Chapter 425: Before the Championship Cup (Part II)
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On the evening of 23 February, the Stade Franqui will witness a clash between current league leaders Fiorentina and second-placed Juventus.
Well, although this is said, if you take a serious look at the standings, you will find that although the difference between Fiorentina and Juventus is only one place, there is an almost insurmountable gap between the two teams in the points - the Purple Lilies have an unbeaten record of 16 wins and 4 draws in the past 20 league rounds, while the Bianconeri have 10 wins, 7 draws and 3 losses with 37 points.
Regardless, with fourteen rounds of the league remaining, the fifteen-point gap between Juventus and Fiorentina is just too big. If Fiorentina win in this round, the Purple Lily's lead will be extended to 18 points!
Therefore, the so-called summit duel is not so remarkable in this situation, after all, Fiorentina has a double-digit advantage even if they lose, and Juventus only makes up a little bit of the huge gap if they win.
In addition, since both sides have Champions League games to play in midweek, the two managers of Capello and Lippi have chosen to stay in Europe for this game.
The starting lineup on the Fiorentina side is, goalkeeper Toldo, the four defenders are Fortunato, Stam, Nesta and Angeloma, in the midfield, Zanetti and Tomasi are jointly responsible for the defense, Rui Costa is in the center to organize the team's attack, and on the forward line, because Inzaghi and Ronaldo were hidden by Capello because of the first leg of the midweek match with Manchester United, so this time Capello sent a three-forward formation, and at the top is the Argentine god of war Batistuta, on both sides of him, Frenchman Djokaeff and Danish winger Glen Schal were in charge of delivering comfortable passes for Barty.
Fiorentina sent a mix and match lineup, and Juventus seems to have done a more straightforward and thorough job, Lippi seems to be really planning to fight in the Champions Cup, this game he was stunned to hide Pierrot and Zidane, the two absolute main forces, replaced by Padovano and Lombardo, plus the Croatian Boksic at the front, Juventus game is also a three-striker jiashi; In midfield, Frenchman Didier Deschamps was also not in the starting line-up, with Tacinadi and Antonio Conte, who had returned from injury, joining forces to defend the midfield, with Jugovic becoming the core of the playmaker; At the back, it was a combination of Di Livio, Montero, Blanc and Pollini, and the goalkeeper was still Peruzzi.
The tactics used by the two sides are unexpectedly very similar, both strengthen the midfield's tackle strength, and then form a breakthrough on the side through the midfield organizer's ball, zuihou is solved by a strong center, in this situation where even the game tactics have crashed, if you want to win, it is the individual ability of the players on both sides and the luck in the game!
As the game entered the twenty-first minute, there was a loud cheer from the stands at Frankie Stadium.
After Tomasi and Fortunato teamed up to stop a Juventus attack, they immediately launched a quick counter-attack on the spot, Rui Costa passed the ball to Glen Charles on the right, and the Dane shook off his long legs and began to dribble forward at high speed!
Di Livio tried to stop Glen Char, but the speed difference between the two made it impossible for Di Livio to catch the Dane.
After finding that he had thrown Di Livio off a long distance, Glen Charles immediately passed the ball to the middle and handed it to Batistuta, who was pulled out of the penalty area to receive it, and after receiving the ball, Barty first made a feint to turn and hit the goal, attracting the attention of Blanc and Montero and passing the ball to Rui Costa, who had just caught up!
The Portuguese midfielder did not stop the ball and distributed the ball directly to Djokaef who was inserted on the left side!
After lifting his foot to stop the ball, Djokaev did not rush to break through the front of Pollini, but looked up to observe the situation in the penalty area, making the opponent mistakenly think that he was planning to cross, and then suddenly passed the ball to Fortunato, who was inserted in time!
The unmarked Fortunato quickly got to his feet and passed the ball towards the Juventus penalty area!
At this time, Juventus's defense had been torn apart by Fiorentina's series of quick passes, so Barty easily stopped the ball under Blank's defense, and then immediately picked up his left foot and hit the goal with a powerful shot!
The ball bounced on the turf, then flew past Peruzzi's hand and into the gate behind him!
“Gooooooal! It was Batistuta who scored the goal! Brilliant powerful shot! The ball hit the turf and changed direction and flew into the goal guarded by Peruzzi! Fiorentina are now one goal ahead of Juventus at home! ”
Amid the cheers of the Fiorentina fans, Batistuta rushed over and hugged Fortunato, who had given him an assist, and Djokaeff and others ran over to celebrate the goal.
However, thanks to the intervention of the referee, the Fiorentina players did not last long in celebration and soon walked back to their own half to wait for the game to resume.
It has to be said that Juventus had enough willpower on the pitch to score a long-range shot from Lombardo's return pass in the 60th minute of the game, and the score was tied at 1-1 when Juventus was behind by a goal, taking advantage of a mistake by Zanetti and scoring with a long-range shot from Lombardo's return pass in the 60th minute of the game.
Capello made a change immediately after the equaliser by Juventus, replacing Barty, who opened the scoring for the team, and brought Argentine compatriot Julio Cruz on the pitch - Capello still intends to continue to observe the Argentine centre-forward's ability.
Cruz lived up to Capello's trust, and just as the Juventus players were about to complete the comeback in one go, Cruz, who had only been on the bench for three minutes, scored from a corner - Rui Costa's ball was headed into the Perucci goal!
The score became 2-1! Fiorentina are leading again!
Capello was very excited about Cruise's goal, although he only had some expectations for the Argentine center forward when he sent Cruise before, but he didn't expect Cruise to surprise himself with the goal so quickly.
With four goals on four bench appearances, the Argentine deserves to be named a super substitute.
In the ensuing period, although the two teams attacked and defended each other, neither team broke through the opponent's goal again. In the end, relying on a goal from substitute Cruz, Fiorentina defeated Juventus 2-1 at home, successfully widening the gap between the two sides to as much as 18 points!
Fiorentina are making great strides towards the goal of winning the league three times in a row!