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Just two minutes into the second half, Valencia's players launched an offensive in accordance with Cooper's arrangement.

After playing a concise two-pass and one-on-one match with Farinos in the middle and successfully broke through Effenberg's interception, Hrad quickly passed the ball to Gondetta who was pulling to the right.

As Valencia's core and captain on the court, Mendeta was at the peak of his personal career during this period, with both offense and defense, and was quite like a general. At the same time, Valencia's tactical system gave Mendeta extremely high tactical freedom, allowing him to roam in the middle and right of the court as he wished, and could organize the team to attack from any position he thought was suitable.

I have to say that Cooper, the Valencia coach, is still very courageous to give Mendeta such a great degree of tactical freedom, and this is also an important reason for the Spanish midfielder's strong rise this season!

Facing Robert Carlos, Mendeta did not try to challenge the defense of this Brazilian left-wing lord. Compared with attackers such as Raul and Guti, Mendeta's foot skills are actually a bit rough. His strengths are large-scale running, concentration on the game, excellent overall view, and good long-range shooting skills. Therefore, it is really unwise for Mendeta to fight Carlos rashly.

This is probably why Mendeta began to decline rapidly after leaving Valencia - this is a player who requires enough trust and tactical freedom to exert his true value. Without these support, Mendeta is at best a good midfielder panacea and cannot sell for $48 million.

A player like Mendieta can be very versatile, but he cannot really treat him as an all-round warrior like Nedved. Otherwise, the outcome of Lazio in Zhuang Mingge's previous life is the best example.

The same is true for the stars such as Lampard, Rooney, and Raul. They are both good at and shortcomings. If they want to play their value, they have to find ways to make their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, rather than letting them do inappropriate work, and requiring them to play world-class performance in this. If someone asks Pele and Maradona to play defenders, then there will be only two Megatron Football Kings and two mediocre ordinary defenders in international football.

Therefore, after receiving the pass from Gerard, Mendeta made a false move to shake Carlos, and then directly kicked a cross across most of the court, passing the ball to Claudio Lopez, who was ambushed in the back of the penalty area in Fiorentina!

Although the Argentine worm's height of 1.78 meters largely limited his heading ability, Lopez used his excellent skills to make up for this defect. The Argentine used his left foot to dexterite's cross, and then directly shot under Stam's defense!

Toldo was very focused. He had been waiting in front of the goal and held the ball that Lopez shot steadily in his arms. At the same time, he looked at Lopez with a provocative look. The meaning was quite obvious: Such a simple shot wanted to break through my fingers. Are you daydreaming?

After snatching Lopez's shot, Tordo quickly drove the ball into the middle of the field without waiting for the Valencia player to return to defense. He was very confident in his footwork and believed that his teammates in front would definitely be able to receive his pass!

Vieri did not disappoint Toldo's trust. He leaned on Pellegrino and flew the ball to Shevchenko who was inserted from the other side to form a single shot. Unfortunately, the latter did not seize this opportunity. The Ukrainian's shot was blocked by Canisales who decisively attacked, leaving only the regretful voice of the Fiorentine fans in the stands, and Shevchenko who was holding his head in the penalty area and sighing to the sky.

Seeing that Fiorentina's counterattack was once again resolved by his goalkeeper, Valencia fans in the stands couldn't help but cheer, and Valencia players on the court also let go of their fear and focused on the offense again. They did not put more alert because of Fiorentina's counterattack, but instead pushed the formation further. Obviously, after witnessing Cannisares' wonderful performance, Valencia players believed that Fiorentina's counterattack would not pose too much threat to them. Even if they were beaten to counterattack by their opponents, they were confident enough to return to defense in place!

If Fiorentina's counterattack still failed to attract enough attention and vigilance from Valencia players, then Fiorentina will use bloody facts to tell this new Champions League team and the biggest dark horse, that is, in the Champions League field, if you don't always maintain enough vigilance, you will die miserably...

In the 51st minute, Mendeta's cross from the right was cleared by Stam from the first to clear the penalty area. Redondo, who received the pass from Marklele, passed the ball to Shevchenko who was pulling it to the left!

This time, the Ukrainian did not give Angeloma a chance to interfere with his small movements or make a direct tactical foul. At the start at full speed, he threw the latter far behind him, and then dribbled the ball from the corner of the penalty area and rushed into Valencia's penalty area!

Seeing that Shevchenko had advanced to such a dangerous position, Jukic, who had fought hard to return to the penalty area, did not care whether there were Fiorentine players behind him who were circumventing him and rushed towards the Ukrainians! This Yugoslav veteran planned to rely on his years of experience in fighting on the battlefield to destroy Florence's counterattack with a clean tackle!

Although he would be very likely to be cheated of a penalty by Shevchenko, Jukic believed that as long as his tackle movements were clean enough, no matter how strict the referee was, he would not easily award Fiorentina a penalty on a major occasion like the Champions League final!

However, at this moment, Canisales, who performed very well in the previous time, made a mistake - when Jukic had stepped forward to defend Shevchenko, the Spanish goalkeeper chose to take the initiative instead of guarding the goal to guard the Ukrainians passing the ball to their teammates in the middle!

Shevchenko is not a lone wolf like Romario. He really can't learn the style of shooting but not passing the ball. After playing in Fiorentina for a season, he has become more clear about the importance of cooperation. Therefore, he noticed the movements of Canisales and Jukic, who swung his left foot and passed the ball out of the gap between the two!

"Beautiful job!" Vieri, who followed in the middle, naturally would not miss this rare scoring opportunity. The Italian center shot with a clean and neat shot and sent the ball into the empty goal in front of him!
Chapter completed!