Chapter 582: A Smooth February (1)
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Eliminating Udinese to advance to the Italian Cup semi-finals did not make Fiorentine players excited. After all, most of them have won at least one league championship and one Champions League championship. Veteran players like Effenberg and Bati even feel like they have won the championship.
Therefore, the Fiorentine players really don't care much about this idiot tournament. The reason why they didn't let go of this useless event is, on the one hand, because their professional skills and Capello's requirements make it impossible for them to give up every game easily; on the other hand, because the title of Triple Crown is quite tempting for them. Although Ronaldo and his team once completed this great achievement in the 1995-96 season under the leadership of Ranieri, no one would be unwilling to win the honor of Triple Crowns a few more times.
It is precisely for this reason that although the Copa Italy is indeed an unstoppable event in the eyes of Fiorentine players, they still play every game very seriously.
Just as Fiorentine players were struggling to win the glory of the triple crown again, Zhuang Mingge completed Fiorentine's last player deal in this winter transfer period, a buzzer-beating signing.
When Italian media reported that Fiorentina spent $1 million to buy Zalcardo from Bologna, who played for its youth team, time officially entered February 1998.
On the first day of February, Fiorentina ushered in the 18th round of Serie A at Frankie Stadium. This time their opponent is still Udinese, who had just won four days ago.
Facing Fiorentina, who had just eliminated them from the Italian Cup, the Udinese players' feelings were also very entangled at this time. Fiorentina's difficulty in defense and overall strength had left a deep impression on them. Therefore, when they found that they were going to challenge the Serie A giant away game less than a few days after the last matchup, the depression in the Udinese people was imaginable.
Florence was also very helpless about this. He thought to himself how the Football Association arranged the schedule and how could he always play games with the same opponent in a week?
The Italian Football Association was also speechless about complaints from the two clubs, Florence and Udinese. When they arranged the schedule before the start of this season, how could they expect Florence to encounter Udinese twice in a week?
No matter how much you complain, the schedule of the game is impossible to change when the schedule has been determined. Therefore, Udinese players have to face the cruel reality of fighting Fiorentina two times within four days.
Facing Udinese, the black-hearted Capello did not send a substitute to deal with the league this time, but sent all the main players. Because Fiorentina's next game is a week later, this time is enough to restore the physical fitness consumed in this game. Moreover, the European Champions League will also rekindle the battle next month. Capello needs to let Fiorentina get as many points as possible in the league before the Champions League arrives to consolidate the team's dominant position in the standings.
Toldo, Robert Carlos, Nesta, Stam, Ferrara, Zambrota, Redondo, Davis, Zanetti, Vieri and Inzaggi, this is the starting lineup for Fiorentina in this game.
In this game, Capello sent a five-32 formation. The two full-backs Carlos and Zambrota have considerable freedom and can change their positions at any time according to the situation on the field: when attacking, they can press on to act as a wing forward or even a winger, which will give more space for teammates in the middle and add more offensive routines to the team; when defense, they will return to the full-back to strengthen the defensive power of the Fiorentina side.
Compared with the game four days ago, Florence only had one Ferrara who played in these two games in a row as the starter. Such a bench depth made Purple Lily look at ease in front of the weekly double game schedule.
Compared to Fiorentina, which can play rotation cards, Udinese, who lacks player resources, obviously does not have many choices in the starting lineup. When head coach Zacheroni does not want to give up this battle with Fiorentina, it greatly amplifies Udinese's weakness.
Many Udinese players, including Bielhof, Amoruso, Jorgensen, and Helvig, have the absolute main players, except for the reasons for the suspension or injury of the red and yellow cards, these players are basically starting every game under Zacheroni, and this naturally greatly increases the physical burden of these players.
Originally, if you play two consecutive games with a powerful team like Fiorentina in just a few days, Zachelloni's best choice is to strategically give up one of the games, retain the players' physical strength, and concentrate on the other game.
However, Zachelloni chose the stupidest way: he actually sent the same starting lineup to deal with these two fierce battles with Fiorentina!
You should know that it is not easy for Udinese players to concentrate on playing a game well against opponents of Fiorentina. If they keep their performance at a high level in two consecutive games and their tactics will not be fully understood by their opponents, it is obviously a dream.
As a result, Zacheroni's stupid choice made the physical condition of Udinese players deteriorate to the extreme, resulting in different degrees of cramping in the game by Hulvig and others. Many people were standing on the court to play football - because they really didn't have the strength to continue running.
Faced with the exhausted Udinese player, Florence, who was already quite familiar with Wuji's tactical style and cooperation routines, launched a massacre without hesitation!
Due to the existence of Bierkhov, Udinese's offensive routine is mainly to directly find the high point through the cross from the wing, and then the German center will score either by passing or shooting based on the situation on the field.
Therefore, the five-32 formation set up by Capello very well restrained Udinese's tactics. Fiorentina's three central defenders surrounded Vierhof and did not give him the chance to catch the ball easily. They directly blocked the most important link in Zacheroni's tactical system. At the same time, this formation also strengthened the defensive power of the wings, making it difficult for Udinese to achieve smoothly, forcing them to keep shooting from a long shot outside the penalty area to seek a chance to score.
Udinese's attack could not be opened, but Fiorentina's counterattack was very vivid - Vieri's cover and Redondo's accurate long pass helped Inzaghi succeed in the game in succession of offside. The continuous single-strike tour made the goal guarded by Tulsi shaking.
Before the game ended, Inzaghi scored three goals and completed another hat-trick; his good friend Vieri also scored something in the game.
In the end, Florence, who was on the Frankie Stadium, beat Udinese four-0 and received three valuable points.
Chapter completed!