Chapter 737 Bad Luck (1)
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Effenberg's goal greatly hit the morale of Lazio players. After all, anyone who saw that the score was widened by the opponent in the same way would be greatly affected by his mentality when he had just approached the score.
Ironman with extremely tough will like Nedved may be able to perform normally on the court like nothing is wrong, but more emotional players like Mihailovic and Grandoni have obviously been affected by Effenberg's goal. Taking Uncle Miha and Grandoni as an example, they not only had a situation of not keeping a close eye on people when defending, but also forced them and their teammates to frequently use foul tactics against Vieri and Ronaldo who broke through their own defense line, resulting in the fact that when the game was 70 minutes, each of the four defenders on Lazio's defense line was already carrying a yellow card!
This situation makes Lazio's situation worse because it means that in the next time, these defenders have to be cautious when defending Fiorentina's attack and dare not make fouls easily.
The Fiorentina players took full advantage of the opportunity of the Lazio defenders being held back and continued to attack Lazio's goal in the following time.
In the 72nd minute, Pirlo avoided Almeida's press and sent a straight pass. Ronaldo, who successfully counterattacked, directly shot in the run, but the ball was saved by Macegiana and failed to expand the score again.
Three minutes later, Fiorentina made a comeback, and Pirlo once again sent a straight pass in the midfield. This time the shot was replaced by Da Inzagi, but Pipo's shot hit the post and bounced out of the baseline!
After wasting two scoring opportunities in a row, Florence was like being possessed. In the next ten minutes, their shots either hit the goal frame or were blocked by Macegiana, or flew directly out of the door... In short, Florence was always in a strange situation of gaining momentum during this period.
Although it was never possible to expand the score on the field, everyone in Fiorentina, including fans, was not anxious about it. After all, Fiorentina is still two goals ahead and there is little time left for the game. No matter how capable Lazio is, he is probably unable to make up the situation.
However, just when people thought that Lazio had no hope, Cruise, a former Fiorentine player who appeared as a substitute Saras, suddenly broke out!
The Argentine center first headed the ball from Nedved's cross from the left in the 88th minute of the game, which tied the score on the field to 2-3; then in the second minute of injury time, Lazio used a corner kick from the frontcourt, first used an emergency stop to change direction and shook Nesta's mark, and then received a corner kick from Nedved to score again!
In the end, when the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game, the score on the field was frozen three to three. Fiorentina, who was away, was successfully killed by the old player Cruise at the last moment, and had to shake hands and make peace with Lazio. He was extremely frustrated and only took away a draw and a point.
At the post-match press conference, Eriksen, who survived death at the last moment, told the media reporters present with joy that it was definitely Lazio's luck to end this game with a draw. Cruise's performance in this game was simply phenomenal. He would like to thank Fiorentina for selling him such an excellent striker...
When Capello, who was sitting on the other side of the stage, was extremely depressed. The gold medal coach secretly scolded the Swedish who was cheap and acted good, thinking that if Cruise had not insisted on leaving for the sake of playing time, I would not have sold such a dangerous person to you.
However, even though he was slandering, Capello would not be angry in public because of Eriksen's words. He smiled slightly and fired back quietly: "Coach Eriksen is very correct. Everyone knows that Julio once played in Fiorentina. As Julio's former head coach, I can't know his abilities very well. In this game, we only made one mistake that shouldn't have, that is, relax our defense against Julio!"
When they heard Capello actually had such a high evaluation of Cruise, the reporters present immediately cheered up, put up their ears and opened their eyes and picked up the pen. They had a premonition that Capello would definitely say something worthy of their publicity next.
Capello did not disappoint the reporters' expectations for him: "I think Julio has obviously surpassed Salas in terms of ability now! Not to mention anything else, just by looking at the number of goals they scored this season, we can know a little bit, why can a striker who can score more goals be a substitute for a person who always wastes opportunities?!"
"What?!" This made Eriksson stunned. He didn't expect Capello's counterattack to be so insidious. He directly pointed out the problem in Lazio's team, that is, Cruise, as a substitute of Salas, can score better than the Chilean!
The Swedish coach could have imagined that when Capello's comments were spread to Cruise through the media's mouth, the Argentinians would definitely develop greater ambitions and no longer satisfied with the position of Salas as a substitute, but would challenge the Chileans' main position!
Moreover, Erikson also knew that in the face of Cruise's challenge, Saras obviously would not choose to give in. If the two of them just compete for the main position, they would definitely suffer losses, Lazio's entire team!
Therefore, once Capello's remarks aroused Cruise's ambitions, if Eriksen could not think of a good way to resolve the conflict between the two, then Lazio's locker room would be not far from civil strife.
Looking at Eriksen who suddenly became frowning, Capello sneered in his heart: Let you be poor in front of me, but I didn’t expect that I could provoke a disagreement in your team in just a few words!
But then again, he was really unlucky enough here, Capello thought to himself. After all, Capello knew how much Cruise was capable of, because it was Capello himself who discovered his potential and made him a super substitute.
Although this Argentine center is good at observing opponents' weaknesses on the bench and can use these weaknesses to score goals once it comes on the court, it is usually almost done to score a goal. It is extremely rare to score twice tonight.
Chapter completed!