Chapter 214: Battle at the Bernabeu (Part II)
"The ball is in! Just five minutes into the game, the Fiorentina took a 1-0 lead at the Bernabeu with a despicable sneak attack! It was their young centre-back Alessandro Nesta who scored for them! The tall defender played an extremely important role in both offensive and defensive corners, first with a header from Michel in front of his own goal, blowing the horn of Fiorentina's counter-attack, and then heading in his own corner in the Real Madrid penalty area! The assist was assisted by Rui Costa, who had also excelled on the counter-attack before! Although the commentator at the Bernabeu Stadium described the goal as a "despicable sneak attack", he couldn't keep his eyes open and say nonsense, saying that Fiorentina's players were not good enough.
Nesta excitedly opened his arms and rushed to the stands where the Fiorentina fans were located, his first goal of the season and the first Champions League goal of his career, and his goal helped his team take the lead in this crucial game, which made him extremely excited as a centre-back!
After receiving the cheers from the fans, Nesta turned and hugged the other teammates who ran over in celebration. Nesta's performance is getting better and better after getting rid of the psychological shackles, whether it is to grab or fill in or even command the back line to stand in a good potential, and he is quickly transforming these potentials into his own ability, faintly becoming an all-round central defender Jiashi, so that this season has only started more than two months, and the team's main central defender Firicano in the first two seasons was squeezed into the bench by him.
Nesta's start to the game is also quite positive for his future development in Fiorentina - fans are generally not too young players, and as long as there are flashes from time to time, they will have good expectations for these young players.
With Fiorentina scoring first on the road, the game began to heat up!
Originally, Fiorentina in the last leg of the group stage in their home stadium Zuihou moment only struggled to draw Real Madrid, which led most of the half, and was also scored by the opponent an away goal, in terms of momentum is still weaker than the opponent by one point, so in the opening stage of the game, although Fiorentina controlled the rhythm of the game under the leadership of Costa and Effenberg, but in the real attack is still quite cautious, there are many unsafe passes Costa is not afraid to try. So in the previous period, although Fiorentina seemed to be in the driver's seat, there were very few attacks that threatened.
Now, the disadvantage of an away goal has been offset by Nesta's goal, and the team have taken the lead at the Santiago Bernabeu, which has lifted the morale of the Fiorentina players all at once.
Real Madrid's players have to maintain their dignity as a traditional Spanish giant, just looking at the number of trophies in the honor rooms of both clubs, they can't be beaten by Fiorentina so easily in this game, otherwise where should Real Madrid's face go?
In the years that followed, the Real Madrid players began to attack from the flanks, with Enrique and Amavisca constantly getting the ball and crossing from both sides, trying to create chances to score as before.
After all, according to the configuration of the starting lineups of both sides, Real Madrid has a certain advantage on the wing, Amarvisca and Luis Enrique are not easy players to be targeted, plus two full-backs Flores and Shendo, so that although Di Biagio and Davies continue to take turns to help the defense, they still can't completely block Real Madrid's wing attack.
However, Flores and Shendo are already very old, and they can no longer sprint back and forth on the wing like when they were younger, and the range of assists is naturally much smaller, coupled with the height and jishu characteristics of Zamorano and Raul, they are not destined to be a striker who is good at competing for headers.
Therefore, although Real Madrid's wide attack looks very lively, and it also makes Lanna and Billindelli look very embarrassed when defending, but after blocking the way for Real Madrid players to cut in from the wing, leaving only space for them to cross, Real Madrid's attacking style is not a threat to Fiorentina, who has two central defenders, Ferrara and Nesta, and has a huge advantage in terms of height.
Some people may ask, since Real Madrid's tactics are so easy to crack, then Weishenme will still lead Fiorentina for most of the first leg of the contest between the two sides? The reason is very simple, because Real Madrid took advantage of a clearance mistake by Filicano at the beginning of that game to be scored by Zamorano's sneak attack, and then used the jishu and speed of his four players in the front court to play a defensive counterattack, and Fiorentina had to press the attack in order to equalize, and the large space left in the backfield naturally became the stage for Zamorano and Raul to gallop.
It was that mistake that Filicano was replaced by Nesta, who had shown excellent form in training, and could only sit on the bench in the second leg against Real Madrid......
This game is different, now Fiorentina is leading, the team eager to equalize has become Real Madrid, and the side of the defensive counterattack has become Fiorentina.
As the game progressed, Real Madrid's attack became more and more difficult under Fiorentina's reinforced defence, while Fiorentina's counter-attack became more and more sharp, with Inzaghi's running and tackle, Effenberg's organization and big picture, Batistuta's powerful shooting and pulling, and Rui Costa's needle-threading and dribbling up front...... The combination of these players' characteristics has allowed them to play subtly up front, and the pressure on the Real Madrid backline has naturally increased.
In the 27th minute, Davies stole Michel's dribbling in Real Madrid's backfield, Effenberg crossed diagonally to the right side after getting the ball, and Costa, who moved to the right side of the court, dribbled the ball on the side and faced Flores after making two passing feints, and then suddenly crossed the ball low and crossed the middle, Effenberg, who followed from behind, pretended to raise his foot to catch the ball but cleverly leaked the ball under his feet, and the German's move directly shook many Real Madrid defenders - they all thought that Effenberg was going to attack the goal directly outside the penalty area.
At this point, Batistuta took the ball with his back at the edge of the penalty area, and without looking at it, he slammed the ball with his heel into the box, and the ball flew between the legs of Alcorta, who had not yet recovered from Effenberg's movements, and Inzaghi appeared in the box like a ghost, stopping the ball - Xiangyou took a step sideways - shooting, the ball flew into the goal quickly, although Buyo's gloves touched the ball, but it still could not prevent the ball from going into the net!
More than 1,000 Fiorentina fans cheered from afar, and Inzaghi, like Nesta, who scored the first goal, ran to the stands with open arms to meet the cheers of the fans!
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