Chapter 197 A good start? Not enough!
"Gooooooal! One to zero! Fiorentina took the lead! The goal was Philip Inzagi!" After seeing the team he supported, the commentator yelled excitedly, "A very wonderful fish jumped to the top!"
The Fiorentine fans at Frankie Stadium were also excited about the goal. They knew that although Turin was not a strong team, it was not a soft persimmon that had to be squeezed. Otherwise, Juventus would not have fallen into the hands of this team last season. Fiorentine scored the first goal so quickly and suppressed the opponent without any power to fight back. The fans felt that this was a good omen - even mid-range teams like Turin were suppressed so easily by us. It seems that the defending league championship this season is still very promising!
Although most of these optimistic Fiorentine fans have intentionally or unintentionally ignored the fact that the strength of the Torino team has dropped sharply this season...
"Let's see, most of the credit for this goal should be Ronaldo. It was his clever pass after attracting the attention of the goalkeeper of the Turin on the other side that led to the goal." After being excited, the commentator still explained the goal process to the audience very competently.
"Tony, it seems that your vision is still correct this time. This Brazilian striker named Ronaldo is indeed a talented player." Originally, Karin took out a record of Fiorentine's signings and tied the world record transfer fee (the highest value was the $17.5 million that Rentini created when he transferred from Torino to AC Milan in the summer of 1992) and was a little puzzled, even though the striker scored 30 goals in 33 games last season.
According to Karin, even if Ronaldo can score a goal, it cannot rule out that he will become the second Borgkamp (Note: "Ice Prince" scored more than 24 goals in the Eredivisie for three consecutive seasons before joining Inter Milan. In the year before he went to Serie A, he even scored 26 goals in 28 games, and his average goal rate was even higher than Ronaldo).
If Zhuang Mingge takes out such a large transfer fee to buy Ronaldo, and the Brazilian striker is like his predecessor Borgkamp, then Zhuang Mingge and Fiorentina will not only suffer huge economic losses, but will also become a joke in the football world for a long time.
But as a time traveler, Zhuang Mingge certainly knew that Ronaldo did not have any problems of not adapting to Serie A, and still insisted on taking out this huge transfer fee to bring the Brazilian to Florence.
As a result, Ronaldo scored four goals in just two games, not only winning two championship trophys for the team, but also using his outstanding performance to prove to everyone that his strength is worthy of this world record.
In his third official game, Ronaldo was another pass-by assist in Inzaghi's first record, and helped the team gain a lead in the first league, which made some Fiorentine fans who were still doubting whether the Brazilian could be as good as before in the Serie A.
At this time, the Fiorentine players had finished their celebrations and quickly returned to their half. After all, strictly speaking, the Torino team did not need to wait for all the players on the Fiorentine field to return to their position. They just needed to return to their own half to start the attack again.
Former Leverkusen goalkeeper Butt has the most say in this regard. In a Bundesliga match between Leverkusen and Schalke 04 away in 2004, he scored a penalty and was busy celebrating with his teammates, but when he returned to his goal, he found that the ball had flown into his own goal. Schalke 04 player Mike Hank shot directly in the middle of the field after a quick kickoff.
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After gaining the lead, Ranieri did not give the instructions to "retrace the whole person to fight a defensive counterattack", but continued to wave his arms towards the direction of the Torino goal, which was very obvious: You all keep attacking for me!
What Fiorentina wants is not just a victory, but also a big victory! Only with a massacre can all the passion of Fiorentina fans at the beginning of the season! Only then can other teams in the league realize that Fiorentina is not something that ordinary teams can stop!
If Fiorentina does this, it will give the impression that "Fiorentina is too powerful, and it is better to prepare for the next game than to fight with these guys" in the league, allowing them to unconsciously retain their physical strength during the game, thus achieving the goal of "a defeated the enemy without fighting".
Just like Barcelona, which was later called the "cosmic team", many times their performance in La Liga was not because their opponents were really that bad, but because their strength intimidated the opponent before the game, which made many small teams participate in the game with an indifferent attitude - anyway, they will lose, and if they don't fight, they will lose, and the result will be the same...
Think about it, if a team participates in the game with the mentality of "it's going to lose anyway", the final result can certainly be imagined.
What Florence needs to do now is to establish such an invincible image in the minds of mid- and lower-level teams, and the Torino team, which has greatly lost its strength, is naturally the best target to start.
So, in the following game time, the excited Fiorentine players completely sieve the "Red Bulls" who once dominated Italian football:
In the 21st minute, Effenberg received a straight pass from Rui Costa and drew a very beautiful arc ball twenty-eight meters away from the goal. The ball rotated and bypassed the Torino goalkeeper's fingers, 2-0, which was also the score at the end of the first half.
The two sides changed their positions in the second half. Only three minutes later, Ronaldo received a pass from Djokaf on the edge of the penalty area and broke into the penalty area. The referee slapped a penalty. Ronaldo took the penalty himself. He accurately shot the ball into the upper right corner of the goal, three to zero.
After three to zero, Ranieri, who was sure to win, began to make substitution adjustments: Robert Baggio, who had just recovered from injury, replaced Djokaf; Davis replaced Effenberg, who had recently played in a row, making Rui Costa the only core of the organization; the last one to play was young player Zambrota, who replaced right back Bilindley, ushering in his first Serie A game in his career.
The next game began to fall into a dull state. Although Fiorentina still created many excellent scoring opportunities, the goddess of luck obviously helped Torino during this period: Ronaldo's header five meters in front of the goal hit the post, and Baggio's push shot near the penalty spot was blocked by the goalkeeper with his toes...
Chapter completed!