Due to a goal difference between Parma, ranked third in Serie A, and Juventus, ranked first in the league, the top three teams dare not be careless about the coming game.
Batty is still in Saudi Arabia to participate in the King’s Cup of Fahd. Therefore, Ranieri still sent vieri and Inzaghi’s starting striker combination, effenberg Dibiagio and Lana, who were absent from a game, to make their debut.
In the game, facing Parma (formerly in Parma and now playing for Florence), this strengthened Florence, although it lacked Batty in the front line, effenberg and djorkaeff led Florence in the midfield and completely suppressed dino baggio to lead Parma in the midfield, which made Florence two young strikers get more opportunities to face the goalkeeper directly in the game; However, two strikers in Parma, Zola and brolin, had to retreat frequently to catch the ball from their teammates’ feet. When they turned around to prepare for the attack, they sadly found that they were too far away from the opponent’s goal …
Midfielders are always the weakest link in Parma’s heyday, which is also a factor that prevents them from winning the league title.
In the end, with vieri’s heavy bombardment on the penalty area line in the fourth minute, Florence beat Parma at home and won Rome without bloodshed in Juventus, and continued to chase the top Juventus.
And one game, that is, the last game of the first cycle of Serie A, Florence will go to Milan to play AC Milan again.
Chapter 19 Fight the Rossoneri again
On the third day after the end of the 16th round of Serie A in Parma, Florence, which suffered from the attack recently, finally ushered in good news. batistuta, the top scorer of the team, ended the King’s Cup campaign in Fahd and returned to Florence to prepare for the game against AC Milan at the weekend.
AC Milan played extremely badly in Serie A last season. So far, Capello’s team has scored 5 wins, 7 draws, 4 losses and 22 points in 16 league games, only ranking sixth in Serie A, 15 points short of Juventus, which ranks first, and can announce its withdrawal from the championship battle of the season.
Fiorentina, on the other hand, is well-organized and has high morale after welcoming back batistuta, who is in excellent season. The fans are full of confidence that the team can win AC Milan away from home.
But as the saying goes, a thin camel is bigger than a horse, and there are still three pounds of nails. No matter how down and out this season, AC Milan swept the European super giants last season. Their coach is still the resourceful Capello.
Sure enough, as Zhuang Ge expected, after Capello’s adjustment for more than half a year, the spirit of AC Milan players is slowly recovering, and the residual influence of the World Cup in the United States is gradually dissipating. panucci replaced veteran Tassotti as the starter with similar organizational skills but better defensive ability. Bo Ban put his former compatriot savicevic on the bench.
On the first match, the Milanese launched an attack on Florence from two flanks to take advantage of the home court advantage. On the left, Paolo Maldini and panucci on the right were both said to be able to attack and defend well, plus a winner-take-all tiger Donadoni, but from the side configuration, AC Milan obviously had the advantage.
Next season, AC Milan’s tactics are very boring, otherwise it will not be able to create a record of "the Serie A champion with the least goals", although their quick counterattack is quite pleasing to the eye. After all, it is part of the game. Most of the time, they take back their defense at half-time and seize the opportunity to counterattack.
However, from before this season, massaro, who was in excellent condition, suddenly couldn’t find the shooting sight, while costacurta, the main central defender, slipped sharply. In particular, the newly introduced striker Di Canio didn’t exert his expected strength, which forced the conservative Capello to change his style and make the team play more actively-now the Milan player configuration is indeed more suitable for positional warfare than defensive counterattack.
The core of Milan’s attack has changed from savicevic to Bo Ban. The 26-year-old Croatian international is at the peak of his career, and he has both offensive and defensive skills, and AC Milan’s attack is driven by him.
Ranieri obviously did a good job in his homework before the game. Whenever Bo Ban gets the ball, crippa will immediately rush to disturb him. The head coach has arranged for him a very important thing, that is, to prevent Bo Ban as much as possible and not let him organize the attack easily.
Ranieri’s tactics were quite effective, and Milan got several offensive opportunities, all of which disappeared in this entanglement.
In the third minute of the game, Bo Ban once again caught the ball from albertini.
This time, however, Bo Ban learned to see that crippa rushed in and didn’t entangle with his opponent too much. Immediately, he gave the ball to Marco Simone in front.
Marco Simone has become the main scoring point of the Rossoneri this season after Van Basten and lentini seriously injured massaro and Papan. His aura-filled kicking and assault ability have brought enough vitality to Milan’s old frontcourt, and he is also one of the reasons why AC Milan can remain in the top six of the league this season.
When I saw Simone take the ball, Dibiagio immediately rushed over. As a result, I didn’t expect Simone to be much more flexible than himself. Although Dibiagio was fierce in defense and had a wide range of activities, he was still famous in Italian football, but he lost his center of gravity because of Simone’s fake action. When he saw Simone take advantage of the situation, he rushed past Dibiagio!
Although Dibiagio was passed by Simone, his reaction speed was good. He immediately turned around and collided with Simone from the side and rear. Dibiagio has an absolute advantage in physical fitness. Although he has been left behind by the other side at this time, he can still interfere with the other side.
See Florence defense didn’t appear chaos and the tall waist behind him was constantly interfering with himself. Simone didn’t force the ball-he wasn’t a rough player, but directly lifted the ball to Donadoni from the left!
Donadoni immediately competed with birindelli for speed. It is said that Donadoni can completely explode birindelli at the peak. However, now that he is not young, it is inevitable that his physical quality will be slippery. Even though Donadoni struggled for his life, birindelli took the lead in grabbing the ball. Milan’s attack opportunity was easily destroyed by Florence.
"AC Milan is old after all …" Zhuang Ge sighed sitting in the box of the San Siro Stadium.
"Yes, who would have thought that Milan would be at a loss in Europe next season?" Karin is also on the side, Milan is slipping and crying.
While talking, the trend of the game was gradually reversed from just AC Milan attacking Florence and being forced to defend. At the stage of the game, Milan players had to shrink their defense because of excessive physical exertion.
Although AC Milan is constantly fighting back to contain Florence’s attack, except Simone, Milan didn’t fight back against Florence’s attack by the master at the field, but there was no sign of slowing down. In addition to constantly passing back and forth in the midfield to create opportunities, several Florence players with excellent foot skills often made a forced breakthrough at the first opportunity, intending to make a path for themselves!
There are not many Fiorentina players with this ability, but it is not too few. djorkaeff is a effenberg, a batistuta and an Argentine. Although his skill is not very delicate, his physical quality ensures the success rate of breakthrough.
In the forty-fourth minute, just after being pulled outside the restricted area, Batty received the ball from effenberg, and then the Argentine God of War abruptly suppressed the defense with his strong body. costacurta quickly turned around with a buckle on his right foot, and roared and flew into Rossi’s gate before baresi came to assist the defense.
“Gooooooal！ Batistuta! The goal is batistuta! ! The Argentine God of War scored his second league goal of the season to help Florence lead AC Milan 1-0 away! ! ！”
Chapter 11 Unlucky Ghaza
In the half-game, Capello replaced Di Canio and Stefano Eranio respectively for massaro and Donadoni, who had been unable to run, trying to find an opportunity to equalize and overtake the score, but the passive situation of AC Milan in the field still did not change.
Taking advantage of the Milan players’ attacking opportunities, the Fiorentina players, under the command of midfielder effenberg, never stopped organizing the defense, but also looked for opportunities to launch a counterattack.
Milan players finally made a fatal mistake after a long attack. In the seventh minute of the game, albertini’s ball was broken and effenberg directly launched a counterattack against djorkaeff.
Djorkaeff immediately sprinted with the ball on the left side of the court. When he rushed to the restricted area line and was in a line, he made a decisive kick, and he also found the high-speed defense with batistuta. costacurta recklessly knocked down batistuta from behind in the restricted area. The referee decisively awarded a penalty and showed a red card to costacurta for the foul. Unfortunately, Batty took the penalty too hard and the ball went directly over the crossbar.
After costacurta was sent off, AC Milan became more passive with one player less, while Milan coach Fabio Capello changed veteran filippo galli to the main scorer Marco Simone and announced that he had given up the game in disguise.
Ranieri saw that Capello’s substitution was also white, and he immediately changed. He just returned to the team and his physical fitness was not finished. batistuta and two other foreign aid players also had a very tacit understanding to keep the score to the final whistle
In the end, Florence successfully scored three points at the San Siro Stadium.
Some people may ask why Capello wants to give up the game instead of trying to fight for it again. In fact, there is a reason.
First of all, at that time, AC Milan was less than one player, and trying to equalize the score meant consuming more physical strength, while most of Milan players were international players of various national teams, so their physical preparation was much worse;
Secondly, unlike the knockout rounds, the league schedule is very long. For giving up the championship competition and preparing for the team to rebuild Capello wholeheartedly, the gain and loss of a goal is nothing. What’s more, Serie A is just halfway through and there are still 17 rounds to end the loss. These three points are within Capello’s tolerance.
However, in another match at the same time, Juventus, which ranked first before the game, unexpectedly ended in a tragic defeat in Sardinia after being scored three goals by the home team Cagliari.
In fact, it’s no wonder that Lippi let the six main players of Juventus, including Viali and Baggio, play for various reasons before this game. At this time, the so-called "giant" teams were limited by foreign aid quotas, which made their first-team bench depth far less abundant than that of later generations.
In this way, Florence successfully surpassed the Bianconeri in the standings with the help of this victory and successfully returned to the top of the league!
This result made the Florence fans ecstatic, and now they support the team to finally overtake Juventus once again, one step closer to winning the league title!
This result also reminds the older generation of Florence fans that Florence won the Serie A championship in the 1969 season. Although there are still more than 17 rounds before the end of the season, who can say that Florence can’t win another Serie A championship trophy at the end of the season?
At this time, Zhuang Ge knows that the team must remain calm, because he knows very well that the more the game is in the second half of the season, the harder it will be to play, because the team has set its goals in the season, and it is obviously unnecessary to be blindly optimistic at this time.
What’s more, the ups and downs of these young players in Florence have not been fundamentally solved. In the absence of Batty, Inzaghi and Montera’s young striker French team brought a stable goal state. It can be seen that whoever is out of shape may be invisible for 9 minutes.
Moreover, despite Florence’s steady victory in one game after another, the mood of Florence’s players in the game was a little less exciting than that in the Iraqi stage of the season, and then Florence met an opponent who was not a relegation team in the league, and it was not time to laugh.
Zhuang Ge personally went to talk to coach Ranieri and asked him to pay attention to the atmosphere in the team and not to let excessive optimism spread in the team.
A week later, in the tenth round of Serie A, Zhuang Ge felt that he had the same "crow mouth" skill as Bailey.
A victory over Juventus Cagliari continued to play in Sardinia at home. They bit Florence twice in the game. This team, which had a poor performance in half a season, rebounded in half a season. You know, before beating Juventus, they had been beaten by Sampdoria for six consecutive rounds, but they were able to sweep Juventus with three goals in one round, which proved that they had already erupted under the pressure of relegation-Cagliari performed quite well in this game and they resisted. In order to attack Florence, Muzzi, the local center, snatched three points from Florence at half time and made Florence return to the second place in the league again.
After winning this game, Cagliari ranked 16th in the standings, but only two points away from the 15th competitor Genoa.
At this time, the only thing that can make Florence fans feel at ease is that their team doesn’t need to avoid relegation and have a headache like two years ago.
Seeing that the team lost the game, Zhuang Ge also had some headaches at this time. Although he asked the team to strive for a European championship as much as possible when he set the season goal last July, the main goal was the Winners Cup. However, he did not expect that Florence was only two points behind the top spot with batistuta’s continuous goals for half a season, and there was a chance to win the league title anyway.
"Forget it, it’s a step to take a step." Zhuang Ge can comfort himself so much. After all, there are several great gods in the physiotherapy center who are in charge of Florence. The chance of large-scale injuries has been reduced by themselves. Whether it can win the league championship depends on God.
Just when the Zhuangge team was entangled in Juventus in the league and had a headache, another thing that Zhuangge said in Lazio training ground finally happened.
Young central defender crime training ground! Lazio general seriously injured for half a year! This is the headline of the next day’s "Rome Sports Daily"
The thing is, Alessandro Starr, a fledgling young centre-back in a Lazio training, fully showed the side of his newborn calf that he was not afraid of tigers-in a confrontation, he was young and energetic, and he overturned gascoyne with a flying shovel, causing fractures of the fibula and tibia of the English.
Although gascoyne, who was lying on a stretcher, always stressed that "it was an accident, not Sta’s fault", at that time gascoyne was the number one star loved by Lazio fans, so the Biancocelesti fans pointed their finger at the young Italian central defender who was only one year old, and suffered great public pressure.
Although gascoyne, who lives in the hospital, took the initiative to clarify to Lazio fans that the foul was not Sta’s fault and appealed to the Biancocelesti fans to forgive the child, it had little effect. Young Sta was excluded from the team because of this foul.
Starr has been sidelined at Lazio?
It seems that it is possible to bring a surprise to Florence.
Zhuang Ge put his hand in the newspaper and thought …
Chapter 111 Starr temptation ()
Zhuang Ge’s trip to Rome was a temporary decision. After seeing the news that Stain accidentally injured gascoyne and was besieged by Lazio fans, he decided to go to Lazio headquarters in the east of Rome in person.
Remembering the news that he received and confirmed from antonioni one day ago that "Sta is not firmly settled in Lazio", Zhuang Ge suddenly felt that he had been severely hit by a super big pie falling from the sky.