The Era of Emerald

() After defeating Lazio with a difficult goal at home, the national team game stipulations stipulated by FIFA came, and the international players of various clubs went to the national team to report, and this period of time is for Fiorentina, who is short of major generals on the front line , It was a rare chance to breathe. They encountered two fierce battles in a row in a week, which made the young Vieri and Inzaghi feel a little overwhelmed.

After all, these two players were not model workers in Zhuang Minge's previous life. Inzaghi was plagued by injuries from time to time throughout his career, and Vieri was even in Atletico Madrid, Lazio, Inter Milan and other teams. , Every season he will miss more than one-third of the league due to injury, so he is called "Mr. Half Season" by the fans.

Therefore, Ranieri had to be as careful as possible in the use of these two young players. In case they were all injured accidentally, Fiorentina would really have a "tragedy of destroying front".

After the game in Lazio, Fiorentina got a week-long rest until November 11th, the day that is stuck between the two international competitions, and they will usher in the second round of the Coppa Italia. , Fiorentina will go to the northern Italian city of Udine to challenge a dark polo team that has quietly risen in Serie A this season-Udinese.

For Udinese, who is newly promoted in Serie A this season, the team's performance after the start of the league can be described as amazing. The nine league games have achieved four wins, three draws and two losses, especially at home in the last game One to zero Lectra's powerful Juventus has caused countless experts to break their glasses.

When you mention Udinese, you have to mention a surname, that is Pozzo.

The most famous of the Pozzo family is Vittorio Pozzo. The Italian coach led the national team to two World Cup championships and has been in charge of the national team for 20 years.

It is also thanks to the blessing of the old Pozzo that the Pozzo family has a very special status in Italian football. Although they are not as rich and powerful as Berlusconi, Agnelli, Moratti and other families, in Italian football, The Pozzo family has more extensive network resources than these families, which is directly reflected in Udinese controlled by the Pozzo family.

For example, under the management of the Pozzo family, although Udinese adheres to the principle that there are no non-sale items in the team, as long as the transfer fee is high enough, anyone can take them away, but Udinese has almost no one. [-] players were poached by other teams at a low price by using Bosman clauses or secretly instigating players to transfer. Anyone who wants a player from Udinese can only honestly pay real money In this way, it is inevitable that there is no factor in which other teams sell the face of the Pozzo family.

Thanks to the hard work of the Pozzo family for decades, although Udinese's current lineup is not as star-studded as the Seven Sisters of Serie A, its first team also has many powerful players, such as German center Piet. Erhoff, Danish right-back Herwig, and Valerio Bertoto, considered one of the greatest Udinese captains ever...

Before the start of this game, because Batistuta had just recovered from his foot injury, he was banned from playing by the extremely responsible doctor Carter.At the same time, Rui Costa, Djorkaeff, Ferrara, and Di Biagio were all transferred by their respective national team coaches to play in the European Cup qualifiers, and there was no way to play in the weekend games. debut.

And the next weekend after the game with Udinese, Fiorentina will go to the Alpi Stadium in Turin to challenge the Bianconeri, perhaps considering this factor, so in this first round with Udinese In the contest against Lazio, Ranieri chose to send a starting lineup of substitutes + rotation players. Goalkeepers Guadalben, Fortunato and Zambrotta continued to start after the last game against Lazio. Ward and Filicano formed a central defender partnership, and the midfield was a combination of Effenberg, Tomasi, Kripa and Tacchinardi.

On the front line, Batistuta finally fully recovered after two weeks of recuperation. In this game, Ranieri put him on the bench to let him find the feeling of the game. The starters were Vieri and Inzaghi This pair of good friends.

And Zaccheroni, who has just coached Udinese this season, still has all the main players in his hands. Although Zaccheroni is called a crazy coach by many people because of his crazy offensive tactical style, this does not mean that he is Having achieved good results in Serie A this season, he was dazzled by this achievement. In fact, he is very clear-headed, knowing that with Udinese's current player configuration, it is impossible to reach the top six at the end of the season. European qualification.If you want to go to the European arena, you must start with the Coppa Italia.

As a result, Fiorentina's substitute defense line sadly ushered in the test of German giant Oliver Bierhoff in this game.

Although the current Bierhoff has not yet passed the baptism of the European Cup, and he is still quite immature in handling the ball, but at this time he has gradually shown the demeanor of the later "space fighter in the penalty area", with a height of 1.9 With a weight of 81 kilograms, Mi Yi suppressed the two central defenders of Fiorentina throughout the game.Filicano is seven centimeters shorter than him, and the Italian central defender, who is not outstanding in jumping, obviously can't compete with the German center for headers; and Verjoward's height is only 1.7 meters 36. At his peak, he was regarded as a Italy's most powerful man-marking central defender after Gentile, now [-] years old, although he still maintains a good competitive state, but facing the young and strong Bierhoff, Verjoward still looks old Many, with half Russian blood, have repeatedly fallen behind in physical confrontation as evidence.

Fiorentina, who was at a disadvantage defensively, also failed to open up the situation offensively. Vieri obviously had not fully grown up, and his ups and downs were completely stared to death by Betoto in this game, and he was sleepwalking on the court; After losing the fire support of Djorkaf and Costa, the two passing masters behind him, Inzaghi also couldn't find a tacit understanding with Effenberg, and the two never stepped on the same point.

The three defensive players in the midfield did not play much role in the game. This is mainly because Udinese's tactics with Bierhoff are quite simple and rude, that is, the two wide players get the ball directly. The kicking pass found Bierhoff's head and then bombed with the header, leaving Tomasi, Kripa and others with no energy but no place to display it.

As a result, Fiorentina lost the Coppa Italia game when the offense was unable to open the situation and the defense was firmly suppressed by the opponent's striker. Bierhoff scored a header in each half, Led Udinese to a [-]-[-] first-leg victory at the Friuli Stadium.