Chapter 429 Fighting at Old Trafford (4)
"Goooooooooooal! Fiorentina scored! Philip Inzagi! The goal was Philip Inzagi! Redondo's pick pass broke through Manchester United's defense line. Ronaldo was not greedy for success when he got a single shot. He decisively passed the ball to Inzagi, who was in a better position. At the same time, he deceived the opponent's goalkeeper Schmeichel. All Inzagi needs to do is to send the ball into the empty goal in front of him!"
When Inzaghi sent the ball into Manchester United's goal, thousands of Fiorentine fans who came to Manchester in the stands cheered loudly, and even suppressed the number of Manchester United fans with an absolute advantage in momentum!
When Fiorentina took the initiative on the court, these fans actually guessed that the team could take the lead in the first half, but they were just looking forward to it silently. After all, there are too many examples of being strong and not scoring on the court. Before they can make a goal, they started to celebrate. That was a mentally retarded behavior.
And now they really saw Fiorentina score a goal and led Manchester United by 1-0. These fans can finally burst out all the emotions that have been brewing for a long time!
After a brief silence, Manchester United fans immediately suppressed the cheers of Fiorentine fans with a louder voice. No matter how Manchester United players perform on the court, this place is Old Trafford Stadium. In the eyes of these Manchester United fans, the majesty of the Red Devils cannot be violated by others!
The cheers of tens of thousands of Manchester United fans seemed to inspire the Manchester United players on the court, and quickly adjusted their mentality. After re-teletting, Manchester United immediately launched a fierce attack on the goal of Fiorentina!
However, Manchester United's offense did not last long before being suppressed by Fiorentina again. Faced with Florence, which is far ahead in the technical and tactical level and has slightly better personal abilities, Beckham and Giggs, who are still young, don't have any good ways to deal with it. They can only be held by their opponents and run around on the court like headless flies, seemingly completely forgetting the ball-free running system created by Ferguson.
This cannot be blamed on Manchester United players. After all, the running system created by Ferguson at this time still has many shadows of traditional English football at this time, and there is little integration of knowledge about the technical schools of the European continent. Faced with the technical style of Fiorentina, it is naturally difficult to implement the style of playing that Manchester United players are commonly used in the Premier League.
Especially when Manchester United is defending, Fiorentine players have not given Manchester United players the opportunity to fight with their bodies, and a series of quick passes have made the proud running defensive system of Manchester United people become useless.
In the 35th minute, after a series of downs in the midfield, the Fiorentina player broke the Manchester United defense line, Effenberg sent a straight pass. The ball passed between Paris and David May and passed to the feet of Philip Inzaghi, who was praised by Italian media as "the striker who lives on the offside line".
David May saw the football flew past him, and when he turned around, he saw Inzaghi receiving the ball behind him...
So, David May raised his hand at the first time to signal Inzaghi to offside, and Parist, who had more experience, didn't care about this at all. He immediately turned around and rushed towards Inzaghi. In his opinion, no matter whether the ball was offside, Inzaghi could not be allowed to kick the ball into the goal! If the referee does not think the opponent is offside, then wouldn't he be finished?
However, Parist's huge body greatly delayed his speed of chasing back. By the time he turned around, Inzaghi had already shot in the penalty area!
"Philip Inzagi's shot... incredible! Schmeichel blocked Inzagi's shot! Beautiful remedy! It's really worthy of being the first goalkeeper in the Premier League..." The commentator just planned to praise Schmeichel who blocked Inzagi's single shot, and suddenly found another player wearing a Fiorentine jersey approached the ball quickly. "It's Ronaldo! He got the ball saved by Schmeichel! Excellent opportunity for Fiorentine!"
Facing Schmeichel who had fallen to the ground and the goal behind him, Ronaldo certainly would not miss this great opportunity to expand the score, and sent the ball into the home team's goal with a pick-up shot.
Fiorentina leads Manchester United 2-0!
Seeing the team falling behind two goals on the court and the players were also a little sluggish on the court because of consecutive goals conceding, Ferguson finally couldn't help it and stood up from the coach's seat to rush to the side of the court and roared at the Manchester United players: "What are you all thinking! Hurry up and cheer me up! Let the opponent know about our Manchester United spirit!"
Ferguson's roar had the effect as it should, and Manchester United players gave up their plan to fight Fiorentina to the midfield, because they had fully realized their opponent's technical advantages in more than half an hour of games.
Compared with Florence, which has a technical flow, their advantage is running and body.
So, Manchester United players began to rush and beat hard in the following time, frequently kicking the ball from the middle and backcourt to find the frontcourt players, and then passing or shooting according to the actual situation, posing a threat to Fiorentina's goal.
As the first half was approaching, Manchester United made a pretty cooperation. Keane cut off Redondo's straight pass and immediately distributed it to Beckham on the right. The latter immediately sent a precise long pass without waiting for the Fiorentine player to approach. The ball drew an arc and directly hit Andy Cole's head!
Due to the league environment, few players who can succeed in England have poor physical fitness, especially traditional British centers like Andy Cole. Therefore, under Nesta's defense, although Cole is not easy to take the ball and turn around, it is still not a big problem to keep the ball under the pressure of the opponent to control the ball.
After removing the ball, Andy Cole swept the situation around him with his eyes and immediately thought about what he should do next - he passed the ball to the top of the penalty area, and his teammate Scholes was approaching that position at high speed!
"Andy Cole got the ball, but he couldn't turn around and shoot under Nesta's press. The defense of the Fiorentine central defender was quite successful... Andy Cole passed the ball! Scholes! Shot!" The commentator had only had time to say a few keywords, and the ball was kicked out by Scholes who ran to the edge of the penalty area!
Scholes' powerful shot was very fast and the angle was very tricky. The ball flew almost close to the ground to the lower right corner of the goal. Therefore, Toldo was not sure about the shot that snatched Scholes. He could only stretch his arm as much as possible to try to push the ball out of the baseline, while praying to God silently in his heart.
However, this time, God obviously did not hear Toldo's prayer. The ball flew into the door behind him while rubbing Toldo's gloves!
Chapter completed!