The Era of Emerald

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"Welcome everyone to the Alpi Stadium! Today is the highlight of the fifth round of the 1997-98 Serie A season. Last season's double-winning team, Fiorentina, challenged last season's league runner-up, the Bianconeri Juventus. !"

"In the past four rounds of the league, Fiorentina has shown a strong strength. The defending champion has achieved an impressive record of four victories, leading the standings with [-] points; Juventus' performance It is also very stable, as of now, the Bianconeri have two wins and two draws in the league and remain unbeaten. Although there is a four-point gap with the leader Fiorentina, the season has just started, and this gap is not that big.”

"Now, the head coaches of the two teams have announced the starting lineup for this game. For the home team Juventus, the starting goalkeeper is Peruzzi. Although this goalkeeper is very skilled in goalkeeping, he can be called a First-class goalkeeper, but his shortcomings are also very obvious. I wonder if Capello will take advantage of Peruzzi's weakness to attack Juventus' gate; the right back is Torricelli, and the left back is Pesoto, who played for Fiorentina, both players have the ability to go straight up and down the wing. They are an integral part of Juventus' offensive system. The central defender is partnered with French international Blanc and Uruguay. Montero; in the midfield, Di Livio, Deschamps, Tacchinardi and Zidane made their debut. The original main force, Antonio Conte, sat on the bench due to a long-term injury last season; the striker On the line, Zebra Prince Piero and Uruguayan striker Otero started together, and veteran Fonseca did not gain enough trust from coach Lippi after moving to Juventus, so he could only sit on the bench and wait for the opportunity."

"As for Fiorentina in the away game, Capello's head coach arranged the most commonly used four-four-two formation in this game. The goalkeeper Toldo, the four defenders from left to right are Roberto Carlos, Nesta, Fernando. Lara and Zambrotta, Redondo, Davies and Di Biagio played the three defensive midfielders, leaving only Effenberg to organize the attack in the frontcourt, and the striker partners were Vieri and Ronaldo."

While the commentator was chattering in the broadcast room, the players had already followed the referee team to the court.

Capello and Lippi shook hands and greeted each other on the sidelines. Compared with Capello, who had a serious and arrogant expression, Lippi's attitude seemed much more respectful.After all, whether it is in the player era or in the coaching position, the championship honors in the Silver Fox honor book cannot be compared with this gold medal coach.

The players on both sides also seemed quite friendly when they shook hands. After all, many of them are teammates in the national team and are already familiar with each other. Although the relationship between the two clubs of Fiorentina and Juventus is very bad, but This does not prevent the personal friendship between the players.

However, when the referee Corina blew the whistle to start the game, the harmonious atmosphere before the game immediately disappeared, replaced by a strong smell of gunpowder on the field.

The first to kick off was Juventus at home.

Pierrot, who kicked off in the middle circle, passed the ball back, and Zidane, who received the ball, passed the ball back to Deschamps, who was further back.

At this time, Vieri and Ronaldo had rushed towards the captain of the French national team according to Capello's pre-match arrangement, and launched a fierce frontcourt press against Didier Deschamps.

There is no doubt about the physical fitness of Vieri and Ronaldo, and their running is also very active and relentless, but Deschamps' ball-handling ability is also quite good, otherwise the two head coaches Lippi and Jacques would not Rest assured that the Frenchman alone provokes the important task of the team's offensive and defensive conversion hub.

Seeing someone rushing towards him from the opposite side, Deschamps lifted the ball and passed the ball to Di Livio on the left. Effenberg immediately rushed to defend Di Livio, but the latter directly passed the ball to the right Zidane in front cleverly avoided the defense of the German Tigers!

Zidane, who got the ball, did not dribble sloppily, but distributed the ball to the right, where Torricelli was sprinting at full speed.

Torricelli, who got in just in time, stopped the ball under his feet, but he didn't get room for a cross because Roberto Carlos had already rushed towards him.

Torricelli's strength lies in his physical fitness, he can tirelessly sprint up and down the wing, but his breakthrough ability is not outstanding, so when he found Carlos pounced on him, he immediately returned the ball. Passed to Zidane in the middle.

As soon as the French midfielder received the ball, Davis immediately rushed over to defend him closely, and waited for an opportunity to find a space where he could steal the ball.

After passing the defense of Davis and Redondo, Zidane flicked his ankle and sent the ball into the penalty area of ​​Fiorentina. The ball rolled accurately in front of Piero who was going forward!

Ferrara, who was going to pounce to defend Piero, was blocked by Otero, and could only watch the zebra prince rushing past him.

Seeing that Pierrot was about to form a one-handed goal, Nesta, another Fiorentina central defender on the field, arrived in time, blocked Pierrot's advancing route with his body, and blocked his kicking shot at the same time most of the space.

Under Nesta's personal entanglement, Piero had to barely speed up and take the ball for two steps, and then directly attacked the goal with his left foot!

Since Nesta had blocked most of Pierrot's shot angles before, Toldo easily used a sideways save to hold the shot in his arms.

"Counterattack! Counterattack!" Seeing that Toldo caught Piero's shot, Capello, standing on the sidelines, immediately yelled at his goalkeeper. Juventus' defensive ability in positional battles is very powerful , even if Fiorentina wants to score a goal in a head-to-head contest with the Bianconeri, it is quite difficult.

Relatively speaking, if the pace of the game can be accelerated and Juventus players can run, then the chances of a loophole in the opponent's defense will increase significantly, and Fiorentina will be able to score goals more easily.

Therefore, when explaining tactics to the players, Capello emphasized the necessity of sports warfare and quick counterattacks.

Toldo, who got the ball, quickly stood up from the turf, and threw the ball far away before the two Juventus forwards could withdraw from the penalty area!

Toldo's hand throw was very precise, and the ball flew directly to Effenberg's feet.

In between, the German tiger arched its buttocks, squeezed Deschamps behind him a step away, and then immediately turned around and sent a long pass!

Now, it's Florence's counterattack!

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