Chapter 563: Attack November (1)

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After the match against Sampdoria, Fiorentina welcomed the seventh round of Serie A three days later, this time against the league's fish belly team and Filippo Inzaghi's parent club, Piacenza FC.

Piacenza, who was only relegated in the relegation play-offs last season, received a lot of broadcast revenue this summer, but this huge amount of money was transferred to his own account by their boss, and he has no intention of strengthening the team.

So, in the case of an arms race between the Serie A teams for their own goals, Piacenza instead sold the team's main goalkeeper Taibi and several other key players in the team last season, and only brought in a few veterans and unknown young players to make up the numbers.

As a result of this miserly Piacenza boss, the team only managed two draws and four defeats in the first six rounds of the league and only accumulated two points, sitting firmly at the bottom of the standings.

Fiorentina, the European giants who are top of the league table, will face Piacenza who are bottom of the table, and you can see what the result will be when you think about it on your heels.

Although Piacenza played at home, he showed the skill of a small team, but Capello, who had long expected this situation, sent a number of long-range shooters and free-kick masters including Robert Carlos, Davies, Effenberg and Batistuta to break down the opponent's goal with long-range shots and set-pieces.

On top of that, Capello also brought on Filipe Inzaghi, a striker who was born to score goals, and his position in this game was clear, that is, to send the ball into the opponent's goal in a reasonable way!

After the start of the game, in the face of the home team that returned to the defense on all fronts, Fiorentina quickly took the initiative on the field, constantly forcing Piacenza players to come out of the penalty area with long-range shots, instead of blindly blocking the bus in front of the goal; At the same time, the players also took advantage of the opponent's lack of personal ability to grasp the location of the foul, and frequently used breakthroughs to create well-placed set-pieces in the front court.

In the 33rd minute, Effenberg was brought to the ground by a Piacenza player on the break, and the referee awarded Fiorentina a direct free kick near the top of the box. Batistuta, who was in charge of the penalty, did not challenge any curling balls, but directly volleyed from this position!

Goalkeeper Serini, who only moved from Sampdoria this summer, had nothing to do with Barty's shot due to a positioning problem, and could only watch the ball fly into the goal.

1-0, Fiorentina lead!

After conceding the goal, the Piacenza players began to panic. After all, the purpose of the appearance of the iron bucket formation is to completely abandon the attack to defend a draw, if you are lucky enough, you can also take advantage of the opponent's anxious mentality that has not been able to attack for a long time to make one or two sneak attacks, once you succeed, you can occupy the initiative on the field.

However, now that they have been breached by their opponents, it means that the Tietong Formation has lost its due meaning. Not only did the players not think about what to do for the rest of the game, but even the Piacenza coach on the sidelines had not yet made up his mind.

Therefore, after the restart, the Piacenza players, whose minds were not united, were completely unable to use their punches, while Fiorentina took advantage of the home team's chaos to attack aggressively!

In the 38th minute, Davies' long-range shot from 25 meters out was blocked by Cerini's double fists, and Inzaghi keenly seized the opportunity and smashed the ball directly into the goal before the opposing defender, rewriting the score to 2-0!

The Piacenza players who conceded another goal were naturally even more confused, some wanted to attack to get back the score, and some thought that a solid defense was the premise of chasing points...... The Piacenza people, who were repeating the rhythm they had just had, did not realize that they were entering a vicious circle.

In the end, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the score was fixed at 6-0!

Batistuta and second-half substitute Cruise each scored a goal, Robert Carlos also scored a league goal in the final minutes of the game with a long-range shot, and Philippe Inzaghi scored a hat-trick in front of his parent club to be named Man of the Match!

After the win on Piacenza, the time finally entered November, and European football once again ushered in the national team break, but this time, the FIFA virus did not have much impact on Fiorentina, because this match day was specially prepared for the eight teams that will participate in the World Cup play-offs.

Over the next two weeks, the teams will be split into four groups to fight head-to-head, with the winner receiving a ticket to next year's World Cup, while the losing team will have to sit in front of the TV in envy and envy to watch the World Cup next summer.

By the way, in order to avoid disrupting the normal rhythm of the club's matches as much as possible, and to reduce the fatigue caused by the frequent commuting between the national team and the club, so as to better protect their health, UEFA President Johansson temporarily revised the play-off schedule in the summer, combining the two legs of the play-offs into the first half of November, instead of playing the two games separately as originally planned.

Johansson's move was strongly supported by the players, clubs and national football associations, as UEFA made the change to the satisfaction of all parties. The players are happy that they don't have to play switchback and forth between club and country in just a few weeks; The club is happy not to have to deal with a fragmented schedule again; The national team is satisfied that it can have more time for intensive training to integrate the team's fighting strength.

With this humanistic gesture, Johansson's image in people's minds has been greatly improved, which has once again strengthened the Swedish man's voice in UEFA.

It is precisely because of Johansson's strong position that the UEFA president has the confidence to sternly reject the proposal of Platini to be the UEFA executive committee member proposed by the French executive committee in the internal meeting just held, so that the former French superstar's calculation has once again failed.

With UEFA out of the way, let's look at the national team again. Due to the rise of Fiorentina, the Italian national team of the elder Maldini has undergone a lot of changes in both the lineup and tactics, and the final result of this change is that Italy did not lose in the last two rounds as in history, and was overtaken by England and had to face a two-legged World Cup play-off with Russia.

Therefore, the Italian Football Federation has specially arranged several friendly matches with other countries during the play-off period. And the elder Maldini publicly announced in an interview that he intends to use the friendly match to observe the state of those fringe internationals this time, so as to further determine who he should take to represent Italy in the World Cup in France!

The old Maldini's statement made all the Italian players who have not yet secured their positions in the national team prick up their ears!