The Era of Emerald

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Zhuang Mingge was quite satisfied with the lottery result.Although in the eyes of outsiders, Dortmund, which has been extremely strong at home and abroad in recent years, is indeed a strong team, and it is also the strongest team among the five opponents that Fiorentina will face in the quarter-finals, but the actual situation is not. Not so.

With Dortmund losing to Fiorentina in last season's Champions League final, this Bundesliga club had a big earthquake last summer: after winning two Bundesliga titles in a row and also winning the Champions League After the runner-up, the main players headed by Sammer and Andres Muller became complacent and no longer listened to the words of the head coach Hitzfeld. As a result, Hitzfeld resigned in anger and was promoted to the club's technical director , and dumped this mess, which he considered to be on the verge of chaos, to his successor.

So, Scala, the Italian coach invited by Dortmund's top management, was cheated by his predecessor.

When Scala happily accepted Dortmund's invitation to coach in Germany, the Italian coach discovered that the atmosphere in the dressing room of the Bundesliga giants had deteriorated to the point where he could not control it at all. The words of the boss are more useful than the words of the head coach of his team!

To make matters worse, since this is Scala's first time coaching in Germany, he has no foundation in Dortmund, and he can't make these people obey his arrangements, nor can he persuade the top management to give those stars who disobeyed orders severe punishment. , can only let these players play freely on the court according to their ideas.

Under such circumstances, Dortmund's performance in the Bundesliga this season is quite poor. It has fallen out of the top six in the league just over half of the season, and its European qualifications for next season will be a problem; Good enough, I'm afraid even qualifying from the group will be a problem.

Therefore, the current Dortmund team is only extremely strong from the face of the cards, but in fact it is strong from the outside.

In fact, among the five teams that may become Fiorentina's opponents, the last thing Zhuang Minge wants to face is not Fiorentina's old acquaintance Dortmund in the Champions League, but La Coruña from La Liga.

Although the current Deportivo has no shadow of the later Super Deportivo team, under the careful construction of its chairman Rendoiro, this small club in the northwest of Spain will have a very fanatical home stadium of the devil and Some powerful stars, such as Mauro Silva, Donato and Brazilian genius Djaminha, etc., these players have already appeared in Depor's main lineup at this time.

Although Rivaldo, the team's top scorer last season, accidentally transferred to Barcelona last summer and caught Deportivo by surprise, but because Rivaldo's transfer time was much earlier than in history (historically Rivaldo was Announcing the transfer to Barcelona a few hours before the transfer door closed, Barcelona's forced poaching almost caused Depor to get out of La Liga this season), so Rendoiro has enough time to find Rivaldo's successor, This small change has made Depor's record in various competitions much better than the same period in history, and he no longer has to worry about the lack of offensive firepower.

Therefore, in Zhuang Minge's view, Deportivo, who is united and balanced offensively and defensively, is much more difficult to deal with than Dortmund, who has been fighting among themselves.

"Fortunately, the officials of UEFA didn't realize this. Their over-emphasis on the team's popularity made them mistakenly think that Dortmund is the strongest team." Zhuang Mingge explained to Karin, "If it is in eight If we meet Deportivo in the first final, I think these two games may not be so easy to play."

"Well, that's true." After listening to Zhuang Mingge's explanation, Karin nodded in agreement, "In the past two seasons, we have a clear understanding of Dortmund's player configuration and style of play. The probability of losing is very low... If the opponent is Deportivo, I am afraid it will not be the case."

After the Champions League draw ceremony, Fiorentina soon ushered in the No.20 Serie A match against Inter Milan.

Facing Fiorentina at home, Inter Milan coach Simeone decisively chose his best and most commonly used defensive counterattack tactics. In addition to Roberto Baggio who can stay in the frontcourt and prepare to counterattack at any time, even Djorkaeff They all have to retreat to their own half to participate in the defense, which shows the degree of emphasis on defense.

What Simeone will do, Capello can know with his heels, so in this game, Capello, who is determined to lead the team to take all three points at home, decisively takes Rui Costa, Redondo and Effenbo. The three grid midfielders were put into the list, and only Davis, the Dutch wild boar, was full-time defensive.

Toldo, Zambrotta, Ferrara, Nesta, Roberto Carlos, Redondo, Davies, Effenberg, Rui Costa, Vieri and Inzaghi It is Florence's 11-man roster for this game.

Capello's meaning is very clear, that is to use offense to destroy the Nerazzurri!

As Capello expected, at the beginning of the game, Inter Milan took the initiative to shrink the defensive line, compressing Fiorentina's offensive space, trying to force Fiorentina to press the offense, and then quickly counterattacked to solve the home team.

However, the Fiorentina players did not easily give the visiting team a chance to counterattack. With Redondo, Costa and Effenberg sitting in the three midfielders, Fiorentina's pass accuracy in the game is quite high.

Under the deliberate planning of the three midfielders, unless there is a chance to form a shot, Fiorentina's passes are all completed in an area 30 meters away from the Inter Milan gate.

The reason why Redondo and the others did this was to consume the physical energy of the Inter Milan players in this way. After all, generally speaking, the defensive side consumes much more physical energy than the offensive side.

When there is a problem with the opponent's physical fitness, the defense will naturally not be as tight as it was at the beginning. When there are more buildings on the defense line, Fiorentina's chance to score will naturally appear.

The players of Inter Milan could only watch the home team's footsteps 30 meters away, but did not dare to act rashly, because Redondo and others all had extremely sharp passing skills, and if they rushed up rashly, it would be very likely It will lead to omissions in the entire defensive system, and the opponent will seize the opportunity to score.

But if you want to win a victory through blind defense and a handful of counterattacks, you need not only strong strength, but also enough luck.

However, it is clear that Inter Milan's luck tonight is not very good: in the No.801 minute of the game, Carlos suddenly shot angrily from a place 35 meters away from the goal. Blocked outside the gate, but because the power of this shot was too great, Pagliuca did not hug the ball, but chose to hit the ball out of the penalty area with both fists!

However, at the moment Pagliuca hit the ball, a purple figure suddenly appeared in front of the Inter Milan goalkeeper, and headed the ball that was about to fly out of the penalty area towards the Inter Milan gate