The Era of Emerald

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After defeating AC Milan, the Fiorentina team immediately flew to Spain to prepare for the second Champions League group match three days later. Their opponent this time was the Basque Lions Athletic Bilbao.

"I said, boss, what do you think about UEFA and the Football Association, they can arrange such a ridiculous schedule?" On the plane, Vieri and Inzaghi talked to Capet half-truthfully. Luo complained, "Since we played Rosenberg in the first game of the Champions League, we haven't played at the Frankie Stadium. Is this the rhythm that wants to exhaust us?"

"Haha, how is this possible? It's just a coincidence." To the complaints of the two, Capello replied with a smile, "I said, if you two have this spare time to think about these useless things, It's better to take the time to rest for a while... The team's schedule this season is very intensive, and if you don't rest well, it will affect the state of the next game."

So, in Vieri and Inzaghi's "sigh", the plane carrying the Fiorentina team arrived in Bilbao, Spain.

Athletic Bilbao is a very special club, and its special feature lies in their extreme stubbornness in player pedigree-since the establishment of the Bilbao team, they have always insisted on using only players with Barcelona A player of SK descent!

As for other people who want to play football in Bilbao, if you don’t have Basque blood, no matter how good your football skills are and how famous you are, this Basque lion will choose to reject them. Guaranteed the purity of the club's bloodline!

Although Athletic Bilbao's insistence allowed them to successfully ensure the purity of the Basque blood within the team, it also made them fall farther and farther away from other strong teams in the intensifying Bosman wave.Therefore, although Athletic Bilbao unexpectedly won the second place in La Liga last season, not many people still regard it as a strong team, and only regard this phenomenon as the last flashback of this former powerful team.

On the night of September 9th, the home stadium of Athletic Club of Bilbao, the San Mames Stadium was full of seats. Nearly 30 Bilbao fans and more than 1000 Fiorentina fans who came from afar made the stands all overcrowded .

Facing the European overlord Fiorentina who has completed the Champions League three consecutive times, Athletic Bilbao coach Luis Fernandez did not make many adjustments to the team's starting lineup-in fact, he could not make too many adjustments. Change, because of Bilbao's recruitment strategy, it is doomed that it can basically only hope that there will be more good seedlings with high loyalty and first-class potential from those with Basque ancestry.

In the current first team of Athletic Bilbao, there are generally Basque players like Urces and Echeberia who came from the youth training of other teams but are extremely loyal to Bilbao. Just like Julen Guerrero, who was born in the club's youth training system and climbed up step by step. It is in line with the club's tradition to want to meet someone like Lizarazu who is both capable and has a Basque passport. The top foreign aid, for Fernandez, that is simply something that can be met but not asked for.

And this extremely narrow scope of signings also makes the Athletic Bilbao team's star flavor very light. As a loyal player of the football manager game, Zhuang Mingge only thought about it after seeing Bilbao's starting lineup for a long time. There were only a few people who came out, including Ursace, Guerrero, Echeberia, and Alcorta, and he had no impression of the others.

For Fiorentina, since Capello rotated part of the team's positions in the previous league match with AC Milan, in this game, Capello still put on a starting lineup with a mix of main players and substitutes: Desan Curtis, Zambrotta, Hyypia, Nesta, Fortunato, Redondo, Effenberg, Makelele, Vogel, Vieri and Inzaghi, that's it Fiorentina's starting 11 for this game.

Although this is Fiorentina's fourth consecutive away game in the past half month, the players don't seem to be bothered too much.Facing the menacing Basque Lions, most of the players played a very high level of competition in the game. It took only one first half to beat Athletic Bilbao at home!

Although Guerrero, as always, led the team to fight hard on the field and assisted Ursais to score the equalizer goal in the No. Fiorentina players have too much counterattack space; the team hardly has a complete system in defense, and the bad habit of relying entirely on the personal ability of the defensive players makes Vieri and Inzaghi in the penalty area of ​​Athletic Bilbao. It is like a duck to water.

No.20 In the second minute, Zambrotta forcibly broke through Carlos Garcia's defense on the right and made a high pass. Vieri in the penalty area accelerated for a short time, then jumped high and overwhelmed the marking His Alcorta headed for the ball!

strength!Deterrence!Vieri's biggest advantage is undoubtedly revealed at this time!

In the face of Vieri's thunderous header, the Bilbao goalkeeper only had time to wave his gloves, and the ball quickly rushed into the Athletic Bilbao gate!One to zero!

When Vieri headed the ball into the Athletic Bilbao gate, the entire San Mames stadium became silent in an instant, only the cheers of more than 1000 Fiorentina fans who came with the team remained!

Seeing the ball fly into the goal, Vieri clenched his fists and roared, and then embraced with the swarming teammates!He has always liked to play against La Liga teams, because there are few defenders there who can compete with him in terms of physical fitness, and their defensive strength is far from that of Italian teams, so he usually meets Spanish teams. Vieri alone can handle the opponent's entire line of defense.

No. 306 minutes, this time it was Fortunato who sent the cross from the left, and the player who grabbed the point in front of the goal was replaced by Inzaghi. The only thing that has not changed is the final score. compare!

Athletic Bilbao, which fell behind again, was about to organize a manpower counterattack, but Guerrero was successfully intercepted by Vogel when he dribbled the ball in the frontcourt, which made the situation on Bilbao's side worse again—— Redondo's backcourt The long pass accurately found Vieri's head, and the latter immediately ferried the ball to Inzaghi who was hiding behind him. The unmarked super Pippo made a successful push from the penalty spot to rewrite the score Three to one!

Inzaghi's goal has greatly affected the morale of the Bilbao players. It is no wonder that no matter which team is planning to counterattack, the morale of the opponent will be hit by such a sap. are affected.

The score is leading, the morale is dominant, and the balance of victory is gradually tilting in the direction of Florence.