Manchester United’s midfield is later the famous "Golden Four Midfielders" in European football, and it is also the most powerful part of the Red Devils. The midfielder in roy keane is flanked by Welsh Ryan Giggs and English popular David Beckham, and the front waist position is paul scholes. The Manchester United striker is a combination of andy cole and Frenchman cantona. The latter’s personal ability can not only help the Red Devils attack the city on the pitch, but also help his teammates to send more assists.
Capello pointed out in Zhuangge that Manchester United is not an easy team to deal with. Although English teams are generally struggling after the suspension period, Manchester United is obviously not a team that can be ignored after the Premier League has won three championships in four years.
And Manchester United once fell behind the leader Newcastle by 12 points last season, and they can complete the reversal of winning the championship, which made Capello play a 12-point caution. In the opinion of the cautious Italian coach, he hates this kind of crazy team.
Because you don’t know when the other party will suddenly go on a rampage to turn around the extremely unfavorable situation.
Therefore, Capello also sent a 4-4-2 formation, but unlike Manchester United, there is no full-back goalkeeper in Florence. Two full-backs are Roberto Carlos and Zambrotta, who will be in charge of the offensive and defensive position in Florence. Sta and Lala, two players with better defensive skills, are in the center of defense. Although Stam has shown some potential, there are still some short-tempered performances in the Dutch center of defense. Capello does not want to be found a breakthrough by such wily players as cantona.
In midfield, Lei Dongduo delayed the organization to sort out the backcourt of Florence. Davis and Dibiagio joined hands with the Argentine king to escort. Although Lei Dongduo’s personal defense ability is also world-class … In front of them, he heard about Keane’s heroic deeds from Capello. The German tiger is gearing up for a 90-minute "cordial exchange" with the Irish villain.
Considering the technical characteristics of Paris and David May in the front line, Capello sent Ronaldo and Inzaghi. His intention is very old, that is, he wants a small fast striker to deal with your two bulky central defenders. Why do you bite me?
The war is coming.
Chapter 427 Fighting Old Trafford (2)
As the match between Florence and Manchester United was decided by UEFA as the highlight of the Champions League quarter-final, the referee was Merck, a famous German whistle, who could avoid most controversial situations.
Immediately after the game, the two sides fought fiercely at halftime.
However, to Manchester United fans’ surprise, they talked about the fact that the Golden Four midfielder was defeated by the Fiorentina midfielder!
Is this still the Manchester United team that swept the Premier League? !
Sitting in the box with a pair of dark circles to watch the ball, Zhuang Ge is not surprised by this scene. After all, from a technical point of view, Manchester United’s midfield can indeed walk sideways in the Premier League. However, when magnified to the whole of Europe, these players are not particularly good at technology. This can be seen from the fact that Manchester United is still the core of the midfield organization or the Irish tough guy roy keane. Manchester United is not doing a very good job in controlling the rhythm of the game. Compared with Florence, which has two killers, effenberg and Lei Dongduo, it is almost worse.
What’s more, Florence has two technical midfielders, djorkaeff and Rui Costa, on the bench, and Manchester United is suicidal if they want to fight the Viola in this respect.
And even when Manchester United won the treble, their midfielder didn’t actually have much advantage. In the semi-final, if Lippi and the club hadn’t given Ferguson a chance to turn over, Manchester United would have been destroyed by Juventus. Later, in the Champions League final, Bayern suppressed almost the whole game, but for Hitzfeld’s careless change of matthaeus Red Devils’ second Champions League title, it might still be a long way off.
In fact, the lack of organized midfield has something to do with the English football environment, which can control the rhythm of midfield. Organized midfield is quite rare in the Premier League, and high-intensity physical confrontation and fierce tackle make midfield organizers have little room for growth in England.
The most powerful aspect of English media’s praise for so-called talented players with excellent skills is often their breakthrough rather than their ability to organize games. Whether it is george best, hoddle and gascoyne or joe cole, the midfielder who later claimed to be the best in England, is their organizational ability outstanding in Europe?
Therefore, when Manchester United’s midfield was suppressed by Florence, the Red Devils’ attack became chaotic, and Florence’s attack naturally went smoothly. effenberg and Lei Dongduo constantly created opportunities for Florence through the ball. Carlos and Zambrottagli, the midfielders, dominated the opportunities and frequently joined the attack. Ronaldo and Inzaghi created opportunities.
Although Inzaghi and Ronaldo can’t compete with Parrist and David May in height, they have to throw out Manchester United, the central defender, for more than three blocks in flexibility.
Therefore, Fiorentina players have repeatedly attacked Manchester United defenders because they are tall and bulky and turn slowly. Especially, David May, whose stability and personal ability are a shortcoming of Manchester United, has become the number one target of Ronaldo and Inzaghi.
Ferguson shook his head on the sidelines when his two central defenders were shocked to death by the Florence striker, and he couldn’t think of any way to curb his opponent’s attack
This season, although the number of central defenders in Manchester United’s first team is quite reassuring, there is only one veteran, Paris, who has replaced David May from Bruce’s position. The versatile Phil Weil is more suitable to play in midfield than to be a central defender. ronny johnsen, a Norwegian, was forced to miss the game for a month because of a ligament injury in the first team training, otherwise it would not be David May’s start.
When Bruce is still here, no matter which central defender he cooperates with Manchester United, it won’t look too bad, because the Manchester United captain always cleans them up from time to time. I didn’t expect that the weakness of the defense line will be exposed after Bruce left Manchester United this season!
Although Ferguson can let the players actively attack and cover up the defects in the defense line in the league, Ferguson didn’t expect that Capello, a guy in the Champions League, actually saw the weak side of Manchester United’s powerful offensive firepower at a glance, and also helped Ronaldo break through and Inzaghi’s dexterity to constantly impact the United defense line!
If Ronaldo hadn’t seen this clearly, they wouldn’t have directly attacked Manchester United’s two central defenders so recklessly from the beginning of the game. What they did was to make Manchester United’s two central defenders consume a lot of physical energy from the beginning of the game, so as to establish a certain advantage in the later period!
Capello is also justified in doing so. It is necessary to know that among the four major leagues in Europe, the Premier League has no winter break, and the Premier League has four more league games in a season than Serie A, plus a variety of cups, which consumes a lot of Manchester United players’ physical fitness
Therefore, in terms of physical fitness, Manchester United’s coming to France is on a par with Florence, which has adjusted its state after a half-month winter break, not to mention the constant mobilization of Manchester United defenders in Capello.
Although Keane is strong enough, he is also alone, facing effenberg and Lei Dongduo, and the Irish can choose one to defend the other and give it to his teammates.
However, this shows another weakness of Manchester United’s midfield, the serious lack of defensive strength.
Scholes, David Beckham and Ryan Giggs are outstanding in running ability and willpower, but that doesn’t mean they can defend Florence players. You know, in Zhuangge, the ability to deliberately create Florence midfield confrontation is not weaker than Manchester United. Lei Dongduo, Davis and others are even better in physical condition than Ryan Giggs, who is slightly thin!
If you want a general to exchange Keane, Ferguson’s only defensive chess in midfield, Manchester United’s back line will be directly exposed to Florence’s fire!
Effenberg, who has a fierce temper and is competitive, is naturally the best candidate in Capello’s mind, and the German tiger, as Capello expected, screamed and took over this. At present, it seems that effenberg has done a very good job, and his constant movement and chatter have led to the gate in front of Manchester United’s defense line.
Keane also knows what effenberg’s purpose is, but he dare not relax his defense of German football. After so many years, everyone knows that all these German players have an unreasonable long-range shot. If effenberg seizes the opportunity to score one, Manchester United will be passive.
Moreover, Keane dare not foul effenberg. After all, this is the Champions League, not the Manchester United piece of Premier League. It is said that Florence and UEFA President Johansson are quite good. Keane is not in the mood to experiment what kind of ticket he will get from UEFA for a bad crime.
So after the game, Manchester United lost control of the midfield bit by bit and was suppressed by Florence at home!
The balance of the game is slowly tilting towards Florence.
Chapter 42 Fighting Old Trafford (3)
Although Florence took the initiative, it was not difficult to break through Manchester United’s goal-after all, at this time, Manchester United goalkeeper or Danish Schmeichel, the old goalkeeper, performed quite stably in the game and saved a lot of shots from Florence.
When Manchester United’s defensive line became a laughingstock, it was not until 1999, when Schmeichel left the Red Devils, that although their defensive quality declined, they were still relatively reliable on the whole, unlike the low-level mistakes of the four great butterfingers, such as Tabby, Bosnic, fabien barthez and Howard, which could be carved into a CD as a classic counterexample of goalkeeper teaching.
Although there is a feeling of being in power at last, the Florence players who have experienced the big waves in previous seasons are not worried about it. They still move the Manchester United defense back and forth slowly in midfield, and they will give Ronaldo a foot forward from time to time to test whether the home team defense is still strong.
In case the ball is intercepted by the opponent at this time, the Fiorentina players will immediately rush from all sides to interrupt the opponent’s counterattack and regain the ball in their own hands, and then a new round of falling feet.
In their view, the urgency should be the home game of Manchester United, which is the big deal here in Florence. Just get a draw in the away game in 90 minutes. After the training of Ranieri and Capello, the Fiorentina players will not think that there is anything wrong with their own practice.
In front of these "rough" English guys, Florence players have enough confidence to abuse them technically.
At this time, Manchester United players are cursing Florence for being despicable and shameful, but they can’t see the temperament of giants at all … But then again, who let them really beat Florence at the technical level?
After hiring Mulenstein and moniz as the technical director of the team, the technical level of Florence players is indeed rising, but Zhuang Ge’s attempt to build an offensive control body with Florence characteristics has not yet been completed. However, the defense has become more and more indestructible after two Italian coaches, Ranieri and Capello, precipitated and merged Gufuren’s thoughts, forming a new defense body.
When there is no ball, you can sacrifice the Italian chain defense control court to implement layer-by-layer interception. When there is a ball in your foot, you can also use technology to control the rhythm of the game, so that the ball falls into the opponent’s hand and is passive everywhere. At the same time, you can pass it forward from time to time and make a sudden attack.
Where have Manchester United players seen such an alternative defense? Before, they simply kicked their feet in the backcourt to kill the game. When they saw Florence’s offensive defense, it was naturally a bit numb.
Cantona and others want to break the ball of Florence players and then take advantage of the situation to make a counterattack. However, these players in Florence are already quite good at their training skills in Mu Runsten. They handed Manchester United’s frontcourt players a foot in a row, but they couldn’t grab the ball.
Florence, who had been controlling the pace of the game until the 23 rd minute, finally waited for a good chance to score.
Schmeichel’s big foot went out of goal kick and got the ball. Beckham took advantage of the opportunity to attack with the ball on the right.