Chapter 1399: Before the Winter Break
PS1: This is Thursday's update, a little late, I hope you don't care too much about the update time, and I promise not to stop the update......
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After the news that Juventus was beaten 3-1 by Fiorentina away and suffered the second defeat in the league this season, the entire Italian football world couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
You know, since Vieira announced his move to Juventus, almost all teams aiming for the title have been afraid of the greatly growing Bianconeri, and have listed them as the most threatening opponents. Even Juventus' previous defeat to AC Milan in the league did not raise any doubts about it. After all, the Bianconeri did not play with the strongest squad in that game, and Thuram's suspension caused quite a rift in Juventus' tight defensive system, which was the main reason for their first defeat in the league.
And now, with Juventus at their best, the Bianconeri were beaten head-on by Fiorentina at the Frankie Stadium, and were mercilessly beaten by the Purple Lily, losing this crucial battle for the ownership of the leaders almost without fighting back. Such a surprising result made all the managers curious about the game, and they began to study the match between Juventus and Fiorentina, trying to find some effective ways to deal with the Bianconeri.
In particular, managers who are in charge of Serie A teams, and who are likely to play against Juventus in the Champions League, are very serious about this business. They know very well that if they can find flaws or deficiencies in Juventus' squad from this game, then they will have more confidence to deal with Juventus when they face the Bianconeri.
I have to say that these managers are still very talented. It only took about a week or so for them to really find the fatal flaw in Juventus' current lineup: first, Juventus is extremely imaginative and creative in attack, once the opponent scores first in the game, then they will fall into an extremely passive situation if they are not good at active attack. This was the case in the just-concluded match against Fiorentina, Vincent's goal forced Juventus to take the initiative, and the result was that the Purple Lily completely took the initiative in the game and lost this crucial game. The second point is that compared with other top giants such as Fiorentina, the depth of the bench of the Bianconeri is really miserable, as long as the main players in the midfield are injured, then their overall strength will drop considerably, thus giving other teams a chance to take advantage of! The match against AC Milan is the best proof of this, and the absence of a single Thuram has caused problems for Juventus' defence, which is almost unthinkable for Fiorentina - even if Nesta is injured, Mourinho has two regular centre-backs in Gambellini and Thiago Silva at his disposal, as well as two players who can play in the central defence position of Zivo and Heinze, and the impact on the team's combat effectiveness is far less obvious than that of Juventus.
Trapattoni and the Juventus management have not tried to solve these two problems, but it turns out that they have not been able to solve them properly until now. A lack of creativity in attack and lack of depth on the bench remain two of the main problems preventing Juventus from challenging Fiorentina for dominance in Italian football.
Therefore, in the opinion of these managers, in order to beat Juventus, the best way to beat Juventus is to pray that these main players under Trapattoni will miss the game for some reason, and the best way is to launch a rush after the game starts and score as soon as possible, forcing the Bianconeri to abandon the steady counter-attacking style of play and attack, so as to get more quick counter-attacks and shooting opportunities.
That's true, but let's not forget how many teams in European football today have the ability to smash the Bianconeri's tortoise shell before Juventus can hit the counter-attack? Most teams probably don't even have the ability to break down Juventus' defenses, let alone take control of the game by attacking - and if anyone dares to do so, they will have a higher chance of being taught by Juventus.
You know, even Fiorentina, before Vincent scored the goal that broke the deadlock, did not dare to take the defense lightly when attacking, not to mention that these defenses are not as solid as Fiorentina's team?
Now, with this six-point victory, Fiorentina managed to overtake Juventus in the standings, beat the Bianconeri by a narrow one, and returned to the league leader!
Back-to-back victories over old rivals and arch-rivals in the same season, especially the second time they beat a Bianconeri side who were considered extremely difficult to beat at full form, greatly boosted the confidence of the Fiorentina players.
As a result, the morale-boosting Fiorentina beat Juventus to win all four of their next three league games and a Champions League group stage. While ensuring a place to reach the round of 16 of the Champions Cup as group winners, he also ended 2005 as the winter champion of Serie A!
Time entered 2006, at this time, the new edition of the European Ballon d'Or and the results of the World Footballer of the Year have also been released. Although Fiorentina only won one Serie A title in the 04-05 season, the record is much worse than at the peak, but due to the strong performance of the Serie A team as a whole in the European arena (the Champions Cup semi-finals are third, the League Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup are also won by Serie A teams), coupled with the accumulation of popularity over the years, so in the final selection, Andrea Pirlo, who has good football skills and image and is more well-known in international football, won the World Footballer of the Year, and the European Footballer of the Year was won by the former Fiorentina player, The current star of AC Milan, Andrei Shevchenko, won!
Naturally, AC Milan fans are not very happy with this result. In their opinion, Shevchenko, who led the team to win the Champions Cup, is obviously more qualified to win the World Footballer of the Year, why did Pirlo be selected, while Sheva only won a third place?
Of course, for Pirlo's award, Fiorentina naturally strongly supported it, and at the same time did not forget to-for-tat: "Shevchenko is either recovering from injury or falling into a goal drought in the second half of the year, and his performance is completely incomparable with the first half of the year, if he is selected as the world footballer, it will be really unfair!" ”
So, unless there is a team that wins both the league and the Champions League in a single season, and its star has an eye-catching performance throughout the year (mainly in the second half of the year), no matter who is chosen, it will eventually cause a lot of controversy.