The Era of Emerald

Fiorentina's counterattack fully demonstrated the lack of experience of Piero and Otero. If Ravanelli or Vialli were by Toldo's side just now, they would never see the ball being thrown. The opponent's goalkeeper immediately withdraws from the penalty area after pounced, but will interfere with Toldo, so that the teammates behind him have enough time to retreat to their own half to organize the defense line and prevent Fiorentina's quick counterattack.

Therefore, Piero and Otero immediately withdrew from the penalty area after their plan to make up shots in front of the goal failed. Juventus had actually handed over the initiative of the game to the Florentines.

After getting the ball, Ronaldo didn't stop at all, and didn't even slow down his sprint speed. He just took the ball in such a big stride and went straight to Juventus' goal!

Since Torricelli and Pesotto had already rushed across the midfield line to participate in the attack, when Fiorentina started to counterattack, Juventus, who was in a hurry to defend, could mobilize only two defensive midfielders and two central defenders. These four players; and the players that Fiorentina invested in the counterattack for the first time were only Vieri and Ronaldo...

If it is purely from the comparison of the number of people, the situation of the Bianconeri is not so bad.

But please don't forget that although Juventus has more people defending, Blanc, who is the closest to Ronaldo among them, is also three or four meters away from the aliens at this time, and the distance between the two is increasing. The passage of time keeps expanding.

Blanc is a very good defender. Years of accumulated experience have made him more sophisticated in positioning and judging the ball path, but his age has prevented him from being comparable to the young Ronaldo in terms of speed.

Well, even if Blanc is ten years younger, he still can't catch up with the current Ronaldo. Although the alien's speed at the peak is not as fast as Irving and Henry, it is not something these defenders can easily catch up with.

Although Montero also wanted to return to the defense quickly, he was entangled by Vieri. The latter kept blocking his return route with his body while running, making it impossible for him to advance at full speed.

As a result, Blanc and Montero could only watch as Ronaldo dribbled the ball into the team's penalty area.

After rushing into the penalty area with the ball, Ronaldo did not give Peruzzi the opportunity to block his shot angle, nor did he make any fake moves to try to deceive his opponent. Instead, he swung his right foot while running and hit the goal directly!

The ball rushed to the near corner of the goal quickly. Although Peruzzi, who sensed Ronaldo's intention, immediately made a save action by falling to the ground and stretched his arms as far as possible to hope to touch the ball, but his efforts finally succeeded. It was useless.

"goooooooal! Two to zero! It was Ronaldo who scored the goal! Fiorentina expanded their lead with an alien goal in the No.203 minute of the first half! Juventus' current situation is a bit dangerous, if Coach Lippi can't think There is a way to get back the gap of two goals as soon as possible, I am afraid that when Collina blows the final whistle, it will be a miserable defeat for the Bianconeri."

Of course, Lippi on the sidelines also realized this, but he did not order the players to attack Fiorentina's goal immediately as the commentator expected, but directed the Juventus players on the field to tighten the fence and hold the fence firmly. Hold your ground and fight the battle again!

However, the Bianconeri's offensive has weakened a lot compared to before losing the ball. Pesoto began to stay more in the backcourt to participate in the defense instead of pressing for assists, in order to better guard against Fiorentina's quick counterattack.

This move by Lippi puzzled the commentator. After all, Juventus is already two goals behind. Actively weakening the attack power is tantamount to handing over the victory to the Fiorentina... Could it be that the game has only started for more than 20 minutes? , Lippi intends to give up the game?

And Capello nodded secretly after seeing Lippi's move, and said in his heart that this opponent is really not easy. He can still recognize the current situation in the unfavorable situation of two goals behind, and realize that Juventus is now Player configuration, it is not realistic to break through Fiorentina's goal through positional warfare.

While Zidane had created a good scoring chance earlier, it was more a result of the Frenchman's lateral movement which drew Redondo, Davies and Zambrotta away from their defense at the same time. The position created a good opportunity, and this kind of accidental phenomenon was obviously inaccurate in Lippi's eyes.

Lippi knows that Juventus' biggest problem in terms of offense at this time is that their offense does not have enough levels. If Piero and Otero are the first line of attack, then they can keep up behind them to form a second line The only offensive players are Zidane and Di Livio.If Di Liviola goes to the wing to attack, after that, Zidane will only be left with a bare commander in the players involved in the attack. Didier Deschamps and Tacchinardi's defensive ability is quite good, but in the long-range On the one hand, there is really more than enough energy.

Therefore, Lippi chose to stabilize the defense first and delay the rest of the first half, and wait until the intermission to make targeted adjustments to the team.Although Lippi can also take the initiative to make substitutions and adjustments in the first half, if he really does so, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction with the player who was substituted. This is a situation that Lippi does not want to see; and doing so It is also equivalent to Lippi himself slapping himself in the face, admitting that his pre-match arrangement is completely incapable of dealing with the Fiorentina team in front of him. This kind of situation is even more unwilling to see Lippi!

After talking about the adjustments on Lippi's side, let's look at Capello's side again.I saw the gold medal coach also made a gesture on the sidelines, and then Fiorentina also began to shrink the formation. Except for the two forwards Vieri and Ronaldo, the rest of the people withdrew to their own half to participate in the defense.

The leading Fiorentina did not take the initiative to attack, and Juventus also began to tighten the fence to reduce the offensive force. Under such circumstances, the game began to become dull, and the fans sitting in front of the TV watching the game could not help being infected by this atmosphere A little drowsy.

In this way, Fiorentina ended the first half with a two-to-zero advantage.

"Haha, Manager Moji, it looks like our Fiorentina will win the game this time." Taking advantage of the intermission, Zhuang Mingge, who was sitting in the VIP box watching the game, couldn't help but shiver in front of Mo Laohu.

"Chairman Corleone, it's a bit premature for you to say that." Even though he said that, Moji still felt very uncomfortable. After all, it doesn't feel good to lose face.Therefore, Mo Laohu became dissatisfied with Lippi, the head coach who has always been supportive, and said to himself, why don't you save face for me!