Once the game began, Fiorentina, who had been awarded the right to kick-off, quickly engaged the home side in a fierce battle in midfield.

Monaco's attacking system, like the French national team, is entirely built around Zinedine Zidane, so fighting for control of the midfield is the key to Monaco winning this game - if Zidane can't get the ball in peace, then Monaco's attack will be completely blind.

Fiorentina, on the other hand, value the midfield because they see it as the first line of defence, and from the perspective of a traditional Italian manager, the traditional Italian reinforced concrete defence is to start from the midfield and layer by layer, luring the opposition players to press the attack while increasing the space for their own players to launch a quick counter-attack.

This set of tactics can be called the magic weapon of the Italian team, even Ranieri, who has added the front court to counter-attack after taking charge of Fiorentina, has unswervingly implemented it, and now, this defensive system has played a vital role in this game!

From the moment the whistle blew, Davies stuck to Zidane, inseparable, intending to fight Monaco's most threatening attack point with a redemption method. The rest of the Fiorentina players are in good shape and are planning to teach Monaco a good lesson in this stadium and show them what a real counter-attack is!

Trezeguet and Henry were targeted by Nesta and Ferrara as soon as they came on the field, although these two have shown good talent, but after all, they are still young people with little game experience, and the French team will not make such perverted defensive tactics, and the two were instantly lost in the encirclement created by Fiorentina, making Monaco's attack almost stagnant from the beginning.

Davies was very aggressive in the start of the game, and he was also very fierce in close pressing, and when he found that he could not stop Zidane, he took decisive foul tactics, and in just 15 minutes he brought down Zidane three times, although he received verbal warnings from the referee, it was very effective in slowing down Monaco's attacking momentum.

Monaco, whose offensive momentum has been repeatedly interrupted by Fiorentina, naturally enjoys the treatment of genuine Italian counterattacks, often after Monaco returns with an attack in vain, the home team players have not had time to turn back to the defense, and Fiorentina launched a counterattack under the command of Effenberg, making several Monaco players who stayed behind in the backfield embarrassed.

However, Monaco is not completely out of hope of winning, because they have another handsome talent in their team after Platini - Zinedine Zidane!

Zidane, who is still not yet 24 years old, is not the big bald man in Zhuang Mingge's impression, and he still has a fairly mental head at this time, although Davies's rubbery defense has many fewer opportunities to get the ball than usual, but he can still show his attacking talent on the pitch, leading Monaco to the difficult maneuver with Fiorentina.

Zhuang Mingge watched the young Zizu keep running back and forth at both ends of the field, while helping his teammates with the ball find the route to the ball through his unremitting running, and at the same time controlling the rhythm of the game in Monaco with continuous passing, he sighed in his heart: Sure enough, Zidane at this time is the best, although the Zizou who later transferred to Real Madrid has raised his popularity and commercial value to an unparalleled height through Real Madrid's commercial hype, But in fact, at that time, Zidane's Jishu level had begun to slip from its peak.

Some people may have some doubts, since Monaco can win the Ligue 1 championship for two consecutive years, its strength should not be weak, why can it play so its home turf?

The reason is very simple, although Monaco has dominated the French league in the past two years, there is still a big gap compared with the top teams from Serie A like Fiorentina, after all, after the Marseille match-fixing case, Ligue 1 has lost a large number of stars, and the league level has been lowered by more than one notch.

The league is not at a good level, and even if Monaco can dominate in France, it does not mean how strong the team is, and this sentence is very true for Monaco, especially its backline, which has not been tested by many top strikers.

Fans who are familiar with Wenger know that Wenger's offensive tactics are quite good, but in terms of defense, just look at the Arsenal he is coaching now, there is basically no formed defensive system, and most of them rely on the individual play of defensive players to block the opponent's attack.

And now these Fiorentina strikers are more than a step ahead of the Monaco defenders in terms of one-on-one ability!

In the 28th minute, Monaco attacked the door of Fiorentina again, and in less than half an hour, one side attacked, and the other side shrank in the half to play a defensive counterattack, and the two sides had a tacit understanding.

Zidane received a pass from Candela, who inserted an assist from the left side, and immediately turned around with the ball to break through, intending to use his dribbling to compress the defensive space of the visiting team, but was blocked by Davies who was guarding his side, and the center of gravity of the tall Zidane (1.85 meters) was naturally not as stable as Davies (1.69 meters), and he was entangled by the Dutchman for nearly half an hour.

Davies immediately fell to the ground and kicked the ball to Effenberg on the side, and the German looked up and picked up his right foot towards the left side of Monaco, which was to send a long ball!

Counterattack! Fiorentina's counterattack!

Ronaldo, who has been hovering in Monaco's back line for a long time, immediately ran forward the moment he saw Effenberg's pass, and the two did not know how many times they had practiced this kind of cooperation in their usual training, and now they naturally seem familiar with it.

Catch - accelerate - stop - accelerate, Ronaldo used his explosive power to easily get rid of Ismael's defense and go straight to Roa's gate with the ball! This time, he won't waste his chance like he did before!

Leboeuf didn't rush to defend Ronaldo – he had to keep an eye on Batistuta next to him to prevent him from running into the empty net while he wasn't looking.

Rather than letting the opponent score an empty goal, Leboeuf is more willing to gamble to see if his goalkeeper can block Ronaldo's shot!

But this time, Leboeuf was doomed to disappointment......

In the face of Roa, Ronaldo very calmly made a feint to shoot to the left, and after making the opponent make a misjudgment and make a save, the alien transitioned the ball to his right foot and easily pushed the shot!

1 to 0! Fiorentina lead Monaco away!

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