To be honest, Pirlo will do this. Actually, it’s because Mourinho has put on three defensive midfielders in the starting list, but left three players in the frontcourt (including Pirlo), so that Pirlo doesn’t have enough manpower to carry out his offensive end even if he wants to take the initiative to attack Florence. In the case of limited manpower, Pirlo can choose to stabilize the situation and wait for orders from Mourinho.
At this time, Mourinho has finally come up with a countermeasure to get rid of the bench players to warm up so that trapattoni can’t judge his real intention to change people. Then Mourinho took advantage of the team’s throwin ball to invite Zambrotta to facetoface talk and ended the short talk before Luo Saidi arrived.
Mourinho knew that the main defensive counterattack strategy he arranged in the game before the game had completely failed after Devid broke the goal of Florence, and if he made a substitution adjustment at halftime, it would not only hit himself in the face, but also make the replaced player feel resentful, so Mourinho could let the team continue to implement the prestrategy and wait until the intermission to make arrangements.
After receiving the instructions from Mourinho, the Fiorentina players well carried out the trip to Derossi, Gattuso and Makelele. The trio formed a big net in front of the penalty area, which kept most of Juventus’ attacks out of the penalty area, and they paid more attention to blocking the shooting route in the back and stopped kicking the door for Juventus players.
In this way, until the halftime game entered the injury time stage, Florence did not launch several decent attacks on Juventus goals, but it was not expanded again by the Bianconeri. The score was kept to the 45 th minute of the game
However, when the fourth official announced three minutes after halftime stoppage time on the sidelines, Florence suddenly made a strong effort. Pirlo sent a long shot near the middle circle and slammed Zebina and Gallas behind him, while Vincent and Milito seized two of the opportunities and formed an attack, which made Juventus’ door jittery!
Unfortunately, although Vincent and Milito successfully received Pirlo’s ball, it will be converted into a shot, but both of them failed to penetrate Frey’s fingers, and they could accept that the team was one goal behind Juventus and ended the halfgame
Chapter 131 Equalization
Fiorentina players returned to the stadium after the 15minute intermission, which well continued the offensive momentum before the halftime. Ibrahimovic and Trezeguet had just thrown the ball out of Gattuso and Derossi in the middle circle, and they couldn’t wait to cross the halftime. They actively showed a forced grab for Juventus ball control players, leaving Makelele alone in the rear to protect the defense line and avoid being seized by opponents to make a quick counterattack.
Juventus players had expected Florence’s efforts to strengthen the rush after the halftime, but they obviously didn’t expect Mourinho to let the players strengthen the rush for Juventus’ central and backcourt, but he didn’t make any substitution adjustments, but let Derossi and Gattuso press hard to disrupt their backcourt in this way!
In the face of the menacing Fiorentina players, Juventus is naturally not to be outdone. Emerson, Tacchinardi and others led the two teams to once again have a fierce confrontation. However, this time, the players of both sides killed the battlefield mainly in Juventus halftime, rather than the two teams killed in the midfield like halftime.
Mourinho is still too young and youthful, so he can’t hold his breath so quickly. trapattoni put his arms around his chest and assumed a posture of sitting on the Diaoyutai, commenting on Mourinho’s move. It’s a great pressure to press the formation so far in the back line. Once someone has any omissions, a counterattack will be enough to push them into a state of perdition.
However, trapattoni obviously forgot a very important point, that is, the main purpose of Florence’s overall pressure on the formation is not to strengthen its own attack, but to make Juventus fall down in the backcourt by oppressing them in the middle and back court, thus increasing the possibility of their own successful steals in the other half.
That is to say, Mourinho did not let the players increase the possession of the ball, but generously handed it to Juventus, which greatly increased the defensive area and strengthened the force to grab Juventus’ backcourt, instead of defending the square half like the Italian team.
You know, tempting Fiorentina to press the formation makes their original defensive backcourt empty. Most Juventus players have retreated to the square half, leaving Trezeguet and Ibrahimovic cruising in the frontcourt waiting for the opportunity to counterattack, which means that whether Juventus’ counterattack tactics can be successfully implemented depends largely on Ibrahimovic and Trezeguet playing in the frontcourt.
Mourinho is a little worried about this, but the situation forces him not to care so much at this time. After all, if trapattoni and the Bianconeri don’t choose to talk because they are worried about Juventus’ quick counterattack, it is very likely that Juventus players will retreat in the halfcourt and just don’t attack.
What’s more, although Ibrahimovic is tall and burly, he has skills and footwork that don’t match his size, but the speed is obviously not the strength of Swedes. Therefore, in the counterattack, Ibrahimovic is more of a tactical fulcrum for Juve in the frontcourt. Teammates’ coordination is the same as the ball. Trezeguet’s strength lies in grabbing points and his sense of smell in front of the door, while his dribbling and sprinting ability is relatively general. Even if Juve directly follow them, it will prevent them from rushing to the restricted area in Florence with the speed of Ibrahimovic and Trezeguet. Florence players have
Moreover, although Juventus is said to be the strongest defense line in Serie A, there are also many hidden dangers in the actual Bianconeri defense line. Needless to say, Zebina’s nerve knife has almost a few differences in meritorious service and cheating times. Grosso’s ability is moderate among leftbacks and his height of up to 19 cm makes him suffer a lot when dealing with some players with speed and technical skills. Although Gallas has the top physical quality of a defender, his defensive skills and judgment are also in line with the standards of a top central defender, the problem of the French is that he is not very attentive in the game, and he often suffers from roof caving and defensive dislocation, which is very fatal for a central defender
That’s why Gallas repeatedly asked to play centreback at Chelsea instead of leftback, but Mourinho, the blues boss, refused to give Huth a chance and wouldn’t let him play centreback.
Although Gallas is accompanied by Thuram, a teammate who is good at finding and filling gaps, which makes up for Gallas’ shortcomings to a great extent, their complementary style has made Juventus’ defense line quite solid, but even Thuram can’t make up for Gallas every time.
In Zhuang Ge’s previous life, the combination of Cannavaro and Thuram’s central defender was also not perfect, but there was Buffon, the world’s first goalkeeper, behind them at that time, which could make this line of defense perfect to the maximum extent. Now Frey, although equally good, is still slightly inferior to Buffon’s Uber, which is why Juventus’ central defense is always hidden, but few teams can find and seize these opportunities.
In the fiftythird minute of the game, Gallas made a serious mistake when receiving Emerson’s return ball, and stopped the ball directly to grab Milito’s foot. The latter did not give Gallas a chance to make up for it after winning the ball, and changed direction and directly took the ball into the Juventus penalty area!
Seeing Milito rush into his own restricted area and trying to steal Gallas immediately, I couldn’t help but hesitate at this time, because Milito had already run in front of him, so what would happen if he dared to stretch his foot from behind?
Gallas knows very well that once he tackles the ball from behind and has physical contact with Milito in front, the latter will probably fall into the penalty area and cheat a penalty directly, and he will be sent off the court directly because of the tackle from behind.
Gallas lost the last chance to stop Milito when he hesitated, and the latter attacked the goal in the face of abandoning the door. Frey first pulled the ball horizontally and then directly stabbed the goal with his right foot!
The ball flew over Frey’s arms and plunged into the door behind the Frenchman!
One to one! Ligara made a lowlevel mistake, Florence successfully equalized the score and regained the initiative in this championship battle!
Chapter 1319 Expand the advantages
Milito’s goal completely released the hidden enthusiasm of Florence fans who had been suppressed for nearly half an hour. Before that, they were still confronting Juve fans. At this time, they were finished competing with each other. They were in a happy mood in the stands to help the team equalize the score. Milito applauded and applauded. Some fans even spontaneously sang their own Milito Song to express their excitement at this time.
At the moment when Milito broke Juventus’ gate, Mourinho couldn’t hold back his excitement. He jumped out of his seat with a clenched fist and performed a passionate kneeling in front of tens of thousands of fans and several cameras!
Seeing that Mourinho didn’t care about his Armani suit worth 10,000 euros playing on the court was so exciting. The cheers of Florence fans in the stands suddenly increased a lot. After all, players improvise after scoring goals. They can often see it, but it is really rare for a team coach like Mourinho to play such a slide rail on the court, because in people’s impression, managers often bring their own stable and wily labels and passions. Such words are really irrelevant.
Things are scarce and expensive. It is foreseeable that Mourinho’s popularity among fans will rise several grades with the team’s goal!
Seeing this scene, sitting in the VIP box watching Zhuang Ge can’t help laughing. Mourinho’s move clapped his hands. You should know that he has withstood many external doubts and insisted on his life. Mourinho has no experience in toplevel league coaching. On the one hand, because of the past achievements of Magic Bird, Zhuang Ge unconsciously favored the Portuguese when selecting coaches. On the other hand, because Mourinho’s totally different temperament is conducive to enhancing Florence’s popularity and influence in international football, it is also of great help to unite the team and enhance the cohesion of the locker room.
For example, this time, after Milito scored a goal, maybe a coach Mourinho’s move will give people a feeling of not being stable enough, but in the eyes of most fans, it is so interesting to have the opportunity to see such a passionate coach perform on the court, so he paid attention to Mourinho and Florence he coached and became a Viola fan.
On the other hand, the Juventus coach’s seat and the fans gathered in the stands, which was a gloomy and bleak scene, including coach trapattoni, who was gnashing his teeth with anger at this time. He couldn’t wait to rush to the scene now and kill Gallas, the culprit who caused the team to lose the ball. After all, Gallas’ just stopping mistake was too low, which didn’t seem like a firstclass defender should have the standard.
Gallas obviously realized this point. After Milito scored the goal, the French always hung their heads silently, as if they could avoid the accusations and criticisms from fans and teammates. They didn’t know that it was his behavior, which was very similar to ostrich mentality, that made many managers unconsciously adjust their psychological expectations for him.
It is naturally difficult for a defender to make mistakes on the court. After all, who can make mistakes? In most cases, people are still quite tolerant of these wrong players, even if they are dissatisfied with them for a while, they will not care about these things for a long time.
In this respect, Zebina is the best example. Although the performance of the French fullback is always ups and downs, it has been criticized by people. However, it is for this reason that Zebina can finally hold the main force in Rome and Juventus.
However, Gallas’ performance after the team conceded the goal gave people a feeling that the goods were not responsible, which convinced many coaches who witnessed the scene that Gallas could reach the limit at most, that is, between the firstclass and secondclass defenders, let alone Starr. Even his predecessors in the French national team, Blanc and desailly Gallas, could hardly reach these two heights.
Does such a player who always makes lowlevel mistakes in the game and then dares not do it really deserve Juventus jerseys? This is a question that all Juventus fans who witnessed this scene have in their hearts at this time.
The fans have doubts about Gallas’ ability and standard, and so does trapattoni on the sidelines. The Italian coach didn’t expect that the French international, whose physical quality is firstclass and his defensive skills are also outstanding, could be so fragile in his psychological quality that he couldn’t see that he was an international central defender.
However, although he was very dissatisfied with Gallas’ performance, trapattoni didn’t choose to replace him. After all, Juventus bench is now sitting as a substitute central defender. However, Montero and Legrottaglie, the former are in a serious state of slipping after their peak, and they can’t stand Florence’s attack. The latter has been proved to be an outandout parallel to deal with some midstream teams, and he can still be allowed to defend Milito them … trapattoni would rather choose Gallas. At least the French are much more reliable in the game than Legrottaglie.
However, to trapattoni’s surprise, it was discovered in the coming days that the Florentine players kept staring at Gallas’ defense area, and they did not recognize Gallas’ previous mistake as an accident.
The most embarrassing thing is that Gallas seems to have been influenced by the previous lowlevel mistake. Gallas has performed very badly these days. There are often mistakes that should not have been made. In addition, Zebina’s state is still stable and unstable, which makes other Juventus players have to fill the holes of these two teammates and be busy on the court.