The three defensive players in the midfield didn’t play much in the game, mainly because the tactics of having bierhoff and Houdusse were quite simple and rude, that is, two wingers got the ball and directly found bierhoff’s head in the ball, and then headed the bombing to give tommasi and crippa strength but no place to display it.
So Florence lost the Italian Cup in this situation that the attack could not be played and the defense was suppressed by the opposing striker. bierhoff scored a header at half-time and led Houdusse to win the first round in Friuli Stadium.
Chapter 221 Group first
After losing to Houdusse, Florence did not get a longer buffer again. Three days later, they will fly to Bucharest, the Romanian capital, to participate in the fifth round of the Champions League group match.
Bucharest Star Football Club was founded in 1947, and its first name was Bucharest Army. In 1961, the club was renamed Bucharest Star, and it has been the same as many small country leagues until now. Bucharest Star Burgass Lett and Dinamo Bucharest quickly divided up most of the honors of Romanian football, and were called "Romanian Three Heroes".
For Bucharest Star Team, their peak moment was the 1956 season. In that year, the Romanian team passed by the European Champions Cup, and in the semi-final, they eliminated the Belgian overlord Ande Laichter led by Belgian strange star enzo scifo in two rounds. In the final, they met the Spanish Barcelona team led by German superstar Schustr. After 12 minutes of fighting in Pisjuan Stadium in Seville, Spain, the two sides still could not win the game and entered the cruel penalty shootout. In the penalty shoot-out, Barcelona was bravely saved four consecutive penalties by Bucharest star goalkeeper Duckadam, while Bucharest star was hit by lacatus and balint successively. In the end, Romanian overlord beat Barcelona 2-0 and reached the top of Europe for the first time, which was also the first time that an Eastern European team won the Champions League.
Then Bucharest Star had a "Ukrainian Flash" in the post-European Super Cup. Dynamo Kiev, blokhin joined forces at the age of two. Haji dominated the game. One minute before the end of the half-game, Haji scored the only goal to help the team win the European Super Cup. The Bucharest Star team reached the peak of the club history!
In the next few years, although Bucharest star failed to win any decent honor in Europe, their strength was still not underestimated, as evidenced by a Champions League semi-final (7 seasons) and a Champions League final (9 seasons).
Nine years ago, the drastic changes in eastern Europe naturally reached Romania, which is also a socialist country. In the "shock therapy", Romania’s economy completely collapsed and lost its economic base. Naturally, the star team lost its former glory.
After losing the national system and national financial support, the Romanian national team turned over the Bucharest star and eastern bloc’s other "brother" Belgrade Red Star suffered the same fate. A number of outstanding stars were poached by western clubs with deep pockets at low prices, leaving poor checks for the devastated star teams.
Garca and lacatus, these are the only two players in the Bucharest Star Team who can still name their songs. Other famous stars such as Haji, popescu and dumitrescu have all moved to foreign clubs, which is why Bucharest Star, a former European powerhouse, was eliminated from the group before the four European Champions Cup games last season.
Ranieri has considerable room for manoeuvre in this match against Bucharest after winning the group qualification in the first two rounds. In the case of the shortage of major generals in Florence, it is naturally unnecessary for him to send his main force to die with the Romanian.
After the defeat against Houdusse, Ranieri had a deeper understanding of the characteristics of these players in the first team, so he also had more targeted games when arranging team tactics, and the probability of offensive confusion was greatly reduced
So Ranieri continued to send rotation and substitute players to the main lineup when arranging the starting list. However, compared with the game against Houdusse, this time he made a lot of changes. vieri made a single striker and Ranieri planned to destroy Bucharest’s star defense with altruistic impact.
In midfield, the tinker sent three players, tommasi, crippa and Tacchinardi, to be in charge of the midfield defender, and in order to give full play to the characteristics of vieri as much as possible, Ranie Park Jung Su successfully opened the avant-garde position that has been closed for a long time. The two wingers were djorkaeff, who returned to the team, and Zambrotta, who moved forward. The four defenders were fortunato, Filicano, Villjowald and birindelli.
After the game, tommasi, who was too young to run away, followed Garca closely. According to Ranieri’s arrangement before the game, he was to keep an eye on the Bucharest star midfielder engine.
Lacatus is a good striker in Romania, but he can be regarded as a second-rate striker in Europe. This striker who once played in Florence scored three league goals in a season, which proves that he is not suitable for the Italian defense. Moreover, although lacatus is fast, his ability to combine the ball is not good. The goal base relies on receiving the ball from his teammates and directly attacking the goal. In Ranieri, lacatus can’t catch the ball from his teammates, so he naturally plays.
After blocking the opponent’s attack, the Florence offensive slowly came out.
Vieri, who is only 22 years old, although he is not yet mature in technology and body, his competitive state fluctuates from time to time, but he has been impressed by batistuta, a top center, for more than two years in the past two years. His progress is still obvious in the face of Bucharest Star Team, which can be regarded as a third-rate defense line in Serie A. Although vieri can’t say that he can get everything he wants, he also occupies the wind. Every time he touches the ball, he will cause a burst of exclamation from the fans watching the home team on the spot.
In the end, Florence won a victory in Bucharest with vieri’s header before half-time, and remained unbeaten in five Champions League group matches, four wins and one draw.
While winning away in Florence, Zhuang Ge also received another good news, that is, Glasgow Rangers lost in the group match, and it was desperate to beat them. The white knights of Real Madrid fought with the Scottish men for 90 minutes in this game, and after paying the price of two injured players leaving the game and five yellow cards, they took away a valuable victory from the home of Rangers by a score of 2-1.
In this way, after Rangers lost, they scored 13 points in five games. Florence led the group and ranked second. Rangers scored four points and locked in the top position in the previous round!
Chapter 222 Visiting Juventus
After locking the top position in the group, the last European Champions League group match has become a chicken rib for Florence. It would be great if you can win, but even if you lose, it will not affect the team’s group ranking. At most, Florence’s unbeaten record in the Champions League has been broken …
Florence is very calm about the last group match, but Real Madrid is nervous. After all, if Florence loses to Rangers in the final group match, they will not be able to advance to the top even if they sieve Bucharest.
Pro-Real Madrid media and some famous Spanish celebrities can’t sit still after seeing this situation. If the La Liga champions even qualify for the Champions League group stage, it will definitely be a way for the whole Spanish football to erase the shame and it will also be a great blow to the image of Real Madrid. It is like the fate of Bayern Munich’s Champions League group stage in 223 season, which made the Bundesliga giants unable to hold their heads for a long time. It was not until Fan Jiaer took office that Bayern re-entered the ranks of the first-tier giants in Europe.
Therefore, the media desperately waved flags on their own fronts and shouted that Real Madrid celebrities also frequently appeared in various interviews. The main expression is naturally that they hope that the Florence club can have a fair competition spirit and not lose to their opponents in the final round of the Glasgow Rangers match.
Real Madrid’s voice was taken for granted by Florence, but there is no need for them to have a so-called "fair competition" in a decisive game to compete with Rangers for qualification. Real Madrid is now in a desperate situation mainly because they failed to live up to their expectations and made a lot of mistakes. Why should Florence help pay the bill? What’s more, Sanchis deliberately kicked batistuta in the match with Florence. It would be nice if he didn’t turn against it. Do you want us to help you? No way!
Forget about Real Madrid, Florence is ready for the third away game of the week-they will challenge the Bianconeri at the Alpi Stadium in Turin in the tenth round of Serie A.
Juventus’ performance in the league was unsatisfactory at the beginning of the season. After a short winning streak at the beginning of the season, the weakness of the Bianconeri’s defense line was quickly discovered by Italian coaches who were good at analyzing and tactically arranging. Now Blanc is not the anchor of the French World Cup. He likes to intervene in the attack. He scored 13 league goals in Ligue 1 saint etienne last season, which is not even comparable to some strikers.
However, there is a problem in this, that is, in the French national team, Blanc’s partner is desailly, a black defender, whose strong physical quality and accurate defensive position can effectively make up for Blanc’s previous assists and stay behind, while in Juventus, Blanc’s partner is the same one who will not make up for his teammates’ defense. The effect can be imagined naturally, plus the slow moving speed of goalkeeper peruzzi, it can be said that Juventus can fight back defensively or play positional warfare steadily, which can also ensure the security of the defense line. Once the opponent accelerates the pace of the game, the loopholes in Juventus’ defense line will be limited and enlarged
It is precisely because of this that Juventus was stunned by the Czech fast break and high-level rush against Zeman Lazio. The whole game was played against them by Lazio at the stadium by the nose. pierluigi casiraghi scored twice against his old club, signori and Boksic each scored a goal. Juventus finally lost to the Biancocelesti with four goals at the Olympic Stadium.
By the same token, losing to AC Milan and Houdusse was also due to their own weakness, and their speed and skills were excellent. george weah, the German center bierhoff, led the counterattack, which made Juventus suffer from this shortcoming.
It is precisely because of this that although the Italian media are very enthusiastic about this focus war, they have done a lot in propaganda and cooperation with the Football Association, but they all choose to be optimistic about Florence when predicting the result of the game.
Think about it. It’s also Florence. There are three strikers, but each game has achieved two wins and one loss, and the game lost to Houdusse. There are also national team competition factors in it. What’s the disadvantage? Juventus is not a team, and Florence’s opponents have been aligned.
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"Manager Moggi, let’s meet again." On the evening of November 19th, Zhuang Ge smiled and shook hands with Mo Lao Fox in front of his face, but how much of this smile was genuine is really debatable. "I heard that you signed the champion team captain juan sorin after the World Youth Championship, which is really a good deal."
"Ha-ha, where, where, Chairman Corleone, your flag GM company called for a quick trip to Qatar to participate in the competition. I think those good seedlings have all won your prize now?" Mo Lao Fox is obviously very satisfied with his transfer exercise. In his view, Sorin, the captain of the Argentine youth team, has come to contribute to the strength of Juventus’ winger. "You need Corleone’s president to persuade Florence to show more mercy in this game tonight. If there is another bloody case like that 20 days ago, I’m afraid I’ll be the general manager of Juventus."
Don’t be an old fox, just pretend. Who doesn’t know that it’s never the general manager but the team coach who is unlucky when the club’s performance is bad, and wants us Florence to show mercy to Juventus? Every time we play a game with you, aren’t we all careful not to be trapped? Zhuang Ge secretly scolded Moggi for being cunning, but he still said, "Haha, Manager Moggi, you are really worried. Who doesn’t know that your Juventus strength is first-class in Europe, and now your poor performance is temporary? I believe that under coach Lippi’s leadership, Juventus will definitely win something in the Winners’ Cup."
Shit! Aren’t you cursing that Juventus can’t win the league title and go to Europe for comfort? Moggi is also secretly accusing Zhuang Ge of insinuating and satirizing Juventus, but he, a public figure representing the image of Juventus Club, can’t directly criticize Zhuang Ge in person.
Just as Zhuang Ge and Mo Lao Fox were squabbling with each other in the box, the referee blew the whistle and the match between Florence and Juventus was official!
Chapter 223 Juve weakness
"After the game, Florence won the first goal. Wearing purple jerseys, they attacked from right to left."
Because this game is the focus of Serie A, a Berlusconi flag TV station specially sent their ace commentator Rao when broadcasting the game live. "Now let me introduce a two-team starting lineup. First, the starting goalkeeper of the home team Juventus is peruzzi, a good man. This season, his state is really not so good. So far, he has lost ten goals in nine leagues, three more than the same period last year. It seems that Mr. Moggi wants more positions and is bent on one heart. After all, as the saying goes, an excellent goalkeeper is the top half of the team …"
Moggi obviously heard Rao’s words from the headphones, but he picked one eyebrow and didn’t comment too much on it, but his constantly flashing fox eyes betrayed his heart to some extent.