This is the first time that Florence has met Arsenal in Europe after a full four years!
Viola played against Arsenal twice during the presidency of Florence in Zhuang Gotham, and this can be traced back to the semifinal of the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 9495, when Florence had just returned to Serie A. In the two rounds, Florence defeated the defending champion Arsenal 20, broke the dream of winning the Cup Winners’ Cup, and at the same time qualified for the final, and defeated Zaragoza from La Liga in the final to win the first Cup Winners’ Cup in the club’s history!
However, compared with this time, people are more optimistic about Florence, which has already won the Champions League three times in a row, rather than reborn Arsenal in Wenger’s hands until the season.
After all, four years has changed a lot, for example, Florence, which was a newly promoted horse in the eyes of everyone, has now grown into the top club in Europe; And Graham’s team, which talked to the extreme, has become a thing of the past, replaced by Wenger’s elaborate offensive football.
Capello attaches great importance to this game. After all, although the gold medal coach has planned to quit after the end of the season, it also means that he must lead Florence to play a record that suits his status. Otherwise, who will hire a coach who can’t even exert his team’s physical strength at a high price?
Moreover, Capello paid great attention to the prematch information collection. After coming to London, he naturally learned about his boss’s night visit to Wenger through phase channels. However, as Zhuang Ge expected, Capello did not take it seriously, but smiled coldly in his heart and said, Wenger, how dare you play this trick in front of me? Am I an idiot? !
Therefore, Capello must go all out in this game whether he meets or thinks about his future. It is a general fact that Capello is the best head coach with him!
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So in order to give Wenger a loud slap in the face and kill the suspense of the game as soon as possible, Capello sent all his best cards to the game.
Goalkeeper position Although toldo has lost a lot of goals in the season and his competitive state is quite average, he is still the most reliable goalkeeper in Florence.
The defense line takes into account that Marc overmars and Palor broke through Capello’s sharp flank and decisively sent Roberto Carlos and Zambrotta as the starting left and right guards; In the middle line, Stahl and Stam, who are back from injury, will jointly take charge. They will face French rookie Alca and ice king Bergkamp in the game.
In midfield, Claude Makelele and Lei Dongduo play a pair of backyards. Although the Argentine king has the ability and physical strength to take up the backyards by himself, it is doubtful that Capello, who has always attached importance to defense and stability, will add another insurance to the side door by adding Claude Makelele, and it will also better liberate Lei Dongduo so that the Argentine superstar can fully display his offensive talents in the game.
Effenberg is in front of Makelele and Lei Dongduo. The German tiger will form a midfield duo with Lei Dongduo in the game. At the same time, his longrange and excellent overall situation, as well as his domineering but powerful weapon that can stabilize the morale at the crucial moment.
The striker is strong and vieri is at the forefront to attract fire, while Ronaldo and Ljungberg are hiding behind vieri, waiting for the opportunity. The interaction of these three players in the frontcourt is enough to make a defense line headache.
And Florence is still sitting on the bench with such rich players as Inzaghi and Pirlo, so that Capello can make the most appropriate changes according to the situation at any time!
Compared with Capello’s talented players, Wenger’s account is poor. Many people can rely on a set of good main players and a few rotation players to fight for the rest of the day. The young people are either still young or old, and the veteran can’t root enough fighting power to make up for it in key occasions.
This can’t blame Wenger for not working hard. Although the Premier League renewed a fat contract with Sky TV the year before last, for Arsenal, which is in the process of reconstruction, this money is enough for Wenger to buy some main players. It is still a long way to go for Arsenal to have a bench with enough depth like Florence, and they can rely on Wenger’s eye for pearls besides a lot of financial income.
Therefore, in order to enable the team to meet the Champions League in the best condition, Wenger decisively changed the starting lineup in the 27th Premier League match against Newcastle at the weekend, and as a result, the gunman was bloodied by the Magpies by a score of 41 at St James’ Park.
However, Wenger paid these prices in exchange for sitting at Highbury Stadium. Arsenal have to face the European hegemon Florence in the main lineup tonight!
Five Old Defenders Seaman, Winter, Adams, Keon and Dixon made their debut. Vieira and Petit, two Frenchmen, had double backyards. Marc Overmars and Paul Parrot, two wing attackers, were separated on the left and right. Qi Fei was on the right, and Alca stepped forward, but Bergkamp was slightly withdrawn from the shadow striker.
First of all, the ball is home game. After Wenger entered the arsenal, Arsenal completed the transformation at an amazing speed. From Graham’s era, the Premier League style was the most boring and rude, and the team was the most unbearable. It turned into a team with great technical and tactical play.
Generally speaking, it is naturally the best way to deal with a technical team like Arsenal, which covers a fierce field and fights back sharply and quickly. However, after carefully analyzing the information sent by scouts and information centers, Capello decided not to use defensive counterattack tactics in this contest, but to decide that technology and possession will have the advantage of home court. Arsenal stepped on his feet hard!
Capello chose this way because, first of all, no matter how gorgeous Arsenal’s tactics are, the Gunners are still a Premier League team, and Graham left those old teams behind in those years, so it must be very easy for Florence to play against Arsenal physically. Another reason is that Capello has enough confidence in the technical level of Florence players. After all, it is obviously not difficult for Arsenal to play with Florence and control the ball with two top midfielders, Lei Dongduo and effenberg.
Of course Capello won’t say that he wants to tell Wenger that there is an insurmountable gap between Arsenal and Florence. In the face of absolute strength, Wenger’s tricks are just doing work. Florence is capable of completely defeating Arsenal in its best field!
Therefore, after the game, the gunners are habitually prepared to take the lead in seizing the midfield control in Vieira as they did in China, and then slowly look for the loopholes in Florence’s defense line. However, to the surprise of Arsenal players, this opponent did not make the Italian team be the best at defensive counterattack in the game as Wenger expected before the game, but actively struggled with them for midfield control from the beginning of the game!
When watching Wenger from the coach’s seat, he first saw that Capello’s tactical root was not his expected defensive counterattack, but his intention to compete with Arsenal for technical and midfield control. The professor’s heart trembled and he thought that Capello had already discovered that Arsenal was insufficient and was waiting for a fatal blow at this time!
Wenger is not worried about this weakness when playing in the host country, because the professor is confident that no Premier League team can beat Arsenal technically, so Arsenal players can’t see this weakness when playing in the Premier League.
However, compared with having two worldclass organizations, Lei Dongduo and effenberg, Florence can rely on an immature Vieira. Obviously, Arsenal’s control in midfield is much weaker than Viola’s. Therefore, if Arsenal has to compete with Florence in this respect, it must be a boundless gunman.
Alas, Capello has to wait until after the first leg to see Arsenal’s shortcomings. Now I still underestimate him, Wenger thought in his heart.
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Wenger’s mind is full of thoughts. At this time, his thoughts have already drifted to a corner.
So in the eyes of outsiders, sitting in the coach’s seat without saying a word, Wenger was obviously shocked by Florence’s overwhelming advantage in midfield, and did not play the role of a head coach
At this time, we can see the fatal weakness of Wenger’s head coach, that is, when there is an emergency or accident on the court, the professor can rarely come up with a way to deal with it, but just watch the team being squashed a little by the opponent.
At this time, Wenger is more like a qualified spectator than a professional coach!
If Arsenal coach Fabio Capello or Sir Alex Ferguson is on the sidelines at this time, they will definitely rush to the sidelines and order the team not to continue to compete with Fiorentina for midfield control, give the ball to the other side and play a defensive counterattack instead.
If Wenger can position Vieira, who has a good overall situation, as the starting point of counterattack and the ice king as a tactical fulcrum, so that Alca and Marc overmars can speed up and threaten Florence’s goal, then Arsenal will have a fighting force in this game.
It’s a pity that Wenger didn’t take any measures to sit on the Diaoyutai in the coach’s seat, so he watched the technical level get better. Florence pressed Arsenal back to their halfcourt.
After completely taking control of the midfield, Florence launched an offensive against Arsenal!
In the face of Palor forcing Lei Dongduo’s foot to grab the ball, he turned around easily and easily escaped Palor’s steal and then rushed past Palor with the ball.
Petit quickly made up for the defense before he arrived, but Lei Dongduo had already given the ball to Ljungberg on the right.
The Swede took two steps forward after getting the ball, and then the horse gave the ball to Zambrotta from the back to see if he could break through Arsenal’s left defense with the advantage of local numbers.
However, Winter, who was in charge of Arsenal’s leftwing defense, was quite steady at this time and did not give Ljungberg and Zambrotta a a chance to break through. After all, the Arsenal leftback was a Grahamera old man’s personal ability, but his defensive ability was absolutely reliable.
It can be said that Wenger’s ability to quickly break Manchester United’s rule over the Premier League champions after becoming Arsenal’s head coach is absolutely indispensable!
Back to the game, Zambrotta found that Winter didn’t show any flaws in front of him, and he didn’t choose to break through forcibly, but returned the ball to meet Ljungbergafter all, Capello specially emphasized to them in the dressing room before the game that we should play patiently and safely as much as possible, get the ball, and don’t rush to break through or attack to control the rhythm of the game, and then kill the other side in one fell swoop!
In this way, by the way, the players who tried to steal Arsenal had a good exercise, and at the same time, the ball was caught by the Fiorentina players in the midfield, which made many fans feel a little confused and said, Is Florence going to walk the dog instead of attacking tonight?
On the sidelines, Capello nodded his head in admiration of the players’ performance. According to his analysis, Arsenal’s attacks are based on speeding up the pace of the game, which can be seen from the speed of several of their attackers.
Palor and Marc overmars are the kind of wingers with good technical speed, and it is common for them to take the ball to running all the way for dozens of meters. Alca’s speed is also not slow, and the French rising star’s breakthrough ability in ball combination can be regarded as firstclass level; Plus, at the peak of his career, the hard index of speed has not deteriorated. Bergkamp Arsenal’s overall advancing speed in attack is terrible!
Although Florence’s frontcourt attack is not slow, it is different from Arsenal’s pursuit of promoting the whole in a fastpaced attack. The speed of Viola is more reflected in the counterattack with several players and multilevel threedimensional counterattack tactics, but Florence is actually inferior to Arsenal in absolute speed.