In this way, when the season entered the most critical sprint stage, Florence lost Ronaldo, a striker. In the next two months, Heineken will have three real strikers.
The news that Ronaldo was reimbursed for his injury season shocked the whole of Italy and European football! After all, everyone knows the importance of aliens to Florence’s attacking body. Although there are not as many goals as teammates such as vieri and Shevchenko, the ability of aliens to face and connect the middle and front fields is not available to the other three! Maybe in a few years, Shevchenko will be able to develop this ability, but now Ukraine’s nuclear warhead is still a firstclass striker who relies heavily on teammates’ balls and does not have Ronaldo’s ability!
Moreover, after Ronaldo’s reimbursement, there are only three real strikers left in Florence. For Viola, which needs a threeline battle, this is somewhat inadequate, and the strikers are not enough. vieri, when they naturally want to play more in the game, their physical fitness and state naturally become a problem in each game.
Therefore, in this situation, many teams have seen the possibility of overthrowing the rule of Viola this season when Florence’s lack of strikers weakened its attack power.
At the same time, in order to protect Ronaldo’s career, Florence chose to let the aliens have a truce for three months instead of letting him keep fighting. Things soon spread to every corner of European football!
After learning that Florence has made such a great sacrifice to protect a player’s career, most players are envious of playing for Viola, especially those stars who often have to play with injuries at the request of coaches and club executives. They are full of envy, jealousy and hatred for Ronaldo, thinking that they have never met such a heart. Players’ clubs are always like sweatshops and ask them to be slightly injured …
To tell the truth, the most feared thing for professional football players is actually to play with injuries, because it is likely to lead to aggravated injuries and some serious consequences. The most typical example is that Owen, a young fan, bid farewell to the ranks of firstclass strikers at the age of 26 in the early stage of his career. At the age of 3, he had to sit on the bench and watch his teammates perform.
Therefore, although Florence lost Ronaldo as the ace striker, it has established a very good image in the minds of players, which is also an important reason why many players who want to pursue honor will refuse the temptation of high salary and would rather choose Florence with poor treatmentit is really rare for many players to be as human as Florence and have the strength to win the honor club!
In addition to Ronaldo’s season reimbursement news, another piece of news is that Lazio raised their points in the league to 53 points after beating Juventus away from home. At present, Fiorentina is 11 points away from Juventus, which is second in the standings.
Although there are still six rounds left before the end of Serie A, the points gap between Florence and the pursuers behind them is getting closer and closer. Therefore, in the opinion of many people, if Florence can’t adjust its state as soon as possible and ask Ronaldo’s absence to affect it, the points gap between them and Juventus will probably be smoothed out soon!
The narrowing of the difference with Juventus and Florence greatly boosted Lazio’s morale. In the 29th round of Serie A a a week later, the Biancocelesti led Vicenza at home.
Although it didn’t shorten the gap of winning Juventus in the same round, the gap between Lazio and the top spot narrowed to nine points because Florence drew 11 with AC Milan coached by Zaccheroni at the San Siro Stadium! This means that there are still five rounds in the league, and the difference between Juventus and Florence is only six points!
Considering that Florence has only won one victory in the last six league matches, and Viola will have to play against the two great rivals Lazio and Juventus in the next two league matches, people suddenly find that it is really unknown who will win the Serie A championship if Florence remains so depressed in the league battlefield.
So, with Florence’s leading position in the standings shrinking sharply, the Serie A champion’s ownership rekindled the suspense and ruled Italian football for five years. Florence is finally about to face their biggest challenge!
Chapter 76 Barcelona (a)
Although Florence’s poor record of only one win, three draws and two losses in the past six Serie A games has greatly reduced their leading position in the league, the reimbursement of striker Ronaldo’s season has made the team’s bad situation worse, but at this time, Florence fans have shown extremely high quality. Instead of criticizing Heinks for leading the team, they gathered outside the team training base with encouraging slogans and banners to show their support for the Germans!
The fans are not blind, not stupid. Of course, they can see that Heynckes is really capable and not worse than his former Capello in terms of tactical level and onthespot command. At the same time, he is also very tireless in coaching the team. Some fans living nearby can often see that the lights in Heynckes’ office are turned off the latest in the whole training base except for the night security guard …
Heinx’s efforts have naturally been noticed by the fans, so despite Florence’s rather low performance in recent league matches, the fans did not join the good news media in booing, but firmly expressed their support for German artificial, hoping that he could lead the team through the immediate difficulties to win the final championship, and even a large number of fans said that even if the team failed to win the championship trophy in the end, they would support Heinx to stay!
It is naturally very touching to see Florence fans so supportive of their work at this difficult stage. After all, the scene that the German coach encountered when he coached Real Madrid in the past was completely different from what it is now. At that time, although Real Madrid made a big breakthrough in the Champions League, its record in the league did not meet the expectations of fans and clubs, and only got the fourth place in the league. Therefore, the head coach of the team, Heinz, became a natural scapegoat and was directly fired by Real Madrid executives at the end of the season.
Comparing the two personalities, honest and frank Heynckes naturally feels that the atmosphere in Florence is better, and the fans here are more patient, and will not blame the head coach for his incompetence just because the team is not performing well in a certain period.
Therefore, in order to repay the trust and support of Florence fans, Heinz redoubled his efforts to reverse the current decline of the team as soon as possible and repel Lazio and Juventus, who were chasing after them, to complete Italian football in prehistoric times. I am afraid that the ancients will also win the league six times in a row!
However, before killing Lazio and Juventus to regain their lead in the standings, Heynckes has to lead these players to solve another difficult opponent, that is, Barcelona, which is competing with them for a semifinal ticket of the Champions League!
Although Florence took away a 22 draw from Camp Nou in the first leg, Heinks will not relax because of this. After all, all these frontcourt players in Barcelona have the ability to decide the trend of the game instantly. It is absolutely suicidal to talk lightly!
On April 12th, Frankie Stadium was packed. More than 40,000 Florence fans surrounded more than 1,000 Barcelona fans who came from afar in a corner of the stands. They set off a huge wave and drowned out more than 1,000 people to cheer for the visiting team!
Because of a draw in the first leg and two away goals, Heinks can arrange the starting list of the game from the ground, instead of racking his brains to think about breaking the goal of Florence like Fan Jiaer, and at the same time, he has to take care of his own door, Andre, to lose the ball in the game, which further increases the difficulty for the team to advance to the semifinal of the Champions League.
In this paper, we introduce one or two teams’ starting lineup. Barcelona goalkeeper hesp has four defenders, namely reiziger, Puyol, Frank De Boer, Sergi Barjuán philip cocu and Guardiola. The back of the team, Kluiwitt, has a sudden appearance. rivaldo, Figo and Zenden are hidden behind the Dutch center. They are shouldering their delivery of artillery shells, and at the same time, they are also responsible for a certain backward attack. Kluiwitt is surrounded by opponents. He can also play the advantage that the Dutch are good at playing the ball. The team captain luis enrique has to miss the game because of some injuries before the game.
Obviously, after studying for a long time, Fan Jiaer finally decided to change the tactics that Barcelona is most familiar with to deal with Florence. Although such a defender from the back is likely to be quickly countered by his opponent, it is a replay of the scene of the 1994 Champions League final, but attacking is like life. Fan Jiaer is even more reluctant to win the game and chooses to play conservatively because it greatly violates his football philosophy.
Look at Florence. Due to the shortage of strikers after Ronaldo’s injury, Heynckes discharged a set of fourfiveone formation goalkeepers in this game. The fullback of toldo is Roberto Carlos and Di livio, who are separated from each other, and Starr and Stam are partners in the centerback. In midfield, Claude Makelele and Lei Dongduo play a pair of midfielders, and effenberg takes the central position to command the overall situation. Gattuso plays the role of a midfielder, and the right avantgarde Ljungberg will be responsible for Florence’s right attack and defense together with Di livio behind him to resist the great threat posed by rivaldo. The striker line christian vieri has a single arrow and a strong Italian tank, which is the last type of striker that most La Liga teams want to meet. Because of their lack of physical defense, it is difficult to stop this force from flowing and being crushed by the center.
The most important thing is that although vieri is tall and powerful, he is a standard power flow center template at a glance, but his speed is not slow at all, and the sprint of 100 meters can reach about 11.5 seconds! Moreover, in many matches in Florence, fans can often see vieri forming an attack opportunity with Ronaldo and Shevchenko in the counterattack.
It can be seen that although there was no assistance from Ronaldo and Shevchenko in this game, considering that Lei Dongduo and effenberg’s precise balls, Ljungberg and Carlos and others broke through Florence on the side, even if vieri was alone in the front line, he was capable of posing a great threat to Barcelona’s goal!
Chapter 77 Barcelona (2)
Tony, what do you think our chances of winning this game are? Karin asked in the VIP box of Frankie Stadium just as the players from both sides walked out of the players’ tunnel and posed at the stadium under the leadership of their respective captains.
If the team can play normally, it shouldn’t be a problem to take this Barcelona team now. Zhuang Ge thought about it and replied, I wonder if Karin has noticed that although Barcelona’s record is still excellent this season, the contradiction between their teams has gradually emerged.
After listening to Zhuang Ge’s analysis of Barcelona’s problems, Karima put on a very interested look and became a qualified listener seriously. After all, whenever Zhuang Ge talks about football, it is the most serious time.
There is a saying that men are most attractive when they are serious, and Karin is deeply impressed by it.
The first is the problem of rivaldo people. After Mr. Shuangshuang, the mentality of Brazilians has changed. They are no longer able to take a left winger from Fan Jiaer’s tactical arrangement as before, but demand greater freedom of attack, for example, to replace the position of luis enrique, which has increased injuries and slipped in the season, and his demand is precisely that he likes to control everything in his own hands, which Fan Jiaer cannot allow.
Karin nodded clearly about Fan Jiaer’s coaching style, and she also heard a little about it. This Dutch coach’s policy of managing the team is the same as that of Manchester United, Ferguson and former Sacchi. It is the kind of practice that does not allow the team to have a second head portrait of Fan Jiaer. At best, people will praise him for choosing good and being stubborn, at worst, it is headstrong!
In fact, rivaldo’s demand is not too much. It’s too condescending to limit this talented Brazilian to the narrow left. If Fan Jiaer is willing to spend more time on communication between players or find ways to benefit rivaldo and Enrique from their wide range of activities and attacks and organically integrate them, then he will not be completely stiff with rivaldo as enemies of life and death.
The other problem lies in Fan Jiaer himself. This Dutchman has a strong coaching ability, which is true, but he really likes to introduce his colleagues and his fellow Dutch villagers when he was coaching in Ajax. Speaking of this, Zhuang Ge paused before continuing to evaluate Fan Jiaer. If Fan Jiaer can effectively improve the team’s strength by introducing these players, then other players and Barcelona fans will not say much about it, but look at Fan Jiaer’s decision to buy these people in recent years. Victor, Koku and Frank De Boer are worth the money. hesp’s theory ability is not much better than Bai Ya’s. Ronald De Boer, Zenden, bogarde and Litmanen, the substitutes, are paid more than the main players, but they have not played much. Can this not make people gossip?
It’s true that coach Fan Jiaer has gone too far at this point, Karin nodded in agreement. Especially that Litmanen, although he is a good player, has never played in four major leagues, and he can sign a contract with an annual salary of 50,000 US dollars! This is simply crazy!
Because of Fan Jiaer’s excessive bias towards the first place, Barcelona is now faintly showing signs of chaos. Barcelona fans are dissatisfied with Fan Jiaer’s emphasis on the Netherlands and the neglect of the local players produced by the La Masia youth camp; And in the team, rivaldo and Figo are also dissatisfied with Fan Jiaer’s preference for his old headquarters in Ajaxyou know, the two of them have won two consecutive league titles in Barcelona, and they are still holding an annual salary of three million dollars!
A rookie’s replacement salary is higher than the main player’s. It would be a ghost if Barcelona didn’t make a mess.
I really don’t know how Barcelona’s top executives wanted to give Litmanen such a high salary and let him play as a substitute … Karin said with a sigh. She also felt some strength for Barcelona’s wonderful move. When Karin was puzzled by Barcelona’s top ideas, the referee blew the whistle. The second leg of the Champions League between Florence and Barcelona is now official!
The course of the game was a little different from Zhuang Ge’s expectation. Although Barcelona got the ball and dispatched it to Florence in Guardiola, it seemed to have little effect when Makelele and Gattuso controlled the Catalan army’s attack.
Forced by Fan Jiaer on the left, rivaldo lost his temper and fell into a state of fighting alone. He didn’t come with Figo, who temporarily moved to the middle. Zenden on the right is a pure winger, and his style in the bottom is somewhat out of place with Barcelona’s control system. Although Kluivert is an excellent center, his advantage lies in his outstanding instantaneous power to play the ball and his cooperation with the consciousness to grab points in front of the door is his weakness. Figo, who moved to the middle of the road temporarily, is obviously not used to this role. The Portuguese dribbling and grasping the rhythm are also a great offensive weapon for him, but he is not a qualified midfielder. It is difficult to connect rivaldo and Zenden and other frontcourt teammates in series.
Therefore, despite the fact that Barcelona is pressing Florence to play the visiting team, the situation is quite dominant, but with a little sense, fans can see that rivaldo, Zenden and Figo are almost all fighting by virtue of their excellent personal abilities. When attacking, they are almost United!
This situation is exactly what Florence players like to see. Although Figo and rivaldo are very capable, none of the defenders can guarantee that they can keep an eye on each other in a oneonone situation, but now the situation is that rivaldo (or Figo) is attacking their entire defense line with the ball alone, and other players are watching the crowd instead of helping them in the past. That situation is completely different.
You know, even the aliens who are recognized as the most capable individuals dare not say that they can pick out an entire Italian reinforced concrete defense line in a normal state, but they have also gathered top guards like Starr and Stam to strengthen it. What’s worse, rivaldo and Figo?
Unless rivaldo and his team can go against their fate again in this game, they can kick a curveball straight to the dead corner of the goal with just one foot in Makelele, just like in the first leg. Otherwise, what they are doing now is different from killing themselves!
Chapter 7 Barcelona (3)
When Barcelona’s attack method threatened toldo to guard the gate, they resisted Barcelona’s attack. Florence players were secretly gathering strength to find a suitable opportunity to fight back quickly and slap their opponent to death!
Fiorentina players are quite lucky today. They didn’t wait long before they got a good chance.
In the tenth minute, Zenden’s goal was cleared by Stam’s header. Makelele quickly gave the ball to Lei Dongduo, who sent a long kick to Barcelona’s backcourt without waiting for Figo’s counterattack!
Because Barcelona has been in a state of onslaught for more than ten minutes before, it is guaranteed that the three lines will not be out of line. Delport’s first Barcelona defense line is pressed very forward and almost crosses the midfield line
Therefore, when he saw Lei Dongduo’s ball move, Delport’s face changed as soon as he was experienced. Of course, he could see that the ball landed behind them!
Damn it! Delport didn’t say hello yet. Puyolma turned and ran to the backcourtanyway, he must not let Florence form a singlehanded ball at this time!
However, Lei Dongduo’s feet did not go to the middle, but flew obliquely to the right side of the stadium, where Ljungberg was galloping along the sidewalk!
After the ball was unloaded from his right foot, Sergi Barjuán Ljungberg turned his back to the other side, and then his ass arched his shoulders. This simple and rude way broke through the other side’s interception!
Baljuan is also very resistant at this time. He really wants to stretch his foot and break the ball, but in front of him, the Swede has been holding the ball on his shoulder and he is still strong. He has not given him a chance to steal the ball, but Baljuan can’t give up entanglement with Ljungberg because of this. It seems to the Spaniards that now he can still delay Florence’s counterattack speed and fight for his teammates. If he leaves words for this Swede, then the other party will probably follow vieri directly in the middle!
So when Ljungberg pushed Baljuan’s defense all the way to the vicinity of the penalty area, the Swede did the same thing, and the latter got a ball and put it into the Barcelona penalty area before Puyol came to double himself!