The Era of Emerald

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While fans and experts all over Europe were discussing which team could stop Fiorentina, the fifth round of the UEFA Champions League group stage came quietly.

This time, Fiorentina will go to Anfield, one of the most famous stadiums in England, where they will compete with Liverpool.

Since Real Madrid, which is currently ranked second in the group, has only scored five points, if Liverpool make good use of the remaining two games, the chances of qualifying from this death group are still very high.

For the Liverpool people, the last round of the contest with Real Madrid at the Bernabéu Stadium is a game that must be absolutely won, because the result of that game is likely to directly determine the outcome of the two teams in the Champions League this season. destiny.

Similarly, in the second round against Fiorentina, the Liverpool people must also do their best to win. In case Real Madrid get rid of Leverkusen in the away game but the Red Army is killed by Fiorentina, the last round of the game will also be useless. significance.

Therefore, for this crucial game, Evans sent all the main players who could play: goalkeeper David James, on the back line, Mateo and Carragher are still partnered in the middle, and the left back is the Norwegian. Yonabi, the right back is the local player Robert Jones; in the midfield, McManaman is on the left, McCarter is on the right, Redknapp Jr. and Paul Ince are the avant-garde, because Evans period Liverpool's traditional British four-four-two parallel position, without a clear distinction between the front midfielder and the midfielder; on the forward line, there are German striker Riedel and Liverpool "God" Robbie Fowler, who were transferred from Dortmund at a high price The partner striker, Michael Owen, who has been very popular in the UK recently, sat on the bench.

Looking at Fiorentina, after obtaining the right to qualify for the group in advance, Viola, who has accumulated ten points in four games, only needs to get one point in the last two games to basically ensure the first position in the group-unless Real Madrid can win in the last two games. Win over opponent by more than ten goals in a game.

Considering that the team will compete against the Toyota Cup in that distant place in Japan next week, in order to reduce the physical consumption of the players as much as possible and ensure that they are in a good state to cope with the champion from South America in the Toyota Cup, Therefore, Capello decisively chose to be waterproof in this game, and sent a large number of substitute players in the starting lineup.

After all, when the qualifying group has been determined, a Toyota Cup championship trophy is of course more important than a Champions League group match, even if the opponent in this game is the famous Liverpool.

De Sanctis, Angeloma, Ferrara, Materazzi, Fortunato, Zanetti, Tomasi, Di Biagio, Ze Roberto, Julio Ke Ruth and Vieri, the above is Fiorentina's starting lineup for this game.

By the way, when Liverpool coach Evans saw Fiorentina's starting roster, just like Sampdoria coach Menotti a week ago, he had a trough in his heart: Why are Italians so virtuous? As soon as you have an advantage, you start to think about how to stick to it?

Fortunately, Evans has not yet reached the age of death, so he is very lucky not to suffer from sudden hypertension and cerebral thrombosis.

Evans knew that this was Capello's overt conspiracy. He was sure that in order to qualify for the group stage, Liverpool must strive for a complete victory in the last two rounds of the group stage. Naturally, they must rely on offense to score goals and win.

Now that he knows that the opponent will definitely play offensive football, then Capello must of course make good use of this, so he has no worries about the future. At the same time, Fiorentina, who is about to go to Japan to play the Toyota Cup, put up an iron barrel formation at Anfield The posture, using this way of placing a bus at the door to strangle the opponent.

Using limited resources to gain the maximum benefit is a compulsory course and housekeeping skill for every Italian coach (to put it bluntly, it is to play a defensive counterattack with the opponent after taking the lead).

Faced with the shameless Capello, Evans could only order Liverpool players to attack with all their strength from the beginning of the game and try their best to win a victory.

Liverpool's offense is quite powerful. Fowler's grabbing points in the penalty area, Redknapp's organization and McManaman's breakthrough, and the tacit cooperation between the "Little Tigers" make the Red Army's offense like flowing water in the same line. Full of passion, it made the fans feel refreshed.

In the Premier League, countless teams have been scored by Liverpool with offense. Therefore, when the Red Army players set foot on the Champions League stage again after more than ten years, they thought they could be as easy as they were in the league. You can get a qualification to advance to the top sixteen.

However, when their opponents were replaced by a team of Fiorentina's level, the actual situation began to be very different.

When they met in the first round of the group stage, the Liverpool players were surprised to find that facing the Italian reinforced concrete defense line built by the Fiorentina players, their offense was greatly hindered.Due to the limited offensive space, Redknapp could not get the space to attack and organize calmly; although McManaman broke through sharply, he could only obediently admit his weakness in the face of a group of Fiorentina players; Le is repeatedly bullied by Ferrara and Stam. Although he has a first-class sense of smell in front of the goal and excellent shooting skills, it is naturally impossible to talk about scoring goals without the ball.

Thus, in Italy, the Liverpool players endured an unforgettable defeat, [-]-[-] at the Frankie Stadium by the mighty Fiorentina.

In this second confrontation, Liverpool's coaching staff obviously did not come up with any effective countermeasures for this authentic Italian defense.

Although the venue was changed to Anfield, which Liverpool players are most familiar with, God is quite beautiful and there is no trouble. The tens of thousands of fans in the stands are all Liverpool fans.The right time, place and people are everything, but Liverpool just can't break through the opponent's goal.

Compared to Liverpool's long-term attack, Fiorentina, who was concentrating on defense, almost took advantage of a quick counterattack and succeeded: 3 minutes into the game, Materazzi snatched McManaman's pass ahead of Fowler. Vieri, who was located in the middle circle of the stadium, overwhelmed Mateo to ferry the header, and Ze Roberto, who followed up at high speed from behind, received the ball and made a single shot... If Carragher hadn't rushed to the goal line to make a timely clearance, Liverpool might We are about to face the embarrassing situation of falling behind by one goal.

Although fortunately they did not concede a goal, this counterattack by Fiorentina also frightened Liverpool up and down, so the home team had to slow down the formation and retreat to avoid being really succeeded by the opponent next time.

In this way, under Capello's careful planning, Liverpool, who had no way to talk about Florence's tortoise shell, finally drew with Viola at home [-]-[-]!