Chapter 383: National Team Match Day
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After winning the league against Juventus, Fiorentina are at the top of the table with 12 points from four wins.
Fiorentina's outstanding performance since the start of the new season naturally impressed the new coach of the national team, Maldini Sr., in order to prepare for the Shijie Cup qualifiers that began in early October, the old Maldini finally announced the new national team squad after several months of investigation.
This time, Fiorentina's players are finally getting the attention they deserve. Toldo, Ferrara, Nesta, Di Biagio, Filippo Inzaghi and others were all selected, a far cry from the neglect of the Saki era.
At the same time, the elder Maldini also called in Pagliuca and Roberto Baggio, two stars who were inexplicably kicked out of the national team by Sacchi, and Buffon, a rising star who performed exceptionally well in the league, was also promoted to the national team by the elder Maldini. However, judging from the attitude expressed by Lao Ma in an interview with reporters, the young Buffon may only be able to sit on the bench and observe the performances of the national team's big brothers up close, and Lao Ma's main purpose in recruiting him is to let this young player learn more from Pagliuca and Toldo, which is something that Buffon can't get at Parma.
Some people are happy and some are sad, and a large number of newcomers are pouring into the national team, which means that some people are about to take off this blue shirt.
As a result, Zola, Casirachi, Carboni, Musi, Abroni, Butch and other players who were in the Saki era were quite used, but the players who were disappointed in England's European Championship were not selected for the old Maldini's squad, and AC Milan's Costacuta was also not selected for the current national team due to the sluggish form in recent years, which proved the old Maldini's determination not to be cronyistic from another aspect.
In this Shijie Cup European qualifiers, the first opponent Italy faced in the group stage was the fish belly team Moldova.
On October 5th, Italy finally ushered in the group stage with the Moldovan national team!
Although it is an away game, although there are still many deficiencies in the tacit understanding and run-in of this new Italian national team, although the unfamiliarity between the players makes the tactics expected by the old Maldini not fully implemented, but such Italy is not recognized in European football as a "point boy" Moldova can stop, the huge gap in the strength of the two teams made Italy's Shijie Cup qualifiers The first game turned into a complete slaughter.
Starting the game, Roberto Baggio and Inzaghi both scored twice, with Pierrot, who came on as a substitute for Baggio in the 70th minute, also netting. Also on the scoresheet were two defenders, Alessandro Nesta and Christian Panucci, with the former heading home from a set-piece in the 36th minute; The latter, on the other hand, staged a good show of stepping on the camp, running from the back for a full 60 meters before sending the ball into the Georgian goal......
In the end, when the referee blew the final whistle, the score was fixed at 7-0, and the newly formed Italian national team won away to Georgia without suspense and made a good start.
Four days later, the Italian national team returned to the Stadio Olimpico in Rome for their second Shijie Cup qualifier against Georgia.
There are still some good players in the Georgian national team during this period, and the stars in the current year are Aviradze (who plays for Trabzonspor in Turkey and is the top scorer in the Turkish Super League in the 95-96 season), Kezbaya (who plays for Newcastle in the Premier League), and Kinkladze (who plays for Manchester City); Young players such as Kaladze, Kobiashvili, and Yashvili have also made some name in European football and have a bright future.
Since the opponent's paper strength is not bad, so in this game, the cautious old Maldini lined up a set of four-four-two: the starting goalkeeper is Pagliuca, and the four defenders from left to right are Maldini, Ferrara, Nesta and Torricelli, Panucci played the full 90 minutes of the game against Moldova, so he got the opportunity to rest in this game; In midfield, Albertini and Dino Baggio, who were both offensive and defensive, sat in the middle, and Di Biagio lagged behind to act as a defensive line for Zuihou in midfield.
At the same time, in order to solve the problem of overlap between Pierrot and Baggio, Roberto Baggio was moved to a central midfield position by Maldini Sr., and Pierrot was partnered by Philippe Inzaghi up front.
The starting lineup of the Georgian side is very easy to guess, after all, there are only a few well-known stars in this small country that has just been independent for a few years, and it is almost impossible to put them all on the field.
After the start of the game, Georgia, who won the kick-off, dominated the counter-visitors and launched the first attack towards the Italian half.
Aviradze was Georgia's leading striker, able to keep the ball under control even when surrounded by a host of Italian players, and the skilful interplay between him and Kinkladze kept Torricelli on the right and Nesta in charge of the defense scrambling.
However, the Aviradze were limited to causing some problems for the Italian defence, and the Georgians, hoping to establish an advantage through an opening attack, had most of their shots discredited by the home side just halfway through the Italian's tight defence, with Pagliuca not even getting a few chances to save in front of goal.
After withstanding Georgia's opening three-board axe, Italy, who were more powerful, began to gradually occupy the initiative on the field.
Compared to the visitors' decent attack, the Georgian defense was extremely miserable, with only Kaladze fighting one-on-one with the Italian players, and the others relying on the overall coordination of Liliang against a number of big stars such as Baggio and Pierrot.
In the face of the Azzurri's pressing step, Georgia's formation was unwittingly pressed back into its own half by the home team, and was forced to play a defensive counterattack, while Italy, who completely dominated the initiative, frequently attacked the door of the visiting team in the following time.
In the 23rd minute, Roberto Baggio was brought down in front, Albertini's free kick was met by Dino Baggio in the crowd, and a powerful header hit caught the Georgian goalkeeper off guard, 1-0, Italy took the lead.
In the 35th minute, Dino Baggio took a long shot from 40 meters from the goal, the away goalkeeper saved the ball, and Inzaghi appeared like a ghost at the place where the ball landed and sent the ball into the goal, 2-0!
Towards the end of the first half, Pierrot received a pass from Baggio on the left side of the penalty area and volleyed, and the ball flew straight into the corner of the goal, rewriting the score to 3-0!
The 3-0 scoreline seemed to break the morale of the Georgians, and although Kinkladze scored after a back-to-back break in the 71st minute to help the visitors pull a point back, substitute Chiesa scored a brace to make it 5-1 and Italy won the game.