After the game began, Fiorentina, who had the kick-off, quickly fought fiercely with the home team in the midfield.

Monaco's offensive system is like the French national team, and is completely built around Zidane. Therefore, fighting for control of the midfield is the key to Monaco's victory in this game. If Zidane cannot get the ball with peace of mind, then Monaco's offense will be completely blind.

Fiorentina attaches importance to the midfield because they regard it as the first line of defense. From the perspective of traditional Italian head coaches, Italy's traditional reinforced concrete defense is to start from the midfield and increase the space for the players to launch a quick counterattack while luring the opponent's players to attack.

This tactic that is the best magic weapon for Italian teams. Even Ranieri, who has added a counter-attack in the frontcourt after coaching Fiorentina, has unswervingly implemented it. Now, this defensive system has played a crucial role in this game!

From the moment the whistle sounded, Davis pressed against Zidane tightly, inseparable, intending to use the method of dug to defeat Monaco's most threatening offensive point. Other Fiorentine players set up their stairs and planned to teach Monaco a lesson on this stadium and tell them what a real defensive counterattack is!

As soon as Trezeguet and Henry came on the court, they were stared by Nesta and Ferrara. Although these two people had shown good talent, they were still young people with little game experience after all. The Ligue 1 team would not have developed such abnormal defensive tactics. The two were instantly lost in the encirclement created by Florence, causing Monaco's offense to almost stagnate from the beginning.

Davis ran very actively after the game started, and was also very fierce in close proximity. When he found that he could not stop Zidane, he would decisively adopt foul tactics. In just fifteen minutes, he knocked Zidane down three times. Although he received a verbal warning from the referee, he effectively delayed Monaco's offensive momentum.

Monaco, whose offensive momentum was repeatedly interrupted by Fiorentina, naturally enjoyed the treatment of genuine Italian counterattacks. Often, after Monaco failed to make a comeback, the home team players had no time to turn around and return to defense. Fiorentina launched a counterattack under the command of Effenberg, making several Monaco players who were left behind in the backcourt embarrassed.

However, Monaco is not completely without hope of winning, because they have another handsome talent after Platini - Zidane!

Zidane, who is under 24 years old, is not the big bald man Zhuang Mingge remembers. At this time, he still has a very energetic squid. Although Davis's adhesive-like defense has fewer opportunities to get the ball than usual, he can still show his offensive talent on the court and lead Monaco to deal with Florence in difficulty.

Zhuang Mingge watched the young Qi Zu running back and forth at both ends of the stadium. While helping his teammates who took the ball find the route to get the ball through his unremitting running, he also used constant passes to control the rhythm of Monaco's game. He sighed in his heart: It turns out that Zidane was the best at this time. Although Qi Zu who transferred to Real Madrid later raised his popularity and commercial value to an unrivalled height through Real Madrid's commercial hype, Zidane's technical level had actually begun to decline from his peak at that time.

Some people may have some doubts. Since Monaco can win the Ligue 1 championship for two consecutive years, its strength should be quite strong. How could it be so difficult to play at its home court?

The reason is very simple. Although Monaco has dominated the Ligue 1 in the past two years, it still has a big gap compared with top teams like Fiorentina from the Serie A. After all, after the Marseille counterfeiting case, Ligue 1 lost a large number of stars, and the league level has suddenly decreased by more than one level.

The league level is not good. Even if Monaco can dominate the country in France, it does not mean how powerful the team is. This sentence is very suitable for Monaco, especially its defense line that has not been tested by many top strikers.

Fans who are familiar with Wenger know that Wenger has a good at offensive tactics, but in terms of defense, you can tell from the Arsenal he coaches now that there is basically no formed defensive system, and most of them rely on the individual performance of defensive players to block the opponent's offense.

And now these forwards in Fiorentina are more than one-on-one than Monaco defenders!

In the 28th minute, Monaco once again attacked the goal of Florence. In less than half an hour, one side attacked, while the other side hurried in the half to play a defensive counterattack. Both sides had a tacit understanding.

Zidane received a pass from Candela who was assisting from the left and immediately dribbled the ball and turned around to break through, intending to use his dribbles to compress the visiting team's defensive space, but was blocked by Davis, who was guarding him. Zidane, who was tall and strong, naturally had less gravity than Davis (1.69). He was entangled by the Dutch for nearly half an hour and was a little impatient. He accidentally let the ball leave his control.

Davis immediately fell to the ground and kicked the ball to Effenberg on the side. The German looked up and observed it, swung his right foot to Monaco's left, which was to send a long pass!

Counterattack! Counterattack from Florence!

Ronaldo, who had been wandering on the Monaco back line for a long time, ran forward the moment he saw Effenberg pass the ball. In normal training, the two of them had practiced such cooperation many times, so they naturally seemed familiar with it when using it.

Receive the ball - accelerate - stop - accelerate, Ronaldo easily got rid of Ismail's defense with his extraordinary explosive power and headed straight to the goal guarded by Roa! This time, he would not waste his chances like before!

Leberf did not rush to defend Ronaldo - he also had to stare at Batistuta who was staring around him to prevent him from running to the empty goal while he was not paying attention.

Rather than letting the opponent score in an empty goal, Leboff is more willing to take a gamble to see if his goalkeeper can block Ronaldo's shot!

But this time, Leboff is destined to be disappointed...

Facing Roa who was attacking, Ronaldo calmly made a fake move to shoot to the left. After making the opponent make a wrong judgment and fall to the right and make a save, the alien transitioned the ball to his right foot and easily pushed and shot!
Chapter completed!