PS1: This is the update on Wednesday, a little late. I hope that all book friends don’t care too much about the update time. I’ll guarantee that I will not stop updating...

PS2: Let me talk about the book friends group here. The group numbers are three, seven, zero, five, four, nine, nine, one, nine, and the verification answer is NTR Knight, well, that's it.

PS3: Here I would like to thank the book friends "Xiao Li Fei's Talk", "Tianya Sailor", "Tianyuan Hanqi" and "Qilin 727" for their rewards.

Sampdoria's offensive is very fierce. Although Fiorentine players can rely on a complete defensive system and personal ability to resist the opponent's first wave of offensives, they often get entangled by the nearest Sampdoria players before they can hold the ball. When they finally get rid of the opponent's entanglement, the best time to launch a counterattack has been lost.

The offensive end has invested a lot of troops, and even reached the level where only the central defenders and goalkeepers stayed at their own half, forcing the opponent to increase their investment in defensive forces; at the same time, the offense has been used to strengthen the frontcourt pressing, forcing the opponent's players to organize counterattacks without flaws, thereby reducing the pressure on their own defense. This is the prerequisite for Zeman to dare to let the players use attack instead of defense in the game. If these requirements are not met, Zeman's style of focusing on offense and defensive style will only make the team he coached die miserably in the game.

In other words, although Zeman's extremely extreme tactical style can allow Sampdoria to achieve unexpected results in the game against strong teams, but in the same way, once the players who perform this tactic cannot understand the essence of it, or do not have enough physical strength to implement it to the end, Sampdoria's end will definitely be a crushing defeat.

It is precisely because of the extremely high requirements for players' physical fitness and tactical qualities that the team coached by Zeman has repeatedly experienced ups and downs. When Rome coached, the lack of bench depth made it difficult for the Czechs to ensure that the players have enough physical fitness to implement this tactic in every game while fighting on both sides or even on the third line. In Sampdoria, although most of the time, the lineup of the Aquamaniac is obviously not as thick as that of Rome and Lazio back then, which has led to Sampdoria's performance in the league battlefield is also very unstable, and it is common for them to win and lose.

Although Zeman's tactical thinking is a double-edged sword, once he cannot create enough damage to his opponent, he will hurt himself, but today is Sampdoria's first game of the new season, and the players will definitely not have any problems with their physical reserves. Therefore, tonight, the pressure faced by the Fiorentine players who choose to play against their opponents in the game can be said to be quite large.

After all, Fiorentina plays against opponents in a handful of times. With the top European defense line and the midfielder Pirlo, Fiorentina rarely chooses this risky way to win the game. Most of the time, they only need to seize the opportunity of opponents being blocked from offense or having loopholes in defense to easily get the game. But now, Purple Lily has to play against Sampdoria, which makes the players feel a little uncomfortable.

Of course, not all Fiorentine players are uncomfortable with this. Players like Lucio, Ronaldo, and Ribery who have extremely strong desire to attack and perform are very excited about it, because in this open offensive environment, they can get more opportunities to perform in the game!

In short, we can use one sentence to explain what Ronaldo and others think, that is, to win the game, the limelight must be revealed...

However, beyond everyone's expectations, the one who made a big splash in the offensive battle staged at Frankie Stadium on the evening of August 28 was not the offensive players of the two teams, but the first goalkeeper of Italian football and the world's number one goalkeeper!

As the world's number one goalkeeper, Buffon became the key figure in determining the trend of this game. In this game, Buffon's performance was a god who came to earth. The goalkeeper blocked at least four extremely threatening shots from Sampdoria players in the game and made no less than ten wonderful saves!

Buffon's magical performance in this game directly led to Sampdoria, who created many good scoring opportunities in the game, successfully broke through the goal of Fiorentina once, while Sampdoria's goalkeeper had to snatch the ball from the goal behind him five times in succession.

It is precisely because of this reason that after the game, Zeman said in an interview with the on-site reporter that the reason why Fiorentina was able to win this game was not because they did better than Sampdoria on the offensive end, but because Purple Lily had a world-class Buffon!

"As long as Buffon is still guarding the goal for Fiorentina, then Fiorentina can get at least fifteen more points in the league each season." Zeman used this sentence to summarize the importance of Buffon to Fiorentina. "If he hadn't been in front of the goal, we would have been able to defeat Fiorentina."

Mourinho naturally immediately fired back at Zeman's remarks - it was indeed Purple Lily's luck to have such an outstanding goalkeeper as Buffon, but why can't Sampdoria come up with such a goalkeeper?

"From Tordo to Buffon, from Abiati to Frey, Italian football has always had a tradition of becoming an excellent goalkeeper, but Sampdoria never had a first-class goalkeeper after Palioca left. Shouldn't coach Zeman look for the reason for this phenomenon in himself? You know, before Buffon joined the Purple Lily, the first goalkeeper in Fiorentina was the Tordo we trained ourselves." At the post-match press conference, Mourinho chose to leave the court after laughing and said this paragraph, throwing Zeman, who was furious but could not find a rebuttal point, leaving the Czechs alone facing the long spears and short cannons of a large group of reporters on the scene.

Humph, if you want to blame others, you must have the awareness of being thrown back by someone! Walking away from Frankie Stadium, Mourinho thought proudly.

After defeating Sampdoria in the first league game by 5-1, the group grouping ceremony of the Champions League in the new season also followed. In this group draw ceremony, Fiorentina's lottery was pretty good, and she was not assigned to a death group by UEFA. Faced with the terrible reality of having to go all out in the group stage. Moreover, among the three teams in the same group as Fiorentina, except for the second-level Bayern Munich who has the ability to cause trouble for Purple Lily, the remaining Vienna Quick and Bruges have the ability to challenge Fiorentina.
Chapter completed!