Chapter 677 European Super Cup (4)
After the 15minute halftime, the two sides fought again.
Because of the endless breakthroughs and goals at halftime, all the fans watching the game were hooked, which also raised the fans’ expectations for the game
After all, many fans were very disappointed when they heard that this European Super Cup final was played by two Serie A teams after the war, because in their impression, Italian teams are all too conservative to play pleasing football.
However, the performance of Florence and Vicenza at halftime completely subverted some people’s cognition, which made many people realize for the first time that Italian teams could also play this exciting game.
In fact, Italian football started out on defense just for the sake of pursuing practical goals, but it accidentally went astray on this road, giving people the illusion that it must be boring to have an Italian team to participate in the game.
Now, with the rise of teams such as Florence, Vicenza, Houdusse, Lazio and Rome, which often take the initiative to attack in the game, the fans’ impression of Italian teams has changed unconsciously.
Of course, taking the initiative to attack doesn’t mean that we will relax our emphasis on defense. They don’t abandon the attack just to stop the opponent from scoring, as many Italian teams did in the past, and the defensive practice has become to pay attention to the players’ play on the offensive end while building a defensive body.
Florence and Vicenza, supported by Florence, combined Sacchi’s regional defense theory with Italian chain defense to build a complete set of defense bodies, and only when the body is not chaotic will they consider offensive matters.
Therefore, although it seems that Fiorentina and Vicenza both attacked fiercely at halftime, there were not many loopholes in their defensive formations in the game.
There were two goals in the halfgame, more because of vieri and Ronaldo’s superior personal ability, as well as Tony’s physical condition and Larson’s keen sense of smell in front of the door, otherwise it is hard to say whether he can score goals until now.
Because of the wonderful performances of the two teams at halftime, many people are full of expectations for their performances at halftime!
However, there are also many fans who are worried that after a halftime frenzied confrontation, the coaches of both sides will choose to be conservative in the next game for fear of losing the ball in this decisive game.
However, these fans are worried that they will soon disappear with the halftime game, because the players on both sides have not lost a lot of goals and become conservative, but they have become more active on the court with the passage of time and the deepening of the game!
Vicenza made an analysis before he chose the attack reason, and it is no longer here; Florence didn’t choose to defend against the attack, but played against the opponent. The main reason is that Vicenza’s offensive has been fermented for so long. Whether the defense line can remain so strong and make no mistakes still needs to be a big question mark.
After all, players are human beings, and people will make mistakes, no matter how indestructible a defense line is in the eyes of outsiders, once mistakes are made, it is quite fatal.
It is the biggest headache for Florence to break through the unreasonable flank and find the center directly like Vicenza, because it really tests the ability and concentration of the two central defenders
Vicenza, on the other hand, is still the simplest and roughest tactical play at halftime, persistently like Florence in the penalty area; Tony and Larson are in the restricted area, fighting for the ball’s landing point over and over again, fighting for every shot that can be made.
I have to say that Vicenza was quite lucky. Soon after the half game, they changed the situation through such an attack!
In the 5th minute, after Oddo received Kanchelski’s return ball, Stam headed the ball to clear the ball, but Barak grabbed the ball’s landing point. The latter kicked the ball directly outside the restricted area and angrily hit Makelele’s leg, which caused toldo to make a line change. Because toldo was in a hurry to save the ball, the ball didn’t jump on him, but bounced back to the restricted area. At this time, Larsson once again appeared in the ball’s landing point. Florence players watched the Swedish striker make up the shot five meters in front of the door and succeeded in rewriting the score to twotoone.
This Vicenza finally finished overtaking Florence on the scoreboard!
In the unfavorable situation reversed by opponents, Fiorentina players didn’t panic much, and they didn’t feel anxious because they were behind the score. Although Viola was behind the score very little in the past two years, rich experience in the game made up for this, which made the players realize that only slow and steady play can give full play to the strength advantage of Florence. Therefore, after the game resumed, Fiorentina players launched a steady attack on Vicenza!
Vicenza, on the other hand, fell into a fatigue period when he slammed for nearly an hour, and his ability to attack on the side was slippery, which led to the threat of attack being far less than that at halftime.
In the 6th minute, Florence tore through Vicenza’s defence through a frontcourt and missed a singlehanded goal from the front. Ronaldo finished the fatal blow and pulled the two teams back to the same starting line!
Florence didn’t relax after equalizing the score, but planned to kill the suspense of the game directly with this difficult opponent!
In the 72nd minute, Florence got an intentional goal in the frontcourt and was responsible for the penalty. Lei Dongduo suddenly gave the ball to Carlos, who volleyed at a small angle from the left, but the ball was blocked by ballotta’s leg.
In the 77th minute, effenberg suddenly started to volley ballotta at a distance of 20 meters from the goal, and Onopuko showed his firstclass central defender’s ability to kick the ball out of the bottom line before shooting vieri!
Capello and Guidolin took advantage of this rare opportunity of dead ball to immediately deploy troops on the scene.
Lauren moved Oddo forward for Kanchelski, who was too physically exhausted, and Keus replaced Ambrosini to strengthen the defense in the middle of the court. In the latter, Iranian international mahdavikia replaced Ljungberg, and then Zati replaced Makelele, who was slightly silent.
Perhaps for insurance reasons, neither of the two head coaches dropped the last substitution quota, but left it in their hands for emergencies.
In the following period, although both players created some chances, it was a pity that these shots did not become a goal they urgently needed.
Finally, when the referee blew the whistle at the end of the halfgame, Florence and Vicenza tied 22 in the 9minute routine and officially entered the overtime stage!
Chapter 67 European Super Cup (5)
Due to the limitation of the rules of the game, after the 90minute game, the players of both sides did not return to the dressing room, but went to the sidelines to be treated by the team doctors and masseurs, so they took advantage of this fiveminute break to recover more physical strength to cope with the overtime.
While receiving massage, Florence players got together to listen to the tactical arrangement from coach Fabio Capello in the overtime stage. After all, the rules of overtime are different from the regular 90minute game. If you lose the ball in the sudden death overtime, it will kill you.
It’s the same scene here in Vicenza, but all the conditions are different. They are obviously worse than their opponents in terms of treatment, which also makes many Vicenza players feel a little unbalanced and wonder if they can enjoy this kind of advanced level if they play for a big club.
This is why small clubs can win. Even if they can achieve no less than those of strong teams in the field, the huge gap between hardware conditions and various aspects of treatment will still make them lose outstanding players.
Guidolin is naturally aware of these emotions of the players, but he is not good at communicating with them. He doesn’t know how to let the players put this idea. In an urgent situation, he can instill the team’s tactics in overtime as briefly as possible, hoping that they can focus on the game instead of those foreign things.
So the players from both sides were present in the extra time for 30 minutes, but they all became conservative. Before that, the exciting and sharp breakthrough disappeared, and the defense line of the opponent was torn up bit by bit. Even the number of attacks was much less than before.
Many times, players would rather pass the ball forward and try to attack when they are killing themselves in the backcourt.
In fact, this is all caused by the golden ball system, because once the opponent scores a goal in the overtime with the golden ball system, it means that the team’s whole game effort is lost because of this goal. This great psychological pressure forces a team not to continue to storm in the overtime.
If it was before the golden ball system, the players of both sides would not have so much to worry about in overtime. It doesn’t matter who scored the goal first between the two teams during this period, just let their own team lead at the end of the game
Now, the players and coaches of both sides have to haggle over the gains and losses of one goal, because one goal can drive one of them into the abyss!
Seeing that Florence and Vicenza played abnormally during the 90minute regular time, the two teams actually became conservative in overtime. Many fans and ball critics secretly scolded the golden ball system in their hearts, thinking that it was because of this sudden death that the two sides became so conservative and enterprising in overtime.