The Era of Emerald

() "goooooooal! The goal is scored! The goal is Fiorentina's new aid this season, Brazilian striker Ronaldo! A beautiful down-to-the-ground shovel!" Not sparing his saliva, "Let's take a look at the replay... Originally, Batty's header pass was a little bit big, and the place where Ronaldo started is completely out of reach for his shot. Yes, but this young Brazilian striker used his outstanding explosive power to complete the attack!"

"Now that Fiorentina is leading by one goal, can coach Van Gaal make effective tactical adjustments to bring Ajax back to a disadvantage? Let us wait and see!"

Van Gaal, who was standing on the sidelines, frowned. Of course he could see that Fiorentina had been attacking his right flank desperately. After leaving, Ajax's right-sided defense has indeed become an obvious weakness, and there are no players in his hands who can make up for this loophole...

When Blind and Gianni Keida took turns to fill in and couldn't completely stabilize Ajax's right-sided defense, Van Gaal couldn't let more people help defend-after all, Ajax is full-time There are only a few defensive players. If they all fill the hole on the right side, then the rest of the defense line will be even weaker. After part of the defensive force was attracted to the right, Djorkaeff's cross directly caused the Fiorentina players to form a situation of playing more and less in the penalty area. This situation is more dangerous than simply being blown off the right... …

"Boys! Hit them all back! Can't be suppressed by the opponent!" Van Gaal made a tactical change of attacking instead of defending, and shouted from the sidelines. He asked the team to change their policy and stop going to Florence. Competing for the midfield, giving full play to Overmars' speed advantage, allowing Fiorentina to concentrate on attacking their right flank flawlessly.

From Van Gaal's coaching resume, it can be found that although the Dutch coach is Michels' total defense faction, his tactical thinking is more inclined to "total defense" and relatively neglects the work of "full defense" A lot, otherwise it would not always give people a feeling of unstable defense when coaching Barcelona later.

Ranieri on the other side obviously also heard Van Gaal's roar. Tinker's temper is obviously not as violent as Van Gaal's. The direction waved a few times, and the meaning was quite clear:

"Give me back to participate in the defense, let the Dutch attack out, and we will fight back."

With Ronaldo such an explosive striker and rock-solid defense, coupled with Effenberg who has excellent long-pass ability, Fiorentina will naturally be more comfortable in defensive counterattacks.

Although the Ajax players won the ball, they lacked the ability to attack after Kluivert, Kanu and others left. They simply have no ability to penetrate the steel defense made by Florence!

"Look at Fiorentina's defense! The Fiorentina players who took the lead strengthened their defense, while Ajax, who was trying to equalize the score, couldn't even find a chance to shoot!"

After the score fell behind, Ajax stepped up their offense. However, as the commentator said, under Fiorentina's tight defense, they couldn't even find a chance to shoot——Ajax's offensive ability is overall It's not particularly good to say the least, otherwise he wouldn't have been abruptly dragged down by AC Milan's seriously declining defense line until the end of the game.

After Kluivert and Kanu, the two forwards with the most height and impact in the frontcourt, have transferred and left one after another, Ajax's frontcourt can no longer find a player who can play for his teammates and at the same time The forward who pierced the defense line.

Litmanning's biggest problem is that he is not strong enough and his body is not strong enough. Perhaps in a one-on-one situation, Finnish skaters can rely on their own skills to make their opponents dizzy, but the defense of the Italian team has never been pure Relying on the individual ability of a certain player, but a whole well-ordered system!In this case, Littmanning, who was a sudden arrow, was naturally lost in the steel Great Wall of Florence.

As a result, the next game began to become dull. Ajax basically could not find any chances in front of Fiorentina's defense. Da Er was shown a yellow card by the referee. Although Overmars can tear through the defense of Florence's wing with his own speed, this kind of move is meaningless when there is no high point in the middle.

What makes the Ajax team feel ashamed is that although they have been controlling the ball during this period of time, they have not even completed a single shot. Fiorentina's defensive players will appear in their shot every time On the route, although Ajax has many players with excellent long-distance shooting ability, such as Laudrup, Ronald De Boer, and Littmanning, they still cannot easily complete the goal. On the contrary, Fiorentina has been threatening their gate with sharp defensive counterattacks. During this period, Ronaldo, Djorkaeff and others all got good chances to shoot, but they were not lucky enough to win this game Second goal.

In the No.307 minute of the first half of the game, Ajax won the team's first shot after conceding the goal-Overmars used his speed on the left to forcefully break through Birindley's defense After a forced pass, Felicano's header did not reach far. Laudrup got the ball and made a cross pass out of space. , as a result, the ball flew directly off the crossbar due to excessive force...

After finally scoring a goal, Ajax's morale, which was already declining, has risen again. After all, it is easy to hit the players' self-confidence if they can't even create a goal in a long-term attack.

So, in the next few minutes, Ajax's players created several more opportunities, but they still failed in front of Fiorentina's steely defense.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, Van Gaal did not wait for his players, but returned to the locker room from the player tunnel by himself with a straight face. Expressed considerable dissatisfaction.

"Oh! What did we see? Van Gaal left the players and walked into the tunnel by himself. From the screen, we can see that his expression is quite serious. It seems that he is very dissatisfied with the team's performance in the first half. Satisfied, the Ajax lads looked like they were going to suffer at half-time."