Chapter 147: The Decisive Battle in Paris (Part II)
Chapter 36 of "Add More to Finish Jihua", and the third watch is sent......
After conceding the goal, the Zaragoza players did not admit defeat like this, after all, there were still more than 80 minutes in the game, and they still had enough time to equalize and even overtake the score.
However, after the restart, Zaragoza's players found themselves still struggling to penetrate the Fiorentina defence.
Among the four midfielders of Fiorentina, Kripa and Di Biagio's defense is quite fierce, and Effenberg and Djokaef are also good in defense, and the thickness of the midfield defense is much stronger than that of Spaniards who do not pay attention to this aspect, and this kind of defensive and running midfield is the weakness of the Spanish team.
After all, there has never been such a defensive midfielder in La Liga, and the fiery Spanish Matador has spent most of his energy on flashy attacks.
A dense defence like Fiorentina is rarely seen by Zaragoza players who have not played in a few European competitions, and some have even encountered this level of defence for the first time.
Aggressive running, lots of physical contact, vicious fouls...... All this made the paranoid Spaniards who pursued the attack quite uncomfortable.
So, the next game was completely a repetition of the rhythm of Fiorentina's first goal - Zaragoza attacked, the ball was stealed, and Fiorentina counterattacked......
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In the twenty-first minute of the game, Zaragoza tried to penetrate with a short pass from the middle again, but the rushing Kripa tackled Aragon's pass halfway, and the ball jumped to the feet of Effenberg not far away, and Fiorentina, who got the ball, launched a counterattack again!
Effenberg glanced up at Djokaeff's position in front of him and directly rolled out a long pass over the top!
But unfortunately, Fiorentina's counter-attack was intercepted by Zaragoza midfielder Poyet. In this attack, Poyet was a step slower and did not rush to the Fiorentina half with his teammates, but just stood in front of the team's back line, so when he saw the ball flying towards his own backfield, he relied on his height advantage to interrupt Fiorentina's counterattack in time.
Poyet played very depressed in this game, as the only one of Zaragoza's four midfielders on the field who was on par with Fiorentina players in terms of physical fitness, he originally wanted to let the Fiorentina players realize his strength, but he didn't expect Fiorentina to attack from the middle at all, blindly chasing and hitting Cafu's point, and then cutting into the penalty area from there, or passing or shooting.
"Cut, damn Italians." Poyet secretly cursed in his heart, as the core of Zaragoza's organization on the field, facing the Fiorentina defensive line, there is also a feeling of nowhere to speak, "In this case, I have to wait until halftime for the coach to change the tactics......"
So, under the organization and command of Poyet, Zaragoza began to retreat slowly, playing control in his own half, occasionally testing the Fiorentina half a few times, and then quickly retreated into his own half to play passing practice.
"I'll it, isn't this the favorite trick of Barcelona later?" Zhuang Mingge was startled when he saw Zaragoza start to play the ball in his backfield, and thought that some Barcelona fan had crossed over to Zaragoza.
Later, Zhuang Mingge looked carefully for a while and realized that Zaragoza's adoption of this tactic was completely a negative attitude towards the game, rather than planning to constantly use the pass to tear apart the Fiorentina defense and equalize, so he completely relaxed and continued to watch the game.
In this way, the remaining twenty minutes of the first half were quickly spent in a stalemate between the two sides.
"It was a really boring game, Zaragoza was afraid of conceding again after being counter-attacked by the Fiorentina several times, and used their jishu advantage to play a passing drill in their own half, and Fiorentina, who was not good at pressing the ball in the opponent's half, had to watch their opponent exhaust the first half." The Sky TV commentator also thinks that Zaragoza is really not authentic, don't play, you are still behind in the score! Even if you can control the ball again, if you don't score quickly, Zuihou will still win the championship with Fiorentina!
'Zaragoza's opening tactics proved that their tactics didn't work against Fiorentina and that they could be completely crushed by a series of counter-attacks, so there is nothing wrong with Poyet, who is at the heart of Zaragoza's midfield. Michel Laudrup, who was a guest, excused Zaragoza's "negative game" at the moment, "Let's now see what changes the managers of both sides will make to the team's tactics at half-time. After all, the advantage of a ball is the least secure, and a bad one can easily be overturned by the opponent. ”
"Michel, if you were the manager of Zaragoza, what tactical changes would you make?"
'Well, I think I'll get Poyet forward a little bit more and use his long-range shot to hit the Fiorentina goal, let Esneid roam the Fiorentina back line looking for opportunities and, most importantly, free Cafu.
"Cafu, that parallel right-back from Zaragoza?"
'Yes, but he's not a parallel trade, he's not playing well more because the manager of Zaragoza has positioned him wrongly, and his talent is in attack rather than defense.
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At the beginning of the second half, Fiorentina, who kicked off, launched an attack in the stadium to the shouts of Fiorentina fans in an attempt to expand the score, and Zaragoza, who had undergone some adjustments, also gave up the negative tactics of the first half and bravely fought with Fiorentina in the midfield.
'Zaragoza want to press and attack, which will certainly put more pressure on the Fiorentina backline, but there will also be more space behind their own backline...... Now it will be up to which side can score the second goal of this game first, if it is Zaragoza, then the game still has some suspense; If it's Fiorentina, then the game can end there. The experienced Sky TV commentator had the following to say about the situation on the pitch.
There was nothing wrong with his judgment.
After Fiorentina's first attack was successfully defended by Zaragoza, Zaragoza immediately launched a counter-attack, Poyet and Naaim played a wonderful combination of crosses and cuts on the right side, and the whole Fiorentina team began to recycle the defense!
Victor Fernandez stood on the sidelines, his face solemn. At half-time, he opted to involve Poyet more directly in the attack, in this way to suppress Fiorentina, a risky tactic that was the most likely equaliser for Zaragoza, who were one goal behind, after all, the team's leading scorer Esneider had completely submerged in the Fiorentina "forest" in the first half (Esnyder was only 165cm tall).
Timely retreats from Effenberg and Kripa kept Fiorentina in the edge of the box, and Zaragoza, after a few passes, saw that there was no way to do so, so they had to pass the ball to Naeem in the hope of creating chances through his wide break.
Outcome...... The soon-to-be-30-year-old Naim was once again cut off by Lanna!
Zaragoza, who had been exposed to a large gap at the back, could not stop Fiorentina on the counter-attack this time, and after two or three passes, the ball was pushed into the empty net by Philippe Inzaghi and it was Batistuta who provided the assist.
The Argentine god of war dribbled Sedren out of the six-yard box, and then Barty's unselfish pass helped Fiorentina extend their lead! Two to zero! I can now assert that this season's Cup Winners' Cup will be won by Fiorentina from Italy! Zaragoza is defenseless in front of them! ”