Chapter 618 The final before the final
After the meeting, Beckenbauer immediately rushed to the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, where he wanted to meet with Johnson to discuss and adjust the next action plan; while Zhuang Mingge continued to stay in Amsterdam, quietly waiting for the arrival of the Champions League final.
Galliani, who lost the official membership of G14, also hurriedly left. Gabazi knew very well that no matter what, his boss could not accept that his AC Milan was excluded from G14, which is a "wealthy alliance"!
So, now Galliani’s task is to inform Berlusconi of this unfortunate news, and then use the US dollars he asked for from Old Bay to rebuild an invincible Red and Black Legion in the upcoming summer transfer market!
As the entire meeting lasted all day, when Zhuang Mingge took Karin back to the hotel where they checked in, he found that the Italian Cup final with Vicenza had already blew the final whistle.
Because Fiorentina and Vicenza have a more critical game to play in the next week, in this Italian Cup final, neither Capello nor Guidolin sent the main lineup to fight to the death, but also used the players who had been on the bench for a long time.
With the competition approaching, neither Capello nor Guidolin wanted to lose their important combat power at this critical moment.
However, although Vicenza's main lineup is not much stronger than Florence, if you want to talk about the depth of the bench, Vicenza will naturally not be the opponent of Florence if the ball is not rich or powerful.
So, in this way, the originally interesting Italian Cup final has become no suspense.
Ze Roberto and Cruise, who finally got the chance to start, scored one goal in the game. The increasingly aging Villejoward accidentally sent the ball into his own goal while defending. Vicenza's side only headed the ball back to the goal at the beginning of the second half.
In the end, Fiorentina defeated Vicenza three-to-one and won the second championship trophy on the road to the triple crown!
Now, as long as Fiorentina wins the final of the Champions League, it can complete the second triple-championship in club history after two years!
After the award ceremony of the Italian Cup, neither Florence, who won the championship or Vicenza, who finished second, did not stay in Rome for too long, and set off overnight to return to their hometowns to prepare for the upcoming Champions League and Cup Winners finals.
According to the schedule arranged by UEFA, the Winners Cup final was held three days before the Champions League final. Therefore, during the period before waiting for the Champions League final, Zhuang Mingge and Karin sat in front of the TV to watch the Winners Cup final between Vicenza and Chelsea.
Due to the emergence of Zhuang Mingge, the current Vicenza is much stronger than in history. Perhaps because of this change, Vicenza did not stop in the semi-finals of the Winners Cup as in history, nor did he meet Chelsea, the strongest, but met Stuttgart, whose performance plummeted after losing Elber!
After two hard games between home and away games, Vicenza eliminated the German powerhouse with a total score of 2-1, entering the finals of the Winners Cup for the first time, creating a new chapter in the club's history!
This time, facing Chelsea, who have famous football players such as Zora, Lessox, and Poyet, Vicenza head coach Guidolin showed Zhuge's true nature again. He took advantage of Chelsea coach Viali's contempt for Vicenza, and firmly believed that this "weak brigade" from Italy would definitely try every means to drag the game to the penalty shootout in the final. He unexpectedly sent out a set of highly offensive starting lineups and fought a fierce attack with the Blues in the final of this Cup of Winners!
Barotta, Koko, Viljoward, Repka, Odo, Ambrocsini, Barack, Pirlo, Ambroseti, Tony and Larson, this is the starting lineup that Guidolin came up with in the Winners Cup final!
It was also because of these players that Vicenza beat Viali, who was full of confidence, hard after the game began!
Just three minutes into the game, Ambrossetti and Koko scored two consecutive games on the left. After breaking through the defense of Petrascu and Steve Clark, Ambrossetti sent a cross. Tony, who followed up in the middle, headed the ball and won the first goal, one to zero!
Faced with the unfavorable situation of falling behind in the score at the beginning of the game, Chelsea players did not panic. They are generally over 30 years old in their game experience than Vicenza, who is only in their early twenties on average, so naturally they will not be confused because of this little thing.
But Vicenza did not give Chelsea a chance to slowly adjust its state. With the young man's impetus and physical strength, he kept pressing fiercely in the frontcourt, constantly pressing Chelsea's backcourt, forcing Chelsea players to make mistakes when transferring the ball, thus creating an opportunity to score.
Faced with Guidolin's move, Chelsea's side was unfortunately hit again: In the eleventh minute of the game, Wise had to pass the ball back to Leboff behind him under Barack's press, but he was not careful that Pirlo suddenly rushed out from the side and stole the pass in the middle!
Pirlo, who intercepted the ball, immediately dribbled the ball and pushed forward to the left. After attracting Leboff and Wise to defend, Pirlo first used a gorgeous Marseille swing to escape from the two of them. Before another central defender Dubery, he directly shot from the left position of the penalty area!
The ball drew an arc in the air, bypassed Dehuye's palm, hit the far post and bounced into the goal!
2-0, with Pirlo's goal, Vicenza expanded his lead!
However, although Chelsea beat two consecutive hits at the beginning of the game, Vicenza's slightly radical style of play also made their defense extremely fragile. The Chelsea forward with Zora and Flo naturally would not miss these opportunities.
So, in the subsequent game, both sides jointly presented a wonderful goal battle for the fans: First, Flo took a free kick from Zora in the penalty area and scored a header to help Chelsea win a game. Then, Pirlo also directly responded to Chelsea with a free kick; the Blues, who did not dare to admit defeat, stubbornly tied the score to three-to-three with the goal of Zora and DiMao in the second half!
Just when Chelsea fans saw a glimmer of light of winning the championship, their captain Dennis Wise knocked down Larson in the penalty area in the last stage of the game. The referee decisively awarded a penalty kick. Pirlo, who was responsible for taking the penalty, scored the score on the field in one go, and the score on the field was fixed on four to three!
When the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game, Chelsea fans all covered their mouths with their hands and widened their eyes, unable to believe what they saw.
Chapter completed!