Listening to Zhuang Ge with headphones, it is natural to know that Rao did not say that Juventus’ defense line will also have these problems next season, but what is the result? Juventus are hoping to win the championship on three fronts when the season enters the sprint stage! The Bianconeri would have won a "triple crown" next season if Zhuang Ge Florence had not been born. In fact, there is a very important factor in Juventus’ unsatisfactory performance in the league this season, that is, Portuguese midfielder paulo sousa has been suffering from a long-term illness since he was injured in early October.
For this Juventus team, paulo sousa’s injury and absence can be said to be fatal because the Bianconeri have the same footwork and overall situation as the Portuguese. The midfielder is absent. Although the young pierrot is brilliant, his technical characteristics determine that he can become an Italian "No.9 and a half" instead of controlling the overall situation. The core of the organization is missing the Portuguese midfielder antonio conte. Deschamps, Di livio and others have become flies. When defending, they know how to run tirelessly and fight to squeeze the opponent’s attack. However, when attacking, Juve players don’t control the rhythm of the game, but they just slam their heads. This is the real reason for Juve’s unstable performance in the season.
In the face of middle-class teams, Juve players can certainly complete the attack and score goals by virtue of their personal ability superior to their opponents. However, in the face of strong teams, without paulo sousa’s organization and throwing punches, the loopholes in Juve’s defense will become more obvious, and it will naturally become a difficult thing to score goals when their personal ability is similar
Look at Juventus now and know that Pirlo is the only brain in their team. Once Pirlo is strangled or he is in a bad state, Juventus will immediately become a mess.
The same is true of Lippi’s Juventus team. After accidentally losing the Portuguese, they are used to the attack organized by paulo sousa. As soon as the players get confused, they perform badly in many consecutive games. They are drifting away from the league title this season …
What is the loophole in Juventus’ defence that everyone can see? Sosa, at that time, this loophole in Juventus could be called a weakness without being chased by opponents. Because Sosa is there to control the pace of Juventus games, the hidden dangers of Juventus are eliminated to the greatest extent.
Without Sosa, the midfield metronome that controls the rhythm of the game, Ranieri sent a fairly aggressive front line in this match with Juventus. His partner was to return to batistuta and rest for a week. After a week, filippo inzaghi was full of energy. The Frenchman djorkaeff effenberg and Rui Costa were behind him to keep the team running. Dibiagio set up a barrier in front of the Florence guard line to intercept Juventus’ attack and guard against opponents’ long-range shots at the front of the penalty area.
The defensive lines are Lana, Lala, Starr and birindelli in turn. As the commentator Rao said before, fortunato has not yet recovered to the state of continuous fighting. After the match with Bucharest, the left-back was labeled "10-day ban" by the doctors in the physiotherapy center, which made Ranieri smile bitterly and sighed that the head coach was not as powerful as the club team doctor.
In this way, the home team fought fiercely 45 minutes before Florence challenged Juventus away from home, but the attack routines of the two teams were different. After getting the ball, Juventus players tried to break the Viola defense with their own impact regardless of the forward breakthrough, but these attempts had little effect in the face of Florence’s strict defense. Viali was firmly stared at by his old rival Lala and Piero was younger than him. Starr collided with Mars and Laouali dribbled the ball, which was never his strong point. In this situation, there were only a handful of times to get the ball. Florence, on the other hand, organized a hierarchical attack on Juventus in effenberg and Rui Costa, wave after wave until the opponent’s defense line was completely broken or Juventus players broke the ball …
In the 33rd minute of the game, Florence took the initiative after the game, and finally got a good chance to score again. Di livio’s dribble on the side was broken by effenberg, and Costa immediately gave the ball to djorkaeff on the left with an oblique foot.
The Frenchman didn’t hesitate either. Before Torricelli rushed to defend himself, he swung his left foot and hit the ball, drawing a beautiful arc and heading for the restricted area of Juventus. The ball was headed for Florence captain batistuta.
Because Pessoto and Torricelli have just rushed to Florence to take part in the attack, at this time, Batty is left with iuliano waiting in front of him, a man who has just inserted an assist and is now desperately chasing Blanc behind Batty, and a peruzzi who is nervous in front of the goal, that is to say, if Batty can beat iuliano in the coming competition, then the Argentine God of War will get a single-handedly shot!
This is a great opportunity for Florence to rewrite the score!
Chapter 224 Leading!
Iuliano’s eyes were tightly fixed on the ball that fell from the ball, and he was constantly moving his position, ready to destroy Florence’s attack at the first time. Of course, he would not forget that batistuta, who was also planning to grab the ball, was constantly watching out of the corner of his eye as he moved, and was fighting for the landing spot by his side.
Although it has been more than a year since Florence, iuliano will never forget the Argentine center’s horror. When he was still hanging out in Serie B, batistuta often confronted Juventus directly in team training. No one knows Batty’s strength and technical characteristics better than him, even if he moved from Florence to Pesoto at the same time.
Iuliano’s purpose is to prevent Batty from forming a single-handed goal after getting the ball. He believes that if he can stop Batty for a few seconds, then when Blanc comes to attack the Argentine, Baty will definitely lose the ball. Florence will be successful in this attack.
However, iuliano didn’t expect a scene to appear when there were still four or five meters away from the restricted area of Juventus. batistuta jumped high and stared at the ball flying from the side and rear. It seemed that he was going to head the ball directly at this distance!
Holy shit! Really? ! When did the old captain have such strong strength and jumping ability? I cann’t believe I can get a ball of this height here! I’ve never seen it before! Iuliano jumped up while being surprised by Batty’s amazing move, intending to intercept the header from the front.
Both Blank and iuliano’s attention were attracted by batistuta who jumped forward to fight for the header. At the sight of Batty jumping first, iuliano consciously jumped up with the Argentine center, but not far behind Batty, Blank was desperately trying to influence Batty to fight for the top so that he could not make strength when heading the goal.
But the ball didn’t fall to one of the three of them, but flew high above their heads!
Batty successfully fooled Juventus with his own bait. There are only two defenders besides the goalkeeper!
"batistuta’s way of taking off before attracted the attention of two Juventus central defenders and kept them firmly beside him. His partner filippo inzaghi created an excellent opportunity to break the goal! Inzaghi single-handedly! " Rao shouted excitedly, a professional football commentator knows how to arouse the emotions of the audience.
Inzaghi caught the ball easily in the defensive situation. At this time, he just rushed into the Juventus penalty area. A few meters behind him, batistuta and iuliano fell to the ground at the same time, and they were just about to rush back to defend Blanc. Juventus goalkeeper peruzzi just ran out of the small penalty area …
The main goal of a goal is that the striker killer faces the goalkeeper one-on-one. Inzaghi has a hundred ways to send the football to the gate behind peruzzi, and this time he chose the safest one-attacking peruzzi Inzaghi with the ball in his right foot and crossing the left side of peruzzi from the ground.
Facing a whole goal, Pi Bo pushed the ball into Juventus’ goal without any delay!
“Goooooal！ It’s a goal! The goal is filippo inzaghi! He passed the opposing goalkeeper peruzzi and pushed the shot! A match! Florence is the first city at Juventus! "
"Inzaghi should thank his partner. It would have been very difficult for him to get the ball, let alone fight alone, if Batty hadn’t tricked two Juventus defenders by jumping forward on purpose."
Inzaghi’s performance is also in line with Rao’s explanation of the goal. After he explained the goal, he rushed to his captain with open arms and roared, thanking him for covering himself. Batty hugged Inzaghi and laughed and celebrated the goal with him.
After re-scoring, the score was behind Juventus, who was ready to fight back to equalize the score, but lacked the core of organization. Juve players unconsciously divided into two factions on the court. Some wanted to attack Florence’s goal immediately and equalize the score as soon as possible. The other group planned to hold the last period of the half-time until the intermission, and the head coach made adjustments. After all, losing one goal and two goals behind are completely different things …
In the case of different thoughts, Juventus’ formation was out of line after the ball, and the distance between the attacking players and the defending players was too large, which gave Florence an excellent opportunity to expand its lead. Costa and others’ ball skills were vividly displayed during this period, and the ball was continuously directed to the front of Juventus’ defense line. Of course, after that, two strikers, Bati and Inzaghi, finished shooting.
As a result, just five minutes after a goal, Florence made a comeback. Viali’s long-range shot outside the restricted area of Florence was blocked by Lala. After Dibiagio got the clearance ball, he immediately gave it to Costa in front of him. After Rui Costa circled Dibiagio’s ball in the middle of the court, he hit the ball to the front of the restricted area of Juventus and received it from the Portuguese. The ball was batistuta, the captain of Florence!
Batistuta turned his back and caught the ball. iuliano was behind Batty and wouldn’t let him turn around and shoot. On the other hand, Blank planned to take advantage of his height and long legs to break the ball from Batty’s foot
How can this situation stumped batistuta?
Seeing that the Argentine blocked Blank’s sneak attack with a wave of his arm, and then moved backwards by a basketball low back, iuliano immediately turned around and volleyed the ball into the Juventus gate quickly, which was blocked by his teammates. peruzzi declared his surrender to Florence and expanded his lead by two points!
Seeing such a passive situation, Lippi, the silver fox, was finally angry. After scoring their second goal in Florence, Lippi shouted angrily on the sidelines. From the pictures taken by the live camera, there were some quite discordant words in Lippi’s propaganda …
The Juventus players who were growled by Lippi finally came to their senses. In the last few minutes of the half-time, all the Juventus players gave up their offensive defense and finally got the whistle at the end of the half-time.
Fiorentina leads Juventus 2-0 at halftime!
Chapter 225 Adjustment
Then the livid Lippi Juventus stars fled into the players’ tunnel in the hiss of dissatisfaction from the home fans, while the Fiorentina players returned to the visiting locker room with their heads held high in the cheers of a small group of away fans.
"Everyone performed very well at half-time, especially Rui and Stefan, who helped the team to firmly control the rhythm of the game and let us take the initiative away from home." Ranieri praised the players in the room as soon as he returned to the dressing room. "Of course, Gabriel and Philip also performed very well, and your two goals gave us a two-goal lead at Juventus home at the end of half-time … so we just kept this momentum at half-time for the next 45 minutes. Don’t give our opponents hope to turn over! Do you have confidence? "
"yes!" All the Fiorentina players here shouted with one voice that whoever comes out to throw cold water is stupid when the morale of this team is high.
"Well, let me talk about the changes we have to make at half-time …" Ranieri naturally couldn’t write and draw on the tactical board so easily after fifteen minutes’ intermission to explain to the players that he planned to make adjustments.
The morale of the visiting team’s locker room is high and harmonious, while the Juventus locker room is a grim scene. Coach Lippi leaned against the locker room door and scanned every player in the locker room with poor eyes.
"Give me looked up! What are you doing with your heads down? Do you guys remember what I said before the game? Why don’t you play the game according to my arrangement when you are playing? ！” After a short silence, Lippi finally knew what he should say, and his tone was very angry. "I asked you to be slow and steady from the beginning of the game, but what about you?" From the first minute of the game, there was a confrontation with Florence players. It’s not even a month since the tragedy at the Olympic Stadium. Are you going to make the same mistake and give another fiasco in front of our fans? ！”
"Laurent (Blanc), it’s no problem for you to attack before you attack, but as a central defender, shouldn’t you do your staff well first? Tell me what is the most important thing for a central defender! " Seeing that the defender, whom he valued most, had been sitting in his seat with his head down, Merlippi unceremoniously called Blank’s name directly.
Sitting on the bench, Blank heard Lippi call his name, slowly looked up at Lippi’s eyes and hesitated to say a word "defense".
"Very well! It seems that you are still awake and know that defense is the first. "Lippi nodded with satisfaction and then his face became dignified again." But look at your performance at half-time! Where were you when Inzaghi shot in the penalty area? Outside the restricted area! Don’t tell me that you need teammates to make up for you. This is Juventus! It’s Italy A defensive main league and a player who does not participate in defense will be abandoned by this league! "
Lippi is right. Even a thin striker like Inzaghi will hesitate to compete for the ball with many opponents who are stronger than him when the team needs him to defend. Although the head coach is generally humanized and does not arrange such a trick for him, Inzaghi’s defensive enthusiasm has never been weak
Lippi didn’t criticize another team central defender, iuliano, when he scolded Blank in the dressing room, even if he knew the characteristics of this young man very well now-it is obviously impossible for him to take care of this body behind him bravely.
The reason for criticizing Blank is that Lippi knows that the French international can actually do better, not only on the offensive end, but also on his physical condition and judgment of the ball path. Blank can become an excellent defender, who can make great contributions to the team in marking people, making up the defense and commanding the defense position, instead of just confronting the opposing striker like now.
However, Blank training is a problem that will take a long time to solve, and Lippi is now facing the problem of finding a player who can temporarily replace paulo sousa as soon as possible.
Pierrot and Deschamps can’t do it. Lippi let these two players take turns to organize the team’s attack in recent games, and the effect is not very good. Deschamps is good at defending, and he can be said to be quite satisfactory in organizing the attack. There is nothing threatening. Most of the time, he asks for nothing but success. Pierrot’s aura and offensive talent are obvious, but his aura is more instantaneous than long-term protection, which determines that he can be a classic No.9 and a half player and not a qualified midfielder.
Then Lippi suddenly noticed that Jugovic, sitting in the corner of the team’s locker room, had a calculation in his heart
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"The game went on at half-time … Oh, Juventus made a substitution adjustment at half-time. Lippi moved from Sampdoria to Jugovic this summer to replace antonio conte, a Yugoslav midfielder with excellent skills, but he doesn’t seem to be very popular in Juventus, but so far this is his third appearance in the league. It seems that Lippi is going to try Jugovic to temporarily replace the missing paulo sousa, and the effect is like wiping our eyes!"
"oh? Jugovic actually appeared. It seems that Lippi, a rigid guy, finally figured it out. "Zhuang Ge was surprised to see Lippi make a substitution choice. After all, Lippi doesn’t like his personality. Players often don’t even get a chance to play, and they will be marginalized. For example, when Baggio and Bergomi coached the Italian national team, panucci, Ambrosini and Oddo, Cassano and others are an exception. There are very few players like Jugovic who were sidelined at the beginning of the season and then restarted. It can also be seen that Lippi is really forced by Juventus’ predicament, and even the conflict in Jugovic has to be abandoned to let the Yugoslav midfielder organize Juventus’ attack.