Conceicao has a good idea. He thinks that with Salas and Inzaghi’s help, Stam and Starr, two greatgod defenders, should be pinned down by his teammates, so that when he rushes into the restricted area of Florence with the ball, no one will have the strength to defend him, and the opportunity will naturally come out.
However, to Conceicao’s surprise, when he was about to cross the restricted area line, a tall figure in a purple jersey blocked the Portuguese way!
Stam! The Dutch centreback gave up his responsibility for guarding Salas and rushed to intercept Conceicao!
Conceicao smiled coldly in his heart. Naturally, he had already anticipated this situation and thought of several solutions. When he saw Stam blocking his face like a mountain, the Portuguese flying wing first made a false move to break through the bottom line and planned to take it and fool the other side into the restricted area.
Conceicao’s abacus didn’t fool the experienced Stam Dutchman. He put it on for the first time and kept pressing Conceicao to protect the ball. Conceicao had to resist the pressure from Stam and there was no possibility of changing direction. Therefore, he had to give up his score and decided to adopt the second plan, that is, the ball.
So he made up his mind that Conceicao threw Stam half a body distance with an acceleration, and then twisted his body near the bottom line to kick the ball to the center of the penalty area! He believes in the ability of Inzaghi and Salas, and believes that they can definitely break through Starr’s defense and turn this record into a goal!
However, when Conceicao got up from the grass and looked up at the situation in the restricted area of Florence, the Portuguese winger looked surprised because he didn’t see Salas and Inzaghi celebrating the goal, but saw a Florence player wearing the No.13 jersey.
Alessandro Starr! The Fiorentina defender, who is called the world’s first central defender by fans, appeared at the ball landing point and headed the ball before Inzaghi and Salas.
Is this guy a monster? Seeing that Stagan didn’t care about the positions of Salas and Inzaghi, but directly cleared the ball out of the penalty area through anticipation, Veron was easily relieved and finally planned this attack. Conceicao thought incredulously, How can there be such a confident central defender? Isn’t he afraid of making mistakes and giving us a chance to knock on the door directly?
And don’t sit in a daze on the turf. Conceicao was at the top of the restricted area at this time. Makelele received the ball from Starr’s clearance. The French midfielder didn’t give Veron and Devid a chance to grab him. He turned to the right and stopped them behind him, and then quickly gave the ball to Lei Dongduo not far away.
Because Veron and Dewed rushed to grab Makelele, they were in a state of being watched for a while. Lei Dongduo made a decisive move and strode forward with the ball to running all the way until Simone attracted him, and then distributed the ball to effenberg diagonally ahead.
At this time, Simone is in a dilemma. If he chooses to keep an eye on Lei Dongduo, effenberg will organize the attack himself. And if he chooses to chase back, then these two horses can completely break through his defense in a classic twoone!
Simone hesitated, and the best defensive opportunity was fleeting. When he finally made a decision, the Argentine saw that he had already taken the ball into Lazio’s restricted area. The tiger heel knocked the ball to Shevchenko from the rib of the restricted area!
Not long ago, he chose to catch the ball just like Conceicao. The Ukrainian nuclear warhead didn’t have a good chance to shoot with the defense in Favali, so he could quickly and forcibly dump the latter and then pick the ball in the middle before rushing out of the baseline!
However, unlike Lazio’s failed attack just now, Grandoni failed to come out to save the team, which was suppressed by vieri’s strength. He could see the ball headon into his own door!
20! The loopholes exposed after Lazio launched a counterattack further expanded Florence’s lead!
Chapter 43 The Devil’s Race (7)
When a thunderous bombing in vieri rewrote the score by twotoone, thousands of Florence fans in the stands of the Olympic Stadium suddenly burst into extremely warm cheers!
At the same time, Lazio fans in the stands looked pale, including Lazio President cragnotti and General Manager dino zoff who were watching in the box, because they knew in their hearts that vieri’s goal had exposed the gap between Lazio and Florence to everyone!
Two almost identical attacks were made by players cutting into the ribs of the penalty area and then picking the middle of the penalty area. However, the final results were completely differentInzaghi and Salas failed to get a Starr Grandoni bullied by vieri in a oneonone situation, which fully reflected the huge gap between Lazio and Florence at both ends of the attack and defense!
The status quo of being behind by two goals ended Eriksson’s seemingly endless thinking on the sidelines. From the coach’s seat, the Swedes shouted and made a series of gestures on the sidelines, which seemed to be giving instructions to the players.
Although now Zhuang Ge looked at Eriksson, who was performing hard on the sidelines, but what did the goods do early? When Lazio conceded the first goal, he should have made adjustments. Why did he have to wait until he was behind two to command the team?
Maybe it’s because Eriksson didn’t completely control the whole team before? I remember that Salas and Cruz were the main positions in the season, and Lazio suddenly collapsed in the second half of the league, which also had a great result. Eriksson bought little Inzaghi from Atletico Madrid at a high price this summer, which further strengthened the team competition and successfully reversed this situation. Sitting next to Zhuang Ge, Karin guessed, So I wonder if Eriksson deliberately kept silent in the first half to make the players realize that they couldn’t win the game without his command, thus further gathering people’s hearts?
After listening to Karin’s speculation about Zhuang Ge, I carefully recalled a variety of performances before Eriksson. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was such a thing. I couldn’t help but sigh, I didn’t expect this Swede to have such talent and calculation, and I returned him at most, that is, a tactical poor vicini. It seems that I underestimated him.
(Note: vicini was the head coach of the Italian national team from 1961 to 1991. During his tenure, he built the worldfamous Apennines into the most gorgeous Italian national team in history. Unfortunately, caniggia sealed his throat in the semifinal of the World Cup in 1999 and finally won a bronze medal.)
No wonder Eriksson has been criticized by the British media and fans in his previous life when he coached the England national team, but he has become the longestlived coach of the Three Lions Corps in the past 20 years. He can even sign a fat contract with the FA with an annual salary of up to 30,000 pounds. I am afraid that his means of winning people’s hearts is one of the important reasons for keeping him on the Diaoyutai.
If the Emirates Gate incident was not planned by the News of the World, which directly destroyed Eriksson’s foundation in the England national team, the Swede might have stayed as the head coach of the Three Lions, and it would not be McClaren’s turn to take over.
Although it can’t catch up with Eriksson in terms of winning people’s hearts and pulling methods, the employees are not in place in terms of tactical arrangement and onthespot command. The Swedes don’t even have the qualification to shine shoes for the Germans. In any case, Eriksson will stick to a set of 442 formations and will not give up. It is much worse than Heineken who has been constantly absorbing advanced tactical ideas and keeping pace with the times.
Therefore, after the game resumed, Lazio fans were disappointed to find that after Eriksson’s adjustment, the team’s presence did not reverse this unfavorable situation, but became more passive with time!
If it hadn’t been for Marche, giani and Grandoni’s continuous dedication and eyecatching, and the Fiorentina players entered the physical adjustment period after leading by two goals and slowed down the offensive, I’m afraid the game would have completely lost its suspense before the referee blew the whistle at the end of the halfgame.
But even so, when the game entered the halftime, there were more than 70,000 Lazio fans in the standsalthough their beloved team was two goals behind their opponents, after watching the home team’s performance at halftime, the fans certainly wouldn’t be naive to hope that the team could lose a few goals less than Rome.
I didn’t expect even a strong team like Lazio to be so vulnerable in front of us, Karin said thoughtfully at halftime. Teams that take the technical route don’t have such excellent physical qualities as ours, and teams that fight against the flow will be abused by us technically … It seems that it will take quite a long time to appear a team that can beat Florence.
Karin, you’re wrong about this. Actually, there are ways to beat this Florence. Zhuang Ge whispered in Karin’s ear in the box. After all, this is Lazio territory. God knows if there are any other people hiding in the next room to eavesdrop. At present, I can think of several ways to make Lazio turn the situation around. One is to let Devid storm the wings to suppress Di livio and Carlos, and at the same time distract our defense forces in the middle, and then let Inzaghi and Salas constantly grab points in the restricted area. It’s not too bad luck to get a goal. There is also Stankovic’s change for Consicao, who has no defensive consciousness at all, and Almeida’s massive running and fighting for Salas or Inzaghi, forcing us to play smoothly in midfield, which can also achieve good results.
Well, that’s quite reasonable, but Tony, you seem to have forgotten that Florence is now built by you. Except for the backbone of the coaching staff, you know best. It’s not surprising that you can come up with such a solution. Karin quickly questioned this after listening to Zhuang Ge’s narrative. But it’s understandable that Eriksson never stayed in Florence for a short time and couldn’t come up with a solution?
Ha ha for us laymen can’t think of these solutions is really normal thing; But for a strong team coach, when the team is in trouble, it can be said that he can. Looking at the sidelines, it seems that Eriksson Zhuang Ge sneered and said, Eriksson alone is not worthy to stay in Lazio!
Chapter 44 The Devil’s Race ()
Just as Karin and Zhuang Ge were talking about how to make Lazio reverse the unfavorable situation, Florence scored again. Suddenly, Carlos dribbled the ball on the left and passed Conceicao and Grohou’s left foot in the middle. vieri rose up and pressed two central defenders, sansini and Grandoni, to complete a high bombing!
Flying over the Lazio penalty area, the ball was hit by vieri’s head, so a horse changed direction and went straight to the Blue Eagle gate!
Lazio goalkeeper Marcel giani made a save in the first place, but his front position was a little remote and vieri controlled the shooting angle well. The Fiorentina center pushed the ball in the opposite direction to Marcel giani, so that the 34yearold goalkeeper could finally watch the ball fly into the door behind him!
Three to one! Vieri’s second goal in the last game has almost sealed the victory for Florence!
However, vieri’s goal seems to have completely thrown away Lazio’s heavy mental burden. In their view, they have already lost three goals anyway. It is better for them to continue to be conservative and finally lose the game timidly, so that Florence can see Lazio’s courage!
I have to say that Eriksson has not completely erased Zeman’s influence on the Biancocelesti until this time. Although the Czechs have already picked up the coach of Rome, the archenemy next door, the madness he instilled in the Biancocelesti has not completely disappeared with him. You know, Grandoni, Gro, Devid and other team backbones all grew up in Zeman’s banner and were deeply influenced by the Czech coach. They naturally have such courage to lose.
Therefore, once Lazio is in adversity in the game, Zeman will leave these legacies to the Biancocelesti, which will show their true value and save the team from the predicament! The effect will be ignored, but in a long time people will realize that there are still such a group of iron soldiers in Lazio who can stand up at the last minute!
Before the reball, Eriksson made a substitution adjustment. Salas was replaced by Chileans, and the old Florentine Julio Cruz appeared. At the same time, Yugoslav versatile Stankovic replaced Conceicao. It seems that the Swedes can’t stand the Portuguese winger’s lack of defense.
In this way, when the Lazio players didn’t respond to the Fiorentina players after the game resumed, no matter what the rhythm was controlled, the referee rushed to take part in the attack as soon as the whistle sounded!
What a bunch of crazies … Although his tactical position has become the core of your team’s organization, Veron is a newcomer after all, and he pursues controlling the pace of the game first and then slowly finding the weakness of the opponent’s defense line. He has not been tempered by Zeeman, so it is difficult to understand DeVille’s ideas.
However, although he didn’t understand the performance of these teammates, Veron was very cooperative and stayed in the rear to help Simone tidy up the backcourt. The Argentine wizard clearly knew that this was his biggest thing now. After all, his speed was slow and he was easy to slow down. He was not suitable to go to the front with his teammates at this time. At the same time, when he saw Lazio’s desperate posture, the Florence players couldn’t help but wonder, isn’t the coach of these guys the Swede who strives for stability in everything? Why does it look more like he is possessed by Zeman’s attacking crazy soul?
The result of the players’ stupefaction is that they actively created an excellent opportunity for Lazio players to drive straight into their hinterland with the ball!
So when the Fiorentina players finally reacted, they were surprised to find that Devid had taken this opportunity to take the ball to the top of the arc in the restricted area!
Fiorentina players are all well aware of Devid’s longrange shooting. No one wants this Czech iron man to kick the door in this very dangerous position. But just as Gattuso rushed over to interfere with the opponent’s shooting, Devid took the lead and swung his left foot directly 20 meters away from the goal, which was a powerful volley!
Devid’s shot was of high quality and shot very fast. The ball almost grazed the turf and went straight to the far corner of the goal. Therefore, when toldo hastily made a sideways save to save the ball from the baseline, the ball had crossed the goal line and rubbed violently against the net behind toldo!
One to three! Less than two minutes after vieri scored, Lazio pulled back a city with Devid’s longrange shot!
Devid’s goal greatly enhanced the confidence of Lazio players, and at the same time, it made them see the hope of breaking through the defensive line that made them more desperate. So when they came, Lazio handed over the defensive work to Simone, Grandoni and sansini, the remaining midfielders and central defenders, and tried to attack even harder, intending to make a comeback with this momentum!
Although it was found that the situation was not right, Heineken made continuous adjustments, which made effenberg and vieri and others strengthen their efforts to grab Lazio backcourt players and try to stabilize this somewhat out of control situation. However, Veron played a good role in his skillful dribbling skills, which made Tiger and others force him to grab.
Fiorentina was so embarrassed by Lazio’s random punch at halftime. On the one hand, it was because the Biancocelesti was caught off guard by their opponents. The main reason is that Stada, the core of their defense, was kicked over by Inzaghi during a defense. The team doctor diagnosed that Stada had strained his ankle ligament when he fell to the ground and had to leave immediately for treatment!
Sta’s accidental injury has greatly disrupted the substitute field of Florence’s defensive body. Although Lala is also a good defender, he obviously replaces Sta in Florence’s defensive body. After all, not everyone can stand the joint impact of Salas and Inzaghi.
After Stahl left due to injury, Cruz, the substitute, once again showed his great power as a substitute for Indiana Jones. The Argentine scored two goals in the overhead kick when he appeared for more than half an hour to help the Biancocelesti tie the score to threetothree!
In this way, at the end of the game on the spot, Lazio played a crazy offensive war at halftime, and finally scored 33 at the Olympic Stadium. At one time, the Biancocelesti was three goals behind in the game, which was almost suffocating and stormy, and completed the Jedi counterattack!
Chapter 45 The Devil Race (9)
Lazio’s crazy attack equalized the score when it was three goals behind, which made Florence get three points and turned it into one point. This result was unexpected to everyone.
When was the first time Florence was tied by an opponent when she was three goals ahead? I’m afraid no one can remember it except those diehard fans, and that’s why almost everyone felt unbelievable when this result appeared in front of peopleI didn’t expect that this kind of play, which is similar to gambling, really broke Florence!
At the press conference after the game, Heinks took the initiative to blame the team for losing a good game away from home, saying that it was all because he didn’t notice the change of Lazio from time to time that the team was forced by the opponent in a big lead.