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Chapter 190 European Super Cup (3)

When the players of both sides walked out of the player passage, they were greeted by the cheers of 18,000 spectators from the Louis II Stadium!

"Now both players and head coaches have walked onto the stadium... The 44-year-old Luis Van Gaal meets Ranieri, who is also 44-year-old! The representatives of the two young coaches in European football, these two head coaches will have their first competition in this game! Let's wait and see if this European Super Cup will be the best!" At the same time, Zhuang Mingge's headphones were heard from the headphones. It seems that the big brother also participated in the previous debate.

Champions League champion Ajax, Cup Winners Champions League champion Fiorentina, if it comes to fame and history, Ajax is much better than Fiorentina. Even if Fiorentina won the Cup of Winners last season, it still seems much dimmer than the famous Ajax: 25 times the Dutch League champion, 12 times the Dutch Cup, four times the UEFA Champions League, Toyota Cup and European Super Cup, and the League Cup and Cup of Winners also have their own accounts. It is a real Grand Slam club, worthy of the position of the top of the three major clubs in the Netherlands.

Let’s look at Fiorentina again, three Serie A champions, five Copa Italiana champions, two Cup winners, and only once entered the Champions League final, which can be traced back to the distant 1950s...

But history is only history after all. Judging from the current situation of both sides, Fiorentina is much superior to Ajax. After all, Ajax lost serious blood loss this summer. Although Fiorentina cannot be called a big spoil, it has also introduced many powerful supporters. Therefore, Zhuang Mingge thinks that if the young men in Florence can perform normally, they can solve Ajax within 90 minutes, thereby winning the first European Super Cup in the club's history!

At this time, as the captains of Ajax and Fiorentina, Brinde and Batistuta came to the referee to guess the front and back of the coin to determine the ball and their respective half-courts.

"The game has begun! Batistuta took the lead and handed the ball to Djokaf behind him! The Frenchman did not stop the ball, and he passed the ball directly back to Effenberg who was even further back!"

According to Ranieri's arrangement, the players of Fiorentina advanced steadily from the midfield one by one, intending to control the midfield first and then attack the opponent's goal!

After all, judging from the formation of both sides, Ajax's control in the midfield is obviously not as good as Fiorentina, and their staffing looks more like they are planning to have a defensive counterattack.

After the game started, Ajax players immediately fought fiercely with Fiorentina in the midfield according to the coach's pre-match arrangement. Van Gaal, who carefully studied the video of the Fiorentina game last season, knew clearly that most of the Fiorentina's seikos were initiated from the midfield. If they wanted to suppress Fiorentina, the first thing they had to suppress was their midfield.

In the fifth minute, Effenberg's pass was cut off by Kolini near the center circle. After getting the ball, the latter immediately passed the ball to Litmanning who was retreating from the front line.

Finnish Ice Swords did not hesitate and sent a straight pass before the Fiorentine player rushed over to defend, sending the ball into Fiorentine's penalty area, where Ronald Debor, who was defined as a midfielder, appeared! At this moment, no one around him defended!

It's just a pity that Debord's shot was saved by Tordo, who was quite focused.

After escaping by chance, the Fiorentina players were still a little confused. Why did Debor, as the midfielder, run to the front line, while the three Ajax forwards were in the midfielder position?

So in the next period of time, the Fiorentine player who had not yet figured out the opponent's tactics played a contraction defense in the half under the command of Effenberg, while observing the running of the Ajax player on the field.

Zhuang Mingge observed for a while and found that Van Gaal's helpless move to push Big Lauderup on the front line was a wonderful move. At least from the current effect, it was very similar to the tactics of Spalletti when coached in Rome in later generations.

In Ajax's starting lineup, there is no traditional striker. Although the position at the beginning of the game was 433, the two so-called "forwards" Laudrupp and Litmanning both retreated deeply, and they were more like midfielders. In addition, Ronald Debor, Korini and Giannikeda behind them, Ajax had a certain advantage in the number of midfielders.

When launching an attack, Litmanning and Big Laudrup can threaten the opponent's goal with long shots, while Ovemas performs assaults on the wing. As for Ronald Debor, who was previously defined as the front midfielder, it has become an offensive hub in this formation. Not only does it shoulder the heavy responsibility of organizing the offense, but it can also take turns with its teammates to appear in the opponent's penalty area to threaten the goal.

"This tactic can be created at this time, and coach Van Gaal is still very good." Zhuang Mingge, who understood the Ajax team's tactics, said with some admiration.

"What's going on with Ajax's tactics? Tony?" Karin asked quickly as soon as she heard Zhuang Mingge saw the clues.

So Zhuang Mingge whispered to the two of them some of the key points of Wufeng's tactics that he had just remembered.

"Tony, as you say that, wouldn't we Fiorentina be under great pressure on defense?" After listening to Zhuang Mingge's explanation, Karin said with some concern.

"Haha, don't be so nervous. Although this set of tactics is indeed very powerful, the cards in Van Gaal's hand now determine that this set of tactics cannot be perfect yet."

"First of all, this set of strikeless tactics requires two full-backs to frequently insert attacks to widen the attack; secondly, although there is no traditional forward, the middle still needs a high point to respond, otherwise three-dimensional attacks will not be possible. These two points are precisely the weakness of Ajax now!"

Among the teams that played without striker tactics in later generations, Spalletti's Roma included Toti and Aquilani, Manchester United during the Trinity period had C Ronaldo, and Valencia coached by Benitez also had Mista. Their height determined that they could use headers to bomb the opponent's goal. If not, they could only go to the ground to cooperate. Unless there was the perverted tacit understanding of Barcelona in later generations, they would be purely seeking death.

Moreover, Ajax, who has no two full-backs with strong assists and only one Ovemas, cannot successfully pull out Fiorentina's defensive lineup, which means that as long as Fiorentina arranges heavy troops in the middle of the stadium to implement regional defense, the opponent's chances of scoring can become even more slim.
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