Chapter 880: Lazio (1)
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Despite unleashing their passion in the Champions League knockout match with Barcelona just three days ago, Fiorentina fans have not been indifferent or indifferent to the team's league clash with Lazio. After all, in a sense, the outcome of this game will determine the title of Serie A this season, and Fiorentina fans can't help but take it seriously enough.
Heynckes and Eriksen naturally share the same sentiments as the fans, so both managers can be said to take this contest very seriously.
After all, at this stage of the season, Fiorentina still has to face a third-tier battle, and Heynckes urgently needs a win to stabilize the morale of the team to curb the team's current decline in the league battlefield and maintain the current six-point lead until the end of the season; As for Lazio, they finally caught up with them who were only nine points away from the top team, so it was naturally impossible to let go of this game worth six points!
(Note: While a win in the league is only three points, a direct conversation within a championship like this is much more valuable than a normal game.) In this game, for example, if Lazio wins, the Blue Eagles can directly narrow the gap between the two sides to six points, without worrying that the competitors will also win in this round and continue to maintain the current nine points gap; And if Fiorentina wins, then the Purple Lily can completely put the opponent out of the championship group in one fell swoop, so back and forth, it is natural to regard this game as worth six points. )
Therefore, after the team successfully eliminated Barcelona, Heynckes began to prepare for the game, spending the night in the office studying Lazio's game footage, trying to find loopholes and weaknesses in the Blue Eagles' squad.
Here's a look at the starting line-ups for both teams for this game. After being knocked out of the Champions League quarter-finals by Valencia 5-3 on aggregate in the Champions League quarter-finals in midweek, Eriksen, who is no longer in Europe, can play his main role in this crucial game.
Maciegiani, Negro, Mihajlovic, Glendoni, Favali, Diego Simeone, Almeida, Nedved, Veron, Stankovic and Marcelo Salas, these are the starting eleven of Lazio!
Obviously, Eriksen learned the lesson of the first meeting between the two sides this season, and did not put Conceicao, a winger who is heavy on attack and light on defense, into the starting list, but chose the new Yugoslav star Stankovic, who is full of physical strength, both offensive and defensive, in order to strengthen the defensive strength on the right side, so as not to be chased and beaten by Fiorentina again, and then lead the team to be completely defeated by the opponent!
With Lazio out of the way, let's look at Florence's side again. With many of the team's main players just playing Barcelona in midweek, Heynckes had to selectively send some of his main players in this game according to the advice given by the physiotherapy center, and formed a starting lineup with the rotation players.
Goalkeeper Toldo, the back four from left to right, Caradze, Ferrara, Hyypia and Zambrotta, Zanetti and Makelele form a midfield duo, Deco takes over Redondo's role in attack, Pirlo replaces captain Effenberg as the starting position as the core of the playmaker, and in the forward line, Shevchenko and Inzaghi start together.
After seeing the line-ups of both sides of the game, many people complained about Heynckes' line-up. Since the inability of Shevchenko and Inzaghi to coexist on the pitch was already exposed at the start of the season, the idea of teaming them together has proven to be an unsuccessful attempt, despite the fact that Sheva and Pippo are both top-notch strikers.
It is precisely for this reason that Heynckes will avoid Shevchenko and Inzaghi from playing at the same time, and take turns with Vieri and Ronaldo, the team's strongest striker combination, to ensure that everyone can play their own strength normally in the game, and there will be no phenomenon of one plus one less than two due to the overlap of characteristics between players.
Now, with Ronaldo's season out and Vieri playing the full game in the Champions League against Barcelona in midweek, Heynckes has to start the duo with only Shevchenko and Inzaghi in his hands.
Alas, Heynckes was really unlucky, but at this time he lost Ronaldo, a top striker, otherwise there are aliens in charge, whether it is Shevchenko or Inzaghi on the field, it can receive better results...... Or could it be that the German still didn't believe in evil and planned to try again in this crucial battle to see if the two of them could have a good chemistry? This is the thought in the minds of the vast majority of fans after seeing Fiorentina's starting line-up.
Zhuang Mingge, who got the team's starting list for "......", sat in his seat, looking at the names of Shevchenko and Big Inzaghi written on the starting list and was speechless for a long time, and his heart was also entangled. After all, in AC Milan in another world, another master tactician, Carlo Ancelotti, also racked his brains, and finally failed to find a way for the two to coexist perfectly, so he could only use other strikers such as Tomasson to take turns to start with the two, or simply adopt a Christmas tree formation to play a single striker, so that the two take turns to play, so as to solve this problem in disguise.
An Fatzi was able to solve this problem in the end, mainly because Shevchenko and Inzaghi, who were at the peak of their careers at the time, took turns to suffer from serious injuries: first Shevchenko was injured for almost two full seasons, and when the Ukrainian returned, it was Inzaghi's turn to lie in the hospital bed for two consecutive years to recuperate, and when Sheva and Inzaghi were all healthy, the big Inzaghi, whose legs were scarred, was no longer in high spirits. One can only watch from the bench as the younger Gilardino and Kaka race around the pitch. If it weren't for Sheva's unexpected departure from Chelsea, Lao Bei's reluctance to increase investment in the economic crisis and his reluctance to increase investment to guide AC Milan to have no successor in the forward line, I am afraid that Inzaghi would have retired quietly a long time ago, and there would be no old nine masters that fans talk about!
If it weren't for this reason, I'm afraid that without Ancelotti's achievements at AC Milan, the mismatch between the two strikers on the pitch would have turned the Rossoneri upside down.
And now, due to the pressure of the form, the director Heynckes has to use this combination in this game, Zhuang Mingge feels that this is really a huge test of the German coach's tactical ability!
And just like that, in the midst of people's doubts, the game officially began!