Chapter 1092: The Battle of Riazor (Medium)
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Once the game began, Deportivo La Coruna, who had been given the right to kick off in the pre-match coin guessing session, did not immediately launch an offensive with the advantage of the home field, but firmly controlled the ball under the command of Juan Bellerón, the core of their organization, and then slowly penetrated into the Fiorentina half, trying to gradually squash the formation of the purple lily, so as to seize the initiative of the game and defeat the strongest opponent in the entire Group G.
In the face of Deportivo La Coruna, who had adopted a steady strategy, the Fiorentina players were comfortable starting from the midfield to lay out a heavy defence, Makelele and Albertini defended head-on, and Andrea Pirlo and Di Natale, who retreated to midfield, to assist on the flanks, in this way to interfere with Bellerón's organization in midfield as much as possible, forcing the Deportivo players to not attack as they had planned before the game.
Hailed by fans and the media as "Spain's Zidane", Belleron's insight on the pitch is naturally extraordinary, and he can see Fiorentina's countermeasures at a glance, realizing that this is the opponent's deliberate restriction of his own time on the ball, not allowing himself to calmly organize attacks in the midfield, and disrupt his own attacking rhythm.
In the face of such a situation, Belleron also has corresponding countermeasures. After all, after playing in La Liga for so many years, Belleron has not been targeted by opponents many times, so naturally he will not panic because of this matter.
However, Belleron has obviously forgotten a very important point, that is, unlike La Liga, which focuses on attacking football and basically relies on the individual ability and attitude of the players, most Italian teams attach great importance to defense, so that they will not put the responsibility of defending the opponent's core players completely on a single player, and rely more on a whole tight defensive system to fight. As the undisputed hegemon of Italian football in the past seven years, Fiorentina is one of the best.
As time went on, Bellerón soon realized that something was wrong: he found that wherever he ran to catch the ball, there was always at least one Fiorentina player around him to defend him!
"I really didn't expect that after the lack of Belleron's dispatch and passing, Laco would have to rely on Victor and Romero to create a threat on the wing." Looking at Deportivo LaCoruna, who looked a little chaotic and monotonous on the offensive end after Belleron was restricted by Makelele and Albertini, Zhuang Mingge sighed in his heart, "No wonder Deportivo in the previous life was completely devastated after he was seriously injured, and now it seems that Belleron is indeed a very important existence for the current Laco." ”
Speaking of Super Laco in this period, it is inevitable to mention one player, and that is the heart of their midfield, Juan Bellerón.
In Zhuang Mingge's view, among the Spanish players born in the 70s, Belleron can be said to be one of the two best midfield playmakers in Spain during this period (the other is Pep Guardiola), his vision when passing and mastery of footwork are masterful, and his passing is not unimaginative, and he can often send some clever passes in the game to assist his teammates to score. It can be said that in terms of organizational skills and assist ability, Belleron is not much worse than Zidane.
There are two main reasons why Belleron has not become a generation of midfield giants in international football like Zinedine Zidane. First of all, it is the extremely average and even weak physical fitness of Belleron. Unlike Zidane, a midfielder who is very impactful on the pitch and can even score directly with the ball in the penalty area, Belleron, whose physical fitness is far from being comparable to Zizou, is destined to be unable to rush on the field like the French, use scoring to help the team win, and can only organize attacks from outside the penalty area. Moreover, Belleron's thin body also lacks the necessary confrontation ability on the field, so that he has to spend more physical energy to avoid the opponent's defense when facing a top defensive midfielder like Makelele, so that he naturally invests less energy in organizing the attack.
After all, unlike those midfielders who only know how to play with their bodies, Fiorentina's midfielders rely more on anticipation and skillful defensive skills when defending, and it is not easy for Belleron to cheat fouls and set-pieces in front of them. If the referee determines that it is a fake fall, it will be self-defeating.
It is precisely because of his lack of physical fitness that Belleron has greatly limited himself to becoming a midfield superstar like Zinedine Zidane and Rui Costa, and can only be seen as a playmaker who passes the ball well and has a lot of imagination but is otherwise mediocre.
On the other hand, what affects Belleron's path to superstardom is his extremely inadequate ambition. Although his Deportivo La Coruna team is a strong team in La Liga, in terms of strength, fame and heritage, this small club in the northwest of Spain is obviously not enough to complete Belleron's transformation from star to superstar.
After all, with the exception of a handful of players such as Maradona, most superstars only became superstars during their time at the clubs. Especially after the Boseman era, this phenomenon began to become more and more apparent. This is true of players such as Ronaldo, Figo, Zidane, Raul, Rivaldo, etc., and stars such as Juren Guerrero, Matthew Le Tissere, Etcheberia, etc., although they became famous at a young age, but because the team can provide them with a very limited stage, they lack honor and end up stuck on the threshold of stars and fail to reach the expected heights.
Although Bellerón was confined by Florence, Deportivo La Coruna during this period could be called Super Laco, and naturally had their own uniqueness. After noticing that Bellerón was surrounded by Fiorentina players and had difficulty receiving the ball to organise the attack, Irueta gestured to the Laco players on the pitch and asked them to hand the ball to Forlan (a Spanish midfielder born in 1969, not the Uruguayan striker as he is known) and Mauro Silva, who would be in charge of distributing the ball.
While Forlan and Mauro Silva are known for their ferocious defence and tireless running, as players born in the technically important countries of Spain and Brazil, they are unlikely to be rough men, and their passing and dispatching work are very clear, but they lack the aura of Bellerón.
Iruetta's change of tactics quickly paid off, and in the 23rd minute, Mauro Silva distributed the ball to Romero on the left, who and Belleron broke through Zambrotta's defence with a classic one-two, and then crossed high, and Diego Tristan, who followed up in the middle, grabbed the ball before Stam and headed it five meters in front of goal!
1 to 0! In this Group G focal game, Deportivo La Coruna scored first!