Of course, although the score is still a match, Liverpool and Fiorentina players are in a completely different mood at this time. The former is relieved and can’t play at the end. After all, Fiorentina put considerable pressure on them at both ends of the attack and defense in the halfgame. If they are not careful, they will probably end up defeated by Frankie and then go out of the Champions League.
The Florence players showed more reluctance because they firmly grasped the initiative in the whole half game. If vieri and Dinatale didn’t wear shooting boots several times and didn’t seize the opportunity, Florence might have sealed the victory now.
Mourinho could naturally see that the players were dissatisfied with the score, so after returning to the dressing room, he strongly praised the players’ performance in the halfgame, which calmed the players’ restlessness because of the delay in breaking the deadlock. After that, Mourinho made several demands on the players, such as increasing the crosstransposition of the players in the middle and front court and creating more opportunities for easy shooting and scoring.
Generally speaking, the promotion initiative is in our hands now, so we don’t have to be too anxious about the goal, Mourinho said with a smile, and his face was full of confidence, which made the players have a lot of confidence in his words. So whether we should do well first or the defender wants Liverpool to fail to score in this game, then we must be Florence in the final four!
Mourinho’s words made all the players in Florence suddenly come to a dead end. At this time, they finally figured it out. vieri and Dinatale finally realized that they had a onetoone battle with their opponents in the first leg. They didn’t need to be obsessed with scoring goals in this game. If the opponents couldn’t score goals, Florence would be the final winner!
At the thought of the unstable atmosphere in the dressing room, the players laughed at each other while listening to Mourinho’s arrangement at halftime, and the impatience was gone.
On the other hand, the visiting locker room where Liverpool players are located is a gloomy scene. After being beaten by Florence for 45 minutes, their confidence before the game is already the last few, and they are quite pessimistic about the possibility of the team advancing to the semifinals
After entering the visiting team’s dressing room, Benitez said the first thing that made the Liverpool players here depressed. I am very dissatisfied with your performance at halftime, ladies and gentlemen.
Especially when the team’s single arrow Baroche Czech striker heard Benitez say this, his face couldn’t help but burst into fever. After all, his performance in the halfcourt game was really terrible and he didn’t score a goal. Regardless of whether he was still defending in Stada and Lucio, he almost became invisible on the court and made almost no contribution.
To be honest, Baroche’s performance in Liverpool is very different from that in the Czech national team, mainly due to the different positioning of the team. In the national team, Baroche is hidden behind Jan Koller, and the sharp knife needs to be covered by teammates to find the weak point of the opponent’s defense line and then send a fatal blow. In Liverpool, Baroche is not treated like this. Often, the head coach is used as a single arrow to make this arrangement not only fail to give full play to Baroche’s advantages, but also expose the general weakness of the Czech body’s ability to face the pit and seize opportunities.
It is not the material that you need to fight hard with the defenders to score goals, but also your personal ability to cover other teammates behind you and create scoring opportunities. It is really unrealistic for Baroche to have the same performance in Liverpool as he did in the national team
Therefore, Baroche’s mediocre performance in Liverpool is not only due to his incompetence, but also a very important reason why the Red Army manager did not formulate tactics according to his characteristics and used him as an Owen replacement.
Just as Mourinho and Benitez instilled in the players the shortcomings of the halfgame strategy in the dressing room, the 15minute intermission had already passed unconsciously, and the halfgame was coming!
After halftime, the Fiorentina players didn’t rush to attack the Liverpool gate, but rather cautiously kicked their feet in the middle and back court to lure their opponents to take the initiative to press the formation, thus creating more activities for the front line vieri and them. After all, Benitez’s tactical attainments are still quite good, even if he has always looked down on the other side, Mourinho has to admit this.
To be on the safe side, Mourinho will specially ask the players to take a steady counterattack tactic after coming out, instead of letting them continue to play in the halfgame. By attacking instead of defending, Liverpool players will put too much energy into the attack, so that Mourinho can minimize the chance that the team will be caught off guard by the attack tactics of the Liverpool people in the early halfgame.
Seeing that Fiorentina players showed such vigilance and planned to take the opportunity to fight Viola quickly, Liverpool players couldn’t help cursing and then gave up this plan with regret. After all, it was difficult for Liverpool players to grab the ball in Florence halftime and even be attacked by Florence if they were not careful.
In this way, the scheme was seen through. Liverpool players played a headon confrontation with Florence in a wellbehaved manner, and the gap between the two sides in hard power made the balance of victory constantly tilt towards Florence!
Chapter 1324 Liverpool (4)
Although Liverpool players have worked very hard in the game, almost every goal is contested, but the strength gap between them and Florence has not narrowed much品茶. In the face of superior technical and tactical ability, Florence Liverpool players still played very hard in the halfgame. It is almost impossible to kick through the midfield by relying on the ball, which has become their most familiar longdistance suspension. However, in the absence of Owen, the sharpest front knife, Liverpool’s longdistance suspension is somewhat threatening.
It seems that the team still needs to be further technically transformed this summer. Watching the players fight hard on the spot with little effect, Benitez sighed lightly and shook his head secretly. This rough and crude game scene with no aesthetic feeling is not what he wants to see.
In Benitez’s vision, he hopes to make Liverpool a team with smooth attack, many scoring points and steady defense. In short, it is the peak Valencia that he coached before. However, from the current situation, Benitez will have to work hard to achieve this goal for a long time.
The most important thing is that Houllier spent a lot of money in the transfer market a few years ago, plus he missed the Champions League for several seasons, so Liverpool’s financial situation is quite embarrassing now, which is quite inconsistent with their top giants and G14 membership.
As a result of the poor financial situation, Benitez is not very maneuverable in the transfer market, and he can’t consider robbing Peter to pay Paul to reinforce a certain aspect of the team, which will lead to loopholes in the removed part and drag down the team’s performance
It can be said that unless Benitez has a golden finger like Zhuang Ge or Liverpool can have a boss who is rich enough and willing to invest to take over, Liverpool can expect to restore its former glory in the transfer market, and the players bought are very costeffective and a number of highquality teenagers can emerge in the youth training system.
It’s a pity that Benitez’s eye for people can be said to be quite satisfactory. Although there are many transfer transactions (such as luis garcia and xabi alonso), there are also many signings (such as Morientes and Pennant), which makes Liverpool’s road to revival difficult. At the end of each season, they can get a Champions League seat, but they are lucky. Maybe they can break through a trophy in the cup to console themselves.
Just as Benitez was thinking about how to carry out the technical transformation of Liverpool in line with his expectations this summer, he didn’t realize the situation. As the minutes passed, the balance of victory was constantly moving closer to Florence, especially after the 55th minute of the game, Florence frequently broke the ball and launched a counterattack, which made Duddeck in danger before guarding the gate.品茶
Seeing that the team’s situation has become so sinister in his carelessness, Benitez is naturally not in the mood to think about things that are so far away, so he quickly puts his mind back to the immediate game and tries to reverse the extremely unfavorable situation of the team by replacing people.
Seeing that Benitez intends to replace Mourinho, he raises his eyebrows and orders the team to strengthen interception and counterattack with a wave of his hand, trying to break Liverpool’s goal in front of these new stadiums, which completely kills the suspense of this game!
Mourinho’s adjustment effect can be said to be immediate. In the 65th minute, Florence once again launched a quick counterattack品茶. Ballack immediately gave the ball to Carlos on the left after successfully stealing Gerrard’s cross ball, while the latter played a oneonone match with Dinatale on the left, making a clean sweep of Finnan and luis garcia, and then watched his teammates in the restricted area and sent a low ball!
There’s a saying that a veteran is a top two. Carlos just chose the ball this time, which is a good reflection of his rich experience in the game. You know, although the gap between Liverpool and Florence is azimuth, it doesn’t mean that the Red Army is really in the same place. Let alone a Premier League team, their defense ability is absolutely firstclass. Even if vieri, the former world’s number one center, wants Carragher and Hencz’s frontal defense ability, I’m afraid he can’t get better.
Therefore, if Carlos just chose a high ball in the middle, there is a great chance that his foot will be cleared out of the penalty area directly by Carragher or Hencketz, who has the firstclass defense ability. If he sends a low flat ball, Carragher and Hencketz will never dare to intercept it easily because this kind of clearance ball will often become an extremely embarrassing shot. Although Carragher and Hencketz didn’t choose to reach out and intercept Carlos’ ball because of the mouse trap, vieri followed up in the middle. Carragher also watched and missed the right part. The ball slipped in front of them and rolled to the other side of the penalty area.
Just when everyone thought Liverpool would get a foul ball, a purple figure suddenly entered the restricted area of Liverpool at a very fast speed and got the ball. Then it was a powerful volley to swing his right foot without waiting for the Liverpool players to react!
For this sudden shot, Duddeck didn’t make a save. The Polish goalkeeper just moved his steps and the ball roared into the corner of the goal!
Cristiano ronaldo!’ With the referee Merck declaring the goal valid, more than 40,000 Florence fans in the stands of Frankie Stadium shouted out the names of the goals in unison, followed by more than 1,000 Liverpool fans who came from afar like rain.
A match! Florence leads Liverpool by one goal in the total score for the time being, and the situation is excellent!
Chapter 1325 Liverpool (5)
Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal completely changed the direction of the game, because although Florence had an away goal advantage before, it was necessary to draw a blank with Liverpool in this contest to advance to the semifinals, but with a little brains, everyone knew that this advantage was really unsafe in the face of a neurosurgery team like Liverpool, because you had no idea when this opponent would suddenly go crazy and messed up the original excellent situation before you could react.
What’s more, although Florence has been occupying the initiative on the court, suppressing Liverpool at both ends of the attack and defense, but the situation of being in a bad position has also increased the psychological pressure of the players. After all, if Liverpool accidentally seize an opportunity to score goals, then the passivity will become Florence.
From this point of view, Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal is very important for Florence. With the overall score leading, Viola can have more margin to deal with opponents. At the same time, Liverpool, which is behind in the score, must strengthen its attack and regain the score disadvantage when it comes, because if Florence keeps the score on the scene and the game is over, then the Red Army will bid farewell to the Champions League completely!
Therefore, after referee Merck announced that the goal was valid, Florence players rushed to the younger generation who had just turned 20, and then threw Cristiano Ronaldo high in vieri!品茶
Seeing that Cristiano Ronaldo was thrown by the players again and again, he couldn’t stop laughing. Mourinho turned around and kicked all the players out of the bench to warm up. With a goal lead and less than half an hour left before the end of the game, Mourinho felt it necessary for him to make substitutions at this time so that the team had enough physical strength and preparation to meet the dying counterattack of Liverpool.
At the same time, after the Portuguese teenager Florence scored the first goal, he was going to replace Hamann to strengthen the midfield defense. Benitez had to stop the substitution adjustment urgently. After all, it was a bit unwise to change a defensive midfielder to weaken his own offensive power on his own initiative when the team was one goal behind the total score.
The most important thing is that Benitez, who has had a study tour in Italy, believes that Florence will definitely choose to shrink its defensive selfinterest after gaining the lead, and concentrate on playing Liverpool to fight back. For this reason, Benitez naturally cannot do anything stupid to weaken his own offensive strength.
Coach, let me take charge of the team’s attack later, Gerrard suddenly said when Benitez was thinking hard about the enemy’s strategy. Although I have never played the attacking midfield position before, there is no reason why I can’t do this since Devid and Ballack can successfully complete the transformation!
Hmm … well, then the team’s attack will be centered on Steven (Steven Gerrard). Don’t live up to my expectations. Benitez thought about it and found that there was no better way, so he agreed to Steven’s request. I will arrange someone else to take charge of Steven in the midfield defender. Just put all your energy into the offensive end.
In fact, Benitez will agree to Gerrard’s request, and there are other considerations. You know, after Owen leaves the team, Gerrard will be Liverpool’s top star and locker room boss. For his own sake, Benitez must do a good job with Gerrard, the flag of the team, or waiting for him will probably be a dismissal notice from the top.
However, Benitez didn’t think that Mourinho did choose a substitution before the game resumed. However, the Portuguese young marshal didn’t let Florence take the lead in defensive counterattack as he expected, but made two counterpoint substitutions. Derossi was replaced by Barack vieri, who was a little tired, and diego milito was replaced!
Holy shit. What the hell was this guy thinking? It’s unscientific not to choose the safest defensive counterattack but to fight against us when the score is ahead! Faced with this situation, Benitez’s heart can collapse. He can’t imagine that Mourinho would choose to play against Liverpool at this time.
Ha ha, I knew you would let the team play a defensive counterattack after I took the lead. Is this dumbfounded? Look at the sidelines and put on a stunned look. Benitez Mourinho smiled in his heart and thought proudly.
If it were Juventus, a stable team with more passion than passion, Mourinho would definitely let the team fight back after leading, but when it comes to Liverpool, Mourinho would never give the offensive initiative to the other side. After all, once the Liverpool guys play their game, Florence will suffer.
Adapting to local conditions, rather than mechanically copying the socalled common sense and experience, is one of the important standards to reflect a head coach’s coaching ability and tactical level.
So Benitez miscalculated and watched helplessly as the team’s defense line was torn apart by the offensive trident composed of Milito, Dinatale and Cristiano Ronaldo, and the score was rewritten by Dinatale in the 73rd minute!
In this way, Florence leads Liverpool 31 in the total score, with less than 20 points left in the game. Viola has crossed the threshold of the semifinals!
After the total score became 13, Liverpool players were more anxious than relaxed. After all, even if they tried to defend this game, they could not get the team a ticket to the semifinals. Therefore, they might as well take a chance while there is still a chance in the game and maybe have a chance.
After this heavy burden, the performance of Liverpool players has gradually improved. Instead of being passively beaten or timid, they have played well in several attacks with Florence, creating a certain threat.
If only these kids had played so early, they would have played their normal level at this time. Watching the players at the game, Benitez couldn’t help sighing secretly. He also feels that it is really a test of the heart’s endurance to bring a team like Liverpool.
Chapter 1326 Liverpool (6)
Not to mention being gratified by Liverpool’s great improvement performance on the sidelines, Benitez took the initiative with the recovery of Liverpool’s players’ physical fitness, and the Florence players also felt some pressure, and the attack became less smooth than before. At the same time, the number of mistakes made by players in smallscale cutandmatch and largescale transfer of the ball also increased when Liverpool players actively oppressed and forced to grab, which gave their opponents several quick counterattack opportunities.
