Chapter 588: Difficult March (1)
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The news of Fiorentina's 5-0 home win over Borussia Dortmund quickly spread across the continent by the media of good things, and the news had a remarkable effect.
Borussia Dortmund's fiasco caused a strong earthquake in European football, no one thought that two years ago in the Champions League and Fiorentina were inextricably linked, and Dortmund, who was eliminated only because they lost one goal on aggregate, would actually swallow five bullets in this competition, and from the course of the whole game, this Bundesliga team was completely at a disadvantage, and was suppressed by the opponent without any way to fight back!
Although because Dortmund is playing away this time, the visiting fans are more or less mentally prepared for the team's defeat in the first leg, but the loss is obviously far beyond the psychological expectations of Dortmund fans - what do these high-paid stars have to be bad to make the game so virtuous?
So when the Borussia Dortmund players returned to Germany and walked out of the airport, they were greeted with a "warm welcome" from the fans, only in the form of champagne and applause to rotten leaves and rotten eggs......
The Dortmund fiasco has caused a lot of people to think about, and these people have invariably begun to think about the real reasons for Dortmund's loss, and want to learn some lessons from it, lest they unknowingly go astray.
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, for example, noted that Borussia Dortmund's defeat was closely linked to the chaos within his squad. Since then, Ferguson has been more mindful of the atmosphere in the dressing room and the players than before, and this has also laid the groundwork for Beckham's future departure.
UEFA was also a little dumbfounded after seeing the result of the matchup, because this 5-0 match directly allowed Fiorentina to enter the door to the quarterfinals of the Champions League. Unless Scala has a way to get the team that doesn't listen to him by more than five goals at the Westphalia half a month later, Dortmund will be powerless to stop Fiorentina from progressing to the quarter-finals.
Not to mention the tangled UEFA team, after the home win over Borussia Dortmund, the Fiorentina players only got three days of rest before ushering in the 23rd round of Serie A. This time, Capello will lead the team to challenge the Red Wolves Roma at the Stadio Olimpic.
However, before the start of this game, Capello unexpectedly encountered a lot of trouble when it came to setting up his line-up.
First of all, Effenberg, Davies and Ronaldo were suspended due to accumulation of yellow cards, and it was determined in advance that they would not be able to play with the Roma team, so that Fiorentina lost two generals before the war started; Then, two days before the start of the game, Redondo and Rui Costa had to be absent from the league game after being ordered by Dr. Nelson to recuperate at home for a week due to a mild cold.
The simultaneous absence of four midfielders and a striker suddenly caused the originally large number of Fiorentina to suffer a long-lost personnel crisis, and also gave the Romans hope of overturning Fiorentina at home.
With the unavailability of Redondo, Costa and Effenberg, Fiorentina's control of the game plummeted, and Capello pondered the issue for a long time before making a difficult decision.
Since there are no midfield masters on his side, and the opponent in this game is still Roma led by Zeman, who is famous for attacking Serie A, then playing defensive counterattacks is naturally the best choice for Capello at the moment.
However, due to the absence of Redondo and others, Fiorentina lacked a quick counterattack starting point, so Capello's so-called defensive counterattack actually only has the previous word, that is, defense!
So, on the first night of March, fans who came to the Olympic Stadium to watch the major Serie A match between Rome and Fiorentina were surprised to find that Capello actually used the extremely conservative tactical play of four defenders + three backs in this game!
Fortunato, Stam, Nesta, Angeloma, Di Biagio, Tomasi, Zanetti...... Capello intends to use the Great Wall of Steel built by these seven men and Vieri, Inzaghi and Ze Roberto, who stayed in the front court to harass them, to get a point away from home!
Capello had a good idea and no holes in his thinking, but he had clearly forgotten an important point, which was that Zeman wasn't a guy who would make a reasonable deduction.
Facing Fiorentina's bucket formation, it is clear that the Czechs cannot easily agree to a draw at the Stadio Olimpico so easily. Therefore, when he saw Fiorentina retreating from the defense, he immediately waved his hand and asked the players to press all the players, and started a half-court offensive and defensive drill with Fiorentina!
Although the Fiorentina players withstood the Roma's attacking waves with their tenacious defense and tenacity, and the starting goalkeeper Toldo was even named the best player of the match for his many wonderful goalkeepers in the game, Fiorentina failed to achieve their desire to score points at the Stadio Olimpico at the very least: Francisco Totti's long-range shot in the 88th minute made the Fiorentina players' efforts throughout the game come to naught.
Zero to one! Fiorentina, who are short of major players, have suffered their second defeat in Serie A this season here in Rome!
The 1-0 defeat to Roma was a wake-up call for Fiorentina's players, and the defeat made them realise that while Fiorentina are doing very well at the moment, they are far from being able to ignore any one of their opponents and win easily.
Capello also took this opportunity to clean up the players under his command, and gave full play to the carrot and stick strategy, which not only gave the players enough sense of crisis and motivation to take every game seriously in their hearts, but also did not destroy the players' self-confidence too much, but only dispelled their conceit.
As a result, the spirited Fiorentina players beat the team to a sieve in the 24th round of the league against Piacenza a week later.
Filippo Inzaghi scored twice, his good friend Vieri also scored a goal in the game, Costa also scored a beautiful direct free kick after returning from a cold, and Cruise came on as a substitute in the final stages of the game, Fiorentina finally slaughtered the league belly team 5-1 and won a victory, widening the gap with Juventus, who drew with Udinese in this round, to 15 points!
Fiorentina, the goal of four consecutive league titles, is getting closer and closer.