The Era of Emerald

As the World Cup qualifiers officially settled, the international players who played for various national teams returned to their clubs and began to prepare for the upcoming games.

From now until February next year, no national team will play a game, and European clubs don't have to worry about being disturbed by the fifa virus.Therefore, this period of time has naturally become a time for all teams to strive for results, and Florence is no exception.

On November 11th, Serie A reignited the flames of war. Fiorentina, with a well-organized lineup, ushered in their opponents in the eighth round of the league at the Frankie Stadium, the Pepper Lecce team from southern Italy.

After the start of the game, Fiorentina first scored a header in the first half No. 14 minutes by Vieri, then the alien Ronaldo scored twice in the game, and Kroos and Inzaghi each came off the bench. With one goal and five goals from four forwards, Viola finally beat Lecce [-]-[-], and continued to lead the standings with an impressive record of eight victories.

Three days later, Fiorentina ushered in the fourth round of the Champions League group stage. This time Viola still played at home, but their opponents were replaced by La Liga giants Real Madrid.

Since Real Madrid is currently two points behind Fiorentina in the group standings, and the point gap between Leverkusen and Real Madrid behind them is not obvious, German coach Heynckes will do his best in this game.

The goalkeeper Ilgner, the four defenders are Zieger, Hierro, Sanchis Jr. and Panucci; Kalumbu is the single midfielder, and the front midfielder is the Netherlands, whose running range can cover the entire midfield Seedorf, Raul continued to be his virtual left midfielder, because Amavisca was tired due to injury, so this time Real Madrid's high-quality youth training product Victor got a starting opportunity; On behalf of the Croatian national team, he played two bloody battles with Ukraine, which has the twin stars of Rebrov and Shevchenko, in the play-offs. Jin suffered a slight injury to his left foot in the game and was directly ruled out by Heynckes. Outside the list, the young center Morientes, who was transferred from Zaragoza this summer, will replace him in the starting lineup. He will partner with Yugoslav striker Mijatovic in this game. Take on the important task of attacking the city for Real Madrid.

Capello didn't dare to be careless about this game. Although Fiorentina is now two points ahead of Real Madrid, everyone knows that this advantage is not safe. As long as Fiorentina is careless or unlucky in a certain game and loses, Then they will immediately be surpassed by Real Madrid, who has been eyeing behind them.

Therefore, tonight, Capello also sent all the main players in his hands to the field.

Goalkeeper Toldo, Roberto Carlos and Zambrotta are separated on the left and right, Nesta and Ferrara are partnered as central defenders, and in front of them is the three midfielder combination of Redondo, Davis and Tomasi .

Since Real Madrid's wing attack combination is quite sharp, Fiorentina's wing must undertake a much heavier defensive task than usual, and must also provide the team with the necessary help on the offensive end.

Therefore, as Fiorentina's starting full-backs in this game, Carlos and Zambrotta expressed a lot of pressure.

As for the front midfielder, because Capello expected that Heynckes would inevitably choose Kalumbu, who is more defensive in the midfielder position, so that Real Madrid does not appear to be too top-heavy on both offensive and defensive ends, so he will be more confrontational. sè's Effenberg was included in the starting list.

Although Rui Costa is also a master player, Capello, who strives to be safe, still reluctantly put him on the bench in case of emergency.

Allowing Costa, Effenberg, Redondo and other first-class midfielders to compete in turn, such a luxurious behavior in European football at this time, it is estimated that only Fiorentina can do it.

As for the striker, Ronaldo continued to start. The alien's excellent foot skills and breakthrough are a great weapon against Real Madrid's defense. The other striker is Batistuta. The Argentine god of war is responsible for attracting Hierro and Xiaosang in the frontcourt Keith's attention is to screen for Ronaldo, and when necessary, he will also serve as a frontcourt pillar in the team's counterattack to make the ball for his teammates.

Compared with the first round, although the venue was changed from the Bernabéu to the Frankie Stadium, Capello's tactical thinking has not changed in any way, that is, on the premise of stabilizing his own defense line, he will resolutely fight Real Madrid's counterattack and bully. The only thing is that the central defenders Hierro and Sanchez Jr. turn slowly, and the recovery speed is not fast.

After the start of the game, Real Madrid, which took the lead in kicking off, quickly launched an offensive, but the attack of the Blancos was quickly hindered-Victor and Panucci's right-sided offensive was blocked by Carlos and David, who moved to the left to help defend Si teamed up to choke to death and had to transfer the ball to the middle, looking for an opportunity to continue attacking and break the opponent's goal.

Although Seedorf is a first-class midfielder, his advantage lies in protecting the ball and playing the ball in a small area. Compared with Costa and Effenberg in terms of organization, there is still a certain gap. The ball is not where he shines.In addition, Seedorf has a good long-range shot and free kick skills, so the Dutchman is qualified as a good helper with organizational skills, but he is not a top ten player.

So at this time, the weakness of Real Madrid's midfielder was exposed: after Redondo's transfer and Michel's old age, Real Madrid's control over the midfielder began to decline sharply.After Ranieri took charge of the coach, in order to solve this problem, Tinker boldly changed Real Madrid's offensive style. The attack began to be launched more from the two wings, and then the two forwards in front and Raul, the dummy left. Avant-garde completes the shot.

This tactic seems simple, but it works unexpectedly in Spanish football, which advocates gorgeous style of play, because La Liga teams often pass the ball for the sake of passing the ball in the game. With the strength of Real Madrid players, they can grasp the Take the opportunity to hit a few counterattacks and you can finish the game and call it a day.

However, Real Madrid's tactics seemed extremely weak when facing Fiorentina, not only because Fiorentina was already an expert in defensive counterattacks, it was impossible to be sloppy enough to give the opponent such an opportunity; Lacking a real organizer and the ability to directly tear apart the opponent's defense with a pass from the center, this slightly monotonous wing attack tactic is easily marked to death when facing an Italian team of comparable strength.

The reason why Real Madrid was able to gain a two-goal lead in the last match against Fiorentina was not because of how good they were on the offensive end, but because of the flashes of the stars - Dave Suker This is the case with Raul's goals. The Fiorentina players did not miss the defensive system before they lost the ball, but Real Madrid scored goals by relying on the personal abilities of these two players.

Therefore, this time against Fiorentina in the away game, the Real Madrid players are actually still very uncertain-God knows if there is any luck this time, to have a burst of inspiration to get rid of the tortoise shell in front of them?

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