The Era of Emerald

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After defeating Arsenal, Fiorentina continued the scheduled warm-up match non-stop:

On August 8th, Fiorentina staged a passionate confrontation with La Coruña, which has famous players such as Djaminha and Mauro Silva, in front of tens of thousands of fans at home, and finally won four games. Sanli defeated the opponent and won another victory without any risk.

On August 8, all members of the Japanese national team visited Fiorentina. After losing all three games in the World Cup in France and scoring only one goal, they arranged a friendly match in order to better see the real gap between themselves and the top European teams. At that time, I specifically asked Fiorentina not to release water during the game, and let the two sides fight with real knives and guns.

It has to be said that for this friendly match, the Japanese Football Association can be said to have paid a considerable amount of capital. Not only did they bring all the main international players including Hidetoshi Nakata and Shunsuke Nakamura on this trip to Florence, but they also played away. Even paid up to $200 million in sponsorship fees to Fiorentina to show their sincerity in wanting to play a real game.

Although the main players such as Vieri and Ronaldo have not adjusted to their best condition due to the World Cup syndrome, it is more than enough to deal with these mediocre Japanese players in front of them.

As a result of the all-out match, Capello killed the suspense of the game with a vote of Fiorentina's main players in only 45 minutes, and beat Japan, which was all the main players, with a series of combined punches.

In the end, when the game ended, the score was fixed at [-]-[-]. This was the result of Fiorentina players deliberately playing leisurely in the second half, otherwise even if they scored double-digit goals in this game, it would not be a bad idea possible things.

This game also made the Japanese Football Association see its own shortcomings, not only in terms of technology, but also in terms of physical fitness-in the face of Fiorentina players' crazy off-ball running and strict chain defense However, the Japanese team, whose physical fitness is the Achilles' heel, was quickly dragged down by the opponent and then beaten up, with no power to fight back.

So, after being severely taught a lesson, the Japanese Football Association ended the trip to Florence and honestly returned to China to seriously summarize the experience and lessons learned.

"Antonio, Sun Jihai has been loaned to Ajax. There is now a vacant spot in the first team. Do you think we should introduce another striker to strengthen the team's bench depth?" Early the next morning after the team's friendly match ended, Antonioni found Zhuang Mingge who was planning to eat Karin tofu in the office, deliberately ignored the latter's somewhat darkened face, and said seriously, "And that equipment is extremely complete. Compared with the central midfielder, I think we still have fewer substitutes on the front line. In case Ronnie and the others are absent for some reason in the middle of the season, then we have to let Di Natale, who is the fourth striker, start. ... But in this way, no one on the bench can rotate with them, this is a very dangerous situation, so we can't help but take more precautions."

"However, Giancarlo, if the striker is really short of manpower, the team can change to a single striker tactic." Zhuang Mingge pointed out the omission in Antonioni's words, and said, "Don't forget, our Fiorentina never It's not a team that sticks to a certain formation."

"If we play a single striker, then I think we should strengthen the reserves of wide players. After all, the only wingers in the team who can play winger roles are Ljungberg and Di Natale. Ronnie can occasionally play a cameo, but after all It is a long-term solution. Once there is no side attack to stretch the court space, and the opponent can only attack from the center, the opponent can relax the defense on the side and deploy heavy troops in the center to deal with us." On the issue of the problem, Antonioni has never given up an inch, unless the other party has a way to persuade him, "Although Carlos and Zambrotta have the ability to open up an entire wing, Fortunato and Madaviki These two substitutes don't have this ability, when these two are on the field, our Fiorentina's strength on the wing does not drop at 01:30."

"Well, Giancarlo, you are right. This problem is indeed my negligence." Zhuang Mingge also realized the mistakes he made when building Florence at this time, and changed his words, "After these four years of glory, we I think many teams are already familiar with Fiorentina’s tactic of not having a traditional winger and instead having full-backs in charge, and they should have developed a lot of targeted tactics for our style of play. Therefore, Now is the time to take the initiative to seek more tactical changes, otherwise, if someone really finds the goal of the team, then it will be our turn to be dumbfounded."

Zhuang Mingge is very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of the tactics currently used by Florence.After the full-back strengthens the frequency of assists in the game, it can indeed save the team's personnel investment on the wing to a certain extent, and catch the opponent by surprise, so that the team can form a numerical advantage in the center , and then tear apart the opponent's defense more easily, and finally turn this advantage into goals.

But this style of play also has a great side effect, that is, when the full-backs press up to participate in the attack, there is a large space behind them for the opponent's players to gallop.

Fiorentina didn't have to think about this shortcoming before. On the one hand, Carlos and Zambrotta are the kind of monsters who can take on the team's offense and defense on their own. The physical strength can rush back to the front of the defense line in time; on the other hand, the reason is that defensive midfielders such as Tomasi and Di Biagio will continue to pull to the side during the game to assist Carlos. They make up for this shortcoming to the greatest extent.

But now, with Di Biagio, Davis and Tomasi leaving the team together, and new aids such as Makelele not yet fully integrated into the team's tactical system, it is impossible for Capello to use this strategy. Tactical, because this requires a high level of tacit understanding between the players, and a bad coordination may cause the opponent to drive straight in, directly threatening the goal of the team.

What's more, those teams that have been studying Florence's weaknesses will definitely make a big fuss on the wing, increase their strength to break through the weakest wing of Florence's defense, thereby tearing apart Florence's defense and adding to the balance of victory for their own side. Put on a heavy weight.

In the European Cup two years ago, Poborski was able to stun Maldini, who was known as the world's number one left back, in a one-on-one situation, and opened the door to victory for the Czech Republic. Zhuang Mingge didn't think his own Fiorentina can survive against wide attackers of this level.

Therefore, strengthening the flank strength has naturally become the main purpose of Fiorentina's signings this time.