Chapter 220 Udinese
After a difficult home victory over Lazio with one goal, the national team match day stipulated by FIFA has arrived. International players from various clubs have gone to the national team to report. This period is a rare opportunity for Fiorentina, who is short of soldiers on the front line, and encountered two fierce battles in a week, which made the young Vieri and Inzagi feel a little overwhelmed.
After all, these two players were not model workers in Zhuang Mingge's previous life. Inzaghi was troubled by injuries from time to time throughout his career. Even when teams such as Atletico Madrid, Lazio, Inter Milan were incredible, he missed more than one-third of the league due to injury every season, so he was called "Mr. Half Season" by fans.
Therefore, when it comes to the use of these two young players, Ranieri had to be as careful as possible. If he accidentally gets exhausted and injured, Fiorentina will really have a "destroyed tragedy".
After Lazio's game ended, Fiorentina received a one-week break until November 12, when it was stuck between two international match days, they will usher in the first round of the second round of the Italian Cup. Fiorentina will head to the northern Italian city of Udinese to challenge the dark horse team that has quietly risen in the Serie A this season.
For Udinese, who is a newly promoted Serie A team this season, the team's performance after the start of the league can be described as amazing. He achieved four wins, three draws and two losses in nine league games, especially Juventus, who defeated the powerful one-to-zero home game in the last game, which made countless experts fall into their glasses.
When talking about Udinese, one surname has to be mentioned, that is Pozzo.
The most famous one in the Pozzo family is Victoria Pozzo. The Italian coach led the national team to win two World Cup championships and has been in charge of the national team coach for twenty years.
It is also the blessing of this old Pozzo that made the Pozzo family have a very special status in Italian football. Although they are not as rich as Berlusconi, Agnelli, Morati and other families, in the Italian football world, the Pozzo family has a wider range of personal connections than these families, which is directly reflected in Udines, controlled by the Pozzo family.
For example, under the management of the Pozzo family, although Udinese adheres to the principle of no non-sale products in the team, and anyone can take away as long as the transfer fee is high enough, almost no player in Udinese was poached at a low price by other teams using Boseman terms or secretly instigating players to make transfers. Everyone wants Udinese players, so they can only take out real money and silver honestly. Among them, there is no other team that can save face from other teams.
With decades of hard work by the Pozzo family, although Udinese's current lineup is not as starry as the Serie A seven sisters, it also has many powerful players in its first team, such as German center Bierkhov, Danish right-back Helvig, and Valerio Betoto, who is considered one of the greatest captains in Udinese's history...
Before the game started, since Batistuta's foot injury had just recovered, he was banned from playing by the extremely responsible Doctor Carter. At the same time, Rui Costa, Djokaf, Ferrara, Dibiagio and others were all transferred by the head coaches of their respective national teams to play in the European Cup qualifiers, and they were unable to play in the weekend's game.
Next weekend after the game with Udinese, Fiorentina will go to the Alp Stadium in Turin to challenge the Zebras. Perhaps considering this factor, in this first round with Udinese, Ranieri chose to send a set of substitutes and rotation players to start. Goalkeepers Guadalbon, Fortunato and Zambrota continued to start after the last game with Lazio. Viljoward and Filicano formed a central defender partner, and the midfielder was a combination of Effenberg, Tomasi, Kripa and Tacinadi.
On the front line, Batistuta finally recovered after two weeks of rest. In this game, Ranieri put him on the bench and asked him to find the feeling of the game. The starting lineup was Vieri and Inzagi, a pair of good friends.
Zacheloni, who just coached Udinese this season, still sent all the main players in his hands. Although Zacheloni is called a crazy coach by many people because of his crazy offensive tactical style, this does not mean that he has achieved good results in the Serie A this season, and is blinded by this achievement. In fact, he is very clear and knows that Udinese's current player configuration cannot make it into the top six at the end of the season to get the European competition. If you want to go to the European arena, you must start from the Italian Cup.
Therefore, this substitute defense of Fiorentina was tragically tested by German giant Oliver Bierkov in this game.
Although Bielhof has not yet been baptized by the European Cup and is still quite immature in some of the ball treatments, he has gradually shown the style of "the air bully in the penalty area". He is 1.91 meters tall and weighs 81 kilograms. He suppressed the two central defenders of Florence in the whole game. Filicano is seven centimeters shorter than him. The Italian central defender who does not jump well obviously cannot compete for the German center forward in the header; and Verjoward is only 1.79 meters tall. At his peak, he was regarded as the most powerful Italian central defender in Italy after Gentile. Although he is now 36 years old, he still maintains a good competitive state, but facing the young and strong Bielhof, Verjoward still seems much older. Having half of Russian ancestry repeatedly falls at a disadvantage in physical confrontation is proof of this.
Fiorentina, who was at a disadvantage in defense, was unable to open up the situation in offense. Vieri obviously had not yet fully grown up. He was completely in a state of ups and downs in this game and was completely staring at Betoto in this game, and he was like sleepwalking on the court. After losing the firepower support of two passers-masters, Djokaf and Costa, behind him, I also couldn't find a tacit understanding to cooperate with Effenberg, and the two could not step on a single point.
The three defensive players in the midfield did not play much role in the game, mainly because Udinese, who has Bierhof, has a very simple and crude tactic. Two wide players directly took the ball and crossed it to find Bierhof's head and then headed the ball, allowing Tomasi, Kripa and others to have the strength but no place to display it.
Chapter completed!