, he has always boasted of being Barty's apprentice, and the master was so taken off by the opponent with a trick, as an apprentice, if he didn't say anything at all, it would be too much to say.
However, although Vieri is angry, he still knows that the team currently only has him and Inzaghi two regular strikers available, and if he is banned for the next Champions League game due to some irrational behavior, it will be Fiorentina who is short of major generals in the front line to suffer......
As a result, Vieri's brain began to rac, wondering how he could avenge his master in a more subtle way.
With the mediation of the referee and the persuasion of some Fiorentina players who were still sane, the game finally resumed after a timeout of almost ten minutes, with Vieri coming on to replace Batistuta, who had left the pitch injured.
After the game restarted, due to the injury of captain Barty, the Fiorentina players became much more angry, and the action began to become bigger when defending, and the scene of people turning on their backs also appeared frequently, and the referee blew the whistle of fouls one after another. In just ten minutes, Effenberg and Di Biagio received a yellow card for a foul on a Real Madrid player.
Seeing that the players on the field were a little unable to suppress their emotions, Ranieri hurriedly dispatched troops, first replacing the German Tiger with Frenchman Djokaeffe, who was a little out of control, and then replacing Di Biagio with teenager Tacinadi.
After this change, Fiorentina's formation changed to 4222, with Davies and Tacchinadi in charge of Fiorentina midfield's defensive duties, while Djokaeff, who can play on the side, is responsible for building the link between the forward line and the midfield, and Rui Costa is slightly withdrawn to replace Effenberg in the midfield playmaker.
Ranieri's substitutions are quite targeted, he is very aware of the character of these players in his team, and the tinker immediately replaced these two "powder kegs" that may explode and accidentally injure his own people at any time, and whether it is replaced by Djokaeff, who has a high tactical execution, or Tacchinadi, who must unconditionally obey the coach's arrangement, these two substitutions will minimize the possibility of non-combat attrition in this game.
After Barty and Effenberg were ousted one after another, Fiorentina's now oldest Ferrara took over the captain's armband. As a result, under the command of the relatively mild-tempered Ferrara, Fiorentina's players gradually recovered from their previous hot-headed state, no longer used lethal tactics in defense, and regrouped and began to maneuver with Real Madrid.
Due to the fact that the Fiorentina players were quite desperate when defending during the previous period, there was a great willingness to pull the opponent off the horse, so that the Real Madrid players were quite cautious when attacking, and did not dare to have too many physical confrontations with the Fiorentina players, after all, many of them have the opportunity to participate in next year's European Championship, and injuries are likely to disappear from that squad at this time.
So until the 70th minute of the game, the score displayed on the big screen of the Bernabeu Stadium was still 2-0, and the time left for Real Madrid players to equalize was getting less and less, and Real Madrid coach Baldano's hope of a comeback became more and more slim.
Although Real Madrid always emphasizes the "Juanito spirit", in fact, after Juanito retired, both Real Madrid players and fans will only remember this spirit when the team is in trouble, and do not regard it as a belief that needs to be passed on continuously, which leads to many times Real Madrid is not in trouble in the game without a kind of courage to break the boat, but directly break the jar and fall into a thousand miles.
Although there are still several players in the current Real Madrid team who have experienced Juanito's galloping years at the Bernabeu, such as Sanchis, Michel, Shendo and others, they can still rise up and lead the team to continue to move forward, but these old veterans alone cannot defeat Fiorentina, who urgently needs to avenge Barty.
As a result, although Fiorentina no longer used lethal tactics, Real Madrid still did not launch an offensive. Amarvisca and Raul had long since lost themselves in the steel defence set up by Fiorentina, Enrique was still charging, but he could not turn the situation around on his own, and Zamorano was completely stared at by Nesta and did nothing.
On the contrary, Fiorentina's quick counter-attack after intercepting the ball became more and more sharp, Djokaeau's presence put Vieri's height advantage into play, and the big horse monkey continued to receive crosses after the header bombardment made Real Madrid's door crumble.
Fiorentina are making great strides towards qualifying from the group!
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