Chapter 1419: The Last Classical Front Waist (5)

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Although Fiorentina's offensive has improved significantly from the previous game, Villarreal is naturally not vegetarian to beat Juventus to advance to the last four of the Champions League. After seeing Ronaldo being refrigerated, the power of the purple lily's front trident not only did not weaken, but became sharper and more difficult to prevent, and Pellegrini realized that his side had to strengthen the defense. Otherwise, sooner or later, Fiorentina will be the first to break the goal.

As a result, under the command of the Chilean engineer, Villarreal's players, although they were still running aggressively on the field, consciously slowed down the pace of their attack, trying to reduce the chance of being tackled by Fiorentina when passing, so that the purple lily could play a quick counterattack.

Manuel Pellegrini's tweaks can be quite effective. After Villarreal shifted the game to a positional attack and strengthened the success rate of passing and receiving the ball, although their attack slowed down compared to before, they also made a lot fewer mistakes in central midfield, reducing the chances of Fiorentina attacking their own backline on the counter-attack. In this way, Villarreal's defensive pressure is greatly reduced and the defensive line becomes solid.

Seeing his teammates behaving like this, Riquelme couldn't help frowning, feeling a little dissatisfied with Pellegrini's pointing fingers. In the midfielder's mind, the manager's main task is to deploy the tactics and personnel of the team before the game, and how the team should function on the pitch after the game starts, which should be his responsibility. Therefore, in Riquelme's eyes, Pellegrini's current actions are undoubtedly overstepping his position and snatching power from his hands!

The vast majority of football talents who have come out of Argentina are quite mavericks in terms of personality. Needless to say, the early Passarella and Maradona are familiar to many people with their "glorious deeds"; Redondo also rejected the opponent's call-up because Bilardo's football philosophy did not match his own, and as a result, he missed his first World Cup trip; "Son of the Wind" Caniggia and "Little Donkey" Ortega are also talented on the field, and they are constantly troublesome off the field, and all kinds of messes emerge in an endless stream, which can be compiled into a set of encyclopedias.

Riquelme, who is also talented in football, is no exception. While the midfielder does have the skills and command talent that have driven countless fans crazy, the introverted and sensitive part of his personality has been influencing Riquelme's choice and the direction of his career.

For example, now, perhaps in Pellegrini's view, this is just a normal adjustment on the spot, but in Riquelme's eyes, it is his authority to command the team that has been violated by the manager, which is something he absolutely cannot bear!

Due to Riquelme's huge popularity in Argentina at the time, even Bianchi, a coach with the title of "Viceroy" at Boca Juniors, adopted a tolerant strategy towards some of Riquelme's actions (such as occasional late arrivals and early departures, and not participating in team training). Therefore, when Riquelme landed in Europe with the aura of Maradona's successor, only to be sent to Villarreal by Barcelona after only one season, the weakness of the Argentine's character was not well corrected, but became more fragile and sensitive due to the defeat at Barcelona.

It stands to reason that Riquelme, who has worked with Pellegrini for nearly two seasons, would not have been dissatisfied with this unintentional mistake by the other party. However, due to Riquelme's almost no outstanding performance in the first leg, the reality that this game was also not much under the defense of the Fiorentina players, as well as his own character flaws, Riquelme was burdened with a lot of mental pressure and psychological baggage. Therefore, when he saw Pellegrini directly command the team, Riquelme, who was anxious but was not easy to vent because of his introverted personality, immediately aimed his gun at his own manager.

Although Riquelme was unhappy with Pellegrini's "overstepping" behavior, the Argentine still had a clear priority. After all, now is a crucial battle for Villarreal to qualify for the Champions League final, and it's not a good time to have a conflict with their own people.

If Riquelme really caused a stir in the game regardless of the occasion, causing Villarreal to go out in the semi-finals and be picked up by Fiorentina, then even if the Argentine has been the darling and number one star of the Love Song Stadium for the past three years, he will definitely not escape the fate of being criticized by fans and the media after the game.

So, for the sake of the bigger picture, Riquelme put this dissatisfaction to heart for the time being, and was ready to wait until the game was over to discuss the matter with Pellegrini. However, what Riquelme did not expect was that this semi-final would become another turning point in his career, and Pellegrini, who had always worked happily with him, would become suspicious of him after that, and the rift created in this match gradually widened and deepened over time, and eventually became the fuse for the pair to turn against each other and part ways. This is a later story, so I won't mention it here.

In the 41st minute of the game, Riquelme was stealing the ball by Makelele, and Fiorentina launched a quick counterattack. Milito, who withdrew from the penalty area, sent a through ball forward after receiving Pirlo's pass, and Jorgensen, who cut diagonally from the right, played a textbook through ball, tearing through Villarreal's left side of the defense in an instant!

Jorgensen, who had successfully countered offside, did not choose to continue to cut inside with the ball after winning the ball, but took two steps to attract the attention of the Villarreal defenders and suddenly knocked the ball to the middle of the penalty area - where Milito, who had just delivered a wonderful pass, had already slapped the ball!

Although Alvarez and Venta's desperate interference prevented Milito from hitting the goal at the first time, the latter took advantage of the situation with his heel and passed the ball between Alvarez's legs and handed it to Vincent, who was ambushed at the back of the goal and was unmarked!

Faced with such a great opportunity, the Spanish winger naturally has no reason to waste it. With a cool right-footed effort, Vincent smashed the ball into the near corner to give Fiorentina a head start in the race for qualification for the Champions League final!