However, if Juventus want to achieve the goal of winning the Champions League, they must overcome the last difficulty before them, that is, Florence, which is like a roadblock! After all, whether the two sides have played against each other over the years or have experience in the competition, Florence has a considerable advantage, and Viola has the advantage of Juventus in terms of player ability and bench depth!
It is precisely because of this that although the atmosphere in Florence is somewhat dignified because the Champions League final is approaching, on the whole, the players are much better at adjusting their mentality than their opponents, and there is no anxiety or chatter to the media who come to interview.
Just as Juventus and Florence are nervously preparing for the final of the Champions League, and fans all over the world are eagerly looking forward to this peak showdown, at the same time, the organizer of the final of the Champions League, Old Trafford Stadium, is filled with a bleak atmosphere. After all, there is nothing more ridiculous than holding a Serie Alevel Champions League final at home in front of the English who have surpassed Serie A goals or the Premier League overlord Manchester United.
Zhuang Ge wants to say to this, beckenbauer, you have done so beautifully this time! You know, over the years, whenever he sees the British media boasting that the Premier League has surpassed the conservative and boring Serie A to become the highest level league in the world in Europe, he will always be depressed by these media’s nonsense, and this time Zhuang Ge can finally hold his head high
Don’t you always say that the Premier League has replaced Serie A as the first league in the world? How come we didn’t even see an English team in the Champions League final, even in the semifinals?
In this way, when English fans were unwilling to expect it from fans from other countries, they finally arrived at 6 pm on May 2. At this time, although there were still two hours before the official Champions League final, six spectators could be accommodated. The four stands of Old Trafford Stadium had long been occupied by enthusiastic fans. While both fans were doing the final warmup in the stands, the players cheered and shouted, but they did not forget to provoke an opponent’s supporters through the fence.
However, the provocations between the two sides are limited to language level conflicts. It is absolutely impossible for experienced British police and security personnel to guard against such vicious incidents as the Heisel massacre or the Fort Hilts massacre.
If this match is the same as the Champions League final ten years ago, then the English team may taste the longterm ban of European competitions. In this respect, the English people dare not pin their hopes on UEFA’s generosity.
All parties, such as the Football Association and Old Trafford Stadium, took the game to the highest level for fear of making any more moths to make them lie down again.
Now, here’s an introduction to the first round of a game. Juventus is making a lastditch effort in the rice bowl. Lippi naturally dispatched Frey, the strongest goalkeeper in his hand. From left to right, iuliano, tudor, Montero Grosso and Thuram separated from each other. On both sides, Davis and Tacchinardi formed a pair of backyards. Camora traveled west, and Czech iron man Devid took on the task of organizing the team. French striker Trezeguet jumped forward with a single arrow, inserted behind his teammates, and grabbed points in front of the door.
Compared with the previous Champions League final, the biggest change for Juventus is that Devid didn’t miss this game because of the accumulated yellow cards, thus leaving his career with all regrets. Another change is that pierrot, the banner figure of Juventus, sat on the bench in this key battle and did not enter the starting list of Juventus!
Although Lippi explained that pierrot was slightly injured in prematch training and didn’t put him on the starting list for protection purposes, it is obvious that the silver fox statement can’t make people believe. According to sources in Juventus, Lippi excluded pierrot from the starting list. On the one hand, he was worried about Florence’s powerful attack, and it was obviously inappropriate to let pierrot take this 1 after putting on a defensive formation of 541, which attached great importance to the center and back. On the other hand, Lippi doesn’t believe that pierrot will play well in this key game, especially after seeing the wonderful headgrabbing performance of Zebra King in the KoreaJapan World Cup. How dare Silver Fox believe pierrot on this occasion?
If pierrot played such a result in this game out of selfishness and the team lost the game, it would be bloody.
Chapter 1153 Battle of Old Trafford (1)
After Juventus, let’s take a look at Florence’s appearance. Although it has a certain advantage in overall strength, Heynckes dare not make such a lowlevel mistake as underestimating the enemy in this key situation.
In view of the fact that Juventus midfield is more tough than creativity, several central defenders are stronger than their physical counterparts and their ability to make up positions is weaker. The German coach also sent a set of quite targeted starting lineup.
Buffon, Roberto Carlos, Stam, Starr and Zambrotta, the five starting players in the defense line, naturally don’t need to go into too much detail. They are not only topnotch but also have a very good understanding. Unless there are very special circumstances, they are not worried that they will make mistakes. In midfield, Claude Makelele, a Frenchman, has a single waist and in front of him are three top midfielders: Pirlo, Deco and Ballack. The forward line is a combination of Dinatale and vieri. The former is mainly responsible for the teammates to pull the delivery shells on the flank, while the latter is simpler and more direct. That is to do everything possible to attack Juventus’ defense line and find scoring opportunities!
Obviously, in this key battle to determine the ownership of the championship trophy, even Heynckes did not dare to send a 433 formation, but chose a more balanced offensive and defensive 442. After all, Juventus is good at defensive counterattacks, and its running ability in the middle field is also the best in Europe. If they take advantage of their midfield number to launch a siege against Pirlo and others and control the midfield, the situation will be terrible.
It is precisely because of these concerns that Heinks did not let Inzaghi or Milito partner with vieri in the final, but chose Dinatale vieri, who is more versatile and has certain defensive ability, and Vincent Wakuri was defeated. Although they are far better than Dinatale in the impact on the flank, they are better than the latter in scoring ability and coordination.
Generally speaking, Dinatale was selected by Heynckes to start on the stage of the Champions League final because of his ability. After all, like the Champions League final, it is not who scored more goals or which side attacked more luxuriously, but who made fewer mistakes in the game. The defense is more stable than the attack. It is more about stabilizing one’s own defense foundation to consider things.
Maybe some people will take Barcelona and Real Madrid as examples to recognize them as the best representatives of attacking teams to win the championship, but think about it. When Barcelona and Real Madrid won the Champions League, were these two teams firstclass in Europe at that time? Isn’t that amazing backcourt ball control in Barcelona during the Cosmos team another way of showing solid defense? An Panghui’s Real Madrid team won by relying on the firstclass offensive and defensive conversion speed in Europe, but without a solid defensive foundation, Cristiano Ronaldo and Bell, how could they play that amazing rapid advancement and wonderful goals?
It seems that if there are no accidents, the game will be quite boring, Zhuang Ge said to Karin and Rebecca when he got the starting list of Florence and Juventus finals in a VIP box at Old Trafford. I think most fans’ comments on the final will be absolutely boring after the game.
Well, this is very likely to happen, Karin nodded in agreement. After all, this is the final of the Champions League, and both coaches, Heinz and Lippi, are tactical masters with extremely rich coaching experience. They are not only good at discovering opponents’ weaknesses and amplifying them, but also try their best to make up for their own shortcomings. In this game, the two teams are bound to invest heavily in the center and backcourt to fight back, so that both sides will invest their energy in the offensive end.
At this time, the Champions League final has been officially whistled in Germany’s famous whistle Merck, but judging from the actions of both players after the game, Zhuang Ge just speculated that it was very accurate, because the players were very careful on the spot and put more energy into the solid defense, so it was easy to dare not put too much troops into the attack.
Yeah, Dewed looked at Ballack in front of him and the defensive line behind the Germans, which was like an iron wall. He left the pie mouth discontentedly and returned the ball to Davis behind him. Although Dewed had the means to break through Ballack’s defense with the ball, he didn’t have the ability to hit the whole defensive line oneonone. It was no joke if his opponent finished stealing and hit a quick counterattack.
For vieri’s antiGod strength and oneonone combat ability, DeVille has played in Serie A for many years, but it is all too clear where DeVille plans to limit Florence’s counterattack and vieri’s possession of the ball in the frontcourt. Therefore, Czechs will choose to return the ball to Davis safely when there is no suitable opportunity, that is, to avoid falling into Florence’s encirclement and being seized by opponents to fight back.
Although Devid has thought about it for a long time, he still missed one point after all, that is, like most Italian teams, Florence’s defense is not supported by one or two defenders, but a set of defensive bodies that carry out the team!
So when the ball flew from Dewed’s foot in the direction of Davis, Pirlo suddenly appeared in this ball route and completed a wonderful steal!
Oh, no! When I saw Pirlovid suddenly coming out of the way, I couldn’t help but be shocked. Where did this guy come from? I didn’t feel his movement before!
Pirlo obviously couldn’t hear Devid’s heart. Of course, even if he did, I’m afraid he didn’t have time to pay attention to it at this time. Pirlo looked up and watched a teammate move, and then intercepted himself before Davis. His right foot directly kicked a header! And the ball landed just behind Juventus’ three central defenders!
Chapter 1154 Battle of Old Trafford (2)
Maybe someone will have the same question as Dwight Pirlo at this time. Aren’t they in a straight line in midfield? How did they suddenly break the Czech ball when he returned to Davis?
That’s right. Although judging from the players’ positions at the beginning of the game, Pirlo, Deco and Ballack should be in the middle of the field, and they should be responsible for an area to help Makelele doubleteam Juventus players with the ball behind them. But please don’t forget that the midfield of the world’s top organization is at the peak of their careers. How can they be bound by a rigid formation?
In fact, it is very hierarchical to arrange these three players on the court in Heinx, and the division of labor in the game is quite true. For example, Deco is the last one in the trio. He is helping Makelele to protect the defense line and is responsible for sorting out the center and back court of Florence to avoid the confusion of the team’s back court organization. Ballack is a little ahead of Deco, and he is similar to effenberg in those days, but his running ability and longrange kung fu are stronger. He needs to be more decisive in the attack, not just in the periphery, where a commander is on the court
Pirlo, who is at the forefront of the trio, was trained by the Florence coaching staff and famous teachers such as effenberg and Lei Dongduo to be more flexible in attacking and running, and he can appear where he thinks fit; On the defensive end, Pirlo paid attention to cutting off the ball route of Juventus players and helped him to launch a quick counterattack in the first place with his excellent skills and ball awareness.
After all, although Pirlo’s physical fitness is better than that of his previous life in a more scientific and unified training mode, there is obviously no way for Juventus to compete in the muscular body flow field. Heinks arranged that once Pirlo broke the ball of a Juventus player, he must immediately return the ball to the frontcourt or give it to Ballack, who has a better confrontational ability. Otherwise, it is hard to guarantee that Juventus’ muscular midfielders will not carry out onthespot counterattack or even more direct foul tactics against him, thus ruining the hardwon counterattack opportunity.
Danger! At this time, when seeing Pirlo throw the ball out and the target is behind several of his own central defenders, Lippi was nervous on the sidelines and couldn’t help shouting.
However, Juventus players didn’t pay attention to Silver Fox’s call, so they were trying to stop vieri and Pirlo from getting the ball, trying to stifle Florence’s counterattack by relying on the number advantage.
Florence naturally can’t make Juventus players happy. At Pirlo, they scored a long goal. At the same time, Ballack, Dinatale and others were still defending at the square half, and they rushed to Juventus half at the first time to form the second attack line!
After all, the counterattack arrow vieri is only one person even if he is strong. Maybe he can crush the counterpoint defender once or twice with his strong power, but he can never successfully break through the encirclement of several defenders every time. Thus, this second attack line is very necessary. Indinatale and his team can not only effectively disperse Juventus’ defensive forces to help vieri gain more attacks, but also increase the success rate of counterattack against Juventus’ goal exhibition once again when vieri’s attack is weak.
Sure enough, in Dinatale, they had planned to surround vieri Davis and Tacchinardi, and others changed their goals and ran to defend Ballack. They were not far from defending their own defenders, and as a result, they were bombarded by the other side outside the restricted area. For Florence players, longrange kung fu and Viola have had many fighting experiences in the league. Juventus players obviously dare not despise or neglect this. The team has paid a painful price for their stupid behavior.