As the players from both sides walked out of the tunnel, they were greeted by the cheers of the 18,000 spectators at the Stade Louis II!

'Now the players and managers of both sides have taken to the pitch...... Forty-four-year-old Louis van Gaal meets Ranieri, also forty-four! Representatives of two young coaches in European football, these two managers will face each other for the first time in this match! Let's wait and see what this UEFA Super Cup will be! At the same time, Zhuang Mingge's headphones came from the commentator's enthusiastic voice, and it seemed that the eldest brother had also participated in the previous debate.

Champions Cup winner Ajax, Cup Winners' Cup winner Fiorentina, in terms of fame and history, Ajax is much better than Fiorentina. Even though Fiorentina won the Cup Winners' Cup once last season, it is still much dwarfer than the famous Ajax: 25 Eredivisie titles, 12 Dutch Cups, four European Champions Cups, two Toyota Cups and two UEFA Super Cups, and one League Cup and one Cup Winners' Cup.

Fiorentina, three Serie A titles, five Coppa Italia titles, two Cup Winners' Cups, and only one Champions League final has been reached, dating back to the fifties......

However, history is only history after all, and from the current situation of both sides, Fiorentina is much superior to Ajax. After all, Ajax has suffered serious blood loss this summer, and although Fiorentina is not a big splash of money, it has also introduced a lot of powerful reinforcements. Therefore, Zhuang Mingge thinks that if the Fiorentina boys can play normally, they can solve Ajax in 90 minutes and win the first European Super Cup in the club's history!

At this time, as captains of Ajax and Fiorentina, Blind and Batistuta came to the referee to guess the heads and tails of the coin to determine the ball and their respective halves.

"The race is on! Batistuta took the lead and he gave it to Djokaeff behind him! The Frenchman didn't stop the ball and he passed it straight back to Effenberg, who was further behind! ”

Fiorentina's players followed Ranieri's arrangement, starting from the midfield to move forward step by step, intending to control the midfield first and then attack the opponent's goal!

After all, judging by the formation of both sides, it is clear that Ajax are not as good as Fiorentina in terms of control in midfield, and their staffing looks more like they are planning to play a defensive counter-attack.

After the start of the game, the Ajax players immediately launched a fierce scramble with Fiorentina in the midfield according to the manager's pre-game arrangement, and Van Gaal, who carefully studied the video of the Fiorentina game last season, clearly knew that most of Fiorentina's Seiko started from the midfield, and if they wanted to suppress Fiorentina, the first thing to suppress was their midfield.

In the fifth minute, Effenberg's pass was cut off near the centre circle by Collini, who immediately got the ball on to Litmanning, who had retreated from the attack.

The Finnish skate didn't hesitate and sent a through ball into the Fiorentina penalty area before the Fiorentina players rushed to defend, where Ronald de Boer, who was defined as a midfielder, appeared! At the moment, there is no one to defend him!

It's just a pity that De Boer's shot was saved by a very focused Toldo.

After narrowly escaping, Fiorentina's players are still a little confused, how can De Boer, as a midfielder, run to the front line, while the three Ajax strikers are in the midfielder position?

So in the following period, the Fiorentina players, who had not yet figured out the opponent's tactics, played a shrinking defense in their own half under the command of Effenberg, while observing the movement of the Ajax players on the field.

Zhuang Mingge observed for a while and found that Van Gaal's helpless move to push Laudrup up front was a clever move, at least from the current effect, much like Spalletti's strikerless tactics when he was in charge of Rome in the future.

In Ajax's starting line-up, there was no traditional striker, although the game started in a four-three-three, but the two so-called "strikers" Laudrup and Litmanning both retreated deeply, more like midfielders, plus Ronald De Boer, Collini and Gianni Keida behind them, Ajax had a certain advantage in the number of midfielders.

When attacking, Litmaning and Laudrup can threaten the opposition goal with long-range shots, Ovemas can attack on the wing, and Ronald de Boer, who was previously defined as a midfielder, has become the attacking hub of this formation, not only taking on the responsibility of organising the attack, but also taking turns with his teammates in the opposition penalty area to threaten the goal.

"This kind of tactic can be created at this time, and Van Gaal is still very good as a coach." Zhuang Mingge, who understood the tactics of the Ajax team, said with some admiration.

"What's going on with Ajax's tactics? Tony? Karin saw the clue when she heard Zhuang Mingge, and hurriedly asked.

So Zhuang Mingge whispered some of the key points of the no-blade tactics that he had just remembered to the two of them.

"Tony, according to what you say, isn't it going to be a lot of pressure on Fiorentina defensively?" After listening to Zhuang Mingge's explanation, Karin said with some worry.

"Hehe, don't be so nervous, although this set of tactics is indeed very powerful, but Van Gaal's cards now determine that this set of tactics has not been perfected."

"First of all, this strikerless tactic requires the two full-backs to step in frequently to widen the attack; Secondly, although there is no traditional striker, the middle still needs a high point to respond, otherwise it is impossible to achieve a three-dimensional attack. And these two points are precisely the weakness of the current Ajax! ”

Among the teams that played striker tactics in later generations, Spalletti's Roma had Totti and Aquilani, Manchester United in the Trinity period had Ronaldo, and Valencia coached by Benitez also had Mista, their height determined that they could use their headers to bombard the opponent's goal, and if they didn't, they could only go to the ground to cooperate, unless there was a perverted tacit understanding of Barcelona in later generations, it was purely self-defeating.

Moreover, without two full-backs with strong assist ability, Ajax with only one Overmars could not smoothly pull Fiorentina's defensive lineup apart, which means that Fiorentina can make the opponent's chances of scoring even more slim as long as they deploy heavy troops in the middle of the pitch to implement zone defense.

As long as Ranieri can find these two weaknesses of Ajax, then in this game, Fiorentina is already invincible!