Chapter 393 Munich Night (4)
In the 56th minute of the game, Capello replaced Dibiagio with Tomasi, and the arrival of this new force finally improved Fiorentina's midfield defense hardness and range.
You should know that Tomasi, who is only 22 years old, has the physical fitness comparable to that of Mateus' marathon athlete. He used his unstoppable running to fill in the space from the Florence penalty area line to the middle circle of the stadium. With the assistance of Effenberg and Redondo, Fiorentina finally effectively curbed the long-range attack that Bayern launched from the second half.
After temporarily stabilizing his position, Fiorentina's offense gradually came out. Before, when the defense was unstable, Redondo and others dared not easily pressed, which made Barti and Ronaldo in the frontcourt often surrounded by Bayern players even if they got the ball.
Although Ronaldo's extraordinary skills are unparalleled in the world, and although his nickname is "Alien", Ronaldo is still an earthling after all. Faced with the siege of Mattus, Harman, Helmer and others, the Brazilian striker could not easily break through from this.
Otherwise, Fiorentina will not need any other striker in the future. They will directly send ten players to defend and hand them over to Ronaldo as soon as there is a ball, so that he can pass all eleven of the opponent's players and send the ball into the empty goal. How can other tactics be needed?
When the long-range shooting tactics were restrained by the opponent, Bayern naturally would not stubbornly continue to defend this tactics. Under the command of Matteus, Bayern players began to gradually retreat, organized a defense line from the back of the center circle, ready to deal with Fiorentina's counterattack.
Although the score was behind, the Fiorentine midfielder led by Effenberg did not rush to attack, but slowly fell back and forth in the midfield, occasionally experiencing the opponent's defense line with a forward pass. When he found that there was no chance to take advantage of it, he immediately passed it back, and then another round of transmission.
"What is Florence planning to do? If they pass it like this, they will never equalize the score. Is Capello already planning to give up this game?" The commentator said in confusion. After all, this period of time is very boring compared to the previous few dozen minutes of the game. It is completely different from the previous tens of thousands of rhythms, which makes many people watching this game a little drowsy. "This does not conform to Capello's style. If the top two teams in the group can get the right to qualify, I have reason to think that this realistic head coach will not care much about the result of this game, but the current rules of qualifying are completely different. If a defending champion is not done well, it is very likely that he will go home at the end of the group stage!"
It is obvious that Capello, who was standing on the sidelines to direct the game, would not have heard the commentator's complaint, but even if he heard it, he would have a high chance of sneering at the comments of this layman.
Anyone with some experience in watching the game should know that Fiorentina, who plays away, is currently not as good as Bayern in terms of location or in terms of its own condition. In this case, it can only be a dead end to attack.
Only by taking advantage of the technical advantages of Fiorentine players themselves and constantly transferring the ball and downed feet to gradually relax the tense nerves of Bayern players, mobilizing their defense to find loopholes, and then taking things from it, is the most normal way to deal with it in Capello's opinion.
Let the players rush forward to disrupt the battle. Not to mention whether the players in Fiorentina have the physical strength or not, the counterattack speed of Basler and Sauer is enough to make Capello afraid of the attack. Moreover, the most important point is that Capello will never choose this method to equalize the score. After all, high returns often mean high risks. For Capello, the benefits of this game have not yet reached the level, so that he can adopt this high-risk combat method.
Trapatoni saw Capello's intention to let the Fiorentine players fall in the backcourt, but he didn't have a good solution - who made these players under him really not as good as their opponents on the technical level?
If Mattus commands in the frontcourt, Bayern may still have the strength to compete with Fiorentina in the midfield, but this is obviously unrealistic, because the Bayern captain is guarding Ronaldo at this time. If he moves his position forward, no one on Bayern's defense will be able to deal with this terrifying alien.
Therefore, the Italian coach can only keep shouting to cheer up the Bayern players on the court, stay alert at all times, and not give their opponents an opportunity to take advantage of.
However, not every player can stay energetic throughout the game without making any mistakes.
In the 77th minute of the game, Effenberg dunked his right foot, dribbled past Basler, who pressed him, and then sent a straight pass.
I don’t know what Harman was thinking at this time. He could have cut off the pass with a very obvious intention by just stretching his foot, but he actually kicked the ball in a vain moment he touched the ball!
The ball rolled to Rui Costa's feet under the gaze of all the fans and commentators. In front of him was his teammates and the entire Bayern back line...
However, Helmer was still guarding Batistuta at this time, and Mattus followed Ronaldo. This situation surprised the Portuguese midfielder and found that no Bayern player had the strength to defend himself at this time!
So Costa made a quick decision and immediately dribbled the ball towards Bayern's defense line.
Seeing this, Helmer rushed forward to intercept the Portuguese. At the same time, he also paid attention to breaking the connection between Bati and Costa during the run to prevent the opponent from suddenly passing the ball and hitting him behind him.
Naturally, Bati couldn't just stand so stupidly and wait for the ball to come to his door to shoot. He began to move from left to right in Bayern's penalty area. While opening the pass space for Costala, he also provided a cover for Ronaldo, who was entangled with Mattus.
Due to Batistuta's movement, Mattus slightly divided the gods, which gave Ronaldo a chance.
The Brazilian suddenly accelerated and threw Mattus away from both positions. At this moment, Costa's pass also passed to the aliens just right!
The alien was stunned and thought to himself that Costa would still predict the future, how did he know that he would definitely break through this direction?
Well, there is no extra effort to think about these things now, so let's just hit the ball first... The alien thought so, swung his right leg and aimed at the goal guarded by Kahn...
In fact, Costa did not expect that Ronaldo would receive the ball. He originally planned to pass it to Barti and let the captain shoot directly and shoot...
Now it seems that this pass that was accidentally hit is obviously better than passing to Barty.
In this way, Ronaldo appeared in time at the position he should have appeared most, and gently pushed the arch of his right foot, sending the ball into the gate in Kahn's desperate eyes.
Chapter completed!