Chapter 624: Champions Cup Final (4)
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Seeing the ball fly into the door of Juventus, all the Fiorentina fans in the scene jumped up from their seats and let out a deafening cheer!
Vieri, who scored the goal, frantically rushed to the stands where the Fiorentina fans were, waving his shirt and celebrating the goal with the fans!
It didn't take long for Ronaldo and others to rush to Vieri's side and hug the latter tightly!
At this time, Fiorentina was also full of laughter on the bench, and even Batistuta, who was wearing a yellow vest that symbolized the substitution, smiled, hugged his teammates, and celebrated the team's lead in the opening game.
Zhuang Mingge, who was sitting in the box, looked at Barty who was celebrating on the sidelines, and there was not much joy on his face, but fell into deep thought.
With the growth of Vieri and Inzaghi in the past two years, as well as the survival of Ronaldo, the importance of the Argentine god of war at the tactical level has begun to decline, which can be seen from the absence of Barty in the Champions League final and the second leg semi-final against Real Madrid this season.
Other teams are not fools either, and after discovering that Barty has missed several important games this season without injury, they have reached out to the Argentine god of war after realizing that Barty's status in Fiorentina has begun to decline.
According to Zhuang Mingge's own intentions, he did not want to sell the Argentine god of war who was still playing in the second division with the team when Fiorentina was relegated, so Zhuang Mingge rejected all these offers.
However, although his statement is very resolute, Zhuang Mingge does not know what kind of attitude Barty himself holds. After all, the god of war is not only the god of war of Fiorentina, he also has to worry about his main position in the Argentine national team - Crespo's rapid growth in Parma in recent years has made Barty feel a sense of crisis.
It seems that after this final, it is better to go and chat with Gabriel (Barty) to see what he thinks, so as not to be dissatisfied with the club because of a misunderstanding or some other guide.
Just as Zhuang Mingge was thinking about Barty's future, Pierrot and Otero were already standing in the center circle of the court, waiting for the restart.
"Don't worry, continue with the previous tactics, the game has just begun, we still have a lot of opportunities!" At this time, Lippi yelled at the Juventus players who were standing on the pitch, hoping that the players could stay calm in this unfavorable situation and not do anything impulsive in the heat of the moment.
The Silver Foxes didn't lose their minds just because Fiorentina scored a goal in the opening game, after all, a good manager needs to think about any situation that may happen in the game before the game, and also work out the corresponding countermeasures.
No matter how confident Lippi is in the quality of Juventus' defense, it cannot be denied that the level of Fiorentina's attack is indeed the best in Europe!
Therefore, for this kind of situation of being scored by the opponent shortly after the opening, Lippi has long been prepared in his heart.
It's just that Fiorentina will take advantage of the opportunity of a missed hit on their side to score the first goal in turn, which still caught Lippi off guard. While Nesta's clearance that spanned most of the pitch was a bit of a surprise, Fiorentina actually only put in two players on the counter-attack at the start, while Juventus had three defenders and still had a numerical advantage.
However, Vieri's superhuman strength caught Deschamps and Torricelli off guard, which allowed Fiorentina to turn what was not a chance into a goal.
After the resumption of the game, Capello did not resort to his best known counter-attack, but ordered his players to continue attacking the Juventus half. Capello knows very well that against Juventus, who have stars like Pierrot and Zinedine Zidane, the advantage of one goal is very unsafe, because these people can create a chance at any time and then change the direction of the whole game.
Capello, who didn't want such an "accident" to happen in this final, naturally wanted to take advantage of the time after the goal to launch a wave of attacks and strive to expand the score in one go.
Juventus, of course, will not let Capello be satisfied, and they already know the power of Fiorentina's counter-attack, and they immediately retreated after a tentative attack failed, without giving Fiorentina players a chance to blitz.
In the ensuing period, Fiorentina and Juventus players began to battle fiercely in midfield. However, the aim of the two sides is different, with the former using the midfield as the starting point of attack, while the latter using it as their first line of defence.
Although Fiorentina were in the attack, they did not put too much pressure on Peruzzi's goal, which was one of the best in Europe when it came to defence. Neither Vieri nor Ronaldo could handle the ball calmly under Juve's dense defense, and shooting was naturally impossible.
After resisting Fiorentina's attack, Juventus players were not satisfied, and they all remember that their side was still one goal behind in terms of score. Therefore, every time they successfully intercept Fiorentina's attack, they will pass the ball to Zidane in front of them as soon as possible, and he will be responsible for launching a counterattack.
Regarding this kind of behavior of his teammates, Zidane said that the pressure was great, and he said in his heart, how much do you cover up in front of your opponents? After all, when all the attacks of a team have to be launched by one person, this player will inevitably be "special care" by the opposing player, such as close defense by special personnel, and the pressing of multiple players.
Although he was a little frustrated by his team-mates' attitude of relying too much on his own individual ability, Zidane still relied on his individual ability to repeatedly break away from Davies's close defense, and constantly sent threatening passes for Pierrot and Otero.
Nesta and Ferrara and others were engrossed in dealing with the ball passed by Zidane, after all, they were surrounded by Pierrot and Otero, and if they were not careful, it would be easy to give the opponent a chance to play a single ball.
However, in the 28th minute, Carlos's cross was headed out by Montero, and Deschamps, who answered at the landing point, leaned on Effenberg to pass the ball to Di Livio, who then passed the ball to Zidane's feet.
The French midfielder, who received the pass, first used a Marseille maneuver to avoid Davies's interception, and at the same time piggybacked on an observation, and then raised his foot to send a through ball before Di Biagio could cover him!
The ball moved very fast, and almost instantaneously broke through the central defence of Ferrara and Nesta, and rolled behind the two!
At the moment of Zidane's pass, Pierrot and Otero were like 100-meter athletes who heard the starting pistol, and suddenly started to rush out in the direction of the Fiorentina gate!
Now, it's Juventus' counterattack!