"cheers!" *3
At this time, none of the three people present realized how much influence this conversation had on Starr’s future career …
Chapter 21 Champions League opener (in)
September 14th Glasgow broackes Stadium
Broackes Stadium, home of Glasgow Rangers, is the oldest and largest football stadium in Britain-it is also the UEFA five-star stadium with the highest seating capacity of 11,567 people, which was set in January 1939 when Rangers played Celtic. This is also the record of the most attended league match in Britain. After some modernization, broackes Stadium can accommodate 57 people, and it has become the second most attended stadium in Scotland, second only to Molefi Stadium in Edinburgh.
Now Florence will be here for its first European Champions League match in 25 years.
Compared with the little experience in the Champions League, Fiorentina Su Chao overlord Rangers can be said to be quite experienced. Although they have not achieved very good results in the Champions League these years, rich experience in competitions can make up for this to a great extent.
At the same time, Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, naturally has a large number of fans here, and more than 50 thousand Scottish fans cheer on the stadium to better stimulate the state of the home team players; Moreover, because the owner of Rangers is a famous British steel tycoon and is willing to pay for the investment in the team, it is not bad money. Rangers have reinforced gascoyne to some extent during the season, and another Brian Laudrup, who has been unable to play in AC Milan, has both played in Serie A for many years and is quite familiar with Florence’s team personnel and tactics. These are quite unfavorable factors for Florence.
Out of caution, Ranieri honestly sent all his good cards to the game.
The goalkeeper is still toldo Lala and Felicano as a central defender. They have rich competition experience and are just tall enough to deal with the old center McCoist. The two wingers are Lanna and birindelli respectively.
In the front line, Ranieri finally sent Ronaldo and Roberto Baggio to combine their skills, speed and dexterity, which were the most feared by Rangers’ defence, who were older and turned slowly.
Because the striker combination is Ronaldo and Baggio, Ranieri has also made some changes to the midfield quartet this time. Rui Costa has replaced djorkaeff’s starting front waist. Florence needs the Portuguese to tear the opponent’s defense line with a bloody ball instead of the French to break through. After all, Ronaldo and Baggio are also good at breaking through.
In addition to Costa, the other three midfielders are effenberg, crippa and Di Biagioranieri. It took a long time to make a choice between crippa and Davis. After all, in terms of defensive ability, crippa has an advantage in height, and it also has an advantage in defending high balls …
After the game, more than 50,000 Rangers fans cheered, and the home team in blue was in command in gascoyne. Based on the midfield, they constantly made breakthroughs from the two wings of the stadium, trying to tear the Florence defense line from the side and hand it over to McCoist, the old captain of the middle road, to solve the battle
Laudrup Jr. is really a top winger on the right without injury, and his superb dribbling and breakthrough skills have fascinated Rangers fans.
But Lana, who is in charge of defending him, is not an equal. He played against laudrup Jr. when he was still playing in Sampdoria, and he is very familiar with his technical style. Therefore, although he is a little incompetent in his ability, it is not a problem to defend the rangers from attacking on the right.
On the left, Mikhailichenko, an older Ukrainian, has long since lost his former style. In the technically rough Soviet Super League, he may still be able to find a seat with his technical advantage, but he was completely blocked in the face of young birindelli Ukrainian midfielder …
After resisting the Rangers’ field to attack, Florence counterattacked slowly.
Ronaldo’s excellent combination of man and ball and explosive force made the infamous Basile Boli (who directly shoveled Van Basten with a malicious foul in the final of the 1993 European Cup and made the ballet king regret leaving the football field at the peak of his career at the age of two), but now he can kick Basten’s ankle with impunity two years ago. Now, if he does this, he will be banned by UEFA for a long time …
Rui Costa, on the other hand, is behind the Brazilians. He is constantly delivering artillery shells. effenberg is in charge of combing the midfield, while crippa is always ready to intercept opponents, counterattack teammates and return to defense when necessary.
Fiorentina finally scored the first goal of the season in the Champions League after a long struggle with Rangers in the 21st minute of the halftime. In the frontcourt, Rui Costa cleverly intercepted the opponent’s midfielder ian ferguson’s defense after receiving a point from effenberg, and a ball stuck to the ground went straight through Rangers’ defense!
Ronaldo easily accelerated and shook his eyes to defend himself. Boli received the ball, and then a pendulum-like pass shook the goalkeeper’s center of gravity and easily pushed Florence in front of the door to win!
Florence took the lead in the first round of the group stage!
After the deadlock was broken on the spot, the rangers were a little impatient. Although they were not strong enough to win the third place in this group, everyone knew the difference between continuing to participate in the Champions League and being able to participate in the UEFA Cup. The former meant higher income and more exposure, while the latter was a lot worse. For the rangers who dominated the Scottish League, it was not interesting to walk around the UEFA Cup. They were more concerned about how far they could go in the Champions League.
Therefore, rangers must not be eliminated in the group stage!
After returning the ball, Florence was not afraid to attack Rangers. In the midfield, crippa was forced to grab the opponent’s organization core. gascoyne Rui Costa also retreated to help the English midfielder suffer repeated setbacks in the middle of the road, while their captain and number one striker McCoist’s game state was quite average. In Lala and Felicano, he didn’t get many opportunities.
Florence is making steady progress towards her first Champions League victory!
Chapter 22 Champions League opener ()
At the half-time of the game, the score was still one-to-one ahead of Rangers in the away game.
At the end of the half-time, Rangers, led by gascoyne, kept attacking Florence’s defense line, but they didn’t create any good scoring opportunities. Instead, Florence took the opportunity to play several wonderful counterattacks. If it weren’t for the help of the post, I’m afraid the score would have been rewritten to 3-0 at the end of the half-time.
Felicano and McCoist struggled to keep an eye on this tall center in the penalty area. He still had a lot of experience. In the team training match, he always confronted batistuta and vieri, who claimed to be Batty’s apprentice. He was devastated by two centers. He was quite experienced in dealing with this tall center, especially now that he is 33 years old. McCoist’s physical fitness has slipped greatly, and the most important thing for this unified center is his physical fitness. When he was just 2 years old, Felicano was in place when he kept an eye on him.
At this time, laudrup barely broke through Lana’s defense on the flank, and Felicano immediately entangled with McCoist and then pushed the ball out first.
Gascoyne rushed to intercept the ball, but it was faster. Dibiagio got ahead of him. The two men were about the same height, but Dibiagio was much stronger than gascoyne, who drank too much every day.
Gascoyne is indeed a rare talented player in English football for ten years, and he is the most creative midfielder in Europe. However, his indulgence in life made him leave the mainstream league early, and he drank too much. At this time, his health has already had some problems, but he has not yet broken out. When he is 30 years old, his long-term bad habits will completely destroy this talented midfielder.
Di Biagio didn’t push the ball after getting it, but quickly gave it to effenberg in front.
The German tiger took the ball, turned around and dodged ian ferguson’s defense. After an oblique stroke, he handed the ball to Rui Costa who pulled to the left.
The Portuguese midfielder looked up and watched, lifted his foot and sent a ball across the whole stadium. He sent the ball directly from the left side of the square half to the right side of the opponent’s half, and was rushing to the ball landing point. It was at the half-court that the team recorded Ronaldo!
Costa is quite accurate. Because Rangers just pressed the attack, his backcourt is full of accelerated sprints. Although it seems that Costa’s ball is strong, it just allows Ronaldo to play his sprint speed.
Rangers immediately rushed to the ball landing point with a left defender, but Ronaldo sprinted directly in the direction of the goal and he needed to turn around and catch up.
Never suffered a serious knee injury. The speed of aliens is terrible at its peak. He said that he has repeatedly benefited his physical fitness and forced overtaking to deal with the slow-turning Rangers defender.
Seeing that his teammates couldn’t get ahead of Ronaldo, Boli immediately chose to run directly to his own goal. After all, even if Ronaldo ran happily on the side, the final shot would still have to be completed in the middle, which means that the real threat of Florence is to follow up with Roberto Baggio in the middle.
But it’s not easy for Boli to deal with Baggio. At this time, Baggio is not the team organizer in Brescia, but an agile striker. At the peak of his life, he is also very fast. He chased Boli desperately and didn’t drive him away …
Ronaldo finally chased Costa’s long ball when he was near the corner of the penalty area. He looked up and found that Baggio had followed him from the middle.
However, he has not slowed down immediately. After all, if he slows down and stops the ball for a few seconds, the Rangers defender will entangle himself, and this rare attack opportunity will be wasted.
So the Brazilian raised his right foot and made a cross ball without slowing down and waiting for the ball to land!
And Baggio also saw Ronaldo’s ball go up one gear again, chasing Boli after him, and the shovel didn’t touch Baggio. Baggio rushed into the restricted area, stretched out his foot and stopped Ronaldo’s ball, and then leaned over to face the attacking Rangers goalkeeper and easily hit a curveball with his right foot …
The opposing goalkeeper can’t watch the ball fly over his head and then fall obliquely into the goal behind him …
2-0! Florence once again breached the Rangers’ gate through a quick counterattack!
After losing the ball, Rangers didn’t stop attacking. The head coach Smith responded by making the attack more violent-he may not be unable to see that Florence was a defensive counterattack tactic, but now the game situation makes it difficult for him to ride a tiger. If he can’t gain an advantage in Florence, Rangers will probably be sent to the UEFA Cup after the group stage.
As a result, the crazy attack on the wanderer was hit hard again after ten minutes.
In the 60 th minute, gascoyne tried to fight his way out in the middle with the ball, but the kick ball was broken by chasing crippa.
After the tackle, crippa swept the ball with his right foot and gave it to the Portuguese who also retreated to Costa’s foot. Lifting his foot is a foot long and hitting the rangers directly behind them!
At this time, a purple figure rushed out obliquely and received the ball at the front of the restricted area!
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It’s Ronaldo! A standard straight oblique insertion!
Ronaldo grabbed the ball in front of the attacking goalkeeper, and without slowing down, he rushed to the goalkeeper’s left hand side easily. When the Rangers goalkeeper turned around in confusion and looked at the ball, he could see that there was a number printed on the back of Ronaldo’s jersey!
Three to one! The overall situation is set!
After leading by three goals, the morale of Rangers’ players has declined to the extreme. If there is still hope for them to equalize the score when they are behind by two goals, then I am afraid that no player thinks that his team can still work miracles when they are behind by three goals and less than half an hour before the end of the game.
However, the Fiorentina players didn’t give up, but instead attacked the Wanderers at home, intending to vent their grievances after the team lost to Vicenza a day or three ago …
As a result, the morale of the Rangers dropped significantly, and the attacking rhythm of Florence was led by the high-spirited Florence players.
In the 15th minute, two Fiorentina players on the bench finished their wonderful cooperation. After djorkaeff played back Alex Cleland on the flank, he broke into the penalty area, and another convenient kickback flashed to make up for Boli’s clever delivery of the ball to filippo inzaghi’s foot, also on the bench!
In the face of Rangers goalkeeper Inzaghi showed his "fox in the penalty area" style. A small but extremely accurate push made the ball pass through the opponent’s goalkeeper’s armpit and fly directly into the far corner of the goal.
Chapter 23 Forward
After winning a 4-0 victory at the home of Glasgow Rangers, the players were warmly welcomed by the fans when they returned to Florence. antonioni and others also privately complained to Zhuang Ge that it was a great pity that they did not go to the scene to watch such a brilliant victory.
After winning the Champions League, Florence players finally got rid of the shadow of losing to Vicenza away from home and their morale was greatly improved.
Although morale has risen, a week-long double match at the beginning of the season still consumes a lot of physical strength of Fiorentina players. So after three days, Ranieri still chose to rotate in the third round of Serie A with Cagliari, and put some physical therapy centers out of the big list, and captain batistuta returned to the starting line to partner with Baggio; As a result of a game in which Lana slammed laudrup Jr., the starting left-back of this game was replaced by fortunato; Crippa, who is 3 years old, is still in excellent condition, but considering his age and playing style, the Dutch wild boar Davis started this game. The other two players in the midfield were Tacchinardi, Rui Costa and djorkaeff because the vice captain effenberg accidentally sprained his ankle when returning from Glasgow by plane …
On the bench are Inzaghi and vieri, a pair of good friends. Although Ronaldo and Baggio joined the team, they slipped when they appeared in the season, but they didn’t complain, but they were more meticulous in the training ground.