After all, being willing to stay in Florence in this situation is the kind of veteran who is loyal to the team and is ignorant.
While Zhuang Ge was actively planning, Capello was in the training ground to supervise the firstteam players to prepare for the game.
Although Florence was very excited about the achievement of five consecutive league titles, Capello did not leave room for the players to celebrate because the second leg of the semifinal of the Champions League will be held at Frankie Stadium in three days.
At 7 o’clock on the evening of May 5th, the stands of Frankie Stadium were full of people, and all walks of life made great efforts to cooperate with Florence. This time, the advantage of playing at home was fully benefited, except that more than 3,000 Bayern fans from afar huddled in the corner of the stands and the visiting team cheered, the rest were filled with Florence fans, and the whole stadium was dyed purple to represent the home team!
Here in Florence, Capello sent toldo, the strongest goalkeeper in his eyes, with four defenders, Carlos, Starr, Stam and Zambrotta. Makelele and Lei Dongduo formed a double waist. Gattuso continued his role as a bodyguard in midfield. effenberg was in charge of directing the forward line, while the relatively dexterous combination of Ronaldo and Inzaghi maximized the weakness of Bayern’s defense line.
Look at Bayern coach Hitzfeld, who is also doing his best, and in order to ensure that the team can return to the Champions League final after a full 12 years, this coach has arranged a set of fivethreetwo formations in this game, which is to fight Florence’s defensive counterattack!
Goalkeeper Kahn, three central defenders, Thomas Linke, Kufuor and matthaeus, lined up, tanat and Thomas Strunz separated, and Jeremiah went out to defend the back. Rui Costa was in the middle, and Saliha Midzic was dispatched to swim on the side. Zickler’s shadow striker stayed strong and Iankel was at the forefront as a tactical fulcrum and a siege hammer.
Due to the importance attached to Florence’s BUGlike striker combination, Hitzfeld played the third central defender with great courage in this game. After all, several battles have proved that the third central defender can restrain the opponent quite effectively in the face of a team playing with two forwards. Although there is Jeremy Metz in the back, tanat and Thomas Strunz on the flanks have quite good ability to make up for their teammates, and their excellent physical fitness and running ability are enough to support them to help Jeremy Metz defend the middle road in the game.
Tightening our own fence, adding Costa ball, Saliha Midzic’s speed and breakthrough, and Iankel as the bridgehead, the defensive counterattack tactics of Hitzfeld’s game have been basically formed
By the way, although Bayern’s players are not as famous as Florence’s players, they are not lost to Florence at all in strength. Therefore, Bayern Munich has won the best players in the whole German football. For example, former Stuttgart striker Elbert, basler with super Mario, Hamburg Angel Wing Saliha Midzic, and midfielder Jeremiah, who was trained by Munich 16, are all bayern’s efforts in the German transfer market in recent seasons.
It is not surprising that Bayern can become the most competitive team in the Bundesliga in Europe, because this team was built with German strength.
It is beckenbauer and Hess who can put the best players in the whole country into a team. They have something to do …
On the other hand, if German football can’t even train this person, then Mr. beckenbauer won’t have to wave his precious brain cells to carry out any youth training revival plan. Just go back to Munich and Hess to play Bayern Galaxy battleship.
Chapter 776 Overtaking
In the stands, more than 40,000 Florence fans cheered, and the referee blew his whistle to declare the second leg of the Champions League semifinal between Florence and Bayern Munich official!
After the game, Bayern players didn’t attack immediately. In the middle circle, Iankel quickly gave the ball to Rui Costa behind him. After receiving the ball, the Portuguese midfielder didn’t give the Fiorentina players a chance to grab him around. The ball was returned directly to matthaeus behind him.
Although matthaeus is not the super soldier who can run for 90 minutes without taking a breath with age, his performance on the court has become more and more sophisticated with time. The accumulation of technical skills and experience allows him to rest assured that he will give the ball to matthaeus instead of to Jeremias, who is closer to him. It is because the Portuguese think that if this small technical teammate takes the ball, he may be confused by Gattuso’s mad dog running around the field and some irreparable consequences will occur.
In this way, Bayern players mistakenly told everyone that they were going to play away from home at Frankie Stadium, where Capello was best at defensive counterattack tactics to deal with the Italian coach who coached Florence!
Seeing that Bayern was ready, the Fiorentina players gave up decisively in the competition stage, taking advantage of the opponent’s unstable position to force Bayern to take a Mawei through crazy frontcourt. After all, the game has just started, and their own side is just one goal behind. There is no need to work so hard. In case they run to the end and lose their physical strength, it will be the rhythm of being hanged by their opponents.
At the same time, after seeing Hitzfeld’s starting lineup, Capello was so angry that he secretly scolded the Bayern coach for daring to pose in front of him as an anticounterattack expert. Isn’t this a slap in the face?
However, although Bayern Munich put on a defensive counterattack posture and blocked most of the dangerous areas in front of their own goal by running a lot and compressing defense, Florence players and Capello were not experienced in the new recruits’ egg contest, and they quickly found a solution after a short period of inadaptability.
Although it is the policy to send vieri, a powerful center, to attack Bayern Munich’s defense exhibition according to the current situation, Capello can never make a substitution at this time because the game is just now.
Because if you really do this, it will be a big blow to Capello and the replaced players. Capello may affect his prestige in the team department and people will question his tactical arrangement ability after the game. The players in exchange will think that Capello doesn’t trust him, which will lead to a series of unnecessary locker room conflicts …
Therefore, in the current situation of Nengli, Capello gives a quite unified response, that is, by taking advantage of Florence’s number in midfield to control the rhythm of the game and then mobilizing Bayern’s defense through nonstop ball to find a fatal opportunity!
Although Bayern Munich also has the midfielder Costa, no matter how awesome Costa is, he is still a person after all. However, there are two masters in Florence, Lei Dongduo and effenberg, who are not inferior to him in organizational ability and better than him in physical fitness. Under normal circumstances, fists are naturally difficult to compete with four hands, and Costa’s state today is obviously in the socalled normal range
So in the situation of taking the initiative, Florence players in Lei Dongduo and effenberg command constantly launched an offensive against Kahn to guard the gate!
In the 23rd minute of the game, Lei Dongduo and effenberg played a twoone game in the middle of the road. After rushing to grab Jeremiah, the latter picked the ball for Ronaldo and the alien with a tiger’s heart. After a sudden acceleration, they easily dumped and guarded him. matthaeus received the effenberg ball, and then faced the battle. Kahn succeeded in pushing the far corner of the goal in Florence and pulled the two teams back to the same starting line!
Ronaldo’s goal caused a lot of panic among Bayern players, because everything they did for this game was to keep the advantage of the first leg. Now, less than half an hour after the whistle sounded, their side was breached by their opponents. Doesn’t this mean that most of their defensive and counterattack tactical arrangements before the game have become achievements?
After all, in the situation that both sides have returned to the same starting line, it is no longer necessary for Florence to put a lot of pressure on the defense line in the backcourt as envisaged by Hitzfeld, but it can continue to put pressure on Bayern’s defense line and at the same time divide enough energy to take care of their own defense and avoid being attacked by them.
What’s the point of defending and fighting back on your own side when the other side can already tighten the fence?
Therefore, even Germans who are famous for their willpower can’t help but shake up in the face of such a situation.
Fiorentina players, on the other hand, have well carried out the principle of taking advantage of your illness to kill you taught by Capello, seized the opportunity of Bayern players’ inattention, and continued to attack after the game resumed, without giving the other side a chance to make adjustments!
Because the Fiorentina players know very well that Bayern’s experience is not much worse than theirs. If they are allowed to adjust themselves, the game will be difficult to play …
So with more than 20 minutes left in the halftime, Florence kept Bayern Munich, the German Bundesliga overlord, down in the halftime. Thousands of Bayern fans watched them support the players to defend and were too busy to devote extra energy to the counterattack!
In the 42nd minute, after nearly 20 minutes of indiscriminate bombing, the goal of the visiting team finally collapsed in front of Inzaghi. A series of wonderful remedies saved Bayern Munich Kahn several times. This time, he was able to watch the ball fly into the goal guarded by Super Pi Bo.
TwotoFiorentina finally overtook Bayern in the total score before the halftime!
The end of chapter 777
When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the halfgame, Bayern Munich players hurried back to the visiting team’s locker room under the leadership of Hitzfeld. The head coach needed to adjust the players’ mentality during this halftime, and at the same time, he had to figure out a way to deal with Florence’s control flow, so as to turn the team around in the halfgame. Hitzfeld can be said to be quite arduous.
Look at the players here in Florence, although their expressions are also very serious, but the halftime lead of 20 has brought them confidence, which still makes them show a little joy in their brow. After all, if this score advantage can be maintained until the end of the game, Florence will become the second team to appear in the Champions League finals for four consecutive years! (Note that the first one was Real Madrid in 19561996)
However, Capello, the head coach of the team, did not feel careless because of this. After all, Bayern Munich is a German team anyway, and the most famous German in football is to reverse the turnaround case. Capello certainly does not want him and Florence to become German names.
So during the intermission, Hitzfeld and Capello became the busiest two people. They should not only make targeted adjustments to some loopholes in the team at halftime, but also stabilize the players’ mentality to avoid the collapse caused by being too optimistic or pessimistic. The key point is that the two coaches also have to guess what tactics the other coach will adopt at halftime, whether he will make tactical adjustments himself and so on.
Although the 15minute intermission seems a little long for the fans, it is actually quite short for the coaches of both sides, especially Capello and Hitzfeld, two tactical masters.
However, after the halfgame, Bayern players’ mental state was greatly improved. In the game, they didn’t just shrink from defense like halfgame, but played some good counterattacks with Costa’s ball and command. Unfortunately, Stam and Starr led Florence’s defense line to be quite stable. The former kept a close eye on the same person, burly Iankel, and the latter didn’t let Zickler leave his sight at all, leaving Bayern players no chance to fight back.
Seeing that Iankel didn’t play a tactical fulcrum, his slow moving speed and heavy body made it difficult for him to keep an eye on Stam, so Hitzfeld changed Iankel to stay faster in the 60 th minute of the game, and Zickler was the first to look for opportunitiesnot because he didn’t want the most reliable Elbert to play, but because the Bayern striker was injured in the previous game with Hamburg, he could not directly reimburse him for playing this key game on behalf of Bayern this evening.
how could we be so passive if Elbert was present? Rui and he cooperated with each other for a drink! Seeing that although the single striker worked very hard, his performance was worse than that of the Brazilian, Zickler Hitzfeld thought indignantly, But with Sauer’s help, the equal number of midfield players should be able to create more opportunities. I hope that Alexander (Zickler) and Hassan (Saliha Midzic) can seize these opportunities and don’t seem to be able to fight with that guy Carlsten (Iankel) and even that guy Stam can’t run away!
I have to say that Hitzfeld’s substitution was a bit late, and Sauer was still a complete glass man, but his adjustment effect was still quite little. When a healthy Sauer appeared on the court, Bayern had much stronger control over the midfield than before. Rui Costa was no longer alone in the midfield and Florence was no longer the only place.
However, although we have regained part of the midfield and controlled the attack, it has improved a lot, but this does not mean that Bayern Munich will be able to regain the score. Now the initiative of the game is still in Florence. Sauer and Costa are a little thin, and some of them are easily forced by the Florence players who defend them or directly put them down when organizing the attack, thus being forced to interrupt the planned offensive.
Although this can also harvest some frontcourt setpieces, Fiorentina players are very cautious about the foul locations and rarely take the initiative to give opponents the opportunity to kick the ball with excellent positionit was only after being taught many times by Italian ball masters such as recoba that Fiorentina players realized their consciousness. Otherwise, according to Gattuso’s butcher temper, he won’t care where you take the ball, and he will directly go for the ball foot.
It is precisely because of this that it is difficult for Bayern to create good scoring opportunities with these Italian goals. Hitzfeld is so angry that Capello and Fiorentina players are insidious and cunning that they disrupt Bayern’s offensive deployment in this way.
However, Hitzfeld himself has to admit that Florence’s move is quite effective. If he is the head coach of Florence, he will definitely take such a move to delay the game and at the same time disrupt the opponent’s offensive rhythm.
In this way, as time goes by, Bayern players are getting impatient on the scene. After all, there is not much time left, and their comeback may naturally become smaller and smaller.
Just when Florence fans thought victory was in sight, effenberg and Lei Dongduo almost suppressed the whole game. Rui Costa suddenly showed his fangs at this timein the 92nd minute of the game, after receiving Sauer’s return in the middle circle, the Portuguese did not wait for Gattuso and effenberg to attack, but directly sent a short foot with a length of more than 60 meters in the backcourt!
From the right, Cesali Ha Midzic jumped out of the gap between Carlos and Starr’s defense and received Costa’s ingenious pen to form a single knife. Finally, he evaded the attack and toldo pushed the shot!
Two to one, this angel wing from Bosnia and Herzegovina finished the lore of Florence at the last minute of stoppage time!