Gentile? Wow, this guy would make such a stupid decision? It shouldn’t be … Zhuang Ge, an Italian fan, certainly knew who Gentile was, and when he heard Perot’s answer, he couldn’t help but be stunned. After all, a professional player like Gentile, a head coach, shouldn’t make such a lowlevel mistake here.
Generally speaking, the coach of the Olympic team will not recruit players who have participated in international competitions such as the European Cup to participate in the Olympic Games. On the one hand, as mentioned earlier, the reason is that players need a period of rest to adjust their state to avoid serious injuries due to excessive fatigue, and the short gap between the European Cup and the Olympic Games is obviously not enough; On the other hand, because the players are in a low state after playing the European Cup, even if they are brought to the Olympic Games, they may not be able to play much fighting capacity. It is impossible for a head coach Gentile not to know these things.
Unless there is something that nobody knows … Zhuang Ge got up and said to Perot, who is already sweating, No matter what you do, President Perot must end his Olympic trip at once, otherwise it will probably bring irreparable losses to Florence and Italian football!
No problem, everything is easy to say. Perot now wants to solve this problem and let Zhuang Ge go away. This great god will naturally not refute Zhuang Ge’s request. I will immediately call coach Gentile and say that Pirlo can return to Florence at the latest.
In this way, Zhuang Geyun reported to the Olympic team not long ago, and Pirlo was finally released from Greece by Gentile reluctantly and returned to Florence by plane, ending this somewhat inexplicable Olympic tour.
Zhuang Ge, another Derossi who took part in the European Cup but is also going to play the Olympic Games, can show his helplessnessafter all, Zhuang Ge has already made some unpleasantness with the Football Association. If Derossi is brought back, I am afraid that the Football Association will turn against him this time.
Fortunately, Derossi is not the absolute main force of Florence and the Italian national team. He is younger and has better physical fitness. It is not a problem for him to cope with an Olympic Games. He just needs more rest afterwards.
I really don’t know what the quacks of the Italian Olympic team are thinking! After a routine physical examination in Pirlo, thomas carter complained angrily to Zhuang Ge, After a season and the loss of the European Cup, Andre is very tired now. It is impossible to completely eliminate these hidden dangers in just one month. If we don’t recall him from the Olympic team this time, maybe Andre will follow Ronnie’s footsteps!
I would like to add here that although Zhuang Ge made Ronaldo not suffer as serious injuries as in his previous life before he was 26, he was quite healthy and alive on the court, but it was precisely because of this that aliens did not change their playing style, which led to his serious knee injury after the winter break and the announcement of the season reimbursement result, which detonated the great hidden danger of Real Madrid and made the Galaxy battleship end its 34season journey with both hands.
Fortunately, Zhuang Ge acted quickly enough to get Pirlo back from Athens before it caused more serious consequences. Otherwise, as Carter said, Pirlo would be seriously injured due to fatigue and become another glass man in football.
Chapter 1291 Before the Super Bowl
Although with the help of President Perot’s Zhuangge, Pirlo, who had already gone to Greece to participate in the Olympic training, was successfully brought back, he did not ignore the doubts in his heart because of the settlement of the Italian Olympic coach Gentile Zhuangge.
Is it true that a professional player is a head coach and he doesn’t even know the truth that players can’t be tired? Don’t say Zhuang Ge doesn’t believe this. A person with normal IQ wouldn’t believe it.
If Gentile still chooses to recruit Pirlo into the Olympic team in white, then his motivation is really questionable. After all, Gentile, a member of the twoyear World Cup champion team, has another important identity, that is, trapattoni was the absolute main force of Juventus, the peak team!
Although Gentile played in Florence for a short time in the later period of his career, it is obviously much stronger than his Juventus brand. Therefore, it is not impossible for Gentile to deliberately use the Olympic opportunity to consume Florence’s strength for some ulterior reasons.
Just as Zhuang Ge secretly guessed the meaning behind Gentile’s strange actions and decided to be more careful about these backstabbing in the future, a series of preseason warmup matches ended and Florence finally ushered in the longawaited Italian Super Cup final!
Because the Italian Football Association has been trying to expand the influence of Italian football overseas in recent years, the venue of the Super Cup final was finally set in Tokyo, Japanin the past decade, the Italian Football Association hopes to take this opportunity to further enhance the influence of Italian football in East Asia so that they can occupy more shares in this big cake.
On February 2, Florence arrived at Tokyo International Airport by the latest special plane sponsored by Qatar Airways, and will prepare for the Italian Super Cup two days later.
To be honest, Florence players enjoy such highstandard treatment when they go to the away game, which makes other team players simply envy and hate Materazzi, Shevchenko and Ronaldo, who have played in Florence, because they have never enjoyed such treatment since they left Florence, and it is a rare privilege to charter a plane to play away games.
Now let’s introduce the starting lineup of one or two teams. After Lazio led the Biancocelesti to win the Italian Cup and the fourth place in the league, the coaching ability was initially received by Abramovich. Mancini and the general manager of the promotion team Begiristan made waves together this summer. The Russian ruble introduced a lot of strong support in the transfer market, which further strengthened the Biancocelesti’s strength, especially after the news that the Czech goalkeeper Cech and the Dutch flying man Luo joined Lazio one after another, the Biancocelesti and Inter Milan, which have just finished coaching change, are in the reconstruction period, are the favorites to win the championship!
In this game, Mancini used to make the goalkeeper in the 433 formation along the season. Petr Cech, the Czech goalkeeper, just joined the team this summer. In less than a month, he successfully squeezed out Lazio’s main goalkeeper Peruzzi. Mancini was the first choice in the goalkeeper position, while in the defense line, Brazil’s new aid Maxwell was in the left and pancaro was in the right. Favali and Hernando Cotto, two veteran partners, are obviously cautious in choosing Mancini as the starting guard. He doesn’t want the defender to make lowlevel mistakes due to lack of tacit understanding and give the opponent an easy chance to score goals. Therefore, although Lazio introduced a younger and stronger French star Mexes in the central defender position, Mancini still put on a combination of Favali and Cotto veterans in this game.
In front of this defense line, Deco, Davies and Aurelio make up the midfield, and Ronaldinho and Drogba Wakuri make up the front trident. The depth of investment in Abramovich’s bench has been greatly strengthened, and Lazio has minimized the impact of Stankovic’s absence!
After talking about Lazio’s appearance list, let’s take a look at the fact that Florence’s starting eleven players were influenced by two international competitions, the European Cup and the Olympic Games. Mourinho didn’t have many cards in his hand, but it was obviously difficult to learn from Robson, Capello and Heinks and other top coaches. The depth of Florence’s bench is also the highest in Europe, and even if a player is injured, it will not have much impact on the team’s combat effectiveness.
Goalkeeper Buffon’s four defenders are Carlos, Lucio, Starr and Zambrotta from left to right; In the midfield, Makelele, Ballack and Gattuso are combined. Obviously, in the absence of Pirlo and Arteta has not yet integrated into the team, Mourinho intends to strengthen the control of the midfield by increasing the running ability and coverage. diego milito, the striker of the European Cup, is the starting center. He was born in Argentina but eventually became famous in Italy. On both sides of him, cristiano ronaldo, the successor of Figo, was regarded by Portuguese fans, and the Spanish winger Vincent was called the leftwing god by fans!
Pirlo missed the Italian Super Cup, which made several fans feel very sorry. Finally, it happened. After all, Pirlo’s physical condition and physical preparation are impossible to represent Florence in the upcoming Italian Super Cup final. If he is rashly allowed to play, it will probably lead to more serious injuries.
According to the sports medicine experts in Florence Physiotherapy Center, if Pirlo’s physical condition is to be restored to the level of competition, it is better to let him rest until the end of September, and it is safer to wait until the beginning of October to let him play.
This means that, not surprisingly, Florence will have to face a threeline battle without Pirlo for more than a month after the new season, which is obviously not good news for Mourinho, who has just taken over as Florence coach.
Chapter 1292 Leading
This guy didn’t expect that Gattuso, Makelele and Ballack were actually deployed in the midfield in this game. After seeing Mourinho’s arrangement, he came to the scene to watch the game. Zhuang Ge said, By putting pressure on the opponent through a lot of running and grabbing, the opposing attacking players couldn’t get enough display and ball route, thus making them make mistakes and launching a counterattack … It really conforms to the consistent tactical style of Plug.
Compared with his former teacher Heinx, Mourinho obviously pays more attention to defense, and at the same time pays more attention to the great influence of ball running on the game. For example, if every player in Florence runs one kilometer more than Lazio players in the same position, Viola players will definitely be more likely to form more and less situations on both ends of offense and defense than Biancocelesti players, so Florence will definitely be more likely to take the initiative on both ends of offense and defense if it is not luck or the player’s condition is particularly bad.
It is precisely because of this small difference in football concept that Gattuso, who was only regarded as an additional defender in midfield by the Germans during Heinks’ coaching, got more performance opportunities behind Mourinho’s stage!
In Mourinho’s view, although Gattuso has almost no concept of defensive position, he also has the advantages that other players do not have, that is, great energy and never give up the game spirit!
With these two things, coupled with his fierce but not fierce game style and conscientious defensive attitude, Mourinho, who has always attached importance to defense, has listed Gattuso as the key development target of the team.
The eleven players in the field should actively participate in the defense, control their opponents’ activities through a large number of balls running and forming a unified defensive position, and cut off their ball route, forcing them to rely on their personal ability to break through the ball to complete the attack. When they do so, Lazio players will fall into the defensive traps specially set by Mourinho and then lose the ball in the encirclement of Florence players. This is the defensive strategy specially formulated by Mourinho in the original Florence first team after absorbing the successful experience of Chelsea and Greece.
Sure enough, after the game, the trio of Fiorentina midfielder Ballack, Gattuso and Makelele quickly disrupted the pace of Lazio’s game with fierce physical confrontation and physical force, and almost completely cut off the trident connection between the Biancocelesti midfielder and the frontcourt, which caused a serious disconnect between Lazio’s center and frontcourt!
Although Deco and Davis once played in Florence, they are familiar with the way of forcing Viola. They can rely on their experience and technical skills to deal with their opponents on the court and try their best to make their teammates play at the pace they are familiar with, but Aurelio is not good. This technical midfielder, who is rare in Italian football, has tried his best to force the ball without losing it, and there is really no extra energy to invest in other aspects.
Although the excellent technical ability is also considered among the players in the center and frontcourt, the disadvantages of ball running ability and physical fitness make it difficult for Aolei to exert his due strength in this highintensity competition. In the face of Florence players’ lack of defense and forced grabbing, Aolei gradually fell into silence and threw the organized attack to his two teammates Deco and Davis himself. He played stealth games on the spot and occasionally received the ball from his teammates, and it was often difficult to organize a threatening attack when Barak and others were oppressed.
With Aurelio’s stealth, Lazio gradually fell behind in the midfield battle. Although Davis and Deco are excellent in their abilities, they are equally difficult to help the Biancocelesti reestablish contact with Ronaldinho and Drogba in the frontcourt. After all, the former is now a 31yearold veteran. After all, his running ability is as slippery as other abilities when he is not at his peak, and it is even worse to connect the frontcourt. Although the latter is trained as Lei Dongduo’s successor in Florence, he is not good at breaking through this kind of work with the ball, not to mention that Lazio often faces the situation of playing less and playing more in midfield after Aurelio’s invisibility, and he has a lot of physical strength to get rid of his opponents and force Deco, so he naturally has no energy to take care of these things.
In the 24th minute of the game, Aurelio was surrounded by Ballack, Gattuso and the retreating defender Vincent, and fell into a trap. He was accidentally intercepted by Florence again and lost the ball!
Aolei suddenly lost the ball in midfield and hit the players who were about to attack Lazio. No, they didn’t expect Aolei to be successfully intercepted by his opponent at this juncture. Therefore, when Davis first reacted and rushed back to Vincent with the ball, many players in Lazio were still running in the direction of Florence’s goal.
Although Davis successfully blocked the Spaniard before Vincent took the ball, Vincent was not onetrack minded like Walcott. He didn’t want to lose his head when he saw the Dutch wild boar appear in front of him. Vincent first made a false move with the ball to the left and then shook his ankle to the other side of the court! There’s no Maxwell defense. Cristiano Ronaldo is moving forward at high speed along the right side of the stadium!
After receiving Vincent’s goal, Cristiano Ronaldo didn’t foul Lazio players or interrupted this quick counterattack opportunity with a yellow card. He observed a teammate running and pretended to continue to take the ball and break through Cristiano Ronaldo. He directly picked the ball over Favali’s head and scored the offside goal. Single knife!
Cech’s attack was a beat slow, and he failed to jump on Milito to shoot the ball. When the Czech goalkeeper fell on the grass, he heard the cheers of the fansobviously these cheers were not from Lazio fans.
In this way, relying on a quick counterattack at halftime, without Pirlo, a midfielder, Florence unexpectedly led Lazio by one goal at halftime and took the lead in this Italian Super Cup contest!
Chapter 1293 Mancini weakness
The fact that Milito scored a goal and Florence led by one goal in the game really exceeded the expectations of Lazio players and Mancini. In Manjo’s imagination, because many main players in Florence held the European Cup this summer and won the final, the consumption will naturally not be small, so they will definitely not return to their best condition under limited time, so Lazio will have a great chance of winning the Italian Super Cup final.
After all, compared with Buffon, Starr and many other main players who didn’t finish the European Cup until early July, not many Lazio players were transferred to participate in the European Cup, such as Giuly, Ronaldinho and Cech, who was influenced by the European Cup, and Cech was a goalkeeper. The position of the field determined that he would not consume as much as other players. Giuly can’t compete for the same position in the French national team, but he is more versatile and more talented. It’s also not much cost for robert pires to come off the bench. Although Ronaldinho is the Netherlands’ first choice in the left wing position, because he is behind Ronaldinho in Lazio, even if the Dutch flying wing is in a bad state, it will not affect the performance of the Biancocelesti on the court.
To add insult to injury, Viola also broke their only organizational core, Andrea Pirlo, before the game, which made Mancini more confident in taking this game. Although Florence just brought in Arteta from Glasgow Rangers, Mancini didn’t think that the Spanish midfielder didn’t even play for Florence for a few days.
It’s only been four years since he retired as a professional player, but Mancini knows very well that it is very difficult for a positioning player like Arteta to integrate into a new team. It is definitely not just a few weeks before you can see the effect. If Mourinho is really ill and rashly puts Arteta into the starting lineup, I’m afraid Mancini can laugh even in his dreams.
However, what Florence showed after the game surprised Mancini. He never thought that he had lost Pirlo, the core veteran of the organization. albertini chose to move without much help from the new arrival Alta. Mourinho actually chose to send such a midfielder to deal with Lazio. The key point is that he meowed that Mourinho actually succeeded!
I have to say that Mancini, who has just picked up the head coach’s coach, still has many shortcomings and backwardness in his coaching concept. Although he has not reached the point where Kevin Keegan still defends the football match, that is, the backcourt players simply defend the attacking players of the other side, Mancini obviously does not fully understand the most advanced tactical concepts, such as making the frontcourt players actively withdraw from the defense, strengthening the game control by increasing the number of balls running, and forming more games in some areas.
In other words, Mancini has seen that Florence’s control over the midfield has slipped after Pirlo’s absence, but he has not found that Gattuso, Ballack and Makelele all play at the same time, which can not only protect the defence from the direct impact of Lazio players, but also cut off Lazio’s central and frontcourt, disrupt the attack rhythm of the Biancocelesti and make it difficult for Ronaldinho and Drogba to receive the ball from their teammates in the frontcourt and play a threatening attack.
I admit that Lazio’s offensive trident is really outstanding in its ability. Even our defense in Florence can hardly resist their offensive. Sitting in the coach’s seat, Mourinho said to Lala, his assistant, But it’s a pity that Mancini’s idiot didn’t give full play to this offensive combination. He just put them on the court according to their respective positions without any extra arrangements. Besides, Chilo (Lala) doesn’t know what it looks like now.
There is also a reason why Mourinho doesn’t like Mancini at this time. Let alone that he is behind the team, it is difficult to be a qualified head coachhow can you be more nervous and uneasy than your players? !
You know, emotions can infect each other, especially this negative emotion can easily make a team that originally hoped to win, and when the team falls behind or can’t play, the head coach will be more nervous than the players. So what do the players think?
In Zhuang Ge’s previous life, Mancini’s habit was not improved for several years before he coached Inter Milan, until the scandal broke out and the Nerazzurri gained a lot of instant strength. Mancini won more games in Serie A and gradually got rid of this habit, but Inter Milan’s shortcoming of not being good at fighting hard has not been improved much.
As Mourinho thought, Mancini walked around nervously on the sidelines, which made Lazio players nervous, making them even more afraid to move in the attack for fear of losing the ball again, especially because they had just made a major mistake, which led to the team falling behind. Aurelio noticed Mancini’s expression, and he was afraid of being a sinner again and just didn’t dare to catch the ball.
Mourinho saw the horse go to the sidelines and reached the latest instructions to the players. He planned to take advantage of the chaos of Lazio players to launch a storm to further expand the lead!
Mourinho’s change really made Lazio players feel confused and beaten by Fiorentina players directly at the square half. If Cech didn’t play supergod in front of the door and veteran players such as Favali and Cotto repeatedly blocked eyecatching scenes, Lazio would have been beaten down by this wave of onslaught in Florence.
However, at the last minute before the halftime, Florence relied on Ballack’s heavy bombardment of the door 30 meters away to break Cech’s fingers and rewrite the score by 20!
Chapter 1294 Drogba changes
What a guy … Seeing that his team was already two goals behind at the end of the halftime, and the scene was suppressed by Florence, Abramovich came to the scene to watch the game. His face looked very ugly. The Russian looked at the sidelines and put on a depressed look. Mancini doubted for the first time whether he had made the right decision to keep the Italian new generation coach.
After all, since Abramovich took over Lazio last summer, the Russian tycoon has invested more than 200 million euros in the Biancocelesti, and he is demanding nothing from Mancini. As a result, the team almost lost its strength and was beaten by the shortstaffed Major General Florence in the semifinal of the Italian Super Cup, which made Abramovich feel good.
What makes Abramovich most dissatisfied is that although the team is now two goals behind Fiorentina, the game is only half over so far. If Mancini can figure out the countermeasures at halftime, Lazio will not have no chance to make a comeback at halftime.