Now let’s talk about Florence’s achievements during this period. At present, Florence’s performance on three fronts can be called triumphant progress. In the Italian Cup, Viola easily cut Cagliari in Ma Shunli to advance to the Cup. In the Champions League, Viola has won four wins and one draw in the five group matches that have ended, and has not lost a goal, and has won the first place in the group with thirteen points. In Serie A, Florence also scored 34 points in 13 battles, 11 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. Lippi led Lazio (31 points) and AC Milan, the same point, only two points behind Juventus, ranking second in the league standings!
Although the team failed to keep the top position in Juventus offensive, Mourinho did not feel anxious because Florence will have a headon confrontation with Juventus in the league!
If Florence can win the Bianconeri in this game, Viola can regain the title of leader that she lost because of carelessness!
Chapter 1372 The time has come?
On December 4th, 2005, there was a crowd outside Frankie Stadium, and the onesided situation outside the stadium was not in the stands. The Florence fans also relied on the number and geographical advantages to squeeze more than 3,000 Juventus fans from afar into the corner of the stands and cheer them up, which completely turned the whole stadium into a purple sea!
Although Juventus’ game is an away game, the number of fans who actually came to Florence with the team to help Juventus is not small, let alone more than 10,000. However, due to the fact that the tickets for the game were snapped up by Florence fans, the Football Association stipulated that more than 3,000 tickets must be reserved for away fans, and most Bianconeri supporters were not given the opportunity to enter the stadium to watch the game, which made the stadium atmosphere completely controlled by Florence fans!
Although unwilling to be countered by Juve fans, it is a pity that they are weak, and it is difficult for them to form a climate to reverse this situation. Florence fans can show off in front of them or argue with each other about the overall situation.
The lively scenes of fans from both sides in the stands formed a fresh contrast. At this time, the atmosphere in the dressing room of the home team seemed dignified. Florence players sat around Mourinho and listened carefully to each other’s last prewar mobilization before the game. Guys, we have had a very wonderful game this season to withstand the strong pressure from Juventus, and a wave of winning streak and more goals kept the opponent in the second place, but all these efforts have been wasted with our unexpected draw.
Hearing Mourinho’s words, many players hung their heads in shame. If Lazio lost a goal away from home in the seventh round of the league, it could be attributed to the fact that they suffered a defeat because they were dragged down by the national team’s competition, then the draw with Rome in the first round of the league was really unreasonable. After all, Rome was no longer the champion at that time. With the aging of the main players and the tight money of Sensi family, they had to reduce their investment. On the hard power, it was impossible to resist the Florence offensive.
However, as a result, after taking the lead, Florence was somewhat relaxed and gave the Roma players a breathing space, which led the team to give a penalty gift at the last minute and ended in a draw with regret.
It is also because of this draw that Fiorentina, who used to beat Juventus by scoring more goals, was once again pulled away by the Bianconeri and slipped to the second place in the standings.
… said that we must learn a lesson from a game, and we must be extremely energetic. We must never be negligent in the game! Just as Florence players reflected on their mistakes in the match with Roma, Mourinho strengthened his tone and turned his attention to Lucio, who was bowing his head and saying nothing. Lucio, I will arrange a very heavy meeting for you today, not only to stare at the Swede on the offensive end, but also to contribute to the offensive end team! I just don’t know if you have the confidence to finish this. If you don’t have the confidence to finish this, please tell me now so that I can make adjustments as soon as possible.
Mourinho will take special care of Lucio in this prematch mobilization, mainly because he gave the Red Wolf a key penalty in the game against Rome, which led to the team’s about to get three points and turn it into one point at the last minute. It was this Brazilian central defender who dispelled Lucio’s worries and Mourinho took a provocative approach to make him forget his previous mistakes and focus on this game.
What’s this call! Boss, just watch me perform on the sidelines! Stimulated by Mourinho’s words, Lucio got up and shouted, This is nothing! Don’t say that I have to take into account the attack when defending Ibrahimovic, even if I have to deal with Juventus’ entire attack line alone!
For Lucio’s statement, Starr and Pirlo and other dressing room bosses raised their eyebrows and did not express their dissatisfaction with his words, because they all knew Lucio was impulsive and singleminded and never robbed the class. Many times his actions were emotional, so they naturally did not have any dissatisfaction with some Brazilian words and deeds.
Now let’s introduce the starting lists of one or two teams. In Juventus, trapattoni resolutely sent the strongest teams Frey, Zebina, Thuram, Kong Pani, Grosso, Camorasi, Vieira, Emerson, Devid, Trezeguet and Ibrahimovic. This starting list can be said to be both offensive and defensive. The most important thing is that after having Ibrahimovic and Vieira, the Bianconeri’s original creativity and control over the game have also improved a lot!
Moreover, compared with the first encounter between the two sides in the Italian Super Cup this season, the Vieira Bianconeri have achieved a higher level in midfield hardness and defensive level, which is also an important guarantee for trapattoni to lead the team to bite Fiorentina in the standings and successfully overtake after a round of league matches, and it is also the greatest reliance for the gold medal coach to avenge himself on the spot!
In trapattoni’s eyes, the most powerful link in Florence is not their seemingly powerful offensive trident, nor the world’s first defense line which is praised by the media and fans, but this combination of offensive and defensive midfield! As long as the Fiorentina midfielder can be suppressed, the chances of Juventus winning this matchup will increase a lot.
Now, after getting Vieira from Arsenal to form this super midfield, trapattoni thinks it’s time for Juventus to topple Fiorentina headon!
Chapter 1373 Unexpected bitter
Having finished Juventus’ starting lineup, now let’s take a look at Florence’s appearance list, which is the same as that in the Italian Super Cup final. Mourinho also put on a fourthreethree formation in the game, and even the starting players have not changed a bit!
Gianluigi Buffon, Gianluca Zambrotta, Alessandro Starr, Lucio and Chivu lined up in the back line. Makelele, Pirlo and Ballack formed the midfield triangle. Vincent, diego milito and Cristiano Ronaldo formed the offensive trident. This is the starting eleven of Florence tonight!
Obviously, in the face of the great strength after Vieira’s acquisition, Juventus Mourinho is very confident in the strength of his own players and believes that they are absolutely capable of defeating this powerful Bianconeri.
Hi, Vincent. Is everything okay? When the players from both sides walked out of the player channel and walked aside when the referee directed them to their respective halves, Pirlo and Cristiano Ronaldo all asked the Spaniard that they were a little worried that the malicious foul of Zebina in the Italian Super Cup would leave a serious psychological shadow on this teammate.
You know, in the history of football, many talented stars are afraid of physical confrontation after being injured, and they dare not do the same things in the game as before, which makes them perform worse after coming back from injury and eventually disappear from people’s sight.
Vincent’s teammates and friends, Pirlo and Cristiano Ronaldo, really don’t want each other to leave such a psychological shadow. Even if the Spanish winger still performs well after returning from injury, who can guarantee that Vincent will still perform well in the face of Zebina, the culprit who caused him to recover for a month?
ah? Haha, Andrea Cristiano, don’t worry, I have nothing to do. Vincent reacted to each other immediately after being stupefied. This was in his heart. He replied with a smile, My psychological quality is not as fragile as Bergkamp’s (the ice king Bergkamp is brilliant but relatively fragile, which leads to his achievements being far from the height he should have achieved). Just a malicious foul won’t make me depressed.
That’s good. If you need any help in the game later, just let us know. When you see Vincent’s expression is all right, Pirlo and Cristiano Ronaldo can’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. After all, although your injury didn’t have any adverse effects on ligaments and bones, you’d better be careful when dealing with a dirty guy like Zebina, and try to fight him oneonone as little as possible so that he can use any bad tricks again.
No problem as he said this, he smiled and watched the teammates such as Pirlo and Cristiano Ronaldo move to their respective positions. Vincent’s smile faded gradually. Then the Spanish winger glanced at him and was warming up dozens of meters away. Zebina’s eyes showed a trace of hatred. Obviously, no matter how beautifully he said it, at this moment, the lefthanded Buddha also had his own small plan in his heart.
At the same time, Zebina, who was waiting for the whistle, felt a chill and glanced around in confusion, but found nothing unusual. After chanting the ghost, he forgot about it.
It wasn’t long before the game was officially played in the whistle of referee Corina after the players of both sides were in their good positions at halfcourt!
By the way, in the original history, this season, Corina was disqualified from enforcing Serie A by the Italian Football Association because he signed a sponsorship contract worth 10,000 euros in February 25 (then the advertising sponsor of AC Milan), and he felt that his dignity was insulted. Corina announced his retirement from the referee, which left a lot of regret for the fans. However, in this life, because he coordinated with Zhuangge, Corina did not sign a sponsorship contract with Opel, but signed a sponsorship contract with several other companies that did not have direct interests with Serie A clubs, the worldrenowned bald whistle can still shine in Serie A at the age of 46.
It was Juventus who saw that Ibrahimovic and Trezeguet quickly got the ball in the middle circle and handed it to their teammates behind them, and then they inserted it like two swords into Florence’s halfcourt. Obviously, Juventus wanted to take advantage of Florence’s unstable foothold to launch a wave of attack against the guest host to see if there was anything cheap to make.
Mourinho’s evaluation of Juventus’ plan is that although the idea is good, it is not the case in practice. Juventus is too rigid to tear Florence’s tight defense, and Ibrahimovic’s creativity and footwork are not fully exerted in trapattoni’s tactical framework, which leads to the Bianconeri’s first attack after the game.
However, although Juventus’ attack is still boring, they have caused great trouble to Florence on the defensive endit is difficult for these four midfielders to launch an offensive smoothly in Juventus, let alone break through the Bianconeri’s door!
I have to say that the arrival of Vieira has a very significant effect on the promotion of the whole Juventus team. First of all, after the French joined in, the Bianconeri’s last short board in midfield was finally filled. Zidewed, Vieira, Emerson and Camoranesi formed a super midfield, which not only has both offensive and defensive skills, but also protects the defense line more closely than before Vieira’s arrival. The four running players have very good defensive attitudes and their personal abilities are all international firstclass stars. After trapattoni successfully combined them, they played far more than one plus one equals 20%, which made all European teams have a headache.
This is not because Juventus defended Florence so closely. After several attacks, they were successfully intercepted by their opponents without even touching the edge of the penalty area, and they were almost attacked by the Bianconeri with a quick counterattack. This result fully shows that Juventus has great power in this super center.
Mourinho could not help sighing secretly when he saw that the team was also beaten in Juventus’ defense. He had already predicted that Florence was bound to have a hard fight with the Bianconeri at the Frankie Stadium tonight.
Chapter 1374 variants
To be honest, it is obviously impossible to say that Mourinho is not surprised when he sees that the team’s defense in Juventus has been frustrated repeatedly, and Milito and others can hardly get a direct impact on the Bianconeri’s defense line.
You know, since the away game was unexpectedly drawn by Rome, Mourinho has devoted most of his energy to this game with Juventus. He has made a deep study of the Bianconeri’s behindthescenes game in the new season and has a deep understanding of Juventus’ tactical play. Therefore, before this game, Mourinho was confident that the players could use Zebina as a breakthrough in the Italian Super Cup final to tear up Juventus’ defense.
However, Mourinho didn’t expect that the iron triangle, the strongest link in Florence, namely Pirlo, Ballack and Makelele, would be restricted by other teams’ midfielders! The most terrible thing is to have this super midfielder, which is none other than Florence’s opponent Bianconeri Juventus!
It’s hard to do … Seeing that Pirlo’s ball was once again intercepted by Juventus before midfield and failed to make it to the left to insert Vincent’s foot, Mourinho clearly realized that it was time to make a change, or else Florence wanted to beat Juventus in this game.
Although Mourinho had made a detailed analysis of Vieira’s possible positive influence on Juventus when studying the video of Juventus match before the game, judging from the current situation, the French iron waist obviously exceeded Mourinho’s expectation for the overall strength of the Bianconeri.
After joining Juventus, Vieira couldn’t take the lead in the midfield and master the rhythm of the team’s attack and defense as he did at Arsenal, so he had to distribute this part of his strength to Devid and other teammates. However, his excellent defensive anticipation and toplevel awareness of covering all areas of the two restricted areas of the stadium made Juventus, a defense line with many loopholes, become impregnable, and with the passage of time, the degree of tacit understanding with players continued to increase, and the Bianconeri defense became more and more stable and slack.
In particular, Zebina has been regarded as the biggest weakness of the defense line by Juventus fans. After Vieira arrived, he relied on the powerful running and transposition defense ability of these four midfielders. The French defender’s performance is no longer as ups and downs as in the season, or even if Zebina has any cheating situation in the game, Vieira, they can make up the defense at the first time to avoid being found by the opponent and tear the whole defense line.
But if it’s former Brasi or Appiah, it’s different. They are brave, but their personal ability and defensive prediction are secondrate. It’s hard for them to play Vieira’s huge positive theory. Whether to let them make up for the defense in the past or let them stay in the middle may not be able to play their due role, and it may well become another breakthrough for the other side.
Because it is still early before the end of the halftime, Mourinho did not adjust the team’s tactics by changing people, but took advantage of the dead ball opportunity to run to the sidelines and shout. After attracting the attention of the players, he made several gestures to convey his tactical intention to the Florence players.
Of course, leaving the technical area without authorization is not without the cost of his actions. Corina specially went to the sidelines and warned him that the Portuguese should not leave the designated area without authorization. If Mourinho refused to go back immediately, he would also punish him according to the rules.
For Corina’s warning to Mourinho, he smiled and apologized to the famous whistle, saying that he was just too excited and accidentally crossed the line. He never deliberately interfered with the meaning of the game. When he saw that the goal was achieved, Corina also held his hand high and dropped it with a verbal warning, which made it impossible to open this page.
Not to mention receiving the latest instructions from Mourinho, the Fiorentina player Juventus is preparing to put it into action. After noticing Mourinho’s actions on the sidelines, trapattoni suddenly thumped and thought, Did the Portuguese find out what flaws in his tactics would make him so excited?
I can’t blame trapattoni for being so cautious. After all, Mourinho is a real danger to all coaches who have experienced the reversal of Florence’s championship in the season. You can’t take it lightly.
So out of caution, with a wave of his hand, trapattoni directed Juve players to temporarily shrink their formation and stabilize the defense line. The main defender should first see what is going on here in Florence and then decide on the next action plan.
It is reasonable to say that trapattoni’s arrangement is inappropriate and stable enough, but unfortunately his opponent is Mourinho, a guy who always likes to play cards against common sense
In the 23rd minute of the game, after continuous passing in midfield, Florence was given the ball by Pirlo to Lucio who was inserted from the back, and the latter rushed directly to the Juventus penalty area without hesitation!
Juve players reacted immediately when they saw it. They suffered a big loss in the Italian Super Cup. They practiced a trick such as preventing Florence. Recently, Dewed went to defend Lucio personally. This guy really went straight into the show. Vieira and Emerson kept an eye on Pirlo and Ballack, who blocked Lucio’s route of giving the ball to them while blocking each other’s longrange shot. At the same time, Kong Pani and others in the defense line also watched the Fiorentina players in their own defense zone
It’s difficult to break through the route, and the ball route is blocked. It’s not enough to kick the door … So Florence’s sudden attack on Keji can be said to be a failure, and it’s time for Lucio to be taken care of by Juve players.
However, just when everyone thought that Florence’s sudden attack would be futile again, Lucio reluctantly took two steps forward under Dewed’s interference and kicked the ball to the right of the penalty area before losing control of it!
Yeah, I just want to retreat from the defense sometimes. This guy has a lot of cleverness … While thinking about Vieira, he consciously looked at the past along the direction of the ball movement.
However, in a second, the Frenchman’s relaxed expression was swinging because he was there and didn’t know when to run out of the restricted area. At present, he is in a defensive state, diego milito!
Chapter 1375 Leading
See milito got the ball in the state of human interference trapattoni is also a face of Meng forcethe coach didn’t expect Lucio to send such a deadly ball at the end, and didn’t expect the front arrow Milito to take the initiative to withdraw from the penalty area and run to such a partial place to meet Lucio’s ball!
At the same time, Juventus players are also a little unresponsive. Most of them are looking for their own defensive targets at this time. They didn’t expect Florence to play a crosstransposition at this time, and all the members of the trident in the frontcourt were involved in a big move!
Wait a minute, if Milito is out of the restricted area, then Florence will have no one to meet in the middle! At this time, trapattoni suddenly thought of a very important question. If this is the case, then let’s say that Milito’s withdrawal from the sideline is a sudden personal trip, not a tactical cooperation with Lucio in the Florence plan. At most, it can be regarded as his blind cat’s death.
At the thought of this, trapattoni quickly watched the situation in his own restricted area and found that the players who didn’t wear purple jerseys were hanging around in it, so the old coach hung up his heart and put it back. Hehe, it was really Milito’s personal trip. It seems that this time Florence’s attack will be successful again.
Having dealt with Fiorentina for so many years, trapattoni had direct contact with Fiorentina players when he was in charge of the Italian national team. Although he didn’t know the characteristics of Milito like the back of his hand, he was quite familiar with it. The coach knew that Milito’s current position was beyond his normal shooting range. Even in the case of human defense, Milito had to make adjustments and take the ball to a position he was sure of before choosing to shoot.
Although Milito can also choose to kick the door directly in the corner of the restricted area, the result is generally not much better. Unless it can be guaranteed that the shot will not become an antiaircraft gun or go too far, in case the team’s result is not satisfactory, Milito will have to be detained by fans and the media after the game.