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Chapter 584: A Smooth February (3)

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Zhuang Mingge is quite satisfied with this lottery result. Although to outsiders, Dortmund, which has been extremely strong in domestic and foreign competitions in recent years, is indeed a strong team and the strongest team among the five opponents in Fiorentina in the quarterfinals, the actual situation is not the case.

With Dortmund losing to Fiorentina in the final of the Champions League last season, the Bundesliga club experienced a large earthquake last summer: After winning two Bundesliga titles in a row and winning the runner-up of the Champions League, the main players led by Summer and Andres Muller began to be complacent and no longer obeyed the words of head coach Heathfield, which caused Heathfield to leave in anger and was promoted to the club's technical director, leaving this mess that he thought was on the verge of chaos to his successor.

So, the Italian coach Scala, invited by senior Dortmund, was cheated by his ex.

When Scala happily accepted the invitation from Dortmund to coach in Germany, the Italian coach realized that the atmosphere in the locker room of the Bundesliga giant had deteriorated to a point where he could not control it. The words of locker room bosses such as Muller and Samer were even better than the words of his team's head coach!

What's worse is that this is Scala's first time coaching in Germany, he has no foundation in Dortmund that he can't make these people obey his arrangements, nor can he convince the senior management to impose severe punishments on the stars who disobey orders, and can only allow these players to play freely on the court according to their ideas.

Under such circumstances, Dortmund performed very poorly in the Bundesliga this season. He had fallen out of the top six of the league just halfway through the season, and his qualification for European competitions next season would be a problem; in the Champions League, if the Hornets had not had the signing luck well, it would have been a problem even qualifying in the group.

So, the Dortmund is just a very powerful player from the perspective of the card, but in fact it is strong outside and do the middle.

In fact, among these five teams that may become Fiorentina's opponents, Zhuang Mingge's least hopes to face is not Florence's old acquaintance in the Champions League, but La Coruna from La Liga.

Although La Coruña is not as good as the super Laco, with the careful creation of its chairman, Rendo Iro, this small ball in northwestern Spain will have a very fanatical home court and some powerful stars, such as Mauro Silva, Donato and Brazilian genius Dejaminha, etc. These players have already appeared in Laco's main lineup at this time.

Although last season's top scorer Rivaldo caught La Coruna off guard last summer's accidental transfer to Barcelona, ​​Rivaldo's transfer time was much earlier than in history (In history, Rivaldo announced his transfer to Barcelona a few hours before the transfer gate was closed. Barcelona's forced poaching almost made Laco go straight from La Liga this season), so Rondo Iro has enough time to find Rivaldo's successor. This small change has made Laco's record in various competitions much better than in the same period in history, and there is no need to worry about insufficient offensive firepower.

Therefore, in Zhuang Mingge's opinion, La Coruna, who is united and balanced in offense and defense, is much harder to deal with than Dortmund, who has been in an internal strife.

"Fortunately, the UEFA officials did not notice this. The excessive attention to the team's popularity made them mistakenly think that Dortmund is the strongest team." Zhuang Mingge and Karin explained, "If I met La Coruña in the quarterfinals, I think these two games would be not that easy to play."

"Well, that's right." After hearing Zhuang Mingge's explanation, Karin nodded in agreement. "We have already clearly understood Dortmund's player configuration and playing style in the past two seasons. The probability of our losing is very low when we know ourselves and our opponents... If the opponent is La Coruna, this is probably not the case."

After the Champions League draw ceremony, Fiorentina soon ushered in the 20th round of Serie A match with Inter Milan.

Facing Fiorentina, who plays at home, Inter Milan's coach Simeone decisively chose the defensive counterattack tactics he is best at and most commonly used. In addition to Robert Baggio who can stay in the frontcourt and be ready to counterattack at any time, even Djokav has to retreat to his own half to participate in defense, which shows how much he attaches importance to defense.

Capello could know what Simeone would do with his heels. Therefore, in this game, Capello, who was determined to lead the team to score three points at home, decisively put Rui Costa, Redondo and Effenberg on the starting lineup, with only Dutch Wild Boar Davis defending his full-time job.

Toldo, Zambrota, Ferrara, Nesta, Robert Carlos, Redondo, Davis, Effenberg, Rui Costa, Vieri and Inzaghi, this is the 11-man starting list of Fiorentina in this game.

Capello's meaning is very clear, that is, to use attack to destroy the Blue and Black Legion!

As Capello expected, at the beginning of the game, Inter Milan, who played away, took the initiative to shrink his defense line and compress Fiorentina's offensive space, attempting to **Florence pressed the attack, and then deal with the home team through a quick counterattack.

However, Fiorentine players did not easily give the visiting team the opportunity to counterattack. The three major midfielders Redondo, Costa and Effenberg were in charge, which made Fiorentine's passing accuracy in the game quite high.

With the deliberate planning of the three major midfielders, unless there is a chance to shoot, Florence's passes are completed 30 meters away from Inter Milan's goal.

The reason why Redondo and the others did this is to consume the physical fitness of Inter Milan players in this way. After all, generally speaking, the physical energy of the defensive side consumes much more than that of the offensive side.

When the opponent's physical fitness problems occur, the defense will naturally not be as tight as it was at the beginning. Once there are more buildings on the defense line, Florence's chance of scoring will naturally appear.

Inter Milan players can only watch the home team keep falling down at 30 meters away but dare not act rashly, because Redondo and others have extremely sharp passing skills. Once they rashly grab it, it is very likely that the entire defensive system will be omitted, and the opponent will seize the opportunity to score.

However, if you want to win a victory by blindly defending and a handful of counterattacks, you need not only strength but also enough luck.

However, it is obvious that Inter Milan's luck tonight was not very good: at the 81st minute of the game, Carlos suddenly pulled his feet and shot thirty-five meters away from the goal. Although Paliuca, who was caught off guard, managed to block the ball from the goal, because the shot was too powerful, Paliuca did not hold the ball, but chose to hit the ball out of the penalty area with both fists!
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