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Chapter 422 Florence's Nemesis? (Part 2)

In order not to be eliminated by Vicenza, in order to be the last four of the Copa Italy Cup, Fiorentina launched a fierce attack on the home team's goal from the beginning of the game, constantly seeking breakthroughs from the left and right sides, and then passed the ball to Barti and Vieri in the middle, and the two high centers completed the final blow.

Capello's tactics worked very well. Fiorentina did successfully suppress Vicenza at the beginning of the game and beat them up in half. Glencier and Zanbrotta's successor on the right made Koko, known as the "successor of Martini", fumed and lost one by one.

In the eleventh minute, Glencier forced accelerating and broke through Koko's defense and then made a high pass. Bati beat the opponent's central defender and headed the goal. Fiorentina took the lead by 1-0;

In the 18th minute, Zanbrotta and Glencier scored two consecutive passes and one match on the right, completely tearing away Vicenza's left defense line and then the former completed the assist. Vieri, who followed up in the middle, shot the ball and changed the score to 2-0!

In the 34th minute, Vieri scored his third goal since the opening of Fiorentina: Rui Costa took a corner kick on the right side of the penalty area, Vieri headed the ball before Ambrocini, expanding the score to three-to-zero! Fiorentina spent less than half a game to turn the total score of the two rounds into five-to-four!

If Fiorentina players can keep this score over the game, then Purple Lily can complete a super reversal when she is two goals behind in the first leg, successfully advance from the Italian quarterfinals, and continue to compete for the Italian Cup title this season.

However, the Fiorentine player's dream of completing a big reversal was only half an hour before being shattered by the ignorant Vicenza again: In the 56th minute, Okoza passed the ball to the left in the middle, Ambrossetti dribbled the ball and accelerated it, broke through Zambrota's defense and made a decisive cross. Luca Tony in the middle did not hit the ball under Stam's interference.

Seeing that the home team's attack was about to be destroyed by Nesta, Otero stood up and pulled Vicenza back from the death line before Nesta. While getting a goal for Vicenza, he tied the total score to five-5!

Since Fiorentina lost to Vicenza at home in the first leg, even if Fiorentina won three-to-one in this game and tied with Vicenza in the total score, Zi Lily will still be eliminated in the end because of few away goals.

Therefore, after Otero scored a goal, Capello, who had no choice but to order the Fiorentine players on the field to continue the attack, striving to score another goal from Vicenza.

However, football is strange. In the first half of the game, Fiorentina can be said to have played the game, and easily scored three goals from his opponent. However, after the second half, although the lineup of the players on both sides did not change, the Fiorentina players suddenly found that the goal was becoming extremely difficult.

Both Bati and Vieri were still fighting for landing points in the penalty area without any slackness, but their shots were always a little bit different from the score. Costa and others' long shots were either blocked by Vicenza's defenders or over the crossbar. The best luck was to hit the post of the opponent's goal...

When the game reached the 72nd minute, Capello saw that the team was still unable to break the deadlock, so he replaced his compatriot Bati with Cruise and continued to insist on the tactic of flying the two wings together.

What Capello didn't expect was that the newcomer he had just changed into the field immediately brought him a surprise gift package.

In the 75th minute, Carlos broke through the defense of the Vicenza player and made a cross from the left. Vieri headed the ball. Cruise, who had only three minutes on the bench, scored a fury shot, rewriting the score to four-to-one!

With Cruise's goal, Fiorentina regained the initiative to qualify!

However, Otero once again broke through the goalkeeper of Toldo with a free kick in the 82nd minute and pulled the two teams back to the same starting line, four to two!

By this time the game had completely entered a white-hot stage. The players on both sides were fighting for every opportunity on the court. No one was willing to stop the ball with equal opportunities.

For a moment, the people on the court were overturned.

Seeing this situation, Guidolin made his last substitution in this game. He replaced a defender with German young player Michelle Barack, and changed to three, four and three, preparing to make his last try by strengthening the long-range firepower of the midfield.

Guidolin's gambling achieved unexpected results. The midfielder composed of Barak, Ambrocsini, Okocha and Zauri showed amazing combat effectiveness. While intercepting Fiorentina's attack, he continued to use long shots to threaten the goal guarded by Toldo.

Coupled with the continuous harassment of the three forwards in the front (especially Otero), the result was that in the 88th minute of the game, Tony took the cross from Ambrossetti to head the ball back. After Oko got the ball, he rushed to Davis to grab the ball and passed it across the ball. Barack, who was inserted from the rear, kicked a world wave twenty-five meters away from the goal!

The ball was directly at the dead corner of the goal, and Toldo had no time to react. When he came to his senses, the ball was already lying quietly in the goal of Florence.

Four to three! German young player Barack scored a goal defended by Toldor with a shocking long shot, helping the home team take the lead in the total score again!

With the overall score behind, Fiorentina launched wave after wave of attack in the last few minutes of the game. They had no way out and focused all their energy on the offense.

However, Vicenza's midfield foursome used active running and accurate positioning to destroy Fiorentina's desperate attack again and again, desperately trying to kick the opponent's half to further delay time...

In the 93rd minute, when Cruise's header hit Vicenza's goal crossbar and flew out of the baseline, the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game!

When he heard the familiar whistle, all the players of Fiorentina collapsed on the turf and Cruise, who scored a goal in this game, even covered his face and cried. Although Fiorentina won four-to-three in this game, I'm afraid no Fiorentina player would be happy about it now, because in the two-round Cup Italy duel, they lost to Vicenza with a total score of 6-7!
Chapter completed!
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