Chapter 240: The Role of Baggio
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"Hello spectators, the second half of Fiorentina's home game against AC Milan has begun, the score is still 1-0, and the home team Fiorentina leads AC Milan thanks to a goal from Filippo Inzaghi in the 28th minute." Fiorentina's commentator was still diligent in introducing the game to the audience, "However, in the second half of the first half, the young striker of the visiting team, Kluivert, performed exceptionally well, almost single-handedly turned the Fiorentina defense upside down, if it weren't for Weah and Savicevic's bad footwork today, AC Milan would have probably overtaken the score before the break......"
At the end of the fifteen-minute break, the game was back on the pitch and the game was restarted, with neither Capello nor Ranieri making any substitutions during the fifteen-minute period. The former is because it is not necessary, after all, the performance of the Milan players in the previous 45 minutes has been quite in line with his expectations, except for Weah's hot head and confusion, he has no more to blame, even the conceded goal Capello can only regret that it is not our army that is not strong, but that the enemy army is too cunning......
Ranieri did not make a substitution because he now feels that everyone in the team is playing well, and no matter which one is replaced, it may have a bad impact on the team, which is a risk that the always conservative Ranieri is not willing to take, in his opinion, 1-0 and 2-0 are the same three points, and there is no need to take such unnecessary risks in this crucial game.
At the start of the second half, Fiorentina, who had the right to kick-off, immediately passed the ball to Effenberg, and the German midfield maestro controlled the tempo of the pitch, while Rui Costa roamed around Effenberg to provide a steady route for the Tigers, while the Portuguese also existed as a supporting nucleus of the team, mainly responsible for taking command of the team when the Germans were heavily defended by opponents.
Under the dispatch of the two cores, Fiorentina firmly established itself in the midfield and launched a real positional battle with Milan. Because through the observation of the first half of the game, Ranieri found that the current AC Milan team is obviously more dominant in open attack, after all, their two strikers Weah and Kluivert are not players who can grasp the opportunity to shoot in a dense defense, so Milan is more likely to use frequent passes to open up enough space and then hand the ball to the duo to complete the shooting to improve the scoring efficiency.
Therefore, Ranieri stressed to the players at half-time that they should strengthen their own half of the defense in the next game, especially the area of 25 meters in front of the goal, and must not allow the Milan to easily get up and hit the goal. And the reason why they didn't ask for anything further is mainly because this AC Milan team really doesn't have a long-range shooter who can blast the opponent's goal with an unreasonable long-range shot in a stalemate, so a dense defensive area of 25 meters is enough, unless Savicevic can break out again against the Fiorentina defense with a lob that looks like a pass and a shot (here referring to Savicevic's goal in the '94 Champions League final).
As a result, under the tight fence of Fiorentina, AC Milan's attack encountered great difficulties, Kluivert still showed his immature side, although he has an enviable football talent and physical fitness, but he is inexperienced in the face of such a dense defense seems to have little way - his jishu is good but not suitable for such a small space; Liberian Weah was also in trouble, with Ferrara's marking making him realise for the first time that this is the defensive quality of Italy's top defenders.
Milan's attack has been difficult, but Fiorentina is not having a good time, because Barty and Inzaghi are not good at counter-attacking with the ball, and it is often the case that the two have to give up control of the ball after receiving a pass from Costa or Effenberg.
In order to improve the team's efficiency on the counter-attack, Ranieri made the first substitution with 55 minutes played, replacing Philippe Inzaghi with Robert Baggio, who scored a goal. The main reason for this is that Barty, who is a high school forward, can be used as the fulcrum of the team's frontcourt when playing counter-attacks, and Baggio at his peak is an extremely suitable candidate for counter-attacking.
After all, Baggio in 1995 was in his prime, and when he represented the national team for the first time in the Shijie Cup, Baggio used a long-distance run that many Italian fans will never forget, and completed a classic defensive counterattack case with the containment and cooperation of his teammates; And in the Shijie Cup in the United States more than a year ago, under the defensive counterattack system of the national team head coach Sacchi, Baggio, who became the commander of the team, repeatedly personally charged into several counterattacks of the team into goals, thus leading Italy to the final final!
All this is enough to prove that Baggio in this period is a good fighter for counterattacks!
It is precisely because of this that after Baggio came on the field, Fiorentina's defensive counterattack became more and more handy, and the whole team withdrew to their own half to participate in the defense except for Baggio, who stayed in the front court and was ready to counterattack, and the increase in the number of defenders made the AC Milan side have less and less space to shoot calmly, Weah and Kluivert even have a tendency to be annihilated in the penalty area by the purple crowd; Once Milan's pass was cut off by a Fiorentina player, the ball would reach Baggio's feet as fast as possible to launch a counter-attack, and in just ten minutes, Baggio hit the post and then the crossbar, shocking the visiting players in a cold sweat......
Capello couldn't help but sigh when he saw the team not attacking for a long time but was repeatedly counterattacked by the opponent, of course he could see what the team lacked now, but he didn't have much to do, after all, Milan is now in the rebuilding period of the old and the new, and it is lucky to be able to get the second place, and it is still too difficult to defeat this Fiorentina team.
If it's still a draw or if your side scores first, then Capello has a lot of ways to get the game to the pace he wants. However, Weah's irrationality has made AC Milan still a goal behind, and the opponent has made it clear that Jiashi is ready to play a defensive counterattack, in this case, Capello naturally can't use the counterattack tactics in advance, and can only helplessly watch the home team play his team's counterattack.
In this game, Milan is really hanging......
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