Chapter 926: Decisive Battle in Valencia (2)

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Although Zhuang Mingge's journey changed Ranieri's fortunes in a certain way, a series of achievements in Fiorentina made his coaching resume shine and made him another gold medal coach in European football. However, during the 1996-97 season as the coach of Real Madrid, after being fired by the Spanish giants for the slightly nonsensical reason that the tactical style of play did not conform to Real Madrid's aesthetics, the tinkerer began to go downhill: after two seasons in Valencia, he finally built the defensive system of the Bats Army, which was at a low point after leaving, and he did not expect to be fired again because the club's management lost patience with him at the moment before the harvest. The fruits of years of hard work have been cheapened by Cooper, a latecomer.

With no choice but to accept the invitation from the elder Hill, Ranieri packed up and returned to Madrid, where he picked up the coaching whip of another team in the Spanish capital, Atletico Madrid.

Joining Atletico Madrid has become a super Waterloo in the coaching career of tinkerers, with stars such as Hasselbaink, Kiko, Baraja, Bellerón and Capdevilla, he has to hand over his handover this spring, while also leaving his successor Antich with a second-to-last Atletico Madrid in the league and a team without a fight.

The final result can be imagined, Antich, who does not have the halo of the protagonist, is also unable to save the team that was demoralized after the old Hill was imprisoned for embezzlement, and can only witness this "third big club in Spain" relegated to the second division again after 70 years!

With the defeat at Atletico Madrid, Ranieri's aura as a gold medal coach has almost dissipated. After all, no top manager would be incompetent enough to take a team capable of competing for a European place into the relegation zone. Although the failure of the tinkerer is largely due to the sudden imprisonment of the old Hill, the team is in turmoil, but his lack of ability to govern the team is also real, so naturally, after being fired by Atletico Madrid this time, Ranieri completely fell out of the circle of top coaches!

Without further ado, let's take a look at Fiorentina's starting line-up, starting goalkeeper Francisco Toldo, who is still Heynckes' first choice in this position, despite his ups and downs after the World Cup in France, which is far less reassuring than during the team's three-in-a-row Champions League title. In the eyes of the Germans, although De Sanctis has good talent, he is still a step worse than Toldo. And the position of goalkeeper is very special, except for a rare genius like Buffon, most people have to accumulate long-term experience to be able to experience. At this point, De Sanctis is also not as good as Toldo, who has been playing with the team as the main player since joining the team, and his defeat is naturally a reasonable thing.

At the back, the two full-backs are still Robert Carlos and Zambrotta, who have not reduced their commitment to the championship trophy because of the large number of championship honors, which is a rare treasure for Fiorentina; At centre-back, Nesta and Stam are a combination of the world's best centre-backs who are capable of withstanding either striker!

In the midfield, it is still Redondo and Makelele, the combination of attack and defense, and the German tiger Effenberg is in the middle of the command, and at the same time forms a midfield duo with Redondo behind him, so as to complete the control of the team. In front of Effenberg, there is Fiorentina's attacking trident, Shevchenko, who replaced Ronaldo, who was reimbursed for the season, is on the left, Swedish winger Ljungberg is on the right, and the tall and strong Vieri is at the front.

In fact, if it weren't for Ronaldo's sudden collapse at a critical moment, Fiorentina, which has two BUG-level strikers, would not have encountered Waterloo in the league and handed over the league title to Lazio!

The reason why the word "BUG" is used to describe Vieri and Ronaldo is because they now have a huge advantage in one or several aspects that others simply can't deal with! And these advantages are enough for them to single-handedly get the right players and become a super striker who has no solution on the offensive end!

In fact, in the previous life, Inter Milan recruited Vieri and Ronaldo to their command at the same time, but unfortunately the two suffered serious injuries frequently during that time, and Moratti commanded the team construction indiscriminately due to the wrong professionalism, and the Nerazzurri's team doctor was too cheating, so that the two of them could not guarantee attendance, which led to the Nerazzurri never having a chance to win the championship. Otherwise, I'm afraid Inter Milan would have been able to get rid of the nightmare of not winning a championship in the league for many years, and would not have to wait for the phone door to break out to win a long-lost Serie A title.

Seeing that the players on both sides were already in place on the field, the referee of this Champions Cup final blew the whistle for the start of the game!

After the opening whistle, Valencia, who had won the right to kick off, took the lead in attacking, with Gerard and Farinos constantly passing the ball slightly further back in midfield, controlling the tempo of the game while organizing the team to slowly advance towards Fiorentina's half.

Seeing this, the Fiorentina players, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately set up a heavy defense line from the center circle. Vieri and Shevchenko immediately pressed towards Gerard and Farinos, who were in possession of the ball, interfering with them and preventing them from calmly organizing attacks in the midfield; Effenberg and Mendieta were facing each other, with the German tiger following closely behind Valencia's playmaker; Ljungberg sprinted to the right and kept an eye on Killy Gonzalez, who had crept in along the flank, to prevent the Argentine winger from breaking through his own right.

Noticing that Fiorentina had already taken precautions, the Valencia players had to give up the opening attack and attack the opponent by surprise, and slowly fell upside down in the backfield, waiting for the opportunity to appear.

So far, the much-anticipated Champions Cup final has finally kicked off slowly under the anticipation of fans!