The Era of Emerald

The referee Cragg looked at his watch and found that it was time for the game, so the German referee blew the whistle to start the game!

The moment the whistle sounded, Vieri, who was standing in the middle circle of the stadium, immediately kicked the ball to Ronaldo beside him, announcing the official start of the Champions League final!

The alien who got the ball did not choose to pass the ball back to Effenberg or Redondo behind him, but directly started to drive forward with the ball!

The two Juventus forwards, Piero and Otero, rushed to defend immediately. Although their defensive level is not very good, what Lippi wants is this kind of active defensive attitude. Whether he can steal the ball is second .

For Italian coaches, they may tolerate a player who can't defend his opponent, but they will never allow this player to not defend!

Facing the pincer attack of Otero and Pierrot, Ronaldo did not panic. The set of acceleration, emergency stop, change of direction, and re-acceleration was exhausted, and the alien had successfully broken out of the encirclement of the two!

However, Zidane and others standing behind the two did not go up to press Ronaldo after Pierrot and the others were passed, but began to move backwards to compress the space in their own half.

"Cut, are you ready to defend at the beginning of the game?" Zhuang Mingge, who was sitting in the box, looked at the moving direction of the Juventus players and thought to himself, "Didn't you plan to drag the game to the point from the very beginning? Ball fight? That's nearly two hours of game time, can these players stand it?"

Zhuang Mingge's guess was correct. Lippi had no intention of attacking from the beginning of this match.Because through the experience of playing against Fiorentina so many times, Silver Fox is soberly aware of the gap between his team and Fiorentina.Considering the huge lethality of the strikers in Fiorentina in the counterattack, if Lippi chooses to take the initiative to attack, it would be tantamount to asking for a dead end.Therefore, Juventus' offensive routine in this game is very simple, which is to lure Fiorentina to press the attack and then hit the opponent's counterattack.

The task of Piero and Otero is to stay in the frontcourt to prepare for Fiorentina's counterattack, and by the way there is a little harassment; Plug in the attack to form a second offensive when counterattacking, so that Juventus' counterattack becomes more layered.

As for the defense, Lippi gave a death order this time. Except for Piero and Otero who stayed in the frontcourt, everyone else must participate in the defense; even when necessary, even the two forwards They must retreat to their own half to participate in defense!

Lippi's purpose is very simple, that is to use the defense like an iron barrel to drag this powerful opponent in front of him into a penalty shootout, and then decide the outcome with Fiorentina at that time!

By the way, the result that Lippi wants to see most now is that Capello also did not dare to let the team attack aggressively out of caution. As a result, he was successfully dragged into a penalty shootout by himself, and then defeated Fiorentina by shooting penalty kicks. Starting the second Champions League championship in the history of the Bianconeri team...

However, what surprised Lippi was that Capello actually showed his rather radical side at this time.

Seeing that Juventus chose to defend and counterattack, Capello stood up from the coach's bench, shouted at the players twice on the sidelines, and then made a gesture!

Zhuang Mingge, who often watched the team's training, immediately recognized that Capello was ordering the team to attack!

Noticing Capello's gesture, Ronaldo no longer insisted on playing alone in the frontcourt, passed the ball back to Effenberg behind him, and then ran forward-although his breakthrough ability is unparalleled in the world, But not every game can stage a scene where there are several players in a row.

Even aliens also need the assistance of Earth teammates.

After receiving the pass, Effenberg immediately distributed the ball to Carlos, who was plugging in from the left, and then constantly adjusted his running route according to the Brazilian's moving speed, lest he crash into the encirclement net of Juventus players Can't find a way out.

While Effenberg was moving, Di Livio stuck up and followed the tiger every step of the way, in case he directly hit the goal with a heavy kick in this position.The unreasonable but extremely effective long-range shot is a common feature of most German players during this period. Di Livio is not interested in letting Effenberg experiment in this game.

Seeing that Effenberg was being marked to death, and he didn't have any good breakthrough routes here, Carlos had to turn around and pass the ball back to Redondo, who was further back.

Since Juventus had fully retreated before, Redondo, who was in a relatively low position, had no one around to harass him when he got the ball.

When he dribbled the ball to the middle circle of the court, Redondo found that no one had come to defend him, and he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed: You all followed so closely when Effenberg didn't get the ball, and I took it for a long time The ball is gone, you have no one to defend me, isn't that looking down on me?

In fact, this is just Redondo himself thinking too much. Pierrot and the others did not come up to press the main reason because his position is too far back. After all, the defense in football games is still relatively loose, with frontcourt pressing and no ball. Running has not yet risen to the high intensity of later generations. Generally, a player can pass an average of seven or eight kilometers per game.And under the guidance of Zhuang Mingge, a traveler, Fiorentina is now playing football ahead of others by 15 years. Except for the goalkeeper, almost all players in other positions run more than ten kilometers per game on average!

This is also one of the reasons why Fiorentina's results are so against the sky. The average running gap of more than two kilometers per game is not a joke. Thereby tearing apart the opponent's line of defense and scoring.

But this time, Redondo, who felt that he was underestimated, observed the situation ahead, and then directly sent a long pass in the middle of the field with his left foot!

The ball drew a high parabola in the air, and after crossing the highest point, it went straight to Juventus' penalty area!

Vieri accelerated and sprinted in the direction of the ball's flight. He was going to take off and head the ball directly at the moment the ball fell, and gave Juventus an opening gift package!

The Fiorentina fans in the stands couldn't help cheering, they had already begun to imagine Vieri's heroic header in their minds!

However, Blanc appeared where he should appear most at this time. The French central defender jumped before Vieri was about to hit the ball, and accurately pushed the ball out of the penalty area!

The contest between Fiorentina and Juventus has only just begun.